Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-01-21

Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Menninger were
given pleasant surprise Saturday
evening at their home, Greenfield ave-
nue., a number of their friends whose
costumes indicated a late arrival from
some foreign shore.
Quite number of the members of
the Wauwatosa Good Templars' lodge
visited the Crystal Spring lodge. Mil
waukee, on Tuesday evening. An in
terestisis program was presented by
the &. ). lodge.
Messrs, L. v. Gridley and L. c, Roy
ers lett for the South on Tuesday,
where they will spend few months
/ fitting ground and getting in crops on
lands lately purchased by Mr.. Gridley
in the vicinity of Mobile, Ala.
Miss Madeline Haney and Miss Loleta
Landolt will give dinner at the Hotel
Ptister, Milwaukee, this afternoon fol
lowed bya box party at matinee fol
Miss Elizabeth {. Godfrey, who is to
be nsarried early in February.
Mrs Lillibridge and Mrs. James
Foley viii entertain the II. c. I. club
at q oae O'clock luncheon Monday, Jan
uary s3. at the home of Mrs, Lillibridge,
Blue Mound road, A conveyance will
be atsthe schwaiger drugstore at 1890
p. m.
Clande A. Tupper, formerly of this
city and for number of years past an
employe in the office of f. p Bacon &
Co., Milwaukee, and more recently
chief clerk and secretary to MIR. Bacon.
has been appointed private secretary to
Arthur Warren, manager of the de
partipent of publicity of the Allis-
Chalmers company.
The Wisconsin State Horticultural
society will hold it's annual convention
at Madison. February :, s, 9 and 10,
1905 Meetings at Guild hall, Wash
ington avenue and Carroll street. Hotel
headquarters, Avenue Hotel. Monona
avsnne. Reduced rates ON all roads in
the State Send to f. c. Cranefeld.
secretary Madison, Wis, for program
and premium list.
! 4 man in n neighboring town who
secured his wife through II matrimon-
al agency is trying to secure a divorce.
lust another instance of finding that
mai order bargains are not just as
repre Sented and that y much better
grail OF the same article could have
been obtained at home Good enough
for him; he ought to patronize home
industry. The home grown article is
usually the best.
Good sleighing the past week has
given ample opportunity for sleigh
ride parties, and every day and evening
bore evidence that il was not neglected.
! The school children particularly have
had grand time, and with shouts and
footing horns at all hours of the day
and late at night have put new life into
the usually quiet city. The Senior
class were out Thursday evening stop
ping for time at the II. 7, Bradley
home, IIawley road.
| The funeral of Mrs. Martha J. Pierce,
wife of Oscar III. Pierce, former regis
ter of deeds, whose death occurred at
the home of her daughter Mrs. ID G.
|
day, January 16, after a short illness
| following a stroke of paralysis, was
held at 1870 o'clock Wednesday after
noon from the family residence, 20
| Belvedere. Grand avenue, Milwaukee
The services were conducted uy Rev.
Judson Ellsworth, pastor of Plymouth
at Forest Home cemetery.
Mrs. N. l.. Kneeland invited the
| Womans club to meet ut her home on
Thursday afternoon, January 10. The
members were present in an unusually
1 large number and all enjoyed enthusi-
astically two very fine papers: ''St.
Peters and the Vatican" by Mrs. James
/ l.. Foley, and Palaces and Villas of
Rome" by Mrs l.. A. Warren. Mrs. {.
/ T.. Wilson favored the company with d
piano selection. After "A brief business
meeting an hour was socially spent,
and dainty refreshments were served.
A rising vote of thanks was given Mrs.
and Miss Kneeland for their kind hos
| pitality.