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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1914
Page
1
A deficit in the new water plant fund is pegged at $15,914 between cash on hand and bills. Proposals include borrowing from the sinking fund and making up the shortfall with a tax levy in the following year.
La Crosse faces a deficit of about 13 914 to finish the new water plant with 7 553 on hand and 21 467 total cost. Comptroller Fries says the operating fund is nearly exhausted, with 4 000 left and another 10 000 needed until November. An ordinance by Alderman Kohn requires street cars to stop on the near side at corners to protect passengers from passing vehicles.
Reports of a heated Farmers' Co operative Packing meeting were denied by Senator Otto Bosshard who said no dispute over plans to buy the Langdon Boyd Packing plant for 120000 or replacing it with the Salem road abbatoir at 15000 occurred The meeting began in Baldwin and Bosshard offices and ran from morning into afternoon with a general discussion but nothing of importance mentioned and no successor election to Andrew Boyd raised.
A man died at Dostor's doorway after bidding friends farewell, telling an acquaintance he likely would not see them alive again. He collapsed and died within an hour, with local authorities investigating the sudden death.
Joseph Schurrer told a friend on the street that he felt poorly and that this might be the last time they would see him alive. He shook hands and then went to see Dr. W. A. Henke. Within an hour he was dead.
In Indianapolis on June 13 the death of 19 year old Mary Elizabeth Howe, daughter of Butler College president Thomas Howe, shocked the commencement exercises. She killed herself with poison in her room while her escort, Baird Hastings of the University of Michigan, waited below for a dance. Coroner Dudham attributed the act to a nervous breakdown.
Grace Darling, daughter of L. H. Darling head of Plainfield schools, was found asleep in the woods ten miles from home after an all night search in which nearly every Plainfield resident participated. The June 13 report from Joliet, Illinois notes she wandered away yesterday and lost her way.
Connie Mack announced Pete Daly was sent from the Athletics to the New York Americans without a player return. Mack said the deal was agreed last fall, with Daly headed to the Yankees as the Yankees. no compensation attached.
Joliet Illinois June 13 The second squad of honor prisoners from Joliet prison will depart tomorrow to Meeker Illinois where a road camp will be set up.
The General Federation of the Women's clubs endorsed woman suffrage by viva voce vote at its Chicago convention. Mrs E L Denniston of California led the resolution urging political equality for men and women. Leaders predicted strong moral impact on Congress and state legislatures. Dr Anna Shaw telegrammed regret at missing the Chicago meeting while praising the unanimous suffrage support from delegates.
State wide attendance is planned with 21 clerks replying and many more expected. Notable visitors include A R Hirst of the state engineering department J S Donald secretary of state W C Owen attorney general Merlin Hull speaker of the house and governor hopeful J C Karel governor candidate and a Wisconsin Tax commission representative. A river trip and La Crosse industry tours are on the convention program.
Alumni of La Grosse High School gathered for a banquet honoring Professor Albert Hardy who announced his resignation. Attendees praised his long service and shared memories of his teaching. The event reflected respect for Hardy and noted best wishes for his next chapter.
About 150 guests mostly alumni attended the Alumni Association dinner and ball at the La Crosse high school. Officers were elected: Helen Dorset president Horace Holley vice president Mrs Harry M Curtis secretary Ray L Dickinson treasurer. An appeal for future projects and new committees was the program highlight. Prof Albert Hardy resigned as principal of the Washington school in a letter to the superintendent.
The Rev David C Jones pastor of the First Presbyterian church was named a doctor of divinity by Carroll College at Waukesha yesterday. The Presbyterian college conferred degrees on a large graduating class. Jones has long served the Presbyterian church in La Crosse and is a well known regional minister.
The homecoming committee gears up a information booth between the McMillan building and the Security Bank on North Fourth street. The booth will open shortly after construction, with city directories and telephones for visiting guests and attendants available during homecoming week. A letter from F Thornely of Palestine Texas recalls La Crosse in 1870, describing wild beginnings, the Itaska trip, and enduring fondness for the city as his family plans to attend the June 28 to July 4, 1914 celebration.
Extremely high water delays the Y W C A summer camp opening. Miss Bertha Hoefke says the camp will use the houseboat Katie G. moored to the dam at Riverside camp and will not be brought upriver until water levels drop enough for safe anchorage. Announcements of the new opening date will follow.
George L. Steadman a Wisconsin Railway Light & Power motorman living at 1107 Vine Street died of heart failure shortly before his first morning run. He reported for duty at the car barns at Third and La Crosse, talked with colleagues, then suddenly plunged from a bench. He left a widow and seven children. five girls. Funeral arrangements not set.
A large fire at Lubin Manufacturing in Philadelphia destroyed hundreds of thousands of feet of moving picture films after an explosion. The blaze spread to ten adjacent houses, forcing 500 workers at the plant into the street as many female employees became hysterical. Loss estimated at $500,000.
Miss Lillian Robeyne Irvine became the first woman aviator to fly over Lake Michigan in a hydro plane. She rose 500 feet above the water and completed a five mile flight from Clarendon Beach to Grant Park, Chicago.
Children at the La Crosse Rescue Mission on Pearl Street hold day exercises at eight o clock with Rev. D C Dewey as speaker. Special music will accompany singing and child performances.
A Drexel Café singer drew distant suitors including a La Crosse man who pursued marriage. The heir’s status was clarified, ending the mystery of a large inheritance once believed to be tied to the singer’s alleged intended marriage.
Mrs. Leah Fuchsel says Chicago speculator Grant Hartford, 38 million in estate, shot himself in a Chicago hotel. She details meeting in Drexel cafe, coercion threats, and a hurried move with her husband Leo Fuchsel to Brownsville Minnesota before returning to La Crosse.
Temperatures yesterday reached a high of 75 and a low of 66 with .02 inches of precipitation. Forecasts for La Crosse Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa call for unsettled weather tonight and Sunday with local showers or thunderstorms and little temperature change. Weather conditions show generally clear in the Atlantic and gulf states and unsettled across the Upper Mississippi valley with rain in Montana, South Dakota and Iowa.
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