Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-04-18

That Missouri juniors may have sixty
head of pure bred heifer calves for
club work, E. G. Bennett is in Wiscca.
sin making purchases. W. H. Wood
ley is here from Arkansas making ar
rangements to buy $50 high grade and
pure bred calves for the boys and
girls clubs of his state. This is Mr..
Woodley's third trip to Wisconsin to
buy dairy cattle and he expects to Sc
cure 100 head of dairy cows for Ar
kansas farmers.
Manitowoc-T Rivers is to have
council of the Knights of Columbus
Members have been affiliated with
Manitowoc council. A class of fifty
candidates together with forty mem
bers who belong to the Manitowoc or
der will give the lodge a start "
nearly one hundred. The degree team
from this city assisted by staff from
Chicago will put on the work.
Wausau The Marathon county
roads and bridge committee will rec
ommend to the county board the build
! ing of piece of concrete road to con
meet Wausau with the village of Scho.
field, the cost to be $4,000 The road
may be extended to Rothschild, if the
cost price of $4,000 is guaranteed.
This will be the first concrete road in
Marathon county.
La Crosse-Capt Joel B. Moore of
La Crosse, former Normal school
teacher, who was recently decorated
with the Medal of ST. Ann in Russia,
| has also won a Croix de Guerre, ac-
cording to a message received here,
He is believed to be the only La.
Crosse soldier who has won two for
eign decorations.
Kenosha Valuable plans for the
new st. Marie's church have been lost
in the mail, and construction is de-
layed until they can be found. The
plans were ready for submission TO
the officials when mailed in Chicago
last week, and they have not been
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cate them.
Fond du Lac-W. F. Braatz, Bran
don, has developed Holstein COW
which during 365 days test gave a
total of thirteen tons OF milk or eight
cen times her own weight. The COW
ran 6307 pounds of milk in seven
days, or 26.76 pounds of butter Her
butter record for the year was LOAF
pounds.
Plymouth - A three-day auction of
| full-blooded Holstein cattle by M. H.
Hand, f. w. Traxler, and H. J. Goelz-
ner of this city. netted about 100000.
Buyers from many states were repre-
scented, and a number of carloads of
dairy cows were forwarded via ex-
press to Georgia, Illinois and Mime.
sota
Green Bay-The garden campaign
in Green Bay is off to splendid start.
Joint assistance by the city council,
| Association of Commerce, and others
enabled use of every vacant lot. Ev-
cry school will have its garden plot
and prizes will be given to youngsters
who make the best showing.
Kenoshas- Kenosha's first venture
in municipal ownership of an electric
| light plant is proving a success. The
| first report of the plant which is in
operation at the pumping plant of the
water works, shows a saving to the
city of several thousand dollars an.
nually.
Merrill - Fred Higgins, tried by a
| jury in circuit court here on charge
of larceny from the person, was found
not guilty. William Flaherty, who ad,
mitted taking $40 OF the disputed
money, was sentenced to serve three
years at Waupun by Circuit Judge
Reid.
Wausau - Because he did not buy
any Liberty bonds or war stamps or
help any of the relief organizations
during the war with Germany, citizen
ship papers were denied Charles Zim-
norman by Judge A. H. Reid at a
term of Circuit court in Lincoln coun-
ty.
Plymouth-The Wittkopp Furniture
company is exhibiting library table
made by John Kleefisch Of this city
containing 316,360 small pieces of
woods 1t consumsd the leisure hours
of the maker during four years to fin
ish it.
Beloit-By unanimous vote the Elks
voted to purchase the Mickey building
for $4,000. About $4,000 additional
will be spent on remodeling TO make it
one of the most modern clubs in this
section of the country.
Portage - Safe-blowers secured $50
from the Consumers Lumber and Coal
/ company Offices here. The Office is 10.
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