Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20


Claire.
The Douglas County Medical society
is contemplating campaign to fight
tuberculosis.
The village of st. Croix Falls has
voted to erect a $4,000 schoolhouse
in the spring
Joel Hanson, young farmer of Os.
ceola is dead from sunstroke. He
leaves a wife and small family.
The La Crosse park commission is
planning to spend about 100000 in
making park and boulevard improve
ments.
Fire destroyed 1000 cords of wood
in the yards of the Menasha Paper
company at Ladysmith The firemen
saved the plant
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In enforcing the new milk ordi-
nance at Madison small proportion
of the cows were found to be infected
with tuberculosis
William Messenger, the village mar
shall of Osceola, while attempting to
stop runaway team, was thrown and
had three ribs broken.
The railroads decline to make any
special rates for delegates attending
the farmers national congress, which
will open at Madison Sept. "a
A 100000 mortuary chapel in For
est Hill cemetery at Eau Claire is
being erected, the gift to the city by
request of Mrs. H. c. Putnam,
For selling liquor without license,
w. l.. Long was fined $50 at Markesan.
He thought his government license
permitted his selling liquors on a pic
mic ground.
An appeal will be made to the rail-
road companies to place invalid chairs
in the depOts at Eau Claire for the
accommodation of persons on their
way to local hospitals.
A small sized epidemic of typhoid
fever, supposed to have been caused
by impure drinking water, exists in
Oshkosh. Wells which are too shallow
are said to lie the cause
Edward Ferdi, aged two years, of
Eau Claire, had three of his fingers
cut off when some of the children with
whom he was playing turned the
binder on which he was sitting.
The people OF Port Washington have
voted against the erection OF a $40,-
coo high school building, the city be-
ing bmdened with building q munich
pal light plant and water works sys-
TEN.
The Empire logging road, known as
the st. CroiX and Duluth, has been
sold to the Mississippi, Hill City and
Western road and will be removed to
the hardwood district around Hill
City, Mimi.
Students of Northland college at
Ashland are building a concrete dam
on the college campus, which will fur
nish a lake half a mile in length and
winding in and out among the ravines
on the grounds,
On condition that he leave the state,
John Flaherty was released from the
perjury charge brought against him
at Superior. He was a witness who
tried to prove an alibi for two high
waymen who were convicted
Robert William Siebert of La Crosse
last year installed the motors of the
Zepplin airship destroyed last week.
At that time he was employed by the
Benx Motor company, the installa-
ton taking place at Friedrichshafen.
Athol E. Rollins, 1905, Rhodes schol-
ar from Wisconsin to Oxford univer-
sity, England, son of the Rev. Will
lam Rollins of the First Methodist
Episcopal church Of Racine, received
word that he had successfully passed
his final examination.
The victim of misplaced confidence,
young woman tried to commit suicide
bv jumping into the river at GAINESVILLE
and was only prevented from carry
ing out her plan by the quick action
of two men passing on the bridge at
the time. The police promise arrests
in the case.
Green county dairymen have no
ticed a heavy falling off in the flow OF
milk as a result of the continued hot,
dry weather. Pastures are not only
dry and burned, but the flies are so
bothersome that the cows are kept
busy fighting flies during the daytime
instead of feeding.
After serving three years in the
United States army in the Philippines
and receiving an honorable discharge,
Runtaro Kamagai, Japanese, applied
FOR admission to citizenship under the
laws of the United States and has
been refused his papers by Judge Han
ford of the federal court at Seattle.
Wash.
Attracted by the cries of the chill
.L,.. foupd Mics Mabel To