Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-06-27
Waupun public schools made an en-

Smith of the public schools said 81,
2l0.S5 has been reached at the end Of
the school year That sum represents
nearly $40 per pupil from kindergar
ten through high school.
It is estimated that $4,000 peonle
attended the Shawano comfy honor
day for the soldiers and Sailors of the
county held in Shawano About 400
were in the parade, with four bands.
Over 5000 were fed at the barbecue
given in the afternoon at the high
school grounds. Three dances were
held at night. 1t was the biggest day
in the history of Shawano.
Work on the county road beginning
at tie Superior city limits and con.
tinuing to Anderson hill, eight miles,
viii be started this week, according
to an order of the Douglas county
roads and bridges committee. The road
was macadamized years ago, but the
surface is badly worn, and Superior
Automobile club prevailed upon the
committee to improve the highway
The Ashland Home Telephone Co
property was sold at sheriffs sale to
0. G. Roehling, Chicago, as follows:
Ashland plant. $4,000; Mellen ex.
change, $500; toll line between Ash
land and Mellen, $3.50. The sale did
not include the switchboard and other
equipment of the Home Telephone
Co. in Ashland. as they are held by a
chattel mortgage for $685..
Due to increased cost of conducting
mission work, the Lutheran Brethren
church convention, held at Superior
decided against adding to the number
of missionaries in the field next year
Construction of one or two building1
at the church's Bible school in Grand
Forks, N. D., was authorized and it
was decided to start a fund for the
needy within the denomination.
Dissemination of-farmers to expert
ment with fax raising is responsible
for abandonment of the plan to estab.
lish fax ginning factory il Appleton.
DR.. j. B. Grove, Chicago inventor of
flax gin, who was endeayoring to pro
mote the factory, has gone to Oregon.
where he has been promised support.
He offered to erect factory. financed
by local people, If farmers would agree
to raise 1000 acres of faxseed each
year.
Kenosha teachers have announced
that they are about to form a chapter
of the proposed Wisconsin state
teachers organization which win be a
part of the American Federation os
Labor. After long fight for higher
wages, the teachers managed to get
raise from the school boaro and now
the educators consider organizing that
the next time an emergency presents
itself they viii be able to cope with
the board
More than 100 acres of vacant lots
within the city limits are being farm
ed by La Crosse residents. The use
of lots was given freely by owners.
More than 200 people from Portage
and adjoining counties attended the
picnic of the Central Wisconsin Jer-
sey Breeders association at the farm
of G.. c. Springer near Keene. The
best Jerseys ever exhibited in the
county were on display. A STOCK
Judging contest featured the program.
According to Postmaster Gustave
Keller, Appleton. who attended the an
nual convention of the Wisconsin
Postmasters association in Milwaukee.
the amount of thrift and war savings
stamps cashed in Wisconsin up to
June / was only 16 per cent of the
amount sold and the amount cashed
ia Outagamie county was only Ga per
cent of the sales. The maturity value
of the stamps sold in H1tagamie
county during the year 1918 WAS STA
$50.
An additional s1,00 to the $4,000
available for the Homecoming demon
stration for Outagamie county soldiers
and sailors July 4 has been provided
by the Appleton city council. The
demonstration will be the most elab-
crate ever attempted here. Street dec
orations will cost $4,000 and fireworks
$500. A war camp is TO be estab-
llished on Lawrence college campus
and huts will be erected by the Y. M.
| C. A., Knights of Columbus. Salvation
Army and Jewish Welfare board.
Mai. George D. Whiteside, Plover,
near Stevens Point. fromer assembly
man, has been awarded the medal of
honor by the French government, for
DISTINGUISHED service in hospital work
| in France. He is still on active duty In
France. After twenty months III
France as an ambulance driver for the
French government. Charles Nc
Creey. Stevens Point, has returned
DECORATED with the French crotx de
guerre. He is one OF three brothers
who were in the world war.
William B. Bernard, Madison, Of the
Bernard Boat line was fined $50 and
costs on charges of carrying more peo-
ple in his boats than the ordinance
permits. Complaint was made by
City Boat Inspector T. II. Tofte. who
stated that recently in a return trip
across Lake Mendoza, the Wesuand,