Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-17

morniized since the first of the year.
1 only one license having been issued. The
editor of The Enterprise is near col
/. lapse. the preachers wear worried eN-
preston, and the furniture man. the dry
goods man, and the coal man are on the
anxious seat. The situation is really
serious. The Enterprise and the bust
Ness men there have formed a cOmbina-
ton and the editor is To procure the 81
cenSe and give Il years subscription TO
has paper to the first couple taking al :
vantage of this offer. Other business
men will contribute as follows: Neck
tie for the groom, the bride 20 choose
IL: hair cut and shave, gold ring for the
baby. the wedding dinner lace curtains,
bushel of potatoes, shoes for the baby.
pictures of the baby, the minister. nickel
tray, tea kettle and linen table spread.
Aud further, 81 townsville bids the
bridegroom welcome to the town.
With the light from dozen lanterns
helping them 10 see where TO place ioiSts
and how TO nail on weatherboards, ten
members of the Iecker Avenue Baptist
church at Kansas City worked until
after IL o'clock ut night on their new
church building. The congregation was
met wealthy one. and the members
felt that they could not give money
enough for a new building. Then Rev.
William l.. Harms, pastor of the church,
had an idea.
I'VE can atford to buy material FOR n
new building and each one of us can
give n little of his time in work." Mr..
Harms said. The congregation agreed.
and the material was bought.
Every day and many nights. under
the direction of some of the members
of the congregation who are carpenters.
the work goes on. Those who can not
work by day give a little of their time
At night, and the women of the church
have coffee ready for the men when the
work is over.
John T. Rcddington of Chicago is the
champion longdistance. two-handed
booze fighter of Chicago In her plea
for divorce Mrs. Reddington swore that
he has been drunk 800 times n year for
ten years, total 5000. He kept a booz-
arium, and, said she, he was always
getting over one or starting ou another"
She got a divorce.
The United States bureau of labor has
put the old adage that lit takes nine tai
Tors To make man" out of business. The
bureau points out that for the simple
making of u coat thirty nine men of
different trades must contribute their
are 10 be sewed ON. Another works but
tonholes. A third man spends the long
day iii sewing ON buttons; a fourth in
making buttonholes. Men who sew
sleeves do not make armholeS; the arm
hole men are not shoulder shapers. aud
these last do not touch collars Even
the men who manipulate the taor's
goose are divided into pressers of seams,
edges, Innings, sleeves and coat pressers
The basters stick to one distinct speciality
of basting and separate functionary.
the basting puler, undocs their work
Even the coat strap is n separate prov
ince., So when the coat is finished It
represents thirty nine mems work.
After spending nine years travelling
about the world in search of the nan
to whom it was addressed, and travel
ing distance estimated ut 10000 miles,
u letter for Charles Wilson, - North
Clinton street. Baltimore, has reached
him. When the letter was mailed nine
years ago, in Washington, Wilson was
at the Mare island Navy yard in Cali
formal. Before il reached there VIII
son, who was IN the navy was sent 10
the Philippines. The letter was for
warded to the islands, but before II
| reached its destination Wilson was an
invalid in a hospital at Honolulu The
letter was returned 10 San Francisco
and from there forwarded 10 Honolulu,
but by that time Wilson was again in
the Philippines. Forward and backward
over ocean went the letter, until, worn
with age and handling, 1t finally reached
the intended recipient.
company has been formed at Sag
InaW Mich, for the manufacture of re-
tnfnrPpH NAT wIFfnatnu fIlynt+
utacture plain and ornamental shingles
mp covering aud ridges, ornamental tile
ana other roofing material now made Of
terra Gotta only. A large and complete
factory will be erected here and opera
lions commenced at an early date.
Dan Wadsworth, the most substantial
citizen in Connecticut, is in Jail at
Hartford for sixty days aud the posi-
bilities are alarming. Dan weighs 40
pounds and the ordinary Jail cells do
not tit him. The jaIlers have an extra
large cell built for two, and Dan felt
crowded in IT, II am a great eater, ;"
he said surveying the cell. You know
what happened to the small boy who ate
the dried apples, He just swelIed M
aud busted. When | get to eating
something will happen to your Jail"
The possibilities appealed to the jailers
hwy uetlutu tNht ian WAS not Tor the
cell and they gave him permission to
sleep in the corridor
In Dubuque, Ia. there is an ordinance
which requires that the interior Of an
saloons shall be unobstructed so that
those inside shall be i'm full view al all
times, hut the law has been cleyerly cir
cumyented by the saloon keepers. While
complying with the terms of the law liz
orally the saloon men have secured the
desired privacy by making use Of cou.
pie of strong electric lights backed with
reflect0rs 50 that any one attempting 10
peer into the place ii blinded by the rays
Of the right. This ruse is to be tested in
the courts.
Walter Edgerly has just cut Il giant
oak tree on his farm. north of Perry, A.
y. which made sixty-one cords Of wood.
II was 6la feet in diameter AT the butt
and one limb made 5 and half cords
This tree has been q prominent land.
mark in North Perry for century or
more. An expert woodman % that local
ity who was present when the monarch
Of the forest was felled to the ground
states that the number Of visible rings
in the tree showed that If xpas over 400