15 Jul 1887
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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1887
Page
1
Marshfield items recount visitors and residents aiding recovery after the fire. Mentions Bert Woadstream ill, Rev Fathers trips, improvements by L D Wood, and local business moves. Reports on sawmill rebuilds, new presses, side walk grade work, and community aid from nearby towns as Marshfield rebuilds.
Community notes recount relief fund mispostings and corrections for Marshfield fire victims, with $39 credited and $20 advanced by Dr Budge via the relief committee. It calls for city health and fire wardens to seal slink holes and fire traps, while urging prudent accounts and debts settlement amid ongoing charity drives. It mentions Evergreen Lodge aiding Marshfield, rail survey plans from Wausau to La Crosse and Winona routes, and a public appeal regarding delinquent subscriptions.
A visitor commends Marshfield residents for swift efforts to restore prestige after the Marshfield Lodge fire. The blaze destroyed their records and property, leaving debts and losses around six hundred dollars. Henry Sherry suffered a larger loss of about 3300, with insurance covering debt.
A wide range of business and construction items are listed, including Jewelers Headstreams at their location, Gole and Pors law shop returning to the old stand in a shed, Uliart at work on a foundation for a new building, and plans for a temporary city building for council rooms and fire apparatus. Several firms such as Vollwar and Kraus, A. PF. Gerwing, Dr. Hayward, BM. Deming, and P. Cranmer & Sons are noted with new or expanding premises, plus a fast-growing restaurant and fruit stand at Central Avenue and Fourth Street. A liv ery stable opens near the school, Gov. Seubert orders ground material for a new building, and John Schauer with P. Cranmer & Sons pursue new structures including a double-story and a hotel. A lumber loss of about $300 with no insurance is reported from the station track route.
Plans received for Upham Rifle Company new store to be built next week. Double two story brick block with plate glass front, estimated cost 10000 dollars. Upham Mfg Co opened Monday with over 5000 dollars of fresh goods and receiving large shipments daily.
Hewett notes unusually warm days and busy activity as Frank Cramer paints his hardware store and residence. A Bowery dance at Ruplinger's grove is slated for Saturday evening July 16. Rumor says Up ham M g Co of Marshfield will use the mill to saw logs. J Bonner kessel reports his brother Henry and three partners were killed in a mine cave in Bessemer Michigan on July 12. the body returns to Marshfield for Catholic cemetery interment Friday. Henry was 37, married, and the death occurred at the Coluy mine.
A mass of notices from Marshfield Wisconsin dated 1887 include a Board of Review meeting notice for July 18 at the city clerk’s office, a divorce-like warning about abandoned wife with payment refusal, a post office letters remaining list for July 9, and various names in the unclaimed letters column. The items reveal late 19th century local civic governance, domestic disputes, and mail service notices.
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