Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-30
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

George Nicholson of GAINESVILLE was
badly bitten by pet angora cat.
A number of people of Viroqua are
preparing to locate at Lavina, Mont
The BURBERRY crop this year will
be short and the price CORRESPONDENCE
high.
The La Crosse police raided gam.
bling house, placing six inmates un'
der arrest.
John F. Johns has taken over the
management of the Hotel Grand at
Dodgeville.
Jacob Biehl, a musician, fell from
the Wisconsin river bridge at Lodi and
was killed.
According to the school census
there are 4,058 children of school age
in Manitowoc,
Peter Larson and his wife of Nor.
way Ridge were seriously injured in
a runaway accident.
w. J. knight of Monroe shipped go.
900 pounds of wool to Milwaukee last
week for which he received about S.,
900.
For taking a sack of binding Irvine,
Edward BOland was fined $40 with the
alternative of twenty days in the coun.
ty jail at GAINESVILLE.
Arrangements have been completed
for extending a telephone line from
Shoudy's ranch on the North Fork to
Stanley, a distance of fourteen miles.
J. S. Konkel of Superior was award
ed the $100 prize for the best writeup
on Menomonie, where the Wisconsin
State Editorial association met last
year.
William Kuehmichel, aged twenty.
nine years, was killed by a Wisconsin
Central train about mile north OF
Marshfield. Both legs were severed
from his body.
The state railroad commission
heard testimony on the application OF
the Milwaukee and Fox Valley electric
road to build a line along the east
shore of Lake Winnebago.
The Gold Mining company at Knapp,
Dunn county, is putting in $1,20O
worth of machinery to test out for a
certainty whether gold can be mined
there in paying quantities.
The annual reunion of the survivors
of Companies H and I, Thirty-third
Wisconsin infantry, was held at Hotel
Eichelman at Kenosha, with more
than forty members present.
Gov. Davidson appointed Senator
Fairchild of Milwaukee to appear as
district attorney of Waukesha county
in the case in which Milo Mucklestone
is not to appear by agreement.
With Representatives of neighboring
lodges present the La Crosse lodge,
Woodmen of the World, dedicated a
monument over the grave of George
w Standard, a deceased member
The Colby Business Mems associa.
ton has been organized with NICK,
Andrews, president; c. Joseph Kraus,
vice president; o. R. Briggs, secre'
tary, and John Pribnow, treasurer.
Two lots have been purchased by
the city of Waupun for site for the
proposed central fire and police sta
ton. 1t is probable that at some fu
ture date the site will he used for a
city hall.
Elizabeth Latimer, for forty years
identified with the bank of E. Latimer
& Co., at Delavan, has retired as pres"
ident and is succeeded by A. H. Hen
drick. C. H. Schultz has been made
cashier.
Because of the heavy crop of hay
which must be harvested at once far
mers around Appleton are having
trouble picking cherries, which are
ripening ahead of time, and have in
vited the public to help itself.
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Miss Ida Wilson, a former secre'
tary of the Young Woman's Christian
association at La Crosse, died follow
ing an operation in London, Ont, hos.
pital. A few hours later her father
died at his home in st. GATHERINGS,
Ont. from the effects of an operation
he underwent four months ago.
Under a writ of replevin Sheriff
Rhyner has taken possession OF the
new White City, an amusement park
south of Oshkosh on the line of the
Winnebago Traction company and the
Fond du Lac intorurban road. The
action is taken under a chattel mort
gage of $4,000 held by the old Nation
al bank.
Matthews Brothers of Ashland are
with the growing Of al
falfa. Already they have harvested
one cut which at the time had a
stand of fifty-one inches. The present
rgowth has a stand of twenty-one
inches
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