- LARGEST CROWD DURING THE WEEK
- CRUSH AT RINK BUILDING WAS TERRIFIC.
- Imperial Band Played - Everybody Out For
a Good Time and They Had It - Fully One Thousand Arrive by Trains
- Delightful Weather Brings in Throngs of Visitors.
- Ideal weather throughout the day resulted in the attendance
of thousands of visitors at the
- Midwinter fair. From all parts of the county farmers drove
in. The greatest crowd of the week was here and helped celebrate
the closing day of the most successful Midwinter fair ever held
in Janesville. The storm of yesterday resulted in many not being
able to reach the city. But those who failed to put in an appearance
yesterday were on hand today.
- Throughout the morning the crowds thronged the rink building
on River street. The afternoon at 1
- o'clock the following classes were judged: most rediculous
[ridiculous] teams, fastest walking team, largest hog in rack.
- All judging took place in front of the Myers House on Main
street, where all contestants reported
- and were required to pass the review, cross the river passing
the rink building returning to the Myers House.
- Prizes for Ridiculous Things
- For the most ridiculous team the prize was awarded to a team
consisting of a steer hitched to a
- sleigh, with a pony by its side.
- For the fastest walking team: First, Burt AUSTIN,
town of Johnstown; second, A. M. HULL,
- town of Janesville; third, John DECKER, town of Harmony.
- For the largest hog in rack: First, Jesse CRANDALL,
town of Harmony; second, O. H.
- WELLS, town of Janesville.
- During the afternoon several hackney coach horses were shown
by the STERICKER stable.
- These horses made a good showing, and attracted much attention.
- At 2 o'clock this afternoon the crowd found its way to the
rink building. The crowd was terrific.
- To get in or out of the building without consuming a half
hour's time was simply out of the question. The crowd was a good
natured one and all had a merry time. The Imperial band was present
and rendered several selections. They were loudly applauded.
- The cooking school in Concordia hall attracted a vast crowd
during the day.
- For the handsomest girl in the building the following awards
were made today: First, Maggie
- McCULLOUGH; second, Edna WRIGHT; third, Alice
ARNOLD.
- Awards on Butter
- The following awards were made on butter:
- Best package of dairy butter, less than eight pounds. First,
Grant AUSTIN; second, J. M.
- DECKER; third, Mrs. Thomas LITTLE; fourth,
Mrs. L. J. NOEY; fifth, Mrs. O. BRUCE; sixth, Mrs.
W. O. DOUGLASS.
- Best dairy butter, five pound roll. First, Mrs. E. W. FISHER;
second, Grant AUSTIN; third,
- Mrs. F. CHESSBRO; fourth, Mrs. Ida DARLING;
fifth, Mrs. W. O. DOUGLASS; sixth, Mrs. G. W. WILCOX.
- The fair will continue this evening.
- Parade on Draft Horses
- On South Main street yesterday afternoon Alex. GALBRAITH
had out on parade numerous
- heavy draft horses that made an excellent showing. The display
caused no end of praise adding much to the afternoon's entertainment.
- Awards of Prizes
- The following awards of prizes were made yesterday in the
horse department:
- Best general purpose farm team - First, J.
F. KNIGHT, Magnolia; second, E. R. BOYNTON, Bradford;
third,
- James SHIELDS, La Prairie; fourth,
Wm. JONES, Leyden.
- Best draft team - First, J. A. BARLASS,
Janesville; second, James CARROLL, Willowdale; third,
Wm.
- HUBBELL, Fulton;
fourth, Scott SMITH, Tiffany.
- Best single draft mare or gelding shown to
halter, 3 years or over - First, A. J. BARLASS, Janesville;
second,
- James CARROLL, Willowdale; third,
A. J. BARLASS, Janesville; fourth, Edward G. HOPLE,
Janesville.
- Best general purpose farm mare or gelding
- First, James LITTLE, Janesville; second, E. R. BOYNTON,
- Bradford; third, Grant AUSTIN, Janesville;
fourth, L. R. BOYNTON, Bradford; fifth, J. H. STOKES.
