Waukesa Elks Club Convention Highlights Wisconsin Trip
The Waukesa Elks convention reviewed state progress and recommended electing grand lodge members at state meetings and backed J H Keeler of Kenosha for grand trustee. Auto rides, excursion by the J S steamship, and a lively kangaroo court raised amusement and fines totaling several hundred dollars. Local committees praised arrangements though crowds were smaller than hoped. the fair were led by President J A Berg and Secretary J W Marshall with George Hodge overseeing speech.
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Grand Lodge
J. H. Keeler
Kenosha
J. P. Salzer
Elks’ Club
Wisconsin
Love at 99 Ends in Fatal Despair as Rejected Suitor Hangs
Alois Turkinsky 95, oldest resident of Reedsville, Wisconsin, killed himself after failing to win 20 year old Anna Kirch. Neighbors and her parents opposed the match, ridiculing him and prompting his unobserved suicide in a garret. He leaves a son and two daughters.
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Manitowoc
Wis
Alois Turkinsky
Reedsville
Turkinsky
Anna Kirch
Ter
Clarence
Willows
Leslie
Myra
Militia
Troops Make Him Give Up Land
A detachment of U S cavalry near Cheyenne Wyoming confronts engineers hired by Asmus Boysen promoter of Chicago who held rights to 640 acres of mineral lands in the Shoshone reservation. After five hours the miners move their machines and depart the reservation.
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Cheyenne Wyo
United States Cavalry
Asmus Boysen
Chicago
Boysen
Elks Convention Highlights Wisconsin Lodge Event
A La Crosse Wisconsin Elks gathering features speeches on Elkdom ideals by Senator Burroughs and T. P. Buckley, musical performances by the Harmony quartet and H. F. Stryker, and a late exhibition by Sparta and La Crosse members. The evening ends with a somber 11 o’clock tribute to absent brothers and a grand social session.
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George B. Burroughs
Madison
Senator Burroughs
la Crosse
Rip van Winkle
Burroughs
Elk Club
Madison Lodge
Elkhom
Elbert Hubbard
Tribune
Wayland
Wisconsin
Hanson
Chicago
Peck
Ringling Brothers
la Crosse Elks
T. P. Buckley
Waukesha
State Organization
Good Fellowship
The prettiest light display in the city at Unique theater
The Elks and the public touted the Unique theater as the prettiest lighting display in the city during the Elks convention. The front of the theater glowed with bright mellow light inviting patrons to a clean, sanitary, entertaining show. The current week’s presentation is praised as better than promised with new pictures, sweet songs, refined service, and strong patronage.
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Elks
Northwest
County Fair Opens with Record Crowd Expected in West Salem
The La Crosse County Fair Association forecasts a larger turnout for the forty-eighth annual exhibition in West Salem from September 11 to 14. Racing starts September 12 with pacing and trotting purses, owner-driven horses, and a farmer’s high wheeled sulky event, followed by additional races on Thursday and Friday.
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la Crosse County
Delegates Named for Building Loan Convention
Local Bu Loan association members receive programs for the annual meeting in Eau Claire on August 5 and 6. S. Van Auken Henry Niebuhr and C. H. Schweizer will represent La Crosse at the convention.
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Bu Loan Association
Eau Claire
S. van Auken
Henry Niebuhr
C. H. Schweizer
la Crosse
Auditorium committee named for La Crosse venue
At a Frohstinn Singing Society meeting last night a committee was appointed to pursue an auditorium for La Crosse. The group will confer with the La Crosse board of trade to advance the plan. Members are John Galin John Dengler Joseph Riese Anton Drews William Strauss and Henry Niebuhr.
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Frohstinn Singing Society
la Crosse
la Crosse Board of Trade
John Galin
John Dengler
Joseph Riese
Anton Drews
William Strauss
Henry Niebuhr
Dietz title abstract surfaces amid Cameron dam dispute
H C Innis outlines title history for Dietz ownership of sections in Sawyer County Wisconsin tying to the Cameron dam dispute. Hat tie E Dietz reports after a shootout with a Cameron dam posse, describing relatives writing to press from Barron and Winter Wisconsin about the July 25 confrontation and family accounts.
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Hayward
Wis
H. C. Innis
Dietz
Jennie Cameron
Hugh L. Cameron
H. E. Dietz
John F. Dietz
Barron
Hattie EK. Dietz
Cameron Dam
Herman Voigt
Grain rates cut by Wisconsin railway ruling
Grain rates reduced to 1 cent per bushel by the Wisconsin state railway commission following a suit filed by Secretary of State Huser. The decision may also affect passenger rates.
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Scripps-McRae Dispatch
Madison
Wis
State Railway Commission
oHuser
Tragedy in Cincinnati: Father Hurls Child From Window
In Cincinnati on August 6 Thomas McKenna threw his 3 year old child from a window and then jumped after it. Both perished in the incident.
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Scripps-McRae Dispatch
Cincinnati, O
Thomas McKenna
Girl Sent Away for Reform to Industrial School
Maud Smith aged 15 was committed by Judge Brindley yesterday to an industrial school for correction. The court labeled her behavior incorrigible and ordered placement to receive instruction and discipline.
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Maud Smith
Brindley
Houska purchase in Healey addition outlined
Gust and Charles Houska bought eight lots in block Q second plat of the B. B. Healey addition in the eastern part of the city from Anna Boelot.
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Gust
Charles Houska
Anna Boelot
B. B. Healey
Marriage Licenses Granted In Wisconsin Towns
Marriage licenses have been granted to Eben Solberg and Laura Casberg of Holmen, Elmer Nesseth of West Salem and Anna Evenson of Hamilton, Fred Kramer of Shelby and Minnie Kepel of Onalaska, Anton Lee of Stodard and Lena Branden of La Crosse, Dan Morarity and Hannah Foley of La Crosse, Boyd McConnell of Anger and Blanche Curtis of West Salem.
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Even Solberg
Laura Casberg
Holmen
Elmer Nesseth
West Salem
Anna Evenson
Hamilton
Fred Kramer
Shelby
Minnie Kepel
Onalaska
Anton Lee
Stodard
Lena Branden
la Crosse
Dan Morarity
Hannah Foley
Boyd McConnell
Anger
Blanche Curtis
Opportunity Seized in Adverts as Owners Sell Under Duress
A proverb about sharp lessons in life appears in this column noting how buyers profit by others misfortune such as forced sales through ads. The piece suggests many such chances exist in classified notices and real estate listings.
Personal luck supply reads of daily ads
A quirky note on sourcing daily bad luck from advertisements. The author muses that avoiding ads helps keep their luck from running low while maintaining a tongue in cheek tone.
Torrance to speak at municipal leagues convention
Mayor Torrance will deliver the response to the address of welcome at the convention of municipal leagues to be held in Ashland in August.
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
Grand Army of the Republic
Inneapolis
Torrance
Municipal Leagues
Ashyand
Judge Denies Drainage Motion in Lemondier District
Judge Fruit this morning denied a petitioners motion to deepen the drainage ditch in the Lemondier drainage district of Juneau County.
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Fruit
Lemondier
Juneau County
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