Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-10-13

Beloit milk patrons were notified that
a price of s cents a quart would go
into effect at once.
Godfred Zerbe, So, Pound farmer,
may not live as a result of injuries
sustained when his motorcycle over
/ turned
Green county dairymen have
won an increase in the price for the
milk without the necessity of calling
a strike.
Bakers of Oshkosh have decided to
charge six cents loaf for bread now
retailing at five cents. The increase
went into effect ons Oct. 9.
Lyle l. Gillespie, Beloit shopman,
was found wandering in st. Louis,
Mo-, bereft of memory. He left his
home under mental depression.
Arthur Long, New Berlin, pioneer,
has gone to Colorado to visit his
brothers, John and George. He has not
seen George for thirty-five years.
| A school for the treatment of
defective speech has been opened in
Stevens Point in connection with the
deaf school, There are eight pupils
| Harry M. Newton, Sparta resident,
has purchased large brick residence
and will donate it together with sew
eral acres of land for an old peoples
home.
Frank Buchateau, Green Bay, son of
Victor Buchateau, committed suicide
by taking poison in Waukegan, Ill.
i Domestic troubles are said to be re.
sponsible.
Pensions have been granted to Wis
consin people: Mary Kennedy, Kill
bourn, Wis, $12; Mary McGeen, Wau-
kesha, Wis, $12; John James, Wau-
saukee, Wis, Sc.
An addition costing about $4,000
will be made at La Crosse to the
Lutheran hospital. The addition will
contain twenty-nine private patients
rooms, also new operating room.
Nelson Darling, resident of Monroe,
veteran of the civil war; former
treasurer of the city, and prominent
in G. A. r. and Oddfellow circles, is
dead, following stroke of paralysis.
The commission has set Oct II
as the date for the hearing of the case
Of the Rock County Telephone COM
pany, which wishes to raise it's bus
mess rates to SO month from a rate
of 50 and $3.50.
A civil service examination has
been ordered for October %
for rural carrier at Mount Hope. III.
H. 1ruesdell of Dane City has been
| appointed scientific assistant in the
agricultural department.
Gov. Philip, as he announced,
issued call for special session of
the state legislature to provide means
for the national guardsmen now serv-
ing on the border to vote The ses-
sion was called for Oct. 10.
The generosity of John A. Latsch,
La Crosse resident, and love for his
boyhood home, and the home of his
father, will be the means of securing
to residents of Trempealeau the his
toric Trempealeau mountain.
Farmers demand $3.50 a hunrded
pounds for milk, and committee will
confer with Green Bay dealers. Prices
say they will have to raise prices to
consumers if producers are paid their
figure.
The coming one is going to be
long cold winter, according to Mis-
| sissippi trappers. They say the musk
| f, hY,i1 oh
thicker than usual. The trappers say
this is an infallible sign of a rigorous
winter.
| J. w. Matthieson, Jr., millionaire
living at La Sale, ILL.,, who a
few weeks ago purchased the Ocono.
Rogers of Milwaukee, has bought the
N. P. IIulst summer property adjoin-
ing his previous purchase.
The Democratic county committee
of Winnebago has received infor-
nation that Vice President Thomas
Marshall will not speak in Oshkosh
on Oct. as originally scheduled, his
itinerary in the state having been
changed to great lake territory
DR.. Horace White, editor and scholar,
provided in his will the sum of $4,000
for a memorial to his father, DR..
Horace White, d. D., pioneer of Be
lott, who as agent of the New Eng
land Emigration company, selected
the site of Beloit in 1897
Arnold Haase. Is, Riverside, ILL.,,
is in the West Bend sanatorium In a
serious condition as the result of hav-
ing been stabbed by Paul Jackson,
colored, following dispute during the
erection Of concessionaire's tent at
the first day of the Washington coun-
ty fair.
James Madison chapter, d. A. R.,
at Madison, has been organized.
with Mrs. E. H. Van Ostrand as re-
gent. Others officers are: First vice
regent, Mrs. Louise Sawin; secretary,
Mrs. George p. Hambrecht; treasurer,
Mrs. Charles Head; historian, Mrs.
George w. Bird; registrar, Mrs. War
rem L. Ayers.
A final dividend of 1.43 per cent of
bankrupt Racine Iron and Metal COM
pany was declared last week before