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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1946
Page
6
Fell tonight. Wednesday fair east partly cloudy west continued warm. Daytime high 81, low 59. Year ago today high 67 low 46. Barometer 29.78 at 2 am 29.80 at 2 pm. Warmest US city yesterday Yuma Arizona 104, coldest Spokane Washington 43. Sunset 6 08.
Cecelia Ridge transfers It 1 bik 8 Foster's 2nd add Monroe to Paul Gerber. Melvin L Schlittler transfers It 3 bik 181 Brodhead to Basil B Mitchell. James Kilday transfers bik 249 Brodhead to Phillip S Cronk. Ernest H Schober transfers It 7 Bartlett's add Monroe to Fred Lehnherr. Ernest H Schober transfers parcel St 7 Bartlett's add Monroe to William Bauman.
Freeport officials issued marriage licenses to Robert Grabow and Monroe, and Silas Trickle in Freeport.
St Clare Hospital records show patients in medical and surgical care. Dismissals include James Graves Mrs LaVerne Rule and daughter Mrs Sam Storm and son Mrs Henry Freitag and others. Names listed span Jame Rowe Darling ton Emil Elmer Alvin Leindorff George Schroeder Lena Webermeier and more.
The state board of health reports 17 new poliomyelitis cases since yesterday, raising state total since Sept 1 to 300. Perron county has two cases, the rest scattered. Since Jan 1, 826 cases in Wisconsin versus 596 last year.
Mrs Henry Pauli and daughter Dennis Pauli visited Madison while Henry Pauli and son Dennis were business callers. Several locals hosted dinners and visits with relatives in Baraboo Madison Dubuque and Los Angeles as Emma Freitag Patricia Monticello and Mary Wahl Montana shared weekend time.
Prices for milk delivered in Lo well Lawrence Mass reach 23 cents with 15 cent rates in several midwestern cities as decontrol prompts new debate on reimposing ceilings. The price decontrol board seeks written views by Wednesday before deciding on dairy price ceilings again.
Izvestia published a lengthy 1,500 word report of Secretary Wallace's address in New York last Thursday. Washington dispatches quote President Truman on Sept. 12 confirming approval of Wallace's speech and on Sept. 14 distinguishing support for Wallace's right to speak from endorsement of U S foreign policy.
Mrs. C D Curtis reports visits to Cave of the Mounds by Mr and Mrs Henry Freitag Miss Norma Freitag and Mrs Connie Williams. A Milwaukee trip sent Mar a to State Teachers College. Weekend hosts Wilbert Marty and family welcomed Dickie Wirth and neighbors from Long Island New York.
Local notes record and visiting details as residents and relatives travel between Monroe and nearby towns. Names include Shir ley Euler Juda Harold Kading Darlington Madison and others. several Arrowhead area residents visit, accompany relatives, or plan travel from Argyle Brod head Monticello and beyond. Monroe events note Ohio and China connections as Albert Geigel prepares for work in Asia.
Local residents and visitors listed include Mrs. Gus Meech Beloit Miss Grace Schroeder Madison Thomas Bowen Orangeville Miss Alice Minder Browntown Nick Schneider Yonkers N Y and others. The notes mention travel visits races trips and family connections in Beloit Madison Orangeville Browntown Alma Pittsburgh and Freeport. Dr James A Poling dies in Moline hospital aged 79 after 53 years as a Freeport physician with family survivors and community contributions noted.
Green county highway crews repair culverts and bridges and await oil shipments to patch county trunk roads. Grading continues on a new county cross road south of Juda while patches have been laid north of Juda. Continued favorable fall weather should speed repairs overall.
Mr and Mrs Edward Bregen zer, Michael R Hyland and Forrest A Riese attend the tavern league convention at Chippewa Falls. The Monroe delegates will return Friday.
Roswell Richards III Monticello postmaster for 13 years is critically ill at his Monticello home. Richards formerly published the Monticello Messenger.
Sirr John P Hamilton, son of Mrs. Mabel Schoch, arrives home awaiting his navy discharge on September 30 after enlisting January 18.
Congressman Lawrence H. Smith of Wisconsin United States Congress will address Green County Shrine Club at its first fall meeting this evening. A 7 o'clock dinner is planned in the Eugene hotel coffee shop with Shine club ladies’ night set for October 15 at Turner hall and attendance by the Shrine booster band and Shrine clowns from Madison.
Miss Evelyn Geigel of Monroe and Franklin Siedschlag of Juda led a state and district Christian Endeavor retreat at Camp Shaginappi near Fond du Lac. About 35 officers gathered Saturday and Sunday to plan the coming year including finance drive and publicity contest.
About 35 Green county rural school teachers expected to enroll this evening for a University of Wisconsin extension course titled Art for the Elementary School at the Normal school. Registration is at 7 p.m. for the 3 credit course. Regular meeting arrangements will be made.
Miss Margaret Kundert daughter of Mr and Mrs William Kundert Winslow Illinois and Lt Commander Earl V Kelly Dubuque Iowa wed in a 11 15 am ceremony in Troy Kansas Rev John R Bell officiated The couple plans to live in Dubuque after a coast wedding trip and the groom a veteran naval officer will complete his service Charlene Zing rich and Thomas John Courtney wed in Janesville at St Marys church The reception and wedding breakfast followed with attendees from several nearby towns and cities.
Faculty members of the high schools and grades schools and their wives and husbands were entertained at a dinner party last evening in the Monroe Country club by members of the school board. A short program was presented and games were played. Honors
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