Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-03-10


international Peace" in GAINESVILLE on
March Is.
Mrs. Mary Devlin, SO, prominent
among the pioneers of Kenosha coun-
ty, died at Austin, Mimi, following an
illness Of ten days.
Judge w. B. Quinlan was married to
Miss Agnes Fitzsimmons at Newark,
Ohio. Judge Quinlan is judge in the
twentieth judicial circuit
Hhe Wolf River Lumber company
about Amigo has practically COM
pleted it's operations for this season.
The cut was started in September.
F. N. Plumb, a resident of Hammond,
aged eighty years, a veteran of the
civil war, died at the sanatorium in
Hudson, after a lingering illness.
The widow of Capt. E. S. Stone,
one of the earliest residents of the
town of Summit, passed away at her
home in Oconomowoc, aged eighty
three years.
Saturday, Mar. 4, and continuing for
seven days, hundreds of Wisconsin
communities will consider ways and
means of giving the babies more of a
square deal.
For forging his wife's name for
$1,000, John Shepack, one of the old
est insurance men of Green Bay, was
sentenced to a term of three years
at Waupun.
L. l.. Walford, two miles west of
Cross Plains, Wis, died of a fractured
skull he sustained in an accidental fall
in the yard at his home. He leaves a
wife and two children.
At a recent meeting the state
railroad commission granted the re-
quest of the Wisconsin traffic bureau
of Wausau to withdraw from the Tit
temOre freight rate case.
DR.. C. F. Villas was named a mem
Der of the university board of visitors
by the board of regents. DR.. Villas
succeeds DR.. Ernest Copeland, Mil
Waukee, who recently resigned.
William Birney, of Near Amigo, a
bachelor living a lonely life on
farm, may lose his feet as the result
Of failure to secure medical attention
after his feet were badly frozen.
Mrs. Carl Brady, who died recently
in La Crosse at the advanced age of
ninety-seven years, had been a resi-
dent of Wisconsin eighty years, hav-
ing first settled in Prairie du CHEN.
Land for the buildings of the
new GAINESVILLE Tractor and Engine
company has been purchased and the
company will start erecting it's new
factory plant as soon as the weather
permits.
Nick Murray, Racine's and maybe
Wisconsin's oldest carrier in point of
service, resigned after twenty-five
years of work for Uncle Sam, during
which time he calculates he has walk
ed $4,000 miles.
At a late meeting the University of
Wisconsin regents recommended
the adoption of a new course in the
university curriculum in which de-
gree may be obtained without Ian
guage requirements.
Conrad Fox, Sr 80, one of the most
prominent citizens of that vicinity,
died at his home in the town of Mount
Pleasant. He was connected with the
Fox Lime and Stone company, and
the Fox Ice company.
Sen. La Toilette will get North Da-
kota's Republican Endorsement in the
presidential primaries on March q.
The time for filing petitions expired
and La Toilette is opposed only by
henry D. Estabrook of New York.
The attorney general of Wisconsin
has advised District Attorney o. H.
Bruemmer of Kewaunee that a special
election would be held in Kewaunee
on April to fill the vacancy in the
office of county judge of Kewaunee
county.
Alfred Wolf lately of Racine, for
mer financial secretary of the barten-
ders' union, was arrested at st. Louis
and brought back to answer to the
charge of embezzling $92. He says the
money was due him for organizing
the union.
Hunting licenses of Eugene and H.
Barry, aged thirty-three and twenty
four years, and sons of Camp Doug
las widow. were the means by which
the identity of the two men found
dead in a refrigerator car at Transfer
was established.
Mrs. Dell O'Neil of Spooner, mar
ried two years, suicided at Ash
land shortly after her husband had
expressed his intention of leaving her
He is alleged to have received let
tiers from friends who claimed his
wife was unfaithful.
Mrs. Jennie l.. Hanson, Racine wi
dow and wife of Peter Hanson. who
lost his life on the Titanic. received
notice she had been awarded $1,000
by the New York courts in her suit
for damages against the owning
steamship company.
Austin Doxtater, an Oneida Indian.
living near Depere, was discovered