Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-20

man. What do you mean by smiling al
me and trying to flirt with me?"
II didn't smile ut You. There was a
boil on the inside of my upper lip and
| il was very uncomfortable 1t max
have looked like / was smiling. but /
wasn't
Well. I'll accept your apology, but
You be careful how you act towards de-
fenseless women hereafter. | hope your
boil gets better
THANK YOU, it's entirely gone" the
man truthfully replied.
According to the will OF Mrs. Frances
j. Pray. which was filed for probate
in Minneapolis, Hancock county, Illinois,
is given $1,000, the income Of which is to
be used in purchasing Christmas and
Thanksgiving turkeys for the poor of
Carthage and Monticello, ILL.,. in which
towns Mrs. Pray spent her early life.
ANY balance unexpended is TO be dis
tributed among the poor by the county
officials on March 20 and November 20
of each year.
Thirty thousand dollars is left to yari-
Gus institutions of Minneapolis.
To be postmaster, justice of the peace.
telegraph operator and barber at the
same time is an unusual feat for Il man
to perform. but L. G. Brown of Brandon,
Wis, is all of these things He is a
barber by trade, but he performs the
duties Of his various other positions 10
the universal satisfaction of his fellow
townsmen. He says, Wont you have
a massage today p Whom God hath
joined together let no man put asunder."
'.NumberW and 'srwos or ones with
equal facility. His duties are materially
simplihed by the fact that his various
establishments are all located in one
building
Henry Gillette, proprietor of two
restaurants in Wabash avenue, Chicago,
has placed in the front window OF
each of them a large white card bearing
this appeal
........s,. ,.........s
TO HoLDuP AND sTICKuP MEN:
VIII you kindly lay on for a few days.
We have plenty of money and no doubt
you need It., but the nervous strain is
killing us. HARRY GILLETTE. :;
:. ..,,..,e, ..,.e.,.... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES;
Mr.. Gillette explained that both restau-
rants had been robbed this week and
he hoped the card would restrain robbers
from looting either of them again for
a reasonable length of time.
Il have had my share of trouble with
hold-up men" said Mr.. Gillette, "and
hope they will see the reasonable side of
my appeal.
Nine Santa Claus collection ehimneys
are 60 be taken cat of the Wall street
district by the Volunteers of America
because brokers and millionaires do not
drop in enough pennies to pay the ex-
penses Of maintenance. Men repre-
senting perhaps billion dollars pass
the chimney at Wall and Broad daily,
yet the collection sometimes falls as low
as S1.T5. A chimney ON upper Eighth
avenue, where people of average means
live, receives as high as So day.
Il don't know why the brokers over
look the chimneys,' said Adpt.-Gen.
Joseph NJ Conway of the Volunteers.
unless the financial crisis has made
them enconomical. | confess that the
poor showing in the financial district has
worried me considerably"
The Wasp. United States gunboat.
which has been anchored in Newburg
bay, New York. for week, seeking re-
cruits for the navy, has had rather poor
success, and her examining officers re-
port Il peculiar condition of affairs re-
garding the applicants for enlistment.
Out OF the first hundred applications only
six We're accepted. Nearly all those
rejected were found TO be afflicted with
weak hearts and fiat feet. I'm one batch
of twenty apparently hearty and healthy
young men nineteen were rejected by
reason Of weak hearts caused by cigar
cite smoking. In nearly every instance
where a native Newburg boy was re-
iected one of the principal causes as
signed was Hat feet The examining Of
ficer said this was unusual and he could
not attribute the defect to anything else
but the continual climbing of Newburg
hills, which every resident is compelled
TO do several times a day.