Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16
OF GENERAL INTEREST


There is prOnahly no section of Texas
that has So large an acreage of apple
orchards as the counties of Erath. Co
manChe and Eastland. Men have gone
into the apple-raising business on Il large
scale, and they have made it profitable.
One orchard near this city consists of
300 acres. The industry has grown so
that enough apples are raised in these
three counties, if the yield is fair one.
to supply the entire state In many
cases from 800 TO $500 per acre is real
iZed In few weeks several big cider
mills will be put in here, to use the sur
plus apples. The ''pummies" win be fed
TO the hogs, and the profit from an acre
of apples will be enlarged.
Tapping with his foot supposed
April fool purse, which he noted susp-
ciously in the corridor of the Hancock
county court house in Findlay. O.. Earl
Shupc, messenger boy, gazed in awe mt
a roll Of yellow and green bills displayed
10 his view. He had been whistling, but
the strains of Thursday is My Jonah
Day fell away as he picked up the
purse finding in il $500 in bills and
number of notes 4 few minutes later
the purse was claimed by David Thorn
as, Findlay business man, who gave
the youth had restored to him,
Joshua Il. Crawford, 81 years old, one
of the wealthiest men in Atlanta, Ga,
who three weeks ago married Mrs. Belle
Salvage of st. Augustine, n widow of
about -, is dead. Several months ago
Mr. Crawford was in st. Augustine and
stopped at the boarding house run by
Mrs. Salvage. Mrs. Salvage was an ex~
Ill, ,,,1 II 4 NVsssVR f.afl
became an admirer of all the dishes she
prepared. he fell in love with her bis
cults. proposed and was accepted. The
marriage proved big surprise to the
people of Atlanta where Crawford lived
for sixty years. In spite of the excel
lence of the brides biscuits Crawford
died from acute indigestion.
"The Pajama Tea" is the latest sensa-
ton of Oakland. Gal. Eleven young
women. members of the Sotowa club. in
silken and satin pajamas, were enter
tanned in this most original way ut the
home of Miss Ellie Thatcher the other
afternoon. The eleven young women are
has been spread broadcast, and there is
buzzing among the social elect. Some
condemn the pajama tea and others
seize it as a child would "A new play
thing
The trouting season in Connecticut
opened April |. In Norfolk, where there
is still ice on the deep pools and
streams fishermen carried rod in one
hand and an AK in the other. In Hunts
vile Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt who had
posted a stream running along the edge
of her farm, discovered a fisherman in a
low willow tree which hung over the
brook She passed down through the lot
to the brook and kept one hand hidden
in her apron.
Don't you know this brook is post
ed z" she asked the fisherman.
I'm not on your land replied the
fisherman. who declared his intention of
remaining where he was.
Mrs. Hunt pelted the freed fisher
man with eggs which she had in her
apron until he was glad to climb down
and retreat.
Prof. John l.. Coulter of the Econo-
mist department of the state university
in Minneapolis, MINI. gave his class a
lesson on egg buying. incidentally con
travening a time honored idea of the
housewife. He declared that cold stor-
age eggs were much better than the
fresh ones. His theory was that eggs
put in cold storage and carefully inspect
ed were as good food after three years
as they We're when packed away. The
fresh egg Of commerce. declared the
professor. lis in all probability an egg
that would he discarded in the storage
house. and still further nine out Of ten
dozen so-called fresh eggs sold in stores
are more than year old
To carry a tremendous volume Of water
across deserts, through canyons and be-
meath mountains; 10 build ut the cost al
81, 100000 a concrete conduit 24o miles
long. and make it waterproof. tireprDDi
and earthQuake-prDuf. 50 that. though
the foods may come and the forests bt
swept away by fire, and the mountains
be removed 10 the sea. still this artery
will carry life 10 the heart Of City hy
bringing 10 it 2JO0OOO0 gallons Of wa
Ter a day-this is the vast project under
taken by the city Of Los Angeles.
A peacb-basket hat worn by "a younl
woman caught the eye Of q horse as u
was driven by its owner aboard th'
ferryboat Public Service, that pilcl
across the Kill Won kuli, between Der
gen Point, \. j.. and Staten island, ON
afternoon. The horse was crossing th'
gangplank AS she girl walked down th'
| bridge. Her red hat, with punches 90
| cherries. was tempting. and the hors
jumped forward. almost pitching Hut
| from his seat The horse ambied tu"ar
the ladies cabin Cries of passenger
warned the girl in time and she dodge
| into the cabin just as the horse street.-The
! his neck 70 grasp the cherries TIE hors
| kept on and was 80 far into the cahl
| it was tightly wedged in the doorway
| Deck hands di1lodged the intruder.
| After travelling four months throng
| the body Of Mrs. Oakla Bay Jennings 81
Cincinnati piercing the walls Of ID