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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
6
Prospects for the year’s foreign trade total about 7.8 billion dollars, according to the commerce department. For eleven months exports reached 7.148 billion with November leading at 517.9 million, while imports in November stood at 177 million, higher than the prior year by about 21.6 million.
Taylor Frye of the state industrial commission led a Friday conference in the courthouse with Superintendent B E McCormick and other local leaders to discuss keeping students in school past the grades. Frye noted the new law’s lax enforcement and that after sixteen, youths may quit school, prompting recommendations and a tour by J D Beck before both officials departed for Madison.
Wichita dispatch reports four badly burned bodies removed from the charred Kansas Masonic home ruins. Firemen search eighteen inches of icy water for additional victims as inmates included thirty five orphans and numerous Kansas Masons and wives. The $300,000 facility, the sole Masonic home in Kansas, burned after basement furnace fire.
Dr Jens Rosholt and the firm Evans Bannen and McGarty report burglaries that stole morphine codeine and other opiates. Police lack clues while officials note several local addicts under surveillance amid suspicions of professional theft.
The Humphrey flood control bill carrying a 50.6 million dollar appropriation for flood prevention along the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers was reported to the senate Friday without amendment. The measure has already passed the house.
Adrian Umberger sues Nora Umberger for desertion in a Minnesota district court case that drew full crowds. The couple from La Crescent married in Winona in 1915 and separated that July. The trial featured strong language about modern life and women, with judge Catherwood taking the matter under advisement and a court term adjourned to January 22.
Postmaster Olaf R. Skaar announced one Christmas morning delivery of mail in La Crosse and on rural routes. The office opens Sunday 10 to 11 a.m. for letter mail and small packages while larger packages wait until Christmas Day.
Five years to the day after his wife died, John Brodrick a north side man who died Tuesday was buried Friday morning beside her in the Catholic cemetery. Funeral services were held at 15 from the Dwyer undertaking rooms with Rev. Ambrose Murnhy officiating.
John Costley and Tax Assessor James Keizer rescued a northern grosbeak found stunned on the courthouse sidewalk after a window collision. The bird, dark yellow brown with white and black wings, had been seen dashing across the snow. It now perches in Costley’s office under a waste basket, narrowly avoiding another collision.
A severe winter blizzard hit northern Ohio and Lake Erie ports on Friday causing heavy snow drifts and threats to shipping. Mails faced major delays with three trains unheard and westbound trains 12 to 18 hours late while eastbound trains were seven hours late. Lifesaving stations monitored distress signals as the storm disrupted Christmas mail rush.
The Hague report says Germany will disclose its main peace terms immediately if the entente powers note in reply to Pethmann-Hollweg's proposals leaves the door open. Dispatches described the announcement as semi official on Friday.
A visiting advocate promotes universal service arguing it builds a capable citizenry without extra taxes. He cites stressing byproducts like discipline and patriotism and claims current enlistment is ineffective while experts support universal service.
Paris reports The Temps comments that France and England agree with President Wilson on a peace note. The paper says the United States must not forget it fights for France’s independence and seeks a victory to prevent future aggression.
Word reached here of the December 17 death of Cyrus B. Carpenter in a Kansas hospital. Born in 1843 in New York, he served in a New York battery at age 21, was a Civil War veteran, lived in La Crosse and Houston county Minnesota, later moved to Gunman Oklahoma, and left relatives near Hokah Minnesota.
Secretary of State Lansing forwarded two statements interpreting Wilsons peace note to American diplomats overseas to avoid misinterpretation. The second statement aims to correct any misconstructions from the first and ensure foreign offices receive the official texts.
Paul W Mahoney argues the city council can appoint a manager to perform public works duties without surrendering power. He cites statutes and past opinions to support a plan that replaces the board with a council appointed manager while preserving council control and citizen oversight. He notes the need for a capable, experienced administrator and defends revisions as a modernization rather than abdication of duties.
Emma Dalton, described as penniless and nearly homeless, refused the offer of residence at the county poor farm after visiting the courthouse with Poor Commissioner Sol Burdick. She had been living in a shack on Black River island opposite the old elevator and promised to bring belongings, then did not return.
A brief remark notes that what people call shamrocks in Irish use is not their real symbol when anger rises. The line hints at cultural sensitivities and challenges in interpreting traditional emblems in modern discourse.
A morning basement fire at Captain Larry Dugans home on 502 North Eighth street forced Mrs Dugan and her two sons John and Edward to flee in cold in their night clothes. Fire crews limited damage with most belongings insured and central fire company arriving quickly.
President Wilson announces the United States Shipping Board lineup with William Denman from San Francisco to serve six years Bernard N Baker of Baltimore to serve five years John A Donald of Washington to serve four years John Barber White of Kansas City to serve three years and Theodore Brent of New Orleans to serve two years In the release the appointees are listed with party affiliations and term lengths.
Officials and diplomats view President Wilson's two announcements as a step to safeguard American rights while avoiding war. The move aims to pressure belligerents for peace, reassure neutrals, and prevent unrestricted actions that could drag the United States into conflict if peace talks fail.
Miss T Heller of Arcadia died at a local hospital at noon Friday after several weeks of cancer illness. She was forty one years old and the body will be taken to Arcadia for burial.
The European war spurs a Pacific coast shipbuilding boom with towns across the coast, thousands employed, and ships selling for cash. J Ole Storey of La Crosse, now a Tacoma lumber dealer, notes labor recruitment challenges and changes after Washington voted dry.
In Caledonia Preston and Harmony Minnesota towns on the Reno Preston Milwaukee line residents face scarce Christmas fruit and nuts due to embargoes on perishable freight. Fruit dealer John C Burns warns La Crosse could lack bananas on Christmas Day as cars and cold weather disrupt supply. Celery for Friday meals arrives mainly by parcel post and express.
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