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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1915
Page
5
Local items list visitors and residents in Marshfield area from Stanley to Sparta. Mentions include R A Kalbskopf and others visiting Thursday or Saturday, shop redecorations, a barber, doctors, and merchants. Also notes advertising plans, amateur night, baseball prospects, and community updates across multiple small towns.
Quick Sunday breakfast treat from Mrs Janet McKenzie Will editor of the Boston Cooling School Ma. A yeastless German coffee cake uses baking powder for rise and stays fresh and warm. Recipe covers KC German Coffee Cake batter with flour sugar cinnamon butter egg milk and optional Dutch Apple Cake or Prune Kuchen adaptations. Also promotes free Cook’s Book offer from Jacques Mfg Co Chicago.
The Fortnightly Musical Club schedules its next meeting for Friday next week with an evening program featuring Godard and DeRussy works and sketches by Grover Bergeuse and Jacotyn. Questions prompt a short sketch of Godard, the qualities of the New French School, and its leaders.
The Woman's Missionary Society holds its regular monthly meeting Thursday afternoon with devotions led by Mrs. bh. W. Polteat and business items including the American Indian program. LaVallie Good Will presents, followed by sport and a roll call led by Mrs. Hinman Je sport and Mrs. S. HW. Wineh.
The Lag Woman's Club will hold a Monday afternoon gathering in the Guild hall. A short music program is planned followed by a discussion on civic improvement.
The 1915 Wisconsin Arbor and Tree Manual is a biennial publication promoting forest conservation, bird life, and beautification of schools. It is richly illustrated with colored plates and charts, an expensive state project hoped to spark interest and sentiment in forestry and nature.
The text notes Governor Emanuel J. Philipp designates Arbor Day with official actions to be observed on the third day. It urges all city residents to attend the planned exercises at the schools when the time comes, with the governor's proclamation printed elsewhere.
St Albans Guild stages a home talent presentation The Grand Old Flag with Col and Mrs Hunt of Chicago directing. Rehearsals every evening in the guild hall feature young ladies and children, with soldiers in the Blue and Gray. The show has toured Chicago theaters and Beloit Wisconsin, promising strong local entertainment for April 29 and the opera house venue.
The Times corrects an earlier piece about the Mill Creek drainage project. City Surveyor Hin drawn states the river fall will be 28 and a total distance five miles. The ditch is planned three feet deep with bottom widths of ten to fifteen feet across various sections.
Advertisement offers a two bedroom bungalow with basement laundry and electric lights for sale at reasonable price. Also offers a fresh milking cow for eating. Taquines at this office. 2Br3
Miss Winifred Casey of Marshfield has purchased a Milwaukee restaurant and left for the city to manage the enterprise herself. She is sister to Ray and Parnell, known in theater, and has spent most of her life in Marshfield. Trained as a stenographer and bookkeeper, she formerly worked for Bissell Wheeler Lumber Company.
The World Film corporation brings Amusements Money to the Adler opera house Thursday in five reels with lavish sets and a burning palace scene. A $50 prize is offered for the best title to Photoplay Without a Name to be submitted by August 1. Williamson Brothers’ West Indian travelogues show exotic scenes including pilot fish hitching rides on blue sharks, framed with dramatic shark fishing and fights.
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