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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
6
The advertisement invites readers to act like chemists and test P. and G. Naphtha Soap. It stresses following wrapper directions and claims the soap is special beyond ordinary use, prompting continued use if proven good.
Secretary Utermoehl reports heavy demand for festival tickets as merchants plan elaborate store decorations. The parade faces confusion over invited unions, while a large children’s chorus trains in white gowns with flags for national songs. The city will glow in red white blue and German colors.
County Superintendent B F Oltman issues a circular inviting teachers to the two week institute at West Salem from July 20 to 31 1908. Instructors include G L Bowman D O Kinsman Amy Molstad and Oltman with sessions on attendance preparation and certification options. Examinations follow in August at West Salem Bangor and Onalaska.
Princess De Sagan will forego Paris society and sell key properties including Chateau Farias for 249000 dollars and the Bois de Boulogne castle. She plans to use proceeds to restore the De Sagan estate in Germany and to pursue a social position there, while spending part of the year with her husband in America.
Prominent members of the China Association push a parliamentary resolution as charges grow that Japan is crowding British commerce from Korea and Manchuria. The group seeks a sharp protest to Tokio and urges a curb on extending the Anglo Japanese alliance while weighing an understanding with the United States on Oriental affairs.
All is in readiness for the International balloon race to start at Lexington park Saturday afternoon. Five balloons the Pommern United States American King Edward and Chicago are entered. Dr Julien Thomas New York will sail the Pommern and due to a northwest wind the balloonists expect to travel eastward or southeastward.
Three violent deaths and a cutting affray occurred in less than an hour in Des Moines Iowa. Stevenelli Zanur a Russian was killed by an electric shock Walter Johnson a Ringling circus employee was killed by an interurban car and an unknown man was killed by an interurban car Leonardo Talatico was set upon by Italians and cut with a razor.
Mrs Donald Siver and child visit her parents Mr and Mrs Chas Green in Homer. Claude Breed and bride return home to Dakota after visiting relatives. Mrs E C Burns of Winona visits friends. Cherry crop finished, raspberries now being picked. Ruth Chase of Milwaukee and Dorothy Keeler of Winona visit aunt Mrs Loren Tainter. Garage at Gracemont nears completion. F F Tainter and crew bring stone crusher to head of Pleasant valley for Hamilton flat rock crushing. Scott Hammond slowly recovers from pneumonia. Mr and Mrs Frank Laak welcome a baby boy born on the 8th.
The state auditor has issued a call for a statement of the condition of state banks on the opening of business, July 16.
The Westminster Presbyterian Sunday school picnic will be held at Gunn's Park Saturday afternoon. The children will meet at the church at 1 p.m. Parents are invited.
At the Wisconsin State Retail Liquor dealers closing session in Kenosha officers were elected President S Snyder La Crosse Vice president John F Langan Kenosha Secretary M H Niesen Kaukauna Treasurer Carl Hartwig Minneapolis Trustees John E F Wetzel Sheboygan J C Gruel Watertown B F Gipple Merrill Sergeant at arms Andrew Zurfluh Grand Rapids Sheboygan chosen for next convention location by a two to one margin over La Crosse A closing odd line notes a proverb about steak and family.
Report lists protests and outcomes across events. Spenger of Poland won a heat in the 500 meter bicycle but was later disqualified for fouling, Marechal of France awarded the heat. England and Canada achieved multiple heat wins in cycling and track events. Sweden won the gymnastics final with 438 points, while Dehalmy of Hungary won a 100 meter heat in 1 08 1-5.
Madison July 17 A statistics report shows 568 circulation libraries in Wisconsin serving 62000 persons. City libraries extend book access to 26000 rural residents beyond 866000 within municipal limits. Prairie du Chien remains the only city over 3000 without a library. The commission supplies books to state penal and charitable institutions and plans traveling libraries for county facilities led by Henry E Legler.
Fond du Lac Wisconsin July 17 Beginning next Sunday the Chicago Northwestern road will run a summer Sunday motor car service between Fond du Lac and Janesville. The coach like car, gasoline powered, runs about thirty miles per hour over a sixty foot car built in Omaha. Depart Janesville 8:00 am arrive Fond du Lac 11:00 am then depart Fond du Lac 3:49 pm arrive Janesville 6:59 pm. Only ordinary baggage carried. First service of its kind in operation here.
Wisconsin figure Chafin, a Chautauqua lecturer born in Waukesha, led prohibition hosts with literacy and rhetoric. He managed the Washingtonian Home for three years in Chicago before joining national headquarters, ran twice for Wisconsin governor and once for attorney general as a prohibitionist candidate.
County Attorney John Dougherty said about 150 delegates will be chosen at the Democratic county convention at the courthouse tomorrow at noon. Delegates will go to the state platform convention in Milwaukee next week to select the party platform for voters.
Judge Brindley committed Anthony Wiedemann to St. Michel's orphanage as he is an invalid. His father, described as a drunkard, often takes the boy from the orphanage after visiting hours. Physicians at the institution aim to treat the lad while guardianship is curtailed to prevent future removals.
Ringling one of the four Ringling Brothers owners of the show travels with wife and two sons Hester and Robert in a Pierce Arrow auto from Baraboo to La Crosse. They stay overnight at Stoddard and proceed to Mankato to join the show there tomorrow. The troupe performs in La Crosse next Tuesday.
Police pursue a professional burglary at the Vine Street home of William Hickish and L. Doten. No clues found beyond a stocking footprint. Investigators remain determined but unsuccessful to date.
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