Showing posts with label burglary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burglary. Show all posts

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Burglar Nabbed in a Grocery

New York, 1895

Louis Wagner, who keeps a grocery in Laurel Hill, had a struggle with a burglar Sunday morning. The burglar, who said he was a New Yorker named John Reilly, was captured and is now in jail.

Mr. Wagner was aroused at 4 A. M. by the barking of his watchdog, which he keeps chained at night in his grocery, over which he sleeps. Wagner took his revolver and went down stairs. On opening the door leading to the store he saw a man behind the counter trying to open the money drawer. Wagner pointed his revolver at Reilly and told him to hold up his hands. The burglar complied, but when Wagner was about to grab him he turned upon the grocer and a hand to hand struggle ensued.

Both men fell to the floor in the scuffle, with Wagner on top. The grocer hammered the burglar with the butt end of his revolver until Reilly asked for mercy. In the mean time Wagner's wife and family were awakened. They summoned assistance, and the burglar was overpowered. Reilly said that he had come to Laurel Hill to witness a prize fight, and that he had lost his way. He found a window open and thought he would go inside for shelter.


Charged with Robbing a Comrade

The officers of Hempstead are looking for Charles Dispella, who is charged with stealing $200 and a lot of jewelry from a fellow workman. Dispella was engaged last Tuesday by Nathan Heilman. He was missing Sunday and upon investigation it was found that he had carried away the valuables and money from the trunk of Julius Yager, another laborer.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 10, 1895, p. 8.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Burglars at Cold Spring

New York, 1895

On Sunday night for the second time within three months burglars broke into the post office and the store of Seaman & Bennett, at Cold Spring Harbor. The safes were not disturbed in either place. A package of 500 pennies was taken from the store. The burglars failed to secure anything at the post office.


Mrs. Goodale Gets a Divorce

Mrs. Lillian Goodale was granted a divorce from her husband on Tuesday by Justice Barnard, sitting in Long Island City. The husband's name is Howell P. Goodale and he is a well-known resident of Port Washington.


For Passing a Worthless Check

August Stemker, of Long Island City, was sent to jail for twenty days and fined $10 by Justice McKenna of Whitestone for passing a worthless check on Andrew Seaman, a butcher.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 19, 1895, p. 1.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

A Pest of Burglars

New York, 1895

The people of Flushing are becoming alarmed over the robberies that have been committed there within a few days. Some time on Wednesday afternoon sneak thieves entered the residence of Oscar Leek and stole a gold watch and chain and some small articles of jewelry. Thursday morning when Michael McKenna went to feed his horse, he found the horse and wagon missing. An attempt was made to enter Edward Morse's residence. Mr. Morse shot at the burglars and they fled in the darkness.


Fire on a Ferryboat

The Long Island railroad ferryboat Sag Harbor was discovered to be on fire late Saturday night on a trip from New York. Unknown to many of the passengers the deck hands extinguished the fire.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 15, 1895, p. 1.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Burglars Busy at Hunter's Point

New York, 1895

The Long Island City police are trying to run down a band of petty burglars who have been operating in the Hunter's Point section of the city for the past two weeks. The latest work of the gang was early Sunday morning, when James Hicks's saloon, on Jackson avenue, was broken into and sixteen bottles of brandy carried off. Patrick Sheehan's saloon was also broken into, and the cash register, containing $4 in change, rifled.


Fire At Whitestone

Payne's large carpenter shop was burned at Whitestone Friday morning. The building was valued at $1,000. Hansom Whitmore's dwelling-house, close to the shop caught fire and though the frame is standing, is a total wreck. It was valued at $2,000, and insured for $1,000.


Burned Out the Cigarmaker

The residence of Joseph Thunia, a cigarmaker at Bohemia, near Sayville, was destroyed by fire early Friday morning. The family were forced to leave hurriedly in their nightclothes, saving nothing.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 1, 1895, p. 1.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Threw the Goods Into a Well

New York, 1895

On Friday night the store of Edward Baldwin at Bayville was broken into and goods worth $15 stolen. On Saturday some of the goods were found under a barn near by Monday morning Officer Monilaws arrived with a search warrant. He went to the house occupied by Harry West to look for the goods. West waited until the officer got inside the house when he threw a lot of goods out of a window and afterward tossed them into an old well. The officer saw him and fished the goods out. West was arrested, charged with burglary.


