The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
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Wisconsin
News From
All Parts of
the State,

have been set for July q to Aug. 5.
Billy Sunday will be the principal
speaker.
Louis Morehouse of Kenosha, struck
and injured by Chicago & Northwest
ern railway freight train, died at Ra-
cine hospital
The contract for the new church to
be built by the Park Avenue Methodist
congregation of KenOsha has been let
to Pierce Bros. of Elgin, H., for $780,
600.
Wisconsin Lodge No Il, I. O. o. F.,
of GAINESVILLE, gave a birthday party in
honor of Volney Atwood, aged ninety
four years, the Oldest Odd Fellow in
the state.
Mrs. Albert Erickson and four Jews,
peddlers, occupying rooms at Racine,
were found unconscious, the result of
inhaling escaping coal gas. All will
recover.
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Owing to illness of Robert DennisOn,
pastor Of the Congregational church
at GAINESVILLE, the church board has
given him purse of 5000 and three
months leave of absence.
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The two-story brick block at Bara-
boo, owned by A. H Pratt and occu-
pied by Howe & ,Schey, shoe dealers;
Emil Engleman, barber shop, and Will
lam Gust, restaurant, was wrecked by
fire.
The state civil service commission
advertises a general competitive ex-
animation to be held on March 10. APP
plications for this examination were
received by the commission up to
March 4.
The Buehle Bros of Calvary have
purchased a site at Askeaton and will
erect at once a large factury for the
manufacture of fancy cheese for the
retail trade, shipping to all parts of
the United States.
The Fennimore Mining company, OPP
Grating near Fennimore. has struck
seven feet of excellent milling ore at a
depth of 100 feet. This is only the top
opening, the main opening not having
been reached yet
The United company's drill in the
third hole on the James prospect, near
Montfort, has reached a depth of sew
enty-one feet and is several feet in the
same showing of lead jack and dry
bone found in the second hole. This
dispefs the fear that the other hole
penetrated a perpendicular crevice.
City Attorney A. E. Dunlap, Ripon,
has given it as his opinion that a re-
cent ordinance passed by the council,
making the Office of street commits
sioner appointive instead of elective,
is invalid, and The Office will be filled
by election. 1t is limited that the ordi
nance was passed for the purpose of
ousting the incumbent
Members of the Zion church in Ke-
nosha held a sacritic meeting to raise
funds to pay the debts of Zion, and
more than $500 in money and a large
amount of jewelry was contributed to
the fund. The most unique gift was a
violin, which had been owned by Ke-
nosha family ever since the days of
the American Revolution,
The city of Marinette is and has
been for two weeks one of the healthi |
est cities in the United States. The |
rate there ha sheen less than |
that of Colorado Springs, one of the |
There were only thirteen deaths in
January and less in February. It has |
been several months since there has |
been a death due to contagious dis |
ease.
Winter visits of the department |
of the Wisconsin G. A. r., |
Col. S. F. A. Copeland of La Crosse, |
to the posts of the state will be aban-
doned this year on account Of the ill
ness of Mrs. Copeland at California.
She was injured in a fall and is in
critical condition Col. Copeland is at
his wifes bedside.
Judge Fowler at Fond du Lac hand
ed down a decision affirming the order
IF the county court and admitting the
will of Andrew Bruins to probate. An
estate worth about $4,000 is involved
All of the heirs with the exception of
Andrew Bruins, Jr, contested the will
n order to receive the legacies uncon
The conditions are that
he property must remain in their
hands until they die, when it will pass
nto the hands of the grandchildren.
Andrew Bruins receives his property
the only condition being that
1e shall pay the sum of $4,000 to the
estate.
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