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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1916
Page
6
Morningstar, ex world champion, and Koji Yamada will face off Sunday night at the Lotus parlor in La Crosse. The three hundred point balk line match starts at 9 30 p m with a national touring pair arriving from Minneapolis after a Saturday show and before Chicago on Monday.
The undersigned express gratitude for kindness shown during their mother's illness and death and for floral offerings. Julius Jensen, Geneva Jensen, Mrs L E Janett sign the notice. A lighthearted food exchange notes tough beef from an old cow and jokes that the cow was so old she was childish.
Company M mourns one fatality as its goat mascot Baldy did not survive the border journey. Soldiers regret Baldy’s death and a San Antonio taxidermist is preparing the remains with glass eyes and horns, shipping the head to La Crosse.
A lively La Crosse Theater crowd welcomed the first indoor Municipal Band concert led by Signor Alessandro Liberati. Brisk encores greeted cornet solos, a Ross Caldwell violin number, and a refined 40 piece ensemble under Liberati's energetic direction.
Six months after militiamen marched to the border a new star spangled banner was torn from Doerflinger store and later returned home with Texas veterans. Many flags fluttered from shops and homes during the period and are now stored or displayed as tokens of remembrance after guards arrived from Fort Sheridan.
La Crosse prosecutors investigate Sophia Peterschmidt for altering her children John aged 17 and Agnes 6 birth records to avoid industrial school hours. Miss Josephine Mahoney cites church records as source and notes multiple girls in town falsified ages. DA Schlabach weighing further cases.
United Press report from London says a long delayed settlement of the Irish question appears nearer, with an amicable union of Ulsterites and Southern Irish men now more likely than since the home rule bill’s passage in 1914.
Arnold Bennett Hall, UW political science professor, will speak at 3 30 Sunday in the Y M C A hall La Crosse on The Playground of Life. The talk is part of a series of about twelve lectures planned by the YMCA over three months. Admission is free and a large crowd is expected.
Frederick Baumann died at his home on Farnam Street early Saturday morning from stomach cancer. He was 49. He leaves his wife, three children Clara Helen Otto, his mother, a sister, and a brother in Germany. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. at the home and 2:30 p.m. at West Avenue German Lutheran Church with Rev. Julius Gamm officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove cemetery.
Herman Panten seventy longtime La Crosse resident and Pomerania native died at his home on Saturday morning. Survived by his widow, son Carl of La Crosse, four daughters Mrs Herman Liedeke Mrs John Ledeger of La Crosse and Mrs William Gunther Mrs Ferdinand Smith of Hokah Minn. Funeral at 2 00 pm Monday at the home and 2 30 pm at West Avenue German Lutheran church Rev Julius Gamm officiating. Burial in Oak Grove cemetery.
Alderman Mahoney says the board pays top prices for all purchases. The committee proposes abolishing city rules capping patrols at one per two thousand residents and replacing it with a state charter rule granting one officer per sixteen hundred residents.
Three proposals to prosecute the campaign for a public market were presented at an Agricultural bureau meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. The committee reported success from the November market days and three options were chosen for board approval. C. C. Winn urged creating a summer community institute to discuss rural and urban problems with speakers from the university.
The Farmers Co-Operative Packing company board shuts the plant to await a third stockholders meeting on January 16 1917 to decide its reorganization fate. A stockholders committee explains limited capital prevented profitable operation while noting the firm has nearly cleared its debt from about 36000 with only a small balance left.
Grace Fischer daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Fischer 713 North Tenth Street died at 1230 Saturday morning after more than a year long stomach illness.
James R. Kinsloe, executive secretary of the La Crosse Chamber of Commerce, says the public market idea is not an attack on grocers and that the chamber does not blame them for high living costs. He urges readers to support city market efforts as a tool to modernize food distribution and reduce costs while serving the public interest.
Five last year students heard the country call and joined local companies while at the normal. Juicy Johnson of Pepin became a private then corporal and later clerk in Company M. Alvah Hill became quartermaster of Company M. Carl Bechtold of West Salem, a former Third Regimental band member, heads to Eau Claire as physical director. Arthur Holthaus moves to New York state for a similar post. Governor Morris of La Crosse also served with distinction.
Mrs. L. Tscharner of Minneapolis and former La Crosse postmaster died at her St. Paul home Friday morning. Word came to C. C. Looney from W. B. Tscharner on Saturday. Funeral services are set for Sunday in Alma Wisconsin, her former home.
London reports the condition of Premier Lloyd George as favorable after a weeklong illness. He was allowed to confer with his chief of staff Friday night.
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