Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-12-19


Plans are being made for the re-
building of Great Northern elevator A
at Superior, burned in the fire of Nov.
8. The new house will be modern
structure.
Ebenezer Wright of Eau Claire is
suing the Wisconsin Central for $780,
900 damages which, he alleges, he re-
ceived while unloading freight which
fell upon him.
Norman Peterson, a rural mail car
rier, pleaded guilty at Madison to a
charge of embezzling SIT in mail or
der funds, and was committed to Jail
for six months.
The question of whether a water
works system will be installed at Med
ford will be decided at a special cleo
ton on Dec "a There is some oppo-
sition to the improvement.
Fire at Reedsburg destroyed the en-
tire stock of the general store of Chas.
Simmons, and badly damaged the
| building The total loss is, about So
900, partly covered by insurance.
John Poul's large creamery and con-
| tents, north of Holcombe, were de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
about $4,000. The creamery did a
| good business, and will probably be re-
built.
Though only eight years old, ST.
| ready too small for the large num-
| Der of patients who seek admission,
| and an addition will probably be built
| next spring.
William w. Dietz, brother of the de-
| fender of Cameron dam, was married
| at Eau Claire to Mrs. Elizabeth John
son. Mr.. Dietz is a we'll known insur-
ance man and was formerly sheriff of
Barron county.
|
| An increase in the number of cases
of diphtheria and smallpox is revealed
| by the report of the health depart
ment of Superior for November. There
are fifty-five cases of diphtheria and
| thirty-four of smallpox.
| =:
Nothing has been learned of the
| whereabouts of Frank E. Maine, who
left his home and newly welded wife
| nd G
not been heard from since. Fears are
entertained for his safety.
| The GAINESVILLE common council has
| passed an ordinance making it mis-
demeanor punishable by fine of $25
for any person to keep within the city
limits of GAINESVILLE at any time any
swine in any sly or enclosure.
| : :
A committee composed of Senator
| Stout, J. R. Matthews and f. F. Nor
| gan, has petitioned Congressman John
| J. Jenkins to introduce bill in con-
gress appropriating 100000 for a
federal building in Menomonie.
Lawrence university has Raj
fles,'' and the faculty and students are
in a perplexity to discover his identity.
For several weeks past sweaters and
other pieces of wearing apparel have
been missed from the lockers of stu
| dents.
Dell Langworthy was fined $34 for
hunting deer with dogs at Eau Claire.
William Allen and his son David are
under arrest on the charge of hunting
with a residents license, when they
should have taken out settlers Ii
censes. The arrest, it is alleged, is
the result of spite work.
|
Two patients from Marinette county
will soon be receiving care in the state
tuberculosis sanitarium in Wales,
Waukesha county. They are Frank
Wolf of Peshtigo and Edwin Norton,
a son of Nels Norton of Marinette. 1t
is probable that there will be others
sent from Marinette county during
| the year.
! About a dozen checks drawn upon
the account of Frank l.. Scott at La
Crosse First National bank have been
received at La Crosse from st. Paul
and Minneapolis and returned as Tor
geries. The checks are drawn in $40
and SIS amounts and appear periodi-
cally. Thus far the police have been
unable TO detect the fOrgerS.
The work of repairing the ore docks
| at Allouez has begun. 1t is intended
that all the necessary alterations and
improvements to- the docks shall be
completed before the advent of the
next season which is expected to start
early in April and during which it is
anticipated a record will be made IN
| the tonnage of ore shot into the holds
| of the great freighters.
The permanency of the Schroeder
Lumber company's operations in Ash
land is well indicated by the fact that
the company is entering into a con-
| tract wherever possible with its super
| intendents and foremen for their ser
vices for a term as long as twelve or
fifteen years The company is to con-
struct an entirely new planning mill
during the winter, which will be one
of the finest anywhere in that region.
|
State Game Warden Stone has or
dered that no carp shall be seined in
the rock river, adjacent to Janesvlllet
and in consequence Edwin Carroll has
been forced to stop operations for
the winter. Carroll has in the last