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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1917
Page
5
Local notices recount Frank Stauss in Stevens Point on business and many residents visiting or staying in the city from nearby towns and distant cities. The item lists numerous individuals from Sherry, Loyal, Gilman, Auburndale, Fond du Lac, and Chicago, plus local merchants, a bank employee, and soldiers, with brief mentions of travel, shopping, and social visits.
Ordinance 314 amends Ordinance 303 to reduce license fees from 25 dollars to 15 dollars and updates section 8 setting fare cents from 15 to 20 and 25 to 35. It adds requirement that licensees display a license card with permitted charge rates in a conspicuous place and states the ordinance takes effect upon passage and publication. Mayor A G Felker and City Clerk John Seubert dated August 20, 1917.
The September American Magazine features H C Witwer's amusing tale on why girls marry. He quips that men overrate themselves after a woman accepts, imagining a handsome brute with wealth beyond Rockefeller, and reflects on male vanity in romance.
A breezy column riffs on why women marry, from Mamie Mahoney to Gladys Vante Vere, noting apartment living and luxury rides as motives for some and lying behind gold alloy in romance. The narrator mocks male vanity and urges patience for engaged men amid playful gossip and sharp witticisms.
Starting Sunday evening the Adler theater will again cater to movie lovers with a bill featuring a ball game plot, Charles Ray in a Stellar role, a romance and thrills scene, Universal News Weekly, and a Keystone comedy. Teddy at the Throttle screens Thursday followed by Fatty Arbuckle in His Wedding Night on Friday.
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