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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1911
Page
5
New York June 21. John J. Braake wealthy manufacturer files for divorce naming 13 correspondents. The case seeks dissolution of marriage with potential settlement details to follow.
Local Lutheran synod opens today with attendees from area churches, as organizers announce a series of services, lectures, and community events to run through the week.
About 350 delegates from Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan North and South Dakota Iowa Illinois Arizona Washington and Alabama attend the opening services at West Avenue German Lutheran church. The 10 a m start marks the largest attended synod in church history here as committees and officers prepare for a two day session with business reports and future plans.
London tightens security for the coronation as miles of streets close and access to central Westminster is restricted. Hotels and restaurants inside the zone will host a fraction of the crowds while the naval review at Spithead draws sailors back to work after a brief suspension.
Mrs. Jessie Holway returns from the east with her son Elmore after commencement at Lake Mochigan New York. Mr. Alex Forbes visits Elkhorn then returns home. Miss Mary Burton of Mankato stays with grandmother Mrs. D A McDonald for the summer. Mrs George Burton entertains Mrs E M Richter of Mankato. Miss Louise McDonald returns from Missoula school and will vacation with her mother.
Two cholera patients from the Italian liner Duca Degli Abruzzi died at Swinburne Island detention hospital and several steerage passengers remain critically ill. The Barbarossa from Trieste and the Laura from Bremen, arriving today, are detained at quarantine due to steerage illness.
Mrs. F. G. Cowles hosted twenty guests at a morning breakfast. Miss Viola Doerflinger entertained the Owl club at Bob White cottage for Miss Helen Stout of Toronto. Miss Beatrice Leissring hosted coffee in honor of Miss Julia Waters whose wedding is set for Saturday.
President Taft denounces patent medicine makers for false cure claims and urges Congress to amend the pure food and drug act as an emergency measure. He cites Supreme Court limits on labeling and notes thousands of prosecutions threatened or dismissed, calling false nostrums a danger to public health.
Local Odd Fellows lodge groups announce a big joint picnic next Sunday at the old Shooting Park below Gund's brewery. Five lodges in town will bring members and families, with about two hundred people expected to attend.
Chicago reports Mrs Grace Welie Harper niece of the late Charles H Deers millionaire plow manufacturer of Moline Illinois has married her chauffeur Sidney Harris at York Beach Maine.
Madison Wis June 21 The committee on conference will take up the women hours of labor bill after the assembly refused to concur in the senate amendment to withdraw its application to fourth class cities It also concurred in the Bell bill driving license rule for manufacturers and dealers and required identification cards for drivers The assembly concurred in an amendment authorizing city school boards to create evening schools and recreation centers The water power bill advanced to third reading with a six month repeal of existing franchises Headlines noted passage of bills creating Rhinelander Normal School and enabling initiative and referendum on acts of cities and county boards
Joseph D. Bren former acting secretary of the state university was indicted by the Hennepin county grand jury on embezzling 21616 dollars as university treasurer. The sum includes 13826 dollars Bren claims were stolen in a campus hold up 4990 dollars found in a tin box after the robbery and 1270 dollars paid to the public examiner by Brens attorneys to cover shortages shown by his books.
In Chicago on June 21 Miss Gertrude L Schott Berg quits her job at ninety dollars monthly after dispute over who should quit work to run the home and will wed William Hawthorne who earns eighty dollars a month.
New York June 21 The board of aldermen voted 150000 dollars to purchase soil for Central Park to address its worn and academic condition and improve park grounds.
In Boomer Dunkirk New York on June 21 a Standard Oil gas well at Silver Creek started a daily flow of about one million cubic feet from fifty feet down in red sandstone. It stands as the largest well in the Chautauqua gas belt.
Judge Farwin Ball of Chicago joined nearly 1,000 graduates in Madison as he attended the fiftieth anniversary of Wisconsin's first graduating class. Seven other men from the inaugural group were present for the historic ceremony.
A gang of hungry tramps broke into two cars of fruit from Fitzsimmons Palmer Minneapolis and dumped about half a carload of pineapples and watermelons onto the Milwaukee road bed between Portage and La Crosse. Conductor P J Larson found the seals broken as the cars were readied for arrival in North La Crosse at 9:20 AM. Detectives are on the case. this is La Crosse’s first car robbery since March eggs found in a hollow tree near the north side depot.
President Taft endorsed the Supreme Court rulings in the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust cases. He said reading the word unreasonable into the Sherman act clarifies enforcement and distinguishes conspiracies to monopolize from unintended effects in business.
Dr. A F Dumas mayor of Cass Lake Minnesota awaited arraignment on a third charge in the arson investigations. Detectives say the bail of 5000 dollars may be raised to meet demands for higher bail as the case unfolds. Dumas expressed satisfaction with the legal process.
Chicago June 21 John F Daly a decade long postal employee was sentenced to five years in a federal prison at Fort Leavenworth Kansas and to repay 8470 the amount stolen from the government.
Mexico City reports growing unrest as opponents of Madero seek rebellion after Diaz's exile. Scapata, once Morales enforcer, halted plans and fled to Tehucan for safety. Andres Lara, leading a raiding band, was executed in front of a church on a ranch with six accomplices to be shot next.
A reflective maxim warns that ignoring personal faults does not excuse neighbors from similar failings. The proverb emphasizes vigilance and integrity in community behavior and accountability.
Mrs Gene Gertrude Heystek aged 38 wife of J P Heystek of Onalaska died at La Crosse Hospital at 11 o clock last night after a serious operation. Survived by husband and two children Paul 12 York 8. The death comes as a shock to family and friends. a live goose is mentioned in a local note.
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