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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1897
Page
5
A local shoe retailer unveils aggressive price cuts to boost sales, labeling $2.25 pairs at $2.00 and higher end models from $3.00, promising 25 to 50 cent savings per pair. The sale highlights calfskin, horsehide, and kangaroo shoes sewn on the Goodyear-weld method.
A jumble of brief items mentions Horn selling the largest tablet, church services at Lytherno, Dan Harkin rooming with Louis Lacinle, the Badger State Band playing Saturday night, and local sightings of a famed pacer. Details touch on theft, monastic land deals, school and church events, accidents, and upcoming excursions, with names including Prof. Andree, Archbishop Vilatte, and Rev. Popper.
Lecture at the HM. E church by Mr. Gray was postponed due to confusion of dates and will now be delivered tomorrow night September 4. Mr. Gray is scheduled to speak at Rhinelander tonight.
Editor Paulus visits his mother in Chilton. Mrs. W. D. Connor and Mrs. A. Coon with John visit Auburndale and Madiner. Miss Mildred Grothers visits Bilbourn and Chin elay. Gibb Currie returns from Oshkosh after visiting Earl Atwood. Miss May Bell Bump visits Fetwood for two weeks. Fran A. Gady leaves for Milwaukee and Kilbourn. Guy to be absent over Sunday. Mrs. C. S. Shuerin heads to Minneapolis for two weeks with sisters. Miss Anna Tapp returns from ten weeks in Minnesota. Mrs. P. Culkings and daughter visit Rock. Fred Masven returns from Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire. Newton Finney of Oshkosh arrives to resume duties at Upham Company store. Vernie and Jessie McKenzie depart Alma for home after two weeks. Prof. Borden, new principal of Almehilla High School, arrives. wife will join later due to illness.
A Durbuque dispatch reports hog cholera is curable with a treatment used by the Dubuque Fruit and Produce company under Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway supervision. Of 62 sick hogs, 54 were saved after treatment, with past deaths in Iowa reaching about nine million yearly. The remedy has been used for over a year, yielding substantial farmer profits by preserving hog herds and stock value.
The piece surveys guesses about Eden's location from Yukon valleys to orbital concepts, noting preacher I. T. Gary in Milwaukee saying many places claim Eden, including polar and lunar theories. It highlights hope that Biden could bring transformation, with Eden imagined as a future touch turning humanity toward brotherhood.
Mrs Anna Engel and James Tredrickson wed in a ceremony led by Judge Hirth on Saturday. Hlarry Welch and Stiss Leon Lopp tied the knot on Monday with Judge Hirth officiating. Gustav Luchterhand and Ross Walen i of McMillan married by Rev L Thom at the Lutheran parsonage on Thursday. Leo Schultz and Mary Grewinger wed in a Catholic church ceremony on Tuesday. Albert St Thomas and Linnie Mundull of McMillan married at the Catholic Shared on Wednesday with Rev Bison officiating. Edw Lynch of Grand Rapids was here on business Wednesday. Mrs J H Bubbard of Waupaca visited Mrs Tyler over Sunday.
In Wood County Wisconsin the last will and testament of Mary Hancks deceased is presented for probate. Delos R. Coon petitions to prove and admit the instrument and grant letters testamentary. Hearing set before the probate court in Marshfield on September 10 at 10 o clock AM with notice by publication for three weeks. County Judge E. Pors delivers the order and date.
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