Pages From The Past Top Stories Year 2014Library disputes are top Sussex Sun news stories in 2014 Posted Living Sussex Sun, Dec. 26, 2014 In 2014, village residents debated a $21 million proposed civic campus project with a new village hall and YMCA, the Hamilton School District earned state and national honors, construction on the 190,000-square-foot Meijer grocery and… Read more »
Pages from the Past – January 2014 1914 100 years ago Edgar Rice Burroughs starts his “Tarzan of the Apes” book series. Ed Flanagan has been enjoying the good weather with his new Cadillac, as he takes a spin around Lannon. Also in Lannon, J.P. Flanagan has completed his new warehouse. Meanwhile, George Loos is improving his homes in… 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 – 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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 »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, December 3, 2013 1963 — 50 years ago Glenn Davis who is running for 9th District U.S. Representative to the House addressed the Lisbon GOP to get their endorsement. The Wis. State Supreme Court is listening to the counter claims of the Hamilton School District and the Village… Read more »