- Two Prize Beauty Shows
- For the best looking farmer's daughters at
the rink Wednesday at 3 p.m. three prizes were offered and were
- awarded as follows: - First, Martha COLE,
Bradford, pair lady's shoes, $5, F. M. MARZLUFF &
Co.; second, Ida MURRAY, two pound box of candy, Al. SMITH;
third, Winnie CHASE, doll, A. RIDER.
- For the best looking farmer's daughters at
the rink Tuesday at 3 p.m the three prizes were awarded as follows:
- - First, Hattie SCOTT, Emerald Grove,
$5 in dental work, Dr. L. L. LESLIE; second, Miss Lona
TEN EYCK, Brodhead, 10 pounds candy, Mrs. GEHRKE;
third, Lizzie LITTLE, Janesville, 5 pounds candy, GRUBB
Produce Co.
- Miscellaneous
- For the heaviest dozen eggs, Mrs. E. L. GILBERT
of Clinton, took the first prize; Mrs. E. D. JONES of
Emerald
- Grove, second, and Mrs. Uri LEE of
Janesville, third.
- For the best pair of dressed chickens, Mrs.
WORTH of Janesville, was first; Mrs. Wm. BISHOP
of Janesville,
- second; Mrs. W. B. DAVIS, third, and
Mrs. E. A. WELLS, fourth.
- For the best dressed turkey, J. W. FULLER,
Brodhead, took first; Mrs. John BIER, second, and W. O.
- DOUGLAS of
Hanover, third.
- Special Prizes
- Best single driver or gentleman's roadster,
Gayrock overcoat, $12, F. H. BAACK - Frank GRIFFITH,
Evansville.
- Best peck potatoes, White Plymouth Rock,
E. N. FREDENDALL - A. E. WILCOX.
- Best raised biscuit, girl under 16 - Nellie
WILCOX, Harmony.
- Cullinary Department
- Graham bread - E. C. JOINER, 1st;
Emily SHERMAN, 2d; Herman BETTS, 3d; Mrs. F. H.
INMAN, 4th.
- Corn bread - Mrs. A. J. HOLTS, 1st;
Mrs. C. MG. CHAPMAN, 2d; Mrs. H. R. OSBORNE, 3d;
Mrs. Wm.
- LUCK, 4th.
- Raised biscuit - Mrs. Will SHERMAN,
1st; Mrs. Anna ZOELLICK, 2d; Mrs. James PLUMB,
3d; Mrs. Herman
- KELLOGG, 4th.
- Soda biscuit - Mrs. Charles KIDDER,
1st; Mrs. Emma CAIN, 2d; Hattie SCOTT, 3d; Mrs.
J. E. WATERMAN,
- 4th.
- Ginger bread - Mrs. J. M. CRANDALL,
1st; Mrs. Ralph BLEASDALE, 2d; Edna JACKMAN, 3d;
Mrs. G. W.
- WILCOX, 4th.
- Brown bread - Mrs. James PLUMB, 1st;
Mrs. J. G. CARR, 2d; Mrs. Emma DEAN, 3d; Mrs. H.
G. HOLTZ, 4th.
- Raised doughnuts - Ellen STRONG, 1st;
Mrs. Wm. LUCK, 2d; Mrs. H. A. BINGER, 3d; Mrs.
C. J.
- DOUBLEDAY,
4th.
- Fried cakes - Ellen STRONG, 1st; Mrs.
Rush BULLIS, 2d; Mrs. Charles BAINES, 3d; Mrs.
F. H. INMAN, 4th.
- Chocolate cookies - Kittie CHAMBERLAIN,
1st; Mrs. F. H. INMAN, 2d; Mrs. Fannie KILMER,
3d; Mrs. Wm.
- COX, 4th.
- Best assortment candies - Hattie B. LISCOMB,
1st; Mrs. Chester GILLEY, 2d; Lizzie G. LITTLE,
3d.
- Boston baked beans - Mrs. J. E. MANSUR,
1st; Mrs. Cora WILCOX, 2d; Bessie NEWMAN, 3d; Mrs.
F. H.
- FULLER, 4th.
- Cocoanut [coconut] cake - Mrs. M. E. INMAN,
1st; Mrs. Fannie KILMER, 2d; Mrs. Charles BARNES,
3d; Mrs.
- Will SHERMAN, 4th; Mrs. F. H. INMAN,
5th.
