Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-07-14

FaLrlck OOckery, 90, one OF the EARL
est settlers of Askeaton. is dead.
Funeral of Mrs. H. C. Barker, who
died at her summer home at Brainerd,
Mimi, was held at Fond du Lac.
Thomas Laird has taken out a Ii
cense to we'd Marion d. Dalton, six
teen years old, a Beloit high school
freshman.
Mrs. George Schuehle, a prominent
OconomoWoc woman is the first wo-
man ever elected on an OconomoWoc
school board.
The First regiment, Wisconsin Ma
tional Guard have entrained for
the Mexican border The regiment
will go to San Antonio.
According to unofficial returns of
medical examinations made by United
States officers 20 per cent of the First
Regiment has been rejected.
The GAINESVILLE Electric company, To-
Gated at GAINESVILLE, has acquired the
holdings of the Edgarton Electric Co.
The consideration was $4,000.
From injuries, when she was run
over by taxicab, Mrs. Max Pietsch-
mann, thirty-seven years old, died at
Municipal hospital at Waukesha.
The golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Allen, ST., was celebrated with
picnic and family reunion attended
by five sons and three daughters
at Little Suamico.
H. P. Myric, state editor, and for
twenty years managing editor of the
Milwaukee Sentinel and until year
ago editor of the Milwaukee Free
Press, died in Madison.
Her scalp and ear torn off and face
otherwise frightfully mangled by a
milking machine, Mrs. John Veilbig
of the town of Oakfield is lying at ST.
Agnes hospital at the point of death.
S. A. Boyd, La Crosse, notified re-
gents of the GAINESVILLE Y. M. C. A.
that he would accept their offer as ply
steal director, to succeed E. A. Leek
who has resigned.
While the First regiment, w. N. G.,
was entraining for the border on the
8th, members of the Second regiment
were busy preparing for their depart
ure which took place Monday morn
ing.
Michael Mcmahon, eighty-five years
old, one of the early pioneers of Wav
side, died the last week. He raised
a family of fourteen children, one OF
whom is Judge Mcmahon of Green
Bay.
When Judge Stevens and three other
men of prominence in Madison start
ed for tour through Canada, they
took with them a document to prove
that they were citizens of the United
States
Mrs. Honor Meek, whose home is at
South Madison, was killed by fall
ing from the running board of an au-
tomobile truck. Her skull was frac.
tured. She was seized with faint
ing spell.
Lawrence Johnson, Glenwood City
youth, twenty years old, drowned in
Pine lake when taken with cramps
twenty feet from shore while swim.
ming with two companions. The body
was recovered.
"A reward of $500 to be given for
the capture and conviction of the
slayer of George Bischoff, taxicab
driver, who was shot and killed in
his machine, has been offered by the
city of Oshkosh.
Philip Allen, sentenced to prison s
years ago for wrecking the First Ma.
tional bank of Mineral Point, will be
given his freedom July 25. He will
be allowed two years of his sentence
for good behavior.
The citizens committee which was
organized at Marinette, to attempt to
bring about an agreement between
1000 strikers of lumber and power
plants disbanded after failing to ac-
complish It's purpose
Miss S.. E. Stinson, aged eighty-one
years, living at Stevens Point for.
mer California school teacher, sue
cessfully underwent an operation for
the amputation of one leg, necessitat-
ed by bone disease.
Soldiers sweethearts, and cleft be-
hind me girls" of Fond du Lac plan to
organize a permanent club similar to
Women's Relief corps of civil war
days, to furnish delicacies and COM
forts for the members of Company E.
Suddenly facing the alternative at
Beloit of being cooked, to death or
drowned, William Baptist chose to try
the water and escaped. He was fish.
ing by the side of the paper mill when
he found himself in front of an exhaust
steampipe. which had been opened
suddenly.
Private Corydon F. Battershell,
but who in private life is the
Reverend Corydon f. Battershell,
Marinette, who was with the Mari
lnette company at Camp Douglas, pro-
cured license in Chicago to wed
Beulah G.. Bond, eighteen years old,
also Of Marinette.
Four Joy riders, after spending the
Fourth at Tomahawk, hit small car
with two passengers mile south of
Heafford junction. Both cars were