Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
BRIEF Nc TIES OF
GEN. ZRAL INTEREST

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Quit roller skating or quit teach
ing. This mandate was delivered TO
the public school teachers of Greenburg.
Ia, by the school trustees. The teach
| ers threaten to strike rather than give
up skating and the trustees insist that
| II any teacher is seen at a skating rink
1t will be considered equivalent To a
resignation.
+. I, Landers has on display at his
store at Marion, Ind. frog with six
perfectly formed legs. The frog is
perfectly formed specimen, except that
two additional hind legs, as we'll deyel-
oped and useful as the Others appear
at the side of the freak. The frog tries
to jump in several directions ut once,
and the result is that it gets nowhere,
except up in the air, landing in the
same place it started from.
When brides and bridegrooms leave the
new 100000 elevated station of the
Pennsylvania railroad in Wilmington,
| Del, hereafter they will not be bonn
barded with rice, old shoes and other like
articles. A prohibtive order was issuel
| by the railroad The hurting of a No. 10
shoe by member of bridal party
| against window of n Pullman car bad
| ly scared the passengers and caused
the order to stop the practice.
| Residents of the Shenandoah apart
ment building in Sheridan park, Chica-
| go, are getting tired of having the im-
| preston abroad that the building is be-
| ing raided by the police just because
patrol wagon has stopped there every
| day for several days. Now the follow
| ing is displayed:
This hotel is not being ratded. The Hon.
Judge Adelor ]. Petit Is going TO his court
| at the Sheffield avenue station
| Judge Petit has been crippled with
| rheumatism recently and has used the
| patrol wagon as a conveyance to court.
Wishing to gain elbow room fer pugi-
listie action, w. A. Tanner, 313 Win
throp avenue, Chicago, an electrical en-
gineer, Asked bystander to hold for
awhile'3 his cravenette overcoat. lie
| then Jumped into" fist fight which he
won. He is now looking for his over
coat, as the following advertisements
which he placed in a morning paper
shows:
| PERS0NAL~-WILL GENTLEMAN WHO
received cFavenette coat from party IN
fight on south bound No Clark street ear
Saturday night please phone Edg. 6SQ1f
| "The fellow whom | tackled was in.
| sulting a friend of mine as well as my
/ self. and when he deliberately punched
me with his elbow, | thought il was time
| to give him walloping," said Mr.. Tan
ner. ITO have my muscles free l let
/ polite gentleman hold my coat as | fol-
lowed the fugitive after he jumped of
| the car. | overhauled him and knocked
| him down and ont. But when / got
/ back the man with the overcoat was
gone. 1t seems hardly possible that this
polite man was a pal of the insulting
| fellow, but of course anything Is posi-
| bic in such matters"
| Is a husking bee the real article when
| the red ear is barred and a man dis
| guised in a Mother Hubbard wrapper
/ and sunbonnet acts as ehapefonl
This is question pondered over with
many pretty pouts by the Ladies' Aid
society of the Methodist church Of Line
VILE Ia
These energetic women gave an old
| fashioned bee to raise money TO wipe
out the church debt. George Rockhoid
donated five loads Of corn to the WON
en- provided they would husk II and take
/ il to market.
| Forty feminine members of the aid
| society drove to mis- house and soon den-
onstrated that they possessed no mean
ability in separating the kernels and
cobs from their husks. When the hnsk-
/ ing was finished the corn was loaded m
/ five wagons by the women and hauled
/ to market where il was disposed OF
and the sum of S94.i3 wss realized.
About a half dozen men accompanied
| the women on their husking expedition,
among whom were Rev. John Holland,
q. w. Hutchinson and Sam Leaehman,
/ ia the capacities Of chaper0ns.
The latter was dressed in n Mother
Hubbard and sunbonnet. Neighboring
farmers endeavOred to hire the fair corn
huskers for 10 cents bushel, but as
yet none has accepted.
/ Joseph III. Drake. professor Of law in
| the University of Michigan, startled his
class by declaring that the people Of this
country should elect Roosevelt king. The
students of first thought the professor
| was joking and began to laugh, where
upon Prof. Drake reiterated the state
ment and explained that he had made tle
kingiy nomination with all seriousness
and sincerity The class did not take
| kindly to The idea, as was evidenced by
the Jack Of applause.
| Prof. Drake said that he advocated
placing the President ou a throne be.
cause Of the wisdom be has displayed N
handing the problem of corporate regula'
ton Election to the presidency, he saia
! and the maintenance OF the Office under
the present ssytem was attended viii
TOO many political complications and
evils. and for this reason he advocated
the burning Of on h-idges and the givinf
~ free hand H. Theodore Roosevelt
for the solution 81 the corporation men
nee.
Prof. Drake declared that IT was one
If the follies Of the nation to suppose
that the present industrial efficiency could
ise maintained without the organization
II grear corporations. Their destruction
would mem the ruin If the nation ane
the solution. he said, rested N efficient
control and regulation ~ the government
A remarkable resolution has beer
adopted At a meeting Of the Queens
borough Citizens association Of Ions
! Island city, New YorE.
Each member Of this organization
wants 10 know what his neighbor does