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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1902
Page
8
Northern Wisconsin lands attract buyers with low prices and easy terms. Timber, bark, and logs provide immediate income after freight costs. Crops like rye, oats, peas, barley, wheat, and potatoes yield reliably. Dairy, livestock, and good water reinforce value. Roads improve access as land value steadily rises. -Phillips Bee.
S. D. Carpenter known as Pump Carpenter and former Madison paper man and state printer seeks a vote counting voting machine in Stevens Point and may relocate pending deals. The report also notes Rev. A S Badger's last sermon at the Stevens Point Presbyterian Church and previews Epworth League’s Grand Rapids convention with speakers Miss Bon Quel Elijah P. Brown and Dr Plantz.
The week shows better tone as corn and potato cultivation proceeds without major rain interruption. Clover ready to cut, winter wheat and hay maturing. temperatures slightly below average with cool, some frosts not damaging. Corn advancing slowly due to cold, weeds cleared in fields, replanting from prior washes common. Winter grains show heavy growth and good stands. oats and barley progressing with strong yields anticipated. Meadows, pastures in excellent condition. haying active with heavy yields expected. Potatoes up, late varieties fine, some rot on low ground. bugs numerous but outlook favorable. Tobacco transplanting near completion. some cut worm damage noted but overall satisfactory. Fruits mixed: strawberries fine quality, apples blighted in many areas with medium yields, cherries light, blueberries good, cranberries affected by rains yet frost damage absent. Northern sections report rye, wheat, oats doing well. weather cool for corn, corn stands fair. localized lodging noted. Observers credit favorable cultivation windows and early harvest readiness.
Grand Rapids Gun club edged Wangan Gun club by twelve birds in a Sunday match at Wausau. Sixteen shooters per side. Grand Rapids finished 294 of 400 while Wausau had 282. Local club earlier beat Grand Rapids by over fifty birds, suggesting a potential upset ahead at Marshfield.
The annual meeting of School District Number One in Marshfield Wisconsin will be held in the high school assembly room on Monday July 7 1902 at B oclock p m for the election of officers and other lawful business. Dated Marshfield Wisconsin June 24 1902 City Clerk C S Varppee confirmation.
Promoters John Seubert and Ernest Schmidt organize a city base ball team to spark local interest in the national game. The squad, aided by younger experts, will play exhibition games and challenge nearby towns including Klondike Baker ville Chili Granton Stratford Spencer Romeo and Loyal as they consider forming a circuit.
The Pere Marquette is the official route to the B P U convention in Providence Rhode Island July 10 13 with return via Niagara Falls. Special summer tourist tickets from Milwaukee to Portland and Niagara Falls are available for travel July 5 to August 15 and through October for the seasonal book and details. Contact H W Jameson P A Pere Marquette Milwaukee for full information.
An advertisement lists tour rates and excursion options across Pere Marquette and Chicago and Northwestern lines. It promotes summer sightseeing, special July 4 rates, Sunday and monthly passes, and tourist guides with stamps for copies. It highlights new routes, resort trips in Wisconsin and the Northwest, and the Northwestern line’s extended return options through October 1902.
For sale by M C Lueckenbach at headquarters featuring the latest millinery novelties and hair worlds. Ladies urged to clean kid gloves using the dry cleaner service.
A fragmentary read recounts long burning peat fires in England with old farms storing fuel stacks amid moorland scenery. It notes Castleton and Os motherby as sites with fires burning for decades or centuries and mentions girdle cakes baked over peat flames as a local habit.
A fragmentary tale of Sr. Lowell's second marriage centers on rumor denial by an admirer who doubts her belief. Ike: any other man. The piece transitions to a contractor’s harsh stereotype about Italian laborers, claiming rain reluctance and feigned illness to avoid work, reflecting biased reportage from Philadelphia Record.
A fragment describes indelible ink derived from Purpura lapis, detailing a yellow liquor beneath the shell and a sun exposure process that yields olive and purple colors, ending in a brillant permanent stain. It notes New England housewives growing abundant on seaside rocks and praising the ink for its beauty and durability against acids and alcohol.
A woman questions John about rumored plans to propose to her, urging direct talk with her rather than his mother. John agrees to speak with her. The Living Church quotes a Connecticut diary from 1780s noting a rib joke about pork dinner and a priest describing the rib as made of the same “critter” as Mother Bre.
Dialogue fragment shows Winterby joking about a visit with his wife and a warning not to let her wear her new real. Bingo responds grimly that they are coming for something. The snippet conveys tense, hostile mood and potential plot motive.
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