Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-06-20
News of the
Badger State
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TanesYille - some lued OF Ine ire
,sodol,s strides Rock county is max
10 along agricultural lines can be
raIned from a brief statistical state.
rnant issued by B. G. Packer. director
= immigration, Wisconsin department
II agriculture. This statement shows
hat since the last census ia 1910 the
county has added 18TH acres or near.
y twenty-five square miles in leading
crons. The increased acreage was
most noticeable during the war when
the demand for foodstuffs became
Greater than ever before in history and
a nationwide campaign to increase
PRODUCTION was inaugurated. Farmers
everywhere co-operated in the move
oenf To what extent Rock county
farmers participated is evident from
the increase in acreage in the last
eight years.
Madison-With a simple service
that included a prayer and a brief
commemoration of his life, former
limited States Senator John c. Spoon
or was laid to rest at Forest Hill. The
services were held at the Baptist
church. the Rev =. q. MacLaurin Off
eiating. The ceremony at the grave
was in charge of the Masons, Senator
spooner having been member of the
Madison chapter for fifty-two years.
Men representing the nation and the
state gathered at the Baptist church
to pay their final respects. Civil war
veterans, legislators, members OF the
university faculty. justices of the Su
preme court, state officials and many
old neighbors and friends of the fam
lily were present.
Sturgeon Bay-The Y. M. G. A. will
conduct its usual boys summer camp
here this summer for the purpose OF
picking cherries. The camp will be
600 strong. 1t comprises boys be-
tween the ages of IA and 19, haling
from all sections of the state. Theii
main camp will be conducted at the
county fair grounds. Besides the
work of picking cherries, the "Y' Of
ters program of amusement and rec
ration. The boys will earn from
$3.50 to $3.50 per day Two thousand
outside pickers will be required to as
sist the local people in harvesting the
cherry crop. The season will begin at
about July 10.
Grand Rapids-The city council
has petitioned the State Highway COM
mission to erect concrete bridge
across the Wisconsin river. The
bridge will be 49S feet long and will
replace the present structure which
has been in use for fifteen years. The
cost is estimated at 100000, and will
be taken care of by the state paying
Onethird, the county one-third and the
city one-third.
Appleton - Mic Simond has com
menced work on a cheese to weigh
$4,000 pounds, the largest ever under
taken in Wisconsin. 1t will require
sixty factories ami seventy-five max
ers, the hoop will weigh 5000 pounds.
and win be seven feet high and ten
and a half feet in diameter. The
cheese is for the national dairy show
to be held in Chicago in October
Kenosha-C. w. Nash, president of
Ee Nash Motors Co., emphatically de-
MED statements made by state papers
mat ne was to be candidate for gov
efnor at the next election. Mr.. Nash
sald that politics was the last thing
mat he had thought to enter and that
ne would not be a candidate in 1920
under any circumstances.
stevens Point-Thomas Pilipp, Car
son, thrown from a load of hay, died,
never regaining consciousness. His
skull was fractured. neck broken, right
arm broken. one side of his face and
one side of his body badly bruised.
ne formerly conducted grocery stores
N Milwaukee and Chicago, coming to
portage county to farm.
Merrill-With an inspiring address
oy the Rev. W. B. Morris, Oshkosh,
the sixty-hfth annual convention of
ue Central Baptist association was
sonciuded here. Nearly hundred del
oeaIes from different parts of the
sions.
Superior-Harold Ten Eyck, Balsam
lake in circuit court was found
suNy Of obtaining 50 by represent
ng himself as a Red Gross agent
me sentence pronounced by Judge w
IN Jail.
- "aupun-Waupun is seeing one of
1e greatest house building seasons in
- history. Not less than twenty
rolses are under construction Con
FACTS for fys mere were made and
10y new homes viii be built this year
OaIIngton-At a celebration Of Ben
- ioF returned soldiers and sailors
Go were planted in memory Of