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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1909
Page
5
W. J. Smale opens a dairy store at 112 South Fourth Street in the former theatre room. He formerly ran a wholesale produce and eggs business on Front Street and will stock dairy products eggs fish cheese and canned goods.
Mrs Knox and her baby Philander Knox are described as living with her husband on K Street. The notice praises Mrs Wu for many warm friends and charming character and calls her an ideal mother and devoted to home life. Read The Tribune Want Ads.
William J. Lynch and Anna Wolf, two magazine grafters, were arraigned before Judge Brindley after police arrested them Saturday. Lynch received one year in Waupun state prison. Wolf was sentenced to sixty days in the county jail. He admitted inducing a Winona woman to accompany him, while she acted as his wife.
A flurry of brief items notes visits and returns across the region. Sheriff Duncan wheels in from Waupun with two suspects in a north side saloon robbery. Miss Mae Morrison and Miss Alta Walcott of Sparta attend the Sparta versus La Crosse game. Numerous residents travel to Milwaukee Tacoma Seattle and Chippewa Falls with visits and homecomings.
The Muth family expresses gratitude to all who aided and sympathized with their bereavement and illness of their husband father and brother. Special thanks to Rev Julius Gamm Third Ward Aid Society and all who sent flowers. Mrs Phillip Muth and family Mrs H Boldt Mr Henry Muth.
Elliott wires Sterling to secure manager for Eau Claire club. Sterling’s Joe Killian sets conditions and Eau Claire club awaits formal reply.
The funeral for the late Al Draper was held at 2 30 this afternoon from Miller Bros undertaking rooms. Interment followed in Oak Grove cemetery.
Mrs Harry James Wilcox entertained Saturday afternoon in honor of Miss Helen Wilcox who has come to reside in La Crosse. It was also the hostesses birthday with many gifts and 5 o clock refreshments. Attending were Miss Helen Wilcox and several ladies and Miss Katherine Kratchwill from Chicago plus Mrs Chamberlain Mrs Roberts and others from Houston and local guests.
Mrs A M Brayton hosted a informal Saturday gathering for friends in honor of her sister Mrs Chard who plans to join her husband in South Carolina this week. Attendees included Mesdames Milling ton Raymond Holbek Rollins Dickens Hebberd Skinner Bigham Wheeler and Misses Dickens Wheeler and Chard.
The Twentieth Century club is to be entertained Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. E A Gotterdam's home on south Ninth street. The Mission Study class of the First Congregational church met today with Mrs. John Brindley. The Woman's Union of the Congregational church will host a supper Thursday evening at the church parlors with hostesses Mrs Florence Bunting Mrs F C Cowes Mrs Albert Hardy Mrs L A McIntosh Mrs D F Miller Mrs L B Raymond Mrs O Tufferson and Mrs F W Sissons. Born to Mr and Mrs C D Hill of Chicago a daughter. Mrs Hill formerly Miss Hatty Austin, daughter of Mrs David Austin of this city.
The article explains sandbars form as sand is carried by current and dropped on the lee side, comparing it to snowdrifts. It notes bars shift with wind and current changes, and warns bathers drownings occur when stepping from the upper slope into deep water as bars advance downstream.
Illinois Law Review asserts Judge Landis was right to fine Standard Oil of New Jersey 29,240,000 through its Indiana subsidiary. Prof. Charles G. Little questions Judge Grosscup and argues the real culprit lies in complex intercorporate relations, not in a single indicted person.
A four year old girl visits Humane Officer C Berry seeking shoes and receives a warm pair. The piece highlights Berry’s twenty one years serving the destitute in La Crosse, the steady donations of cash and clothing, and the anonymous letters urging aid for cases of need and delinquency.
A concise reflection notes that enduring life's irritations with calm patience earns notable credit for individuals. It emphasizes restraint and long term virtue in facing daily annoyances.
City news notes flour prices rose by 20 cents per barrel after an announced advanceSaturday. Civil service tests were held in city hall with nine applicants. About two hundred teachers gathered at the High School for a joint city and county meeting led by Supervisors Oltman and Bird. Prof Fassett A Cotton of the La Crosse normal school visited briefly. he plans to move his family to La Crosse on March 20. Roy Wilson’s funeral was held Sunday at 2:30 from his Gould street home, Rev G W Fogg presiding, with burial in Rock Island, Illinois.
A westbound Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton passenger train exploded ten miles west of Findlay Ohio. The engineer was killed and five others injured, with some injuries likely fatal.
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