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Youngsters Pay Membership to Swim All Summer in Supervised Pool at Lake in Mukwonago Playing In sand are (left to right) Don Foster, Phillip and Eloise Hall, and Bonnie Knowlton, all of Eagle. (Freeman Staff Jacqueline, 8, and Janaine Albee, 5, Mukwonago enjoy water Youngsters Have Supervised Swimming at Mukwonago poof Dousman Community Plans Annual Social At Memorial Park DOUSMAN The Communitj dub of Dousman is planning its Annual Social on Thursday, Julj 29, at Memorial park. Some of the features include the Dixie Band, and water fights between Dela field and Wales fire department at 6:30 p.m. Junior water fights will also be held. In case of rain, the annual event will be held on Friday, July 30.

Delafield News By HAZEL B. HOLT DELAFIELD The annual Carnival given by the Delafield Volunteer Fire Department will be the week end of August in Fire- Miens' Park, on Milwaukee street The Fire department auxiliary vriL assist in serving the supper, anc would be glad of donations of cakes One hundred and eighty young people from Camp Nagawicka anc the St. John's Camps for boys attended the Braves' baseball game in Milwaukee Saturday. Miss Lois Erdmann has received notice that she has been awarded a four hundred dollar scholarship by the Johnson Wax Company of Racine. She will be a senior at the University of Wisconsin this fall, and is the daughter of Mrs.

William Erdmann, and the late Mr. Erdmann. of Delafield. Miss Erdniann has made an outstanding record throughout her high school career, and since she entered the University. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, honory scholastic fraternity, during her junior year.

She has appeared with the Wisconsin Players, and over WHA in several plays. She is active in the student Presbyterian church, where she plays the organ. Robert Lowerre, older son of Postmaster and Mrs. Thomas Lowerre, is at home on a two week furlough from Camp Custer, near Denver. This is his first leave with his parents since he was inducted into service, six months ago.

Miss Dorothy Farrand returned home from a visit to her cousin. Mrs. John Stuhmer, Plains, New York. in White The Rev. A.

A. Vogel of Nashotah House, and rector of St. John Chrysostom's church, Delafield. wfll return this week from a trip of COUNTY WAUKESHA DAILY FREEMAN CHET SZYMCZAK County Editor (Freeman Staff Photo) CITY SCALE PLATFORM--Standing on the city scale plat- form on the east side of the Oconomowoc city hall is Hans Buehler, City Engineer and director of public works. Buehler's men soon will begin to dismantle the scale and platform, complying with a motion approved by city council.

The scale, approximately 22 by 8 feet, is about 40 years old, Buehler estimated. In bad need of repairs and not big enough to handle semi-trailers effectively, the scale was abandoned about a year ago. 13 Elderly Women Guests Sf. John's Home Ladies Visitors at Nagawicka By HAZEL B. HOLT DELAFIELD Fifteen residents of the St John's Home for Elderly Women came out from their handsome red brick house at 1222 North Cass street in Milwau- to spend the day recently at he summer home of air.

and Sirs. Victor Stamm of Milwaukee, on the east shore of Lake Naga- wicka. Members of the Board of Managers, of which Mrs. Stamm is one, irought the ladies to the country in their cars for this outing, an annual event. A delicious lunch was served on the screened porch, and the afternoon was taken up with watching the activity on the lake, and six weeks to England, and Paris.

much conversation. While in England she took a short course of study at the Anglican College ri Canterbury. Mrs. Vogel and their children spent most of the time of his absence in Milwaukee, u-ith her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Nunn. Miss Helen St. George of Oconomowoc Lake is expected home by August first from a four months' stay in jingland. The Rev. Dalton McDonald, pastor of the DelaSeld Presbyterian church.

Held a Communion service in the Dousman church on Sunday. His place here was taken by James Erdmann of DelaSeld. student pastor for the summer of the Dousman church. Besides the co-operative chairman of the home from several of the county and city Episcopal churches, and the board of managers, special guests were Miss Elizabeth Hearding. Mrs.

Prescott Ritchie and Mrs. Harris Holt, all of DelaSeld. St. John's Home is supported by the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee. All the churches of that denomination in Waukesha county are a part of that division of parishes.

