Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-12-26

has been closed. 1t is not likely that
it will be reopened.
The Strange Ellis Lumber company
has started it's new manufacturing
plant at Grand Rapids.
Fire destroyed the workshop of Au-
gust PITT, building contractor of
Oshkosh, entailing loss of $4,000.
Richard Colston, colored, was given
twenty days in Jail at La Crosse for
stealing pocket book containing
$3.50.
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Edward Ferguson, suing through his
guardian for damages in an elevator
at Superior, was awarded $4,000. The
case will be appealed.
The socialists of Manitowoc are, az
itating the question of having the IL
brary kept open on Sunday morning,
afternoon and evening.
A man named Hertziger has been
arrested at Sheboygan on charge OF
biting off the ear of man named
Piehl in street fight.
The Wisconsin Central railroad has
made settlement of $4,000 for the
death of ]. A. Bauer, who was killed
at Medford, Aug. 8, 1905.
The total receipts of grain at the
Head of the Lakes for the year 1907
is likely to exceed those of 1906 by
the margin of 100000 bushels.
Miss Cora Sackett, who for eight
years has held the position of matron
at Ormsby hSll, the ladies' dormitory
of Lawrence university, has resigned.
The Great Northern railroad will
build a large grain elevator at Superb
or to take the place of Elevator A,
which was destroyed by fire in the fire
of Nov s.
The Wisconsin university debating
team, advocating federal control OF
interstate railroads, defeated the Min
nesota debaters at Madison by a de-
cision of 2 to 1.
Plans and specifications for the new
woman's building have been accepted
by the university regents, and the eX-
ecutive committee was authorized to
advertise for bids.
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John Killingers eyeball was split by
a chin from a log which his father-in-
law, James Kane, was chopping at
Chippewa Falls. 1t was necessary to
remove the injured organ
The school at Eden has been closed
because the teacher has been detained
in a Quarantined house. The house is
that of the town clerk, who is also
prevented from attending to his I.
duties.
Theodore Dunke, sixteen years old,
was accidentally shot by his uncle,
John Dumke, while they were hunting
rabbits near Marinette. The lad had
on six shirts and that is what proba-
bly, saved his life.
Twenty-Five brown Swiss bulls were
shipped from Oxfordville to dairy
farm near Toxic, Japan, by I. E. In
man, a prominent stock raiser. This
is the third shipment of blooded cat
tie to the same farm in six months.
DR.. F. Gregory Cornell of Oshkosh
has been appointed first lieutenant
and assistant surgeon of the medical
staff attached to the Second regiment,
Wisconsin national guard. He sue
ceeds DR.. William A. Gordon, .Jr, who
died recently.
The Kenosha Electric Railway COM
pany has appealed to the city council
for an extension of six months time
for the completion of the new lines to
Kenosha, which were to be in opera
ton Jan. Z next The council has TAX
en- the matter under consideration.
A we'll known woman of Sheboygan
was caught stealing ham from a
butcher shop recently. The butcher,
made suspicious by previous losses,
watched when he went into the ice
box and saw her take the ham from
the table. She placed it back when
she learned that she had been caught.
A fine exhibit made up of minor ex-
hibits of food stuffs and other prod
ucts in all their various stages, from
the crude form in which they are orig
inally harvested or mined up to the
best quality of finished product, is the
latest innovation of Prof G. 0. Marsh
of Amigo to assist teachers in their
work at the training school,
The state supreme court holds that
the Wisconsin sleeping car law is UNI
constitutional. The decision is based
on the ground that the law is not
valid exercise of the police powers;
that it leaves to the occupant of the
lower berth to decide whether or not
the upper berth be closed or open, in
stead of absolutely requiring an unoc-
cupied berth to be closed by law.
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The Beloit public library board has
voted to have the public library open
Sunday afternoon and evening for
adult readers. A request that such c.
ton be taken was made by the Mems
Club of the Episcopal church, which
will furnish volunteer attendants for