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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1907
Page
8
Local notices list residents of Monticello, Argyle, New Glarus, and Monroe traveling to Milwaukee Chicago Madison and other destinations. People attend socials, visits occur, and several relocations and engagements are noted along with a pension board session and various errands.
News notes announce Turner masquerade at Turner hall with indoor baseball and big mask ball. Twice as many costumes ordered this year, musical acrobatic and comical stunts, and Health messaging for Magic Safety kerosene. Frequent city visitors and local sales noted.
A Turner hall event will feature cash prizes from the society and numerous local business sponsors offering items such as umbrellas, slippers, shoes, shirts, combs, handkerchiefs, stationery, brushes, perfume, cigars, baskets, and more to maskers at the evening masquerade.
August Berndt and family moved to Clarno then planned to settle in Rice Lake. Grandma Clark suffers pneumonia while measles closures affect eastern schools. Clyde and Luella Edelman have chicken pox. Floyd Zimmerman recovers from pneumonia. Ladies Aid plans a dinner and hall fair. Emma Schoch visits sister Mrs. Will Nyman. Dan Clark ships hogs to Clarno. Delbert Alexander visits Rock Grove. Frank Brunkow travels to Monroe.
Public sale notices announce transfers of farm holdings across Monroe area. August Beyer and Albert Utiger schedule January auctions featuring horses cattle milk cows hogs hay oats corn and farm machinery. A fourth sale at Clarno involves horses cattle hogs hay oats corn shocks seed corn and equipment.
Public sale on the John C Chadwick farm one half mile south of Monroe in Clarno on Tuesday January 29 at noon. Items include two horses eighteen cattle with twelve Holstein dairy cows many fresh, thirty five chickens, twenty five tons hay, 350 bushels corn, seventy shocks corn, seed corn, McCormick mower, hay rake and other machinery all nearly new. Frank Sacker to run lunch. Aud J C Chadwick clerk. Also Colonel George H Joachim reports Sergeant Major E S Driver for regimental adjutant replacing Henry C Baker.
A newspaper ad promotes Mi-o-na tablets to improve appetite and digestion without dieting. It claims no hard work or medicines are needed, asserts a money back guarantee from Trukenbrod's Pharmacy, and touts Mi-o-na as a permanent stomach remedy rather than a temporary aid.
The official forecast for tonight and tomorrow calls for cloudy and colder conditions tonight followed by a Friday that should be fair and colder.
Special notice from West Side Drug Store confirms Foley's Honey and Tar cough remedy contains no opiates or harmful drugs and is safe for children and adults. Times sale bill repeats price 1.50 for 100 units in daily and semi weekly editions.
The Green County Wisconsin County Court will hear claims against Lucy L. Deal deceased at the Monroe courthouse on the first Tuesday of September 1907. All claims must be filed by July 8, 1907 or be barred. Colin W. Wright attorney, J. M. Becker county judge.
Retailer slashes prices on lace curtains bed spreads and damask sheets. Big discounts include 1.69 1.29 1.29 1.00 on bed spreads and 9c 7c yard lengths for flannel fabrics. Cloaks 20 off and one fifth price, damask fabrics 73c and 64c grades.
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