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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1899
Page
5
A promotional note invites customers to shop at Gent's highlighting grand sales and low prices. It emphasizes savings, quality goods, and repeated visits, claiming the store is the best and safest place to trade and that customers will be convinced by their experience.
A merchant recounts reclaiming 100 suits from a firm for late delivery and selling them at reduced prices. Men’s suits range from 12 to 15 dollars after discounts. boys’ suits and women’s shoes also feature substantial markdowns with items priced as low as 2.25 dollars.
A brisk town newsletter reports on social events and local happenings. Details include a reminder for Easter Monday dances at the opera house, a typhoid recovery for Isabel Bast, a new spring fashion opening by Miss Luecken, and community moves in Auburndale including Goetz and Goetz family news, plus regional rail and banking notes and funeral arrangements for Andress Dollendorfer. The column also mentions forthcoming promotions, a lumber yard update, and political candidacy notes.
This regally noted stallion, purchased by the Maurshateld Coach Horse Association, is to be sued over the SeRKOD nes FOLLOWS. Events are scheduled for Moniuya at Auluradye, with a Wollten days frame and Friday Satunday at Mauniani's. Prince Victor is described as a darts bay with specific points and weight. The entry includes references to Germam coach kuatlinu and a shipment from Oldenherp, Germany. All communications are directed to G. 4. WARSINSIE, Pr Marsifleld.
Arthar Hyman returned Wednesday from a visit with friends at Waw SAU. Mrs. E H Thompano of Greenwood visited her daughter Mrs. A P Adams over Sunday. Mrs. Oran Deveraux and her firesce left Sunday for a visit with her parents in North St. Paul. Arg Sheri and 13 others took the railway postal clerk civil service exam in Stevens Point. Mrs. Loren Sehurmway and Mr. and Mrs. Elder Fook of Piusville were guests of Bris. G A Warsinske Wednesday night. Miss Margaret McNamara, teaching in Thorp, returned to Neillsville on Wednesday, stopping in Marshfield to visit Mrs. A P Adams between trains.
Among the dead returned by the government is John Van Breda who died of fever at Ponce. His body arrived in New York on Wednesday aboard the transport vease with other remains. Van Breda, of a home company, has parents in Grand Rapids Michigan and will likely be buried there. The list omits Corporal John L. Davis. A likeness of Van Breda is re published as a last remembrance.
On Monday a six inch water main thawed by electrical method in forty four minutes, clearing the way to the veneer factory for the first time in weeks. Superintendent Upham praises electric thawing as a major discovery and viable under all conditions. A burst section occurred after thawing, requiring digging through frozen earth to replace the broken line. Once the factory water supply is restored, thawing of service pipes will continue.
A two day meeting of the 6th district 1 C G T was held in Nasonville last Thursday and Friday with about 40 members attending. W Clark grand chief templar and HI A Larson district lecturer attended. District degrees were conferred on 15 members.
Mrs. J E Riddle formerly Miss Jessie Gill of this city was injured in Milwaukee last week after a 20 foot fall in a disabled elevator. Eight people were aboard but only she sustained spinal injuries though all were badly shaken. She avoided severe shock at first but soon began bed rest fearing possible permanent damage.
Local letters recount rare migrant guests at Marshfeld with a flock of Evening Grassbeaks and Bohemian Waxwings arriving after a cold winter. Elliot Cunes notes their twilight songs and North Arctic origins, praising the birds as striking symbols of fleeting beauty.
Beach and Tower Minstrels will appear at Adier’s Opera House in Als City on Thursday evening April 6. They travel in their own coaches carrying thirty five people and stage a grand parade. This marks their 15th consecutive season with public endorsement and strong crowds expected. Admission ranges from 50 cents to one dollar with tickets on sale at Horn’s Drug Store.
A Wisconsin Central conductor faced a near mishap when a young married woman with her newborn rushed aboard without a ticket. She offered a five dollar bill to pay, asking for change, while the conductor joked that he only works up to a year. He was eventually revived by a water cooler in a Colby Phonograph setting.
A large group of teachers from Black River Falls and intermediate points marched along Central avenue to the Omaha depot to join another party en route to Stevens Point for the North Western Teachers Association annual meeting. The group grew with arrivals at Greenwood branch and Junction City, filling coaches and delaying departures as rain dampened travel.
Roadmaster F O Baker reports a 10 percent wage increase for section workers after spring opens. The order follows a large planned workload for the coming summer as the system moves toward improved conditions.
No school today if the County Superintendent does not hold a two-day teachers institute Friday and Saturday at the High School. Prof Livingston and Mrs Bradford of Stevens Patt Normal will conduct. A glass institute may be expected. All advocates’ friends are invited. Do not fail to be present.
Sister Mary Columbia died yesterday at St Joseph's Hospital from consumption. The passing ends her dedicated service with the religious community and she was a familiar figure in local charity work and parish circles.
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