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Otie of the bestAdvertisingums in LaPorteCo.Published Every Thursday LA CROSSE, LA PORTE COUNTY, INDIANATHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1916.enrs.iwthetlietoVOLUME 2.—NO. 8.Asa Marsh is spending the week in Pontiac, 111.Potatoes soaring bet ween $1.00 and $2.00 per bushel.Read every line in the Sentinel. Something good in it for everybody.Miss Bess Sommers spent a few days of last week visiting friendsat La Porte.Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hyatte and little daughter Wilma were in La-Porte last week.s.eeeRobert Rinker, Clyde Chapmanand Joe Swing were Hebron itors Sunday evening.Miss Lillian Piper who has been in Michigan is visiting her parents W. M. Piper and wife.Fathers of new arrivals in town never knew how wonderful baby talk was until just recently.These new-fangled Hawaiian costumes will never get popular in this climate. There isn’t enough to’em.Shetland Pony Farm.LaCrosse is to become the home of Shetland ponies. Jerry Stassen of Peotone, III., a successful breeder of Shetland ponies has purchased the Joe Conrad farm of 240acres 3; miles east of LaC rosse, and is now moving farm implements here to start work putting in fall crops. Mr. Stassen makes a specialty of breeding Shetland ponies and now has for sale 25 of them. He brought four through last week and will bring more this week. One of this number was purchased by T. B. McDonald forhis little son. The ponies are beauties and when desired Mr. Stasson will furnish harness and cart with pony he sells.The big railroad strike was averted by Congress passing the 8 hour law demanded by the trainmen.'V—« • - - -Advertise in the LaCrosse Sentinel and increase your business.Kreuger Bros, received this week a car load of Peoria drills.Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark were business visitors at LaPorte, yesterday.Sentinel Four Pages Today.I’lie Sentinel today is only four pages—home print. We find itnecessary to economize in use ofprint paper, which all our readers know is getting almost beyond reach of country publishers. The price now asked by paper houses is almost prohibitive, and money will only buy a limited amount of print paper at present as the supply is very short,' and the publisher who will suffer will be the small fellow. The Sentinel, however stands on a solid rock—is now prepared with a supply of paper large enough to carry us far Into next year, if we practice economy in the use of our stock on hand. We believe our readers will agree with us, that now is the right time to eomineueee to eeon-Duard Jones was in Medary-ville, Monday.Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Klenim spent Sunday with friends here.Marion Smith spent last week in LaPorte the guest of Miss Marie Zable.List your farms for sale with Wm. C. Myers, He has cash buyers. 4 tf.Large numbers of LaCrosse people looked in upon the county fair at LaPorte last week.How fleeting is fame! A gentl man asked us the other day tote him where Jack Johnson is eatin his watermellons.onnze.(let the habit of boosting La-Crosse.If you want farm loans, or tornado and fire insurance, see Wm. C. Myers, who maintains offices over the Taylor hardware store4 tf.Some fellows in LaCrosse will be interested in a new “wall slogan” being sent out, as follows: “Don’t wait for the boss. Be a selfstarter.One of the minor difficulties an ed.tor has to contend with is to have the typesetter garble a longword and then force it to be look-Misses Elva Headly and Verda Marsh are visiting in Pontiac and Streator, Illinois.How is it that showing - women how to he beautiful is such an important industry?Chas. Kellar, Jay Lee, B. F. Headly and Emil Wagner went to Amboy, III., sund ay, on business.It is related that some men trade in LaCrosse merely because they can get credit here. Why so much credit, anyway?Paul DeWys, bill clerk at thePere Marquette depot, visited hisparents at Grand Rapids, fromSaturday till Monday evening.This time next year every limb skirt in LaCrosse will' have done its lull duty as a dish rag.Miss Silvia Haschel of Monterey,was a guest of Miss Mabel Youngfrom Wednesday till Saturday.Misses Anna Stedler of Chicago and Kva Rosenbaum of Kouts visited at the F. W. Klemm and C. IL Krueger homes Sundav.Divide the total of the crops in LaPorte county by the number of farms in the county and begin to wonder how all the automobiles are paid for.Mervin K. Headley went to Detroit, Michigan, Friday, where he will demonstrate with the Stanri-ard-Detroit Tractor, at the State fair next week.*Our Schools Opened Monday.The LaCrosse public schoolsopened Monday, September 4, inthe fine new school building,which is now completed exceptfor a few minor things. The newbuilding is a grand one, and some-in the near future dedication exercises will be held.The first school day was taken up by the teachers in organization work, and on Tuesday active, school work commenced.We give below the corps ofteachers and the enrollment bygrades.First grade_______________ 18Second grade ______22Total 40Teacher—Sada Gulbransen.Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hazard and three children from Chicago, Bert Sergeant and family from Grant Park, III., visited with Mr. and Mrs. Vane, Sunday and Labor DavExchange my Brick building onS. Morgan st.—5 flats and I store for a farm. Inquire Mahler, JHU S. Canal st. Chicago, III. 4 .‘ItEvery time we see a striped dress in LaCrosse we think of an old-fashioned awning. And both are worn high from tin* ground.Successtul experiments are bong made with alochol as fuel for automobiles, and just at a time when prohibition seemed to be knocking King Alcohol over theropes.Although it costs only ( cents a day in India for men to waive falls to keep the air circulating inhouses they are gradually being replaced In electric fans as cheap-it mid mmvThird grade______________21Fourth grade___________23TotaL. 44 Teacher—Edna Gulbransen.Fifth Grade_____________20Sixth grade_____________ 16Total 36Teacher—Linda Brunner.Seventh grade__________ 19Eighth grade____________ 17Total 36Teacher—Albert Stewart. High schooL____________ 34Teachers—C. G. Hunt, Principal, R. R. Robinson, Superintendent.Special teachers—Music—Mary Coe.Art—Edith Dennison.Domestic Science—teacher not yet employed.I he total enrollment of the whole school as reported thus far is DO. Before many number will reach 200.
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La Crosse Sentinel
La Crosse, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 07, 1916
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