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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
2
An old classified entry states subscription terms with an advance payment. It lists Cameron Jackson Sr against Carroll Bros. Grocery, Monroe Wisconsin, with a date December 27 and amount 100. The legible details imply a local business notice for payment terms and a dated contract.
Numerous residents journey to Chicago Madison Freeport and Des Moines over the holidays while others return home for Christmas. Social visits, business trips, and family gatherings are noted along with weather turning wintery.
Del Amen and wife visit Mrs Geo Walker in town. many residents, including Clawson, Baird, Smarlacher, Byers, Nellie Hanson, Laurete Gardner, Pearl Wood, Livia Seilor, Harvey Clawson, Lewis Leuenberger, Marion McLean, and Arvilla Crane, return home or depart for Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, Des Moines, and other destinations for Christmas and vacation. Schools close for a two week holiday.
The marriage of Lydia Pfeiffer and Owen Oliver of Wauwatosa is set for this evening at the Pfeiffer home. Anna Hefty and John Schaver will wed tomorrow at the Hefty home in Towock with about thirty relatives and Rev. Gen W Case officiating. The couple will hold a wedding breakfast and depart by early train for Chico.
Madison visitor Jas Ball arrives while Chicago and Freeport travelers Hobble through the region. Residents from Beloit Janesville and Brodhead return home. Various locals depart for Chicago Rockford Madison and Marion as water rentals and visits scatter through the day.
Lafty Fitzgerald and Duail Flynn, brought from Mil wakes by Sheriff Burpister, pleaded not guilty before Judge Donovan to the Deerfield bank robbery charge. The case is reset to January 10 with bail set at 83,000 each. unable to post, they return to county jail. Attorney TR Wade of Chicago, who defended Prendergast, will represent them. Madison officials express confidence they can be convicted and recall Flynn and Fitzgerald were linked to the Montello bank robbery.
Gratiot Wis farmer Charles W Cook residing west of the city disappeared Tuesday November 6. Authorities and family search for him as a possible foul play case. He left with four thousand six hundred dollars and was last seen in working clothes near his farm. Some speculate previous railroad track remains near Freeport may be related.
Reports from Madison say a United States District judge vacancy, created by the death of David F. Jones, likely prompts a swift appointment. The post pays 4000 a year, with a four year term, and contenders include Pat Claweon and Frank M. Wooton among others, with party and state politics shaping the selection.
Mrs. P. B. Bashford of Beloit learns from a returned letter that her son in the Philippine Islands is dead. A pencil-marked note on the letter confirms death, recorded as having occurred at Iloita on September 21, with the war department later verifying the grim detail.
Advertisement lists roses for Christmas and New Year at $1.50 and 2.1K per day and carnations at 7 cents per day. Orders can be placed by telephone. Long distance calls to 803. John Banscher, Freeport, Illinois.
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