Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-08-30
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
A Record of Recent Events as
Reported to This
Paper.
NEWS In A NUTSHELL.
The Incomings and Outgoings of Your
Friends and Neighbors Chronicled by
the News Staff of Reporters and Corr
respondents.

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day and known as Labor Day.
WANTED Customers for choice
Dairy Butter o. L. Gridley, North
avenue,
Isaac Van Uxem suffered the loss of
a finger while at his work at West
Allis, the first of the week
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. FAIRIES, First
avenue, entertained number of friends
at dinner Friday afternoon.
Mr., Chas. Jacobus is having new
baru erected on the lot in the rear of
his residence. Wisconsin avenue.
Miss Julia Seamans gave an informal
tea on Tuesday afternoon for her guest,
Miss Bessie Ewing, of Knoxville, Ill,
The children of the w A. Clapp,
Rev. c. Goodrich and II. Watner fami-
lies, picniced at West Park yesterday
afternoon.
W. f. WinlSeman, of this city, has
been promoted to the position of train
dispatcher on the c. " n. W. road at
Chicago, H.
The arrival this week of number of
car loads of iron pipe will allow the
contractor to go ahead with the water
mains being laid
Mrs. Henry Watner entertained at
Lawn social given at her home Thurs
day afternoon for her Sunday school
class and her nephews and nieces.
Superintendent of City Works Grif-
fifth, reports Il }arge increase in the
amount of water used in the city during
the past two weeks. The first dry
weather of the season is the cause,
The Pickle Co. report as having re-
eeiyed of this seasons crop of cucum-
bers something over $4,000 bushels to
date From the acreage planted for
them an average crop will give them
tor this years picking 10000 bushels.
A dispatch to w II. Landolt, bearing
the sad news of the death of their
only son, aged abOut Is months, was
received from Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Lam
dolt, Chicago, yesterday morning. Mr..
e. A. Landolt is son of Postmaster
Laudolt,
The wild ducks will do well to avoid
Wisconsin waters this year if the Mil
H. |,lr
out licenses turn out for ducks as they
have for licenses; 1900 have been is
sued by the county clerk and the end
is not yet.
Mr.. Fred IIartung returned yester-
day from a trip to Minnesota with the
county board special committee on
prison labor of which he is "A member.
They visited the reformatory institu-
tions at Saltwater, st. Cloud, Mime
apolis and st. Paul.
The first regular casting of the new
shops of the Allis-Chalmers Company
at West Allis was drawn off at 9 O'Clock
Friday afternoon in the presence of
officers of the company and number
of employees. The first "heat" con-
sisted of between ten and twenty tons
of machinery castings, peices of ma
chinery now being made at the West
Allis plant for the company,
Mr. Fred Prudisch spent tho first of
the week at Janesville with a friend
who is cultivating Sumatra tobacco
under cloth cover. He says the size
and quality of the plant as compared
with that grown in the open is aston
ishing, some of the plants reaching the
height of feet. In harvesting the
crop. which is now going on, the leaves
are cut from the main stalk insteae-o<
cutting the stalk as in the ordinary
manner of harvesting tobacco
Having noticed in the daily papers
the report that the price of meats had
fallen, inquiry was made at c. Lieut.
COWS and the Cash Meat market if
such was the case. The reply was
similar at both places. The prices of
the cheaper grades OF beef are slightly
off. while the best cuts such as thev
handle chiefly are little changed.
They also insisted that if quality was
the criterion, they were selling meats
at lower prices than any other shops in
this part of the state.