Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-12-07

Thanksgiving with their parents in
this city: Mary Mccullough, Beloit,
Arthur Mccullough, Donald Ralph,
and Ruth Marie Urban, Madison
The Ladies Aid Society of the Bap-
fist Church will meet with Mesdames
w D. end w. B. Bliss, East Milwau-
kee Avenue, Thursday. Dec. 10, at 2:3O
P. M. Election of officers will be fol-
lowed by refreshments and a social
hour.
The teachers of Wauwatosa will be
the guests of the Twentieth Century
Topic Club next Wednesday, Dec. 10,
at the home of Mrs. Emery l.. Walker,
81 Center Street Mdns. Getz. Scott,
Muelett, Flory and Newhouse, will be
the assisting hostesses.
Frederick w. Laidlaw, father of
Mrs. A. H Wyman, 284 Church Street,
died Saturday, Dec. 1, after an illness
of some time. Funeral services were
held at the Nieman Undertaking
rooms, Milwaukee, Monday The body
was shipped to Hartford, Conn, for
interment.
We call the attention of our read
ers to the ad in this weeks issue of
The Hammond Publishing Company.
You are invited to visit their new
store at 1873 Oneida Street, Milwaukee,
where you will meet Wauwatosa peo-
pie whom they will be glad to wait on
and show you around.
The fire department was called out
on Saturday evening last on account
of a fire on 61st Street, near North
Avenue. Several trucks from Mil
waukee were out, and by the time our
boys were there it was practically all
over. Our fire truck being laid up for
repairs, teams were used to pull the
apparatus.
Messrs. Harold Myers, Peter Van
Uxem, Fred Buchanan, julius Mar
quardt, Charles Radtke and Carl Zuly-
meyer, all in the service of Uncle
Sam, at Camp Custer had a 5 days
furlough and spent the time in and
around Wauwatosa with relatives and
friends. All the boys speak. well of
the service.
The Hawley road hill has been com
pleted and will soon be open for trav-
ell This is one improvement that has
been MADE by the town that is worth
while and the board has done a good
job. The new bridge on North Avenue
is also completed, but the hill close
to Chas Fishers place lacks but a
little until finished. This work should
have been done before now as it ac-
commodities quite a number of farm
ers from the west.
The act which provides for govern
ment life insurance for soldiers and
little more than month. The secre-
tary of the treasury announced on
Nov. II that up TO that date ga, 1853 APP
plications under the new law had been
received, representing insurance in the
sum of 1852, 093 900. From 1000 to
5000 applications are received each
day al the treasury department, the
amount of insurance applied for some
times reaching total of $50,000000 in
> single day.
At a recent meeting Of the executive
committee of the ParentTeachers' As
sociation the different committees
were appointed and the several chair
men follow: Program committee, Mrs,
Anna Copeland; social committee,
| Mrs. Nolte; visiting committee, Mrs.
r. e. Barnum, Mrs. H. A. Koenig, Mrs.
Norman Wigdale. The following are on
the visiting committee: Mrs. Midway,
Mrs. Hutchins, Mrs. Adams, Mrs Hen
| ika, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. r. r. John
stone, Mrs. Hales, Mrs. Watson and
Mrs. Newhouse.
The new st. Demands Hall will be
formally opened next week, Wednes-
day and Thursday, December II and
49, The ladies of ST Bernard's will
hold a grand Christmas Sale at which
hundreds of useful and fancy articles
will be on display, all suitable for
Christmas gifts. Card games will be
played each afternoon at o'clock and
from until 8 o'clock in the evening
| They will serve a chicken supper that
will make that Thanksgiving meal
seem like a hurry-up lunch. If you
want a real meal that will keep you
satisfied until Christmas don't miss
Sure thing, it's cheaper than eating at