Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-11-26
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from ALI Parts
Of the State.


was killed by switch engine near
the beet sugar factory at GAINESVILLE.
By gnawing a cable squirrels put
twenty-six telephones of the Rock
County Telephone company out of
commission
Guests in the Rex hotel at Superior
were routed out in their night clothes
early one morning last week by a fire
which caused $4,000 damage.
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The remodeled barley elevator of
the WATERFOWL Grain company at
Watertown is in operation. Modern
machinery has been installed.
The Everett B. Clark Seed company
will erect a seed warehouse at Green
Bay next spring Contracts for acreage
for growing peas are now being made.
Frank Grass has established a sta
ton at CrivitZ for the purchase of
pine cones, to be shipped to Germany,
where the demand for seed is enor-
nous.
AS Postmaster J. J. Salter entered
his office at Prentice he fell and broke
his left ankle. This leg from the
knee down was partially crippled be-
fore.
Out of herd of twenty cattle be-
longing to the Glover Leaf dairy at
Madiso neighteen have been ordered
killed by Assistant State Veterinary
Clark.
The Great Northern road has set
tied its long standing fight with the
city of Superior for 1905 and 1906 ele-
vator taxes by paying the taxes, to-
tai of $33,04299.
Jackson county paid $1,000 bounty
On wolves and $1,923 on gophers,
hawks and crows. The county board
of supervisors at it's recent session
discontinued the latter.
F. H. Biesen has purchased the old
Cowdin mill at Superior, which will be
run in connection with his yards. The
mill was formerly used for the manu-
facture Of sashes and doors.
Tho Cnn net ntinn MonIJfoOt1 oOpo
pany has been organized at Madison
for the manufacture of toys, go-carts,
baby carriages ana like vehicles. 1t
is expected to be in operation very
soon.
Clerk of Court Upthegrove of Apple.
ton reports that circuit court expenses
this year are $3,9O7, less that they
have ever been before The high
water mark was reached in 1894, when
tn etotal was nearly $4,000.
Attorney Frank B. Lamoreaux of
Ashland, against whom disbarment
proceedings were begun a year ago,
was exonerated by Judge Beldon at
Superior. There were thirteen charges,
covering covering sixteen years prac-
tice
Attorneys for Henry Baldwin, the
La Crosse saloonkeeper whose license
was revoked by the council recently,
will appeal to the circuit court on the
ground that the city fathers had no
evidence which would warrant the &C
ton taken.
The Eau Claire county board unani-
mously killed a resolution to establish
a county municipal court 1t apprO-
priated fund for a county travelling
library after listening to an address
by Miss L. E. Stearns of Milwaukee,
the state library commits
sion.
Surveyors for the Milwaukee &
Western Electric railway are survey
ing from Beaver Dam to Milwaukee
via Juneau, Rolling Prairie, Minnesota
Junction, Hustisford, Neosho, Alderly
and Oconomowoc. Options have been
secured on the right of way between
Beaver Dam and Neosho.
The Fond du Lac county board is
to solve a method for de-
creasing the cost of deducting the
at an expense of about
$4,000 annually. Many members ia
vor it's adjustment. The favored
method for cutting down expenses ap-
pears to be a bred and water diet for
the tramps.
Arising -:om bed, Oscar Rahm of
La Crosse dressed himself, went down
stairs to the kitchen to get butcher
knife, returned to his bed room and
cut his throat. When found by his
father, few minutes later, the young
man was dead. He had been suffering
rom mental trouble for several months
and was afflicted with melancholia.
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Electricians wiring c. E. Preston's |
residence at Chippewa Falls discov-
cred a bees nest between the joists |
Of the floor and ceiling. They secured |
about 100 pounds of honey.
After an existence of fifty years
lnder one postmaster, George H. |
Chamberlain, the Rock Falls postoffice |
has been abandoned by the govern
nent Rural delivery service is the |
1irect cause of the discontinuance. |
Mr.. Chamberlain is now eighty-two |