Poor Overseers in Debt

The town of Newtown met on Friday. Town Clerk Robinson offered a resolution requesting the board of supervisors to authorize the supervisor of Newtown to borrow $5,500 for the purpose of paying that amount of bills now due to grocers and others for the support of the poor. Over $1,100 is due the Temporary Home for Children.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 1, 1895, p. 2.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Caught Him Red Handed

New York, 1895

A Burglar Who Was Operating at Richmond Hill.

Between 2 and 3 o'clock on Saturday morning, Randolph Smith, private watchman at Richmond Hill, saw a light in one of the new buildings in course of erection by Haugaard Brothers, on Maple street.

Going closer he saw a man cross the road with an arm full of carpenter's tools. Upon seeing Smith the man dropped the tools and ran. Smith blew his whistle for help and Clarence Badger joined him. A lantern being procured, search was made for the man, who was found under the extension of one of the new buildings. He was locked up in the Town Hall.

It was found that a house, in which was kept the tools of twenty carpenters, had been broken open and tools to the value of over $200 placed on the stoop ready for removal. About the same hour carpenter's tools to the value of $100 were stolen from a house in course of erection on Myrtle avenue. The officers believe that the man they arrested had accomplices, and that they had a horse and wagon.

The prisoner was arraigned before Justice Hendrickson on Saturday. He pleaded not guilty to the charges of burglary and grand larceny. He gave his name as Frank Wilson, age 21 years, residence, New York. The prisoner was well dressed. He claimed that he was on a spree and went under the stoop to sleep. When he was searched a three foot rule, with Mr. Haugaard's name stamped upon it, was found upon him. He was held without bail to await the action of the grand jury.

Officer Smith says the prisoner is the man he shot at one night in December last, on Lefferts' avenue, as he was running away with a bag of silver ware that he had stolen from the residence of Mr. Willetts.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 1.

Friday, February 29, 2008

A Solomon and Hypnotism

1900

A story is told in Collier's Weekly of a judge who lately had the hypnotic plea raised before him by a burglar. The prisoner claimed that he did not know that he was "burgling," that he did it automatically and unconsciously, under the direction of a hypnotist.

The judge said he would give him the full benefit of the law, and also of his hypnotic misfortune. He therefore sentenced the man to five years' penal servitude, but told him he could, if he chose, send for the hypnotist and have himself made unconscious for the entire term of his imprisonment.

"The same power," said the judge, "which enabled you to commit burglary and not know it ought also to enable you to suffer imprisonment with hard labor and not be aware of it. At any rate, this is the best I can do for you."

Monday, June 11, 2007

Lily-White Record is Lost to County

1920

Along Comes Burglar and Spills the Precious Beans

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — The record of St. Clair County as a lily-white community has at last been broken. For seven years the residents of St. Clair, with a population of 17,000, boasted that not a single prisoner at the State penitentiary had been sent from the county. They pointed out their lack of representation in the institution was not due to laxity in the enforcement of the law, but to the law-abiding character of its citizens. Then along came Ivy Schuby.

Ivy forced an entrance into a dwelling and helped himself to the contents. It was burglary.

"Two years," said the judge.

And St. Clair County is no longer without representation.


Bitten by Ex-Prince's Dog

WIERENGEN, Holland. — A huge mastiff which the former Crown Prince Frederick William has adopted as a pet and which accompanies him on his daily strolls through this village, has been made the subject of an official complaint to the village council. Schoolmaster de Ruyter charged that the dog bit him, and wanted it declared a nuisance, but the petition apparently was tabled.

Sledgehammer Bandits Raid St. Paul Safes

1920

Also Steal 800 Quarts of Liquor From State Asylum

ST. PAUL, Minnesota — The band of "sledgehammer" bandits, after looting more than fifty safes in Minneapolis in the past month, evidently have begun operations in St. Paul by raiding three Como avenue business places.

The lock of a safe at the Great Lakes Coal and Dock Company was hammered open and $500 worth of Liberty bonds and $40 in cash was taken.

The same gang is believed to have hammered the lock from the safe at the Carnegie Dock and Fuel Company, and strong box in the office of a third Como avenue company.

