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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1899
Page
5
A promotional piece touts Toland’s business school approach in Monroe, praising practical training with real accounts and graduates securing jobs. It highlights faculty as practitioners, not professors, and cites local businessmen endorsing the program and its graduates.
Sullivan and local figures including F. M. Confer and G. Hodges advocate that the proposed Monroe Business University will be a model institution. They argue it will prepare students for lucrative employment, boost educational prestige, and bring hundreds of young men to the city as lasting ambassadors. For more information contact J. Durst or J. Loland in Wisconsin.
The old settlers of Gene County will gather at Lincoln Park on Wednesday August 16 for the anal reunion. James Ge Morahan of Darlington will deliver the address. Music will be provided. A basket drive will be held with coffee cream and sugar furnished free.
Local lumber dealers report wholesalers have raised prices on all lumber and laths. Lumber increases by 1.00 per thousand feet and lath by 50 parts per thousand. The rise is attributed to strong demand, forcing buyers to pay higher prices as mills struggle to fill orders.
John A. Gale of Freeport returned home after three months with scurvy, calling the Klondike gold fields a delusion and noting hardships for wintering prospectors. Several items follow about local notices, legalized passes, scholarships, a coroner verdict on Mrs. Laura Black, and upcoming events including a Madison excursion rate and a pending trial for James Thorp.
Mae Elderado Holgren, seven months old, born at Dawson City in the Klondike, arrives in Madison from Alaska after her mother Sophia Mae Midgren dies. Carried by Indians and strangers over the White Pass and mountains to Wisconsin, the child is cared for by grandparents Capt. James Bennet and wife, with help from a physician and a Scotch woman, receiving gifts of gold dust and keepsakes from miners.
Several prominent women of Madison have given the child money and pretty clothes and have done nine to show their sympathy for the sorrowing grandparents. The body of the maker will be brought to Madison nest winter.
Stephenson County will feature free rural mail delivery between Rock City and Rock Grove. Charles Lyatt, Illinois rural mail service superintendent, oversaw the arrangement at Rock City. D G Lashell will supervise operations. The route spans 1629 miles, and additional rural routes may be added in the county.
The weekly state map shows uniform temperatures from 1 degree along Lake Superior to 72 degrees in the southwest, cooler than last week and six degrees cooler than last year. Rainfall is uneven with heavy southern rains and drought in the north, crops varying from strong corn and tobacco to light apple crops and blight in the north. Harvests of grains are mostly complete with some threshing done and local yields including cranberries and berries promising large crops.
County chairman Andrew Lewis proposes sending 100 to the state relief commission for cyclone sufferers. Nearly all supervisors approve, payment to be decided at the next meeting. Green county towns raise funds, Monroe reports voluntary subscriptions exceeding 2000, boosting county total near 1200. Wisconsin Masons and Odd Fellows funds expected to add to relief efforts.
Jno C Chadwick plans to sell his stock of carriages harness and related items within thirty days and move from Monroe to a larger city to run a Staver Carriage Company outlet. He will oversee a new Madison or Rockford store alongside Mr Staver and decide the best site next week. Chadwick has proven his value to the company.
Jordan Wis Aug 10 rain continues. Blow brothers started a threshing machine on the Ludlow farm. Mrs J Stautfacher reports her uncle Peter Knoble critically ill. Yost Antiuun lost a valuable horse to lightning. Mrs S W Kruger recovering from illness and on a Monroe business trip. Willie Stauttacher attended a stock yard horse sale in Monroe. Tolan Stauffacher of Sylvester visited family. Rod.dansen from Chicago visiting Van Ailmer. J W Voss of South Wayne in the city. Michaelson and son from Millon visiting. Miss Waivy Burns Merlie Judi and Louis Todd returned from Milton. Fred Grunert at New Glatus today.
The State Board of Agriculture, as the delegates committee, appointed at large delegates from each county. Green County’s delegate at large is G T Boudges. He will pick three practical farmers from every town to sit as delegates. The convention aims to reflect farmers' views on road questions.
Tuesday's News Items recounts residents traveling to Madison and Milwaukee, departures to Oshkosh and Switzerland, marriages in Jordan and Cadiz, court clerk illness replacement in Janesville, and local happenings. Also notes about teachers institute progress, bus and rail service changes, saloon arrests, and military updates from Cuba and Camp Douglas.
Dr. W. Monroe retinal to Argyle last evening. Avs. Mitta Tyler and daughter Miss Mabel Pulte visiting from Wampton Is. headed for Durand this morning. W. A. Wasson, agent for the Illinois Central, Madison was in the city holiday.
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