- Chocolate cake - Mrs. L. L. SIMMONS,
1st; Helen POPPLE, 2d; Mrs. Will SHERMAN, 3d; Mrs.
Mattie
- WILCOX, 4th;
Mrs. John BIER, 5th.
- Plain unfrosted sponge cake - Mrs. A. W.
SHEPPARD, 1st; Mrs. Charles BAINES, 2d; Mrs. O.
W.
- KEMMERER, 3d.
- Loaf hickory nut cake - Mrs. Will SHERMAN,
1st; Miss Vonie GLEASON, 2d; Miss MURWIN, 3d; Miss
- Louise RUMMAGE, 4th.
- Fruit cake - Thurston BROWN, 1st;
Mrs. John BILYEA, 2d; Mrs. Fannie KILMER, 3d; Mrs.
Wm. JONES, 4th.
- Angel's food - Hattie SCOTT, 1st;
Mrs. B. E. SHEPARD, 2d; Mrs. L. SNYDER, 3d.
- Devil's food (layer) - Miss L. SNYDER,
1st; Mrs. John BILYEA, 2d; Miss Lou ELLICKSON,
3d. [p. 1, col. 1-2]
- BRIEF NOTES OF LOCAL NEWS
- [advertisements]
- Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. WRIGHT entertained about twenty
of their friends at an elaborate
- seven o'clock dinner last evening at their home on Milton
avenue. [p. 1, col. 2]
- INDECENT TALK CAUSED RESIGNATION
- CITY ENGINEER BROWN GIVES HIS REASON.
- Attorney E. D. McGowan Says That There is
No Secret About the Matter Any Longer - Appeal Has Been Taken
to the Circuit Court of Rock County.
- Indecent talk, unfit for publication, on the part of certain
members of the common council of the
- city of Janesville towards Perry F. BROWN, caused
him to resign his position as city engineer of the city of Janesville.
- E. D. McGOWAN, attorney for Mr. BROWN stated
this morning that that was why his client
- handed in his resignation. Attorney McGOWAN further
said:
- "Mr. BROWN has done what anyone would term the
right in this whole affair and his present
- legal action against the city is only a just one. Mr. BROWN
does not intend to withhold any information from the city. What
he wants is his pay for what work he has already performed. There
is one thing certain he will not be snubbed by the council members.
Mr. BROWN is not obliged to obey the council because he
is not a city officer any longer. The alderman do not dare to
take this matter into the courts. They are made because he has
the courage to stand by what is right. We challenge the council
to decide whether Mr. BROWN is a city official or not.
Certain aldermen have acted like a lot of school boys making
faces at one they dislike."
- The case of Perry F. BROWN vs. the city of Janesville
has already appeared in the courts of
- Rock county. Attorney McGOWAN has secured an order
for the circuit court of Rock county requiring City Clerk BADGER
to approve the appeal bond within three days or show cause why
he should not.
- Mr. BROWN sues for pay from the city due him for engineering
work on the streets. The city
- refuses to settle the bill claiming it is too high and that
the work was incompetent. [p. 1, col. 3]
- FISHER AFTER PHIL KING
- Janesville Boy Thinks That the Princeton
Man is O.K.
- John FISHER of this city, as manager of the Wisconsin
state university athletic association,
- announces that the board of directors have offered Phil King,
the Princeton athlete, $3,500 a year for three years if he will
act as coach of the football and baseball teams. No definite
answer has as yet been received. Manager FISHER also says
that the athletic board has sanctioned a dual meet with Beloit
in Madison next Saturday. The men making the best showing at
this meet will have the honor of attending the big indoor meet
to take place in Milwaukee next month. A. K. WHEELER of
this city, is one of the most promising candidates in this class.
[p. 1, col. 3]
- NEWS OF A PERSONAL NATURE
- Miss Margaret ROCHE of Milwaukee, is visiting in this
city.
- Ross H. KING will attend a
dancing party in Monroe this evening.
- S. L. JAMES is severely ill as the result of his recent
stroke of paralysis.
- Mr. and Mrs. Mont LANGWORTHY of Edgerton attended
the Midwinter fair today.
- Mrs. George MASON of Chicago is the guest of her parents,
Capt. and Mrs. Pliny
- NORCROSS.
