Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-13

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King Edward has decided to grant che
widow of Sir William Howard RUSSELL
the war correspondent, suite OF rooms
in Hampton Court palace.
Robert A. Smith, mayor of St Paul,
MINI, is sc years old. He has held the
place, with the exception of two terms,
since 1887.
Rev. Edward Twichell Ware, Yale,
'9T, the new president of Atlanta
university. is a son of Edmund Asa
Ware, the first president of the institu-
ton.
The New York Commercial asks 'Will
Wellman Bag the Pole?" He is taking
big bag with him; or, rather, he is
about to try to make the big bag take
him to the pole.
After the friction that was aroused by
tary march from Atlanta to the sea-" it
is surprising that the idea has been re-
vived.
Rev. 7. f. Davies gift to the
Hartford Theological Seminary, accord
ing to his intention, will amount to
S1.0O0.O00. As yet it is only $50, but he
stipulated that it be put in the savings
bank till its interest brings it up to the
larger amount,
DR.. George w. Clarke, now 80 years
of age, between the years 1915 and
1880, taught many boys in New York
who afterward gained celebrity. He
once thrashed Roscoe Conkling. HE
always said" remarked DR.. Clarke one
day that the sound thrasbing / gave
him made him a United States senator"
Rev. Richard Han. aged 90 years, who
died at ST. Paul, MINI. few weeks
ago, was born in Ipswich, y. H., in
1917, and graduated from Dartmouth
college in 1S47. He went to Minnesota
in 1880, having been commissioned by
the Home Missionary society as one of
the first Congregational missionaries in
the territory of Minnesota.
Rev S. Barring Gould, author of
Onward, Christian Soldiers" in spite of
his 10 years, is as upright today as he
was thirty years ago. lie attributes his
erectness to his invariable custom of
bffrI, -,
sition. AS a relaxation, Mr.. Barring
Gould, like the late Mr.. Gladstone, often
spends a couple of hours chopping down
trees.
Rev. David c. Reid of Cambridge
Mass, has accepted the cal to the pas
torate of the First Congregational church
at Stockbridge. Mr. Reid is graduate
of Princeton university and Yale Divini-
~ school. His first pastorate was in
Minnesota. He was pastor of the Con
gregational church at Leicester for ten
years, and for two years was pastor of
Wood Memorial church at Cambridge.
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Rev. DIR. William H. Rice, pastor
of the John Heckew elder Memorial Mo-
ravian church of Gradenhutten. Ohio,
was elected chaplain of the department
of Ohio at the recent annual Grand
Army of the Republic encampment at
Canton. DR.. Rice served as chaplain of
the 129th regiment, Pennsylvania Volun-
teer infantry, which belonged to Tyler's
brigade, Humphreys division of the
Fifth corps, Army of the Potomac.
A German army officer has left Ber-
lin for the east coast of Africa for the
purpose of attempting an automobile
journey across the continent to the west
coast This venture would indicate that
bodybuilding has been remarkably ac-
tive and progressive in Africa during the
past decade. 1t is only comparatively
few years since the transcontinental trip
with caravans of natives on foot was
heralded as great achievement.
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Through the efforts of the Lehigh
County Historical society there will be Il
big dual celebration ut Allentown, Pa,
in 1912, when the 110th anniversary of
the founding of Allentown by James
Allen and the centennial of Lehigh
county, will occur. The society has al
ready begun the prelminaries for the
celebration and is preparing n compre-
hensve history of the city and county,
which will be ready year or two in add
vance of the celebration.
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The forthcoming volume of the kaiser S
paintings and sketches will show that
his majesty is far more the son of his
mother than his father. His artistic
tastes William II. has Inherited from his
mother, who not only painted but sculp-
Jured exceedingly well, and some of her
works We're exhibited at the Paris salon
and the Berlin academy. Her majesty 5
mentor and fellow laborer in the field of
art was Count Seckeudorff, her cham
berlaiu and devoted friend
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Queen AleXandra's private library is