Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-12-22
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With favorable weather ten new
residences will be completed for New
Lisbon citizens this year
David l. Spencer, thirty-two, farmer,
died suddenly at his home in Dane
county from heart trouble.
Charles Keropki, a Russian, was
killed by falling tree at the Union
Land company camps near Merrill.
Wounds inflicted upon Roman jim
inak year ago, when he was held up
and robbed at Green Bay caused his
death.
The state proposes to give every
farmer free weather reports by wire
less, if he will put up an apparatus on
his farm.
Peter w. Beck, forty-two years old,
dropped dead from heart trouble at
the Continental store at Eau Claire,
where he was department head.
While hunting rabbits in the town
Of Dewey ten year old Edwin Glin-
koWski had his right arm nearly
blown off by the discharge of shot
gun.
Oconomowoc Poultry and Pet Stock
association closed after five days
session. Nearly 600 birds were on dis
play.
The body of Matt Hanson, thirty
seven, of Meridian, who came to Eau
Claire to attend the potato growers
convention, was found in the Chip
pewa river.
Relatives of Elva Houp, who was
slain at Milwaukee by D. Bersansky,
in supposed suicide pact, deny that
the girl had been secretly married as
Bersanskys friends asserted.
Emil Rabichaud, twenty-siX years
old, switchman in the employ of the
North Western road, was killed at
Florence when he accidentally shot
himself while hunting rabbits.
The announcement of the engage
ment of Josephine Cudahy, daughter
of the multi-millionaire packer, to
Lansing Hoyt of Evanston, came as
surprise to Milwaukee society.
With cheese % cents a pound, many
of the states creameries are bound
to change into cheese factories or go
to the wall, according to G. H. Ben
kendorf, dairy school instructor
New automobile legislation provid
ing for the codifying of the laws and
education of drivers in the law will be
urged by Assemblyman Carl Hanson
of Manitowoc before the next session
of the legislature.
Henry S. Hartmann of the Hart
mann Trunk company, at Racine, a
we'll known manufacturer of trunks,
is to resign as head of the firm and
move to New York, where he is to
have charge of the sales department.
The Wisconsin Buttermakers re-
elected the following officers: Presi
dent, e. J. Morrison, Chetek; vice
president, c. Jorgenson, Rose1awn;
secretary, Professor G.. H. Bekendorf,
Madison; treasurer, F. Werner, Water
loo
Taxpayers of Oshkosh will pay at
the rate of $1.75 on every 500 worth
of taxable property for the coming
year. The tax budget was adopted by
the commission council. The amount
to be collected for 1917 will be $685.
92185.
The shoe without any leather may
come into being if the material con-
tinues to remain as scarce as at pres
ent, according to V. J. Schoenecker,
Jr., of the Schoenecker Boot and Shoe
company, who has returned from a
trip east
The identity of the young woma7
killed in an automobile accident near
Superior was cleared up with the ar
rival of her father, J. J. Heustad OF
Minneapolis Although known in the
Twin Ports as Patsy Fitzgerald she
was in reality Edna Heustad.
Eight hundred and thirty-two per
sons "hit the sawdust trail' in the
Forsythe tabernacle in one night in
one of the most remarkable religious
demonstrations ever witnessed in Mil
waukee, according to pastors identi
fed with the west side revival "a
Along with an informal effort by
local housewives to boycott eggs tc
bring down the high price, the home
economies department of the Oshkosh
High school and the Normal schoo
are teaching students of cooking how
to prepare eggless articles Of food an(
cheap meals.
Kenosha promises to make bid fol
being the banner road building coun
ty in 1917. In a day three towns ap
pealed to the county highway commits
sion for road bonds totaling $4,000
all of the money to be expended il
1917 This will mean a total expendi
ture of $218,000.
j. Frank Gouty, twenty-four years
old, brother of G.. L. County, one O
the owners of the Peoples Tobacco
warehouse of Madison, is dead il
Meade, Kan, where he had gone TO
his health. The young man was weigh
master and assistant floor manager a
the tobacco warehouse at Madison.
The necessity of a city protectin.
a bathing beach is made an issue in
suit filed against the city of Kenosh;
by Mrs. Eva Nemet who demands tina