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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1944
Page
7
Local couple seeks 3 to 4 room apartment or 4 room lower flat with stove and refrigerator. Prefer furnished, reliable references. Call Mr Olson at 1040 or numbers 3596-M 2142-J 2481-M for inquiries. Permanent local party seeks 5 room unfurnished house or flat with minimal disruption.
B F Goodrich buys used men’s clothing at Berney’s Tailor Shop 126 So Third. Hart’s Cash Register Service offers top cash for old cash rewriters. 306 Main advertises high cash for gold diamonds watches. Also requests: retricycle large doll bogey, girl’s wool snowsuit size 10 11, two wheel trailer. Phone numbers provided.
120 acre parcels with good buildings and clay soil six miles south of Tomah oil miller Tontah Wis R4 270 acre farms four percent miles from town price under cost of buildings four thousand nine hundred ninety lumber sawmill or place Albert Borchert Melrose Wis fill houses for sale cash or trade two family dwelling 162 twenty one percent Charles St six rooms and bath first floor four rooms and bath second floor hot water heat will sell five thousand five hundred cash or trade for small house inquire Co K Pettingill Batavian Bank ride phone three five three ten room house Stoker hot water heat two double garages will sell for less than assessed one hundred twenty two South 10th
Classified notices show multiple want ads for 3 room modern houses, s room cottages, and a six room modern home. Listings include locations La Crescent Barre Mills Tomah and La Crosse, with contact names and addresses such as Myrtle Vix c/o red H Miller and Mrs Louis Storkel 701 Hoel Avenue.
State of Wisconsin La Crosse County through the county court will hear on February 1 1944 at 10 in the forenoon at the La Crosse Court House the application of Robert B Wartinbee for appointment as administrator of the estate of David L Wartinbee deceased late of La Crosse. Creditors must file claims with the county court by May 7 1944 or be barred. Claims and demands will be examined at a court term on May 11 1944 at the La Crosse Court House. Dated January 7 1944 by order of the court Judge R V Ahlstrom. Attorney Hubert J Schleiter 507 Hoeschler Building La Crosse Wisconsin.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, former first lady, died at the Waldorf Towers in New York at age 68 after a heart attack. She and her husband had recently lived in Palo Alto and maintained an apartment in New York. Born Lou Henry in Iowa, she traveled with Hoover worldwide and assisted his public service career including World War I food administration.
Whitehall Wis Special funeral services were held for Mrs Sever Amundson Whitehall oldest citizen who died Jan 2 at 95 after a weeklong illness with the flu The Rev O G Birkeland officiated Burial was in Lincoln Cemetery She was born in Norway Oct 26 1848 and came to America at age 20 Her husband died in 1938 Surviving are four children Mrs John Skogstad Eleva Mrs Olive Brennam Alvin Amundson Whitehall and Henry Amundson Spring Valley Minn plus 15 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren
Funeral services for Ella Officer a longtime Viroqua resident will be conducted at the local Methodist church Sunday at 2 PM. The Rev Raymond Je mming will officiate. Surviving daughters include Mrs Vera Nyström and Mrs A L Nystrom of Minneapolis.
Funeral services for Charles Lundberg were held at Land O Lakes on Saturday afternoon. Lundberg was the father of Mrs. Malcomb McIntosh of Viroqua and spent the past winter there.
Olaf A. Skog 77 died Thursday at a La Crosse hospital. Funeral Sunday at 2 p m from Holmen Lutheran Church with Rev. H C Smeby officiating. Burial in Lewis Valley Cemetery. Survived by daughter Mrs James Haug Holmen. sons Earl Holmen James La Crosse and Pfc William Taunton Mass. nine grandchildren seven great grandchildren. Mrs Skog preceded him in death by two weeks. Born May 20 1866 in Farmington. worked in lumber camps Mindoro and La Crosse. ran a shoe store. blacksmith in Bangor and West Salem before Holmen relocation. Married twice to Karen Johnson and Mary Frances Doherty.
Albert Hutchison of Readstown died at Viroqua hospital Friday morning. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Evan Martinson who would have reached 100 died at his son Bennie’s home in Weyerhauser Minnesota on January. He was born August 7 1844 in Oslo Norway and buried at Immanuel church cemetery north of Westby with Rev J Holumn officiating. Survived by three daughters Valborg Tillie Eva and brother Ole Martinson of Osseo.
