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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
9
Monroe weekly notices report a busy day with residents traveling to Chicago Madison and La Crosse. postal service disruptions affect Western Union telegraph lines. local society notes include anniversaries and visits, and county agricultural plans reveal a 24 by 120 hog barn project for the fair.
Daily notes from the city record numerous arrivals and visits. Darlington visitor John F. Reimer. Chicago returns by Emil Weiss and Dr J F Rouch. Freeport, Rockford, Milwaukee and Janesville trips cited. local births and visitors to Monticello and Warren also mentioned. The Young People’s society prepares for a Decatur picnic. the board of review sits with Mayor Ludlow and city officials observing routine.
L. S. Wagner returned to Stoughton this morning as heavy iron girders delay construction. The posts at the assembly room will be removed by installing seventeen ton and thirteen ton girders, each eighty feet long, likely taking about a week to set.
Smith lodge gathers tonight as various townsfolk travel and visit connections. Nick Dowling heads to Waukesha while C D Kennedy comes from F B Luchsinger who just returned from Chicago. T B Fager arrives from Forreston Indiana with Mrs and Mrs E W Keyes return to Madison. Mrs James Lyman and children visit Juda relatives. Mrs Sol Levitan of New Glarus visits city kin. Esther Stauffacher leaves for Davis Illinois. W C T U to meet Friday with Mrs H L Ball. Mrs Henry Ludlow returns from Chicago.
Mr and Mrs George Meythaler return to Monticello. Several residents visit relatives in Milwaukee Chicago and Ill. A Barnum Bailey circus visit and a Staver church picnic are announced along with automobile races and a band concert. Cheese entries at the University of Wisconsin dairy school are detailed with top scores and common faults.
Mr and Mrs W B Hawthorn go to Chicago to visit relatives. J D Dunwiddie and Miss Grace Dunwiddie and Phoebe Twining head to Madison to enter the university. Milwaukee road operates a special train to the Darlington fair Aug 29 and 30 leaving at 8 30 a m and returning at 6 30 p m
Milwaukee road lowers interstate and Wisconsin point fares to two cents per mile with Milwaukee to Chicago at 2.50. Madison stays unchanged while many local routes drop. Illinois Central expected to follow. Mileage books remain on sale, usable across Wisconsin Illinois Minnesota and surrounding states.
Freeport Bulletin reports a false circulating tale that a Barnum and Bailey performer known as the dip of death is Miss Vandervoort of Warren. In fact the performer is Mrs Isabelle Butler wife of cyclist Thomas Butler. Vander voort allegedly linked to Rhoda Royal reappearing at Madison Square Garden.
On his deathbed the French writer Rabelais allegedly asked the doctors to allow him to die a natural death. The anecdote frames his wit even in final moments.
Mrs. Lucey Wright wife of the late W W Wright died at 5 o clock Tuesday morning at her home 423 East Payne Street after a paralytic stroke. Born July 20 1824 in North Hampton Massachusetts she lived eighty three years in Monroe since 1857. Survived by two daughters Mrs Emma Edelman and Mrs K Bell Rood and a son W M Wright who died in 1906. Funeral held this afternoon at the house with Rev J H Berkey officiating.
Matrimony reports Miss Mattie Bechtold and Mr. C. R. Bonger of Browntown married yesterday in Freeport with Justice Goddard officiating the ceremony.
Harry French of Madison visits Monticello over Sunday. Miss Winnifred Lynn of Scranton Iowa visits relatives in Monticello Exeter township. Miss Lynn arrived from Monroe last evening. J E Steuasy of Monroe operates steam threshing north of the village. W E Murphy engineers Steussy’s outfit. Edward Weismueller plans to locate in Oshkosh in the saloon business. Jacob Weisemueller may join him there. Mrs J S Fessenden Beloit suffers eye trouble requiring darkened room and bandages. Her mother Mrs Emily Wright was called to Beloit. Mrs Fessenden is improving and hopes for full relief.
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