BURGLAR TAKES $8.75 AND PIE

The home of C.E. Freeman, Eighth Street, was entered Saturday night and $8.75 taken from the library table. The burglar stopped long enough to get a who1e pie and drink milk, which he found in the refrigerator. He effected an entrance through a front window and made his way through the rooms to the rear of the house where he got his self-served lunch. None of the family was aroused and nothing was known of the burglary until the following morning. No clue was left and the intruder has not been apprehended. October 3, 1907 Dunn County News

MANY GREET AN AMERICAN CITIZEN

A near-full house greeted “An American Citizen” Tuesday evening at the Memorial. Local talent made good in its presentation of the play, which was staged under the direction of Miss Grace Kelsey. The effort of the cast was ambitious, their work was creditable. The characters were well taken. From the leading role of Cruger, by Fred Smith, to fleet-footed Mercury, the errand boy, by Dallos Grobe, the characters were portrayed with a a decided naturalness. In the brief three weeks’ time of preparation Miss Kelsey worked marvelous results in drilling the cast, as the warm applause many times during the play indicated. The proceeds brought a neat sum for the Memorial Library, for the benefit of which the play was given. October 12, 1906 Dunn County News 

KNAPP PRESENTS TRAVELOGUE

A large audience assembled in the Congregational church last Friday evening to see and to bear the illustrated talk on Japan given by Mr. H.E. Knapp. It was a most interesting and instructive entertainment. The views, which were taken by Mr. Knapp during his tour of Japan, embrace a great variety of scenes —- temples, statues, public buildings, parks and palaces, pictures of rural and urban life, groups of people in their national costumes bright with color — and many others illustrative of that charming country and its unique people. These pictures were colored by Japanese artists and gave the audience a glimpse of life in the orient, that was true in every detail. The explanations of the views by Mr. Knapp gave an additional interest to the scenes presented and made the entertainment a personally conducted tour of Japan for all who had the good fortune to be present. October 14, 1904 Dunn County News 

ASTONISHING FEATS PERFORMED

The Spiritualistic Seance at Grob’s Hall last Monday evening was greeted with a very fair house. Some astonishing feats were performed that would seem impossible to accomplish without the aid of “Auld Nick” or some other invisible agency. For instance Deputy Sheriff Coleman clapped a pair of handcuffs on the chief operator and fitted them tight to his wrists. The man then stepped into the cabinet to give the spirit a chance. In a very few minutes a bell was rung inside the cabinet, the door opened and out stepped the party minus the hand-cuffs. A chair with a common water pitcher on it had been set in the cabinet and the hand-cuffs were found with one wristlet securely locked to the handle of the pitcher and the other fastened in the same manner to a round in the back or the chair. How the young man slipped out of the band-cuffs and locked them to the pitcher and chair is the great conundrum. October 15, 1881 Dunn County News

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