Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-06-17

La Crosse-High prelates OF the
Catholic church and hundreds of
priests attended the funeral of the Rt.
Rev. James SchweDach. bishop of the
La Crosse diocese here. Archbishop
]. J. Keane, Dubuque, was the cele-
brant. The sermon was preached by
Bishop Patrick T. Hebron, Winona.
Mimi. Among the prominent church
men who attended the funeral We're:
Archbishop Austin Bowling, st. Paul;
Msgr Joseph Rainier. rector OF st.
Francis seminary, Milwaukee; Bishop
Sehinner, Spokane, and Bishop Eiss.
Marquette, Mich.
Green Bay-OrdeTs have been is
sued by the city to all grocers to only
deliver goods on a specified list on city
poor orders, as a result of the numer-
GUS bills coming before the council,
calling for groceries in The luxury
class such as tobacco and other non
essential merchandise. Card contain
ing the list of groceries for which pay
ment will be made by the city on poor
orders has been sent out to the store
keepers with the notification that all
other articles will be deducted from
invoices.
Sheboygan-Th state health de
partment has been stirred to further
action toward having a chlorine plant
Installed in Sheboygan by report of
the local health officer showing nine
cases of typhoid fever existed here in
May. The city was first ordered by
the state board to install the plant on
March Is. 1t is not in place at this
time. The city has advised the state
department that failure to put the
plant in place has been due to the de-
lay of the manufacturers.
Appleton - Building contractors of
the Fox river valley, who inaugurated
the open shop following the refusal of
union carpenters to accept wage cut
of 10 cents an hour on May 1, have
turned down a request signed by the
mayors and presidents of commercial
organizations in all the cities of the
penters. The request stated that
building has been held up and that
much suffering because of the house
shortage has resulted from the strike.
| Union carpenters expressed willing
ness to participate in the conference.
Madison-The horse business is by
no means dead, figures complied by
the state department of agriculture
show. Most of the 1858 owners of
stations who took out license in 1920
| have renewed their license for 1921.
The time will soon be here when a
horse will be worth more money than
at present" c. p Norgord, commits
sioner of agriculture, declared. "A
shortage of good draft horses is be-
coming more noticeable every day.
Brentwood the fact that a
| heavy tractor he was using to pillow
with fell. over and pinned him be-
meath, George Todd. Sr., will recover
/ from the accident. Mr.. Todd was
blowing on his farm near Shell Lake,
when the machine tipped over and
pinned him beneath the pillow and the
tractor. To extricate himself, team
of horses was used to pull the tractor
several feet.
Sheboygan-Th city of Sheboygan
is experiencing big saving by doing
its own paving work. Bids received
for paving more than mile of streets
! are reasonably close to the price at
which the city can do this work with
its own equipment and it is believed
by the city commissioners, that the
plan of doing it's work is having a
tendency to bring road building costs
closer to normal.
Manitowoc-This city will not estab-
| fish a daylight saving plan, the alder
men by vote of to 4 having de-
feated the measure. Petitions were
presented to the council containing
| 1886 signatures of citizens favoring
the daylight plan and 1917 names of
| those opposed to it. Socialists in the
council were active in defeating the
resolution, maintaining that the "big
interests" were behind it.
Birchwood-N. NJ Rockman, Barron,
has announced that he will give nine
prizes ranging from $50 to $3.50 for
the best essays written from the book,
1.-THE Life of Andrew Carnegie"
Those eligible are members of the
graduating classes of the Barron coun-
ty high schools of 1921.
Sheboygan-The cost of building
construction here during the month q
May totaled S62.462 according to the
monthly report of Building Inspector
Albert Mack of this city. The report
showed an increase of $S,7S4 over that
of the same month in 1920.