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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1907
Page
2
The Monroe Weekly Times lists subscription prices for its Daily and Weekly editions. Daily edition costs 25 cents per copy or 6 months for $3 and a year for prepaid, while the Weekly edition, published Mondays and Thursdays, bills at $1 per year in advance. Office located in Bridge Block on South Jackson Street. phone numbers provided.
Wisconsin dairy men form the Wisconsin Dairy Manufacturers and Milk Producers association to oppose Chicago creameries alleged to control Midwest dairy rates. They plan a $5 per creamery fund and will send W D Hoard, J Q Emery, F A Seeber, E C Dodge, and J G Moore to Washington to present before the Interstate Commerce Commission. A Milwaukee meeting is set at the state fair publicity building on September 12 as they aim to raise $10,000 in a month.
Farmers in Ohio reportedly solved the harvest labor issue by paying workers two dollars a day and supplying beer instead of water. The arrangement keeps hired hands, even tramps, willing to work.
Miss Edna Mitchell of Monroe visits Miss Grace Miller this week while Misses Charlotte Schuler and Edith Isley of Monroe are guests. Born to Geo Dun widdie a five and a half pound girl on Saturday July 27. L. D. Worley ill at his son Walter Worley’s home with Dr. Clark in attendance. Mr and Mrs N A Speck and daughter Marie of Monroe visit relatives. Mr D C Patton sustains a bad thumb injury in a binder incident. Samuel Hutzel improving after twenty one weeks bedridden. Earnest Fry of Platteville to teach in the higher room next school year. Miss Fitzgerald of Albany to teach younger pupils. School opens September 2. Cards announce marriage of Maude Probst to Ivan Scott of Northport Michigan July 15 1907. Probst resided here in 1905-06 and left many friends.
Real estate notice offers a 90 acre farm near town at 25 dollars per acre below its value. Sold quickly with withdrawal in a week or less. JNO J Wescott promotes as headquarters for all sizes.
Twenty six nice babies, boys and girls, need loving foster or adoptive homes. Applications accepted at the State Public School in Sparta Wisconsin.
A car load of fine cedar posts arrived at the Planing Mill Company, ready for sale. The shipment promises sturdy fencing and structural uses for local contractors and farmers seeking durable timber.
Bert Hoss Show Co may bring eight high class acts to Monroe for a week starting August 19. Hoss met with Monroe Business Men's Association officials to discuss a contract and a decision is expected in a few days. The company is booked for Chicago Heights the week of August 12 and has toured Wisconsin cities this season.
The Wisconsin State Fair returns to Milwaukee September 9 to 13 with a new cattle barn the largest on any fair grounds in the United States and premiums totaling 28 500 for farm products and 27 500 for speed events. An evening fireworks spectacular The Siege of Moscow and sixteen bands plus vaudeville acts promise abundant entertainment for all.
Clarence O. DeVoe transfers int in parcel section 5 Adams to Richard L. DeVoe and Millie A. Pinkham for one dollar. The deal notes an in interest transfer of record in the real estate ledger.
Madison Aug 2 The Wisconsin railroad rate commission issued four decisions with focus on a likely statewide reduction of express rates once sufficient facts are collected. It denied Souvenir Novelty Co. of Marinette’s request to ship via American District Telegraph, noting a general rate cut would be preferable. The panel refused Harvey Clark’s Milwaukee Road rehearing, and ordered sweeping coal-rate reductions between Superior and Eau Claire along the line Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha. Governor Davidson seeks a replacement for Commissioner John Barnes after Bernard Goggins declined. potential contenders include D D Conway John H Roemer Aldro Jenks and John A Aylward as a northward appointment is anticipated.
In a recollection from a survivor, a man described as extraordinarily lucky claims success followed him. He supposedly foretold a sudden death and, as predicted, was killed by being run over the very night he spoke.
A school director in Bingtown visited a school and ordered pupils to line up by size, saying those bigger than others should stand behind those smaller. The method achieved the intended result.
A fragment reports a dramatic plea from a Wiener Salonwitzblatt scene with Herr Huber urged to return home as his wife allegedly suffocates herself with gas, followed by a wry remark about a gas bill.
The size of the appendix varies with age and person. It averages from three to three and a half inches in length. The appendix in men is slightly larger than in women.
Wallace Yost and Clin ton Palmer discuss a wager to steal ten thousand dollars from an employer. Palmer steals the cash, conceals it, and plans to return it anonymously after a year. He hides the money, is questioned, returns the funds, but dies years later under social stigma.
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