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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
9
Classified notices list men sought for barber training with shop setup and tools provided. Diploma granted after Saturday sessions. write to Maler Barber College in Illinois for enrollment details.
Classified ad offers a large front room for rent in a two room setup at 826 Cass Street with all modern conveniences and a second floor unit featuring three leading rooms.
Classified listings advertise multiple rental houses including an 11 room brick modern house near Park, a 7 room house on Cameron Avenue between 10th and 11th, and a 10 room dwelling in a good location. Also offered are flats with city heat, a fine West Avenue residence for sale, various city properties, a confectionery shop for sale, and notarial fire work plus loans by C. Klein.
Classified notices solicit stenographer work at 208 Linker Building and repairs for storm sash. Requests for modern 5 or 6 room homes and a medium house to rent. Reward offers for missing Tribune pages with detailed date lists. Job seeks include hotel clerk positions and a delivery wagon purchase offer. Communications directed to Tribune office and named individuals.
The Milwaukee road has arranged two special trains for the Inter-State fair on Wednesday and Thursday. One train will depart from Austin Minnesota and the other from Tomah Wisconsin. Both will stop at all towns along the route to La Crosse to collect fair visitors.
State of Wisconsin probate La Crosse County notices eight six months after August 20 1908 creditors may present claims for examination and allowance. The court will March 2 1909 at 10 a m in the La Crosse Court House examine and adjust all claims against John Schaller deceased. By the Court John Brindley County Judge. Dated August 20 1908.
R. W. Roberts and family plan wintering in Oklahoma City at month end. Dorcas sociable hosted by Mrs. R. W. Roberts on Wednesday. Misses Margie Stintzi Sophia Holtze visit Madison Lodi Baraboo then return. Victor Vaughan of Milwaukee visits. John Holland of Racine visits. School opens. German Lutheran ice cream sociable on A Toepel's lawn. Bangor sale day draws farmers and auctions. another sale planned in three weeks. Several La Crosse and Milwaukee visitors and residents travel for work or events.
Winona visitors F J Willard and F J Willard and Elsworth Whitlock traveled from Montana and Terry Montana and Dakota respectively. Mrs J A Johnston and son Ralph spent time with Mrs O C Gross at Wacouta and Mrs Belle Gates visited La Crescent. Bella Hatch returned from Rochester and Minneap olis. Will McNally and Myrtle Davis of Winona sparked a false wedding rumor ending in a serenade. Local residents Dr Wilson and the Pappe families visited.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Press shows Dabster claiming poetry wastes time and Crittick suggesting Time is near immortality. The exchange centers on writing, time, and literary fate with terse, noir dialogue.
An advertisement asserts Foley's Kidney Cure will cure any kidney or bladder trouble within medical reach. It credits O T Erhart as the promoter and markets the remedy as superior to all others.
In Eau Claire Wisconsin Father Vaughan author of A Woman of the West denies claims he repudiated authorship. He says anyone asserting otherwise is spreading a deliberate falsehood. Owners Rod Waggoner and Mrs Kennedy accuse foes of spite driven actions and say many have not seen the play.
In Wansan Wisconsin on September 17 a two weeks old infant of Mr and Mrs Albert Mueller was baptized beside its father's casket. The child received its father's name as per the father's ante mortem wish. The father died after an accident when a buggy harness failed and a hand injury led to death by blood poisoning from a cat bite.
Waukegan reports hundreds of stomach troubles blamed on local water. Residents accuse Kenosha chemicals dumped into the lake of causing the illness, sparking cross city blame as the two communities share the water of the Great Lakes.
Public notice proclaims Foley's Honey and Tar safe under the National Pure Food and Drug Law as it contains no opiates or harmful drugs. It is recommended for coughs colds and lung troubles for children and adults. O. T. Erhart.
The twenty seventh annual convention of the Wisconsin and Northern Michigan Funeral Directors and Embalmers association will be held in Eau Claire from September 29 to October 1. An important feature is the embalmers examinations scheduled for October 2 at the close of sessions.
