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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1913
Page
9
Marshfield is growing rapidly with 100 new families in the last year and a population near 7 000, aiming for 10 000 in five years. City officials plan more sewers, paving, and street lighting to handle edge growth, while real estate activity and rental demand rise.
A Marathon County bulletin warns that flies and mosquitoes threaten homes with typhoid malaria and other diseases during warm months. It compares the danger of the tiny, sociable housefly to the feared rattlesnake, urging vigilance against disease carried by insects. Bargains appear in the Times classifieds.
Herman Korth of Stillwater Lake warns readers after an Edmonton visit about Canada’s real estate rise and looming slump. He cites high rents, scarce housing, and many hopeful settlers displaced by inflated prices, urging caution to locals enticed by Canada’s promised boom.
A local weather note laments persistent rainfall over the past week. It praises the bureau chief for focusing on weather rather than politics. Crops show resilience with corn and grass improving and grain maturing, though windstorms threaten potential losses. Muddy country roads mark the latest tough spill.
Canvassers Richard Strauss and Willis Arnold of Marshfield visited Grand Rapids on Monday to arrange a special train to Marshfield on the 4th. They plan a monster celebration and urge locals to join. They anticipate a large crowd if weather permits, recalling last Fourth’s turnout.
A Marathon County School of Agriculture and Economy bulletin suggests practical fly controls. Traps with bread and sour milk catch blue bottle flies, fly paper works when flies land, and poisoned water with potash or formaldehyde in sweetened water can reduce flies. Limiting light to open exits helps drive flies out.
Sheriff reports three strangers in a Ford car are running a short change game in a northward Wisconsin town from Sheboygan. They enter saloons, pay with a twenty dollar bill, seek extra change, and flee before discovery. The trio reportedly operated in Sheboygan County where twenty dollar bills are rumored rare. Vehicle number given as W 26687 or W 26682.
The Civil Service Commission announces a Saturday July 12 1931 exam at Marshfield to certify for a Bethel fourth class postmaster vacancy and other office openings. Last fiscal year Bethel paid $259. Applications and details are available from Bethel postmaster and Marshfield local secretary.
The Wisconsin legislature tightened lien rules for builders. Key changes require materialmen to notify owners within ten days and file with the circuit court, with later notices binding only for future materials. Contractors must provide owner and lien-holders lists before payments, creating a trust fund for lien payments. Contractors defend lien foreclosures at their expense, and misusing materials on a different building can be a criminal offense. Lien coverage extends to leasehold interests of five years or more.
Harvey Vincent, former Grand Raid resident and son of a county sheriff, has been appointed postmaster at Park Falls succeeding Ray J Haggerty. Vincent runs the Vincent and Vincent hardware and furniture firm with his father and is well known across Price county.
An old lumber bill from 1889 shows a $33.30 charge for a miscellaneous lot sold to J. H. Matthews on October 22, 1889. Modern prices would run nearly three times that amount, highlighting a sharp cost-of-living change.
Ground is broken for a new basement barn and silo at the Wood County asylum farm with total cost above 4000. Plans were drawn under the state board of control after a visit by Supt L E Gilson and Ald A L MacFarlane to state farms for modern stock barn ideas in Wisconsin. The barn will be 30 by 124 feet, creating one of the largest barn spaces among Central Wisconsin public institutions.
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