Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-02
William Johnson of the town OF
Rudolph was seriously injured in a
runaway not far from his home.

| runaway not far from his home.
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John Gates, Jr., dairy breeder at
Oakland, shipped 1870 head of register
ed Holstein cattle to Southern Illinois
last week.
w. H. H. Cash is contemplating
building railroad from Fennimore
| through Mount Hope and Patch Grove
to Bloomington.
Schmidt Bros. & Hill will erect the
East End passenger depot at Superior
for the Northern Pacific railway, the
building to cost $4,000.
Saloons at Chippewa Falls will be
closed up to o'clock Sunday after
moons, the saloonkeepers taking the
initiative in this reform.
The new tobacco crop is being plant
ed under favorable conditions The
American Tobacco company is buying
up the last Of the 1907 crop.
| Raymond, the five-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs Barrel of Sherry, who
was struck on the head with binding
pole from a load of hay, is dead
The Cumberland Agricultural and
Driving Park association has been re-
organized and the intercounty fair will
be a permanent Cumberland institu-
ton.
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A barn near Hilbert was struck by
lightning and four large barns were
burned in Wrightstown One was
lifted from it's foundation and demol-
ished.
A Joint reunion of the Thirtieth,
Thirty-second and ThirtysiXth regi-
ments, infantry, and the Third battery
of Civil war veterans will be held in
Berlin July Is and 16,
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The cases against three Scion
Springs saloonkeepers, accused of
selling liquor to minors, have been dis
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doning the prosecution.
While playing in a hay NOW with
other children, Julia, the six-year-old
daughter of Oscar Olson of the town
of Freeman, fell twenty feet and es-
capped with fractured wrist.
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in court at Sheboygan in applying for
the arrest Of Charles Rapelin, neigh
Dor, whom she charged with killing
her pet fowl. The warrant was is
sued
Fire did considerable damage at the
slab and cedar pole piles Of the Wau-
saukee Lumber company at Wausau-
kee. The locomotive of a passenger
train was pressed into service to pull
cars out of danger.
Further preliminary work in being
done by the steel trust engineering
men for the line of the Interstate
Transfer Railway company in Douglas
county The crew is now at work in
the vicinity of Allouez.
Of the 1873 school districts in Dunn
county, about 100 are entitled to spe-
cial state aid under the new law grant
ing an appropriation of $50 year for
three years to school districts which
install approved heating and ventilat-
ing systems
Frank Riedienger the Delafield
farmer who disappeared two years ago
when he went to Indiana to marry Il
rich widow, was not victim of Mrs.
Belle Guinness, as was supposed, but
is living at Fairfield, Neb. David Wick
en- of Pewaukee has heard from him.
One of the fiercest fires that has
visited Oconto in years broke out in
the Pendleton & Gilkey cedar yard at
Oconto. About half million poles,
besides a large number of cedar
shingles and posts have been Destroy
ed.
The body Of an unknown man of adj
vanced age was found hanging in the
| hay loft of barn in the town of Will
son. From the condition Of the body
it is evident that it had been hanging
at least a week. A business card of a
cattle dealer named Ahrens of
Wrightsville is all that was found on
the BODY ,a"ss =- (.
| At the Dunn County Agricultural
college Prof. James A. Wilson retires
and is succeeded by Prof F. r. Crane
of the Illinois College of agriculture,
where he has been instructor in farm
mechanics. B. B. West, formerly Of
Iron mountain, Mich, a 1908 graduate
from Stout, has been engaged as in
structor of manual training.
A serious wreck occurred at
Spooner when a switch engine in
charge of Sam Elliot ran through an
open switch and collided with Passen-
ger Train No. 63 as it was leaving the
Tards. The switch engine and four
coaches were derailed and badly dam
aged. No one was seriously injured
except the dining car conductor, who
had his leg and collarbone broken
The Dunn County School of Agricul-
lure and Domestic Economy has after
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