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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1906
Page
4
Friday various residents arrive and depart from Albany Chicago Portage and Freeport. Weddings licensed for Monroe. Local business, legal, funeral, and court notes include tax case hearings and a desertion divorce petition. Winter weather arrives with zero to 20 above temps and a late blizzard. Entertainer Cremona Orchestra heads to Turner Opera House.
Saturday notes report residents visiting Chicago Richland Center Freeport and Madison while others travel to Durand Eureka and Monticello. Marital license issued Emanuel Miller and Florence Coryell. Funeral in Monticello for Mrs. Anna Elmer and family visits cited.
Fred Marty visits Mineral Point and S P Schadel travels to Janesville. Fresh home preserved foods and a wide array of gifts fill local shops. Church and club activities announce meetings and events while theatre and book store promotions promise holiday entertainment and bargains.
Notice to those contemplating having a sale. I will clerk for any auctioneer in the field. Engagement open with any auctioneer. Dennis Hogan.
Correspondence from a small town lists Sunday visits by Mr and Mrs Geo Barnum and others, a funeral for Ernest Pletts, poverty socials by the Mite Society, a play Tony the convict at I C C F hall, Christmas exercises at three churches, and skating on the pond as cold weather brings excitement.
The supreme court at Sheboygan hands down a decision holding that a party with a just claim against an estate may be admitted and tried even if filed after the probate court's time limit. The ruling is important and likely to settle many disputes over admission and rejection after expiration, and precedents will be gratefully received.
In an 18th century murder tale retold by the London Standard a Highlander found the murdered English soldier’s bones after a ghostly declaration. A servant and a woman witness testified, but a Gaelic speaking ghost faced skepticism, leading to acquittal.
We express sincere thanks to friends and neighbors for help and words of sympathy after the sudden death of our beloved mother Anna Elmer. Grateful for ministers choir Ladies Aid and friends for floral offerings. May you be surrounded and comforted by faithful friends in your own times of loss. Children and relatives.
A collage of anecdotes and quips on auctioneers and archery in England, a playful misread of Robin Hood, and snippets about Frances Put Lt writing to her mother. A humorous note on letters, envelopes, and a telephone in a home, with minor domestic slang and spelling quirks.
A fragmented OCR style tale recalls a judge testing a prisoner’s Christian name Joshua. The judge asks if he is the man who made the sunshine, and the prisoner clarifies that he instead made the Army and Navy Life.
Public sale at the residence of the late Baltz Kundert in Sylvester two miles east of Monroe on Thursday December 20 starting at 10. Auctioneers J L Summeril & Son and STAUFFACHER and KUNDERT offer cattle hogs hay corn fodder and farm equipment plus household goods. Sale to settle the estate as advertised. The Times prints sale bills.
The column lists several deaths including Isaac Rafter once of Albany killed in Kansas City by a streetcar, Mrs J W Stewart of Brodhead who died after a recent collapse, and Mrs Schindler the Swiss born widow tied to California and Milwaukee. Funeral details note times and burial sites in Juda cemetery and Whitewater. Mrs Schindler’s 12 children and long emigration history are outlined.
The season opens Friday evening December 14 with the College of Commerce team from the University of Wisconsin facing the local Cardinal club at the armory. A preliminary girls game from Monroe high school precedes it. Admission 25 cents. ladies 15 cents. Bast and Booths orchestra to play. dance tickets 25 cents.
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