Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-12-29
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street lights was dedicated to the citi-
ZenS.
The Normal school government
thermometer registered fourteen de-
grees below zero on Dec IS at Osh-
kOsh.
While blasting stumps near Deerfield
Robert Eggnew of Marshall dropped
explosive caps and was instantly
killed.
Word was received at Marinette
that Austin c. Kyle, formerly of Mar
inette, was killed by shell fire in
France on Nov. 10.
The first six months existence of
the Marshfeld board of commerce
was celebrated, when $50 members
and guests banqueted in the city hall
An OconOmowoc bank last week
sent out checks amounting to nearly
$4,000 for the Christmas Saving cub
members. The club was organized two
years ago.
Former Chief of Police w H. APP
pleby of Beloit has rendered his resig-
nation as deputy United States mar
shall, to take up the life of a farmer
in Georgia.
The following Wisconsin troops are
included in the order of General Fun
ston to return home: Brigade head
quarters and First infantry and field
hospital No. 1.
Charles Nelson, forty-five years DID,
single, was instantly killed when he
slipped while unloading carload of
coal and fell headlOng on his head
and shoulders at Marinette.
Pensions were granted to Sarah c..
Westcott of Abbotsford, $780, Maggie
l.. Waterman of Elkhorn, $12; Eliza
beth S. Graves of Evansville, $40;
Alice M. Smith of Delavan, ST..
A girl of twenty, pretty and well
dressed, yet helpless and alone, who
started out to end her life, was
among the trail hitters in Forsythe
tabernacle at Milwaukee that night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Jacobson,
pioneer residents in Racine, celebrated
their fortieth wedding anniversary
Their home was crowded with men,
bers of the Bethesda Lutheran church.
Steamer Martin Mullen, arriving
at Milwaukee from the north, reports
that ice is making fast at Mackinaw,
and other steamers up-bound with
coal may have trouble forcing a pass
age.
Mrs Thomas Windiate has started
action in court at Manitowoc for the
recovery of farm property valued at
$4,000, which she decided few years
ago to her daughter, Mrs. H. l.. Mark
ham.
George N. Deguire, ManitoWoc, has
been appointed inspector of locomO-
lives in connected with the valuation
of railroads by the interstate com
merce commission, at salary of
1900 per annum
Temperance organizations of Wis
consin were represented at q meeting
at Milwaukee Of leading drys to pre-
pare plans for the coming state con-
yentiOn, which will probably be held
in Madison in January.
Herman Elsas and |. Kuhe of New
York have purchased the controlling
interest in the Falls Manufacturing
company and Union Manufacturing
company of Oconto Falls, manufacture
ers of wrapping paper products.
Following the action taken by the
national board of review of New York,
the citizen censOrs' committee of mo-
ton pictures at Milwaukee ruled that
hereafter no pictures of white slave
character shall receive it's sanction
Chris Muth, known throughout the
state as a breeder of Guernsey cattle,
business man, farmer, and for twenty
years Il member of the county board,
died after a three weeks illness from
cerebral meningitis near ManitOwOc.
Typists in the commercial depart
ment of the Oshkosh High school
ranked fourth in the United States
and first in Wisconsin, according to
announcements Of awards for annual
competition conducted by a typewriter
company
Pond fishermen, working between
Port Washington and Two Rivers,
went on record fayoring state control
of fishing on the great lakes. They
claim Michigan fishermen under state
laws are allowed to make hauls while
they a. unable TO do so.
Mrs. Ada Pearse, wife of Carroll
G. Pearse, president of the Milwaukee
Normal school and former supern-
tendent of the Milwaukee public
schools, died on December II, in the
family home, 905 Summit avenue. Mrs.
pearSe has been in failing health for
about a year.
If Ernest H. Walker, new assistant
clerk in the Indian agents office at
Ashland. had remained in England in
1907, instead of coming to the United
States, he probably would have met
the same fate, which betook the mem
beers of his battalion, the entire per-
sonel of which has been wiped
out
An increase of nearly $4,000 900 in
the assessed valuation of four classes
of Dublic utilities freight linac and