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


Madison-A number of cadets of the
state university reserve officers train
ing corps win take examinations for
first lieutenant or second lieutenant
in the United States army on Aug. o.
There are 5000 vacancies in the com
missioned personnel of the infantry.
cavalry, field artillery, coast artillery.
engineers, air service, chemical war.
fare service, and Philippine scouts
National guardsmen, men who have
had two years service in the regular
army, and graduates of accredited
technical schools are also eligible to
take the examinations.
Fond du Lae-Jone Ackley, the old
est resident in the village of Brandon
and one of the oldest in the state
celebrated his one hundredth and sec
ond birthday June 6. He is physically
in good health. Mr. Ackley was born
in 1919 in New York state, where he
resided until 1850, when he came west,
settling in Fairwater, Fond du Lac
county. He has been resident of the
village of Brandon and OF Fond du Lac
county twenty-nine years, having been
engaged as a farmer. His wife died
in 1904 at the age of IS.
Eau Records of Eagle post,
G.. A. r. of Eau Claire, showing the
total membership list and the present
membership, give a graphic illustra-
ton of the rapidity with which the
boys of 1S61-65 are answering the last
call of taps" The maximum mem
bership of Eagle post, named after the
famous war eagle, "Old Abe" carried
by the old Eagle company of Eau
Claire, according to the records was
436; while the present membership is
So, showing loss of 1888.
Appleton-A meeting of school dis
trict clerks will be held in Appleton
in the near future to discuss revision
of salaries paid to teachers in Outa-
gamie county rural schools. The pres
ent minimum salary is $50 month.
with no maximum, and 1t is proposed
to reduce the minimum to S75 and fix
500 as the maximum pay per month.
Several teachers now are receiving as
much as $3.50 month.
Green Settlement of the strike
at the John Hoberg Co. paper mill was
affected when President Frank H.
Hoberg signed an agreement with a
strikers committee putting into effect
the Is 2l3 per cent wage reduction or
dered by the mill May 1. The agree
ment settles a strike in progress at the
mill since May /, when more than 800
employees walked out.
Madison-The Wisconsin hay crop
prospect declined over 100000 tons
during May, Joseph A. Becker, OF the
Wisconsin cooperative crop reporting
service says in his June crop report.
Total production is forecast at 4,79?
600 tons, compared to the 5,036,OOO
forecast on May /, the 5.273,000 pro-
duced in 1920. and the fiye-year aver
age of 4,S54,000 tons.
Members of the Marsh
field Rotary club and the William j.
Lesselyong American Legion post have
Joined forces 10 raise fund of $500
through popular subscription to erect
a monument in the local cemetery to
heroes of the late war. An intensive
house to house canvass will be con-
Quoted.
Green Bay-Dr. Thomas Burke, 65,
brother of Timothy Burke, Green Bay
state senator, died at his home at
Wayside, Brown county. after an i'll
ness of nearly two months. DIR. Burke
was well known in state medical cir
cles.
Hnlsboro-Mrs. Adeline S, Tongue,
who has been a resident of Hillsboro
for more than sixty years. celebrated
her one hundredth anniversary at TIE
home of her daughter-in-law. Miss
Annie Tongue. here. with large num-
Der of relatives present.
Hayward-It was not bank rob
berry this time, nor a regular holdup.
Bandits stole $500 pounds of dynamite
when they entered the powder maya
zine of the Hayward Hardware Co.
near here. The dynamite was hauled
away in truck or heavy wagon.
Sheboygan A great grey eagle,
measuring seven feet from wing tip
10 tip. was brought down by Arthur
wunsch, a farmer living near Haven
Sheboygan county. when he laid in
wait for the marauder that was carry
ing of his plump geese.
Fond du Lac-R NJ. Smith. Pesh-
tigo. was reelected president Of the
Association of Trustees. Matrons and
Superintendents of County Asylums
for the Chronic Insane at the TWEEN
tieth annual convention. which was
held here.