Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-03-09


dents cooperative body to business :
concern. paying more dividends than
Standard Oil.
Two freight trains near Beiierille, Ill.,.
were tied up for an hour recently until
gang Of men hauled Valentine Rode
meyer, who weighs 303 pounds, from be-
tween the ties of trestle oyee Rich
! land creek.
Rodemeyer's foot slipped Us he was
/ crossing and he fell to his armpits be-
tween the ties. He kicked and yelled
for half an hour till John Nackin came
10 his rescue. Mackin could not bulge
Rodemeyer and tagged Il freight train.
Mackin. reinforced by two Of tin. train
crew. couldn't get Rodemeyer out Then
they got two more men from a factory
nearby, and the five, after desperate tug
ging, finally freed the captive.
| Eighteen months ago Rodcmeypr went
! through platform and stuck ia "a small
sized well. They had to erect a derrick
to get him out then.
Because he had received al increase
N salary while an employee If the Illinois.
Eastern Hospital Tor the Insane in Kan
/ kakee, ILL.,. Philip Couture worried 80
much about his raised pay thar his mind
became unbalanced and has has been
| adJudged insane and committed 10 the
! hospital where he was formerly en-
| ployed.
>, Couture was employed a. a painter nj
The institution. and his monthly salary
was increased from $50 to SJ;i. This. il
seems. was such Il great surprise to
| Couture that he never recovered from
the shock. His friends say that be new
cr appeared right after hc saw his
! pay check.
He was always worrying about his in
crease and trying to figure out why he
was getting more money for ais services
than he had formerly. Hi, condition
finally grew 50 bad that he was deemed
insane in the county court and commits
ted to the hospital.
BY a collection of claims almost stu
| pendOus in the aggregate. Charlie, An
gustus Bauby, born on February D
at Waterbury, Conn, holds title as
the original skidoo kid. In hrn * con
! centrated the essence of the sk,ioo he
| side which the vivid speech of the high
way is as nothing.
Note the qualifications hestoWtt! upon
him ut his advent
He is the. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph =
Bauby, each Of whom IS % years old IL
even the least superstitous Of the at
tending physicians 10y weighing twenty
! three pounds. His terrified father, who
rushed 10 the savings bank to make a neSF
egg, deposited S23 in his sons name and
| told the treasurer that the new arrival had
| wept twenty-three times within the frs;
! hour of his existence The National Order
! Of Sons Of Skdoo. which was organized
| here last fall, will take action at once.
This is too much,'' said his apprc-
| hensive parent for the twenty-thirl time.
Il am proud of my son. but am fear
! ful of his future. When he grows MP
| nope he will lead Il crusade against slang
| in general. No. | do not think We ought
to have named him Skidoo. and the next
| man who says that to me I'll lick
| NJ. Nenot, Paris. the newly elected PreSi-
| dent of the Society of French Artists.
has conceived an unusual project la
mark his accession. He says:
| l dream of a rolicking, unroarious dane.
! a the Grand palais, with costumes extraor.
binary and exuberant. gayety. Let US con
| woke the students of the School Of Fine
! Arts to make mirth overflow 1t wifi not
| he the usual tart ball' of the students of
| the Latin quarter, with all its sensational
! abandon, but something approaching it. Ii
| is necessary that we take our wives bur
! our daughters will remain at home Dane
| ing would take place in the grand hail OF
! sculpture, and supper would be given aboVe
| and among the paintings. The whole palace
would be brilliantly Illuminated as for mn
those, who work and those who pay. would
| be admitted.
NJ. Nenot said Nine Condo had be
queathed the society property at Mon
! lignOn, to which the Pari Mutuele hal
added $4,000, but more was needed for
refuge for aged and unfortunate paint
ers. The money from the grand fete:
would be used for this purpose. The
| young would be amusing themselves tn
aid the old to live longer. in the hope NJ
| ways to die in the sweet illusion of then,
dreams while still preparing works for
| the salon.
John Aston Moorhead. former Yal.
half back, who eloped with his mothers
| French maid. Marie, ten months ago and
was disinherited by his father John Moor
| head. Jr., millionaire iron manufacturers
of Pittsburg, has been forgiven and re-
stored to his former position in the fami-
~.
The reconciliation took place at the fu-
neral of the young mans sister Miss
! Anne katherine MoOrhead. II years old
| who lost her life i'll the wreck on The.
Harlem branch of the New York Central
| railroad.
The reconciliation was also partly due
to young AIoorhead's ability TO make his
own way in the world after being east
off by his father, he having secured the
position OF athletic instructor at the
! Western University of PENNSYLVANIA at
u salary of $500 a year
Mrs. John Moorhead, Jr, who was
| Miss Anne Aston of Chicago before her
hldIiia5e' LetHilieu from EUROPE ABOUT
year ago with a perfect jewel of a
maid, whom she had secured in Paris.
| Her son came home from Yale about
the same time and short time later
eloped with the maid. His father. be
| lieving that John Alston's actions were
due TO excessive drinking, placed him in
Sanitarium for a short time. but when
he was released he went AT once to his
| wife and since then they have been liy-
ing i'll a little cottage i'll the suburbs of
| Allegheny.
| Enraged at his sons marriage, the eld-
er Moorhead disinherited him and cast
, him out of the family. Young Moor
head ut once set about to earn his own
| living and asked no assistance from any
! person.
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