Big Ferari Carnival Plans For July Free Street Fair
Merchants Protective association schedules a week long carnival in Market Square La Crosse with Ferari Brothers Shows United supplying paid and free acts. Twelve new shows arrive from Davenport Iowa. free bridge access during carnival. Dexter of Ferari arrives to coordinate ahead of the event.
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Merchants Protective Association
Ferari Brothers
United
Diavolo
Market Square
la Crosse
Davenport
Iowa
Rose
Milwaukee
United Woodmen of America
Dexter
Carnival Company
Petition for Market Street car line extension to Catholic cemetery
Catholics in the city urge St. Car Company to extend the Market Street line from Sixteenth Street to the Catholic cemetery. Residents on Market Street and the southeast section say walkers would be cut by eight blocks now. They cite steady cemetery visitation and foreseen profitability as motive to build the extension.
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Market Street
Sixteenth Street
Street Railway Company
Golf Links
Local park hosts regular shoot on French Island
Scores listed from Sundays event on German ring target 200 yards off hand include FE A Gotterdam 268 John Mohr 210 T D Rudd 2009 H Krenzke 174. Local team total 1 012 to ready for August inter club contest. Davenport sharpshooters tournament la crosse club dominates with club leading honors and Wisconsin man claims king target.
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French Island
Arcanum Members Doubt Receiver Appointment
La Crosse Royal Arcanum members dismiss rumors of a receiver for the company Oct 1. They expect no rate hikes and favor an injunction to stop the grand receiver from collecting premiums after Oct 1. They see no plan to secede or form a new order.
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la Crosse
Royal Arcanum
Order
Children’s Department at Library Opens for Vacation
Beginning at 9 o clock tomorrow morning the children's department at the public library will be opened and continued throughout the vacation period. It will be open daily from 9 in the morning until 6 30 in the evening for the children of the city.
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Public Library
Contractor Atkinson Finishes La Crosse and Southeastern Road Bed Work
The work of grading the road bed for the La Crosse and Southeastern railway is completed. Contractor Atkinson in charge has sent his grading apparatus to Rockford South Carolina where he has secured a contract to construct 200 miles of road bed for the Milwaukee road.
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la Crosse and Southeastern Railway
Atkinson
Rockford, S. C
Milwaukee Road
Wisconsin Light & Power to lay underground wires on Main and business streets
The Wisconsin Light and Power Co. will be allowed to lay its wires underground on Main Street and other business streets despite protests by local critics. Aldermen, meeting as a committee of the whole, approved permission in line with city ordinances. Tunneling would risk pavement sagging, so the plans proceed with work starting from Fourth and Vine streets and covering fourteen blocks of brick paving.
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Wisconsin Light & Power Co
Fourth and Vine Streets
Coapman Presidents and convention programs noted
Proceedings detail officers and speakers for a labor union convention. Highlights include resolutions supporting Onward and the 2 Cents a Week fund, plus addresses by Maud Knapp and Rev. Hoag. Evening program features Marion D. Shutter and a Lincoln pilgrimage lecture. Mississippi River levels were descending toward normal.
Deputy Harrassed by Rattler Prank Fends Off Snake
Deputy Sheriff James Lang, known for avoiding snakes, was startled when a Campbell farmer left a six foot rattlesnake in a bounty office basket. The reptile threatened him until the deputy requested it be kept dead, preserving only the rattles. In a separate note, Mary Weiss, jailed for prostitution, attended church with an officer present. the judge had allowed communion with the guard nearby.
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James Lang
Campbell
Lang
Mary Weiss
Katherine Myers Engaged to T Van Alen Smith
June 27 in Janesville Wisconsin announces the engagement of Katherine I Myers daughter of the late Peter I Myers who built the theatre and hotel to T Van Alen Smith of Chicago.
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Janesville, Wis
Katherine I. Myers
Peter I. Myers
T. van Alen Smith
Chicago
Railroad Officials Make Record Time Run to Minneapolis
A special train carrying top Mexico Central Railway officials from Chicago to La Crosse completed the trip in six hours and forty five minutes. The party connected with No. 5 and continued to Minneapolis, including the president secretary and treasurer among its members.
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Chicago
la Crosse
No. 5
Minneapolis
Mexico Central Railway
City Hall Struck by Lightning at Stoughton
A storm last night damaged Stoughton City Hall from wind and a hail streak rode the storm belt. Petitions circulate in Madison by prominent Scandinavians urging government recognition of Norwegian ambassadors on their arrival in Washington.
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Madison
Stoughton
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Niarporntens
Ng. Union
John Costley
Eran Aee
Ruprecht
Joseph
T. D. Budd
King
Main St
Rose St
Pryor
Arcanum
Children's Dept. AT
Library Open
NCL Treat
HARI
Coapman
Maud Knapp
Oshkosh
Harold Morris
Racine
Bessie Vaughn
Wausau
Agnes Ralph
L. D. Fischer
Lombard College
Mission
John Wellington Hoag
First Baptist Church
Mississippi
Wm. E. Harter
M. Ruhoff
D. Buck
Marion D. Shutter
D. D
Lowe
Murphy
A. C. Grier
Abraham Lincoln
Pri
Ues
O & Se
Peter Newburg
Saa HI
Arner
Katherine Myers
City Hall
Oxfords
A. O. Morkved
Caledonia St
Main Street
Strauss
Wm. F. Strauss
Pearl Street
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