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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1944
Page
8
Victory gardeners plan to freeze crops this summer choosing veg like beans corn and broccoli. Proper preparation and moisture proof packaging help keep quality up to six months to a year. Locker space is limited with several new plants and expansions planned across Iowa counties.
Dinner dance scheduled Saturday night at Hotel Stoddard with meal at seven and dancing at nine. Military Service girls invited and asked to reserve with Mrs S H Sheldon or Miss Gertrude Breakley. Auxiliary honors Ella Dunber of Footville at a party hosted by Mrs Margaret Koschnitzke with attendees listed.
A stream of birth notices from Wisconsin and nearby Minnesota shows new citizens born to families in towns such as Genoa Onalaska Holmen Galesville Sparta Canton and Loomis Street entries. Names include Barbara Seger Lois Sh Soueer Theron Russell Gordon Knudson Jasper Payther and Gossman with birth dates noted around July 18 and July 7 through July 36.
Mildred C. Monich Tomeh and Bernard T. Locherd of Rensceleer receive licenses in Speria Wisconsin on July 18. The brief notice names the individuals and locale in a routine municipal filing.
Galesville Wisconsin special report notes women start another Red Cross surgical quota on July 24 at their rooms. Recently shipped 10,200 dressings. Throughout the year women workers in Galesville Ettrick and Trempealeau completed 41,100 dressings and logged 776 days or 2,504 hours of work.
Ladies can dress children neatly without heavy laundry. The La Crosse Tribune offers pattern No. 5534 for pink or blue cotton pinafores trimmed with checked material and a white bunny applique. Send 15 cents plus 1 cent postage and your details to Anne Cabot, Chicago.
The 81st birthday of an Ettrick resident. Born July 19, 1863 in Gale, he is a longtime farmer, bank stockholder, and former Ettrick official. Surrounded by family and friends, he has ties to the Ettrick Mutual Insurance company and Ick State bank.
Miss Marion Gray leads a flight feeding program creating a portable 50 pound metal unit that provides six hot meals on board long range bombers. The system includes pre cooked menus, a cookbook, and an in flight serving setup with six cups and six meat trays for each meal.
Dorothy E. Webster of Dodgeville Wisconsin has accepted the Vernon county nurse post and will assume duties in Viroqua on Monday. She succeeds Miss Marjorie McGrath who resigned August 1 to become supervisor of health service at La Crosse State Teachers College.
The ancient Roman calendar defined April as the second month of the year. The note clarifies month order in early Roman time. The statement presents a basic calendar fact without further context.
The Catholic Women's League held a corporate communion at St Wenceslaus church on Sunday morning at eight. Afterward, members will proceed to Viterbo College to view about 100 Hu 1 prints.
Mrs. Helen La Malle of St Louis, Red Cross nursing consultant, speaks in La Crosse on a four day visit about expanding army and navy nurse staffing. She urges 10,000 army and 1,500 navy nurses by 1945, notes growing casualties, appeals to young graduates and inactive nurses to serve. World war compares current needs to historic staffing and highlights air corps nurse contributions.
Locals report a 4 56 p m ambulance was called Thursday to transport Kenneth Schultz 16 of 1507 Travis Street to a hospital. Also an ad note mentions barber shop service at Stoddard Hotel and various consumer products.
A textile tip explains that a nearly invisible repair can be made on rayon hose by using thread torn from a discarded silk stocking, offering a simple method for mending run seams.
Eleanor Johnson of Osseo and James Witte of Augusta were wed at the Osseo Lutheran parsonage by Rev. N. E. Halvorsen at 3 30 Sunday. Attendants were Carol and Peter Johnson. The couple plan a wedding trip to eastern Wisconsin and establish their home near Augusta after the ceremony. Mrs Witte is a Osseo High School and State Teachers College graduate and has taught in Trempealeau and Eau Claire counties. Mr Witte is a Augusta High School graduate and works in farming.
Agricultural economist I F Hall of the University of Wisconsin warns a meat shortage may hit next fall and winter as feed supplies drop. He notes temporary meat abundance allowed ration removal and higher slaughter in early 1944, but expects rationing to return with reduced production and ongoing feed constraints.
A group of local women calling themselves the Old Grads Club meet at the home of Mrs. G. M. Wiley for their annual informal gathering. The event is a covered dish supper for graduates of Galesville high school in 1930 or earlier.
The region of Bessarabia is described as roughly the combined area of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, illustrating its substantial geographic extent.
At Chicago the convention saw women take a prominent role as Mrs Helen Gahan Douglas, actress and Democratic nominee for California’s 14th district, prepared to address delegates. Mrs Charles W Tillett of North Carolina, assistant chairman of the national committee and head of the women’s division, urged persistent Democratic leadership for peace and prosperity while noting women’s wartime stakes and a son in the army.
A simple eye exercise involves closing the eyes and rotating them, then reopening and reversing the direction of the eye roll to reduce eyestrain.
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