Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
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Roger Brooks died at Ladysmith as
the result of half barrel of beer fall
ing on him.
A new rural telephone company
has been organized at Eau Claire.
The work of putting up the line will
be commenced at once.
The meat market, ice house and
slaughter house owned by George
Muelbach at Sank City was destroyed
by fire. The loss is $4,000; no insur-
ance.
A new Catholic church is to be
erected in the village of Kiel, by the
that will cost between $4,000 and
$4,000.
Northern Wisconsin is to have a
nursery. A twelve-acre tract of land
has been secured which will be devot-
ed entirely to nursery purposes at
Ashland.
George Payne. colored, who was
found guilty of the crime of forgery at
Fond du Lac, has been sentenced to
eighteen months at hard labor in the
state penitentiary.
A fire, supposed to have been start
ed by hunters, burned over fifty acres
of forest land in the town of Neenah
belonging to P. L. Quinn. Mr.. Quinn
places his loss at $500.
Manitowoc is to have a curfew or
dinance compelling all children under
fourteen years of age to be off the
street at o'clock on summer even
ings and 8 o'clock during the winter.
Eleven crates of government marble
headstones arrived in Appleton last
week from Lee, Mass, and will be
placed at the graves of the veterans
of the civil war, whose names are in
scribed on the base, and who are in
tered in cemeteries in that vicinity.
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The Brown County Farmers Co
Operative association has decided to
discontinue it's general merchandise
store. The expense for labor and ope-
ration was entirely too great to be
offset by the receipts from sales of
merchandise. The store was in opera
ton for two years.
Charles Peterson of Neenah has
brought in a duck shot by him which
is entirely different from any seen by
hunters in those parts. The bird is
probably a cross between a bluebill
and a wood duck. It's head resembles
that of a butterball and the feet are
like those of bluebill.
The Culbert Valley Telephone COM
pany was organized in the town of
Seymour, with the following officers:
President and manager, ]. j. Culbert;
secretary and treasurer, A. L. Clark.
Arrangements have been made with
the Wisconsin Telephone company to
connect with the Eau Claire exchange.
State Senator Thomas Morris has
filed a complaint with the state rail
road commission at Madicon in behalf
of the city of Onalaska, who petitions
that the tolls of the La Cross City
railway be reduced between that point
and La Crosse and that a Scent fare
be charged within the city limits of
Onalaska.
movement is on foot to close Ra-
cine saloons on Sunday. Several min.
listers held private session with May
or Horlick on Tuesday and laid the
facts before him that the laws COM
PEELED closing of saloons on Sunday.
They also called his attention to the
strength developed against the liquor
traffic throughout the country.
Herman Eager of the town of Han
sen killed 100-pound gray timber
wolf Mr.. Eager was returning from
work when he saw the wolf approach
ing him on the railroad track. Eager
emptied a charge of shot into him
just below the right shoulder. Farm
ers are complaining that wolves are
proving about the neighborhood
A great many men are returning
from the northern woods and bring
reports that not only many camps
have closed down, but that many
camps have not yet opened and indi,
cations were that they might not do
SO all winter. The output of logs will
be greatly decreased. Wages for
,woodsmen this year are not as good
as for some years past.
Taking advantage of the reputation
for honesty usually accredited all
farmers, two sharpers have improved
the opportunity offered by the ex-
IRENE scarcity of fresh eggs to work
an old swindle on some of the house.
wives in the western part of Racine.
They disguised themselves as farm.
ers and sold unsuspecting women old
eggs several cents above the usual
price.
The number of deer that have been
killed at Bayfield, this fall is enor
nous. The season has hardly open
ed yet and nearly every hunter who
has taken to the woods is back with
deer, Earl Brigham being out only
twenty minutes when he returned
with two.
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