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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
5
Mrs Grace Snell Coffin Walker Coffin Layman Love filed suit for divorce from Hugh M Love in Los Angeles on June 12. This is her second filing. cruelty is still the principal ground. Her brother urged withdrawal, then she renewed the suit after returning home.
Livingston county grand jury reconvened to investigate the death of William Hamlin a boy said to have been murdered at the Pontiac reform school last December Guards Wilson Claypool and Ash and inmates Taylor and Johnson were called before the panel.
Sparta Wisconsin June 12 special A Monroe county fair under St Johns guild is planned in the armory to benefit the St Johns choir. Miss White of Whitewater and Miss Ada Beem of Columbus with Rock Entertainment manage. The event features a real country fair with produce displays bicycle and horse races a wild man from Borneo and a fat lady. Teddy Bear chorus led by Miss Marion Crosby to headline. cast includes Randolph Richards Mary Harris and eighty others. Various locals visit and travel for summer work and events across nearby towns.
Mrs Mary Newton entertained the Odds and Ends club today with light conversation and refreshments.
Ten pupils form Ettrick Wis graduation class with Selma Oksnee Annie Pederson Arthur Sorrenson Minard Oksnee Jerry Mahoney Luella Cantlin Verna Dusso Abbie Mahoney Jennie Brovold Amy Blue. Commencement features include invocational prayer music salutatory and valedictory orations with diplomas presented by Principal Jodney Trempealeau. Additional notes cover local visits and community events including a Yeomen dance, a class play at Viroqua, and residents’ activities.
Round Prairie, Wis. the Yankee American Showmen traveled through town with a brief stopover as part of a regional circuit. Residents reported a lively crowd and a quick performance before the group moved on to the next stop on the schedule.
In a twelve round bout at the Armory A A club Memsic dominated early with a first round assault that left Donahue briefly unconscious. Donahue recovered, pressed forward, but Memsic was floored twice in the tenth. The fight ended in a draw despite Donahue’s late aggression and strong left jabs.
Milwaukee June 12 merchants manufacturers bankers and professionals opposing prohibition form the United States Merchants and Manufacturers league in a club room meeting at the Hotel Pfister to perfect a formal organization.
Since March 1908, a federation of prohibition opponents has grown from a New York meeting of fifteen brewery allied manufacturers to a Milwaukee formed national body with over 10,000 members and 800 in New York. George J Obermann of New York was elected president with Cooper Lyon of Chicago as secretary and Henry Rickel of Detroit as treasurer. The federation plans a July 1909 convention and will base headquarters in Chicago, operating independently of brewers.
In Cincinnati Ohio on June 12 a would be groom Frank Beckman aged 21 was taken by relatives before his marriage to widow Mrs Hagebeck aged 65 at St Pauls Catholic church. Guests waited at the altar as whispers spread a disappearance. Beckman was sought but not found. Mrs Hagebeck says he was drugged and hidden by relatives opposing the union.
In Mankato on June 12 District Judge Pfan sentenced John Graham to one year in Stillwater prison for forgery in the second degree William Lang to six months for grand larceny in the second degree and George Knapp to a similar sentence for the same charge as part of the court action.
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