Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20


Col. Padden said, that he caught Sing
1 Sing prison stealing water from the city.
/ What's mere, the thefts have been going
ON probably for many years and at Il
rate which may amount up to $4,000 a
year. Col. Padden says he will have
/ something for Gov. Hughes to look after.
| Setting up as Il part of her defense
! that it was worth the price of the gowns
I to advertise the maker by wearing them,
/ Miss Bessie Abbott. soprano Mt the
Metropolitan Opera house, New York,
has filed an answer TO the suit of George
Dreuillet to recover &3l4S for n set of
gowns which he made for her. Miss Alb
/ bott claims an agreement with the tailor
| in Paris under which the gowns were
sent To her on condition that she display
them TO the greatest possible advantage
when she was ON Il concert tour IN
France and elsewhere
Young society women of Hartford City.
Ind, are agog with excitement because
of the action of a young man, who, dis
appointed because of his failure to re-
ceive an invitation to a leap year party,
spiked" the refreshments, putting
whisky in the punch. As the beverage
was partaken of freely the results We're
surprising not only TO the patronesses,
but also to the young people
Although for the last five years John
Hays Hammond, the mining expert, has
worked for the Guggenheims as the high
est saiarled man in the world he is not
satisfied. Not content with SS00,000 Il
year, he wants 100000 more, and in ad.
dition more time to devote to outside in
terests, representing little private for.
tune of S20,0O0.0O0. 1t is learned that
Mr.. Hammond will get the increase with
out difficulty could lie agree to give mere
time to the Guggenheim Exploration
company as its general manager and con-
suttlng engineer.
'Pescjzxy archyz cyzowicz" shouted
Rudolph Bieper of 203 Arsenal street,
ST. Louis. TO William Seibe OF 2G25
Hickory street, Bill got mad. Szydidr
gzyrew menzyc," he retorted dehantly
not noticing the approach of patrolmmm
Michael O'Shaunessy, who was blushing
furously. Both men were fined 81 III
the Wyoming street police court for
uCing profane language.
Miss Eta Priscilla Grove school
teacher of Chicago, now at Long Beach
CAT. who has tasted for thirty days
thinks that she will be able TO continue
her fasting at least a week and possibly
two weeks longer. Miss Grove retains
her strength surprisingly well, but does
not now walk along the beach in the
sun when she takes her daily tive-mle
walk, but seeks the shady streets. Miss
Grove admits that she now becomes
tired quicker than she did at the early
part Of her last.
| 10 party given by Mr. and Mrs.
! Ernest Woodin of Chapinville. Conn.,, to
! celebrate the twelfth anniversary of their
marriage. few night ago, came all their
country friends, farmers, their wives.
/ children, babies and dogs. While feStivi-
| ties were at their height the miscellaneous
| younger folks mixed the babies by chang
| ing the sleeping infants clothes. Moth
| ers, rs "A result. took home babies not
! their own, and the task of locating their
offspring and changing clothes was no
easy work, for Chaplinvillc farm houses
are few and far between. Mr. and Mrs
! Grant Griswold of Chapinville, gave
bee few nights later, and as usual the
babies were there, but some were tia
| tooed, others had their Undertaking
sewed on and still others were labeled
with leather tags fastened around the
babies necks.
Because Mabel Frances Elder Il stu
dent at Barnard college New York
became slightly mixed concerning THE
\ exact date of her birth. she was cx-
PEELED from the college and subjected to
a two years investigation that involved
scores Of witnesses and volumes of testi-
mony. Now, after the trying ordeal,
she has been reinstated. largely through
the kindly offices of Nicholas Murray
Butler. president Of Columbia. and the
trustees Of Barnard. And the strangest
part of ii all is that SO far as has been
established Miss Elder is not absolute
~ certain now whether she was born on
! August g. 1856, or August .. 1883. 1t
! has not been clearly shown that the
! young woman Intentionally libbed about
her exact age. but according to the pom.
| derons documents in the ease there IS
no doubt whatever that she was the
victim Of an interchange in names made
! by her mother long before the girl was
( old enough to have anything to say
! about H.