Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-27

| neiu sung service III opposition TO the
| The players silenced their horns. raised
their hats, and quietly left. but DR..
| Wasser had hardly warmed up in his
theme when a heavy rain dispersed the
| crowd.
| Ole c. Haugen, a well known contrac-
| tor of Stanley, Wis. has just received :;
letter mailed to him at Lavirk. Norway,
| on November Is, 1873. addressed to him
at Minatitlin. Mexico, whittier as a boy
of Is years he had gone. The letter was
| written by boyhood sweetheart He
was not at Mmatitlin when the letter
came. Mr.. Haugen found his way 10
South America and later returned To Nor
! way. a quarter of a century ago he
came TO this county and has since then
| reared q family. During all these wears
the letter had Tain ri the archives Of tie
| Mexican postOtfice. Last month it was
returned to Norway and was subsequent
ly sent to Stanley.
Rev. Thomas w Grafton. pastor of tba
| Central Christian Church of Anderson
| Ind. held bottle of beer up before his
congregation Sunday night during a dis
course on law enforcement and pointed
| TO its purchase that day as an evidence
that the Sunday laws were not being en-
| forced. lie said that the beer had been
bought at saloon without any questions
| being asked and that it was proof posi-
! tive that the authorities were not sincere
III their efforts to close the saloons The
next morning Rev. Mr. Grafton was
served with subpoena to appear in the
police court. and when he refused to saw
where the beer was bought the iudGe
fined him $25 for contempt.
Firmly believing that a woman has
no chance to earn living. Mrs. Norris.
who says her home is i'll Des Moines. per
| Slsts in wearing mems clothing Insr
week, after working for several DAYS as
waiter at Lake Manawa. a summer
resort, near Omaha. Mrs. Norris was ar
rested i'll Council Bluffs She was re-
leased with a caution and Immediately
| came 10 Omaha. where, again wearing
| masculine attire, she applied at one of
| the leading restaurants for IL job, giving~
her name as Tim Smith Tuesday morn
| ing III police court she was fined 81 and
| costs. In defense of her actions she
| pleaded she was capable of doing the
| same work as a man and thought she
was entitled to the same pay.
Selling 2200 bottles of beer that Shee
| itf George Ross of Dallas. county. Ia,
| had confscated July 1, seven co-eds and
! school teachers attending a summer
school at Adel took the stuff to the Rae
| soon river and smashed the entire num-
! Der to bits on piers in the river Miss
! Ethel Kent and Miss Julia Fagen, gradu-
! ates of the Cedar Falls normal school,
were visiting Miss Ruth Ross, daughter
| of the sheriff. Hearing of the seizure,
! they invaded 4 justice court, where the
! liquor was stored, and loaded it on wag-
| ons. They enlisted in the cause Misses
! Myrtle Egan. Estell Meadows. Crystal
| Fowler, and Muriel Beam. With Mayor
| Rea Thornton as master of ceremonies
! they proceeded to the river shore.
This box contains fifty quarts of wine
| for sacramento purposes. 1t is intro
| duced into Indian Territory by special
| permission of the war department. Any
one whn~interferes with it will be pros
| ecuted."
This is the proposition that the officers
ran up against at McAlester. Ind. Il
| The wine was consigned to Rev. Peter
| Layman at Anderson. The wine was CON
/ fiscated by Marshal w. Il. Johnson. who
wired the department of the interior to
ask what should be done with the wine.
! He has not yet been advised.
The same afternoon the officers found
a large and dilapidated trunk at one of
| the depots that was heavy enough to he
full of liquor. Johnson opened the trunk
and found it full of Bibles.
Hundreds of lives were imperiled when
| Floyd f. Weber, engineer of fast
west-bound Lake Shore passenger train
was stricken unconscious at his throt-
tie and the train sped almost into Cleve
| land without guiding hand. The en-
gineer vas overcome by the intense heat.
AS the engine rocked into the Cleve-
| land yards over the switch points the
| motion threw the engine driver from his
seat to the floor of the cab Then the
fireman learned what had happened. He
! jumped TO the engineers seat, leaving
his companion helpless on the footboards,
while he brought the speed of the train
down within the yard limits.
| Webbers condition was found TO he
! critical How long he had been uncon-
scous ut the throttle is not known.
X. X. Scheneck county attorney at
| Topeka. started a crusade that is calcu-
| lated to cause considerable CONSERVATION
to persons afflicted with insomnia. stem
! ach trouble and various other complaints
| which they declare only beer. wines or
! whisky can relieve. The county attOr-
ney has decreed that every man who
| buys liquor of the drug stores in Topeka
| must sign his own and real name to the
! affidavit which the purchaser makes that
| the liquors are to be used for medicinal
purposes and that they are absolutely
necessary to the health comfort and hap
! DnGSs of the signer. The county attor-
ney has sworn ont a warrant Tor the
arrest Of Oscar c. Oliver on the charge
! of forgery as "a starter. II ohFer Is
| convicted he cannot escape with less
/ than two years in the county Jail
/ AS a north bound Ashland avenue car
! in Chicago reached West Taylor street
an excited passenger jumped from his
seat and rang up a fare. The condu-to'
/ who has to make good to the company
grabbed the man. shouting:
Hey, you chump, what are you do
iug?'
( Ringing up the farGror the new pas
>enger there
! When the conductor looked about he
! heheld an S-pound squalling girl that had
/ lust come to life in the car. Mrs. Susan
/ Setek. rs years old. the mother OF the
new passenger. was attended by nurse
who happened TO be ON the car. She
+ was aftetward taken with the baby TO
! the county hospital, where il Is said that