Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
BADGER BRIEFS.
wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.


The berry season in Douglas county
is at its height. Raspberries are ex-
| ceptionally fine this season.
Fire caused a loss of about $4,000
on the farm of Edward Miller in
Grand Chute, three miles from Apple
ton.
The department of fish and game
protection has begun to distribute the
hunting licenses for the coming open
| season
The cheese factory of Matt Moersch,
one of the largest on the east shore,
located at Pipe village, was destroyed
by ire.
About forty Roman Catholic priests
under the guidance of Bishop Schin
ner, held a retreat at the Bayfield,
monastery.
The school census gives a total of
1858 children in Neenah This shows
a falling off as compared with figures
of 1906 and 1907
The apprehension of girls crowding
out boys at Lawrence university is in
no wise alleviated by indications for
the coming year.
The Y. M. C. A. building at Fond
du Lac will probably be dedicated in
September. A program OF exercises
is being prepared.
Jared Fox, station agent for the
Northwestern railway at Elroy, died
from internal injuries caused by fall
ing from a handcar.
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Plans for building an interurban line
with local capital from Appleton TIC
New London by way of Hortonville
are under discussion.
Tom Wilkinson and Grant Holland
were slightly injured by a premature
explosion while drilling blast at the
Slack mines at Mifflin
Accused of having robbed his
friend, George Goffeta, Albert Howell
has been bound over for trial at Flor
ence under $500 bonds.
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The deficit of the saengerfest VIII
not amount to over $4,000, according to
announcement made at a meeting OF
the executive committee at La Crosse.
Neenah and Menasha Spanish war
veterans have received medals from
the government which were provided
for by congress- The medals are the
first to be received in the state, and
are made of metal of captured Span
ish guns.
The ice house, barn and outbuilding
belonging to E. C. Ketchum, in Grand
Rapids, was burned. The fire started
In the barn, but from what cause Is
not known. Mr. Ketchums loss will
exceed $4,000, and that of the Grand
Rapids Ice company will be more than
1000.
Harvey T. Wells, a former book
keeper in a Kenosfa bank, who is
charged with embezzling $4,000, plead
ed not guilty before Judge Quarles in
the United States district court at Mil
waukee and was held to the grand
Jury in $4,000 bail, which has not
been furnished. Wells was captured
in Boston about ten days ago.
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Mvrman and Larson of Chippewa
Falls have been awarded the contract
by the Yellow River Lumber COM
pany of Whitewater to raise about
100000 feet of logs from the Yellow
river. The logs will be shipped to
saltwater by rail. Approximately co.
900 900 feet of sunken logs are in the
Chippewa river and its tributaries,
and Myrman and Larson may make
effort to get job of raising them.
Hugo, Albert and Rudolph Bonner
stag, three brothers who were arrest
ed at Rhinelander on charge or
manufacturing spurious coins, were
brought to Madison by United States
marshal and lodged in jail. They
waived a preliminary hearing before
a court commissioner at Rhinelander,
and their case will be brought to the
attention of the grand jury, which
meets in La Crosse next month.
According to representatives OF the
Chippewa Falls Sugar company, VINO
have just completed tour OF inspec-
ton of the sugar beet fields in North
ern Wisconsin and Minnesota, the
crop this year will be a record break
err. This years acreage in round
numbers Is $500, and the estimated
yield is 10000 tons. The following
shows the number of tons for five
years: 1904, $4,000; 1905, $4,000;
1906, $4,000; 1907, $4,000; 1908, So
000
The annual picnic of the Roach
family was celebrated in John Roach's
grove in Union, Eau Claire county
Sixty-two members of the family as
sembled. Their former home was in
Waukesha county.
Ernest Deupre, lie ten-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Deupre of
Grand Rapids, was kicked into insensi-
bility while riding a bronco pony.