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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1908
Page
9
Classifieds offer positions for a male apprentice barber trade with pay and diploma, a strong boy and a German preferred press work and type setting, and a female dipping job. Also numerous sales, rental, and sale items including furniture, piano prize check, land, and room rentals across La Crosse Wisconsin with addresses and phone numbers.
Wanted good milch cow that is clean for cash. Contact F M Redfuss at 10 South 17th Street. An ad in that era notes beer can fatten a man, while wobbliness makes him lean.
A special term of the County Court in La Crosse will hear Susanne Schlabach petition to admit to probate the last will and testament of Peter Schlabach deceased. The hearing is set for October 27, 1908 at ten o'clock a.m. in the Court House. John Brindley, County Judge. John A. Daniels, Attorney.
In Waukesha and Calhoun reports, John Smith is charged after allegedly assaulting a 13 year old girl and shooting Sheriff George L Winnell, Mrs Augusta Grabo, and Olga Grabo at the Grabo home on Sept 18. Olga testifies Smith assaulted her in the morning and again in the afternoon, later shooting the girl and Grabo during a confrontation. The girl lost an eye, remains hospitalized, and Smith faces charges of assault with intent to kill and criminal assault. Bail set at 3000 and 5000 respectively with trial dates soon.
Local market report shows eggs up to 24 cents wholesale and 25 cents retail. Barley up to 50 and 55 cents. Hay falls to 8 and 9 dollars. Hog prices ease to 4.50 to 5.00 dollars.
State of Wisconsin in probate La Crosse County. Letters of administration granted to Frank Mader of La Crosse. Creditors have six months from October 6 1908 to present claims for examination and allowance. The court will hear claims May 4 1909 at 10 o'clock a m in the La Crosse Court House.
Appleton reports say boys are annoying merchants by burning holes in dress goods using sunglasses. Other brief items note local farm yields, ice deliveries, fireproof garages, rail rate litigation, youth crime, track razing, football injuries, bank activity, life insurance rehab, shipyard contracts, oversized apples, visiting nurse group, church altar dedication, mail service improve talks, and typhoid cases linked to Lake Michigan water.
About 600 knights attended the golden jubilee in Madison marking fifty years since the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar was founded. Grand Commander Alvin P. Kletzsch of Milwaukee delivered the annual address at the opening at the Masonic temple. A parade, prize drills, and a banquet followed, with Henry L. Palmer, David Wright, and others in attendance at the reviewing stand.
Lieut Gen Arthur MacArthur led the seventeenth annual reunion of the Waukesha County Veteran Soldiers association in Waukesha Wisconsin with large attendance. Other speakers were E D Coe and Henry F Cochems. Loren Edwards was reelected president with Hugo Philler secretary August Schley treasurer and Fred Wardrobe historian. Veterans subscribed 375 dollars to support a county soldiers monument.
Racine hunters started a brush fire on the David Holmes farm in Yorkville Sunday afternoon. An eighty acre timber blaze roared out of control consuming five hundred cords of wood. The wind shifted and helped avert a larger spread, fixing the loss at about $15000.
A dense list of produce prices and stock quotes follows, including New York Greenings pears cranberries chestnuts lemons cabbages and more. It also notes milling costs for flour and feed and dairy items with figures from Henry Andregg and Hawrey Com. Co. plus city scale hay wood lard butter eggs and play of Kansas City Chicago and New York livestock and market rates on Oct 14.
The fourth annual convention of the Wisconsin Association of Master Bakers opened in Racine on October 14. Four new members joined, bringing total to 112. A directors session preceded a reception at Elks hall and a kammers event at the National hotel. President O B Schulz led opening while Mayor A J Horlick gave the welcome.
A reflective line contrasts excuses used by a man on Tuesday with those on Monday, noting the pattern of self-imposed limits he fails to recognize. The quote hints at overlooked self-awareness impeding achievement.
Neenah Oct 14 Gunder Hansen the valley s first shoemaker has died He did not know his exact age and leaves considerable property His sole heir is a son confined in an insane asylum
The lists show quoted prices for grains and sacks, vegetables, dairy, and fruit. Items include Hubbard squash ten cents per unit, pickling onions ten cents a quart, butter thirty-two cents per pound, eggs forty to sixty cents per dozen, with numerous greens, tubers, and fruits priced per unit or measure. Also displayed are meats such as Pike and Chewbensee with per pound rates and various fish prices.
John P. Weins former president of the Milwaukee Dustless Brush company shot himself in his wife's Wells Street home after returning from Chicago. Relatives refuse to explain motive while the coroner rules the death a self-inflicted gunshot.
Reports from Salonica and Monastir say the porte believes Bulgaria foments disorders in Macedonia to justify annexing the country. Bulgarian officers organize bands in both cities, supply arms and bombs, and agents are active in pal towns to push annexation sentiment.
A town fire destroyed the business portion of Grand Marias on October 14. The lone volunteer fire department with a small chemical engine could not contain the blaze, and residents with buckets fought the flames until they were subdued.
Gen Nelson A. Miles visiting the Aztec club in Baltimore says there will be no war in the Balkans. He states the powers do not desire a conflict and will prevent it.
The final act of the League of American Sportsmen convention chose Superior Wisconsin as the site for the next meeting, with Milwaukee as the sole competing candidate. The selection was announced in Lawton Oklahoma on October 14.
Preparations are complete for the Samaritans annual supper at Wannebo hall on the North Side. A large number of donations have been received and organizers expect a well attended event, stating it will be among the best local fundraisers. The note about evil deeds and its fruitfulness appears as stray text and does not pertain to the event.
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