Monroe Evening Times from Monroe, Wisconsin • Page 4

Hunt Brings for Many Family Clues Clock but No Trace of Heirloom The search for an old family clock continues. Mrs. Edna Confer DeBoos, writing from Dearborn, has received several mistaken clues in attempting to locate a family clock, bearing initials M. and the date Dec. made by the Seth Thomas Clock Co.

of Thomaston, Conn. Mrs. DeBoos had a letter from Emil Gloege, a former Monroe resident, now of Pomona, which she hopes will bring results in finding the clock. Gloege said that he had bid on the clock at the auction of James Confer, Mrs. DeBoos grandfather, but that the late Willard Saucerman was the successful bidder.

The Saucerman family does not remember to whom the clock was given later. Mrs. Mary E. Chew Dies at Freeport Orangeville (Times Special) -Mrs. Mary E.

Rathbun Chew, 82, who had spent most of her life in Orangeville, died Sunday at the home of her son, Ra- I mond C. Rathbun, 1221 West Lincoln, Freeport, after an extended illness. Mrs. Chew, born May 10, 1865, New Lisbon, was the daughter of Cutler and Emily Green. In 1883 she married Ezra C.

Rathbun, who died in 1918. She later married L. A. Chew, who resides in St. Louis.

Survivors are the husband; a son, Raymond; a daughter, Mrs. Roy Ilden of Freeport; and four grandchildren, Mrs. Chew had with her daughter, Mrs. Ilden, for the past five years. Funeral services were held day at 1:30 in the Burington fuIneral home here.

Burial followled in the Greenwood cemetery at Monroe. Former Co. Squad Wins Rifle Contest Co. K. national guard rifle met its of match former in a members squad composed of Co.

Wisconsin state guard, last night at the armory range by a score of 829 to 808. High man was Robert Goetz of the squad with a 146 out of a possible 150. Sgt. Coplien of the national guard posted 144 for second high honors. Louis Benkert of the winning team shother scores were: Co.

Sgt. 138, Sgt. Wenger 139, Sgt. Schwitz 137, Cpl. Rodger 130 and Pvt.

M. Schwitz 120. Former Co. G. U.

Detwiler 128, Oliver Siedschlag 139, Carl Schlittler 138 and Harold Blumer 138. trucks in the United States in 1945 were used on farms. About 31 percent of all motor Housecleaning Time Is Near A good time to have those old Mattresses Rebuilt, Repaired or Converted Into New Innersprings Any Size 24-Hour Service CITY MATTRESS CO. Phone 13 Monroe C. W.

Pickett Heads Jones Post of VFW Four New Members Admitted by Group Cloyd W. Pickett, Monroe, was elected new commander of Cecil Jones post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at the meeting in Turner hall last evening. He succeeds Nathan F. Burgy who last night was elected to a three term on the board of trustees. Other officers to serve with Pickett are: Michael R.

Hyland, senior vice commander, to sucRodney Block; Charles B. Marvin, junior vice commander succeeding Ned Walker: Don Lovelace, quartermaster; Rudolph P. Regez, judge advocate; William R. Rieder chaplain, and Dr. David D.

Ruehlman, surgeon, the last four renamed. Holdover trustees are Louis R. Wolleson for two years and It was Hi. voted to combine duties Jerome Schwaiger, one year. of adjutant and quartermaster into one office.

Vinal Jorgenson had been adjutant the last year. Four new members admitted were: Paul Anderson, Argyle, Jacob Sommers, New Glarus, Jerome W. Schwaiger, Monroe, and Donald C. Baertschi, Orangeville. Following the meeting luncheon was served.

Priority on Gasoline FOUR Urged For Agriculture Madison (P) Agricultural and industrial needs should be given top priority allocation af petroleum fuels, the Wisconsin Council of Agriculture Cooperatives declared last night. The council also voted to support retention of federal statutes controlling distribution and sale of oleomargarine. William Van Dyne, master of the Wisconsin State Grarge, and Curtis Hatch, Dodgerille, president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation. were elected to the council's executive committee. Browntown By Mrs.

C. L. Crago Judy Hunt. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Carson Hunt, was honored on her sixth birthday with a party at her home. Guests present were Joan and Janet Swiggum. Ronnie Merritt, Joseph Lewis. Kathie and Karla er. Jerry Van Matre.