An unusual zealous interest is shown all over the Diocese! in the doing for "The when making their wills, to remember St. John's Home. The home was started in the Old City Hall Gets Face Lifted Baseball Gomes, Outings, Tours, Excursions Made School Buses Have Fun in Summertime OKAUCHEE During the winter months, Fred Braun's fleet of eight orange school buses are serious, hard xvorking little vehicles, soberly plying their various ways between the outlying areas of Dela- OCOXOMOWOC Face-lifting I field, Merton, Oconomowoc, Ixonia operations have begun on the Summit townships, and the year old city hall. Workmen this week began to dis- schools. Bur when summer rolls around mantle the fire hose tower on become frivolous, carefree northwest corner of the building, things and head for fun.

Tney al- The bell tower on top of the ways find it, too. This summer Braun and his buses will transport groups to 30 Braves' games in Milwaukee, to bowling tournaments around the state, to Milwaukee's radio city, filtration plant and Johnson Cooky to the Chevrolet plant at Janes- vitle. and to Cave of the Mounds 2nd the Wisconsin Delis. clock in front of the building be dismantled and replaced with a pitched roof. Meanwhile, workmen have begun to paint the windows.

The main work that of resurfacing the building with a light gray plastic-like covering sealed under pressure-will oegm, also apout two three State orison, and other Engmser Hans Buehler said Tues-j spo of mteres Milwaukee, in- a 'eluding the zoo, museum and Jones' Island. lese are some of the trips Braun has made thus far. but if you like, he will whisk your group to any point in the state for any length of time, "provided we're back for school." And. he maintains, it will cost you less than any other form of transportation. cost the city $7,450.

The contract awarded early this month to the Standard Roofing Siding Co. of Madison. Big Bend News By LELIA HAVERBERG BIG BEND The Rev. and Mrs. H.

L. Alldredge left Sunday for Rochester. where they rxpect to spend several days while Mrs. Alldredge goes through Mayo clinic for a complete physical examination. Dr.

and Mrs. F. L. Bernd and daughter. Barbara, are on a two veeks' trip through northwestern Jmted States and British Columbia.

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Smith, former residents v.ho left Bend -imer residents v.no leir 18.0s, and, outgrowing the first Uvo years ago to live OuiJaing the present fine edifice Beach. have been visiting Braun has been in the charter Fred Braun helps youngster into bus nia. The good natured Okauchee driver easily turned the incident into a profitable conservation lesson for the awed youngsters.

The school bus system has improved 100 per cent in the last ten years, Braun stated. Each operator- is governed' by rigid rules in the Wisconsin School Bus Operator's manual published by the State Motor Vehicle the townships pay the entire cost of transporting the children to and from school. Safety and first aid equipment is required and buses must be kept in top working order for yearly State Motor Vehicle dept. inspections. The biggest problem to the drivers is tardiness, but Braun has gotten around it by setting a three minute schedule at every stop, especially in cold weather.

Xo student has more than one-half mile to go to each stop, a far cry from the days when a six mile hike to school was nothing. The seven drivers working for Braun are Robert Luko. Alfred Forbes, Edward Hammel and Don Thompson, all of a a Hilicker, Oconomowoc. Paul Radke. Ixonia, and Roy Tirre- ton, of Delafield.

populations C0 ur.tv and -tournament at Eau Claire; and the rt bus busmen eight years as long today 350 children toiHartL.nd Correct Equinment ball Former as he has been hauling kids to Fred Braun fo ane l( jance at'club to a championship match at schools. He got started nd high school because there was no Okauchee at the ed a garage school bus from time and it seem- Saukville. In Convent as Novices Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Nichols The buses also are used in winter Rutte) and children of child psychology; now the moppets i to convey school teams and spec-, soendine this week behave like gold and there's no gators to sports tournaments and aukee are endm thisi week It didn't take Fred long to catch to fundamentals of group a a i i I I -But mostlv," he confided.

more hooping and hollering music festivals. wanted to be around kids and people. Can you think of a better way to do both?" We couldn't. the Okauchee man's buses. jwith her mother, Mrs.

Joseph Rut- any of the! Braun is anything but, shut will tell you matter of factly i ea the Roman Catholic Oraer of certain qualities are needed! Sacred fceart. as a nov.ce. and Discussing the summer charterjfor both types of driving. Summer driving is quite differ- work ttft bus man said Irs "You've got to have good judg- was built and JEST'S SgO. Jx CijApx IS inCiuucu ill the plan of the house, where a daily service is held, and until lately, a chaplain has lived there.