- W. H. WITHAM is recovering as the result of a two
weeks illness with rheumatism and heart
- trouble.
- H. O. PARKER and George THOMAS of the Isabel
Manufacturing company, returned to
- Chicago this noon.
- Frank WHEELOCK is home after a successful trip on
the road for the Isabel Manufacturing
- company. [p. 1, col. 3]
- Take Notice.
- To whom it may concern: - All unpaid state and county taxes
are returnable to the county
- treasurer, March 1st, 1900.
- Jas. A. FATHERS, City Treasurer. [p. 1, col. 3]
- WORK OF THE GRIM REAPER
- Harvey H. Handy.
- Harvey H. HANDY died yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
at his home, No. 4 Arch street. Death
- was due to the infirmities of age, Mr. HANDY being
eighty-one years of age. He had been a resident of this city
since 1842, and was well known. He possessed a large circle of
friends who will mourn his death. He leaves one son, Harry M.
HANDY of this city, a well known cigar manufacturer.
- The funeral services will be held from the house, No. 5 Arch
street, tomorrow afternoon at 2
- o'clock. Rev. A. Hall will officiate and the interment will
be in Oak Hill cemetery. [p. 1, col. 4]
- Agnes Glendinning.
- Agnes GLENDINNING died this morning at the County
Insane Asylum. She was born in
- Scotland, June 1, 1818; came to Delaware county, N.Y., with
her father in 1829, and to Janesville in 1845, in which vicinity
she has since resided. She was very deaf from infancy, and she
became blind about twelve years ago, and was taken to the asylum
where she died. A brother and four sisters preceded her and she
leaves three sisters, Mrs. Isabel COULTER and Mrs. Hanna
WRAY of this city, and Mrs. Jennette ADEE of Minneapolis,
Kansas, as well as many nephew and nieces to whom she was a mother.
The funeral will be from the asylum Saturday at ten o'clock,
and the interment will be in old Ball Tavern cemetery. [p.
1, col. 4]
- Bernard Feeley.
- Funeral services of Bernard FEELEY will be held Saturday
morning from St. Patrick's church.
- [p. 1, col. 4]
- Benjamin BLAISDELL, a farmer residing near the city,
has purchased the Trinity church
- parsonage, 110 Madison street. [p. 1, col. 4]
- RELATIVES SEEK BESWICK FORTUNE
- TWENTY-SIX HUNDRED FOUND AT THE HOSPITAL
- Was Carried There in Secret by Beswick -
Relatives Search His Apartments and Office But Find Nothing -
His Fortune All in Money - Was Buried Here.
- Mystery, that involves a fortune, surrounds the death of
Samuel BESWICK, whose body was
- interred in Oak Hill cemetery, this city, last Friday. James
BESWICK, a brother of the deceased residing near the city
in the town of Rock, has been in Chicago of late making a thorough
investigation.
- BESWICK died in a Chicago hospital a week ago last
Sunday as the result of an operation. He
- is supposed to have left a fortune estimated in the neighborhood
of $90,000, but relatives have as yet failed to secure one penny
of this money.
- The sum of $2600 in cash has been located at the hospital
where he died, BESWICK having
- secretly carried it there sewed in his clothes. Prior to
the operation he quietly informed one of the attending physicians
of the money. This $2600 the relatives are unable to obtain till
they go into court.
- Mr. BESWICK's apartments have been carefully searched.
The carpets were taken up and even
- the bed ransacked. But no money has been located outside
the $2600. His fortune was all in cash but to find it is another
question. Mr. BESWICK was a board of trade broker and
was a former resident of the town of Rock. His death took place
at the Baptist hospital, Chicago, Sunday, Feb. 11. He was sixty-one
years of age and unmarried. He is a relative of Charles TARRANT
of this city. [p. 1, col. 5]
- SELL THEIR DAKOTA LANDS
- Three Janesville Men Dispose of a Whole Section
for a Goodly Sum
- Col. W. B. BRITTON, Floyd MURDOCK and P. H.
BUMP have sold 640 acres of land in
- Deuel county, South Dakota, for ten dollars an acre. They
purchased this land fifteen years ago paying $3.50 an acre. The
deal was made through the states attorney in South Dakota. [p.
1, col. 5]
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