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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
11
A collage of employment and sale notices including barber college training, army recruitment, cafe porter, dining room staff, house and office help, and multiple real estate and item sales. Items list credentials, locations and prices for immediate responses.
A period list of rental ads for furnished and unfurnished rooms and houses, storage and office spaces, plus lost and found items, general services, insurance, loans, and selling notices. Names of businesses and contact details appear with locations and phone numbers.
Classified notices show several help and service requests. Ashes hauling, ironing and cleaning, sewing, furnished rooms for light housekeeping, and organ lessons advertised by MRS M M SUMMERS, Notre Dame, Ind., with a local office at 1106 Winn and manager Mrs J J Fie big.
Chairman William Wolfe urged a county appropriation of 900 to Campbell for road work. R W Davis questioned timing, arguing the request arrived late. The resolution passed, allocating 909, with Lehnen and Skogan named to confer with Campbell on expenditure.
Mrs Rose Sreit of Dubuque gave birth to twins aboard a Chicago Great Western train near Reinbeck Iowa. After thirty miles travel to Waterloo she was taken to a hospital where the second child was born and died. The mother, en route from St. Joseph Missouri to Dubuque, survived.
The Minnesota attorney general and associates plan a rehearing and request for a definite explanation of the court findings in the commodity rate injunction case. A special legislative session may be postponed awaiting the high court’s ruling, with Gov. Johnson undecided on calling an extra session.
WHEAT futures advanced in Chicago for May and July with slight gains. CORN and OATS held steady across May and July contracts. Minneapolis reports wheat prices around 1965 and 105, while Oklahoma City notes good rain and drier southwest prospects. livestock futures show pork near 13.00 to 13.12 and cattle and sheep robust. Liverpool markets show minor changes in wheat and corn.
With spring seeding delayed by cold weather, farmers turn to hauling hay to the city. The hay market remains strong, and prices for grain and provisions show notable activity, while farm work on the fields stalls.
Winona school board votes to spend at least 4000 dollars to fit all public school buildings with fire escapes and to modify doors to swing out, improving pupil protection from fire. Nearby reports note Buckford's suicide after a sheriff murder case and other regional briefs on rail shop closures, smallpox outbreak in Champlin, and the Iowa State Medical Society convention in Des Moines.
Six beggars split into two factions in Chicago on Green Street basement HQ. One side with wooden legs battled the crutch users in a drunken melee over carved initials. All six were fined $15 and costs. failing to pay leads to a month at hard labor.
Fire swept across the prairie between Pukwan and Kimball in Chamberlain South Dakota on Wednesday afternoon driven by a high wind. The blaze destroyed multiple farm buildings and continued to travel southeast as crews fought to contain it.
AnokaMinn March 27 Paul Peterson a Ham Lake farmer was struck by a southbound passenger train at Dover station east of Anoka and died instantly He was hurled about a hundred feet by the collision.
T O Manderud street commissioner was found dead in a city septic tank manhole Wednesday morning. He was last seen around 3 PM Tuesday by two friends near the tank.
Gov Crawford has secured Gen W H Beadle of Madison to deliver the address at laying the cornerstone of the new capitol. A commission meeting on March 5 will fix the ceremony date, to be held in early May.
S. D. March 27. John Dahl of Crook uncovers a pot of gold coins buried under his cabin over two years ago after a three months secret search. He refuses to trust banks and is to marry this summer a Danish girl, having departed for Denmark with his savings.
A lawman chase ends when a man barricaded himself inside a Billings, Montana residence and shot himself as deputies closed in. No bystanders injured. The incident occurred on March 27 as officers attempted to take the suspect into custody.
Seven men arrested for trafficking in government secrets were found guilty and sentenced to long terms in Pekin. The punishment is viewed as harsher than death and the conspiracy against the government is described as widespread.
Hog receipts estimated at 18 000 with 3588 left over and strong prospects after yesterday's close. Cattle 2500 with strong prospects. Sheep 8000 with prospects steady. L S Hoyt from Carman Oklahoma reports few bugs and acreage short by twenty points, wheat looks well. Hoyt wires from Anthony Kansas. fields examined ten days ago show bugs increasing but no wheat damage.
The market opened steady with higher undertone as late American firmness and Argentine exports to the continent supported prices. Prices later slipped by 1/4 to 1/2d on heavy arrivals and weak demand, leaving midday trading quiet with marginal gains of up to 4d.
Wisconsin Telephone has completed arrangements with Doerflinger Park store to connect with their private exchange so users with old or new phones can reach any department. Bell Phone company will join the system next. Similar links established with Tausche Hardware and Listman Mill. work to be finished soon.
Mrs Anna Bezpaletz 90 longtime Chaseburg resident died after a lingering illness at her son Frank Bezpaletz home 1215 West avenue south La Crosse. Survived by son Frank her husband preceded her 35 years ago. Funeral Monday 9 am from St Wenceslaus church Rev Till to conduct services and burial in Catholic cemetery.
The SA team lost to 8B with a 31 to 1 score last Thursday. Frontline players Helen Bailey and Elia Forbes starred for 8B, supported by center Eleanore Rollige. Strong defense came from Leanore Ro lige and Edna Leuth.
From the cream of American college oarsmen an eight is being formed to recall the 1920 Olympic team. Best men from Poughkeepsie and New London shells will be chosen, but funds are not assured and the coach may be Yale’s John Kennedy or Cornell’s Charley Courtney.
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