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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1907
Page
2
The Wisconsin State Fair offers 28 500 dollars in premiums and expands with a mammoth cattle barn for 800 head. It features vaudeville acts, music, airship displays, relay races, and an interspectacular night show The siege of Moscow. The fair runs September 9 to 13.
Correspon dence notes haying nearly finished this week and threshing to begin. Sid Wells bought the Ed Nieffenegger farm south of Monroe for 125 dollars per acre. Mrs Otis Shafer and two children departed for Artesian South Dakota after visiting here. Several Monroe residents visited Frank Staver and family on Sunday. Charley Palmers cellar flooded several times due to wet weather with five feet depth at one point. a spring appeared and tiling will drain it.
Miss Tilda Olsen of Blanchardville, a stenographer at the linen mills for six months, returns home as mills close some departments. Materials for restarting looms expected soon and work will continue until new machinery arrives. Ned Tippet, recently home on furlough from the U S Navy, is assigned to the battleship New Jersey and enjoys the duty.
Mrs. Wm. Timm is improving after illness. A girl named for the Patton couple near Juda was born August 4, the fifth daughter. Ingalls of Beloit welcomed a nine pound girl also on August 4. her mother is the Wildow family’s daughter. Herman Siedschlag’s son arrived August 5. Miss Mary Ronspier suffers blood poisoning from a ring scratch. Mrs. Thos. Davis was kicked by a horse Wednesday, badly bruised but no fractures.
Notice to all parties owing Bennett and Rust dental firm to call and pay their accounts at once so the business can be settled promptly. Signed C. W. Bennett.
Madison Wisconsin August 9 The University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture grounds near Linden drive present a landscape scene of rare beauty. The oat harvest at the dairy farm proceeds under George Hutton with rust causing limited damage and corn shows rapid growth. A silo is planned at the dairy barn, and the dairy school expects record attendance this year with over 40 advance applications. Cheese and butter scoring contests draw dairymen statewide, with 250 entries monthly.
Postmasters are advised that a 1 cent postal card of a new design is being issued. The card measures 3 by 53 inches, uses cream paper with black ink, and features a McKinley profile along with his birth and death years and name in a ribbon. Existing stock of old cards remains valid until exhausted, but no new stock will be issued.
Wausau will celebrate a Home Coming in connection with the Great Marathon County Fair from September 3 to 6. Preparations are complete and hundreds of former residents are expected to attend. Former residents or interested attendees are asked to send name and address to Hon. Henry Miller, secretary of the Home Coming association, to receive a sou venir invitation.
Detective Hogan falls for a widow who was really the wife of an adventurer. A forged check ring swindles banks, then the couple flees across Europe. Hogan spends months chasing them, finds the trail again, and is later believed dead in a Swiss train wreck.
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