Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-11
NORTH WISCONSIN NEWS ITEMS
j. w. Stone of Barron has been ap
pointed state game warden.

j. w. Stone of Barron has been ap-
pointed state game warden.
The school census recently taken at
Chippewa Falls shows 342S children
of school age in that city.
Fifty-two saloon licenses have been
granted by the Chippewa Falls city
council. Four drug store licenses
were also granted.
Park Falls has voted $4,000 for
school purposes during the next year
The town evidently believes in push
ing the school business.
The chair factory in Chippewa Falls
will begin to manufacture chairs
about July 10th. The capacity at
the beginning is 200 chairs per day.
The Washburn city council has
purchased the plant OF the electric
light and power company in that
city and hereafter the city will own
and operate the same.
The National Abstinence AssOcia-
ton. a Norwegian temperance
society, met last week in Eau Claire.
About 40 delegates. were present.
The total memberships now 3,4OO.
The Chippewa Valley Electric Rail-
road company is depending more
than 5000, 900 in the new water power
plant at Menominee which will
furnish power for operating all its
lines of street railway.
Richard McGregor, son of Assembly
man McGregor of Plattville, was
drowned while bathing with a com
panion near Plattville. He had just
been graduated from Plattville Nor
NAL school and was 20 years Of age.
Geo. Fl. Sanders ST., one of the
Oldest settlers in Barron county, died
at his home in Haugen Saturday
June Goth, aged seventy three years.
The deceased located at Barron in
1877 and has continued to reside In
the county ever since.
Indians from Oklahoma, Nebraska
and Kansas, as we'll as from all the
reservations in this state, are having
a celebration on the Court d'Oreilles
reservation. This celebration will
be one of the largest of it's kind in the
history of Northern Wisconsin.
BidWell Hall, fifteen years OF age
disappeared from his home in Eau
Claire county July 18th and the police
are searching for him. 1t is feared
he may have wandered away under
mental alteration. He was from the
| Sparta state school some years ago
The citizens of Cameron are plan
ming for boom. A dozen new build
ings are going up and syndicate is
now being formed to buy up the ole
cranberry marsh and flood the same
thereby creating. ayxbeautiful little
| lake a mile and hall long and hal
Il mile wide.
Erick Hegstrom, who was severely
injured by a falling crane beam while
at work on the coal docks at Superior
last fall has settled the suit brought
against Whitney Bros. to recover
damages. Suit was brought by
Attorney Ludwig Arctander of Mime
apolis for $S,000and d settlement has
just been effected by which Hegstrom
and his attorney receive 1,500.
About $4,000 pounds of wool be
longing to members OF the A. S. of E
has been placed with e. B. Blanch
ard, county secretary of Dunn county,
| to sell. Four counties . are repre-
sented in this amount. Dunn $1,000
pounds, st. Croix 36, 900, Pierce 10000
Chippewa 1900. The wool of these
coun ties was pooled at o meeting held
in Menominee just recently for q and
% cents.
While returning from his Kentucky
trip last Thursday morning DR.. c,
w. Musgrave of Bloomer was in a
railroad wreck which came near
proving serious. DR.. Musgrave sud
denly awoke and found his leg pinned
down under q seat. He was re-
moved as soon as possible, when 1t
was found that one of his ribs were
broken, his knee badly sprained, and