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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1909
Page
5
A long listing of residents visitors and local happenings in La Crosse including address changes for Dr M W Dvorak, social calls, travel to Milwaukee Chicago and Dubuque, dock and river activity, and upcoming excursions plus notes on local officials and business visits.
Assemblyman McConnell on the committee to draft the income tax measure expects a meeting in Madison on August 15 to preview the bill and have it ready for salon review 60 days before the next winter legislative session. Elks delegates depart for Los Angeles to attend the national convention with about 100000 attendees and an estimated $4 million in spending. The Detroit convention is eyed for next year. Batteries A and C from St Paul and B from Minneapolis head to Sparta for Camp Esch drills July 31, with Ft Snelling regulars marching by foot.
Yesterday's gala at the country club drew a large daytime and evening crowd. About forty dined at noon and one hundred twenty five enjoyed dinner at night. Fireworks, managed by Mr. H. J. Hirshheimer, capped the evening as guests gathered for the event.
A day picnic went to Fern Dale with F N Funke E J Evans Wm Fiellfach Miss O Neil Rock Island Pernell Horner Dr McGovern and John Foley. A Thompson house boat party included Mr and Mrs Traer and family Dr and Mrs Maurer Mr and Mrs F H Hanksrson Jeanette Hankerson Cunningham Laura Cunningham Louise Easte Mack Thompson Whitman Foster Ed Burnham and Capt and Mrs Thompson.
Yesterday afternoon a group of ladies and their children and grandchildren gathered for a picnic at the home of Miss Jeffer son on Sixteenth street. Attendees included Mrs. Law Mrs. Finch two children Mrs. A P Hankerson and son Mrs. E E Marston and grandson Charles Marston Mrs. Abby Burton and granddaughter Charlotte Williams Mrs. W R Sill and daughter and Miss Frances Sill.
Mr and Mrs Wm Boice returned from Chicago visiting relatives accompanied by Mr H C Tucker formerly of La Crosse. Mackey J Thompson of St Paul spent the Fourth in the city. Whitman Foster and Mack Thompson left for Ithaca NY for summer school. Don Norbeck of Minneapolis visited Mrs E E Marston. W J Miller of Minneapolis met his wife and party returning from St Louis and went home with them. Mrs Funke joined the party and went to Minneapolis. Miss Taylor of Chicago visited her sister Mrs R H Weston. Mrs Mary Austin has returned.
The Red Wing Flyer, famed for its 6 cylinder 4% by 4% inch 30 hp engine, swept the July 3 and 5 events at Wabasha and Red Wing. The Minnieska and Twin Sister II failed to challenge, while the Flyer beat all rivals on the 13 mile and then 20 mile courses, also winning a novelty automobile race trophy. Observers credit the boat’s hull, underwater fittings, and tuned engine for its unmatched speed.
Mrs Jack Fetter and Mr Fetter spent the Fourth of July at Lake Beulah during a week at the Russell cottage. Miss Louise Easton and Gertrude Foster, recently in Philadelphia for weeks, where Miss Foster underwent a serious surgical operation, returned home yesterday morning.
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