Jerry Engebretsen. Rita Rockow, Sharon Aitchison, Gertrude, and Delilab Armstrong, Schuma- I cher, Dennis Swiggum, La Vona Brecklin, Beverly and Jerome Hunt, Shirley Hoeft and Mrs. William Stauffacher and son. Mrs. Hunt was assisted by Mrs.

Samuel Schumacher. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Brown.

Clinton, spent Tuesday with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mirs. LeRoy Crago. Try Times Want Ads. CHATTEL MORTGAGE LOANS We loan money on farm personal property at a net cost lower than most lending agencies.

No Stock to Buy. No Appraisal or Commission to Pay. See the Bank first. Quick Service No Red Tape THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MONROS Member Federal Reserve System Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation MONROE EVENING TIMES, MONROE, WISCONSIN, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1948 Few Counties Have Juvenile Facilities Madison -(A9)- Only 17 of consin's 71 counties have juvenile and minor detention facilities that meet requirements set by the state department of public welfare. Fifteen of the 17 counties have jails suitable for detention of youngsters while two others, cine and Columbia, maintain separate detention homes, M.

A. Skaff. detention investigator, said Counties, detain lacking juveniles approved and quarters minors in nearby counties with approved facilities. State law requires that jails used to hold juveniles and minors provide quarters without means of contact or and communi; cation between young inmates. Children up to 16 years of age are classed as juveniles and those 16 through 21 as minors.

A 1945 opinion by the attorney general and laws passed by the 1947 legislature strenghening the state's penal code, resulted ing in a adjustments number of to counties provide mak- de-! tention quarters to merit the de, partment's approval. Skaff said these counties have, approved jails for holding persons up to 21: Brown, Calumet, Douglas, Kenosha, La Crosse, Lincoln, Marinette, Milwaukee, Out a- gamie, Polk, Racine, Waukesha Sheboy- and gan, Walworth, Winnebago. Christmas Greetings Delivered -A Bit Late Albany, N. -Christmas paid a return visit to nearby Castleton yesterday. A pile of snow beside the New York Central railway track melted and a mail pouch was found.

Postmaster Ray C. Kilmer said the pouch was lost Dec. 20 when it was thrown from a train. It contained Christmas cards. It is believed that human infants do not have good ability to distinguish colors until 12 to 15 months after birth.

Harold Pilz Pleads Guilty, Fined $100 Harold Pilz, operator of the Modern club, highway 11, was fined $100 and costs on his plea guilty to a charge oL selling intoxicating liquor to a minor in county court yesterday afterHe appeared before noon. Judge Harold J. Lamboley. Pilz was arrested following sale of two beers to 17-year old boy and two highballs to an Ra-18-year-old girl, both from Freeport. Arrests were made by beverage department It was brought out in court that both minors looked older than their years and that a depjuty was on the premises to guard against sale to and loiterling of minors.

The sale was made by Mrs. Pilz. A further violation might result in revocation of license the court warned. Republican Women Will Hold Luncheon Launching the first of a serlies of luncheons and meetings, to continue tot he November election, the Republican Women's organization of Green county will have a 1:15 luncheon tomorrow afternoon at the Eugene hotel. Miss Helen Horr, Minneapolis, a speaker for the Stassen for President organization, will address the group.

More than 40 reservations already have made. A republican women's club is expected to be organized here shortly. Mrs. William Thurber is woman's chairman of the county group. The drainage area of New Or-1 leans lies below sea level and below the level of the Mississippi river.

CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC M. J. GONSTEAD When Sick of Being Sick -See "THE CHIROPRACTOR" X-Ray and Neurocalometer Phone 373, Res. 101 Monroe Wanted Appliance Salesman Salary Plus Commission Must Have Car No Experience 'Necessary We Will Train You Gamble Store More of Everything You Want in a REFRIGERATOR SEE THE NEW NORGE COMBINATION WITH MORE FROZEN- FOOD STORAGE TALL -BOTTLE SPACE USABLE SHELF SPACE BULKY FOOD STORAGE SMALL-PACKAGE SPACE GIANT SIDE FREEZER Room for up to pounds of frozen food in the super-capacity freezer. Deep-dish Coldpack holds up to 12 pounds of meat.

