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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1910
Page
1
The Times to launch a popular lady voting contest in Marishfield offering a $400 Oakland piano and fifteen other prizes from local merchants. Votes via coupons on $1 purchases. contest runs three months. Clough Warren organ to be awarded to the leading society or lodge with most votes. Instructions available at the office.
Superintendent Otto launches a contest across public and parochial schools to boost Christmas seal sales. Prizes include gifts from local merchants for high school students, grade schools, and Catholic parochial students, with a grand prize of shoes, pocket knives, or theatre tickets for all students.
Catholic Order of Foresters announce chief and vice rangers, secretaries, treasurers, and trustees with a public installation and outside speaker planned. Masonic Blue Lodge lists worshipful master and other officers. Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodge names for noble/grand officers and secretaries, with additional appointments pending.
Boxing card set for Adler's Opera House on Thursday night December 22. Jim Potts, Minneapolis middleweight champion, meets Eddie Ren, Milwaukee lightweight, in a ten round no decision bout with Harry Bayne as referee. Preliminaries begin at 9 p.m. Ringside seats $1.50, balcony and main floor $1.00 and 50 cents.
The social season features the annual ball for Company A 2nd Infantry Woman’s National Guard to be held Monday evening at the armory. The event marks the first annual ball with national color decorations and full Second Regiment orchestra. An elaborate committee oversees plans with Lieut Reigl and sergeants among organizers. Palms restaurant will provide Hart ball refreshments inside the building. The high school basketball tournament runs today and tomorrow with seniors versus sophomores and juniors versus freshmen in two afternoon games leading to championship and consolation matches.
At a recent common council meeting, Merchant W. H. Kamps was unanimously chosen alderman to fill the Sixth ward vacancy after Alderman Marx died. A veteran public servant, Kamps previously served 1897 to 1905 and has often declined mayoral offers due to business commitments.
Miss Clara Mason formerly of this city daughter of Mrs. B. Elvis, married at Janesville on Sunday to Walter Stuart of Janesville, a well known newspaper man. Mason was a Marshfield resident, taught in city schools for years and later served as city editor on The News. She is popular in social and musical circles.
The author recounts a trip from southern Indiana to Pittsburgh visiting McKeesport Vandergrift Mills and Gary Indiana to witness steel production. He describes open hearth sheet steel work blast furnaces and gas engines used to convert furnace gas into power. He notes the scale with 2500 engines 4000 workers and 1000 HP engines and mentions plans to return to Gary’s lake shore plants and the Pittsburg district guest invitation.
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