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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1908
Page
4
The Q Gun club hosts a major shooting tournament August 6 with professional and amateur shooters from across the country. Local marksmen practice for key events while enthusiasts expect a large crowd and a showcase of powders from Winchester and American Powder Company.
The Lake City Commercial club backs L A Abrams L M Gray and B M Smith in a Lake City Boat Manufacturing venture to build launches and boats near Lake Pepin. A pond will be connected to the lake by a ditch to allow boat movement, with plants to be erected on the site.
The Savanna Q stockyards plan to double capacity to handle up to 140 cars of range cattle daily from the Black Hills and Pacific coast divisions. Fifteen new workers will join the yard force once pens are rebuilt to former dimensions, reviving a site once bustling with Wyoming and Nebraska cattle. The expansion signals a busy fall for regional railroads.
Mrs Olive Turner of Glenwood Til is visiting relatives at 721 Caledonia street and at Sparta. Miss Clara Hanson of Sparta is guest of her sister Mrs A Larson of Kane street. Mrs A McLeod of Charles street is mentioned in the same brief.
With most cups in their possession the Q club is expected to make a strong showing among competing teams. The excerpt notes their lineup and anticipated performance at the nearby Cup competition.
The column lists residents and visitors in the north side including Hazel Blanchard hosting friends, E. W. Hulbert visiting as Wiscon sin Baptists secretary, Mayhew of Pine Bluff visiting Miss Mary Nelson, and several families traveling or staying in Rock Falls Chicago Tomah and Elroy. A boat launch by C I Hiscox and family with companions, and Ringling circus special train plus steel bridge cargo and Milwaukee shop engines 2000 2001 2003 2004 moving on.
Vespa sian Warner the United States pension commissioner paid 190000 to Isabella Warner and 20000 to Minnie Warner Mettler in Bloomington Illinois as directed by the Illinois supreme court final Warner will decision. Ara bella Warner Bell executor will settle the estate.
Dr. T. A. Gatterdam went up river yesterday and secured a string of seven or eight bass with a fly near Dakota and the Broken Gun. Henry Gund also fished yesterday afternoon and reported catching nineteen bass.
A 12 year old girl was attacked after exiting a car on the interurban line between Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. Passengers intervened and chased the assailant, who fled into the woods. sheriffs from Chippewa and Eau Claire counties pursue him.
New Louisiana law effective today makes drinking alcohol on any railway passenger train a misdemeanor. Violators face fines or imprisonment or both. Trainmen act as police officers and may enforce the rule on trains across the state.
William Pohlman of St Louis awoke to find a knife wound in his throat caused by a pocket knife he drew from his trousers while asleep. Physicians rushed to save him as he bled, while he remained unconscious and unable to call for help. The report notes his condition after the self inflicted injury.
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