Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
NOTES OF INTEREST.

NOTES OF INTEREST.
Eleven hundred boys Of the Lancaster
retormat0ry in Columbus o.. were nut
on their honor not TO run away and were
! turned loose to 90 nutting yesterday af-
ternoon. They We're not accompanied
| by a single guard. They gathered chest
nuts and when recall sounded every lad
WAS found in his place.
Formec Deputy Sheriff Miller of
stamford. Conn, is not horn agri-
cuituralist. but since his retirement he
has become one, and has sprung some
thing new on his friends. Miller has big
crops of late corn and tomatoes, and.
fearing the crops would be destroyed by
frost. built great fires around the garden
70 keep the vegetables from freezing. He
succeeded, although the neighborS were
alarmed and the police department went
N hot haste TO investigate, believing that
Greenwich avenue was bSrning up.
Saving life according to one mothers
valuation of her son. Is worth - cents
when 4 kid falls overheard about Can
ton. Joseph Strobel, a workman mt sta
ton of the American Ice company, off
Boston street, IN Baltimore, Nd had
his attention vailed TO q boy overheard
lie sprang into the water with all his
clothes on and soon had Willie Harrison.
. years old. of 2413 Fait avenue. in his
strong arms. When brought ashore the
boy was in a bad way, but with Mr.
Strobefs record OF saving half n dozen
boys this summer from drowning he has
also acquired the art of first aid to the
near drowned. lie soon hal Willie re-
vived.
Charged with having stolen seventy
five sermons, Raymond Rumley was ar
rested at Waynesboro. Pa. on n warrant
sworn out by Rev. V. II. Rue, pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church of that
place Rumley, it is alleged, broke into
the parsonage and took not only the bun
die of sermons hut a gold watch and
some other things The clergyman values
his sermons at 1915
With every appearance of sincerity.
Mrs. Anna Nettera of Columbus, O., says
the ghost of her husband led her to a
drain pipe under her Michigan avenue
home, where she recovered more than
$1,000 in money. In a written statement
made to Or. A. w. Binckley, the woIn-
an related how the vision of her husband
appeared before her daily. On the day
when she found the money, Mrs. Vettera
as usual She followed it to the drain
pipe, where it disappeared, she says.
When she investigated. Mrs. Nettera
says she discovered two cans. one inside
the other. In the smaller can was the
sum of $1,000 in bills.
An image having the semblance of an
ancient idol has been unearthed by Charles
A. Ashhy, who owns a farm near Deer
Park, Garrett county i'm Maryland 1t is
a curiously carved stone, about s inches
in length. On one end is carved the head
and face of some animal resembling Il
wolf, while on the opposite end is the
face of a human being, well proportioned
and well preserved, the nose alone hay
ing been torn away.
Alex Rogner, Is, was accidentally shot
in the leg by comrade named Carter
two weeks ago in Winsted Conn. The
rifle ball imbedded itself in the calf next
to the bone Rogner and Carter, after
swearing their three young companions
on the squirrel hunting trip to secrecy,
turned physician and surgeon. They
plugged and bandaged the wound with
soft cotton each afternoon after school
and with a jackknife finally eNtricated
the rifle ball. Rogner had to disclose the
secret to his mother when she discovered
the wound, which had healed perfectly.
Harry Richie Of Conconully, Wash.
was sentenced to thirty days in the coun-
ty Jail for chicken stealing. lie pleaded
guilty The stolen chickens were the
property of n. +. Mclean. aud
Richie. after taking them, went to a To-
cal restaurant and ordered them cooked
and served. lie then invited Mclean to
partake of his hospitality.
Ga.r.,a NTorffpg .t,,. ltupt,,-. M
tins, an undertaken, met with a peculiar
accident at Ives, Wis. The lad while
stTolling around the Universal Stone
company plant. picked up a dynamite
cartridge and placed it in his trouser
pocket, Then he filed his coat pocket
with stones. In chasing a squirrel he
struck a fence and the stones exploded
the dynamite cap, blowing big hole in
the boys leg. He viii recover.
Mrs. Henrietta McGrew of Trenton.
\. j., insists that there is a limit to all
things even to the kisses Of her husband.
John Il. McGrew As a result of his ex-
ceedng the limit, she has sought the
court of Hitchcock county where she
has applied for divorce. alleging that
be has kissed and insisted upon kissing
until the cruelty stage has been reached,
In her petition Mrs. McGrew says that
for six months she stood the kissing
without murmur, Supposlng that III time
the practice would be dropped 10 Ger
tain extent. but instead of the kisses be
coming fewer, they have become more
plentiful. She AYERS that while her hus-
band has been spending his time kissing
the weeds have grown higher than the
wheat and hay and generally things
have gone to the bad.
Identifying chicken stolen from his
coops along with ifty-nne others, val
ued at about 80 cents apiece, through an
egg. is the sleuth performance Of Joseph
Gilmore, an aged bachelor of Appleton,
Wis. who has only his flock Of chickens
to depend upon for a livelihood. Some
one entered his coops and made away
with practically his entire flock, includ-
ing some prize layers at Mr.. Gilmore
would not take many dollars for. Gil
more has only his birds and a little
patch Of land on which 10 make his liy-
ing He has reared birds also because
be loves them. and it almost brought
tears to his eyes when he located his
hens. One Of them lays eggs with a
peculiar marking upon the shell and