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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1906
Page
2
Miss Holland and her company faced a layoff week before Christmas at Webb City Missouri after their Joplin performance. Galéz Kansas officials persuaded a Dec 21 show, requiring Holland to act as advance agent and manager for the engagement and handle early arranging duties.
Miss Holland arranged wagon transport when baggage car for scenery proved unavailable and changed plans to avoid rail costs. She rode electric transit with her company to Galena, kept her theater dinner invitations, and will appear in A Paradise of Lies as Gage & Wohluter present a renewed La Crosse engagement. The New York All Star Novelty company drew strong crowds at the La Crosse theater with a weekday schedule through New Year’s Day.
A young woman hanged herself Christmas night on a railroad bridge in Ackley Iowa. The only clue is a Des Moines shoe dealer mark on her shoes and investigators suspect she may have come from Des Moines.
At First Methodist on Eighth and King streets Rev. James W Irisn leads morning worship at 10 30 with a sermon The Fullness of Time and an evening sermon How Old Art Thou A reception of members and Sunday school at noon Epworth League 6 30 led by Helen Vance German Methodist at Seventh and Ferry streets presiding elder Rev L J Brenner conducts services morning and evening The revival begins with the evening sermon and runs nightly 7 30 except Saturday invites the German public.
Trinity Lutheran church holds Sunday forenoon services at 10 30 led by Rev. T T Hoverstad pastor at Avon Street church building.
West Avenue Methodist Episcopal church announces sermon at 10 30 a m Sunday school at 11 45 a m Epworth league at 6 30 p m revival services at 7 30 p m Monday evening quarterly conference led by pastor W W Hurd superintendent O A Zuehlke Willis Lockman and other church officers present.
Indianapolis reports that the Hearst league will mount a major push in Indiana within a week to ten days. Charles A. Walsh, former Democratic National Committee member, will direct the effort and provide funding via William R. Hearst. R. My Isherwood of Delphi will oversee on the ground organization.
The state has commenced legal action against the Green Bay and Western railway seeking recovery of overdue taxes. The suit targets tax delinquency and aims to require payment plus any penalties and interest assessed by the state.
The chart lists MLB figures and teams with mentions of Cincinnati and St. Louis players, managers planning for next season, and ex majors joining clubs. It notes Jim McGuire of the Yankees hitting well, Indianapolis and Minneapolis teams building with veteran players, and Park of the Pirates as a top-paid manager. It also covers boxing and fencing events, intercollegiate fencing planning, a Puget Sound basketball league, southern colleges embracing tennis, and Phoenix track prospects.
In Cleveland Ohio on December 29 a court injunction barred Johanna Glade from pulling out her husband John Glade s hair or whiskers and from sawing him in the street until his divorce suit is settled The petition claims the wife has a bad temper when drinking and even when sober she attacks him.
In South Bend Indiana Thomas Edward Clarke alias Red Austin, famed for a string of indictments in St. Joseph county, is released after State's Attorney Kurtz drops five indictments. Clarke had been jailed in 1904 for swindling farmer Henry Crofoot out of 5000 in a bunco scheme and awaited a new trial after a supreme court reversal.
The will of the late Johnson A. Jackson secretary treasurer of the Kenosha Crib company distributes about 100000 dollars among his wife and four children in equal shares.
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