Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-12-27

Potter. and Jacob Kaeis. Sheboygan
were awarded distinguished service
crosses by President Wilson. Schwap
ke displayed devotion to duty. LOYALTY
and courage by repeatedly volunteer
Ing, night and day, to carry messages
under machine gun and shell fire from
MS battalion commander to he com
pany commanders, thereby maintain.
ing efficient liaison. Kaeis penetrated
the enemy's lines and patroned a sec.
tor from the north bank of the Vesle
TO the town of Mazoches. With two
companions he entered an enemy dug.
out and killed two Germans and loea
ted maAine gun emplacement.
Madison The Industrial commits.
sion's report for 1917-191S shows that
/ Dement'S paid under the workmen's
CONDENSATION act averaged $1OS as
against $92 the year previous. The in
demnity average increased from $23 to
S27; average benefits for permanent
disability increased from S445 to 1924;
cases reported were 1851, as against
20,560 the year previous. Benefits paid
totaled $1,705, ,46S, of which S1,276.3Ss
was an indemnity and the balance as
medical aid This is an increase of S
per cent. Benefits for 163 fatalities
totaled s332,950.
Marinette- Seventeen years ago, al
a band concert in this city, Miss Ade
line Pratt deputy register of deeds
lost a pocketbook with several dollars
and keepsake knife in it. She was
surprised on going to the post office
recently to receive a packet contain
ing the knife and money without any
explanation. Whether she lest thl
pocketbook or it was stolen from heI
she does not know, but efforts to re
cover it by advertising at the time
failed
Superior - Corporal Bert Haskell
who was shot in the thigh two hours
before the world war ended, writes hi.
brother, Harry Haskell, of this city
he was informed that hostilities ha6
ceased by two Germans, while lyins
wounded and helpless in shell holt
in No Mans Land. Haskell left Supe
rior last July and in month was il
England After landing in France
some time later he was almost contin
uously under shell fire.
! Beaver Dam ~- Lieut. William d
Morgan, who was reported killed il
action in the war department casualty
! list, is alive and in good health. Hi!
parents received a letter from hin
written since the armistice was signed
in which he stated he was in goot
/ health and feeling fine He was sc
verely wounded in September, bu
( fully recovered.
Green Bay-The Green Bay Review
a weekly newspaper which has beer
published for more than a quarter
century by Charles Kerr and his
father, the late James Kerr has beer
sold to Robert H. Wright of Horton
vile. Mr.. Kerr left for Fradericks
burg, Va, to reside M Wright viii
continue the paper as a weekly publ
cation.
La Crosse-La Crosse manufacture
ing institutions furnished Uncle Sam
with $4,000 600 in war suppliass equip
ment and munitions from April 6
1917, to Nov Il, 1918. All this was
done in plants which at the outbreak
of the war were unequipped for specia
government work Fourteen factories
here were given war contracts.
La Crosse Bereft of his parents
brothers and sisters in an Indian mas
saore when II years old and. obliged
to earn his own living, l.. KitZman
after forty-six years service with the
North Western Railway company, has
been placed on the retired list and
will enjoy substantial pension the
rest of his days.
La Crosse - George Holzhammel
and Roy Miller made $4,000 before
breakfast one morning one haul OF
a 400-foot seine between two wing
dams on the upper Mississippi river
netted them more than 10000 pounds
of carp and buffalo. Buyers eagerly
bid in the fish at prices from 10 to Is
cents pound
Madison-More than $500 students
will be registered at the universit!
next quarter. according TO Dean s. H
Goodnight. Four hundred men at can.
tonments are expected to return
About 500 out OF the $500 S. A I. {.
men will remain Courses are being
rearranged to meet new conditions.
Two Rivers Preliminary steps have
been taken by business men here
10 establish a fund for initial payments
for workingmen's homes. me money
is TO be loaned without interest and to
be.paid back in installments.
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