Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-04-27
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GENERAL INTEREST

GENERAL INTEREST !
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| The corporation of Burgess Hill, Sus-
| sex, England, grows peppermint mu-
| nicipally, and so profitably as to have
made marke1<feduction in the town
| taxes.
]. W. Guthrie, accompanied by his
| son. both Of BOdines, Pa. arrived in La
| Crosse. Wis, in reply to an answer to
| his advertisement for wife. Mrs. Mary
| A. Baker, 705 Pine street, La Crosse.
is now Mrs. ). W. Guthrie, the cere-
| mony having been performed in the
| home Of {. Ii. Baker. son of the bride
| Thereupon Mr.. Guthrie looked about
| liked the town, purchased a grocery store
and is now dealing out sugar, coffee
ct al,
The famous snake den in Harrington
| township near Mount Vernon, ILL.,, was
/ attacked by a party of snake hunters,
| who succeeded in killing $50 reptiles, in
Guiding every variety Indigenous to
southern Illinois. Dynamite was used to
rout the snakes from their hiding place
and ut the explosion of the charge huge
| ball % snakes was thrown high in the
| air. Many of them were not killed and
fight followed. The most of the snakes
/
After devoting his life to the study
| of medicine and himself being afflicted
with great number of maladies. DR.
Elton b. Crowel died at his home in
| Minneapolis, Mimi, of Bright's disease
and heart failure. BY his special re-
quest his body was the subject of
post-mortem examination by the Uni
versity of Minnesota medical school, in
I tt,fn 80 g.t Ill
was born i1saCicero, \. Y, October g.
| 1869. and graduated from the Eclectic
| Medical institute in Cincinnati in 1895.
Arthur f. Mosher of Adrian Mich,
was granted a divorce from Sarah Com
| fort Mosher for alleged cruelty of an un-
| usual nature. Shortly after the mar
rage he claims his wife wanted him to
enter into a suicide agreement, but he
| declined. Later they occupied separate
| bedrooms, and one night, he testified, she
came into his room after he had retired
and uncovered the magazine of the coal
stove so the gas would escape. Another
| time, While out driving. he said she want
eG him to drive in front of an approach
| ing train. Both are Quakers.
| Student pranks with Il corpse may re
| suit in several suspensions from college
at Hiram, .. Medical students have
been amusing themselves with the corpse
of James Burke. They dragged it
| through the streets and suspended it il
coffin i'll the arcn of the main entrance
of the college The college buildings
| We're draped in mourning and on the bull
| etin boards and at the homes of the
professors appeared this notice:
| Closed in memory of James Burke, No
| classes today. Attend memorial services in
| chapel at S:15 We will all sing;
Here lies the body of Jimmy Burke,
Killed and dssected for lodging work
Here he lies and will always lie,
Farther from heaven than you or /.
Quentin Roosevelt. the baby of the
white house family. went to the Masonic
! fair at Convention hall, Washington. He
arrived at o'clock in charge of an at
| tendant. and presented himself at the
director generals office with the an
nouncement:
I've. got 81, and I'm going to blow it
all in
lie fulfilled that ambition He visited
the fish pond and museum, was asked to
| judge the cake walk, but declined,
| laughed at cartoon of his father i'll the
hall of fame and had his picture taken
half dozen times.
Master Quentin had orders to be home
Mt o'clock. When he got back to the
white house, dead broke but happy, it
was 9:30.
Spinsters in Danville. Ill.,. are
urging the city council to enact an ordi-
nance for the taxation of all single men.
In counter petition the bachelors ask
an ordinancve providing Il fine of $50 for
every unmarried woman who rejects a
proposal of marriage. They also ask
that the council formulate some plan by
which the unmarried women will be
forced to meet the bachelors and give
them an opportunity of pressing their
suits.
Mayor Leyman. who is unmarried;
John Terrence, more than 80 years old.
Il candidate for city clerk on the Repub-
lican ticket and Oliver ID. Mann. single,
candidate for city attorney on the Dem
ocratic ticket, are being singled out by
the spinsters as targets.
Persons never know what they will
dc for the ones they love. If | thought
| it would benefit my baby any | would
walk twice the distance again.
This was said by small, frail woman
as She sat in the Helping Hand institute
| at Kansas City. Mo. She is Mrs. Mabel
| Henderson of Sedalia Mo. She was
| picked up recently in the streets by
| the police She was carrying Il blind
| baby, She had walked all the way from
| Sedalia-10O miles-here in search OF
work. and was unable to find friends
| in this city whom she was hunting. She
| was tired, but wouldn't own II.
Il had to keep up for my baby! II has
lever known what il is to see, but has
| lnown want. My husband left me six
months ago"
| What the Women'S Civic club of New
| Haven, Conn. found in investigation of
| local theaters they told in reports of the
! committee of exploration. Miss Alice
| Bacon. the president of the club, said
| Il have investigated Nathan Hale as
! played at Polls Biiou theater. didn
see ANYTHING immoral. but | think that
| il is against publi, interest to let Il