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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1899
Page
2
A dense jumble of city news includes residents traveling to Vrawartown and Albany, visits to Milwaukee and Freeport, births and injuries, horse escapades, and a band organ performer with a sightless helper dog. Mentions of the Monroe Telephones company meeting, court adjournments, and weather commentary on Wisconsin disaster provide local context.
A. S. Douglas led St Omar Chapter Eastern Star members in instituting Alpha chapter QELS of Argyle and exemplifying the degree work. Six officers from St Omar took bars and initiated six new members. A banquet followed with toastmaster A. Deneen and responses from several attendees. Monroe visitors traveled by rail and praised the event.
Wisconsin volunteers may enlist in ten regiments for five years in the Philippines. Recruiting offices in Milwaukee and the Department of the Lakes with Fort Sheridan as HQ will organize units. War Department begins mobilization actions. Mayor Carter Martisan of Chicago plans to visit Janesville for a national L A W event.
R Macquoid, representing the Wisconsin, travels to gather data for a complete history of the Wisconsin National Guard from inception to present day. The project, endorsed by Geo Scofield and Adj Gen Boardman, aims to publish half tone portraits of officers and fallen members and is funded by popular subscription after a failed legislative appropriation. FE Duncan assists, both seasoned newspaper men, seeking support and information.
Wisconsin and Milwaukee officials announce a statewide benefit baseball game to aid cyclone victims. The event will be held in Milwaukee on a date to be fixed with tickets sold at the gate for a modest price to cover expenses.
The ad touts South Dakota as the most fertile land with booming crops and a harvest promise seen as abundant. It urges Eastern residents to invest now, claiming “dollar a bushel” times may return and promotes eastern South Dakota farm lands as a strong opportunity.
In Clark County South Dakota Elrod sits at a junction of the Madison and Bristol Branch lines offering town lots from $50 with cash terms and larger business and residential plots. The area boasts two railway stations four grain warehouses a hotel a livery stable and general stores with telegraph mail and world connections. Agricultural figures from 1897 show corn wheat oats barley rye potatoes and hay yields with substantial cash values highlighting the region’s livestock and crop potential.
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