Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-05-07

Lange, Arthur Gehrke and Fred
Meyers We're charged with having in
their possession liquor on which the
tax had not been paid Search war
rants had been obtained in Water
town.
Wisconsin hasked more
corn from an acre last year than any
state in the central corn belt of the
United States. Pure bred. high seed
corn, developed at the Wisconsin ex-
pertinent station and scattered over
the state by the members of the Wis
consin Experiment association is the
reason for the supremacy of Wiscon-
sin as a corn producing state" de-
clares r. A. Moore of the College of
Agriculture
La Crosse-In an effort to defeat
the contractors in their declaration
hereafter to run open shops, the La
Crosse Trades and Labor council has
engaged in the contracting business.
r. G. Knutson. organizer, asserted
that before the end of the week, prac-
tically all of the TOO building trades
oaion men or strike will be at work,
on jobs taken through the council.
Eau Claire-Three or four hundred
natives of Smaalen, county in the
southeast of Norway. are expected to
gather in Eau Claire on June % and
% at the annual meeting of the
Smaalenslaget Stevne, which will be
held here for the first time in Wis
consin. Twice the conventions have
been in Minneapolis, but usually they
are held in the Dakotas.
Rhinelander-A campaign is on in
Oneida county for the betterment of
dairy herds. A meeting held at Peli-
can lake, the first OF a series to be
held throughout the county, resulted
in the formation of Pure Bred Bull
club Those who joined the club
agreed not to use scrub sires and to
keep the constant betterment of their
herds always in view.
pulpit, take grip of samples IN one
hand and suitcase in the other and
go out on the road and make good?
The Rev. Pastor Willie, pastor OF the
Lutheran church at Louis Corner,
near here, thinks he can. He has an
nounced that his salary win not keep
up with the high cost of living. so he
will ''go on the road"
Kenosha-Anthony Fonte, Kenosha
business man, is recovering from a
case of sleeping sickness. For FIVE
weeks he was in a stupor. At the
outset of his illness. physicians were
baffied by the case. Milwaukee spe-
cialists were consulted. Mr.. Fonte
has been advised to take long vaca-
ton and he plans to spend the sum
mer in Italy.
GAINESVILLE Clifford Logan, %, ne
gro, confessed that he killed Wesley
A. (Capt) Vance. %. another negro.
in fight at Beloit. The killing was
the result of a dice game argument,
Logan stated He said that he
stabbed Vance in self defense, when
the latter started to draw a knife from
his pocket, after threatening him.
La Crosse-The proposal of the
Wisconsin Railway Light and Power
CO. TO operate eight one man street
cars here on trial and abandon the
effort, temporarily, to obtain an in
crease in fare, from cents to cents,
was accepted by the common council
The one-man cars will be tried for six
months.
Madison-Gov. Philip has appoint
ed Prof. L. S. Smith. city planning ex-
pert of the university, as delegate
from Wisconsin to the interallied con-
ference and town planning congress
which will be held in England from
June 3 to IL. Every state in this
country is entitled to one delegate.
La Crcgse-The third free union
high school in La Crosse county will
be erected in Mindoro at cost OF
$50. 1000, as a result of a special cleo
ton in school districts in the town
of Pennington. The other two rural
high schools are at West Salem and
Holmen.
Fond du Lac-Wilbur Krause.
years old. son of Mr.. and Mrs. VII
liam Krause. town Of @aupun, was
killed when he ran beneath the wheels
OF a wagon driven BY his father.