Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-17
NORTH WISCONSIN NOTES

firm. The state rate commission ord
cred the city to put in meters at its
own expense and charge all consumers
the same rate. The decision was 'the
city of Hudson therefore has no right |
to compel consumer to purchase or
rent any kind of meter, much less a
particular type of meter.
The Northern Wisconsin State Fair
association at it's annual meeting in
Chippewa Falls last week elected the
following officers: president, A. G.
Cox; secretary, Robt. b. Clark; treas
urer, P. F. Favill; vic-president, John
| Horrigan.
Samuel Kowalaki, employed in a log
ging camp, was frozen to death last
week while on his way from Gilman to
Owen. 1t is said he was intoxicated at
the time.
Engineer Geo. Petry, Fireman Curtis
Emerson, c.. Mcmahon, foreman and
Brakeman Rusk had narrow escape
from death near Radisson. A f1ange on
a tank wheel broke, tnrning the engine
over in the ditch. They climbed out
through a ventilator in the cab.
Miss Ethel Grey, II, ard Roy Gard
ner, IS, who eloped from New Auburn,
were found at Boyceville.
Barron county levied $25, 200. II for
school purposes. The total for the
towns, cites and villages amount to
that sum. The city of Barron gets
81, 2S8. CT; Chetek, $561.79 Cumberland,
81, 2O8. Al; Rice Lake, 81, 526.8
A successful farmers institute was
held at Rice Lake Dec. 1916
The Red Birch Lumber Co. of Ca
tawba, expect to put i'll So, 900 feet OF
logs this winter.
The report of the trustees of the
Dunn County Insane Asylum Shows
balance in favor of the county asy-
lum of $13'443 II as against what the
cost would have been in state asylum
| for the same number of patients.
The High school basket ball team of
Amigo was defeated by Crandon last
week 20 to 16.
The Bloomer Advocate tells about
one Chas. Scoville being taken to the
jail on charge of being drunk. The
sheriff's wife found he was sick. The
next morning physician was called.
Scoville died from exposure. There is
talk of suit against the county.
Edward Salwisky died in hospital at
Rhinelander last Thursday from injur-
les received while loading logs at He
bron.
The joke is on the jailer at Toma-
hawk. Two fancy deerhounds were
caught by the game warden and locked
in a cell. When the warden went to
open the cell he found the dogs gone.
Result, enraged game wardens.
Will Gilligan of Rhinelander has an
| electric alarm in his chicken coop,
which saved it from being looted by
thieves last week.
A log cut in the Hawaiian Islands
was sawed into veneer at q mill in
Marshfield. 1t is like mahogany and is
called the "Kea" 1t was brought
here as an experiment. AS it is much
cheaper it is likely to take the place of
mahogany.
The body of Alfred Frank of Trem-
pelea county was found in shack last
week nine miles north of Tony. There
seemed to be something peculiar about
the case His rifle and hat were found
a half mile away and although his
brother Alfred had looked in the shanty
before, did not see him. He was COW
cred with straw. 1t is thought he was
taken sick in the woods, crawled to
the shack and covered himself with
straw and died there.
The Waukesha Canning Co. will
build vining plant at Almena in the
spring, to be operated in connection
with the canning factory at Barron.
The farmers of that vicinity will re-
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