Roeder to Captain Nelsons in 1915
Former Eagle Roeder selected to lead the Nelsons basketball squad in 1915 with Evenson serving as manager and Evenson guiding team affairs for the upcoming season.
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1914
Page
4
Former Eagle Roeder selected to lead the Nelsons basketball squad in 1915 with Evenson serving as manager and Evenson guiding team affairs for the upcoming season.
Local notices record residents heading to Chicago for a month visit, travels to Prairie du Chien for winter, and returns from Sparta, Dubuque, and St. Paul. Names include Mrs J J Durland, Arthur Brundage, Ernie Hauser, Miss Mae Larson, and Miss Margaret Sweeney among others. Community events mention a church group meeting at Floyd Hiansen’s home and multiple homecomings and illnesses.
A brutal cold snap lowered temperatures to eight degrees, cutting freight tonnage by about thirty percent. Rail crews rise as trips increase by roughly one third while average train tonnage drops from 2500–2600 tons to 1800–1900 tons.
Robert Roeder of 2226 George Street was chosen captain for 1915. Theodore Comeau, former Onalaska Opaccos manager, becomes Nelson Clothing manager with Al Evenson as business manager. Eagles players Roeder Berenek Fitzki Squires King and others join Nelsons for the coming season. Independence and Onalaska will appear on the Nelsons schedule.
With the river ice bound and subfreezing temperatures, the first fish house this year was spotted on the French Island side near Colman's slough. North side fishermen have spent the days preparing ice cottages for the season.
A Rock Island passenger train struck a broken rail near Faribault Minnesota, causing two coaches to overturn and fall down an embankment. Edith Wheeler a local school teacher was killed and about twenty people were injured including a nun whose name is not yet released.
Pauline Nelson received a cut glass fruit dish and platter as thanks from about sixty St. Peter's Sunday school scholars and teachers in Houston Minnesota. The gathering included a delicious lunch and games after a program led by her as organist and teacher.
Cotton experts from twelve states joined the cotton loan committee of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington for a "get together" session on the proposed 135 million dollar cotton loan fund of the Treasury.
John J. Caulum dies from injuries after a fall at La Crosse Plow Works. Funeral set for 2 p.m. tomorrow at the home of son in law Cellan Swennes 1425 Berlin Street. Rev E O Vik to officiate. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. He was found badly injured and did not survive to surgery at La Crosse hospital.
Munster in Ireland covers 1,287,207 acres of crop area and has a population of 1,035,495 people.
J. H. Lutiger, a Milwaukee yardmaster, returned to duty on the north side this morning after two weeks at home due to bronchial trouble.
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