Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-03-17

A new $500 dairy barn is at the
Indian school on the Oneida reserva-
ton.
New Diggins and Patzan will be-
come domestic money order offices on
April l.
G. M. Rickaby, aged 70, pioneer of
Waupaca county and for years a JUS
tice of peace, is dead after a short i'll
ness.
While building a fire at Rhine
lander the nightgown of Mrs. Mary
Sturgis caught fire and she died the
same day.
Meeting of the Central Wisconsin
Holstein Breeders association is
scheduled to occur at Vesper on
March Is.
The suffragist club of Grand Rapids
will work with the state associS-
ton. Mrs. l. P Witter was elected
president
Oshkosh will have anoIher park. AS
a memorial to his wife, Edgar P.
Sawyer, donated two acres of land in
West Algona for park purposes.
Colonel Wilbur Root, a Sheboygan
pioneer, seventy-two years old, one
of the best known men in eastern Wis
cOnsin, died after six weeks illness.
Mrs. Gertrude Barnhill, A, wife of
James c. Barnhill, was found dead in
a gas filled apartment at KenOsha.
The veins of her wrist had been cut.
Miss Edith German, a prominent
woman, whose parents were among
the early settlers of Delafield, died at
her home in Delafield after a long i'll
ness.
The attorney general advised that
any truancy officer may properly
swear out complaint against par
ent or guardian who violates the
school compulsory attendance law.
&C uld employees at Oshkosh walked
out. The reason given by the strikers
is that the Gould company was man.
ufacturing doors for the Paine Lum-
Der company at which plant there is a
ST. Ike
The engagement has been formally
announced of Miss Sarah Davis,
oldest daughter of the late Senator C.
d. Davis of that city, to Ebert D.
Weed, brother of Colonel H. |. Weed
Of Oshkosh.
Charles A. Booth, of Milwaukee, for
many years circulation manager Of
the Evening Wisconsin and manager
Of the Milwaukee Newspaper union,
died from a complication of ills pre-
coded by the grip.
Suffering five days before a doc
tor was called and then forced to take
thirty mile night drive to Stevens
Point, Ludwig Kalata, eleven years
old, of Plainfield, died at ST. Michael's
hospital of appendicitis.
Wisconsin Postma 3ce"s are com,
missioned: Henry Pattison, Durind;
Alfred w. Puchner, Edgar; Joseph
Marx, Hilbert; George l. Richmond,
Lodi Alois Goebel, Mount Horeb;
Frank Mischo, Wabeno.
Cnas. Ross, "a Crosse panhand!er,
wanted a drink, but didn't have the
price, SO he offered to trade a bible
for a glass of whisky. The deal did
not go through because the barten-
der had Ross arrested.
The Knights of Pythias lodge, of
Racine has purchased the Y. NJ. c.
A. building On Sixth street and will
take possession as soon as the new
$4,000 association home is COM
pleted in June. The price paid is
given as $4,000.
Two years in the, state reformatCry
alter pleading guilty was the sen
tence of John Litarski, the Dewey boy
arrested for stealing $50 at a dance at
a neighbours home to pay for a calf of
another neighbor he is said to have
dubbed to death.
Prof. J. NJ DOrrans, members of the
faculty of the University of Wis
consin was appointed by State Super
intendent C. P. Cary as state inspec-
tor of manual training in high schools
and shop practice work in industrial
schools at a salary of $4,000 a year.
Wisconsin pensions have been grant,
ed; Gunhild Thompson, Deerfeld
$12; Abelona Olson, Ferryville, $12;
Jennie S. Roberts, Waupun, SIP; Celia
F. Hinchliffe, Monroe, $12; Louise
Trepanier, Wisconsin Veterans home,
$12; Clara D. Rounsevell, River Falls
$12.
Thirtytwo ounces of new blood
which were injected into the veins
of c. D. Schirmer, the Ashland veter-
marian, who languished in local hos
pital for three weeks, failed to save
his life His father sacrificed sixteen
ounces of blood and three friends
gave varying quantities.
Otto Norman, of Ashland, was
found alongside of the Chicago and
North Western railway track near that
city with a fractured skull. Whether
Norman was robbed by two strangers
who left Saxon, Wis, for Ashland
with him Or whether he was struck
by train is not known.
Wolves are killing deer in sec
tons in Price county, in some in