Category Archives: Pages from the past

Pages From The Past – December 2012

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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 – February 2012

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  Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, February , 2012 Pages From the Past February 29, 2012 100 years ago – week of Feb. 29, 1912 The Wittlin Motor Co. in Menomonee Falls via the Bugline Railroad received a shipment of 1912 Ford cars. The ad, “Children cry for Fletcher’s Castoria,” should probably read,… Read more »

Pages From The Past – January 2012

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  Pages from the Past by Fred H. Keller posted Living Sussex Sun, January 10, 2012 Pages From the Past 100 years ago – week of Jan. 11, 1912 As of Jan. 1, fire wood can not be sold by the “load.” It must have a cubic foot sale receipt. The new Ford touring car is for sale for $600… Read more »

Pages From The Past – March 2012

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  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 »

Pages From The Past – November 2012

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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 – April 2012

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  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 to the Past – July 2011

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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 »