Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-12-08

ploying county agricultural agent.
The county board has taken action
to purchase potter's field. where all
poor and insane, charges of the coun.
ty will be buried at Manitowoc.
e. l.. Husting, sixty-eight years old
president of the e. l.. Husting Brew
cry, died at Sacred Heart sanitarium
at Milwaukee, aged sixty-eight years.
Mrs. Mathilda Nelson, wife of Otto
Nelson, who deserted her baby at q
Peshtigo hotel recently, has been COM
mitted to the asylum for the insane at
Oshkosh
Emil Walker, formerly of Manito-
woo, is dead at Flint, Mich. A few
months ago he removed to the Michi-
gan town to enter into the real estate
business.
After evening service at the st.
Paul's Methodist church at Manitowoc
a thief stole the money from the col
lection box, which the minister failed
to put away.
Russell Sensiba, 10, of Green Bay,
was shot and instantly killed by his
companion, Chalmers Yaeger, twenty
years old. A full charge from a 16-
gauge shotgun entered his stomach.
A flock of twenty-seven swans was
seen on Sand Lake, having stopped
there over night en- route south. This
is the second flock that has been seen
on the lake in more than twenty years.
The Security State bank has been
organized at Turtle Lake village.
L. H. Riyard is president, Alex john
son, vice president, and Theodore
Birch of Wyoming, Mimi, is cashier.
War prosperity has come to the lit
tie village of Benton, Lafayette coun-
ty, of 652 population. It will pay an
average income tax for the year 1916
child.
The lake water supply of Milwaukee
is as much alive with bacteria at pres
ent as it ever has been in the history
of the Waterworks department, accord
ing to Superintendent Henry P. Bob
man.
A short course in agriculture is to
be conducted at Amherst this winter
under the direction of the county agri-
cultural agent, J. NJ. Coyner. 1t was
opened early in December and will
continue fourteen weeks.
A large meteor fell and struck in
one of the fields on the August Miller
farm, two miles north of Westfeld.
Nothing could be seen where the me-
teor struck except a hole which is
thirty-six inches in diameter.
Following an address by j. T..
Donaghey, chief inspector of the Wis
consin highway commission, branch
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
association went on record as favor
ing the county unit plan of state road
building.
On Jan. s the Republican presiden-
tial electors will meet in the govern.
or's reception room at the capitol and
cast Wisconsin's vote for Charles
Evans Hughes for president and
Charles Warren Fairbanks for vice
president.
Chances for Bernard Kramer, sixty
two year old workman who suffered
a fractured spine and compound frac-
ture of his right leg, to recover are
excellent, according to Marinette ply
sicians who are taking care of the
workman's injuries.
The investment by Beloit manufac-
turers of $1,250,000 in new buildings
and engagements and additional
equipment will give employment with
in the coming year of several thousand
more employees. 1t is estimated that
1900 new homes will be needed.
Juries in the cases of Arthur Hahn,
charged with passing a forged check,
and Charles Simpson, charged with a
statutory offense, brought in verdicts
of guilty. Judge James Thomas placed
the former on parole and the latter
under bond to appear at the January
term.
Company H, the Manitowoc
guard, which is on the border, will
have a Christmas dinner at which the
county board will be absent hosts
should they fail to return before the
holidays. The county board has appro
priated $50 for yuletide cheer for the
local militia.
The marriage of Miss Marie, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Macmillan Rahr
and Theodore Carl Haffenreffer oil
Boston, Mass, was solemnized at the
Rahr residence, the Rev. Talbot Rog
ers, D. D., of Racine college officiating
The bride has been prominent social
ly at Manitowoc
Mrs. Clare Stapleford would rather
keep dogs than home and children
according to her husbands answer tt
her suit for divorce now being hearC
in Milwaukee. Stapleford is a stock
holder in the Diamond Ink company
His wife testified that he told her tina
he would give a thousand dollars tt
get something" on her.
Lawrence Hochguertel and HARRY
Dunsey of Racine who assaulted anC
robbed Julius Splitter and after shoot
inc him left him for dead along thu
RdiIuyoJIIYno road north IF Cp,,th MIL