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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1915
Page
5
The German war office reported limited gains for Austro German forces in northeast Galicia as General von Linsingen’s wing pushes toward Chodo. Wireless to Sayville and Merlin circuits covered the development this afternoon.
The war office says part of Gen. Von Linsingen's army pulled back to the south bank of the Dniester northwest of Halicz. German attacks along the river continue to advance with Kopaczyska evacuated and Stegna area partly in German hands. Lemberg area under Mackensen remains unchanged as Anglo French assaults in the west are repulsed.
The Willys-Overland Automobile company announced a five percent hourly wage increase, effective July 15, affecting about 11,060 employees and totaling an estimated $520,000 for the first year in all departments in Toledo Ohio.
A long list records visits and departures in La Crosse with residents from Albert Lea Baraboo Mormon Coulee Goose Island and Kipmunk Coulee plus travelers to Omaha Denver and the Pacific coast. A $25 reward is offered for evidence in a flower box theft at Herken's Trunk Factory and Chas Shorna.
The summer camp of the Young Women's Christian association at Silverside will open tomorrow and run through July and August.
The Florence Nightingale section of the Harvest club presents Hansel and Gretel on the Ed wards lawn at 1404 Cass street. Ele ano r Edwards coached the children with June Rowlison as promoter and Carlos Rowlison as manager. An orchestra will perform. Proceeds aid a needy family. thirty one performers include angles wood sprites dawn fairies. Ushers are Elizabeth Whipple Betty Hixon and Donald Gordon. The show starts at 7 o clock.
Miss Lillian Matyka celebrated at her home 14 South Thirteenth Street with friends. Gifts were given and music and a grand march preceded supper at five o clock. Attendees included Dor othy Kuehn Mayme Tikal Mary Lepsch Marie Kuehn Mayme Lohstreter Rose Liskover Louise Check Marie Schaller Emily Michel Anna Tikal and Mayme Matyka.
Friends hosted a party Tuesday evening to celebrate Serena Roessler turning seventeen. Attendees included Esther Oehler Margaret Roessler Josephine Roessler Rose Anderberg Esther Jaques Josephine Sobkowick Agnes Alice Serena Roessler Louis Herlitzke Will Proksch Charles Kramer Fred Kramer Ken Warner Charlie Hotaine William Sheild Jack Dailich Ernest Roessler Matt Roessler Herbert Gautsch Peter Peterson Frank Roessler Will Roessler Mr and Mrs George Roessler and daughter Viola Mr and Mrs Mat Neidercorn and daughter Violet Mr and Mrs John Sobkowick Mr and Mrs Herman Roessler and Mrs C Kramer.
Horsford s Acid Excellent is advertised for relief and prevention of exhaustion from summer heat overwork or insomnia in a dated remedy notice context.
Let us supply maps booklets and information on Wisconsin lake country northern Michigan and Minnesota resorts fishing districts. Apply to Ticket Agents Chicago North Western Railway Phone 337 Red 2320 A F Kniebusch Agent.
In Chicago on June 25 Packey McFarland and Mike Gibbons were offered 20000 dollars for a fight. Lou Houseman announced the bid saying it is not stage money and the bout could be staged in Minneapolis St Paul or Duluth. In Denver Ad Wolgast canceled his planned July 5 bout with Steve Ketchel over terms.
A cheerful automobile party from Cleveland visited La Crosse yesterday. Judge H. W. Calvert, his wife, and family traveled 263 miles the first day and reached La Crosse in eighteen days. They plan to motor to Minneapolis Monday before returning to visit friends.
Mrs R J Ewe hosted a card club yesterday for guest of honor Mrs Anton Fay who is soon to depart. Attendees included Mesdames Merwin Morgan Ott Hess Petrick Currie Wheldon de Ranitz Hunt and others. Five prizes went to deRanitz Hess Petrick Hunt and Wheldon. The club gifted Mrs Fay a pair of mahogany candlesticks.
Mrs T B Lawrence entertained six ladies this afternoon with an informal coffee gathering in her home.
Misses Alice and Edith Pryor entertained yesterday in a pretty coffee setting with wild flowers ferns and roses. Helpers at the event included Katherine Doty Helen Loney Charlotte Kohlhaas Ida Capellan Mabel Heddrich and Katherine Loschert. Little Ruth Ulm greeted guests at the door.
Chicago reports that white goods sales are ahead of last season despite unseasonable weather. The Farwell weekly review notes rising demand driven by European war dye shortages, with lace and voile leading, plus active whites in silks and wool dress fabrics.
Governor Ferris directs sheriffs in all eighty three counties to enforce the state statute banning prize fights, ending boxing activities in Michigan. The move emphasizes strict adherence to the prohibition and signals statewide crackdown on unauthorized bouts.
Salem marked one year since the fire with a celebration. Damage was estimated at 5 million dollars and rebuilding over the year totaled 6 million dollars.
Prof. Israel, a Berlin surgeon, operated on the sultan of Turkey in Constantinople removing gallstones. The sultan's condition was pronounced satisfactory today after the procedure.
Minnie Walker and Gertrude Heydon hosted a Dresbach trip with Mrs Edwards of Miriam Park as guest of honor. Thirty rode the Otto launch from two to eight thirty, supper at Jeannette Torrance cottage, with Dresbach residents joining and all calling it the best ever.
Mrs Joseph Martin and daughter Katherine visit the east for six weeks. Homer Davis heads to Akron to enter the Goodrich rubber school and then to New York to meet Miss Grace Edwards before they rent a Cape Cod cottage for three months. Miss Jeanine Torrance hosts UBridge night. Prizes from a Mrs Howland and Miss Hertha Hickish card party go to Mrs Bozard, Mrs Oscar Hulberg and Mrs Louis Hirshheimer, while Mrs Charles Weiss wins the five hundred prize.
Mrs Heideman presided as guests including Frank Shephard George Rachel Van Horn and several Misses and Messrs. The group enjoyed cards and light refreshments. The attendees included Virginia Spettel Mary Kethammer Laura Baum Myrtle Benjamin Lillie Horn Claricie Johnson Verna Heider Max Sovitsky George Martinek Edward Fulgraff William Bell and Dr Rice of Chicago. Room decor featured pink and white peonies and ferns and the wedding cake mirrored last year’s design.
A satirical line notes that the common man favors future punishment only for his neighbors, reflecting a critique of selective justice and public sentiment in social ethics.
Mr and Mrs Theodore Hydenan celebrated their first wedding anniversary last evening at 1513 Jackson Street. The couple received guests as neighbors and friends offered best wishes and small gifts.
Athens, June 25. Turkish casualties thus far in Gallipoli fighting are estimated at 143,000. A Mytilene dispatch says in three days of fierce combat the Allies captured several enemy trenches, with the second French division bearing the brunt of the attack.
Topeka Kansas reports that Secretary of Agriculture Mahler estimated this year's wheat yield at 138 700 000 bushels, a bit higher than last month’s forecast. Corn condition is poor at about 65 percent due to unfavorable weather.
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