Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-27
La Crosse will spend $4,000 in ex-
tending the waterworks system.


John Kaiser, aged sixty-fve, was
killed by a switch engine at the Grand
street crossing in La Crosse.
Nels Christianson died at Hayward
last week, of injuries received from
fall from the Norwegian church build
ing on July Is.
John Newburg, who on Aug ,, shot
his sweetheart and her escort, at La
Crosse has been bound over TO the
circuit court for trial
John Phelan, the new proprietor of
the Central house at Rice Lake, is
making improvements on the be.lding
The name will be changed to the
Phelan house
Fred Hertlein of Allouez is circulat-
ing petition among the people of the
district beyond the Nemadii, asking
that free delivery be extended to that
part of the city.
At a meeting of the Lincoln County
Poultry association, farmers were urg-
ed to introduce blooded stock Ar
rangements were started for a poultry
show at the fair.
On of the biggest hogs ever sent
out of Monroe was shipped to Chica-
go last week The animal weighed
100 pounds, for which the owner re-
ceived 1928 per hundred.
Former Assemblyman Wallace w
Andrews has been elected president
of the South Superior Advancement
association. Water supply and fire
protection will be taken up
DR.. Everman of Washington of the
United States fish commission, will
arrive in La Crosse the latter part of
this month to select the site for the
new $4,000 fisheries experiment sta
ton.
Axel Axelson, aged %, Chicago, was
crushed between box cars in the
Northwestern road yards at Madison.
Dr. T. e. Torney entertains no hope
for his recovery
Gustav Johnson and John Mueller
are under arrest at BelOit, charged
with stealing a pocket book contain
ing $S5 and some checks from H.
Scheckler, a saloonkeeper, while he
was asleep.
The Alden Novelty works will con
solidate it's Waukegan and Ladysmith
plants at Ladysmith, to be nearer the
raw material For twenty-one years
the plant has been in operation at
Waukegan.
The Eau Claire branch of the SOci
ETY. Of Equity, is planning to build a
warehouse at Eau Claire, to be used
in packing tobacco, hay and potatoes
The Business Mems association stands
ready to back the enterprise.
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The new Evangelical Lutheran Em
manuel church at La Crosse has been
dedicated. Rev. G.. Thurlow of Mil
waukee, father of the pastor and Rev
Ernest Dornfeld of Milwaukee, vice
president of the Wisconsin synod, be-
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ceremonies.
Alderman Houska of La Crosse Of
fered resolution in the council by
which the council goes on record as
favoring league baseball. The resolu-
ton provides that the mayor declare
half holiday on the afternoon Of
Sept. 2, and that all business houses
be urged to close and boost for the
baseball association.
Owing to a ruling of the railroad
rate commission, the Wisconsin Tele-
phone company refuses to furnish the
Racine fire department with tele-
phones free of charge, but viii make
a charge of $4S per year per phone,
if the service is retained. The council
is inclined to dispense with the serv-
ice, although it is claimed this VIII
cripple the service.
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Thousands of game fish are dying i'll
the Iandlocked waters in the vicinity
Of La Crosse, where they were left by
the recent fall of water. Game Ward
en- Kingsley, who has made an in
vestgation of the loss of fish III this
manner, says that tons of bass, crop
pies. sunfish, perch and carp have
been smothered to death in the
sloughs and bayous
AS a result OF William Knights
talk before the State horticultural
society at Madison last February,
members of that society have become
interested in the Bayfield, peninsula
as a fruit growing district, and last
week delegation from that society
investigated the situation. They were
thoroughly convinced that that section
is particularly adapted to fruit grow
ing.
Over 1000 persons attended the big
picnic by the Modern brotherhood OF
American lodge in the fair grounds
at Wausau. A lengthy program of good
horse races and other carnival events,
toqether with a ball game filled the
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