Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-09-17


has been engaged to teach Latin at
the high school at Fond du Lac.
The North Dakota Grain company
has been organized with offices in
Superior. The call is for wisconsin
inspection
Schneiberg & Co. of Beloit have
been awarded the contract for the
$4,000 high school building to be
erected at Spring Green.
The American Society of Equity is
organizing Calumet county There are
now organizations at Brant, New Hol-
stein, Hayton and Stockbridge.
The First Swedish Methodist
church of Superior celebrated the pay
ing off of its mortgage by burning the
instrument at a thank offering.
When Mr. and Mrs. Anton Storm
of Chippewa Falls awoke they found
their son dead in bed. They are at "A
loss to know what caused his death.
The Fond du Lac Guernsey Breed
ers' association has been formed,
with Charles L. Hill of Rosendale as
president, and A. F. HIM of Ripon,
secretary.
James Edwards of Eagle River, who
killed his brother-in-law, was sentenc-
ed to fourteen years in state prison
on a plea of guilty of murder in the
second degree.
William Hickey, employed as a line
man on the Milwaukee Northern road,
was run over by a gravel car near the
Sank Trail crossing, and he is at the
point of death.
The long dry spells of the last six
weeks will reduce the potato crop in
the vicinity of Waupaca nearly one
half The tubers are smaller than for
some seasons past.
A we'll developed body Of an infant
with one of its arms torn out of the
socket was found by a cat at Water
town. 1t had been buried under
few inches of earth.
Before recovering from the effects
of the anesthetic, Mrs. Webster Kis-
ter died at the home Of her sister, in
the town of Clarno, while being OPP
Grated upon for a tumor
Dir. A. L. Wright of Hartford insert
ed false tooth in horses jaw after
removing one that had become splin-
tered. Operations of this kind are
said to be rare occurrences.
The four-year-old son of Christopher
Warner of Rhinelander, while play
ing about a brush fire, was burned
to death. Several children in the party
could render him no assistance.
Max Coll, alias James Brown, is
on warrant charging kidnapping. He
is alleged to have enriced the fifteen
year-Old daughter of Andrew Glenn
MINIS from her home on Aug. %.
The common council of Chiffon has
passed an ordinance compelling
saloons to be closed between the
hours OF 11.30 p. IN. and $50 a. m.
It is the first anti-salOon legislation.
While standing on spur track
close to the river bank at WatertOwn,
Northwestern freight locomotive
slid into the river and turned upside
down, owing TO the sagging of the
track
Two bishops took part in the dedica-
ton of St. Francis Xavier Catholic
church at Superior. Bishop McGol-
rick OF Duluth presided and Bishop
Schinner of Superior preached the
sermon.
The Wisconsin Central may make
Hawthorne a freight division point on
the new Owen-Superior line. A thir-
ty-two stall roundhouse will be erect
ed at Hawthorne and several water
tanks Put in.
Theft OF a horse from a Westby
farmer, and the sale of the animal,
subsequently, resulted in two-year
sentence to the Green Bay reforma-
tory for John Bjerkaas, an incorrigi-
BILE youth of seventeen,
In a runaway at Racine, Albert Bit
ner, six years old, was thrown from
wagon and struck on his head. The
lad was practically scalped. He was
taken to a hospital, but physicians
fear he can not survive. +
Members of the family of Alfred
Tews of Menasha had a narrow es-
cape from death when their residence
burned Mr.. Tews was awakened by
heat from the flames, and the family
escaped through window.
At its annual meeting. the Rural
Carriers association OF Fond du Lac
county, passed resolutions demanding
that steps be taken toward the remov-
al of underbrush from the highways
before snow falls, to prevent drifts.
When informed that Max Coll, with
whom she had elOped to Neenah,
might be sent TO prison because he
had a wife living, from whom he was
not divorced, Frances Clemins threat
ened to kill herself at Fond du Lac.
Kenosha Methodists passed resolu-
tons of appropriations of the work of
]. S. Lean of Milwaukee, retiring
presiding elder of the Milwaukee dis
trict. At the same time a resolution
was passed asking the annual confer
ence to send the Rev. w. w. Stevens
back to Kenosha for another year.
He has been pastor here for seven
years.
Frank Jarbeck, farmer living near
RadissOn, while driving to town saw
large wolf sitting near the roadside.
With only a grub hoe for a weapon
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