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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
4
North Side Advertising and News announces new contact, listing St R P Stainton Co and F Schweigert at phone 785 A. The office serves La Crosse area with updated stationery and notices.
The Jenks ice house, recently collapsed, is being rebuilt with four concrete piers and eight arches to support a new roof. If weather cooperates, the structure should be finished by December 15, allowing Jenks to use it next winter. Contractor Arenz estimates the loss at $400, not insured. Jenks will source ice from Warsaw and may cut in East Channel if needed depending on river conditions.
Train No. 8 leaving at 6:20 a.m. was delayed nearly an hour when the southside switch tender forgot to throw the passenger switch and the engine ran through it. The first pair of trucks derailed, then crews used jacks to replace them after a 45 minute delay.
The body of J. E. Carter will be taken to Cassville Wisconsin tomorrow at noon for funeral services and interment.
The St James school children performed a Thanksgiving program in the school house yesterday afternoon to a large audience. Local residents Mrs S M Senstad and daughter Verna at 1202 George street remain confined by illness. Several families plan Thanksgiving gatherings today including Mrs Frank Groeschner and relatives. Miss Cora Schultz, home from the University of Madison, enjoys vacation. Reverend N F Clark of Neenah will preach at Tabernacle Baptist Church and the Union Thanksgiving meeting drew a large crowd. Various local residents, including Mr and Mrs Graf and others, host Thanksgiving dinners today while others travel, and Mrs M J Patton of 1306 Kane street remains ill at home.
Washington dispatch notes critics will press reform at the next session of Congress though a full reorganization is unlikely in the short session. Army and Navy Life editor W D Walker attacks the current naval administration as inefficient and hindering peak readiness, urging modernization and centralized British style oversight.
New Yorkers mourn the possible loss of Madison Square Garden as stockholders decide to place the 12 000 seat venue on the market for 3 200 000 dollars. The building has hosted politics circuses prize fights and horse shows but has long operated at a loss. The piece also argues for naval reform and criticizes Congress 1842 decisions while noting political maneuvering around the secretary of the navy and senate naval affairs chair.
Miss Huntington's Third ward class selects Gretchen Schweizer's "Mary's Thanksgiving" as the best story. It tells how two poor girls Mary and her sister receive a Thanksgiving dinner from rich neighbor Bessie and her father, making a happy holiday through sharing and friendship.
Seattle November 26 Judge Milo A Root of the Washington Supreme Court has resigned while his official actions are under scrutiny by the State Bar. The move comes as he faces an operation that will require hospital confinement.
An editorial observes how aging sharpens insight but shortens the window to apply it, noting the paradox of accrued wisdom arriving alongside dwindling years and the urgency this creates for meaningful action.
The passage notes two women who resemble sisters, though they are mother and daughter, and argues that a woman at forty or forty five should be at her best. It links female beauty to the health of the feminine organs and asserts weakness affects appearance and vitality.
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