That the "sledgehammer" bandits have a taste for good liquor as well as safes became apparent when nine of them in three automobiles made an informal call on the State asylum for the insane at Anoka.

Eight hundred quarts of liquor, used for medicinal purposes, packed in the refrigerator, were stolen.


Hens Laying for a Record

LINCOLN, Nebraska — Twenty-six hens laid 23 or more eggs each during February in the national egg-laying contest being conducted by the Nebraska agricultural experiment station. One hen laid 28 eggs. She is a Rhode Island Red, owned by M. C. Peters, of Omaha. Two others, both White Leghorns, laid 25 eggs each. Seventeen hens laid 22 eggs each.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Steals Ring From Baby

New York, 1914

Burglar Cleans Out House and Then Plunders Infant

The meanest man in the world, new 1914 spring and summer model, broke into Herman J. Boecklin's house, in Kent, Westchester county yesterday.

He stole two watches, a diamond ring, silverware, bric-a-brac, and $18 which he found under a mattress. He also took the family revolver. But to show what he was capable of he proceeded as follows:

He took a piece of soap and greased 14-month-old Helen Boecklin's finger slipping off her little gold ring.

He cut a gold chain and locket from her neck.

He smashed her toy bank and took $4.63.

Lest Helen should cry, he took her out of her crib while he stole her jewelry. Then he went away leaving her on the floor. Her cries brought neighbors who discovered the burglary. — The New York Herald.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Robert Louis Stevenson's Grandson Finds Buried Treasure

1910

SAN FRANCISCO — When little Louis Osborne, the eight-year-old son of Lloyd Osborne, novelist and stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson, armed himself with his midget shovel and went out on a sand hill near his home here to dig a few days ago he had visions of finding treasure. This is not an unusual thing for the lad, for he has not heard his father's illustrious stepfather talked about without getting some spirit of adventure of the author of "Treasure Island" fixed in his mind.

So while Louis dug he hummed "Sixteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest, Yo! Ho! Ho! and a Bottle of Rum."

The lad stopped digging because his shovel had encountered an obstruction. Tested carefully the thing that resisted proved to be metal. Then Louis dug more furiously than ever. In a few moments he unearthed a metal box. And, sure enough, it contained treasure. Opening it hastily, the boy found 2,600 shares of valuable stock, deeds to city property, other valuable papers and several empty ring boxes.

Of course, the boy did not realize the value of the property, but he knew the papers must be worth a great deal or they would not have been placed in such a secure box. So he hastily carried his find to his mother, who turned the property over to the police. The papers belong to Augustus Imbrie, a wealthy man whose house is closed and who is out of the city. The police think robbers ransacked the Imbrie residence and, after taking money and jewelry from the box, buried it.

Crime Time — Burglary, Reckless Riding, A Mysterious Call

Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1908

BURGLAR WAS A JACK-IN-BOX

Leaps Through Trap Door and Scares Servant Girl

Startled by seeing a man jump through the outside trap door of the furnace room a servant girl in the home of J. E. Wallace, 315 Oakland avenue, rushed up stairs Monday evening, and informed Mr. Wallace that there had been a burglar in the house.

Mr. Wallace reported the matter to the police, but the girl was able to give only a meager description of the man. She had gone down into the furnace room about 8:30 o'clock, and her sudden appearance startled the intruder, putting him to flight.

Harry Taylor and Renos Anderson, 19 and 16 years of age, were arraigned before Judge Snyder yesterday on the charge of fast and reckless riding. The case was continued until April 10 and the boys were released on good behavior, under orders from the court to appear on that date and give an account of themselves.

The boys were stopped by Deputy Marshal Crum in the midst of a race down Vine street, from First street to the police station, where they were taken in custody and later released on their own recognizance.

The hearing of the case of William Frisbie and George Drummond, charged by William Van Brunt with larceny, occupied considerable time before Judge Snyder, but the court held that while the evidence was strong, it was not sufficient to warrant their being bound over to the grand jury.

Frisbie refused to tell to whom he telephoned until pressed by the court, when he said he had called his home through a neighbor, not caring to call his own number for family reasons. He gave the number he had called to Deputy Marshal Crum, who inquired of the family whether Frisbie had called there, receiving a negative answer. Frisbie explained this by saying that he had not thought the people would care to answer for fear of being dragged into the family differences.

