Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-08-25
WISCONSIN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of Interest to Read
ers Of Badger State.
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That 1t Will Appeal
to All Glasses of Readers.


Brick, and pioneer resident OF Mani
towoc. is dead.
State mortality for the last quar-
ter is higher than the average for the
preceding eight years.
The Stevens Point Lighting Co. pur-
chased a lungmotOr, and will devote
it to public use there.
A. p Ritter, SO, New London resi-
dent, died at the home of his daugh'
ter, Mrs. George Jillson.
Ray Starr, of Grand Rapids, was in
stantly killed when a sewer in which
he was working caved in, the timbers
crushing his head.
Mrs. Devine, colored, 80, Beloit, was
careless in lighting her pipe in the
home of her son, Henry. Flames from
the match set fire to a curtain and the
house was burned.
Sydney Mennell, Kenosha, night en-
gineer of the plant of the Simmons
company, was electrocuted in the en-
CINE room of the company at an early
hour in the morning.
William M. Perry, pioneer of Osh-
kosh, member of the assembly in 1905
'07, prominent member of the G. A. R.,
and one Of the Libby prisoners, Is
dead, aged seventy-four years.
Ten women of feeble-minded home
at Chippewa Falls were successfully
sterilized and the patients are recover
ing, DR.. ]. R. Lyman, Eau Claire, in
charge of the work, announced.
A dance held on Sunday at the
home of Sam Weinberg, near Bloom
vile, ended in Thomas Cunts being
fatally shot by Peter Reinson, because
Cunts danced with Reinson's wife.
w. H. Blanchard, sup't. Of trans
portation at the Wells-Fargo express
office at Milwaukee, was drowned
when his automobile dropped into the
Milwaukee river on the State street
bridge draw.
J A. F. Philbrook, a pioneer of New
Richmond and veteran of the Fourth
Wisconsin Volunteer infantry, died at
the Minnesota State Soldiers home at
Minnehaha after a long illness from
kidney trouble.
To meet the shortage in white news
print paper, the publishers of the
eight daily newspapers in Milwaukee
have decided to abandon the return
privileges of unsold papers to all deal
ers and others.
A railroad handcare occupied by
1oh nd hn Of
liam Scotland of Sullivan collided on
the Concord street crossing at Ocono-
mowoc James Millola and Tony La
polona were injured.
Extensive experiments are be-
ing made by o. R. George of the North
ern Potato company, and George Bey-
er, Oconto real estate dealer, in plant
ing one of the largest experimental po-
tato farms in this state.
Twenty-eight barrels of crude potash
of commercial value have been made
at the plant of the Amigo Potash COM
pa1y, Each barrel weighs between
500 and 900 pounds. The total output
has been 22,4OO pounds.
Caring for thousands of automo-
bilists, who will attend the Wisconsin
state fair next month-Sept. II to Is
is now being considered by the Off
Gals. This is one of the most import
ant subjects to be settled.
De Pere will employ visiting
nurse. The question has been agitated
there for the last five years. The board
of health recommended the PROPOSE
ton, and it was supported by the
Woman's club and the school boards
The little son Of Edward Kohnke
fell off an icehouse chute at Half Moon
lake while fishing. The body was re.
covered in twenty minutes and doc
tors worked over him nearly three
hours with lung motor without sue
cess.
Herman Vande Hell, 70, one of the
earliest settlers of the town of Hol
land, is dead. He was one of the col
ony that came over from Holland with
Father Van den Brook in 1848, and
has been a continuous resident on the
farm he first cleared.
When Fred Bender, an OconomowOc
man, returned from the funeral
5ervices of his mother, Mrs. Sophia
Bender, at Oconomowoc, he received
word of the death of his wife, who had
passed away at Milwaukee hospital,
following an operation Of few days
previous
Mrs. M. Anderson, seventyfour years
old, wife of the Rev. David r. Ander-
son, pastor of Bristol and Paris Con-
gregational church in Kenosha county,
died suddenly at the parsonage in
Bristol, following an attack of apo
plexy, before physician could be call
ed
To overcome the feeling of dread
which it is known that most freshmen
girls have at entering strange uni
versity, the upper class women at the
University of Wisconsin have been re-
vising their Junior advisory system,
and plan to meet trains and assist
freshmen girls in various ways.
| Dominic Peck and a companion,
both of Manitowoc, while driving
in buggy on the speedway between
ManitOwOc and Two Rivers had a