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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
5
Agents L Q Kelly report minor shift in Illinois Central schedule. The Chicago afternoon train to Monroe departs at 2 08 p m instead of 2 28 p m, twenty minutes earlier, arriving in Chicago at 7 05 p m.
Thanksgiving was celebrated in Monroe with church services and home feasts. Mrs. Nellie Ruble, wife of George F. Ruble, died Saturday morning after a long illness, aged 67. Funeral services were held at St Johns Evangelical Church. six children attended at the cemetery in cold weather. A football game at the fair grounds drew small crowds, and a Turner Hall party by the Monroe Comet band entertained seventy dancing couples. Supt. Whitcomb faced a turkey shortage at the county farm, planning a Christmas dinner instead. A marriage license was issued to Owen Oliver and Lydia Pisiffer, who plan to wed on Christmas Eve.
Real estate transfer entries from the register of deeds show owners changing hands across villages and townships. Properties include lots and blocks in Albany Monticello Martintown Brodhead and Mt Pleasant with values ranging from 40 to 8 600 dollars and multiple adjoining parcels in townships Monroe Jordan and Monroe.
Victor Patton of Juda, while shredding corn on Hawin Deal's farm southeast of the city, was caught under a chain belt and pulley causing a deep forearm laceration and multiple bone fractures. Dr Moyer treated the injury. Miss Addie Keenan of Madison had a sealakin coat worth 300 dollars stolen from a Janesville dressing room after attending a party.
Roy Howard, age 9, son of Mr and Mrs Starry Stoward of Dayton, drowned on Thanksgiving Day after sinking through ice in a mill pond. His older brother Avin Toward, 14, leapt in to help, held the boy above water for a time but froze and could not save either. Neighbors arrived with ropes and ladders, but Roy did not survive.
George E. King, a Janesville druggist, buys the People's Pharmacy at Milwaukee and North Main from Dr. W. H. Palmer. He plans to run two stores and will take possession after inventory. King recently left Janesville for Chicago to study medicine at Northwestern Medical College and will return with Mrs. King to resume residence in Janesville.
Fulton seeks Milwaukee county circuit court permission to sell judgments against 1280 Wild Fallows residents across Wisconsin. He argues selling is best for the trust due to scattered debtors, costly collection, and prior recoveries totaling 50,624.24 plus 2,017.08 in interest. sale would avoid mass suit costs.
Henry Atkins, accused pickpocket, faces a murky path as Renny and Hein, now imprisoned on guilty pleas, implicate Atkins. Renny’s prison statement to Warden McClaury hints at undisclosed details that could influence Atkins’s trial or plea. Atkins seeks to plead guilty but awaits judge’s decision after new testimony links him to the crime at Monroe fairgrounds.
Misa Sophie Ruegger and Mr. W A Schuetze wed at the bride’s home with Ed ward Ruegger officiating justice of the peace. Fifty relatives attended. The couple received many gifts and a luncheon followed. Also noted: multiple marriages on Thanksgivings and a Knights of the Globes notification. Insurance rates to double after 1900 with cap of $2000.
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