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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1949
Page
19
Cattle and calves traded mostly steady with varied weights. Slaughter steers and yearlings ranged 24.00 to 26.50, ch b butcher hogs up to 19.45, cattle and calves priced across extensive ranges with bulls and cows steady to higher in parts.
USDA live poultry reports show weaker markets with 18 truck receipts. F.O.B. prices for fowl 30 to 32 cents, leghorn fowl 27, roasters 34 to 38, broilers 28 to 29. Ducklings at 24, butter steady with high prices to 92, balance indicates easy margins amid 19,716 cases reported.
Grain and bean figures for May to December show mixed open high and low ranges across corn soybeans and lard with cash grains listing No.4 red wheat and No.2 yellow corn alongside soybean bids. Potatoes poultry and eggs prices from Swift & Co. list May 18 1949 values and Illinois Idaho markets with firm demand and light trading.
Federal Meteorologist Howard Thompson reports Wisconsin needs more rain for normal crops. Last week many areas received under a quarter inch, with Prairie du Chien La Crosse Lancaster Hillsboro Milwaukee totaling about three quarters of an inch. Half of central state's commercial potato plantings are in the ground while southern counties push corn planting and oats barley peas are 4 to 6 inches tall. Rye from last autumn is up, and alfalfa shows good growth.
Mary Smolek is appointed bookkeeper in the office of County Clerk Esther M. Domke replacing Dorothy Jordan. Smolek previously worked with the county relief department.
Edward Laxton aged 63 and a former Sparta resident died Monday in Windom Minnesota after 16 years there. Funeral services Friday at Lanham's mortuary at 2 30 p m burial Woodlawn cemetery. Survivors: three sons two daughters a brother and five grandchildren. Samuel Nichols 79 a Sparta resident and retired farmer died Monday night at his home. Survived by wife one daughter one brother and six grandchildren. Funeral services Thursday at Lanham's mortuary at 2 p m with burial at Farmers Valley Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Carl Ramsey, 67, died after a short illness at his sister Mrs Henry Berge's home six miles north of Lanesboro. Born February 6, 1882 in Arendale township, Fillmore County, he once ran a La Crosse meat and grocery market with his brother Albert. He retired 14 years ago to take up carpentry and painting and is survived by five brothers Edward Clarence Alfred Peter Bennie and three sisters Annie Mrs Henry Berge and Mrs Henry.
Funeral services were held at Lansing Lutheran church for Adolph Ellexson 64 who died Sunday in a La Crosse hospital. Dr T A Hoff officiated and burial was in Oak Hill cemetery. Born June 23 1875 in Lansing he was son of Tele and the late Mrs Ellexson. He worked in saw mills as a youth and later as a button cutter gardener and fruit grower. After his mother died in 1929 he lived alone. His parents and a half sister preceded him.
In Pawtucket Rhode Island a six-year-old named Howard Heeks borrowed a neighbor's tricycle and rode down Fountain Street into Carnation Hill toward the Blackstone river. A crowd and police fire crews joined a two hour river search before the boy surprised onlookers by appearing unharmed.
Ask announces a Friday service at 1 30 p m in the Berge home and 2 p m at North Prairie Lutheran church with Rev S Theodore Severtson presiding. Burial follows in the church cemetery. GALESVILLE Wis Emery Terpening 77 lifelong resident dies in La Crosse hospital Retired rural mail carrier of 32 years. Survived by son John Ettrick daughter Verna Laporte Tomah five grandchildren. Burial Pine Cliff cemetery. Funeral in Galesville Smith funeral home times listed. Rev Harold A Wisner presiding. Burial Pine Cliff cemetery. Call at Smith funeral home.
The senate foreign relations committee finished its North Atlantic pact hearings after 97 witnesses. Chairman Connally said he expects overwhelming approval in three weeks but gave no vote date. The record includes support from Acheson and strong opposition from the American Communist party.
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