Now various clergymen come in. A garden lies at the rear, and dj3 in the village. Mr. Smith, driving on tne trip exit from winter hauls, he continu- 'S vacation. Drivers get free and common sense he he is cai "For school work we have cer-j tickets to a ba seball games, and; "to avoid accidents, and it takes i High tain set rules, but now our schedule: if an overnight excursion we.imagination, too." More than Df to from California, celebrated his 79th birthday Thursday at the home of a son in Wauwatosa.

Roger Cose, who taught 5th and next door stands the flat grades at Big Bend school in called "Bethany also own- 1950-52, now holds a teaching posi- ed by the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee. These apartments are intended for retired clergymen and their wives. Only part of them have been needed as yet; the others are rented to Episcopal tenants who pay rent, which the tion in city schools at San Diego, Calif. Gene Prokop. MM-2 U.S.

Navy, is expected home this week-end by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy EUarson. His ship, the U.S.S. Nor- clergy do not have to do.

As these ris (a destroyer) is scheduled to flats are required, the present occupants will vacate them. In one apartment lives the retired rector of St. Alban's. Sussex, and in another, one who served Ashippun for many years. Three Delafield women are enjoying the care that St.

John's Home gives them. Sussex Notes By MAUDE KRAETSCH SUSSEX Mrs. Charles Young- I- or instance, St. Joan's church bauer and infant son returned home Sussex sends fresh eggs all year (Saturday. Master Scott Charles arOUTin for tamo ra-rtri L-iftfiiiAn tr 1 Eighteen-year-old Ross Waukesna schneider baseball due recently, young county teams for several years.

He graduated in June from St. John's. around for the table and kitchen there. The parishes of Delafield, Oconoinowoc. Hartland, Nashotah.

mention those near- Youngbauer was born in St. Joseph's hospital, Milwaukee, and weighed pounds and 14 ounces. The churches of Milwaukee do Prospect News by MRS. ED COOK PROSPECT Mrs. Violet Christopherson, and Mr.

and Mrs. Tom Hansen, left for vacation in St. Paul Minnesota visiting relatives. The Monroe family held their re- onion at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Hotelling. Fifty people gathered from Racine, Kenosha, Chicago, and Akron. Ohio. 9 Signe DomKohler, counselor of a girls 4-H camp in Wild Rose, was home for a few days. Timmy Nolan of Gary.

Ind. is here visiting his cousins the Frank Nolan children. Mrs. Marj- Barton is in ill health. this also, but concentrate on planning entertainment for the ladies of the home, providing party and birthday suppers, and automobile rides.

dock at Newport, R.T.. on Friday or Saturday. On Aug. 7 Gene will be married to Miss Mary Ann Hanson. Another in a series of showers for Miss Mary Ann Hanson was given Friday evening at Mukwonago by the Misses Kathy and Shirlcy Kendrickson.

The hostesses and guests were high school friends of Miss Hanson. i Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Totten andj family left last week on a motor I trip to California to visit relatives. is at their convent, one of many, at Albany.

N.Y. Sister Carol, as a graduate of the school, and attend- More than once Marquerte university. Tne past a perplexed chM has confronted' vear she has had a se re fariai po- is more flexible. Kids are ant to be riflht there where the fun is." aejieulllill unrulv in a groun. so we instruct But the biggest advantage lies in him with a crisis, real or imagined, mon at SL John The Order is the drivers to be firm.

He has the hav TMS a ringside seat to all he said is also or teaching children of orohan authority to put a youngster off joke telling and merry jsa ry. homes als music and bus if he gets out of hand." that sucn taps are noun; stopped a bus for 20 l's cousins. Helen and Katherine. this happens both the driver andj IOx the pupil, with his parents, appear before the superintendent of service. Among those who are dc-i smoking a cigar-in the bus," Braun 'dents, have become novices also schools to settle the difference.

(mg so this year are the La Belle sai( 3. Order of St osep in the Braun candidly admits he had Foremen's club, thej But mostly if "interesting, fun. convent at St. Louis. The sisters his hands full with this kind of Golaen Age club, the Kiwanis and and adventuresome," like the time'are nineteen years old.

Col. and uation during the first year, when Lions clubs and the recreation' deer umpe front of a moving Mrs are no longer Delahe delivered only 48 passengers a all of Oconomo-vvoc. and the; bus Braun was driving east of Ixo-'fieldians. I minutes before I got a school twin daughters of Col. and Mrs.

