Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-03-31
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erS Of Badger State.
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and SC
Reduced In Size That 1t Will Appeal
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for the Wisconsin Humane society by
Governor Philip.
The promotion OF the Oshkosh
Industrial Promotion company fund OF
100000 for assisting small local in.
dustries is completed.
The forest products laboratory,
at Madison, has in the course
of preparation Guide Book for the
Identification of Woods Used for Rail-
road Ties"
One of the Eau Claire canning
company plants closed deal with
a Canadian firm which calls for $780,
900 cans Of Irish stew" a week for
year.
Charles A. Wustum, 67, one of the
Wealthiest citizens of Racine and very
widely known throughout the middle
west because of his business connec-
tons, died suddenly at his nome
there.
Mr.. and Mrs David Eaton, Fond
du Lac pioneers, observed their Efty-
sixth wedding anniversary at their
home Mr.. Eaton recently celebrated
his one hundreth birthday anniver-
sary
G. E. Fawcett, head of the Racine
county agricultural school at Roches-
ter, will have charge of the erection
of a new barn on the school farm this
spring, on which only student labor
will be used.
Attorney General Owen passed
balm to worried Illinoisans who have
welded their first cousins in Wiscon-
sin by declaring that the weddings
ed since Jan. 1, 1914.
Harold Shaw, a taxi driver, is
in the jail at Racine pending the in
juries of Miss Ida Maur, who was re-
moved to a hospital in a precarious
condition after being run down by the
taxi while she was about to board a
street car
Declaring immigration a most seri-
GUS problem in the United States, DR..
E. A. Ross, professor of sociology at
JLC Oulf Sl Shy VI w IOSOhOlAl, 1CS-
commended restriction of immigration,
either numerically or by the literacy
test.
Chief of Police Gerwing, of Marsh
field, presents a record of regu-
lar attendance that is considered
remarkable. The chief has been on
the force twenty-four years and until
last week had never missed
meeting of the council.
The Rock Island Resort property of
Fox Lake located on the island re-
sort and managed for the last two
years by Herman Rollfink, formerly
of Milwaukee has been sold to Chris
tian Van Roo of Milwaukee for $751;
500, possession to be given April 1.
Willie, the celebrated La Crosse
pet dog who inherited the fortune OF
Mrs. Mary Johnson, to the exclusion
of her two brothers, and then was
run over by street car, must be
proved legally dead before the for
tune can revert to the disinherited
kin.
Asa NJ Royce's selection by the
trustees as president of the Platte
vile normal spells ''home coming" for
him, inasmuch as he was a teacher of
psychology in the school for two years,
before going to the Superior normal,
which he leaves to become head of the
Platteville school.
Earl Miller, Fern, urges a boun-
ty on owls, claiming they are destroy
ing cartridges. He says that in a
walk through the woods he saw
the remains of birds that had been
eaten by owls. He urges a statewide
movement by game protective associ-
ations in favor of bounty.
The will of Columbus Smith, who
owned real estate in Fond du Lac val
ued at more than $4,000, was filed for
probate at Fond du Lac. IT directs
among other things that all fences
on the estate be kept in repair, and
that the dust remain undisturbed on
all window stills of the house.
Owing to contracts that will force
Capacity OuLpdl LUZ IJlO- IL, Manager
e. e. Bissett of the American Char.
coal and Iron company, at Ash.
land. issued notice that an IL per
cent increase will be given all men
employed by the company, effective
April 1. and that the force of workers
now about 200, will be doubled at an
early date.
Catholic Knights Of Oshkosh are
making preparations to entertain 600
or more delegates to the state con-
vention of Catholic knights, which
will be held there on July 25 and &c.
The methods of Chicago diploma
merchants who have made a prac-
tice of selling Marquette university
college degrees, with a smattering of
knowledge thrown in, for $3.50 each.
were revealed by the arrest of August
Steinlage of Chicago, when he pre-
sented one of the fake diplomas to
DR.. j. A. B. Adcock, secretary of the
state board of health, in appearing be-
fore the board to take an examination
for license to practice medicine in
Missouri. H.