Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-08-08

of TeYOlYefS nelu up the proprietor
and three customers, getting away
with SS5. Men III the store were so
frightened by the threats of the hold!
mn men that they made no report to
the police until several minutes after
the robbers had escaped. 1t is be-
lieved that they made their escape in
an automobile.
Park Falls - Edward Hines, of the
Edward Hines Lumber company OF
Chicago, has purchased at Eau Claire,
the entire holdings of the Rice Lake
Lumber company, including the mill
property and $4,000 acres OF land.
With Arpin land recently bought by
the Hines company, the Rice Lake
mill will have fifteen years cut of hem.
lock and hardwood. The deal is con.
sidered one of the largest in the north
in several years.
Kenosha-Po Possibility of solution of
the mystery surrounding the finding OF
a body on the lake shore just south of
the Racine county line, loomed up
here when George 'Kelberger of this
city attempted to link up the disap-
pearance of his son, George Kelber-
GER Jr., more than four weeks ago
The coroner probably will order the
body eXhumed that this clew may be
definitely established or rejected.
La Crosse - The wives of Joseph
Fyett, Sr., and Joseph Fyett, Jr., ap-
peared in circuit court at the same
time asking divorces from their re-
spectiye husbands on the grounds of
cruel and inhuman treatment. Mrs.
Julia Fyett was granted separation
from the younger Fyett, but the court
was reluctant to grant divorce to
the latter's father and mother, ad-
journing the case.
Washburn The repairs on the
Sioux river bridge on the state trunk
highway system, three miles west of
here, have been completed and the
bridge has been thrown open to traf-
fe. The Improvements cost about ST.
500. The county board has decided
that the next money expended upon
this part of the road would be for the
construction of steel bridge.
Appleton - The George Walters
Brewing Company is manufacturing
275 per cent beer and it will be
placed on the market. The company
began the manufacture of near beer
last May. and will continue making
that product, Nearly every saloon in
Appleton is selling 2.75 per cent beer
which is shipped from Milwaukee.
Rice Lake-John Schmitke. former
city salesman for the Standard Oil
company, has purchased the Charles
Sale ice business. He worked for the
Standard Oil company for seventeen
years. Capt John McCullum, who re-
turned from France with the machine
gun company, will be the local agent
Tor the Standard Oil company.
Elkhorn - When District Attorney
Easton Johnson heard a rumor that |
oootlegging was going on at Delavan
lake, he got busy and before twenty |
1our hours elapsed, had the goods. E.
Kicker pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to jail for six months. Mr.. |
Kicker is proprietor of the Log Cabin |
Hotel at Lake Delavan.
New London - The school census |
recently completed shows total pop |
uiation of school age of 1921 On the
oasls of the population of school age |
BENG one-fourth of the total popula- |
uon the city of New London now has
over 5000 people and is by rar the
largest place In the county.
Neenah-Trains almost had to stop |
running when the fish began to bite
mere So many people f1ocked to the /
900 line bridge to fish that engineers
Haa to slow down and even stop to
AVOID accidents. Now the railroad
urea ems o arrest people trespassing
bAAuSS6.
Green Bay-State Sanitary Engineer
LuIley of the Wisconsin Board OF
neaitn, has ordered the Green Bay
water Company to place a fine screen
"'er each of it's three reservoirs, and
" epair the roof over the reservoirs
. ne Waterworks to prevent foreign
matter from getting into the water.
appleton = The W NJ. c. A. has
-Slsed its rent on rooms fifty cents
eeE' Claiming that other associations
nave done the same and that it is only
Al Keeping with the high cost of living
:. osAkosh-There is a likely prospeci
s-a' tne manufacture and sale of 2.7i
SsI cent beer win be resumed In Osh
-Osa' The matter Of issuing retail Il
Seaaes win be taken up shortly.