Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-13


was open, and it is thought the brass
bed on which she lay asleep became
charged from the electrical disturbance
outside, shocking her into instantaneous
| insensibility.
The Edward AIcGrew farm near Ir-
| win. Pa. was the scene of a fight be-
snakes that crawled into the former
nest the other day. The animal had
, made a large opening. burrowing back
ten feet. McGrew and a farm hand
killed snake which emerged from the
hole. Then they used shovel and pick.
Two live snakes were uncovered ready
to spring Beside them We're two dead
reptiles and crouched in the nest was
the grounding ready 10 defend itself The
snakes We're killed and the grounding
was captured alive.
The penalty of buying his wife a Mer-
ry Widow hat and a new summer gown
was imposed upon Adam Popiel by Mag
istrate Smith in Burlington, \. ]. Popiei
is a barber. and il was his first taste of
American Justice. but he swallowed il
with grin, for il won back his bride
of eighteen summers ago and prevented
her leaving for the "old country" Mrs.
Popiei charged her husband with harsh
treatment. the starving of herself and
son. and other abuses. but the most Sc
rious to her mind was the fact that she
could not dress in colors as bright as the
other women of the Polish colony. Rath-
err than go to jail Popiel offered to make
mp in the future for all his deficiencies
in the past. But Mrs. Popiel had not
seen the color of the gold that was TO
buy the new clothes and was for leaving
at once for Europe. The result was that
the Solomon of the local court gave his
~ IL
Cormick was directed to see that the
colors were vivid enough TO lure back
the dove of peace TO its accustomed
roost above the Popiel home.
After arising every morning at 3
o'clock for the past forty-four years,
William K. Gilpin, one of the Buring
ton IN. j. pioneer dairymen. who n short
time ago retired from active business
has discovered that it is impossible
for him to break the habit. Gipin am
ticipated with pleasure the thought of
lying in bed after hearing the clock
strike three and prolonging his slumbGrs
TO Il more normal hour. To his amaze
ment. he has found that the second nap.
which appealed so strongly when he was
compelled to go about his business early,
has lost its charm, aud that to remain
ahed means only seeplessness. He has
been compelled TO continue the o'clock
arising
A. Il. Stuart, an undertaken at Mari
on, Ind, having occasion to prepare a
body for burial at the Soldiers home.
by a mistake placed pair of his own
cuffs ON the corpse. An hour or two
later Stuart missed his cuffs and tele-
phoned to the man who had assisted him
Mt the Soldiers home morgue. The man
| replied that cuffs of that description had
been placed on the corpse, which was
then on its way TO Star city for burial.
| The understaker was chagrined at his
mistake, for IA valuable set of cuff but
tons went with the cuffs
In Passaic there were exhibited pota-
| toes too large to be marketable. the eXht-
| biti0n being made during the progress OF
! a suit just ended. The defendants in
| the action bought a carload of potatoes
| from the plaintiffs and paid for them
| with a check When, on unloading the
| car, a layer of enormous potatoes, some
/ of them weighing six pounds each, were
found, payment on the. check was
| stopped. The buyer of the potatoes ties
tilted at the trial that some of his WON
! en- customers chased him with brooms
| when he delivered the diversified pOta
toes to them. The court held that The
buyer was entitled 10 a rebate of about
one-quarter of the original purchas,
| price.
Although he believes in industry on
the part of his employees, Charles Brown
a wealthy farmer Of Queens, ~ Y, real
| ICES that his men can he too Industrious
| especially early in the morning. Miss.
ing many potatoes from his fields he
! pretended 10 retire ut the usual hour Il
/ few nights ago, but soon arose and hid
J behind n haystack IN field adjoining
/ his potato patch. Soon after midnight
he saw a figure steal stealthily into the
patch. a bag over his shoulder He wait
ed until the bag had been filed. Then
| he sprang out upon the supposed thief
/ and was surprised 20 find that the fell
| low was one of his own farm lab0rers.
Just doing little work ahead Of
/ time. in the cool Of the morning" OK.
| planned the fellow.
| While he was glad to have the pota,
toes dug, Farmer Brown had his doubts
rs to what would have become of them
so he turned the man over to the police
OF the real western type Of pioneer
are George Palmer and wife, whe
walked $50 miles from Ashcroft, Il. c.
80 the Ncchaco valley, In the northern
| wilds Of the province, to take up land
| for farming purposes. They wheeled
Il go-cart containing their 1-year-old son
| practically all the way. The three ar
| rived snfely mt their destinations and
Palmer has obtained the 160 acres OF
free land that he went after, and he II
now busy making himself a home. Tn,
story Of Mr. and Mrs Pamer's exploit
il told in report made to the provin
cial authorities here by Neal Catching
government land agent Mt Nechaco
Catching says that, while the country is
all that can be desired from an agricul
tural standpoint, he would not advise
people to rush in before the railway line
gets there. which will not be for seycra
| years. although the Grand Trunk Pa
cifc is now building in that direction.
Samuel Wilson of Wolcott, Conn. T.
raising potatoes both above and below
| ground. as the result Of two years of eX
perimentng. A few weeks ago, on LOOK
ing over his new potato plants, he saw
little budlike prUtuberances growing on
from the bases Of the leaves. These
buds developed into well formed anr
good sized potatoes Of the same kind 81
those growing at the roots Of the plants
The bush potato is a cross between tn
Beauty of Hebron potato and the Della
ware Those above ground grow from
four to eight on n plant, one at the bas
.,sg9 ts.F ay.Vt I l.