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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1956
Page
18
A dense classified snippet lists home cleaning and repair services. Custom Carpets, Evan Vieregge, and 4-4244 offer in-home carpet cleaning with furniture repairing, packing, shipping, and storage. Larson Roofing, Ray L. Rev or Pianos tuned and more appear alongside various trades in a single aggregator.
A lengthy La Crosse Wisconsin classified page lists numerous help wanted notices from local employers. Positions include waitresses, sales clerks, Avon product sellers, housekeepers, a beauty operator, a fry cook, restaurant staff, a route man, a clerk, and a field representative. Several listings request in person applications at local businesses or mailing to P O boxes, with hours, pay, and duties described.
A compiled ad list shows opportunities from oil company service stations to general stores in southwestern Wisconsin. Listings include restaurant and tavern sales in Clintonville and Independence, a motel with cottages on U.S. highway, a singing inn tavern, a popcorn stand, and a partially fixed home with detailed interior features and price.
Luenings Agency lists a cement block house 22 by 35 with two extra lots, city water and sewer, new furnace priced at 5 000 dollars. A six room country home with full basement partly modern at 6 500 dollars. An Ernie's Bakery listing on Highway 53 Holmen offers a house for 11 750 with tile bath and floors and Trane baseboard heat two bedrooms at 3130 South 28th.
Offers invited for a French Island area residence featuring one level living with a bedroom near the front, a kitchen and living space, and a rear yard. The property sits on a 50 by 150 foot lot near Airport Road at the 8 curve.
The mayor of the city claims a Tribune reporter misquoted him on two points during a Saturday address at St Wenceslaus School for the Disabled American Veterans banquet. He provided a copy of his speech to show that the paper altered several statements about veterans organizations vigilance and peace.
Two 16 year old Wisconsin youths armed with a deer rifle and an air pistol robbed Club 41 in Escanaba of 80 dollars early today and were captured 30 minutes later. Police identified them as Gordon W. McLeod and Theodore F. Baron Jr., both of Milwaukee. They will be charged with armed robbery. The pair fled with cash after ordering staff to empty the register and a patron to trip a phone line. They were arrested in Gladstone, seven miles away, with most of the money recovered. The youths claimed they stole a car near Appleton last Thursday to fund gas for the trip.
Green Bay spokesmen from six Fox River Valley cities favored a League Of Wisconsin Municipalities plan to let cities submit annexation plans to Circuit Court and obtain a referendum order for residents to decide the absorption area. Names Green Bay Kaukauna Manitowoc Menasha Neenah Appleton attended. Ed Johnson said protest petitions by a majority could block the referendum and the plan would settle legal questions before voting.
George Halazon 18 of Milwaukee was sentenced to concurrent 1 10 year terms at Waupun for unlawful escape and car theft. He must start after 3 15 years for armed robbery and assault. He fled with Vernon Ingram of Oshkosh who received 1 3 years for burglary. Ingram later had a 4 five year parole violation sentence in Baton Rouge.
The cremated remains of William Moses Morse 86 and Nellie Elizabeth Morse 92 will be buried at Woodland Cemetery Sparta in a 1 15 p.m. Thursday service officiated by Rev Charles Hanson. Morse died November 21 1955 and Nellie died October 24 1954 in the Canal Zone. They lived near Bush Prairie before moving to the Canal Zone to live with daughter Lydia Shannon in 1947. They are survived by two daughters four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Morse relatives hosted Shannon and Gaines at J F Morse home.
Funeral services will be held for John J. Bodette 83 at Lanham's Mortuary in Sparta with burial in Woodland Cemetery. Bodette lived in Monroe and Jackson counties and leaves a son John Tomah and daughter Leona Matchette Black River Falls, plus grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Elizabeth Leitzau 74 died in Hokah after long illness. Survived by two sons Ralph and George, two daughters and four grandchildren. Martha Philipp Snowberry 71 of Tunnel City died at home. Survived by three daughters, one son, a sister and a brother, with service at St Pauls Lutheran Church in Tunnel City. Burial in Tunnel City Cemetery. Friends may call at White's Funeral Home in Tomah and at the church prior to services.
Madison F. Bolender will resign as public relations director of the State Chamber of Commerce effective July 1 to become manager of the Chandler Arizona chamber. He has served the Wisconsin organization since 1947, a native of Monroe with past work in Stevens Point and Wausau.
Notice set for June 20 1956 at 7 30 p m in Shelby Town Hall to review final report on the schedule of special assessments for Town Sanitary District No 1 La Crosse County Wisconsin and determine district payments and parcel benefits. Public notice includes numerous street names and alleys forming the assessment boundary.
A compact roundup of local want ads offering various jobs, trades, and services. Listings indicate opportunities ranging from employment to barter and hire needs in the community.
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