Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-03-26

a. sotuA SCoH Day Wnefe the BUSINESS
Mems association win meet the hotel
men and donate cars for a halliday
trip through the apple and cherry
orchards. Over four hundred members
of the association are expected to
make the lake trip.
Madison - Dream books, spiritual
ism, palmistry and the like belong to
the dark ages and should have passed
with them, according to Prof Joseph
Jastrow, University of Wisconsin, who
is refuting Sir Oliver Lodge and the
ouija board. STARS have no more in
tiuence upon our life," says the pro-
fessor. than the sands on the bottom
of the ocean. A round head or long
head may be a bone head or an empty
head"
Chippewa Falls William O'Neill,
son of Mayor O'Neill, formerly a cap
tain in the American expeditionary
forces, was found not guilty of a
charge of pointing and aiming a re-
volver when tried in municipal court
by a jury of six business men, as an
outgrowth of the fsticuffs between
the mayor, and Editor George E. Dee
of the Chippewa Falls Herald, in the
latter's office.
Appleton Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood,
candidate for Republican nomination
for presidency will visit Appleton and
the Fox river valley early next month,
according to information received
here by Fred Felix Wettengel, candi.
date for election as Wood delegate
from the Ninth congressional district
Mr., Wettengel is now organizing a.
Wood club in Outagamie county.
| Marinette-The Sawyer residence,
being moved across the river from Me-
nomonie to this city, broke through
the ice and sank in five feet of water.
About two weeks ago the moving be-
gan, but runners. on which the house
was being moved, cut into the ice and
were frozen in. All efforts to move it
were in vain. The house VIII be torn
down.
Crandon-Between this city and
White Lake. along the Wisconsin &
Northern railroad. there are $4,000.
| 600 feet of logs ready to be hauled to
the mill. The greater share of this
timber was purchased by the Shawano
Lumber company and will be shipped
to the company's mill at Shawano.
! Manitowoc-Paving costing SI45, 900
will be laid this year The city coun-
ell voted bond issue for that amount
to carry on its program of street work
for 1920. At the same time, the alder
men approved committee report out
! lining about three and a half miles of
| pavement to be laid in 1921.
| Madison-C. N Maurer graduate or
the University of Wisconsin, has been
appointed motor engineer to the state
highway commission. He takes the
place of Walter Alexander, resigned,
who has gone to Milwaukee to become
manager of the Union Refrigerator
and Transit Co.
AppIeton-A Hoistein COW, Sadie
Gerben Sengerveld Dekol. owned by r.
NJ. Hartman of Appleton. broke the
nations record on a thirty day test.
producing 3,247h pounds of milk and
157k pounds of butter in that time. In
weeks test, Sadie gave 1914 pounds
of milk a day.
Fond du Lac-"Boys, someone is
trying to slip bootIegging stunt over
on u.s." said Postmaster ID. F. Blewett
when he discovered liquid oozing from
package in the parcels post. Eager
hands tore the wrappings from the
package Inside was a dead lizard
packed in ice.
Madison-Oscar A. Oleson, for sew
eral years connected with the state in
surance commission, was appointed by
Commissioner Platt Whitman as chief
deputy commissioner, succeeding F.
w. Kubasta, who resigned recently.
Oshkosh - Charles Rook, employed
in his brothers sawmill near Van
Dyne, was seriously injured when
caught in a saw. One arm was almost
completely severed at the shoulder
and one side was g;1siIed by the saw.
Racine-An electric revolving cross
on top of the First NJ. E. church is the
first of its kind IN he installed on q
church in this section of the country.
The cross is to advertise religion"
Beloit Petitions were circulated
here for a referendum Of Beloit voters
April 6, on the question of permitting
pool and billiard halls to remain oQen
on Sunday.
Plymouth--At the largest cattle sale
ever held in Sheboygan county 200 fun
bloods and 125 high grade Holstein
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