Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-08-18

lands at Cedar lake.
Mrs. Lastine Hoberg, 70, widow Of J.
Hoberg, founder of the first paper mill
In Green Bay, is dead.
Chambers has been discovered on
the. John Mitchell farm, on the De
Pere road, Brown county.
John Fuka, ST., an aged clammer,
at Prairie Du Chen, found large
pearl valued at 5000, it is reported
Ed Schafer, Kenosha, son of Gott-
lieb Schaefer, contractor, was drown
ed in the St. Joseph river near St.
Joe, Mich.
Burglars entered the home of En-
gineer T. J. Riley, at Brentwood,
and stole Mr.. and Mrs. Riley's watches,
money and jewelry.
R. C. Buerstate, aged Is, old time
druggist, civil war veteran, and one
of the best known business men OF
Manitowoc, is dead.
The annual and much looked to inter-
county picnic of the Beloit, GAINESVILLE
and Rockford posts of the G. A. r.
was held at Beloit.
Charles finland, of Racine, waA
killed when he attempted to cross the
Rapids road in front of a passenger
train on the North Western road.
Kenosha beach on Lake Michigan
claimed a second victim of the month
when Charles Wichman, thirty years
old, Chicago, was drowned while in
bathing.
Mrs. Andrew Hubbard, Of near De-
pere, wife of one of the most promi-
ent men of Brown county, died after
q lingering illness. She was sixty-four
ears old.
Herman Hoehn, former assessor OF
Kenosha and one of the best known
of the German born residents of Ken
osha county, died at the Kenosha hos
pital following long illness.
Fred Woodland, fifty-six years old,
of Beloit, died from injuries re-
ceived six weeks ago when he fell
from a street car and rolled beneath
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Twelve GAINESVILLE cows which were
valued at $1,1OO from a herd of TWEEN
/ ty-four, were killed by an engine when
the animals, owned by Herbert Smith,
wandered onto the railroad right of
way.
Falling on a pointed stick which
penetrated the soft palate, is the pc.
culiar and painful injury sustained by
Hugh, the eight year old son Of Mrs.
Maude Young, visiting in Menominee,
from Neenah.
Kenosha stands fifth among the
cities of Wisconsin, according to the
figures shown by the school census,
which has just been completed. This
census gives the city population in
excess of 1880.
The William Rahr company, Man
itowoc concern, will pay about one
tenth of the tax levy in that city, it's
assessment being about $1,200,00O.
The total assessment for the city is
fixed at $14,000,000.
The common council of Beloit
has taken final action In the pur-
chase of the Smith site for a city hall
and the Graham field site for west
side park. The bond issue for the two
properties will be $4,000.
Captain Berlin M. Sniffin, of Mani.
owoc, SO years of age, and a veteran
sailor on the lakes, is dead. During
the past fifteen years he sailed Good
rich boats, and for the last seven
was in command of the Goodrich tug
Arctic.
Henry vanek and Clement Lidner
venturesome Prairie Du Chen Boy
Scouts, have left on cross country
hike to the Dells on the Wisconsin
river, distance Of more than hun.
dred miles. They expect to be gone
our weeks.
That the municipality owned water
and light and power plant OF
Minocqua has lost in three years more
than half Of what it Is worth is but
one of the disclosures of the audit of
the towns finances, just completed by
the tax commission.
The body of William Heperman, a
Racine man, was washed up on
the shore north of the public bathing
beach. He disappeared two days be-
fore while swimming. None of the
5000 bathers heard him cry for help
or saw him go under.
Mrs. Arthur Rose, said to be tho
wife of an indianapolis jewelry sales
man, and James Helm, waiter, were
arrested at Racine at rooming house
where they have been living. The
couple may be prosecuted under the
Mann white slave law
Helen Stewart, the twenty-five year
old Superior school teacher charged
with shooting and probably mortally
wounding DR.. John G. Barnsdale there
IN August 8th, was secretly married
at Virginia, Mimi, in July, 1915, to
G. Milward Smith, son of George M.
Smith, prominent Duluth railroad
man.
His lungs pierced, DR.. l. Barnsdale,
one of Superior's most prominent ply
| sicianS is at a local hOsnita1 nr0h.