Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-06-09

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to have a preparedness parade during
the state convention of postmasters,
June 1914.
| Emanuel Mahnke, near Greenbush,
went to drive home the COWS and fell
in creek, drowning in eighteen inch
es of water.
Memorial day was observed more
| generally and with larger citizen ac-
tivity throughout Wisconsin than at
any similar occasion in the history of
observation.
| A. d. Larson, of Sheridan, was elect
ed president of the Wisconsin Rural
Letter Carriers association and Stur-
geon Bay was selected as the next
meeting place.
Many cans of fish fry have been
purpose of restocking the lakes of that
vicinity. A supply of trout is to be
| shipped there.
Thomas J. Hill, Eau Claire pioneer,
aged seventyeight, one of the men
! who carried "Old Abe" Wisconsin's
war eagle, in many battles in the civ
| il war, died, following a stroke of
paralysis.
Henry r. Trumbower of Madison has
assumed his new position as a mem
Der of the Wisconsin railroad COM
mission to succeed Halford Erickson.
Professor Trumbower's term ends in
February, 1917.
Chippewa Falls Elks subscribed over
$4,000 toward a new swimming pool
! to be erected in Irvine park In the
winter the pool will be converted in
j. to a rink About $4,000 will be spent
on the project.
Thomas resort, on Little Cedar
lake, five miles from West Bend,
was visited by very disastrous fire
when the large hotel on the property
burned Cottages about the grounds
were not touched.
Grief over his brother, ia mes,
who was murdered in cold blood st
COria, Wis, last fall, with other wor-
ries, was given as the motive of Will
liam Tyndall, of Ashland, to end his
life with a shotgu I'm.
Captain Myron c. West of Mad
ison is made battalion adjutant of
the First infantry of the Wisconsin
| National guard to succeed Captain e.
| S. Driver, who was transferred to the
Quartermasters corps
E. Fl. Naber has filed a formal appli-
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for the pardon of John Dietz of Cam
eron Dam. Governor Philip will hold
a hearing on the application for par
don in about three weeks.
A class of 233 was graduated from
Stout institute at Menominee, Wis,
Of this number 1874 are in the domes-
tic science course, GA in manual train
ing and in plumbing. Fifty-one of
| the students will complete their work
at the summer session.
Scarcity and high price of paris
green on account Of war conditions,
should not alarm potato growers and
| fruit growers. A better spray mate
rial, known as arsenate of lead, has
not risen in price and should take
the place of paris green.
Three children, William, George
and Mary Netsdorf, aged 10, 3 and 6
years, respectively, sons and daugh-
ter Of John Netsdorf, farmer, living at
Hustler, Monroe county, were suffocat-
ed when a sandpit in which they were
playing caved in upon them.
| Capt. J. G. Moore, La Crosse, for
years connected with the steam boat
industry on the Mississippi river and
lately at the head of a large retail
coal company, was attacked I
paralytic stroke while visiting at
Viroqua, and died within a few hours
The Denerue summer resort, near
Fond du Lac, one of the most IA
shionable in the state, was destroyed
was erected in 1847, the framework
being out of hewn logs, was a land
mark Many valuable heirlOoms and
relics were destroyed
! Peter G. Batluk, who says that he
belongs to titled Muscovite fam
| Iy, SIdIICu sui MID. u. VI.
Matiak, his landlady, to recover a
| typewriter and bank book which she
is holding for a $25 board bill
The nobleman has been working as
carpenter at La Crosse.
Wallace Siegert, aged Is, of Kelley,
has been missing since morning of
May 20 when he went into woods with
his dog and gun. The dog returned
home at night alone which caused the
family and neighbors to search for
the boy. 1t is feared the boy has be-
come lost or has met with an acct
dent.
William Lewton and Jons Paulson,
two motorists of Stoughton, es-
capped with minor bruises when the
automobile in which they were riding
crashed into a cement culvert The
culvert was demolished and in crum-
bling caused the machine to overturn,
pinning the occupants underneath. The
automobile was wrecked.
George Lauer, of Fond du Lac,
who. with Mrs. Julia Rueckert was
charged with writing black hand let