Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-10-20
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recently organized, has opened for
business.
Edward Butler, 80, a well known
resident of Waukesha, died following
protracted illness.
Ebenezer Owen, former cement
contractor in Racine, died at his home
in Kenosha after short illness.
Although cartridges are few this sea-
son, one flew through a window of
John Herscheid's home in Marinette.
John Smollander, Marinette, was
fined $25 and costs when he was
found guilty of having venison in his
possession.
Strawberries in the Washburn dis
trict, have been on the market there,
having been grown by Frank Pfeler,
local gardner.
Near Marinette, the bodies of
Michael Brown and Frank Salewsik,
who drowned in the Menominee river
nave been recovered.
After being in the Fox river
for more than two years, the Steamer
Orion, which burned at Green Bay in
1913, has been raised.
Children's prizes for securing and de-
stroying the greatest weight of Tus-
sock moth nests is the scheme of the
Menominee Woman's club.
Bonds of $4,000 will be issued by the
city of Washburn to take up special
permanent Improvement work which
is being done there this season.
H. Hopeman was killed and others
were injured when a small touring
car collided with another auto near
Cedar Grove and turned turtle.
Leland Joannes, of Green Bay, the
son of millionaire wholesale grocery
man, was injured when the automobile
he w0s driving skidded and ran into a
car.
Figures show that the postal bus
mess of Ladysmith has passed the
$4,000 mark and a movement has
been started to obtain free mail de-
livery
w. G. Scheer is named clerk in the
Milwaukee postoffice. Harry G.. Break
ey and Ralph A. Gueldenzopf of Alma
Center were appointed rural letter
carriers.
Charles Rutkauskis, aged As, was
found dead in the lonely station of the
Chicago and Milwaukee Electric road
at Tobin road, four miles south of
Kenosha.
Henry Brandon, % years old, was
killed when an auto turned turtle
near Emerald and pinned him under
the steering wheel A companion was
uninjured.
The infantile paralysis cases in
Wisconsin since the beginning of the
plague in the state is given as 353.
Thirty-three deaths from the disease
were reported
A family feud raging at Racine end
ed in the death of William Petrushka.
thirty three years, who died after a
fight in saloon in which dozen
or more took part.
Philip Riley of st. Croix county
since 1856, when he settled in the
town of Erin Prairie, is dead, after a
long illness. He was born in Roches-
ter, N. Y, in 1849.
c. Lemere, Green Bay, died from in
juries received when he dashed
through a fence of an automobile rae
ing course in Sturgeon Bay, while rae
ing with four others.
Mrs. Samuel r. Cotton, of Sturgeon
Bay, the widow of the moving
picture actor killed by an automo-
bile near Ephraim, has received $500
from Mrs. B. D. Thorp in settlement.
While near Stevens Point and cross
ing a small stream near her home
Mrs. Alex Weilhowski, mother of four
small children, drowned when the
boat sank. Her husband swan ashore.
John Cochran, railroad engineer
of Green Bay, and Allen Conley.
farmer, narrowly escaped death when
an automobile driven by H. H. Bent
ley of Neopit crashed into the buggy
in which they were riding.
Mrs. Frances Robinson, n years of
age, e. granddaughter of the late Fitch
Higgins, one of the first pioneers of
Kenosha county and member of an
old revolutionary family, is dead at
her home in the town of Pleasant
Prairie.
Students, many of whom had miracu-
lous escapes from death or serious in
jury, fled from classrooms in the
main hall of the University of Wiscon-
sin when fire of unknown origin swept
throughout the building and DESTROYED
the structure
Failure to record in Oconto county
a mortgage for $4,000 given him by
Walter H. Phillips until after the
death Of Mr.. Phillips has cost F. x.
Morrow the gift, according to a de-
cision just handed down by Judge
Reid of Wausau.
Mrs. A. Geiger, Oshkosh, sentenced to
eighteen months in state prison, fol-
lowing her plea of guilty on a statu-
tory charge, has had her sentence
suspended upon the recommendation
of B. M. Jostad, state probation Off
Ger, and has been placed on probation.
Mrs. Mary Gullo, Italion of Kenosha,