Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-05-02

II TOOK a jury but eight minutes IN
Judge Halsey's court on Tuesday to
decide in favor Of condemnation pro-
ceedings brought by the city of Wau-
watosa for the purpose of extending
Eighth Avenue This is declared a
new speed record and includes the
time from which the jury left the
courtroom, entered the jury room and
returned into court with a verdict.
On Wednesday evening, May %,
there occurred pretty home wedding
at 289 Wisconsin Avenue, when Miss
Della Luetzow, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Luetzow, was married to
Mr.. Henry Patzke of Milwaukee, Rev.
H. d. Davies officiating. Mr.. Patzke
is foreman of the pattern department
of the Northwestern Malleable Iron
Co, Milwaukee. Tn young couple will
make their home at 2S9 Wisconsin
Avenue for the present.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Bap-
fist Church will meet in the parlors of
the church next week Thursday, May
8, at 2:30 P. NJ 1t is hoped that every
family in the church win have at least
one member of the household present,
and with her friend. The society is
taking up new line of work called
THE Kitchen Card a campaign for
introducing of various recommended
food stuffs, and each and every house
wife should be on hand for the purpose
of demonstration.
Wauwatosa city is certainly having
boom. There has been more prop
erty changed hands in the past few
weeks than ever in a like period be-
fore. Places for sale in this city are
getting scarce. Rents in Milwaukee
have been advanced considerable and
places to live in are scarce even in
Wauwatosa. Rents are going up as is
everything else, except air and news
papers, and it begins to look as if
people will have to live in tents before
long and won't that be fine, we will all
get as brown as berries, and resemble
the true American, the Indian
There is to be a matinee patriotic
meeting at the High School after
school on this Friday afternoon, May
2. The program is to be somewhat
similar to that to be given in the
evening, including the play Lest We
Forget" Prizes are to be given to the
Seevnth and Eighth grades for the
best four-minute speech on the sub
ject, why l Want TO Buy a Liberty
Bond" Two of the grades are to give
two pageants. There is to be new
patriotic song and a good speaker will
give an address. A very fine program
is in prospect, and it is hoped that
many of our citizens who cannot come
in the evening will be able to be
present this afternoon.
At the big meeting to be held at
the High School this Friday evening
May 2, the program will open prompt
ly at O'Clock with probably a pa
triotic movie This win be followed
by Living Pictures OF Victory Loan
Posters" a series of tableaux for which
the Wisconsin players are to pose with
the following personnel: Sarah Meow,
Emma Wendt, VIM. Purcell, Otto
Marohn and Alexander Tillotson.
These tableaux to be interspersed with
community singing, these having been
arranged by Dudley Crafts Watson and
are being presented the same as in
Milwaukee recently. The next num-
Der on the program viii be an address
by Mr. VIM. j. Kershaw, well known
to Wauwatosa audiences. The last
number ON the program will be the
play, Lest We Forget" by local talent,
with the following cast: Uncle
Peter" Bernard Kenney;- Mrs. Bar
nard, chairman of the Liberty Loan
Committee; Mrs. Mcintyre; Billy, her
son, Willard Smith: Emily, her daugh-
ter. Katherine Morton; Mrs. Grant,
Catherine Wheeler: Sarah, the maid
of all work. Mrs. Kurtz; Mrs. Todd,
Mrs. Urban; Rose Marion, returned
Red Cross nurse, Lorraine Tragard.
The program as whole promises an
evening of pleasure and profit and it
is expected there win be a capacity
house. Remember, the program is to
open promptly at s O'Clock. Admis-
sion free.