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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1907
Page
4
The Monroe Weekly Times lists subscription rates for the Daily Edition at 25 cents per issue and 83 per year, with a monthly mail or carrier option. The Weekly Edition, issued Mondays and Thursdays, is 61 per year in advance. The paper is entered at Monroe Wisconsin post office as second class matter.
Friday's city news and notices cover residents visiting nearby towns including Janesville Monticello Edgerton and Beloit. It reports licenses issued for Henry A. Rindy and Ella A. Hustad, a liquor arrest of Wm J. Hahn and a false marriage notice involving Miss Margareth Rufenacht. A stray dog with possible hydrophobia was shot after authorities could not locate its owner.
News notes cover local travels from Madison to Chicago and Albany, sales of wood, and a residence for sale. Measles outbreak hits Dodgeville while a blizzard and cold wave hit the area with records of telegraph and wire troubles. An ozonator and electrical therapy equipment are added at Loofbourow hospital.
A young orphan recalls the night two men discuss a bank raid and hide a carpetbag under the hay. He witnesses pursuit, bribes to a constable, and a bull chase that forces the thief away, leading to the bag containing $22,000 being recovered and a public uproar.
Wilson Wright returns home from Madison. John Bloom and Kate Benkett visit relatives in Jordan and Monroe. Summers came home from Madison. John Scheffel visits Freeport. Fred Alleman departs for Chicago. Mrs. J. L. Sherron travels to Freeport then Durand to visit kin. Fred Zimmerman heads to Bentonville Illinois to see children. Mr. and Mrs. J B Treat return from Chicago. Milwaukee road westbound passenger train delayed 2 hours 35 minutes due to freight wreck near Janesville. Mrs. Henry Schindler and Margaret Schindler of San Francisco depart for St Paul to visit J J Schindler family. Hugh Runkle, 81, stricken with paralysis. recovery unlikely. Mrs. Emma Ritzman recommended as Orangeville postmaster renewals.
The Rock County board of supervisors will stop publishing the annual report of the county superintendent and will rely solely on the financial statement. The superintendent’s blunt remark about farmers neglecting children in parts of the county prompted the change.
At the dedication of Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg Senator Penrose praised a private dinner speech as pregnant with meaning and illuminating. He compared it to a humorous quip about a young lady who cannot recall whether she is to meet Morris on Tasker street or Tasker on Morris street, highlighting the speech's notable character.
A London Graphic feature recalls 17th century parishes in Huntingdonshire paying for whipping a distracted woman and others with smallpox as a supposed cure. The term bang beggar denoted a beadle who seized and drove away beggars, a brutal role that outlived the practice and remained a regional nickname into the mid 20th century.
A fox communes with nature to rid itself of fleas by gathering moss from tree bark and carrying it to a stream. The fox immerses most of its body, fleas flee to dry moss and escape downstream, allowing the animal to surface and feel relieved.
A physician warns that the belief more is better leads to harm from self granting doses of quinine. He cites cases where a small amount helps but patients buy excess at stores, then overdose when self treating illness. The result is serious avoidable illness from careless medicine use.
A Chicago Record-Herald note explains that in Scotland an exchange of words forming wife and husband can constitute marriage. It cites Wilkie Collins’s Man and Wife where a signed note and a reply on the back imply matrimony, used later for blackmail as if legally binding.
The leopard from French Congo is honored with a place on every stamp in a six stamp series issued in 1900. Each stamp uses two colors showing the leopard. The lithographer can change the spots even if the leopard cannot.
Water taxes may be paid anytime beginning Monday December 31 at the office of the city clerk on the west side of the square.
A folklore tale links the term Black Maria to a Boston boardinghouse keeper who once aided in arresting three sailors and allegedly inspired the phrase Send for Black Maria as a cue to jail. The origin story contrasts an obscure linguistic theory with a colorful colonial legend about a strong African American landlady.
The Budgwick parish council seal displays member occupations: vicar by an open Bible, farmer by trees, coal dealer by four sacks, miller by a mill, inn keeper by bottle and jug, boot maker by a boot, auctioneer by a hammer, doctor by a medicine bottle, carpenter by a plane, and baker by a loaf.
The violin excels on its own ground unlike piano harp mandolin banjo or others. It can outshine in passages that suit its unique voice and cannot always be transferred to other instruments.
A Detroit Free Press note recalls a man who started as a rose specialist but insects ruined his flowers. Rather than quit he explored bugs and now pursues entomology with equal passion, finding plenty of interesting varieties to study.
Advertises Urino Laxative Fruit Syrup as a cure for chronic constipation. Claims it aids digestion and liver and bowel function, restoring natural action. Says it is pleasant to take, does not nauseate or gripe, and urges immediate use via West Side Drug Store.
The local post office lists unclaimed letters for the week ending January 19 1907 including Mrs Willard Chapman John Durst Mrs G W Ermey Merton Fish Willie Gustafton Albert Hofer Miss Wilhelmine Klossner Clarence King John Lovert scher John Nalz Mrs John L Timmons R A Etter and P M.
Dry four foot long pine kindling offered at the Monroe Planing Mill.
Special notice from West Side Drug Store declares Foley's Honey and Tar cough remedy not affected by the Pure Food and Drug Law. It contains no opiates or harmful drugs and is recommended as safe for children and adults.
For sale the brick house on East Washington street with two lots 109 feet on Washington street and 152 feet deep includes an ice house and other outbuildings. For terms and particulars address T B Fager Forreston Ill.
An ad promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for nerves digestion and sleep. Offers Tea or Tablets at 35 cents and lists A F Lichtenwalner as the contact or seller.
Featured offers include bed spreads in white fringe priced 1.69 1.29 and 1.00, 5000 yards bleached outing flannel and 3000 yards unbleached outing flannel cuts at 7c and 9c, sofa pillows at deep discounts, scotch flannel wool mix 32 inch stripes, and cloaks with a one fifth to twenty percent discount. Numerous price points indicate holiday clearance style pricing across fabrics and accessories.
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