I Many groups use Braun's charter student to admit he had been Louis Rutte, long Delafield rest i i. day during the school Business has mushroomed as fast Galilee Lutheran Church Has Meeting PEWAUKEE The Galilee iAndwall Manufacturing of nia, to Braves' games; Camp Blazing Star, on Upper Nashotah lake, which takes four seeing tours of Holy Hill, the Delafield fish hatchery, Government hill.and the Oconomowoc bathing beaches; St. Paul's Lutheran and! Lutheran church recently held its St Catholic churches, quarterly congregational meeting at which Mr. Robert Ruch presided. A report on the Synodical con- i ention held at Audubon.

Iowa, was presented by Mr. Steve Denkin- Pastor LeRoy Andersen gave an account of the National Lutheran CouncQ organizational set-up to the congregation. Colored movie Sims- LutherOH LodJCS Guild Oconomowoc, who have done sightseeing in Milwaukee; The Boots Calico square dance club of Cooney to an exhibition square dance contest at the Milwaukee arena: women's bowling leagues this spring to the state Arthur Handler of roate 3 is seriously ill sha Memorial hospital- jof the Pastor's installation service! other recent church ei-ents' PEWAUKEE Tne Ladies Guild shown. Jof Galilee Lutheran The Booster club of St. Joseph's Catholic church wfll hold a meeting Monday, Aug.

2, at pm. at the church. Results of a recent membership drive wili be evaluated. Mr. and Mrs.

Bremen Gregory Saturday eveing. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schmidt of, Menomonee Falls, who recently and family are on a camping vaca- moved into their new home on Sil- tjli: wr hlh lh sr ver Spring Drive, just east of Sus- have a real home in this mostj TVIT comfortable and well-run house. An" infirmary has been newly made- over and modernized on the third Ooor, and physicians of the city give their services for the health of these women.

Just now, several are bed-ridden. Episcopalians of this district make yearly pledges for the upkeep of this very worthy cause, which is, primarily, to provide security to church women left alone in their later years. Not necessarily are they without means entirely, but alone. It is hoped that more and more will feel that it is Christian obligation to give something, however small, towards this project, and tion this week, part of which they expect to spend at Terry Andrae state park and part along the Mississippi river. -Plans for a new parsonage to oe erected en the church's newly acquired three acre building site on Hy.

SS were presented to the congregation. A statistical report shows that Galilee has doubled its membership within the last year. Oklahoma Visitors EAGLE Mr. and Mrs. Howard Baker and daughter from Oklahoma visited their parents Mr.

andj Mrs. Leri Baker and Mrs. Maine Belts. joyable day at the Open House program at the Ocouomowoc Home for the Aged, recently after a luncheon i at Our Savior's Lutheran Church. A Galilee congregational picnic dinner was held at Cushing Memorial Park on Sunday.

July 25. after the Dana College Quartette Concert at the church. Bfll Wiess and Niels Pedersen led the picnic group in games and races. Don't Miss It! Two for One" SALE 21" TV CONSOLE plus REFRIGERATOR AH Channel both for the price of the television (Offer Expires July 31st) INQUIRE TODAY AT THE TOWNE COUNTRY APPLIANCE SALES 246 W. Main St.

Phone 2-1156 and Mrs. Richard Smithyman and Mrs. Joseph Adomaitis and little daughter, Shelley, dropped in with well filled baskets of lunch, and spent the evening playing cards and getting acquainted as good neighbors should. Mr. and Mrs.

Milo Cooling and family of Milwaukee, recently moved to the Cooling farm just north of this village. Milo purchased 6 acres of the farm, including the hillside and buildings from his father, Roy. They have almost completed remodelling the home. Roy Cooling will continue to live in the Cooling home. I CASH FOR YOU RECORD TIME DIAL 2-2521 231 SOUTH ST Any Amount you need can arranged today! Phone now! LOANS 2 5 to on Signature, Auto or Furniture fir.

SEffBORffD I A A WITH XMOM01 TMC JO-Wankesha Daily Freeman Wednesday, Jitly 28, 1954 Spray fhe COWS Kill PASTURE FLIES Spray tha BARN to Kill BARN FLIES USE DR. ROilRTS CATTLE FLY SPRAY Contains Mrtkoxychlor AHtfhrin ONE GALLON $1.75 FIVE GALLON CAN Sm the Dealtrs DR. ROBERTS VET. CO. Wjukciha, Wit.

Mukwonago Volunteer Fire Dept. ANNUAL PICNIC Field Park Hwy. 83 99 MUKWONAGO Fri. Sat. Sun.

July 30, 31 and August 1 FREE BAND CONCERT GAMES PRIZES PARADE ENTERTAINMENT FIREWORKS.

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