Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-04-01
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from the sixth story while washing
windows, breaking a rib and sustain
ing internal injuries, but may recover.
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Anton Moe, aged forty-three, resi-
dent of La Crosse for twenty-one
years, died at the Lutheran hospital,
after a four weeks illness of typhoid
fever.
A seed corn contest is to be held
at Ellsworth in connection with the
Pierce county fair Sept. 23-24-25. Cash
prizes amounting to 500 have been
offered.
Carol, four-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Grant Smith of Sugar Grove,
was seriously burned. The flames en-
tered the child's mouth and nose by
inhalation.
John Bigler committed suicide at
Chippewa Falls by drinking carbolic
acid. His wife had recently secured
divorce from him for cruelty and
non-support.
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Three persons were injured-two of
them perhaps fatally-in an explosion
of dynamite at the Hardkoph stone
quarry at Lannon, three miles west of
MenOmonie Falls.
Edward Dullea, a farmer residing
in the town of Pennington, while
feeding stock, fell from the haymow
and broke his neck. He was eighty
one years of age.
The Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran
church at Grand Rapids will convert
it's present church building into a
! school and erect a new house of wor-
ship at cost of $4,000
Edward Davidson, a brewery agent
of Racine, pleaded guilty to permit
ting boy under fourteen years of
age to work in his bottling factory,
and was fined $25 and costs.
Mrs. E. S. Palmer of the town of
Greenville, is one of the few surviv-
ing daughters of a revolutionary sol
der in Wisconsin. Mrs. Palmer is
now seventy-eight years of age.
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The public schools at Lake Neba-
canon have been closed, owing to an
epidemic of diphtheria. While so far
there has been but one fatality, one
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Officers of the town of Mount Pleas.
ant declared war on automobile test
ers who they claim are making life
miserable because of the terrific speed
machine are run on the highways.
At a meeting of promoters and
stockholders 100000 stock for the
Sparta-Melrose electric road, held at
La Crosse, was subscribed Building
will be started as soon as the frost is
out of the ground.
N. P. Rasmussen, only brother Of
the late Col. N. r. Nelson of La
Crosse, died at his home in San Di"
ego, Cal, and his remains will be
taken to Valley City, N D., where the
funeral will be held.
John Olson, farmer living in Lost
Creek valley, two miles from Pepin,
died of tuberculosis. Some time ago
Mr.. Olson smashed his instep and tu-
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amputated but the germs had pene-
trated his system.
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A meeting of dairymen of Brown
and adjoining counties will be held
at Little Suamico on March 81.
Among the features will be series
of practical demonstrations of cream,
butter, ETC., as we'll as lectures by men
prominent in this business.
On April a hearing for a writ of
necessity to permit the Fox River
Valley electric line to construct its
road north from Milwaukee through
the Fox River valley will be held be-
fore the rate commission. The pro-
posed line will pass through Kiel.
Wisconsin Game Warden Spricht-
| man arrested Louis Malmquist for
taking pike out his nets and giving
| them away to farmer He was tried
at Maiden Rock and fined $50 and
costs. This is Malmquist's second Of
tense. The farmer was also arrested,
but his trial was postponed.
At a meeting of 800 milk shippers
from Milwaukee, Waukesha and other
counties it was decided to fight the
Milwaukee ordinance which forces
farmers shipping milk to the city to
have certificates that their cattle are
| free from tuberculosis. They will
fight a state law on the same subject.
After dragging the river in the vi
cinity where the drowning occurred
for twelve hours, Jack Leonard found
the body of his son, John Leonard,
who broke through the ice in the Mis-
sissippi river at La Crosse.
Harry A. Gowdy, charged with OBJ
tanning money by false pretenses in
an advertising enterprise, was dis
charged in the circuit court at Eau
Claire on the ground that the alleged
false representations made by him
were not the inducing cause of the
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