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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
2
Friday rounds feature Clarno author Peter Stahl and multiple locals from Juda to Madison. Residents travel to Freeport, Chicago, and Green Bay for visits, licenses, or work while coyotes of the season bring weather and pink eye concerns to cattle in Rock County.
Chas N Simons landlord of the Simons house notices his vest in the office and returns to find his watch and chain gone. He suspects a thief, valuing the loss at about $20. James Gettings also recalls a watch, unsure if it was taken or dropped. In town, H B Hoffman and F B Miller, traveling wheelmen from Norwalk Ohio, entertain locals with daring feats and promise to perform again at Green County fair.
The C M and St Paul Railway offers round trip fairs to the southwest Wisconsin and Lafayette county fairs with final return limits noted. Prices include 1.00 to Mineral Point August 14 and 18, 1.80 to Darlington August 21 to 25, and low round trips to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo in September. Excursions via Illinois Central list 2.00 round trips to points west and south on August 15 September 5 and 19.
Special low rates announced for the National Encampment of the G A R in Philadelphia on September 12. For information on rates and routes inquire of N F C Kelly. Rocky Mountain Tea promises to quicken the blood, strengthen the body, and restore power.
South Dakota is booming and many move west as crops promise abundant harvests. Invest now in land along the Madison and Bristol Branch of the C M St P Ry with town lots from 50 dollars, cash terms one third and seven percent on balance. Lands cost seven to twenty per acre with cash discounts and statistics from 1897 show strong yields in corn wheat oats barley rye potatoes and hay across the state.
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