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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1914
Page
6
The National Bank of La Crosse subscribed $15 000 to the cotton pool. Directors voted the sum to aid southern planters after export stoppages. The seventh reserve district is asked to contribute $1 500 000, allocated to each bank in the district to cover losses.
Crown Prince of Germany discusses humor and literature with the interviewer. He praises Life magazine for satire and wisdom and expresses admiration for Jack London, hoping to meet the American author despite London’s socialist views. The chat ranges over war, literature, and human nature.
Readers are assured Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages and constitutional disease. The ad claims a $100 reward for any failure to cure and urges sending testimonials. Product marketed by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio with sold by all druggists for 75 cents.
Secretary William H. Hoeschler opened the twenty fourth annual Western Wisconsin Poultry Show in La Crosse at 1 PM. More than fifteen hundred birds including pigeons and turkeys are on display over new wire coops. Judging began with T. J. Roundtree and E. H. Hoffman awarding prizes. The event runs through Monday with added music and social interest.
Interview portrays the crown prince as sober and earnest, a man among men with plain speech and disdain for pomp. He opposes bureaucracy, shows mercy to enemies, and once urged a truce to aid French wounded, though met with staff resistance.
Bertha Flueck daughter of Albert Flueck of 1243 Park Avenue died yesterday morning from heart failure. The funeral is set for 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the family residence.
Roy Amundson formerly of LaCrosse married Miss Elizbeth Boulware at Lincoln Illinois on November 25. The couple will reside in Rosebud Montana.
Larry Scherhart, a La Crosse figure and longtime Elks member, reports foot and mouth disease placing his dairy and stock operation near Madison, Wisconsin under quarantine. He describes trenches being dug to bury slaughtered stock, with 80 cattle 300 sheep and 150 hogs affected, many condemned, amid a battlefield scene. Despite call for quarantine he believes his stock is healthy.
The list of contributors includes church groups from First Presbyterian and First Baptist along with youth and club organizations in La Crosse. It notes additions such as the Harvester club via Miss V Nelson and the Lincoln school girls, plus four banks Batavian National First National Security Savings and State Bank of La Crosse joining the fundraising list.
The Y M C A baseball team defeated the normal school 10 to 6 at the normal gym. Knudson pitched impressively with eighteen strikeouts while Weisse struck out ten for the normals. Batteries were Knudson and Klowe for the Y M C A and Weisse and Peterson for the normals. Umpires were Moore and Meinert.
Hunt and Wisconsin Hotel Men's association vice president will travel to Milwaukee Thursday to join a board meeting where important matters are to be discussed.
A white deer shot near Ladysmith marks the third such animal killed in Wisconsin. The year 1906 and 1894 saw the first two, with a taxidermist paying $200 for the specimen that, when mounted, could be valued at about $1,000.
Madison Wis Dec 1 The total deer slaughter for the season is estimated between 10 000 and 12 000 by State Game Warden John A Shorts Over 5 000 have already been shipped with three days remaining for hunters to remove carcasses from the woods Non residents deer held up by hoof and mouth embargo are cared for awaiting quarantine lift No hoof and mouth cases found in state Deer and other game confiscations are down Elk from Yellowstone will be sent to Vilas County stock heretofore arranged with federal authorities over the next two months
London papers publish United Press interview with the German crown prince. Critics mock the German heir while praising Von Wiegand for securing live copy. Papers note the interview as a war-time instrument to sway American opinion.
E D Cowles editor of the Bay City Tribune and Saginaw Courier for forty years was buried from his Bay City home. Members of the Bay City Elks lodge served as pallbearers. He was father of Fred G Cowles business manager of the Leader Press.
Miss Ruth Priest of Hillsboro and George Suiter of Genoa were married this afternoon by Judge Leonard Kleeb er at his residence 108 North Sixth Street. They were joined by Miss Tillie Suiter and Dwight Erickson. The couple will reside on a farm near Genoa.
Register of Deeds A. E. Thompson reports new Uncle Sam charges across the state. Marriage, birth, and death certificates incur ten cents per certificate while warranty deeds pay one cent per dollar of value. Promissory notes face two cents per dollar and corporate papers ten cents per document. Stamps available for all filings.
William Philip Simms reports from Paris on a 2000 mile front tour with international press, noting Verdun remains safe, shops reopen in ruins, women work in fields, sawmills operate, sugar beets bumper crop, and civilians adapt to prolonged war with resolute, hopeful spirits.
In La Crosse the population largely settled war tax obligations with a fifty percent penalty. The internal revenue office worked late to collect, and most people paid or mailed payments by the midnight deadline. Those unpaid face paying one and a half times the original amount. One man attempted to avoid the penalty but was compelled to pay.
More than 175 past masters from La Crosse and nearby towns attended Frontier Lodge No. 45 banquet at the Masonic temple. Delegations came from West Salem Bangor Onalaska Lanesboro Spring Valley and Canton. Congressman Sidney Anderson of Lanesboro spoke and toasted. Other speakers included Mr Kendricks of Spring Valley grand senior warden and Robert McCoy.
Transactions filed with Register of Deeds A. E. Thompson rose by 347 767 in the latest month over November 1913. November 1914 totals include city deeds 117 930 city mortgages 13 465 50 county deeds 224 201 13 mortgages assigned 31 850 39 mortgages satisfied 69 350, totaling 572 546. In contrast November 1913 transactions were 25 779.
The Associated Charities advisory committee will meet tomorrow morning at the courthouse instead of today as previously announced.
In Lapiana a Lapiander marries a girl named Acuins to satisfy parental wishes provoking strong reactions. The union highlights pressure from families and communities shaping nuptials in small towns.
In France north of Arras German activity persists with heavy artillery in Belgium. Russia fights Germans in Poland with contradictory lines as German forces claim progress. England notes King George’s front visit suggesting allied offensive plans and fleets near South America. Germany asserts improving Polish positions while Austria reports a Russian defeat at Homonna with 1000 enemy casualties and 15 prisoners. fighting continues in Serbia.
The British super-dreadnought Audacious, struck by a mine off Ireland on October 27, is in drydock in Belfast for repairs. The Admiralty expects it back in commission within three months. London reports no official English notices and censors withhold further warship information.
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