The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
Funeral of Emil Fl. Juska,
Monday De a. h Victim,
Held Today, Last Episode
Of War-Love Plot.
STORY STARTS IN GERMANY
Tragic Death of Husband Reveals How
Widow Had Served AS Nurse In Ger
many and Escaped Through Switzer-
land To Meet Future Husband.

Tragedy stallzed today in the clos
ing episode of one of Kenosha s most
interesting war romances when the
mutilated remains of Emil Ell. Juska,
the Kenoshan who was killed in the ac-
cident at the Sheridan Road crossing
of the Northwestern tracks Monday
evening were buried in the newly
bought family plot in the Green Ridge
Cemetery following short funeral SER
vices at the Hansen Chapel at three
thirty o'clock.
The story which the sudden death
Of Juska has revealed, tells Of a ro-
nance which was so quickly shattered
when Juska was ground to death be-
meath the wheels of the train but
which in spite of the sorrow informing
led in it, is one of the most interest
ing Kenosha stories that has come out
of the war. 1t goes back to pre-war
days when Juska was German sail
or on the high sesa while his sweet
heaFt-noW his widow of two days
was Miss Margaretha Prcyzbylee. Both
lived in Berlin and they had dreamed
often of the time when he should have
served out his term in the navy and re
turned to claim his bride in Berlin.
Then came the war. Emil Juska
was interned in New York where the
ship which he was aboard had harbor
ed for safety. In time he left the SER
vice and went to Chicago where he
found a ready market for his intelli-
gent workmanship. 81 4fa1
Over in Germany, his sweetheart felt
the touch of war. With the throngs of
German women who stood night and
day before the palace of the Kaiser in
the days just before the war, she stood
to urge the German ruler not to sign
the edict which would hurl the coun-
try into war. Then she became
nurse in German military hospitals and
for two years worked to nurse German
soldiers back to health
She had not in spite Of all this for
gotten her sutton over the seas and
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urging her to come to America, she
found way to leave Germany and
reach America by way Of Switzerland.
She reached Chicago May 10th, 1917,
and three days later she became the
bride of Emil Juska and together they
came to Kenosha to seek home, for
tune and happiness They saved and
worked that they might secure a home
of their own in America where they
might bring their parents from Ger
many to the land of the free. Only
once in the three years did they forget
to work for the realization of this
hope. This was last winter when Ke-
nosha was stricken with the influenza
epidemic and Mrs. Juska realizing
that her skill might help the sick gave
freely Of her time and services week
after week to nurse the afflicted
wherever she was called
Two weeks ago, this little family re-
allied their dream. They bought the
home on South Sheridan Road and had
written TO germany TO get tnelr par
ents started to America. Their friends
and they had made many in the few
years that they had lived in Kenosha
had visited them there and declared
that they were living in real para
disc.
This was the strange romance which
fate so quickly shattered on Monday
evening when the little widow was told
that her husband had been killed at the
Sheridan Road Crossing and that she
and her eight weeks old daughter,
Marian were left alone in America,
thousands of miles away from the city
Of Berlin which she had left only
three years ago to start the trail of
love and sorrow.