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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1914
Page
2
The senior class of the high school graduates with a rare thirty dollars in the treasury. A committee will confer with Mr. McCormick to decide the best use, creating a perpetual reminder of the class of 1914 for future students.
In Madison Wisconsin during the first state motorcycle meet of the season Goude riding an Excelsior set the local mile dirt track record he completed the lap in 56 15 seconds at the bankless Oval in June 9.
A plain liquid arvon product is proposed to dissolve and destroy dandruff. Apply about four ounces at night to moisten the scalp and rub in. By morning most dandruff may be gone with further applications. It promises relief from itching and dryness and claims hair will become fluffy, lustrous, glossy, silky and soft.
Kansas plans a large harvest with 62,000 nonresident workers and 4,000 teams needed as wheat stands shoulder high across the state. Secretary Coburn cites nearly perfect conditions despite minor Hessian fly and army worm reports. Early cutting begins in southern Kansas today, with the main harvest starting next Monday.
Madison Wisconsin June 9 Pitcher Garrett six feet five inches will join the hurling staff of the Madison team in the Western Indiana league next Saturday. He comes from West Liberty Virginia Normal School where he set a college athletics record. Garrett was recruited by Monte Weeks formerly Normal School coach now Madison catcher for the Senators.
Olaf Peterson of 323 Pearl street died yesterday morning in a local hospital from typhoid fever after a four week illness. He was 26. Surviving are three sisters Mrs. Ed Griffin of Duluth Minn and Alvina and Helma Peterson of La Crosse. Services Wednesday at 2 30 at Fessler undertaking rooms conducted by Rev H G Magelssen. Burial in Oak Grove cemetery.
A 1914 tale follows Ezra Hamilton, a widower farmer who fends off widow Schermerhorn’s advances with humor and misread signals. After repeated near-misses and comic miscommunications, he falls in love, while she tests his resolve, until she finally accepts his courting after successive misunderstandings over a year.
A drug clerk denounces common stomach remedies as ineffective for underlying causes and extols bisulated magnesia as an antacid that quickly relieves symptoms. He cites his aunt's recovery after using magnesia, claims it prevents future issues, and notes it is widely available from druggists in La Crosse.
The high school girls will be allowed to use the swimming tank next year as well as the boys. Mr. Frank Hixon will add a girls locker room over the present engine room, one story high with lockers and dressing space. A circular staircase will connect the locker room to the tank room and a passageway will link girls and boys areas for daily gym use.
SToughton Wisconsin June 9 Opinion is divided whether Mrs Orwell Goss drank carbolic acid with intent to commit death by own action or whether she took it accidentally. The 32 year old mother of four children, oldest six, was found dead on the floor after a fishing trip. Friends attribute the tragedy to extreme heat unbalancing her mind and leading to self destruction.
Gretchen the German maid wore a dress from a daughter who went to college. She loved to “live lives.” Returning from her day out she was asked about her time and replied in mock pride that she felt shoost like a collidge girl.
Brief reflective note citing Plutarch on ignorance of antiquity’s celebrated lives. It frames lifelong learning as essential to maturity.
An old home remedy promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy to darken gray hair naturally. The ad claims a ready to use tonic at drug stores costs about fifty cents per bottle, applies with a sponge to one strand at a time, and promises dark, glossy, youthful hair after a few uses. It also asserts it removes dandruff, stops itching, and prevents shedding.
Genoa Wisconsin June 9 Commencement exercises were held in the ball Thursday evening. The graduates were Anus Waller Lottie Marshall Violet Shumway and Freeman Morris. They were taken to La Crosse by Charles Shumway in his automobile to have their graduation pictures taken.
Walter Reget was unanimously chosen high school track captain for next season at a meeting of the track men yesterday. Reget is considered the best all around athlete in high school at the present time. The season this year has been most successful and the coach hopes for even better success next year as many who came out this year will be more fully developed.
Philadelphia forecast notes the hottest June 8 since 1900 with a high of 86 noted at 11 o clock by Forecaster Bliss of the U S Weather Bureau.
Boil two cups sugar and one cup water six minutes add two tablespoons butter and one teaspoon vanilla extract. The K C Cook's Book with 90 recipes sent free upon receipt of the colored certificate packed in 25 cent cans of KC Baking Powder. Write your name and address plainly. Jaques Mig. Co., Chicago.
The funeral for Charles M. Pardis, who was killed Saturday in Preston Minnesota, was held yesterday at four from Fessler funeral rooms. Rev E O Vik officiated. Pallbearers were Edwin Weisbecker Ed Bey Ed Johnson Norman Knutson John Formanek and Al Aalberg. Interment was at Oak Grove Cemetery.
Approximately 750 acres of the Oregon national forest reserve were planted this spring with young trees. The effort aims to restore timber stands and support habitat, with crews conducting site preparation and planting across multiple units.
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