Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-05


has been appointed to prepare the
program for the celebration.
Wausau.-Three men, Arthur Eu-
Ian, John Ament and Henry Zebotski.
the Wisconsin river about two miles
south of Merrill, were drowned.
La Crosse.-The first step toward
| improving La Crosse county roads has
been taken by the county board by
the appropriation of 100000 Many of
the improvements will be made this
fall.
Washington, D. C.-The senate con-
| frmed the nomination of Stuart J.
Fuller, of Madison, to be consul at
| Gothenburg, Sweden. Mr.. Fuller is
now vice-consul general at Hong
Kong.
| BOscobel.-W. H. III. Cash, of New
Lisbon, is investigating the practical
bility of building a railroad from
Bloomington through Patch Grove and
Mount Hope to connect with the
North Western road at Fennimore.
Neenah.-A water power famine
confronts the Fox river valley. Lake
| Winnebago and Fox river are low and
heavy rains are needed to bring the
| water to at least normal level. In
the. past two weeks there has been a
| so per cent cut of water power and
a hnr iS nd in
Montfort.-While drilling for water
at the Northwestern depot Joseph
Cook went through vein of jack
| lead and sulphur at 271 feet. This is
way below where it is supposed to
make and agrees with the theory that
| Wisconsin lead mines are not deep
enough to get the big deposit Of ore
Beloit-Samuel R. Titus, of Beloit
is mysteriously missing The last
seen of him here was on July 6. Titus
left Beloit in May to canvass this Sec
his employers have not heard from
him since Whether his disappear
ance is caused by foul play Or some
| mental arrangement is not known.
Minot.-James Dwire. one of the
best known land officials in the west
and for number of years stationed
at Minot, has rendered his resigna-
ton to the land department at Wash
relieved, Dwire will go west and prac-
| tice before the interior department
in one of the newly opened sections
of the country possibly in Washing
| ton or Montana.
Madison.-President A. D. Conover
of the state board of control returned
from Wood county where. with mem
| bers of committee of the county
| board of supervisors of that county,
| he inspected proposed sites for the
| new county asylum for the chronic
| insane to be built there. The board
will not be ready to report its find
ings in the investigation of conditions
at the state reformatory at Green Bay
until next week
| EUS6IIO1. CL0 C0uICI VI
the Wisconsin tobacco growing indus
tries, is facing dark gloom at present
| on account of the long continued
drought, which extends upward of
one month. In fact, it has all former
records for July beaten since 1873.
The showers of this week may be of
slight benefit to the growing leaf, but
more rain, and that at once, is needed
| TO assure anything like a crop. Much
of the early set tobacco is topping
out, though spindling plants of small
height.
Ripon-Dr. r. C. Hughes, who re-
Gently resigned as president of RipOn
| college, has accepted the general
management in Wisconsin for the
! North American Life Insurance Com
pany, of Newark, N. J. DR.. Hughes
was also elected president Of the Ri
pom Irrigated Lands Company, which
was but recently organized. The
| company is incorporated under the
laws of Wisconsin for $4,000, with
the privilege of doing business in the
state of Idaho. The company has a
large amount of irrigated land in the
Twin Falls district.
Observation-Disclosures Hickey, first
lieutenant of Co. G Wisconsin Nation
| Charles King as an example of a
model militia officer. He will soon
! take an examination for a position as
officer in the regular army.
Wausau.-The officers of Pine Grove
cemetery are battling with an army
of worms which has invaded the
grounds and threatens destruction of
all the tamarack trees therein.
Oconomowoc.-Fred W. Jones pur-
chased the Jones house of William
| M. Jones for $4,000.
| Neenah.-Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Scott narrowly escaped drowning
when they fell into the Fox river.
/ Their rowboat tipped over and both
went under. Neither could swim and
1 were going down for the last time
when persons in launches managed to
| reach them.
| Wausau.-Supt. Joseph Roehl, Jr.,
of the Marathon County Insane asy-
lum, has instituted plan whereby
the farmers of this county are sup
/ piled with full-blooded stock and
j grains adapted to this climate at
market prices.