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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
5
Miss Magna Larson of La Crosse will marry Charles Klarman of Lancaster Wisconsin tomorrow at the bride’s parents home. Miss Larson is a popular local young woman with many friends. The Fennimore paper notes the upcoming wedding.
Charles M. Klarman will be married on Christmas Day to Magna Hilmina Larson of La Crosse. The ceremony will occur at the bride’s parents home Magne Larson and wife. Charley left for La Crosse today.
Attorney General Wickersham rules the sugar trust may retain 55,000 acres on Mindoro despite a congressional cap on land owned in the Philippines. He says restrictions applied only to public lands, not to lands bought from friars, a decision stirring opposition in Congress.
Courtland Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, will attend the January 10 to 20 aeronautic meeting in Los Angeles as official representative. He states the club will ensure compliance with its rules including a ban on sanctioned exhibition flights of dirigibles or aeroplanes.
A wry remark notes that simply offering an easy chair will not compel a man to stay at home unless he is inclined to remain otherwise.
The La Crosse area lists social visits and errands from Clerk of Court Stewart of Galedonia to visits by Miss Nelsena Nelson of Houston and Mrs. A Zimmerhak of Caledonia. Local business, hospital care, school plans, and Christmas preparations fill the week as trains are delayed by snow and many residents travel or host guests.
Christmas day in La Crosse will feature special services or Sunday school programs across most churches. The First Baptist Church hosts a Saturday evening children’s program with music, recitations, Christmas tree and gifts. West Avenue M E and German churches hold Saturday child programs and Sunday services with musical numbers. The German M E church plans a Saturday evening gathering of schoolchildren with a Christmas tree and recitations. Tabernacle Baptist schedules Sunday morning services with a daytime children’s program and gifts. no evening service.
Saturday evening church events include Bethel Norwegian services on Christmas day and Monmouth Caledonia Street M E presents a Christmas program led by Rev. A V Ingham with tree gifting and Santa Claus visits. First German M E under Rev Panzlau hosts a German language Christmas program with choirs solos duets trios and a closing collection and gifts.
Miss Emma Schumann's kindergarten hosted its Christmas tree exercises on Wednesday. Children sang carols and waited for Santa Claus who arrived with candy boxes, adding a festive surprise to the occasion.
Last night at the Universalist church Sunday school children presented an inventive act using a real windmill to grind out Santa Claus gifts. Promoters Edwin Benton and Donald Dean supervised, with John Langdon in a miller's suit operating the mill. Brownies hidden in a paper barrel distributed presents amid songs and recitations by Isabelle Langdon, Billie Gage, Gretchen Grams, and others.
Dr. Bernard Dorset of Denver Colp visits family during holidays. Mrs. Fred B. Smith travels to Cedar Rapids for Christmas with her brother. Funke family and Mrs. Elizabeth Funke head to Minneapolis for Christmas. J B Funke to Lansing to spend Christmas with Mrs. Funke's father, Capt Turner. Marshall family returns from Chicago where Oliver Roe improves under Dr. Billings. Mrs. Shannon of Edgerton, Wis., guests of sister Mrs. J S Medary. Mrs. Philip Schmidt and Miss An-
United States District Attorney DD probes the Period Clearing House of New York for price fixing and restraint of trade. Members include major publications such as Everybody's The American Metropolitan and Harper's Weekly plus editors and agents. Public libraries in Cleveland reportedly faced inflated magazine costs totaling about 4500 dollars for 1911. The agency denies discounts and claims enforcement actions will curb lower rates.
A fragment reports a married woman at a dance where her dress slipped, exposing her abdomen as she tended to her baby, prompting concern and gossip.
Schmidt of Milwaukee, formerly of this city, arrived this evening to spend the holidays with Mrs. Andrew Schilling and family.
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