Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-05-21


freed by white jury when tried on
charge of murder The negro and his
two daughters. Deena, IA, and May, 10.
were the only witnesses called. Green
did not deny the killing, but pleaded
justifiable homicide. He stated that
Duncan, who is a married man and
father of two children, had wronged
his young daughter and that even after
he (Green) had warned Duncan to
stay away from the girl, Duncan kept
up his relations with the child
Eau Claire St Patrick's Roman
Catholic church is going into the mo-
ton picture business A picture ma
chine has been purchased to give
shows in the auditorium of St. Pat
rick's school Films that have passed
a strict censorship and educational
features viii be exhibited at frequent
intervals TO provide clean and whole
some pictures is the idea behind the
move
Clintonville The concrete factory
building for the lMenominee Motor
Truck Co, which is to move here from
Menominee, Mich, as soon as the
building is completed. is rapidly pro
crossing and will be ready for occu-
pancy by August. Chntonville sub
seribed s250.000 for stock in the re-
organized company The new factory
will have capacity of fifty trucks
day.
Chippewa Frank Harrington.
~, is near death in the hospital as the
result of fracture of his skull, aeci-
dentally inflicted by a boy chum.
Frank was driving COW home to his
fathers farm. The COW was balky and
Franks chum picked up chunk of
coal and threw it at the COW to speed
her up. The cow had started 20 run,
Frank followed, and the chunk of coal
hit him squarely between the eyes.
Racine-Four members of the com
mon council were brought to the city
hall in the police patrol and under po-
lice guard to attend a meeting OF the
common council There was no quo
rum whe,i the meeting was called, and
as important matters were to be trans
acted Mayor Armstrong ordered the
police department to hail the absent
ees into the council chambers.
Kenosha Federal officials obtained
from four men confessions that they
were Implicated in the making of
"moonsline liquor" in the still found
in barn on the Robinson farm. They
declared that man whom they called
Pete" was the operator of the still.
Pete" is still at large The moon
shine liquor" was tested and found to
contain 3 per cent alcohol.
Madison -Razing of the water tower
on East Washington Ave, viii mark
the passing of the older Madison, that
has been outgrown in the decade dur
ing which the city advanced so per
cent in population. 1t served well the
needs of a small city, but ii Is made
quate for a city of more than 10000,
according to L. A. Smith, sdpe. inten-
dent of waterworks.
Madison Farmers should exerc. Sc
special care in the purchase of oil
meal or linseed meal at the present
time, according to w. II. Strowd of
the Wisconsin state department of ag-
riculture. because an adulterated prod
uct branded as pure meal has been
shipped into the state under the name
of "Amco Old Process Linseed Meal
Madison-That tle cali for special
le3Isiatl4e session include the matter
of authorizing municipalities to con-
struct warehouses for the storage OF
potatoes is the recommendation to
Gov. E. L. Philip by the division OF
markets in its report on the hearings
held in Milwaukee relating to the mar
keting of Wisconsin potatoes.
Appleton Gideon Bibles will be
placed in every hotel room in Wiscon-
sin before Jan. 1. 1921, il was decided
at the annual convention OF the Wis
consin Gideons here. More than 5000
bibles have already been distributed.
Funds to place $50 Testaments in Ap-
pleton hotels we're raised here and tbe
presentation was made.
Madison-on application of Gov. W.
l.. Harding of Iowa, Gov. Phillip ap
pointed c. L. Harrington, Madison, and
William H. Graves and A. H. Long
Prairie du Chen, to confer with
similar committee appointed by the
governor of Iowa, TO make plans IoF
national state park on the Mississippi
river.
Green Bay-Miss Lille Summers,
nurse. was arrested in Milwaukee and
returned here and assessed fines and
costs amounting to s51-77 for locking
three young children in the home
where she was employed. &n1 running