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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1909
Page
5
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A party left today for Watertown to attend Northwestern University and enjoyed a pleasant surprise from friends Saturday afternoon. The group found eight covers laid for.
Mr. W. C. Ear owner of the Northwestern flier spent Sunday with his son Randolph Edgar in Minneapolis and with Edgar's sister Mrs. W. R. Sill. Numerous local names and visits are listed among relatives and friends during the day.
A string of social and business notices from Winona and La Crosse mentions Gudenschwager and others visiting Milwaukee St Paul and Milwaukee. flights of travel wrap with civic gatherings. Local editors and officials return from trips, weddings, and Synod meetings.
The Presbytery of La Crosse holds its fall meeting at the North Bend Presbyterian Church on September 15 1909 with an institute September 14 and a packed agenda. Sessions include moderator election roll call minutes committees and reports plus a popular evangelism home and foreign missions program led by several pastors. Delegates travel via West Salem Galesville Mindoro and other nearby towns with early departures planned Thursday morning.
Secretary J L Utermoehl reports a request from the Mississippi to Atlantic Improvement association meeting in Jacksonville Florida November 15 to 17 for La Crosse to appoint delegates The board expects no definite action this season on far southern projects and will decide later.
Wilbur Glenn Voliva successor to John Alexander Dowie as head of the Christian Catholic church was jailed in McHenry county to serve a six month term for failing to pay a judgment of 10 000 dollars. Attorney Philip Matersill had sued Voliva for 25 000 dollars for libel and the case grew from 14 000 to 20 000 before halving on trial. Voliva planned to continue religious work and edit a magazine from jail.
An ad touts GRAY'S YERBA SANTA as relief for hay fever coughs colds and summer illnesses. The seller offers a risk trial of half a bottle with two years of no returns and price points at 50 cents and 1.00 from BEYSCHLAG'S DRUG STORE 503 Main Street.
Darby O'Brien and the White Sox arrived from Duluth to face the Outcasts at league park this afternoon in a well matched series. Umpire Thomas Mack stays for the series while Stauffer and Wheeler head to Winona for other assignments. Anderson handles balls and strikes in Eau Claire.
Advertises Foley's Honey and Tar as a remedy for people with chronic bronchitis asthma and lung trouble claiming it provides relief and comfort and urging starting use promptly per O T Erhart.
F C Neiheisel, a La Crosse native now living in Minneapolis, visits Winona for homecoming festivities. He rides a bicycle to a friend's home when a policeman stops him for riding on the sidewalk and threatens arrest. He says locals treated him poorly as a homecomer, but the officer lets him go.
At a conference in Galena Illinois and St Paul districts of the German M E church delegates will vote December 6 to merge the Northern and Northwestern districts. The two districts were once one unit but were split years ago.
When digestion falters, the bowels derange and liver and kidneys congest, risking many diseases. The stomach and liver must be restored to health, and Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets can be depended upon to do it. Easy to take and most effective.
Mrs. C. A. Leaser and Mrs. L. R. Sundway of the north side received a telegram announcing the death of their sister Mrs. Luella Seeney at Springfield Illinois last night. Cause of death was heart failure. They left today to attend the funeral.
Vienna August 31 Tracipient in sanity reports say former Sultan Abdul Hamid, deposed ruler of Turkey, is driven by fear of assassination by new regime agents. He has not slept for a week and his ravings disturb the house at Salonica environs as physicians fail to aid him.
A reflection on value and happiness suggests that fulfillment comes from perceived worth rather than material abundance. It notes that personal satisfaction can persist regardless of societal gold standards or wealth.
Tickets for the 6 o’clock dinner at the Masonic temple on Sept. 7 are on sale at Hebberd Erhart and Hoeschler drug stores. Secretary J L Utermoehl says the general public may attend while tickets last. About two hundred tickets were mailed to members. others are on sale to avoid excluding interested attendees. The first dinner on June 1 was a great success.
In Chicago on August 31 detectives investigated the $12,000 diamond theft from the Vendome Hotel dining room. Mrs. Adolph Hirsch reported her handbag with jewels missing after leaving the dining area with her daughter. No witnesses or staff saw the theft and no suspects were named.
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