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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1907
Page
2
The paper lists Daily Edition by mail or carrier at 25 cents per month or three dollars per year and Weekly Edition published Mondays and Thursdays at one dollar per year in advance. It notes Monroe Wisconsin postal registration and provides telephone numbers.
Conditions bordering on a cattle food famine are prevailing in parts of the county. Unless weather turns, stock will suffer from lack of sufficient food. Backward season has stunted pasture growth, feed is high, and many farmers have kept stock on short rations, incurring heavy losses from buying feed.
A Friday noon snow flurry with north wind briefly appeared, resembling a blizzard but lasted a short time. It wet sidewalks as if a shower, with unsettled weather expected as north and northeast winds linger, ending a spell of brief summer warmth.
Mayor Fred A. Busse was guest of honor at a massive Young Men's Busse Club affair in McVicker's Theatre. The Round Up drew enthusiastic crowds as Busse praised the show, which Klaw & Erlanger will bring to New York at higher prices. A Decoration Day matinee is planned for May 30.
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is recommended for women and children because of its mild action and pleasant taste. It does not nauseate or gripe like pills and ordinary cathartics, and it aids digestion while stimulating the liver and bowels without irritation. Remember the name Orino and refuse substitutes. West Side Drug Store.
Cordwood and stove wood of all kinds available for sale by W B Shafer. Phone contact 232.
Duncan McGregor of Platteville leads Esch with twenty votes in the joint legislative ballot, while Stephenson and Hatten hold strong positions. the assembly orders engrossment of a strict cigarette bill and discusses public utility regulation under a new public service bill.
Francis Cook, a rural mail carrier on Route No. 2 from Woodford, suffered a serious fracture of the collar bone after his horse bolted and he lost control. He may have internal injuries and narrowly escaped death in the Thursday accident.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison reports a record 519 graduates for the year. Of these 313 are in letters and science, 132 in engineering, 18 in agriculture, 38 in law, 18 in music, 30 in commerce, and 29 in normal school courses. The fifty fourth commencement will be held June 19.
The Brodhead high school graduating class includes ten students five boys and five girls. Baccalaureate sermon by Rev Thomas Dongall at Broughton’s Opera House Sunday May 26. Principal C C Parlin to speak Monday evening May 37. Graduation exercises and senior concert at Broughton’s Opera House Tuesday afternoon May 28 featuring the Oxford Male Quartette Milwaukee.
Robert R. Watts of Salem Missouri describes five years of kidney trouble and wasted flesh. He spent on doctors and remedies before Foley's Kidney Cure cured him in under two bottles. The ad notes summer kidney issues from heat or excess drinking and urges attention to kidneys with Foley's Kidney Cure from West Side Drug.
Mrs Paul J Weirich returns home after visiting Cottage Grove. The short trip included time with local friends and a welcome home gathering.
Indiana based Professor Charles Oliver Merica spoke at the M E church during a Good Templars chautauqua. Honorable William P. Lyon ex chief justice of Wisconsin praised him as an outstanding public speaker with broad learning and eloquent language.
The Badger Girls Orchestra led by Mrs. Nettie Booth Wegg and Miss Ada B Williams talent from Monroe present a grand concert recital on Friday May 17 at Turner Opera House. The program features violin and piano solos duet four hands and scenes from Der Freischutz and Acadia Descriptive Fantasia with Rex G Booth providing mechanical effects. A one act sketch My Precious Betsy follows with a cast including Mrs Bobtale Miss Mina Etter and Rex G Booth. Admission is 25 cents, no reserve charges, show starts at 8:00 PM.
In Victoria Australia children ride to and from school in electric cars free of charge. The Fork’s anniversary celebrates six hundred years since the fork’s invention. King John IV duke of Bretagne first used a fork in 1307 to eat fruit.
A thoughtful quotation from George Eliot about the joy of a generous self risking deed. It reflects on the heart racing with moral clarity and the soul’s sense of achieving a high prize through benevolent action.
A quotation from John Pym emphasizes that law protects private interests and safeguards lives liberties and estates, arguing without law no man would have rights to anything.
The passage notes the first metal thimble with a top was made in Amsterdam for Mrs. Eilean van Renssel aer, linked to Albany’s patron. It marks Amsterdam’s 1884 bicentenary of the thimble and notes Dominic Nicholas van Rensselaer arriving in New York in 1674 and owning America’s first watch.
A London Reader note quotes Grant Allen who urged sweeping crossings over literature and journalism. The author rejects the advice, saying their own long career proves the opposite and supports pursuing literary paths.
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