Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-06-13
Badger State
Happ Jennings

an illness of several weeks. He sui.
feredS "a relapse after having partially
recovered from a nervous breakdown.
BECAUSE OF his age, rs, his family
feared for his life when he was first
stricken. Mr.. Spooner served as sen.
ator sixteen years, and retired in
1oO7 two years before completing his
last terfn, TO re-enter the practice of
law. John Colt Spooner, born at Law
renceburg, Ind, Jan. 6, 1842, the son
of Philip Loring and Lydia (Coit)
Spooner, was of Puritan ancestry on
both sides of his family. Coming to
wisconsin from Indiana ia June, 1859,
the senator's family settled in Madi-
son and the son received his edp cation
IN the Madison schools and the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. In 1864 the fu-
ture senator raised company OF uni
yersity students in response to Presi-
dent Lincoln's appeal for volunteers,
hut although entitled to commission
in the company, he chose TO enlits as
a private in Company ID of the Forti-
eth Wisconsin infantry, largely COM
posed of university students and pro-
fassors. He was breVetted major in
1866 at the age of %, and was mus
tered out the following year. In 1867
he was admitted to the bar, having
meanwhile been appointed private and
military secretary 10 Gov. Lucius
Fairehild, with the usual rank of col
onel. by which he was known in later
of al
dignities. He was Guarteramster gen
elal of Wisconsin, 186S-70, and assist
ant attorney general for two terms un-
der Attorney General Charles r. Gill
1 and Attorney General S. S. Barlow.
Madison-Sept 20 will be the open.
ing day of the academic year 1919
s 1920 at the University of Wisconsin.
according to action taken by the fac
uty. Sept 29, 80 and Oct l will be
B registration days. Glasses will begin
Oct. 2. Christmas recess will begin
q Tuesday evening, Dec. 53, and extend
s. to Monday morning, Jan 5. Examina
u tions for entrance will be held on
Sept. 20, instead of Sept p, as previ.
ously announced.
Wausau-A contract has been given
Carl Hilber to grade and surface eight
miles of road ON federal route No. 10
q from Mosinee south to the Portage
county line. No satisfactory bids
& were received from similar work on
route No. 16 and the county will do
& the work with day labor. A contract
. is soon to be let for a concrete road
to connect Wausau with the villages
of Schofield and Rothschild.
Manitowoc - Corp. Frank Swejkar,
I after having been in hospitals in
France and this country since Sept.
49, when he was laid low by shrap
mel shell and suffered ten wounds, one
being a compound fracture of the left
leg, and the loss of a couple of toes,
has arrived home on crutches. He is
at the home of his mother, Mrs. Mary
Swejkar. Corp. Swejkar is TO report
back for further treatment.
Oconto - Plans have been compile
ted for the honor day celebration Tor
the army and navy men of Oconto
county here June % and "a. Oconto
celebrates having been a city for fifty
years. County Agent Amundson, in
charge of the parade says it will be
one of the big features, depicting the
leading episodes in the history OF the
city and county. Gen, C. R. Board
man will speak.
Racine-After taking all the money
and jewelry that Herman Buege had
When they stopped him, two robbers
compelled him to remove his outer
clothing and shoes. These were iden-
tined in the possession of two men
arrested at Corliss, giving the names
OF Thomas Finnegan, Buffalo, and
Henry Klingel. Toledo. They said
they were recently discharged from
the navy.
Wausau = The Marathon Shoe Co.
increased the capital stock from $125,-
VOO to S250,000 and let a contract for
Ihe company started with few EN-
ployes in a public school annex, but
Is steadily employing rs people and
VIII double the employees and output
when the addition is completed on
Aug. Is.
Monroe - Albert Stauss, editor of
The Monroe Herold, has learned that
MS brother, Emil Won Stauss. IS a
member of the German peace delega.
uon at Paris. The Monroe man had
heard nothing OF his brother in years,
until he saw his picture in newspa-
Per group Of German delegates.
Washburn Information has been
i received by Mike Cosgrove that his
daughter, Anna, "a, a trained nurse
IN the Red Cross army service over.
seas, died Of apoplexy a few days ago,
after arriving in New York