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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1907
Page
8
The notice lists Daily Edition rates 25 cents per copy, 63 per half year, and 63 per year for the daily mail or carrier. Weekly Edition deliveries on Mondays and Thursdays cost 1 year in advance. The publication is entered at Monroe post office as second class matter. Phone numbers given as contact. Dated January 3, 1967.
A parade of visitors and departures fills the day with numerous trips to Chicago Beloit Madison Janesville Freeport and other nearby locales. Residents greet relatives attend events and report new assignments while local organizations held meetings and installs.
Mrs. Sarah Wells died at her son-in-law Charles Morton’s home after five months of liver illness. She was born February 14, 1844 and left six children including Addison and John Wells. Funeral at Kelly cemetery Friday afternoon. O. D. Fields died in Chillicothe Missouri after three to four months of heart trouble at age 47. he was a former Madison resident and railroad worker. His wife and three children survive. John H. Leehey travels to Chillicothe for the funeral.
Neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bauman of Oakley gathered Monday night to usher in the New Year. Attendees included C A Schroeder and family, Wm Bower, E Riese and others traveling from Janesville Milwaukee Davis Illinois. A New Year dinner at the Schroeder home featured numerous Schroeder and Bauman relatives. C A Schroeder received a large eight pound salmon from E W Schroeder Snohomish Wash as a New Year gift.
Public sale at Timm's mill in Clarno town from the Gugli farm in northern Wisconsin. Stock includes 61 head of stock with 47 cattle and 36 Holsteins, five horses, nine sows and a boar, plus farm machinery, hay, corn and barley. Sale Tuesday January 8 at 10 a.m. Lunch on grounds. Auditors Edgar Eells and Wm Brunkow. clerk Dennis Hogan.
A local physician warns of an early la grippe season with a long and severe run. He advises precaution as warm weather may boost infections, yet insists there is no current epidemic and sickness remains minimal for the city.
William A. Mayhew, Civil War veteran and Clinton Wisconsin postmaster for eight years, seeks renomination but asks Congressman Cooper to drop his name from consideration. Mayhew cites not wanting to burden friends and thanks Cooper for past support as he withdraws from the appointment process. Congressmen call the move unprecedented in postoffice history.
Emil Wurst of Waterloo reports a cow from his herd died after a post mortem found four ten penny nails a large spike and a large iron nut in its stomach. The spike perforated the stomach wall and was believed to have been picked up with feed in a recently built barn. The case is cited as evidence that tuberculosis tests reveal cattle health.
The official forecast for tonight and tomorrow says rain or snow and a drop in temperature. Friday will be generally fair with colder conditions in the eastern portion.
The tale from the N O Times Democrat recounts a beeman’s caution that placing a hive near arc lights causes bees to overwork. The bees labored day and night for 36 hours, then died by week’s end from exhaustion and stress of the artificial daylight.
An advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy for indigestion constipation headache backache and kidney trouble. It promises a money back guarantee and offers Tea or Tablets for 35 cents and lists A. F. Lichtenwalner as the contact.
A Crimean soldier sentenced by a court-martial faced execution but no hangman could be found. A volunteer, a new recruit, agreed to carry out the sentence after the officer urged the captain to act. The captain then asked for a volunteer among the sergeants, and one man stepped forward. He later flogged the volunteer who failed.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports a large falcon named Falcon, captured about 100 miles inside Unimak Pass by Chief Officer F G Mills. After a battle aloft the bird became the ship's pet and mascot though it threatens others with beak and claws.
A Louisville Hepald tribute extols Kentucky corn bread as a defining symbol of the state. The piece lauds the bread as a monument of the Kentucky housewife and links it to homeland traditions and hospitality. It invokes Victor Hugo to praise bread shared at the paternal hearth.
The Blackstone Courier argues that a father chasing money and frequenting clubs neglects his son. It criticizes home deficiencies as the root of youth temptation, urging stronger home guidance to reduce curfew violations and curb temptations.
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