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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1902
Page
12
Numerous residents travel to Marshfield Loyal and nearby towns for visits and business. Several moved residences or hosted guests from Medford Stratford Stevens Point Colby and Boyd Wisconsin. A Beell Adamson wrestling match and a rainless spell are noted amid community events.
Auburndale report lists Ni M Berg traveling to Marshfield for screen doors. H Kolier refinishes his building and dance hall interior. J Berdan Co installs shelving and two hardwood doors, improving the store. R Connor Co adds a five drawer National Cash Register to speed operations. A dance event reveals Casper Pankratz wins a wheel prize for one cent. Wan J Jeager leaves Campbellsport for Wood county residency. George Steiner joins Keller's concert band as alto, with renewed strength and future ambitions.
Alvert Grumbo visited his sister Mrs Goetz at Stratford last Saturday. Mrs M F McDonald of the town of McMillan is seriously ill. B F McMillan attended the Republican convention at Wausau on Tuesday. B F McMillan & Bro have a
Pupils of School District No Ll were photographed Tuesday and are preparing for Children’s Day exercises. Jacob Drollinger has been seriously ill but is recovering. Miss Plessy Cline returned from Stratford, Ida Iverson heads to Grand Rapids, and Tommy Hogsly visited Stratford friends. Stratford resident Hugh C Jones sold a Century bicycle to Frank Carneke. Mr and Mrs Frank Par daughter Hazel and others visited Marshfield. Rain hinders farmers though a large hay crop is expected.
Miss Agnes Ebbe visited Marshfeld over Sunday. A boy gladdened the home of Mr and Mrs Jim Frederickson and Lettie Junl. Willis Arnold inspected our lands last week. Heavy rains postponed a Nasonville dance. School exercises will be held Thursday afternoon, last day of school, and all are invited. Gilbert Nelsons horse kicked Jim Fredericksons colt, breaking a front leg. John Angel bound the limb and the colt is now doing nicely.
In Bakerville a thief took a quantity of fresh pork from Joseph Schroeder. Visitors Dan and Mrs. Rausch from Longwood are visiting relatives. Mrs. James Larson’s 70th birthday drew many old friends to her home last Thursday. Andrew Fischer joined Lindsey Telephone after installing a home line. Albert Roberts, long treated for blindness at Marshfield Hospital, has moved back opposite Behnke farm. A large crowd attended the funeral of the baby of Mr. and Mrs. Rollo Nason, with Rev. J. F. Young of Marshfield delivering the sermon.
The proposition to raise $5,000 for road improvements failed in the special election held Tuesday. Mr. Hanson is relocating to Waupaca this week while Mr. Mulock moves into the vacated premises. Wicken and Hegge plan a handsome business block on west Main street to be built at once, with Mulock purchasing the tract south of the Howe farm and his son Amsey improving it. Small brothers will develop lots along the section line road from Main street to the railroad. The infant child of mail carrier Rollo Nason was buried at Nasonville cemetery Sunday. the Nason family extends sympathy. Hays and Halem construct a brick business house opposite the depot with space for a store, public hall, and upper floor. completion expected by July 1 at about $1,200. Thiel moved the old boarding house to Main Street for remodeling, and Harry Blyoo¢ plans to move Weedman hall onto new Sergeson addition lots near Wheelock farm.
John Klump raised a large new barn last week and Charles Ewer bought another horse. Mrs. Francis Baker lies seriously ill with Dr Wahle attending. Miss Etta Baker closed a term of school in district No 8. John Jenkins arrived from Waukesha with 151 cattle for summer pasture. Potatoes rotting in ground prompt late planting. A large black snake near the M B church Sunday, first in town. Gus Frenheim plans to plant an acre of berry bushes amid existing strawberry patches.
A Dublin journal links birds to souls and omens with phrases about blackbirds thrushes and rooks wandering souls and winter cigars. It notes jesting sayings on wagtails as devils birds and ravens as God’s bird while mentioning sparrows stare and plovers with fairies and omens around the lark and swallow.
A concise reflection on how worldly judgment reveals hollowness in character. The passage argues that scanning others deeply leads to scorn and distrust, as appearances hide falseness and deceit behind smiling façades and hollow motives.
The writer Frank R Stockton explains he could not decide which door outcome in The Lady or the Tiger would win. He defends his stance, noting readers urged closure yet the story remained unresolved. He claims no reader was more burdened than himself by the mystery.
In the Encyclopaedia Britannica article by Dr T K Chambers an eminent authority notes that Dr Cheyne a well known English physician spent sixteen years in the prime of his life without suffering or loss of vigor. He maintained health on a daily milk allowance of three pints and six ounces of crackers while persisting in active medical practice.
A St Nicholas excerpt recounts the seal and bear chase as the seal hunts for food and naps by a breathing hole, while the bear uses strategy to avoid detection. The bear times its approach, dives and resurfaces at the seal’s expected exit, sealing the prey’s fate.
A fragment from a Boston Transcript item shows Lily accusing Minn of being broken by Freds praise and vowing not to speak to Alin again. The dialogue reveals jealousy and social frictions centered on romantic attention and personal pride.
A Yonkers Herald style classified dialogue notes a quirky exchange about wisdom and learning. The exchange features Helen praising an old, humorous fellow and Maud offering a witty crosswise remark, emphasizing turning mistakes into lessons.
A dialogue features a famed prophet of woe asking what one would say if all rivers could dry up. The patient man replies with a cryptic Upanishad like response. A disjointed fragment of text follows about dolls, a child’s death from the grip and a grim aside about life.
A fragment of dialogue features Mrs Richmond praising antique furniture and Mrs Brouxborough noting its low price, remarking it was almost as cheap as new, with a judge present in the scene.
A Los Angeles Herald line features the shoemaker’s clerk declaring he forgets a man’s face after fitting his shoes. The remark reflects streetwise humor and local color in a clipped historical exchange.
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