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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1899
Page
5
Attendance remains near average with high school enrollment around 180 to 14 plus late entrants from grammar grades. Some students transfer to business college, while third and fourth grades show the heaviest attendance. Teachers held a planning meeting and expect fresher text books next year as public school pupils stock up on supplies and streets bustle with activity.
The school board adopted modifications to high school courses submitted by A. F. Rote. Changes replace chemistry with theory and art of teaching in the fourth year and remove Gorman as an optional study. Several hundred dollars in claims were approved and tuition for free textbooks set at fifty cents per term for first two years. Minor matters were also noted.
Major D. A. Stearns declines the captains appointment and wires a no thank you to the War Department on Monday. In N. A. Speck's show window a fifty pearl collection from the Buge river attracts attention. Speck and George Wright bought the lot for 41,500 with prices from 15 to 100 dollars. The collection draws much admiration from observers and the owners are proud.
The Woman's Relief Corps held a lawn social at Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Wood's yard Monday evening. Despite a cool night, guests enjoyed ice cream and cake served by the ladies. The Monroe Milby band provided music, with Chas. E. Phipps on mandolin and violin imitations, Chas. S. Young reciting Riley poems, Miss Nelle Miller offering violin, and Miss Minnie Etter delivering a reading. The talent show received high praise, and the event continued until bedtime with a lively, well- received program.
Beach and Bowera minstrel troupe survived a dramatic mishap on the Union Pacific line near Sherwin Wyoming. Their car containing forty people broke loose from the rear of Pacific Express No 4, rolled 33 miles back to Cheyenne in 16 minutes, and halted atop a hill aided by a cellar undercarriage with five tons of show printing paper. They were rushed to Laramie by a special engine as crowds gathered.
Prof Edwin B Copeland leaves Chico to accept an assistant professorship in botany at West Virginia University The move is hailed as an important career step and linked to strong inducements from the West Virginia university The trip from the Sierras included Alpine vegetation studies and a visit to Stanford University for further research The farewell note from Chico praises him as a strong faculty member and genial person The Monticello Belleville baseball result and other local items follow with brief notes on court actions and a state Equal Suffrage convention in Platoville with Susan B Anthony
The September Wiscon ald Druggists' Exchange features a likeness and sketch of Chas A Lytle of Monroe. It notes his Cash Drug House business, long local prominence in Southern Wisconsin, and his history from Kat Mt Joy Pennsylvania through Navy service to pharmacy in Monroe.
The Baltzer family held a happy reunion in this city at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Baltzer. It was years since the clan gathered under one roof, with a Sunday family dinner and a group photo taken Monday. Members came from Orangeville Nashua Iowa Coleta Illinois Blanchardville and this city, including Arthur Baltzer visiting from Nashua for the first time in twelve years.
The Adjutant General Boardman of the Wisconsin National Guard issued orders for the annual armory inspection. Inspections of companies at their armories will run from September 18 to October 31, conducted by Boardman, Quartermaster Albert Solliday, Asst. Adjt. Gen. W. H. Patton, Col. J. Dally, and Lt. Col. G. H. Joachim. Co. H will be inspected by Solliday along with First Regiment units at Oconomowoc, Whitewater, Alkinson, and Beloit.
The Wheelon football team prepares for a new season with coach Randall and staff expected to implement renewed training sessions. Local chatter hints at difficulties and possible labor tensions as players face uncertain prospects and community scrutiny amid adverse weather conditions and shifting work.
Maro the Magician, Camus Fist uml, and two famed lecturers headline a Monroe lecture and concert series. Copeland, Grad Concert Co, Ariel Laties, and the Patricolo Grad Concert Company join evening programs with celebrated artists, while tickets go on sale soon. Local notables attend funerals and industry news accompany events as the club organizes the season.
A burned building will be vacated and repaired with ceilings removed. The Times will lease the ground floor in Bride Street for a new office. H Klueppel’s tailor shop will move, and a printing business will be housed there. A tire sale will occur in Payne block as old stock is cleared after the fire. Rumors of rail and road plans circulate amid cautious official confirmation.
Obituaries report Nancy Black aged 82 of Browntown widow of Stephen D Black died after six months illness at home. Survived by two daughters Mrs Orville Tubbard Mazomanie and Mrs John Skull Oregon. widow's funeral held at Brown town church with burial in Kelly cemetery. Also noted are LT Louella Skinner died at Freeport hospital after cancer surgery. Barbara Housley wife of Heimy Lineslay of Sew Clar is survived by husband and four children. among local mourners and visitors.
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