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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1908
Page
12
Local notes report Aug Siecke with Marshfield friends and various visits across Spencer area. Obituary for Mrs. G. H. Lake details birth, marriage, church life, and funeral. Bank opening inspected as satisfactory amid hot weather and harvest activity. Community events include Epworth League ice cream sale and a late summer ball game dispute between Vesper and Cranmoor nines.
A Monday morning shower refreshed Bethel as Stranger visitors attended Sabbath School and meeting. Eld Mikkelsen preached from John 14 and Nehemiah lessons are in focus this quarter. Profs Sheppler and Thornton visited Loyal with their wives, while Miss Lena Phillips stayed with Mr. and Mrs. John Pailin. Corn and potatoes remain healthy though blight threatens potatoes. overall quality remains high.
Ruplinger Switch Theo Wondrow and F E Sullivan loaded a car of hogs shipped to Chicago last Thursday. A dance in Duthie's Hall featured music and good refreshments with all reporting an excellent time. Mrs W G Hinman visited Mr and Mrs Hargrave last week. Miss Christopherson hosted friends from Marshfield. Most grain will be harvested this week.
Richfield reports visits among neighbors including Mrs. R Grandt and family in Milwaukee, the Dallendorfers with their son visiting Thorp, and social teas with Mrs. Belton and Miss Hemiston. August weather forecast predicts storm periods, rising and falling barometers, and possible heat or frost by month’s end, with gales and thunder storms around the 30th and 31st.
Fifty workers left the Rhinelander Paper Company's mill last Wednesday morning over a dispute with the night shift causing the two large paper machines to idle. The firm plans to arrange with another mill to fulfill existing contracts and there will be no immediate restart. Also noted are new business moves by Case and Johnson and a listed land sale near Marshfield with easy terms.
Dan Lynch of Nekoosa was sentenced to life in prison at Grand Rapids after pleading guilty to murdering Andrew Nemenson and Anna Sorenson two weeks earlier. Lynch, infatuated with Sorenson, shot both victims, then attempted suicide by slashing his throat but survived.
The Wisconsin Dells company with 600 acres along the river and ownership of a major hotel and steamboats will quit. Railroad firms refused excursion rates to Kilbourn area causing the permanent closure after a season that was eighty percent below peak. The firm has hundreds of thousands invested in the property.
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