In Merrill Wisconsin on September 22 last year seven Jews formed the Jewish congregation of Merrill and after new officers were elected this year they plan to build a church where Hebrews can worship, advancing the project with organized leadership.
A brief World War II era hometown snippet shows a lyric about love and rejection across ethnic lines with dialect dialogue hinting at social tension. The line contrasts a caller urging return home with a sailor scorned for loving a Jewish man.
A brief maxim asserts that true rebuke of impurity lies in a pure life lived without outward display. The statement emphasizes integrity over public denouncement as the measure of character.
In Neenah Wisconsin the anti saloon league claims defeat of Congressman Jenkins in the eleventh district primary and cites Irvine Lenroot victory. They vow to target Speaker Cannon as the main foe of prohibition. The Eastern Wisconsin Methodist conference elected officers and remembered deceased members while events featured Epworth league anniversary and lectures by Rev Dan Brammil Bishop Neely and Dr John P D John drawing about 300 ministers.
In Monroe the Borden Condensed Milk company set six month contracts averaging 1.40 per hundred pounds, about ten cents less than the prior year. The report notes a regional price shift affecting dairy consignments.
A fragmented note touts Mary ELLE Gold Medal Flour as best for making a dish right. It mentions Sapeiva ine av in incomplete phrasing, suggesting a culinary tip or product endorsement.
Wholesale prices show creamery butter down a half cent while hay values drop. Fresh eggs rise a cent, grain and feed costs shift with oats and wheat steady, and fruit prices list high across apples bananas and grapes.
In New York on September 17 the market showed uneven strength in the first hour with notable gains in Renn ing, B. & O. and Erie prompting traders to chase other issues. Railroads rose while government bonds moved mixed with fours up 1 quarter and twos down three eighths. others held steady.
Chicago livestock market report shows cattle six thousand five hundred lower by ten cents with beeves five to five seventy five, hogs sixteen thousand lower with lights six sixty five to seven thirty, heavies six ninety to seven thirty four, pigs four sixty to six thirty five. Sheep twenty three thousand steady natives two twenty five to four twenty five, lambs three twenty five to five seven five.
Kansas City market report shows cattle 6,000 head steady with steers 4.50 to 7.40 and stockers 2.70 to 4.80. Hogs 8,000 head, 5 cents lower, bulk 6.60 to 7.00, pigs 4.50 to 6.50. Sheep 5,000 head steady with muttons 3.75 to 4.10 and lambs 4.75 to 5.40.
New York market notes show poultry unchanged. Butter ranges 23 1 2 to 23 3 4 cents, eggs 31 to 32 cents, cheese 12 3 4 to 13 3 4 cents.
Chicago markets show wheat with Dec at 1005 and 101 percent, May at 102 and 103 percent. Corn futures steady with Dec around 67 and 65 percent and Sep at 48 percent, May near 51 percent. Pork futures for Oct at 15.00 to 15.25 with 15.12 close.
Chicago-Shearson Hammill Co notes speculative strength amid northwest movement while Clement Curtis Co sees large wheat short interest and no near decline. Finley Barrell Co warns advance too rapid to hold. New York Miller & Co favors buying on dips in dividend plays Union Pacific and St Paul. Logan & Bryan foresees a sharp rally but expects high values and urges sales on rallies. S B Chapin Co says reaction has gone far enough and a quick recovery may be expected. Finley Barrell Co says purchases on this decline come from fine judges.
H Proksch from Chipmunk Couleé marketed hay yesterday. Louis Helm from Hokah delivered wheat Wednesday. August Goede brought three hogs from South Ridge yesterday. Dan Holiday from Irish Coulee marketed a cow and two steers in the city yesterday, purchased by Langdon & Boyd. William Jacobus from Mormon Coulee brought hay. Dan Williams from Pine Creek also hauled hay Wednesday. A Mataju from Hokah and C Claus from Skunk Coulee delivered hay yesterday or Wednesday. W M Williams from Pine Creek, Otto Nickolai and Ed Roessler from Mormon Coulee hauled hay yesterday or Wednesday. Mike O'Malla and William Miller from Irish Coulee and Skunk Coulee contributed hay deliveries yesterday.
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