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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1914
Page
4
Miss Mildred Ingle seventeen left home with a bottle of carbolic acid. After a despondent note she hid in an upper room as bloodhounds traced her. When searchers knocked, she drank the poison and died. her family mourns publicly.
One hundred and one rail cars moved 5000 Wisconsin National Guard troops to Camp Douglas for an eight day encampment. The operation involved forty infantry companies, Milwaukee cavalry, and artillery. New medical corps will oversee sanitary camp life. Brig. Gen. Orlando Holway leads the brigade with Maj. John G. Salsman as brigade adjutant.
Premium books for the 1914 Central Wisconsin State fair are out and distributed by Secretary R R Williams. The domestic department and livestock list have been updated to balance dairy and beef cattle, with many entries expected this year. Williams will send entry clerks to farms with four or more entries. Grounds are cleaned, cans and hay wire removed, and the track is in good shape. A baseball game between Marshfield and Nekoosa is set for Thursday August 27. Children under 15 admitted free on Wednesday the 26th, which features a strong program and large attendance. A separate educational tent will showcase last year’s strong display under Superintendent George A Varney.
The Wisconsin Industrial Commission awarded Mrs Lulu Hoey of Milwaukee 8000 against the state for her husband Henry Hoey killed by a rifle bullet from a fellow National Guard member at Broadway Armory Milwaukee on November 8 1913. The award allocates 818.56 within ten days and 40 monthly until 83000 is paid. The widow resides in Beloit.
Castoria Bear signature from Chas. H. Fletcher recalls a product line in use for over thirty years and the familiar phrase The Kind You Have Always Bought.
The school board finalizes a $13,000 Weinberg Construction contract from Grand Rapids to add two two story wings totaling about 80 by 38 feet each. Excavation is done, stone bought to avoid delay, with a contract for reuse, and a new heating, lighting, and sanitary system to be installed.
The Rev A Bender of Eau Claire will preach morning and evening at the Methodist church on Sunday July 25. Sacramental service at the morning meeting, and he will also preach at Richfield Methodist Church Sunday afternoon at 2 30. A Fourth Quarterly conference is set for Saturday at 8 PM in the church parlors and official members are asked to take notice with a view to a large attendance.
New Seehafer Corner Co operative Cheese Company incorporated in McMillan with capital of 5000 dollars. Incorporators include William Zeddies Albert Schaff er Frank Weinfurtner Theodore Lehrman and Joseph Fischer, all noted local farmers and stockholders of strong enterprise.
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