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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1906
Page
2
The North Presbyterian church hosts its annual Christmas exercises this evening in the church parlors with an elaborate program and presents for Sunday school class members.
The West La Crosse district held a large evening program in the school hall with about thirty five numbers. Instructors bessie herrington and leanna dodge received credit. Highlights included an evergreen drill by eight girls, a candle drill by twelve girls and one boy, and a primary room exercise titled A Christmas Acrostic. Recitations and music followed as teachers awarded each pupil a present. Frank Schroeder returned with a thirty two pound muskelounge trophy from the day’s events.
Mr and Mrs Fred Garbers of West Salem were narrowly injured when a street car struck their carriage on Mill street near Salem last evening. The impact hurled them against a telephone pole in front of City Treasurer George W Youngs home. The driver appeared at fault.
A horse driven into the track center struck the carriage hub and threw the occupants. Mir Garbers and his wife were dragged two carriage lengths. Mir was ill with bruises while Mrs Garbers remained composed. Dr Sutter and Thomas Harland treated them. Mr Garbers declined to sue, unsure of fault.
Patrolman Alois Yehle won the St. Leo Bowling Club honors and will wear the gold medal until the next game. The club meets the third Thursday each month in the school hall at Fourteenth and Tyler streets. The medal goes to the season’s highest average winner.
North Side notices report residents wiring homes by Electric Supply Construction Co and advertise holiday combs. Several locals return from work, visit family, or travel for Christmas events in Duluth Two Harbors Faribault Bangor Harvey and Berlin streets feature social visits and illnesses among residents.
A concise reflection notes that all men must make sacrifices when marrying, and even a man who marries an heiress may have to give up his job. The remark frames marriage as a vocation requiring compromises and altering life plans.
Sires and sons figures include M. Fallieres with hobbies of shooting and reading. Thomas Kinsey, purser on the St. Paul, has crossed the Atlantic 900 times, a record. Fairbanks aims to reunite Methodist churches. Latour of Joplin may be the Lincoln assassination troupe survivor. Ingram of Sulphur Springs weighs 890 pounds and is the largest native Texan. McFarland and West, Washington commissioners, were journalists. Morgan has imported Burns manuscripts worth $200,000. Samuel Putnam turns 100. Garfield will be the cabinet’s youngest member. Fiddling Bob Taylor, Tennessee’s new senator, is a multi talent figure.
Miss Alethea Luce and Leonard Liebling stage Amos Judd by J A Mitchell. Miss Drina de Wolfe joins Robert Loraine in Man and Superman tour. Miss Helen Grantly stars under James B Delcher in The Little Gray Lady. Shu berts name The Belle of London Town for Stange and Edwardes musical with Camille d Arville. Charles Dillingham signs Crystal Herne for five years beginning next September and future productions.
California makes wrecking a train and engine a felony with death or life imprisonment at the jury option. Minnesota requires railway telegraph and express stations to bear local community names unless confusion risk. Massachusetts leads in laws protecting labor from long hours unsanitary conditions and broad worker protections.
A humorous remark notes that some men are so dull they cannot even move to the next chair in a barber shop. The quip highlights slow pace and collective mood in a lighthearted local scene.
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