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Pages from the Past 11/04/09
100 years ago - 1909
It was reported that 75 hunting licenses were issued to Lannon area hunters for the season.
Archbishop Messmer officiated at the St. James Catholic Church confirmation ceremony.
Teddy Roosevelt was the President at the beginning of 1909, but William H. Taft took over soon afterward to become the 26th President of the United States.
50 years ago - 1959
Alvin and Maude Kraetsch, retired farmers from Lisbon, celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary with old friends coming to their farm home across Main Street from the new Sussex Village Park.
Queen Elizabeth became the sovereign of England.
In France, General Charles de Gaulle was proclaimed President.
25 years ago - 1984
The motion by Lisbon County Supervisor Joe Marchese to charge Sussex $10,000 instead of the normal fee of $70 for placing a sanitary sewer connection under the Bug Line Trail was called "ridiculous" by fellow Waukesha County Supervisors. Marchese claimed Sussex had taken advantage of Lisbon in the past, to justify the big fee. There was no second to the motion, and the final approval was for the standard $70.
10 years ago - 1999
Just before deer hunting season, one of the most popular places in Lisbon was the Menomonee Falls Gun Club on Hillside Drive, where hunters checked over and zeroed in their rifles.
A Lisbon man was cited for stinking up a Sussex filling station, after spraying a noxious smelling aerosol can in the station.
5 years ago - 2004
St. James installed a massive granite columbarium at their Town Line Road Cemetery, which has niches for 48-96 urns of cremated remains.
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