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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
4
About 150 lumbermen from Wisconsin met in Milwaukee to discuss curtailing output due to falling demand. They adopted resolutions urging a 54 percent cap on next year’s forest product production and measures to conserve timber resources while supporting continued credit readiness. Most attendees departed Milwaukee after the meeting.
Thirteen football men at La Crosse high school will receive letters this week for their season work. Names include Walter Shirley Archie Larson Arthur Dahlgren John E Dahlgren Homer Davis Joseph Fowler Ben Brindley Wallace Tourtellotte Sigvald Stayram George Byrne Walter Mueller Fred Dickens and Carl Jangbluth. The school awaits new players as seven starters graduate and class enrollment is rising toward 450 by February. Debaters prepare for February interscholastic meet against Sparta and Viroqua with strong practice and lineup assignments.
Skating has begun on the marsh with about one hundred youths on the west side of the causeway. The ice is fair but smaller this season due to limited water. A boy was seen using a hand sail, and more ice boats may appear if cold weather holds. Some skaters also enjoy Isle in Plume Slough while few dare Black River as it remains treacherous.
The Tabernacle Baptist Church in La Crosse plans a celebration for reopening the remodeled church around mid month. Rev. L. L. Sanders, currently in Missouri, is expected to return around the fifteenth. Work progresses rapidly and completion is anticipated by the Sunday before Christmas. The congregation has not decided whether services will resume immediately or after Sanders’ arrival.
Miss Distift underwent appendicitis surgery at La Crosse hospital performed by Dr Callahan and is recovering at 1720 Wood Street. Numerous residents change homes, jobs, and visits across North La Crosse including Bert Schwartz on trial for assault near Hang Skundberg’s saloon, while other locals move addresses on Hager and Caledonia streets and visit relatives in the area.
A Detroit Free Press note records a quirky discovery of a trousers button labeled Farmer Green, with the puzzling line thawed out dynamite nearby, marking an odd epitaph style fragment from a local tale.
A health note urges quitting coffee as a strong diuretic and digestion disruptor while proposing a fair two week trial of Potum. The text references the book The Road to Wellville and promotes a wellness approach to bodily health.
North side bowling season to open next week with a Sunday meeting at 2 PM in H Yehles alleys Caledonia street to form a league. Interested players urged to attend as teams will bowl on set dates. Prizes are not yet decided.
A man riding a horse-drawn vehicle struck a grocer’s son at the corner of Avon and Sill streets. He suffered a broken collar bone and a badly cut head. The driver fled, name unknown, and the victim, son of P.O. Hanson, will be out of work for several weeks.
AB Schwartz of North La Grasse was fined $5 and costs totaling $11 for assault and battery on Joseph Bargnelski of West La Crosse near Hans Skundberg’s saloon at 515 Tawar Street. The men fought over a sale of a pair of bobs with Schwartz striking the older Bargnelski.
A serious fire on the north side this morning burned a barn and a horse and buggy. Firefighters fought the blaze, but the barn and equipment were heavily damaged. No injuries were reported.
A morning blaze at 2 oclock consumed A A Freeman’s barn at 1311 Caledonia street. A horse burned, buggy and harness destroyed. Company No. 4d arrived too late, damage about 306 dollars plus horse value, origin undetermined.
The FP and A. M. of the North side elected officers at the Masonic Temple last evening. John Mulder was Worshipful Master, Charles W. Simcox Senior Warden, Fred Shumway Junior Warden, Fret H. Hartwell Secretary, C. L. Jen Treasurer, Paul W. Maahoney Trustee for three years. A joint installation with Hastern Star is planned for December 27, St. John’s Day, inviting North Side Masons and families and Hastern Star members and friends.
The annual meeting of the Youre: Men’s Singing society of John’s Church was held Tuesday evening at the school hall. Officers elected include President Joseph Miller Secretary Frank Osweiler Treasurer Joseph Ritter and Press reporter Peter Holweber. A moral aside about women’s watches ends the note.
Mrs Iver Thorsen of 1428 Caledonia street was taken to La Crosse Lutheran hospital Tuesday for stomach cancer surgery. A doctor consultation followed, and hospital report says she is progressing nicely. She is married to carrier Thorsen.
A report notes Harold Hanson involved in a run down incident with unclear details. Authorities referenced a person named Harold Hanson and a mention of a substance but no concrete context or roster of participants is provided. Further readable facts are not available in the fragment.
The Northwestern railroad is testing a gasoline motor car on the York to Fremont route, 152 miles daily, with interest in Wisconsin where the state railroad commission suggested using such equipment on unprofitable branch lines. The car, built by Union Pacific, is a passenger coach with the motor in the front. It may offer economy in steady agricultural traffic but struggles in fluctuating demand and cannot haul freight.
Abraham Urawn of Winterton New York says doctors misdiagnosed him as having heart disease kidney trouble blood poison and stomach liver trouble. He credits Electric Brevers with restoring him to health after one bottle did more good than five doctors. The ad guarantees a cure for blood weakness and stomach kidney complaints by O T druggist. Wife asks about false feet as husband cuts the end of his cigar.
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