—The Daily Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 11, 1908, p. 5.

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Safeguards Against Thieves

1888

A Reformed Burglar Tells Householders How to Protect Their Property

First of all, I may say that the householder, especially if his house is situated in the suburbs, should count as next to nothing the protection afforded by the night policeman on his beat. I don't mean to insinuate that the night policeman neglects his duty. I believe that, as a rule, he performs it as well as he is able to, and it may be pretty safely relied on that at each time he passes a row of villas he will cast the light of his bull's eye over the front garden, if there is one, and over the house front, and the lower windows and street door. If there is no front garden, he will see that all is right and tight in the area as well. But his beat is a long one, and it is probable he will not pass that way again for an hour, or perhaps longer. So that if there is a job afoot all that those engaged in it have to do is to hide and see the policeman off and they then know exactly how much time they have to get through their work before he can make his appearance again.

Speaking from my experience, and from that of others with whom I have been acquainted, I should say that at least a fourth part of the number of private house burglaries that are successfully committed are assisted by servants. But speaking of ordinary work it is the female servants who are made useful and that quite innocently on their part. Masters and mistresses have no idea what easy simpletons many girls in service are, or how easily they are induced to betray the secrets of the house. And not only girls, but women, cooks and housemaids, who are old enough to know better. A smart chap, with plenty to say and with money to spend, has but to scrape acquaintance with the kind of servants I am alluding to when they are out for church on Sunday and meet them a few times afterward, and he can learn all he wants to know respecting the valuable stuff in the house and where it is kept, and the ways and habits of their employers and when they are at home and when away.

It is not often the burglar himself who in this way goes a-fishing for useful information. Generally speaking, he is not what may be called a "ladies' man." He is very well in his own line, but he hasn't got the good looks or the insinuating ways that go down with the fair sex. That part of the programme is intrusted to the "sweetstuff man." He is an affable, well spoken young fellow, very respectably dressed, and so respectable in his manner that even if he was caught in the kitchen with the servants at houses where followers are strictly prohibited his appearance would disarm suspicion.

It should not be forgotten that the burglar has no particular desire in the pursuit of his calling to run his head into more danger than is necessary, and there is nothing that is so much to his liking as parapet work — getting in at attic windows that are screened by the roof parapet. Not one householder in a score gives a thought as to the security of the attic window. He will have the street door iron plated, with a patent lock on it, and a chain strong enough to hold an elephant, but a catch that can be put back with a bradawl is good enough for the attic window, and all the time it is quite as easy to enter by one way as the other — if the houses stand in a row and one of them happens to be empty. This is one of the opportunities the fraternity are always on the lookout for.

Nothing can be easier than to enter an unoccupied house at the basement, and once within all a man has to do is to walk upstairs and go out on to the parapet, and there, well screened from view by the coping, he can creep on his hands and knees, and by means of the attic windows get into any house he has a fancy for. If it is winter time, and after dark, he will have no difficulty in taking stock of the front windows before he makes the accent, and so ascertaining which of the front rooms are occupied or if the family is at dinner. If the latter he can be pretty sure that the servants are all down stairs, and he can explore the upper rooms without much fear of interruption. This wouldn't be called in the profession tip top work, but it is a means by which householders lose a considerable amount of portable property, and it very rarely happens that the robber is caught in the act.

As regards house fastenings there is, in my opinion, nothing safer for windows than a long thumb screw in a socket, going right through the frame and deep into the sash on both sides of the window. I don't know if there have been any wonderful inventions in that way since I took an interest in such things, but I never saw a door fastener except the thumb screw that should give a workman a minute's trouble. For the street door there is nothing so good as a flat bar fastened to a pivot to the center, so that it will extend across the jambs and drop into slots made on the plan of a watch and chain swivel. For window shutters the cheapest and best protection is a lightly hung bell on a coil spring. But better than locks, bolts and bars is a wiry little dog that, roaming loose, will open his pipes and let all the house know it the moment he hears a suspicious noise at door or window. — London Telegraph.

