Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-09
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arrested on a charge of selling liquor
| without license.
Mrs. Louise Bowerman of GAINESVILLE
has been appointed head of the culinary
department of the state fair this fall.
| DR.. /. M. Brown OF New London has
agreed to accept $3.50 as compensa-
ton for the right Of way needed by
the spur track through his property.
Debs, the eleven-year-old son of E.
T. Bentley of Plainfeld is dead OF
lockjaw The boy accidentally shot
himself in the hand on Saturday while
playing with a revolver.
An eagle measuring six feet five
inches from the tips of its spread
wings was caught in a'trap by }. A.
Fitzgerald at his logging camp near
Harrison.
The Chippewa Valley Railway,
Light and Power company has filed
proposition with the city clerk OF Eau
Claire to reduce the cost of arc lights
wrom $72 to $50.
John Farrell, thirteen years of age,
who was accidentally shot at James
vile by companion named Cunning
ham, March II, has died of lockjaw
resulting from the wound.
On account of numerous chicken
thefts at Medford, chicken fanciers
have provided themselves with shot
guns, which they have loaded with
bird shot and rock salt.
Charles Francis Bowling of Eau
| Claire, seaman on the battleship Mis-
souri, of Admiral Evans fleet, passed
away at Magdalena bay of acute pull
monary tuberculosis. He was buried
on land.
The next meeting of the Eau Claire
county board will be April q. Chair
man Gus Dittmer will probably again
be. chaser to head the board. He has
been chairman of the county board
| for eight years.
Principal e. G. Doudna of the Wat
ertown high school has resigned to &C
cept similar position at Richland
Center. Prof. B. e. Mccormick of
Waukezha high school is a candidate
for the position.
Daniel Timm, lumberman, was in
iured near Ashland by having tree
fall on his head. His skull was frac-
tured and he sustained an internal
hemorrhage which caused one-half of
his body to be paralyZed
Henry Halvorsen of Chicago is I'M
der arrest at Eau Claire on a charge
of burglary. He was caught in the act
of breaking into and looting a resi-
dence, the police allege. A companion
who is said to have been with him es-
capped.
Longing for their former home at
Dexterville, Martin Thompson, aged
twelve years, his sisters, Sarah and
Ada, aged eleven and nine years, and
brother, Edwin, aged seven, ran away
from home and were located three
days later in Babcock.
Contrary to the general opinion,
there still remain in Northern Wis
conSin many tracts of virgin pine.
Some have been secured for the state
by the forestry commission. Some of
them will be included in tracts which
| the oIdl6 PAIN DOdlA Wili lCSOiiAAhS'u
for park reservation.
At a meeting of the girls Of the
university Of Wisconsin womans
suffrage club was formed with the fol
lowing officers: President .Janette
Van Hise, Madison; vice president,
Marion G.. Peabody, Madison; secre-
tary, Mary Crumpton, Superior;
treasurer, Ethel Thomas, Superior.
Ira Stewart aged seventeen years,
a callboy for the Chicago & North
Western road, was instantly killed in
the North Western yards at North
Fond du Lac. He caught a train. rid
ing on the side of box car. AS the
train passed a siding containing car
he was caught between the car and
the train.
Disease in the fields has forced
ManitowOc picking company to close
it's plant and abandon it's business and
there is no chance that the company
can reopen for at least five years, say
experts of the agricultural depart
ment at Washington, who hav- inves-
|
are affected by fungus growth which
spots the product.
The Wisconsin Archaeological So
ciety is publishing a valuable work
entitled The Archaeological Features
of the Lake KoshkOnong Region
to contain a description OF the many
interesting groups Of Indian mounds,
village sites, planting grounds, cacnes,
thrashing pits trails and stone, bone,
metal and shell implements of its.
early aboriginal occupants.
Failing in his efforts to organize
charivari party, Matthias Bittner, a
We, known citizen of Chippewa Falls,
armed himself with an accordion and
went to the home of the newly mar
ried couple. He played popular melo-
dies and was rewarded by being as
saulted by the groom Bittner reveng-
ed himself by throwing rocks through
the windows and was placed under ar
rest
A Fond du Lac county branch of
the Wisconsin Experiment association
has been OF ganized, and the following
officers were elected: President, j. p
Bonze!et of Eden: vice president, Hor-
ace Whitaker, town of Fond du Lac;
neutrality-suspicious., Henry Michels,
Calumet.
The members of the Catholic Order
of Foresters in Northern Wisconsin