Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-08-31
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

!, GENERAL INTEREST !
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The physicians of Logan county. O..
have formed a union, established a scale
Of charges. provided for a blacklist for
dead beats and decided that preachers
must pay regular rates for medical serv-
! ices
Miss Mabel Brown of Providcncc.
Mass, solved the way TO stop street
| ears. She placed her dress suit ease
| between the rails in front of car ana
sat on it, folding her arms, and looking
aehantly AT the mOtorman, who prompt
~ stopped the car. Several had pro
N1ously passed her without stopping.
1t took two Philadelphia girls to ius-
my the jokesmith's familiar quip about
kitchen utensils as womens weanonS.
BESSIE Park. ID years old. and her sis
ter Je&nnettr. aged 10. the other evening
! captured negro burglar after Jeanette
mad broken It potato masher over his
head. smoking him SenSelCss until the
! police arrived
The ministers of Coffeyville. Kan,
have formed Il union" and adopted "A
uniform price of 50 10 be exacted from
! persons not members of their congrpgu-
tons for funeral sermon. This action
was taken following the experience of
one Of the local ministers who was called
10 Il nelghboring town To preach flu
| neral sermon and had to pay So out Of
his own pocket FOR the privilege.
! \ calf with two tails was born recent
! ly on the farm of Henry Wait. in Ga
naan, \. y. One tail is twice as LONG
as the other, but both are perfect formed.
! Wallace \. Cheney has bought the calf
and will keep 1t with his herd as Il curl
osity. The calf has found out the bene-
| hts of having two caudal appendices.
1t uses one Of them to feck flies from
| one side of its body and the other does
similar duty on the other side.
No more skirt dances at the Iowa state
tair. The state agricultural board has
/ ruled that all costumes must be substan-
tial-that decolctc will be strictly for
hidden and no skirt must be more than
four inches from the ground. Further
order is made that the aforesaid female
attendants must be clothed or
otherwise entirely covered with some
opaque substance" But one concession
Is made-the girls may go barefooted.
DIR. II. L. Hansen of Story county, Ia.
has been made the defendant in Il $1,000
damage suit, filed by Miss Alice Mckee,
| chief operator of the night telephou,
service of Cambridge. Miss Mckee al.
! leges that DR.. Hansen called her some
uncomplimentary names and even
threatened 70 throw her from the tele-
phone exchange because she did not get
a message through as quickly as he
wished.
a case of wine which had been buried
twenty-three years was uncovered a few
/ days ago by workmen excavating for the
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
building foundations at Springfield, Mass.
Emil Ierche, hotel proprietor, who
formerly owned the land, says that he
buried the champagne in 1884. when
Springfield voted no license. He was
never after able TO find the wine and at
tributed its disappearance to thirsty en-
ployes.
An unintentional passenger on the
Deutschland. which arrived at New York
recently, was J. ). Burton, an Ameri-
can-now residing i'll London. He rode
out 10 the steamship in the tender from
lChcrbourg to visit his friend. A. NJ.
Chisholm of Duluth. Mr.. Chisholm IN
troduced him to two beautiful women.
Mrs. Evelyn Donal and Mrs. ID. l.. Moi
fit. i'll whom he became so interested
that he forgot to return on the tender
He had no trouble with the customs Of
icers. as his luggage consisted Of 81 he
bad borrowed from his ffiend.
Hundreds Of women at Greenwich.
! Conn, are wearing mems socks instead
Of long stockings; not from any "ad-
/ VancCd woman idea. but 10 keen cool
/ This information was given at the a0-
Siery counters in the dry goods stores.
The statesmen say women have bought
every pair Of the smaller sizes Of socks
Of every colurs. The women prefer open
worked tan or black socks, but they VIII
take any color they can get. Necessarily.
I the women are wearing mems carriers 10
hold up the socks They buy carriers ri
| several colors to match the socks This
information was gained at the garter
counters.
y fried chicken peanuts Il water mol
Oh, soda water. a new straw hat alIo.
patent leather shoes were the first pur-
chases made by Eddie Aikens. c0lorci.
and ten years old. who stole $50 from
the pockets of a coat William Ehbls. a
blacksmith. had left carelessly III hs~
shop. Eddie mad the time Of his life
uutjl he ate ten biz, luscious peaches
he had bought at II cents apiece from a
street fruit stand. They and the other
delicacies made him sick and he was
taken to the hospital. The police Weft
still looking for the thief when they
we're notified that the stricken lad. thinh'
lpc he was about to die. had confessed.
IL handed bacl, about 500 Of th" stolen
money.
There hasn't been 4 wedding in Plain
field. Ind. for fourteen months ana ne
list of Old maids is growing alarmin2iy
The other evening. previous to an ~
treatment for the public library, -"
Plainfeld girls clad IN old maids cos.
TUNES of days gone by. paraded re
streets carrying banners, some 81 ""''A
bore these legends:
20. Lord, for a man.
IN sew your buttons on
Il once was young.
I've got my eye on you
let me darn your socks.
Ask papa.