Friday, May 4, 2007

A Chinese Trick Explained — "Melican Man Do Findee Out"

1878

George III, it is reported, was once puzzled when eating apple dumplings to know how the apple got inside the dumpling.

During a recent Chinese banquet at San Francisco an orange was laid at the plate of each guest. The fruit, on being cut open, was found to contain five kinds of delicate jellies. Colored eggs were also served, in the inside of which were found nuts, jellies, meats and confections. When one of the Americans asked the interpreter to explain this legerdemain of cookery, he laughed heartily, shook his head and replied: "Melican man heap smart — why he not findee out?"

The orange "trick" is easy to see through. A hole about of the size a ten-cent piece is made in the skin, through which the pulp is taken out; then one kind of jelly, warmed so that it will run, is poured into the orange; when it has cooled another is poured in, and so on until the orange is filled. When the jellies are different colors, the effect on cutting the orange is very striking.



He Made a Mistake

A Michigan farmer, named Harris, has had so many adventures with burglars that he never dares in go to market, in Detroit, without having a gun behind him in his wagon.

Soon after daylight last Tuesday he saw something on the highway that looked like a horse blanket, and while he was getting out of the wagon to pick it up a man confronted him and cried out: "I was waiting for you to come along." Without delay the cautions farmer seized his gun and fired a charge of bird shot almost in the face of the enemy, who retreated in great disorder, screaming and yelling.

The farmer drove on very complacently, thinking that he would have a good story for the boys at the tavern, but discovered a few yards down the road a broken wagon loaded with poultry. The man whom he had stuffed with bird shot was not a robber, but a small farmer who had lost his horse blanket and gone back to look for it.

The repentant marksman went back and tried to comfort his unfortunate fellow-traveler, and found him sitting on a log and counting the wounds — some thirty or more.

Note: "Last Tuesday was sometime in January 1878 or perhaps 1877 sometime. By the way, how do you like the guy's policy of shoot first and ask questions later? Not so good. He could've pulled the gun and had the guy state his business.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Charge of Burglary Halts Man's Wedding

1920

Intended Bridegroom Is Accused of Part in Bank Robbery

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Love may laugh at locksmiths, but not always when there is a reinforcement of iron bars and a jail cell.

This was brought home to Miss Nettie Dorothy Irle and Lowell H. Mills, prominent in social circles of central Illinois, when the latter was arrested the day before the marriage of the pair was to have been celebrated. He was accused of being a principal in the robbery of the bank at Mansfield two years ago, an occurrence which has always been shrouded in mystery.

Protesting his innocence, Mills was taken to the Platt County jail at Monticello, where he was held until friends could furnish $5,000 bail. He then hurried back to his weeping fiancee, who was ready to marry him, even with the charge of burglary hanging over him. But the girl's father, George C. Irle of Champaign, peremptorily forbade the union until the defendant was formally acquitted.


Peace Treaty Is Slow Seller

PARIS, France — Copies of the treaty of Versailles sell for 25 cents in Parisian book stores. There is little demand for it, however, and the price is expected to drop to a nickel a copy.

—Published March, 1920 but events did not necessarily occur immediately near that date.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Notes Around Town – Motion Pictures, Fobs, and Fish

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, May 29, 1907

A. W. Carle, proprietor and manager of the Ideal theatre, will give the usual program of moving pictures, illustrated songs and musical numbers on Sunday afternoons and evenings.

Benjamin Sias, of Sparta, who won the district declamatory contest in this city a couple of weeks ago, was named the best speaker at the state contest, held in Madison, last Friday evening.

Chas. U. Conlisk left for the Sacred Heart Sanitarium, Milwaukee, Monday morning, to take a course of treatment, he not having been feeling well of late. He will no doubt return in a short time fully recuperated.

The latest fad! Gold plated signet Normal and High school fobs. Call and see them at French, Campbell & Co.

The machine shop of F. A. Sustins, on North Third street, was entered through a window Friday night and a number of valuable tools stolen. A bar was pryed off a window after a pane of glass had been broken.

Mrs. E. I. Tozier, who resides just west of the city in the town of Linwood, has been afflicted with blood clots in the veins and tissues for the past few years, and will leave next week for the Sacred Heart Sanitarium, Milwaukee, to remain some weeks under the care of the able physicians and nurses there.

