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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
5
New York reports Mayor Mitchel’s decree closing hotels serving liquor on Sunday nights at 1 a.m. January 1. The note frames Baby Nineteen seventeen and the city’s New Year ambiance as the piece jokes about timing and celebrations.
Mauston Wisconsin special report notes Company D Third Wisconsin Infantry to entrain for home at 10 26 am Thursday from Fort Sheridan expected to arrive about 5 pm in Mauston. The return marks the last gathering of the company and citizens are urged to welcome the soldiers.
A Beloit Wisconsin resident and former enslaved person named Mathews died Wednesday after a long residence in Beloit. The obituary notes she was born a slave and lived in the area for many years.
Weir City Kansas December 14 Twenty miners died and seven were injured in a gas and powder explosion at the Mayer Mine Reedy and Ryan twelve miles west of here Rescue teams search the mine amid uncertainty about the total number of men inside and bodies remaining.
B A Yeomen meeting dance Tuesday. William F Busch of Red Wing Minn visited friends and conducted business with Dr F A Douglas eye ear nose throat specialist at 323 Main St. G R Bascom of Madison made a brief business call Thursday morning. Ek FE Hoyt from Madison visited Thursday. Emma Conley from the state capitol also visited. Christmas seals sold one cent each to aid tuberculosis fight and visiting nurses. M Hapaman of Rochester Minn visited La Crosse Thursday. Mystic Workers drill team card party at K P hall Friday 2 30. Z J Keyes from Prairie du Chien visited Wednesday. Welcome Home singer diamonds 1507-C J J Garland of Madison was a business visitor Wednesday. Mrs Edward Olson of Trempeau returned from visiting sister Mrs Carrie Wrickson 1422 Caledonia street. Rebekah Card party Friday night at Odd Fellows hall. Peder Winge will host Bethel Lutheran men's league in church parlors. Gateway City Transfer Co. Excellent carriages. Phone 179.
Sparta Wisconsin will begin the tobacco sorting season with The American Cigar Company's plant starting next Monday and the Jefferson Leaf Tobacco Company slated to begin Tuesday December 26. The recent moist weather allowed raisers to prepare most of their leaf for packing and delivery to the factories, ensuring ready operations for winter employment of many workers.
Police uncover an alleged gang of youths aged between 12 and 14 years old with loot worth 200 dollars. At least a dozen petty burglaries and robberies are attributed to the group. The boys face juvenile court proceedings.
London December 14 The house of lords on Thursday dismissed the appeal of Mr and Mrs FE H Slingsby of San Francisco who sought the estate of the late Rev Charles Slingsby for Teddy Slingsby their supposed son.
Prices marked in plain figures on a display of Christmas goods in the show windows. The draughtsman announces low prices and invites customers to review the articles for desired purchases. Located at 503 Main.
Harmony Minnesota special report says the Harmony band will host a music festival and fiddlers contest on Friday evening December 15 at the Opera House with a prize for the best fiddler. Debaters Meet Lanesboro The Harmony high school debaters plan to travel to Lanesboro Thursday December 21.
The Mothers circle held its quarterly birthday meeting at the First Presbyterian church parlors on Wednesday afternoon. Twelve birthday guests were served at a central table with a Christmas tree and holly while Miss Mary Damon sang several numbers. About fifty members attended.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Hendrickson of 1117 Logan Street observed a double birthday with a dinner for relatives and friends on Saturday. Guests included O Graff and family A Burgeson and family Gilbertson and family G Wells and family O Gilbertson Mrs M Livingston and others.
Mrs Henry Liesenfeld entertained fourteen guests at 709 Caledonia street Tuesday evening for her daughter Marie s birthday. Poinsettias adorned the table in a festive setting.
Members whose birthdays fall in November and December will be honored or hosted as guests at a Ladies Aid society meeting at Caledonia Street Methodist Church parlors Friday afternoon. The ladies entertaining include Mesdames John Johnson, Charles Jolivette, C. Maynard, E. Miller and Theodore Jones.
Mrs Charles Preutz Jr hosted the Wednesday Evening Bridge club at 608 King Street last night. Favors were won by Mesdames Fred Ruplin and Harold J Hanson.
Mesdames W. J. Hickisch and F. R. Hickisch hosted the Wednesday Germania club at a coffee gathering in Germania hall yesterday afternoon.
The Girls' club of Lincoln school marks its sixth year with a special Friday meeting. A formal program includes greetings from former members now at colleges and universities.
A surprise celebration for Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Goodenough marked their crystal wedding anniversary at their home 1406 La Crosse street Tuesday evening. Guests included Mont Nelson Vick Hagen sick George Sheffer Al Koblitz John Koblitz John Schnell and T A Mc Mullen as four tables of five hundred were played and refreshments served.
The Women's Catholic Order of Foresters elected officers at their lodge rooms on Monday evening. Chief ranger Birdie Neumann. vice chief ranger Clara Stellpflug. recording secretary Mary Earnsey. financial secretary Mary Vondrashek. treasurer Barbara Foster. Trustees Pearl White Marielle Hoeschler Mary Sill. Medical examiners Drs. G. J. Egan W. A. Henke. Delegate Nellie Dugan. Alternate Mary Vondrashek.
Miss Annie Hanscome and John P. Bird will leave this evening for San Antonio Texas to spend the winter. In the absence of Miss Hanscome Mrs Elizabeth Irish will make her home for the winter with Mrs A M Heyerdahl and Miss Sarah MacNair with Mrs Frank E Davis.
In Stevens Point Wisconsin on December 14 the Rev L J Pescinski pastor of Sacred Heart church at Polonia started a car engine to warm the garage and was found unconscious on the floor half an hour later. He narrowly escaped suffocation.
A Goodfellow movement is being developed in Stevens Point Wisconsin to aid the city’s poor on Christmas day. The city nurse has listed seventy needy families for assistance.
The La Crosse high school plans a Wednesday Christmas musical directed by Miss Kieth with five hundred voices. Hundreds of public school children will join the choruses and glee clubs for the planned event.
Racine Wisconsin December 14 The Retail Grocers association offered to cooperate with the women's club and other groups taking up the fight against the high cost of living by means of food relief and coordinated action.
Grocers propose to lay open their books and assist in every way to bring down the price of food stuffs as part of boycott discussions.
Neenah Wisconsin December 14 Henry Bando a police officer has been suspended by Police Chief Charles Watts pending investigation of charges filed against him.
There is extensive catarrh across the region once deemed incurable. Hall's Catarrh Medicine from F. J. Cheney & Co. claims a constitutional, blood-based remedy taken internally. A one hundred dollar reward is offered for any case Hall's fails to cure.
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