A look back on the year’s top stories of 2013 Posted: Dec. 23, 2013, Living Sussex Sun January · Brookfield developer Arthur Sawall outlines to Village officials his plans to develop a multiuse residential and retail complex at the corner of Waukesha Avenue and Main Street, the site of the former Mammoth Springs Cannery Co., including rerouting portions of the… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, July, 2013 No postings yet
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 »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller posted Living Sussex Sun, October, 2012 Posted: Oct. 17, 2012 100 years ago – Week of Oct. 17, 1912 The hilltop Union/Nelson Cemetery on Townline Road and Schlei Road that served Colgate and northwestern Menomonee Falls only had two burials in 1912. The first was James Lounsbury, 75, who died July 28,… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, September 5, 2012 100 years ago – Week of Sept. 5, 1912 Butter is 25 cents a pound, wheat 99 cents a bushel and corn 77 cents a bushel. The Prohibitionist Party is planning a political campaign in Waukesha County this fall. R.H. Gumz of Lannon has been… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, March 3, 2012 Pages From the Past March 3, 2012 100 years ago – week of March 7, 1912 Lisbon farmers are signing up to raise acreage of sugar beets for the Menomonee Falls Sugar Beet Co. Milwaukee Sheriff Arnold, a friend of Nelson Greengo of Lisbon,… Read more »
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Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller posted Living Sussex Sun, November, 2012 Posted: Nov. 9, 2012 100 years ago – Week of Nov. 7, 1912 Paul Heling, a Lisbon farmer that lived on what is today Highway 164, is recuperating after being struck by lightening. He was working his land when a rain storm came up. He… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, April 4, 2012 Pages From the Past Five years ago Week of April 4, 2007 Hamilton planned to put up a memorial for two fallen Hamilton soldiers, U.S. Army Airborne Corps. Spc. Michael Jankowski (1987) and U.S. Marine PFC Mike Wilson (1966). A bank, gas station and… Read more »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, August 1, 2012 100 years ago – Week of Aug. 1, 1912 A group of volunteers, mainly from Lannon, cleaned up the grounds of Sunnyside Cemetery. A newspaper article details the best way to blast out stumps. It reports a quarter-stick of dynamite will do it if well… Read more »
