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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1909
Page
4
The Complete News of the North Side reports a final dollar and gift voting contest at Doerflinger’s with winners invited to attend Saturday at 2:30 pm for a doll and gift distribution. Winners must be present to claim prizes based on contestant standings. Children’s Day features are planned for the store.
Aine Norine and Leah Larkin entertained a large group of children at 426 Caledonia Street Saturday afternoon. Games music and recitations plus a peanut hunt preceded a six o clock supper with color iced cakes red and green candles and candy at every place.
Mr Joseph Markvard of 911 Rose Street returns from New Lisbon where he views land to swap for his Rose Street property. Foreman at Vote-Berger wood shops since opening, he notes several workers are now unemployed. He may take a Des Moines job or trade for a 90 acre New Lisbon farm.
Snow and wind hindered La Crosse Street Car Co. service yesterday afternoon. North side cars could not climb Caledonia Street hill when stopping at Wall Street and wheels slipped for hundreds of feet near corners. Service time remained irregular amid the weather.
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen elected and installed officers for 1909 led by Mistress Mary Kearney and Vice mistress Jane Knight with Lulu Brown as treasurer Orrie Larkin secretary Lennie Grimes chaplain Minnie Shafer conductress Mary Harden warden Irene Gardner inner guard Irene Gardner outer guard Mrs Levins and delegates to the Baltimore convention Ida Shackley.
The Franklin club debates whether the president’s conduct in impugning Congress and denouncing editors is unjustifiable. Mahoney will lead the affirmative with Schubert and Bosshard. Barber leads the negative with Spence and Hayden. Final banquet plans to be set at the meeting.
The German Evangelical church board elected E Manke as treasurer for three years, William Will to the board of trustees, and D Horne to the school board. The church reported strong finances for the past year.
La Crosse Rubber Mills moves offices to the South side to make room for a dozen new tables and a larger crew. Fourteen salesmen filed their annual report after the Christmas holidays and plan to restart territory tomorrow across sixteen states. A banquet for directors officers and salesmen is held at the Stoddard tonight.
La Crosse board adopts the unfavorable to a free bridge report from E S Hebberd Frank G Roth and Adam Kroner discharging the committee They cite business reasons and note six members oppose free tolls while a future change might alter views The board looks at hatchery placement and new industries seeking La Crosse as a site including a toothpick firm and a ventilated penholder plant
Jay Phillips, a Milwaukee Road employee now on the Southern Minnesota, married Miss Josie Sestik of Austin Minnesota. The couple will reside in Austin.
A prominent doctor endorses a inexpensive home mixture for cures of lame back rheumatism and blood and kidney purification. The recipe adds one ounce syrup of sarsaparilla and one ounce Toriscom compound to half a pint of whiskey, shaken and taken in tablespoonful doses before meals and at night.
A bitter cold snap crippled rail traffic in the La Crosse area. Most trains arriving overnight and this morning ran one to three hours late and several freights could not reach La Crosse.
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