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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1908
Page
7
Readers are urged to check The Tribune classified pages for new income opportunities in La Crosse. The message highlights chances to sell, place a friend, or fit employment lines, noting many careers started or boosted by classified ads.
Auction style notice offers cash sale of a roughly 50 by 150 foot lot two blocks from a streetcar line and five minutes from a main thoroughfare. Property listed with address 777 Tribune.
C H Coyler prominent Wheaton citizen and legislative candidate revived after pronouncing dead. He described heaven in graphic terms and spoke to family and friends urging better lives before delivering a final prayer and dying. He reportedly spoke clearly and could be heard throughout the house.
The Boyd Transfer Co of Minneapolis announces reduced rates on household goods to the Pacific Coast and other points with superior service. La Crosse Mortgage & Loan Co offers loans to salaried people on furniture planes horses and wagons with no removal or publicity.
Lost long black lace gloves July 4 between fair grounds and cemetery. Return to Tribune office for reward. Lost ladies bag with money between 7th St State and Stoddard Hotel. Return to Tribune Office. Lost black purse with seven dollars small change two keys and bridge pass. Return to Mrs Brosch care Linker Bros for reward. Nothing Like It Worth Dollars Costs Cents. H W Bakers Cough Remedy. Runckels Drug Atoxre.
In Mankato Minnesota a council upheaval follows a typhoid outbreak with public demand for accountability. Judge J E Porter resigns as board president, Charles Koke is discharged as water works engineer, and City Engineer M B Haynes faces charges and an August 24 trial for alleged incompetence, with Haynes denying graft and vowing to fight.
In Winona on August 4 Dominic Klonowski and an unnamed companion allegedly used forged checks. A $29 check drawn on Merchants Bank and signed by W C Kaiser of Winona Soap Co. passed through Luenow and Ziegenfuss Bros. before Kaiser's discovery. A second $19 check to Charles Roesner of Arcade Saloon also surfaced before detection.
In Fergus Falls Minnesota George Biersdorf and Russel Street are accused of stealing a team belonging to Herman Weinrich, driving it into the country and leaving the horses tied. The youths 14 and 15 were captured and jailed, with possible transfer to Red Wing if convicted.
Steer separated from cattle at a gate knocked down Philander Williams a 50 year old farmer living three miles from La Porte Iowa. He suffered a broken breast bone three broken ribs and internal injuries with recovery deemed uncertain due to age and condition.
Mayor E. P. Andrus, commandant of Shattuck military school in Faribault Minnesota, has traveled to Fort Riley Kansas to lead a government military instruction school. There the regular U S army troops and state militia will drill together under his direction.
The R L Kenyon Company at 610 Main Street La Crosse Wisconsin advertises clearing its stock of New Royal machines with automatic lift drop head cabinets and ball bearings. Machines offered at 33 dollars average and 25 dollar desks with 10 percent cash discount and monthly payments.
Lake Crystal Minnesota reports abundant wild ducks and geese this season with marshes full and nesting. Prairie chickens are scarce while fishing for black bass and pike is reported good with splendid catches.
Toller L. Solberg aged 94 of one mile west of Hatton was killed Friday afternoon when a binder driven by his son Elmer ran over him as he tried to hold an unmanageable horse.
Market activity remained steady overall with several fruit items sliding. Eggplant fell to 10 cents, cherries and Elberta peaches left the market, lemons dropped to 20 and 40 cents per dozen, peaches eased slightly on wholesale, and watermelons declined to 30 and 35 cents.
Lists prices quoted by multiple sellers including Listman Milling Co A. B Moll H M Sieger and J C Burns for flour vegetables eggs butter dairy produce fruit and fish Items shown include flour sacks at 1 60 1 65 per 1 4 bbl , various vegetables by item or bunch prices from 2 for 5c to 75c per bushel and per dozen eggs butter and dairy prices and several fruits and fish items with cents per unit or per measure.
Chicago markets show cattle steady to strong with beeves 5.50 to 7.50, stockers 2.50 to 4.50. Hogs total 22 000 up 15 cents. light 6.25 to 6.85, heavy 6.65 to 6.90, pigs 5.20 to 6. Sheep 28 000 steady natives 2.75 to 3.40, lambs 3.75 to 6.35. lambs 25 cm lower.
Professional traders noted a weak element in the market before hour’s end as St Paul Smelting Canadian Pacific Union Pacific Northern Pacific and other issues fell from early highs. Government bonds were unchanged and the market edged toward a rally with advice to buy standard stocks on weak spots.
New York on August 17 reports poultry steady while dairy prices hold. Butter sells at 23 cents, eggs range 26 to 27 cents per dozen, cheese from 12 1/2 to 13 1/2 cents.
Kansan City cattle sales totaled 17 000 with steers 4.50 to 37.50 and stockers 2.85 to 4.50. Hogs 5 000 up 10 to 15 cents, bulk 6.50 to 6.70, heavies 6.70 to 6.80, pigs 3.75 to 5.50. Sheep 6 000 steady with muttons 3.75 to 4.25 and lambs 4.50 to 6.20.
Daily market chatter from Chicago and New York outlines scarce Sept corn if delivery demands rise, with a cautious stance on wheat prices delaying any rise for weeks. Receipts of corn are slightly above estimates, with expected large but not excessive arrivals in the next two weeks as stocks and speculative sentiment shift.
Farmers from Mormon Coulee South Ridge North Ridge and Root River Bottoms delivered oats butter eggs hay and spring chickens into the city on Saturday. Buyers included George Hoethe John Tschumper Henry Koethe Otto Nickolai David Richardson Joe Baumgartner William Goode and Henry Woelke with two dressed hogs sold in town.
The fourth International Esperanto Congress begins in Dresden with 600 delegates from many countries. The premier of Saxony attends the opening as the assembly meets. only Esperanto will be spoken during the session.
Breckenridge Minnesota reports Rev Wolner of the Episcopal church selling ice cream cones and pop to circus attendees to raise funds for his church. The act drew significant attention from locals and clergy alike.
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