Pages from the Past – February 2014 Posted: Feb. 11, 2014 1914 100 years ago Construction of the Canadian Grand Truck Railroad to the Pacific is completed. Mr. Walter Jones of Lannon married in late January in Iron Ridge, Ill. Wholesale prices for large live chickens varies between 12 and 15 cents. Roosters bring 9 cents a pound. Wholesale… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, July 2, 2014 Pages from the Past, July 2, 2014 Posted: June 27, 2014 100 years ago – 1914 F.E. Gissal, the new executive at the former Gumm Quarry, is giving personal direction to the large Lannon quarry operation. Another Lannon quarry transfer has occurred as the… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, May 1, 2013 Posted: April 30, 2013 100 years ago – Week of May 1, 1913 There is a lot of local interest about the area’s three post offices: One in Sussex, another in Templeton and one in Colgate. The story is that in Granville, robbers entered the… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, October, 2013 Posted: October 23, 2013 1913 — 100 years ago Among a vast collection of old photos recently downloaded to the new Waukesha County Historical Society are pictures of Lisbon pioneer farmers, Rodger Ainsworth and Elisha Pearl. The movie now showing at the Waukesha Colonial Theater is… Read more »
Pages from the Past – March 2013 100 years ago – Week of March 6, 1913 In Colgate, Miss Martha Connell put $4 in the rural mailbox for her residence and expected a $4 money order in return, but it is suspected that a “tramp” opened the mailbox and withdrew the money. Albert Schoeder, 18, died at his Lisbon home… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, November 5, 2013 1913 — 100 years ago Fred Schroeder and Art Lutz of Templeton went to Wood County for deer hunting. The Sussex Methodist Church will have a box lunch social in the church parlor next Friday night. A new law in Wisconsin this coming year required… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, April 3, 2013 Posted: April 11, 2013 100 years ago – Week of April 10, 1903 The Panama Canal opens for international shipping. A. L. Greengo, a prominent farmer on Woodside Road in Lisbon, went to the University of Wisconsin’s annual Short Course Agricultural Banquet reliving attending the… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, June, 2013 Posted: June 11, 2013 100 years ago June 12, 1913 Wisconsin defeated a suffrage vote in the state for the right to allow women to vote in the presidential election by a majority of 92,000 voters. In Major League Baseball, the two Philadelphia teams are… Read more »
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Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, 2013 August 21, 2013 1913 100 years ago Robert Jones, a fancy poultry hobbyist in Lannon has died of acute bladder trouble that came on suddenly. He was a talented paving stone cutter. Young Walter Haass suffered a severe hand accident as he caught his hand in… Read more »
