Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-08
NOTES OF INTEREST.

1 4 hItN dtItS Oh DAdIlHS SU0HOWefS
] where cucumber seed was Sown is the
! basis for a lawsuit filed in the superior
| court by John Cochran. farmer near
| Seattle. Wash, against one of the larg-
| est seed houses of Philadelphia. The
/ complaint alleges that the seedhouSe
| sent Cochran 1900 pounds of sunflOwer
| seed when the original order called for
cucumber seed. Cochran had employed Il
/ Young man from the city TO do the plant
| ing of the forty acres to cucumberS, The
hired man did not know the difference
| between Sun1ower and cucumber seed
aud planted the patch according 10 or
| derS. Cochran said he thought the
young plants were peculiar when they
appeared above the ground but when
at three weeks of age they turned into
stalk with Il bunch of leaves at the
end he recognized the suntiower plant
Behold his entire forty acres specially
prepared for cucumbers was alive with
Kansas sunfiowers. Immediately he
wired the Seedhouse for explanations.
which didn't come. Now he has sued
for $1,000 damages The sunflowers have
been neglected, but unattended they turn
their fiat faces to the sun and return the
smiles of Cochran's neighbors as they
| Gsive past the truck patch.
After travelling for more than two
weeks IN box ears or walking when no
train was available and subsisting on
nothing more than apples, Anna Ashton.
aged 20, and Elizabeth Ashton II, were
arrested in Berwick Pa, 10y Chief of
Police Bason and held until the girls
father came for them. The older girl
has mania for the life of a tramp and
upon numerous occasions the police have
picked her up in near 10y towns, CARRIED
Scahy times as boy Only a few weeks
ago she was arrested IN Bloomsbury
ami sent home.
To group of friends the cashier of a
certain bank in Topeka, Kan, which has
gone into the guaranty fund, told fun
ny incident In which a farmer showed
his resentment at the guaranty law,
This farmer was n patron of this par
ticular bank
After being guaranteed" said the
cashier, 'as each passhOoll was brought in
we would stamp across the cover: The
deposits of this bank are guaranteed 10y
the state guaranty fund We put that
stamp on the passh0ok belonging to the
farmer, lie didn't notice it until he got
home. Bright and early the next morn
ing he hltched up and came to the bank.
4 want you to transfer my account
to IA new passbook and keep that infer
| nal guaranty stamp off of it,, said he.
/ am now 90 years old, and have been
doing business IN my own name Tor over
forty years, | have not reached that
stage of imheclity when | have TO ask
those politicians up around the state
house Ia help me look after my affairs
l think | am capable of attending to
my own business. When the time comes
That | have to call upon n lot of poll
ticians to look after my affairs | viii so
80 the asylum. Until that time please
don't try TO fool me with that fake guar
| anty stamp.
The cashier said he made the farmer
| out new passbook and left off the
| stamp.
Following two days Disappearance, :.
| a. Chambers of kaw City, Ok, was
| found in semi-conscious condition on
| the banks of the Arkansas river. Cham
| hers bird dog, handkerchief about its
| neck reached his home Inside the hand
| kerchicf were found a silver dollar and
! the words written on a scrap of paper,
River bank" An immediate search re-
/ suited in the finding of the missing man,
His condition still is critical
Arrested for aiding and abetting George
! Shult2, a prisoner in jail at louisville,
| Pa, to escape. irwin Wagner was ar
raigned before Justice of the Peace Me
J Cool and committed to prison in default
| Of $500 bail. 1t was proved that WaE-
ner furnished the clothing with which
| Schultz shed his prison stripes after
]
/ Wagner confessed that Patrick McLai
! ferty. another prisoner, tried to get him
! 90 furnish him with clothing Ia also es-
! cape from prison, but lac refused to
! do SO.
There should be al least thirty mar
| riages in this congregation by New
/ Years day observed Rev. Peter Quinn,
! rector Of St Gertrude's Catholic church.
/ West Conchohocken Pa, ia his remarks
/ from the pulpit bearing on prospects in
| the parish He refererd 10 the recent
| lawn fetes aud picnc9 which had
! brought the young people together and
| said they were not only gratifying tnan
| cially hut socially as we'll He was glad
| to see the young people becoming better
acquainted and looked for more love
among them, lie thought there ought to
~ more matrimonial alliances as the re-
suit of the protructed reign of sociahility
and suggested a boom in the matriino-
NAL market, simultaneously with i'm
proved conditions industrlally tie adj
yised the raising Of fine families,
Through his desire to look at two
pretty girls Peter trick of Evansville
Ind, nearly unjolnted his neck. Prick
was talking 20 friends when the two
girls passed by. Frick twisted his neck
/ 20 stare. IT popped and u small mus
! cle was strained. Prick viii be laid up
1 for several days. lie now says he has
/ done enough "ruhberneckiug'
| 4 bIacksnake more than six feet long
attacked Mrs. NJ g. Powell and her II
! year-old son, Harry. Of St Louis, Mo-,
nnd was yanquished only after Mrs.
! Powell had emptied a kettle of boiling
water on it and Harry had beaten the
/ reptile with club. The battle with the
snake occurred at the Strut place in
| North Alton. A pair of yellow ham.
4aers had a nest in hole in tree and
| the snake crawed into the nest aud de
! voured the young birds. The old birds
we're flying about eXcitedly. Harry put
/ his hand into the hole and felt the snake,
( which had gone to sleep after its meal
! Harry called 10 his mother, who ran out
with a kettle Of hot water As she
/ poured the water into the hole the snake
came out writbing and twisting as it
fr4 to the ground. The snake at once
attacked Mrs. Powell and her SON Mrs
! Powell gathered her skirts in one hand
! aud, with the kettle in the other, she
! turned upon the snake a strenm Of water