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Glancine Backward Interesting Items From The Evening Times Files 10 YEARS AGO A former Juda minister, Wesson Joseph MAY 2, 1949 Dougan, 80, founder of the Dougan Guern sey farm dairy at Beloit, succumbs ; Miss Margaret Vogel and Robert Sonderegger exchange nup tial vows in St. John’s church . . . St. Victor’s church is the scene of the wedding of Miss Jean Zuercher and Herbert J. Ripp .. . A bill introduced in the State Assembly today would require tax stamps on oleomargarine similar to those on liquor bottles .. . E. B. Lux is installed as eminent commander of Monroe Rights Templar .. . Forty neighbors from Monroe, Washington and Adams Township participate in a barn wreck ing bee on the Fred Vogel farm. 25 YEARS AGO A general three per cent sales tax is suy- MAY 2, 1934 vested as a remedy for the financial prob lems facing the state and its local legisla tive interim committee on taxation . . . A slot machine war is on in Green County with authorities arrayed against the own er of automatic mint vendors which were among the devices recently ordered out of taverns and other places by District Attorney Randal J. Elmer and Sheriff Fred Faeser . . . The government’s ace manhunters and police marksmen mass forces in the Chicago area today in a new drive to get John Dillinger *‘dead or alive’. . . More than 1,000 musicians, rep resenting 17 schools will participate in the high school band tournament in Monticello. 49 YEARS AGO Paris buzzes with the report that the actual MAY 2, 1919 signing of the peace treaty with Germany will be conducted behind closed doors with the press barred from the ceremonies ... The arrival date here for members of Company H now is reported as May 12; troops will land at New York three days from now .. . Lt. Charles R. Kohli writes that five Company H. men have re ceived the Croix de Guerre; they are Lit. LaVerne Deal, Pvt. Donald K. Brown, Pvt. Vananzio Giulio, Cpl. Arthur Keel and Pvt. Melvin Mercard; Lt. Deal and Cpl. Keel are from Mon roe and the others were replacements in France . . . Wash ington is inflamed by reports that Bolshevik troops have be headed Americans captured at Archangel. 50 YEARS AGO The County Fair Board books the John MAY 2, 1909 Jones carnival firm for the 1909 show. F. B. Luchsinger is elected to the board when Fred P. Treat submits his resignation .. . Sylvester Stephens, 86, who settled in the Juda area in 1842, dies at his home in Juda, had served one year in the Civil War. . . Farm experts report the heavy rains of the last week have helped prepare the fields for better crops and pasture use .. . Fire damages the house of Grover Holmes at Orangeville . . . The Crystal theater here presents the long feature film, “‘The Passion Play,”’ with vocal accompaniment by John Malia, local bari tone, and a tenor from Boston who travels with the picture. Wilmer’s orchestra furnishes the musical background.
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Monroe Evening Times
Monroe, Wisconsin, US
Sat, May 02, 1959
Page 2
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