J. W. Moxon and son, Arnold, returned Monday morning on train No. 1 from Gills Landing, where they had spent Saturday night and part of Sunday on the Wolf river, catching bass. No bass offered to take their bait, but a huge rock sturgeon, weighing 47½ pounds was secured by Arnold. His father assisted in landing the big fish.

Judge Murat has ordered Willie Koslowski, of Junction City, to be committed to the Boys' Industrial school at Waukesha. The boy refused to obey his parents and was given into Sheriff Guyant's charge, Thursday, he being taken to that institution thereafter.

Jack Carkeek, who in years gone by was one of the best known wrestlers in this country, but who has spent the past few years across the ocean, has been renewing acquaintances in this city for a few days.

Geo. L. Rogers and John Martini left here Tuesday morning for Mt. Clemens, Mich., to remain about three weeks and enjoy the health-giving baths of that resort. Both gentlemen have been troubled with rheumatism for some time.

Rev. Russell Wilber, archdeacon of Fond du Lac, conducted services in the Episcopal church here Sunday morning and evening. The visiting clergyman made a fine impression, he being a speaker of unusual ability, with a pleasing manner and a convincing form of expression.

—The Gazette, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, May 29, 1907

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Burglar Was Refused Food, Breaks In

1920

Burglar Was Refused Food

Begged for "Bite" at Back Door and Upon Denial Breaks in Front

SEATTLE, Feb. 25. — Entering the front door of a residence after he had been refused assistance at the back, a daylight burglar obtained $160 Monday morning in the boldest robbery reported to the police for weeks. Mrs. J. B. Malone reported to the Ballard police station that after she and several of her neighbors had refused to aid a thirty-five-year-old man who was begging through the district she went from her residence, where she had been at work, into a front room and found that $160 had been taken from a bureau drawer. Children playing nearby told of seeing the beggar enter the front door.

—The Evening State Journal and Lincoln Daily News, Lincoln, Nebraska, February 25, 1920, page 8.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Probably Hobo Burglars Stocking Up for Winter

Lisbon, Wisconsin, 1911

BURGLARS AT WORK

Raiding Stores in Northern Portion of The County—Schroeder Loses $100

Lisbon, Nov. 21.—Last Friday morning when Frank Schroeder went to his till he found that it had been smashed and emptied during the night and about $20 in cash taken. On further investigation he found that he was the loser of shirts, pants, coats, jewelry and watches. The loss will be hard to estimate, bit he is sure that $100 worth of goods were taken. It looks like hobos' work — just stocking up for the winter.

The long-needed electric bell is now installed at the Soo crossing in Templeton. This is one of the bad railway crossings as it is less than fifteen seconds sometimes from the time a train appears under the N.W. bridge until it crosses the highway, and the heavy grade of the N.W. road obstructs most of the noise and sound of the train and whistle, which may be sounded north of said crossing.

Mrs. Sarah and Miss Luella Bonham and Miss Winnie Campbell left Wednesday for a few weeks' visit with relatives and friends in Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Brown and Mrs. E. Gerken left last week Thursday for Decatur, Ill., where they will visit their sister, Mrs. Chester Christman. They expect to return this week.

Fred Stier returned Thursday from Sheldon, where he was deer hunting. He brought home one of the choicest does that ever came to this town.

George W. Elliott left Friday for Leona, where he will visit his brother, R. S. Elliott, M. D., and also to look for deer. We hope he will escape the buck fever.

There is nothing doing at the big well at the N. W. depot. The drill is stuck at the depth of 690 feet, where it has been for over a month. Charles E. Weaver, James and Robert Booth returned from Sheldon Tuesday. Charles and Bob each had a deer. Jim got a skunk.

H. W. Abel drove to Colgate Sunday, where he attended the funeral of Mrs. J. Busse.

Rev. Mr. Kaper went to Juneau last week to attend the dedicatory services of a new church on Sunday. Dr. Rollins conducted services here in his stead. The Ladies' Missionary society will meet next Wednesday with Mrs. George McKerrow. Don't forget the big fair and chicken pie supper this afternoon and evening in the M. E. church parlors.

—The Waukesha Freeman, Waukesha, Wisconsin, November 23, 1911, page 5.