Marriage licenses issued in Sparta and Viroqua areas include Mae L Moen and Clayton W Erickson from Hol land and Portland on Jan 6 Frances Nicholson and Stanley I Hall from Sparta and Detroit on Jan 6 Margaret Fortney of Virequa and Lincoln Knutson of Coon Valley on Jan 6 and Madeline Sletten with Albert Walters of Viroqua.
Washington leaders abandon attempts to shorten the campaign and expect mid June Republican nominations followed by Democratic action a month later. Willkie supports holding the GOP convention in Chicago amid war time urgency as to absentee ballots and early deadlines. Chicago and New York host venues compete as party committees weigh dates and locations.
A wartime notebook from Naples describes a single avenue lined with ornate funeral wagons, funerals in pomp, scarce transport, and black market prices. It contrasts Neapolitan pageantry with poverty and notes American troops amid crowded streets, racking up sharp social observations including a disdainful remark by an Italian sergeant about his own people.
Billy basks in pride for the newborn while feeling jealousy toward his wife. The women flutter around the baby, and he believes he should share the credit.
Philadelphia public works workers stayed idle for a third day after voting to reject union guidance and demand 10 cents an hour more. A tentative deal had promised a return to work once Mayor Samuel secured the increases. Streets were littered with debris and some homes lacked water due to mains breaks as inmates operated a filter station.
La Crosse skating rinks were open Saturday per George Ritter superintendent of parks. The notice confirms operation status for residents and visitors seeking recreation at local facilities.
No. 3 hose and truck responded to 15304 Mississippi Street for a fire in paper on the floor of Ed Granbar home. At 9:45 a.m. a smaller hose went to 1625 South Avenue for a smoking stove at the home of Mrs. Gulie Rietal.
Frank J. Smithlin transfers property on Sumner street between Gould and Island to Hobert and Elaine Dillon. Raymond and Carrie Cramer convey property in Camp Lottie to Community Loan and Finance. Lottlandrud transfers property on 10th street between King and Main to Anna H. Opfer.
Mrs Vera Maack of Sparta pleads guilty to adultery and is sentenced by Judge O W Sprecher to one year to 13 months at the state prison for women at Taycheedah. She is paroled to Sheriff Bert D Johnson. Maack has several children. Rex Cole, a local tavern operator, is arrested with her on a similar charge and fined 200 dollars plus costs.
Olive Lucille Kail of Carroll Ohio was fined 50 dollars for disorderly conduct. James Kelm living at 2210 West avenue south was fined 35 dollars for running an arterial stop sign at West avenue and Vine street. Hilmer Shear of 1340 Avon street was fined 5 dollars for letting his minor son stay on the streets after 10 p.m.
Senate finance chair George Ga said the bill would raise at most about 2.28 billion dollars in a year while treasury official Paul argued for a much smaller 876 million net after social security tax limits. Both criticized revenue ideas and warned the amendments weaken war contract controls.
The Admiralty announced that two German U boats were destroyed by Royal Navy ships off the Azores within eight hours. Depth charge attacks caused their final minutes with breaking up noises and deep explosions heard aboard the British vessels.
La Crosse police investigated a theft at Goodrich Silvertown Store 116 5th Avenue South Friday afternoon. A 12 year old blond boy with protruding teeth talked to a clerk while a 10 year old in denim trousers and a dark jacket took a pair of black size five shoe skates valued at over five dollars.
A Pasadena delegation urged the board of education to abandon selling land for a boys club fearing nuisance instruments like trombones and saxophones. They prefer buzzing helicopters over blasting horns, and noted the site could become a helicopter field.
John J. Alcock 53 former Sunday editor of the Chicago Tribune and early editorial staff of the New York Daily News. Mrs Daniel C. Roper 73 widow of the former secretary of commerce.
Harvard air base Liberator bomber crashes seven miles north of Hugo Colorado. Three flyers parachuted to safety including Sgt. Wesley M. Wagner of Phillips Wisconsin. Two crewmembers killed in the crash yesterday.
A 38 foot fishing tug Carl of Naubinway has been unreported since Monday with five fishermen aboard, raising the missing count this week on Lake Michigan. Aboard were Clarence M 36, his son Clarence 15, and August Pearson 40. The Maudries formerly lived in Manitowoc Wisconsin.
Charles Gordinier, 89, former operator of two Waupaca hotels before retiring 25 years ago, died Saturday at a hospital in Rhinelander Wisconsin.
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