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The Wolf River Telephone Company has commenced to putting a line from Weyauwega to New London, by way of Royalton, Ostrander and Northport. The company is talking of building a line to this city from Weyauwega, direct, and make a charge of 10 cents per message. PERSONAL L.A. Hoffman is down from
Marranette. Manawa Advocate - Manawa, WI - March 5, 1896 Len and Mrs. Lozier came down from Reamer Saturday. They have been living there this winter and Mr. Lozier has been logging. Martin O'Connor will auction off all his stock, farming utensils and household property, at his farm in the town of Lebanon March 25th at 10 o'clock in the fore noon. Mrs. Brown from Royalton the mother of Willis Brown of this place is with her son and family for a two weeks visit. Mr. Brown's brother Fred who came up with her has returned. Manawa Advocate - Manawa, WI - April 16, 1896 SHOOTS HIMSELF - Gustav Rosenau Has His Hand Badly Maimed by the Accidental Discharge of his Gun. Gustav Rosenau, who lives to the north of the river had a bad time, Friday, with a gun which he had recently purchased. He had started hunting and was on the shore of the mill pond, when the triggers of the weapon became caught in some way and was discharged, the charge of shot passing through the heel of his hand and producing a very painful wound. Rosenau had no further use for the gun and at once threw it into the pond, whence it was soon after ? by another party. The wound was dressed by Dr. Jurgensohn assisted by T. H. Hanna, who is studying medicine with Dr. Sanborn. Manawa Advocate - Manawa, WI - June 4, 1896 Fred Adkins attended the funeral of his brother's infant child; which took place at Royalton on Saturday. The aged father and mother of Mr. Chris Anderson, who are residents of Antigo have been visiting him this past week. J. D. Fowzer received a very painful injury last week. A casket which was standing on end on the depot platform., fell on his foot and wrenched and bruised the ankle so badly that he was obliged to give up his work at the station for several days. Manawa Advocate - Manawa, WI - June 25, 1896 Will Bullock is absent on a wheeling trip to Amherst and Plover. Miss Lottie Wipf of Iola, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. N. G. Nelson this week. Manawa Advocate - Manawa, WI - September 17, 1896 E. E. Whiting, the photographer, is now located in Waupaca, Wis., gallery opposite city hall. For a short time he will make Cabinet Photos for $1.49 and $1.99 per dozen. $1.99 gets the very best finish. G. W. Dent who has been considered insane for some time, was taken to the asylum of Oshkosh, Wednesday. He has always been an industrious, honorable man and his sad affliction is the result of a case sickness which occurred several years ago. Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Stanley a young son Wednesday evening. Both mother and child are getting along nicely. In a recent from Ogdensburg the Advocate's
correspondent claimed, as an indication of that little hamlet's
progressiveness, "four births in one week". Possibly that is
what they call progress there, but how are three births in one day, as was
the case in Manawa to-day, and the New London Fair in progress at that.
Messrs. Fred Doney, E. L. Darling, and H. E. Shipman are each happy papas,
the former having to look out for seal-skin cloak while the two latter are
pricing base ball uniforms. One girl and two boys. Stevens Point Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - October 31, 18960
The Waupaca Republican -
Waupaca, WI - November 20, 1896 The Whitman House at Fremont, owned and conducted by Tom Loller, burned Wednesday morning. The fire started from a defective chimney in the kitchen. Building and contents were total loss. Insured. Manawa Advocate - Manawa, WI - December 3, 1896 LOCAL HAPPENINGS Joe Minton was sick with quinsy this week. Mrs. Mina Evans has ordered the Advocate sent to her at Milan, Mich. Elmer Witt came home last week. He has been in California for some months with his father. The nine year old son of Mr. North is very sick of diphtheria, at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Gilroy. E. R. Vaughn returned from Cambria last night where he has spent the past four weeks, visiting relatives. He reports the people well, a very pleasant time and the wind cold and strong. Last Friday evening about seven o'clock a hanging lamp in Cashier Rondeau's dining room exploded, throwing oil and fire all over the room. Catching up a quilt Mr. Randeau proceeded to smother the blaze, while Mrs. Rondeau went for help, and by the time she returned with assistance the fire was about out. It was discovered that through some mistake in the merchant in filling the can, gasoline had been substituted in place of kerosene, and the mistake had not been noticed by the family. Some table linen, several articles of wearing apparel and two cane seated chairs were ruined, the loss being about $15.00. They were very fortunate in getting off with so little damage done. Manawa Advocate - Manawa, WI - December 24, 1896 LOCAL HAPPENINGS Potter Guerin is on the sick list. Miss Ada Bruyette, who is teaching near Marble, is home on a vacation. The three daughters of Theodore Woltring, who have been sick with diphtheria, are improving. Premiums Awarded at the Farmers'
Institute - The
following premiums were awarded at the Farmers' Institute held in Manawa,
December 15 and 16: Best home laundried shirt, Mrs. Axtell; Best lb.
home spun yarn, Mrs. Schroeder; Best 5lb. jar butter, Mrs. Calnon; Best
5lb. roll butter, Mrs. Bruyette; Best potatoes (Burbanks) Will Schroeder;
Best potatoes (Hebron) Wm. Doran; Best beans (1 peck) Mrs. August
Schroeder; Best 1/2 bu Spring Wheat, Melton Stanley; Best 1/2 bu winter
rye, Henry Storm; Best 1/2 bu oats, Henry Storm; Best corn in ear, Wm.
Schroeder; Best buckwheat, Wm. Schroeder; and Best barley, H. Ora. If you have articles you would like to submit for posting please email me. Return to news article Index Return to homepage Copyright © 2000-2011 Paula Vaughan |