FULL-WIDTH HYDROVOIR Keeps loads of leafy vegetables and citrus fruits fresh and moist. Store full-length stalks of celery in this extra-wide -storage container. AUTOMATIC DEFROSTING Forget to remember defrosting! The "NightWatch" automatic defroster defrosts Norge every midnight. No fuss -no muss! COME IN NORGE BEFORE YOU BUY Phillips and Smith Appliances We Service What We Sell Phone 1133 Pickups Along The News Beats Members of Co. K.

national guard, were sure the powderkeg in Europe had exploded again when a surprise mobilization call got them out of bed early yesterday morning to join in the search for missing little Donald Friedrich. Wives mothers with tears in their eyes were preparing to bid sad farewell before the actual cause of the call was made known to them. Hot coffee serv'ed at the armory by Ernest C. Dettwiler, company cook, preceding participation in search served to clear up hazy heads still in doubt. Women dream of these kind of menfolk, but rarely find them- Two men came to a Monroe hotel yesterday afternoon to move an item from the upper floor and removed their mud.

boots at the hotel entrance. They procecded through the lobby and upstairs in their boot -stocking feet to keep from brush on PAINT and PLASTER ONE OPERATION NEW ad OLD WALL WOOD Enterprise PAINT-0-PLAST THE DOUBLE PURPOSI COVERS PLASTER CRACKS FILLS NAIL HOLES AND SEAMS HARMONY COLORS EASY TO APPLY WASHES PERFECTLY By applying plaster and paint in one easy application you obtain most Enterpene colorful and effective walls and save much time and work, Paint-O-Plast hides surfaco defects us It beautifies. Its permanence and washabflity make it 3.95 most practical for use over any surface and for Per Gal. all rooms. KUBLY PAINT STORE Phone 710 tracking up the premises.

A prominent Monroe bowler one evening last week had an appointment with a dentist for an extraction. "You're going to bowl tonight, aren't the dentist in-! quired. He received an tive reply. "Well, SO am said the dentist. do you say we go over and bowl first and then we can come back here to the office." The patient agreed and was one of two bowlers in town to roll better than a 600 series.

The other was the dentist! Closed Riley School, Land Up for Auction The closed Riley school in Jefferson township, both building and land along with school equipment, is to be sold at auction Thursday afternoon. School board members are George Grenzow, Robert Preston and Gertrude Ruef. Charles Brigham, Blue Mounds, Dies Charles I. Brigham, 86, occupant of the oldest Dane county homestead and direct descendant of Dane county's first per-! manent settler, died Sunday on his Blue Mounds farm which had been the Brigham family home since 1828. He is survived by his wife and two children and a sister, Mrs.

Philip R. Fox, Madison. His daughter, now Mrs. Elizabeth Franklin, New York, was Times social reporter a few years ago before her return to Smith college, Northampton, Mass. The Brigham farm is part of the original 400-acre grant to a great uncle, a New England Yankee in 1928, who mined lead on the property, the ore being drawn up from the mines by windless and bucket.

He helped build Blue. Mounds fort, a block house which garrisoned 50 men Seed Now Plant Grass Superior lb. 55c Ace Lawn lb. 55c Ace Shady Lawn lb. Ace Kentucky Blue on the Finest Seed For the Ace Permanent Market Try Green 756 lb.

Seeds, Garden Fertilizers, Equipment, BAUMAN'S Phone 242 1948 ASTER SUITS Two Picce, Three Piece, Boleros, Ballerinas, Tailored $39.95 up Sizes 9 to 41 A COATS A Full Length, Swing Back and Shorties. Plaids, Checks, Pastels. Sizes 9 to 44 $2923 Lee's THE STORE FOR WOMEN. in 1832 during the Black Hawk war. Workmen dynamiting in a quurry on the Brigham farm blew away a part of the hillside, the blast exposing a cavethe now famous Cave of the Mounds-of rare and colorful beauty.

Since then, this cavern, which for centuries had been sealed from the light of day, has become a mecca for tourists and geologists. Save with a Want Ad. BUILDING Tile Phone 300 ROTE'S 46th Year.