Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-11-17

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Monroe county, died at the home of
his brother-in-law, of apoplexy.
Indications that residents of Stevens
Point are becoming softer" with the
encroachings of the sedentary life of
modern civilization are seen in COM
plants against early morning whistles.
John Stoffels, twenty-one years old,
died at home in Kenosha county after
two days illness from infantile pa
ralysis. His wife exposed herself to
the danger of contracting the disease
by caring for him.
The marriage of Miss Maude F..
Clohisy of Muckwonago, and City At
torney T. T. Cronin of Oconomowoc,
will be sOlemnized at st. James Catho-
lie church at Muckwonago. They will
reside in Ocononowoc.
Hit by motor car while crossing
Main street, Dorothy, fourteen years
old, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Bay, was knocked down and left in
an injured condition by the driver of
the vcl..Icle at Green Gay.
Action toward having the state leg
islature at it's next session pass bill
providing for license fec for trading
stamp companies operating in Wiscon-
sin was started at the meeting of the
Retail Merchants association of Ra-
cine.
The high price of ammunition and
the scarcity of game has caused a
marked falling off in the local demand
for hunting licenses. So far about 1000
less licenses have been issued in Mar
athon county than at the same time a
year ago.
On the bank of the Chippewa
river near Bruce in grotto Of
pines and birch trees, Alta FELTON,,
daughter of wealthy Bruce family,
and Fred Umbreit of Galley Lake, were
married near here. The epitome of
their romance took place where it was
started and where it grew.
Grieving over the fact that his wife
left him four months ago, and because
his sister. whom he considered his sole
companion for the remainder of his
life, married and likewise left him,
John H. Poescher, twenty seven years
of age, committed suicide by taking
poison in his home at Racine.
Racine's automobile DINNER ordi-
nance received it's knockout blow
when the city council ordered it re-
scinded. Action was taken in consid
Grafton of two deaths caused within
the last two weeks as the result of
automobiles not being sufficiently
lighted to insure safety of pedestrians.
The Star TaXicab and Baggage
Transfer company has been made de-
PENDANT in a suit brought by Carl
Maurer, guardian of his daughter, Ida
Maurer, twenty years old, for $1,000
damages, it being alleged taxicab
driven by Harold Shaw, on March 10,
bumped into her and badly bruised
her.
John Grabowicz, Kenosha's prize
forger, who was sent to prison after
KenOsha, to serve term of three
years, has applied to the state board
of control for pardon. 1t is declared
that he has been model prisoner, and
tho local officials will no. oppose his
release.
w lIiiam Anderson of Marshfield is
in critical condition in hospital at
Marshfeld and Peter Hanson, Mic Ru-
der, Charles Bulgren and Mr.. Martin
are suffering from wounds as result
were returning to Marshfield from
Niellsville when a cow crossed the
road and upset the machine. Anderson
was pinned beneath it and badly
crushed.
eff some of the city preachers who
used the newspapers for yelled crit
icism of my sermon on dancing and
to pretend that had the doors of my
Tabernacle locked Friday night, have
the nerve to come out in the open with
on the tabernacle walls 50 fast that it
will make their heads SWIM" said DR..
Eli F. FOrsythe, evangelist, at Fiji
teenth and Mineral streets, Milwaukee.
J. A. Awkward, U. S. district attor
ney for the western district of Wis
consin, and law partner of Joseph
Davies of the federal trade commits
sion, was found dead in bed in his
home at Madison. Death was due to
hemorrhage. For years Mr.. Awkward,
who was fifty-four years old, was one
of the leaders in the Democratic parry
in Wisconsin, and only recently his
name was mentioned for a federal
judgeship. He has been Democratic
candidate for governor and for con-
gress
Telling a heart rending story of alb
duction and intimidation, abandon
ment and privation, Hazel Dana, eigh-
teen years old, of Benton Harbor,
Mich, was turned over to her father
after she had been arrested starving
at Kenosna. The man in the case
whom she names has no. been found,
although the police of lnany cities
are on the lookout for him. ITO the
police the girl told story of violated
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