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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1913
Page
4
An Indiana merchant drew farmers by promising a free pound of coffee to anyone who rode in on a road drag on Saturday. The longest distance earned a barrel of flour. The plan increased local traffic and highlighted road benefits for Marshfield region travelers.
In a column voice, the piece urges President Wilson to send U S troops to West Virginia, citing abuses of striking miners, suppression of newspapers, and mob rule while workers face hunger from company store dependence. It condemns wartime politics, industry, and social contrasts with national events.
Prospects for a good Central Wisconsin State fair have never been better this year. The Marshfield country residents are urged to advertise the fair, share the program, and invite friends and relatives to visit during August 27 28 and 23. Autoists can save gas as showers keep the grass green.
An essay on how rear yards reveal habits and affect neighborhood pride. It contrasts New Yorker and Boston boot cleaning, notes shabby backyards harm real estate values, and urges residents to tidy fences, sheds, and trash in the rear to keep neighborhoods pleasant.
On Wednesday of last week Glen Peter son married Miss Ottelis Barth in a church parsonage ceremony conducted by Rev. D Zielsdorf at 3 pm Edwin Barth served as best man and Lily Peterson as bridesmaid. A wedding dance followed at Woodman Hall drawing a large crowd.
A string of humorous local items from Central Wisconsin recounts a new Irish office hand mistaken for a lumber order taker asking for 1000 knotholes and a joke about a cow treated with medicine blown down her throat. The notes blend wit on livestock lumber prices and quirky frontier misadventures.
F L Kent of the dairy husbandry department at Oregon Agricultural College states the main benefits of dairy farming. He argues it improves soil productivity provides a regular monthly income puts the business on a cash basis offers better labor distribution and supplies a market ready product of the highest grade.
J L Klock critiques Florida land value and farming viability after southern trip. He claims real estate agents mislead northern buyers about Florida estates and notes poor potato crops, high fertilizer costs, pest issues, and widespread land for sale.
Dr. W E Allen formerly of the village returned and was greeted by friends in Auburndale this week. George Berdan was summoned to Stratford for the illness of his brother Frank. A J Friedrich traveled to Milwaukee and Menasha on business. Mrs John Ebbe and Mrs Knute Hatteberg visited Auburndale residents. Henry Hartle set up monuments at Catholic cemetery. The eighth grade held diploma exams. Miss M E Bunker visited Marshfield. George Merman visited his daughter Mrs Paul Gehring. Miss Olive Friedrich visited Menasha to see her grandmother.
Dr N A Goddard offers a free medical book on modern caronic diseases and free expert opinion visits at Merihfield. He announces he will be at the Blodgett Hotel all day Wednesday June The public is invited to consult him with no charge for visits and learn about non surgical treatments others may have advised surgery. Address Dr Goddard 121 Wis Milwaukee.
Miss Marie Cook and Miss Alia Berdan visited relatives at Miradors last week. Mrs Raymond Kennedy returned home from St Josephs hospital last week. G W Serverns of Pittsville visited friends recently. Miss Theresa Burns a district two teacher finished a successful term Friday, earning a pension for her twenty fifth year of teaching in Wisconsin.
The Wausau Record Herald argues the United States should prepare for war by deploying warships along the western coast. It says a war with Japan could trigger global history making moves and urges abandoning peace rhetoric to build naval strength near the Pacific.
Mrs. Daniel Kintner of Defiance Ohio describes long suffering from nervousness stomach trouble and headaches. After trying many remedies she credits Dr Miles Nervine with relief and reports years of no severe nervousness. The Miles Medical Co offers a money back guarantee through local druggists.
Mrs WM Archer of Love Branch New Jersey urges mothers to try Vinci for nervous delicate children. She reports her fourteen year old daughter improved sleep appetite and weight gain after use and promises money back if no benefit from the product sold by Sexton Brothers Druggists Marshfield Wis.
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