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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1908
Page
9
A dense run of want ads lists occupations from barber students to upholsterer, delivery boy, salesmen, collectors, moving picture operator, hotel staff, cooks, maids, dishwashers, ironer, alterations seamstress, dining room staff, and more. Also numerous sales and real estate notices including cottages, farms, cars, stoves, and rental properties with addresses in La Crosse and surrounding streets.
Stevens at 209 McMillan offers cash loans on diamonds and valuables and buys such items.
Manufacturers advertise chairs, baby carriages, sewing and book music cabinets and more with lowest prices. H Hauner lists 613 Mill St New phone 787 Black. Also Steamer E Rutledge chartered through F J Fugina Fountain City Wis. Loans for salaried people on furniture wagons planes. La Crosse Mortgage & Loan 322 Main St. Runkel's Drug Store promotes Cough Remedy and declares a cheeky line about kissing.
Pasturing season opens May 109. Inspect the Hartley Farm Pastures. Good fences, good water, personal in spection every morning, separate pas tures for mares, colts, yearlings and aged horses. Charges reasonable. Phone 8107.
Classified ad lists several properties for sale including a good two story seven room house on two lots at 1229 Farnam with 108 by 150 feet, priced at 4500 dollars. Also a lot in Madison Court for 1100 dollars with two lots and a factory, store, double dwelling above, cottage, barn and sheds and 900 dollars rent income totaling 7150 dollars. Additional offerings include a lot with two houses at 1234 South and a finest modern residence at 7500 dollars, plus a corner lot adjacent to W. Anderson's Eleventh for 1050 dollars. Insurance and money to loan offered by F Klein at 208 McMillan Bldg.
A notice seeks a one nicely furnished front room on the ground floor for a married couple. Inquiries to old phone 6484.
WANTED TO RENT A small cottage in Tribune with address A. WANTED people to use fine sugar at $1.75 per 100 lbs. Call old phone 2012. WANTED 50 cows to pasture. Inquire Mrs Koch and Son. Old phone 2002. LET ME CLEAN your wallpaper with no dust or dirt. Will call and demonstrate. Prices reasonable. Call 964A new phone. CURTAINS laundered at a reasonable price at 2015 W Ave So
The council orders many street light relocations to June 15 including corners Sixth State Main Sixth Front State for new schedules and Riverside Park. Some lights moved to Levee areas, some raised or removed with several intersections adjusted and others placed on iron poles. a few lights are dispensed with and several planned poles added at Main Seventh King Fourth Cameron and others.
Mrs Joyce of 189 Sullivan Street Claremont New Hampshire writes that after a year she used two bottles of Foley's Kidney Cure which cured a long standing kidney trouble. She calls it grand medicine and heartily recommends it.
The annual YMCA meeting reported a flourishing year with a deficit of only $426.46. W. W. Cargill was reelected trustee for two years and E. G. Boynton along with Paul T. Schultze were reelected directors. P. M. Brink was elected to replace resigning director John Schriver.
The Oak Grove Cemetery association annual meeting re elected officers President J S Medary Vice President S Y Hyde Secretary R Calvert and Treasurer F H Hankerson The annual reports showed the association in a very prosperous condition.
Peter Smaton boarded the early morning train to Minneapolis. Edith Carlson traveled to Duluth last Tuesday for a new job. Tom Collins from Rush City arrived Tuesday. James Murphy, recently divorced, married Jennie Philips yesterday. Philips teaches in Sandstone and Murphy works at a creosoting plant. They will reside here. Sebesta traveled to St Paul for business. Tracy Gibson departed for St Paul. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Larson last Thursday.
Chicago reports cattle and sheep prices down 10 cents with smaller cattle receipts while hogs rise slightly. Beeves sell 6.25 to 7.25 dollars, stockers 3.60 to 5.65. hogs 5.35 to 5.76 for various cuts. sheep natives 4.59 to 6.00, lambs 5.50 to 7.60. London notes Wall Street weakness as selling broadens.
Cattle totaling 12 000 sold steady with steers from 5 25 to 7 00 and stockers from 3 50 to 5 50. Hogs 20 000 steady with bulk 5 40 to 5 60 and pigs 4.00 to 4.50. Sheep 109 000 steady with muttons 5 00 to 5 60 and lambs 6 00 to 7 35.
Minneapolis May and July grain figures show mixed gains with Wheat July at 90 percent, Corn May 71 percent, Pork May at 13.50, and weather notes from Hays Kansas citing variable rain and prospects for Ellsworth, Russell, and Hays counties.
Chicago livestock trade showed a steady to firm tone with calves and bulls selling higher on strong demand. Top steers reached 7.30 while hogs averaged around 219 pounds last week, and sheep had limited demand for half fat stock as buyers and shippers moved through large volumes.
New York dairy prices hold steady as of May 12 with poultry both dressed and live unchanged. Butter at 27 cents a pound, eggs for nearby white at 19 cents, and creams cheese at 14 and one half cents per ounce.
The New York market opened May 12 under a weaker London tone and heavy stock offerings. London houses reportedly sold 30,000 shares in the first fifteen minutes, with Union Pacific trading below 140 after 141% the previous day. In the first hour, prices for nearly all stocks fell by a point or more, while government bonds held steady and other bonds were irregular.
Finley Barrell Co. says there is an excellent opportunity to buy low priced rails with limited fixed charges for profit during the present up movement. Sweet & Co. believes prices have discounted substantially and business conditions will stay weak for some time.
Creamery butter drops to 36c and 27c per pound while dairy butter moves to 20c and 23c. Eggs rise slightly to 14 and 15 cents, up from 14. Better pasture boosts cow cream quality, and crops look good across the region with excellent weather.
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