Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-09-01

Delavan has appointed an official
rat catcher
f. P. Eich was named postmaster
of Lyndhurst, Shawano county.
Fire destroyed the large barn
of Charles Carpenter, prominent farm
er, two miles south of Elm Grove.
Frank Senft, Grand Rapids, was cleo
trOcuted when he grasped trolley
wire. He was employed by the street
railway.
Marshfield is cooperating with
state health authorities in quelling a
severe epidemic of diphtheria at
that city.
William H. Timlin, 4, for ten
years justice of the SUI. 'eme court
of Wisconsin, died of cancer at his
home at Milwaukee.
Robert Hughin, Racine man,
employed in the blanket factory at
Burlington, was caught in the shaft
| ing and his left ear torn off.
The governor freed c. AsbjorensOn
of Viroqua, who was sentenced on Oct.
20, 1914, to a term of three years in
the state prison for burglary.
Joshua Griffiths, aged AZ, promi-
nent farmer in the town of Genesee,
was drowned in Johnson's quarry,
where he was in bathing with his
wife.
Normal school regents have author
lied the state engineer to proceed
with the advertising for bids for the
library or second unit of the new state
normal school.
The treasury department of the
! United States announced appointment,
as deputy income tax collectors, A. F.
! Emerson of Chippewa Falls and H. B.
McCauley Of Superior.
Equipment for shrapnel shells is
installed at the Railway Materials
company plant at Stevens Point. The
plant will take care of some of the
overflow orders from eastern plants.
Chas. Petrick, Z, and Clifford Speech,
seven months old, two Manitowoc
children, were seized with infantile
| paralysis while visiting in Chicago.
They were taken to Cook County hos
pital.
Mrs. Matthias Babe is the heroine
of the hour among Kenoshoans. She
| laid down her baby as she entered her
home and captured the burglar who
has been terrorizing Kenosha resi-
| dents.
a
paving of the main business streets
of Elkhorn. Although no paving may
be laid this fall the work will be
started early next spring at the
latest
| Beloit decided there shall be no
street paving undertaken in 1917, but
that such streets which are to be
paved will have all preliminary work
| done upon them before contracts are
let for paving.
! Heat killed two Kenosha residents.
They were Christopher Grimes, seven
ty-five years old, who was overcome
in hotel, and Gottfried Morzfield, for
ty-eight years old, overcome while at
work in factory.
The state issued a charter to the
Farmers and Merchants Savings
bank of Luck, Polk county. The cap
ital stock of the new bank is $4,000.
H. d. Baker is president and w. M.
christensen cashier Of the bank.
Auto thieves, operating at Sparta,
Mrs. Emmeline Arnold, of Sparta,
has just passed her 101st birthday
at the home of her son. She is the
oldest resident of Monroe county. She
was born in 1915 in Jefferson county,
New York, and came to Wisconsin in
| 1856.
broke into the garage of John J.
Youngman and stole new Buick car
They were traced through Tomah to
Mauston, where they were arrested
and identified as Daniel Crowley and.
Slim Abrahamson.
The funeral of Mrs. Adam Luft of
Oshkosh and her daughter, Miss
Elizabeth, both of whom were muir
dered south of Waupaca by Bert H.
Drew, who then killed himself, was
held from the home of Mrs. Luft's
| pdiCul MI. anu MIS- 1COISo GOOT.
When John Nachtwey, of near Green
Bay, submitted to an operation for
appendicitis at Green Bay, he was the
seventh member of the family to feel
the knife within the last two months.
His wife, three sons and two daugh-
ters have already been operated upon.
The Rev. Ernest w. Mayer, of
| Fort Atkinson, for nine years pas
tor of the Methodist Episcopal church,
has resigned. He and Mrs Mayer will
leave next month for California to
care for Mr.. Mayors aged mother,
who is helpless after second stroke
of paralysis.
In a crew of farm hands sent to
! Just east of New Richmond, by a Min
neapolis employment agency there was
one who turned out to be an |. w. w.
| agitator. He sought to induce his COM
rades to strike for SO Say. The farm
ers heard of it, and he was chased
out of town.
Beloit and GAINESVILLE, Wis, and Rock
! ford, ILL.,, participated in a meeting
! 4, al,