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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1914
Page
5
Marshfield area residents travel for business and social events, with locales including Grand Rapids Milwaukee and Chicago. Budgets include premium notices at Central Wisconsin State Fair and a bridge party, plus updates on births illnesses and local civic affairs.
Bethel residents report visits from Flossie and Merril Hall of Grand Rapids and Mrs. Earl Andrews plus family. Prof. P. L. Thompson arrives as academy preceptor. Farm work starts with hay baling and corn cutting. Gardner McChaflin buys Baker’s farm. two silos go up on Iver Nelson and R. W. McChesney farms. John Hunter attends funeral in Arcadia. district school opens Sept 7 with Miss Bessie Qutter teaching.
Sept 7 report notes the birth of a baby girl on Sept 6 to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kennedy. Other items list Frances Markee’s return from St Joseph’s hospital after an appendicitis operation, Mrs John Kennedy’s visit to Marshfield, teachers attending an institute at Grand Rapids, Edna and Leona Panzer heading to Grand Rapids for study, Carolyn Baass visiting Stevens Point, Minnie Schmidt and Cecilia Schmidt returning from Antigo, the funeral of Mrs Arne Reveling at the Norwegian Lutheran church, and Alex Merklein visiting relatives in Wausau.
Veefkind reports a severe Saturday storm when Fre Mueller’s home was struck by lightning near the chimney. No injuries are listed though the event caused damage to the structure and surrounding area. Weather crews monitor the scene for ongoing hazards.
The report describes furnace and water pipe damage, a dog killed by a blast, and a lifted cistern cover. It notes Anna Kibble visiting E. W. Kibble, Herman Karlin building a new barn where the old one stood, and a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Gresette and Mrs. Gresette's father and mother from Illinois to Fred Mueller's last Sunday evening.
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