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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 »
Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller posted Living Sussex Sun, December, 2012 Posted: Dec. 13, 2012 100 years ago – Week of Dec. 12, 1912 George Hoenig a local area cattle buyer shipped a carload of fancy steers to Chicago from Colgate. The warm, favorable weather has allowed Lannon stone crushers to continue their work and there is… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, July 6, 2011 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian 100 yrs ago – 1911 In a sad Lannon tale, Louis Schneider has been granted a divorce from his wife on proof of desertion. Many people from Lisbon and Sussex went to a Menomonee Falls July 4th affair in 1861, just as the… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, June 1, 2011 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian 100 yrs ago – June 1, 2011 The annual Memorial Day ceremony noted that the veterans of the Civil War are quickly dying off. A Waukesha County Civil War monument has been ordered at a cost of $4,000 from an Eastern firm. It… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, March 1, 2011 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Pages from the Past March 2, 2011 50 years ago – March 2, 1961 The Town of Lisbon had a primary in February as seven filed papers for two Lisbon supervisor seats. They were: Harry Bartlett, Oscar Ward, Robert Smocke, Ervin Schuldt, Will… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, May 3, 2011 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Pages from the Past May 4, 2011 Posted: May 3, 2011 100 years ago – May 4, 1911 The Lannon estate of Thomas McCartney and Heman Harmon have been offered for probate. McCartney was the executor of Marmon’s will and has died; a… Read more »
Pages from the Past By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Posted: Living Sussex Sun, November 2, 2011 Pages From the Past 100 years ago – Week of Nov. 2, 1911 Area hunters Alfred Cessar, John Huberty and John Feilsing were out hunting rabbits in Doylestown and came back with a record 93 rabbits and two squirrels on a weekend… Read more »