Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-07-14
WISCONSIN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
Paragraphs Of Interest to Read
ers Of Badger State.
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That It Will Appeal
to All Classes Of Readers.

Reduced IN Size That It Will Appear
to All Classes Of Readers.
Claude E. Watson is a rural car
rier at Livingston.
A plan is being discussed at Stew
| ems Point for the organization
of camp Of Spanish war veterans
there.
Plans for a modern police station
for Kenosha at cost of approximate
| ly 100000 were submitted to the
| common council.
Henry Honinger was drowned in
Small Cedar lake near West Bend.
He leaped out of boat, intending to
take bath, and sank in about forty
feet Of water.
Robert Barring Of Lake Geneva,
rich in lands and bank accounts, went
to Chicago, registered at the AuditO
rum Hotel and announced that he was
in search of a wife.
A 500 diamond from an engage
ment ring was lost in the mud on
a country road at midnight and found
the next morning by Mrs. Charles
Mertle of Wautoma.
H. H. Shufeldt, of Oconomowoc
will go from his home to Plattsburg,
N. Y, for five weeks training at the
United States military camp.
Max N. Lando, 76, resident of Mil
waukee since 1869 and at one time
one of the most prominent lawyers in
the city, died at the home of his son,
Victor S. Lando, 496 Fortieth street.
In the residence in 1866 where Mr..
and Mrs. Jonas L. Ford were united
man and wife, they observed their
golden wedding anniversary. Mr..
Ford is prominent clothier Of James.
Vile.
A dispatch says Abraham Auld
of Milwaukee has been appointed in
spector of boiler and steamboat service
at Grand Haven, Mich. Aud has been
employed at the north side pumping
station.
The GAINESVILLE Commercial club
directors voted to take over the build.
ing of the GAINESVILLE Auditorium COM
pany, the only large structure in the
city, which will accommodate public
and political meetings and conven-
tiOns.
The recruits at Camp Douglas
will be without the inspiration of mar
tial music. Captain Guy D. Armitage
tried to enlist some bandmasters I'M
der his banner, but returned to the
reservation without single enroll.
ment.
Arthur Showers, fourteen-year-old
lad of Madison, while shooting off
frecrackers July Sd, ran in front of an
automobile driven by George G.. Huse.
by, automobile dealer, and was killed.
Showers neck was broken by the au
tomobile passing over him.
H. c.. Williams, who supposedly
came from Minneapolis, was found
dead near Brookfield Junction. His
body was found along the Milwaukee
road right of way The coroner be-
lieves Williams tried to jump on a
passing freight train and fell off.
The treasury department of the gov
eminent has stopped all prelimin-
airy work on the proposed public build
ing at Ripon, Wis, in compliance with
the request of the common council and
citizens of that community who have
| telegraphed their wishes that the cost
of the building be diverted to military
purposes.
| A warrant served on Robert j.
| Shields, wealthy resident of Super
! ior, Wis, followed his indictment in
Eau Claire on a charge of violating
the Mann act. The specific charge in
the true bill is that Shields trans
ported from Chicago to Superior
Jeanette Palmer to be the head of a
| disorderly resort there.
William Liddell, a wood camp FORE
man residing at Chippewa Falls, was
found beside the 500 tracks near
| Owen, his head split, evidently with
an AK He had been seen a couple Of
hours previously. One hand was alsu
| found badly cut, and it Is believed the
man was murdered and placed beside
the track to divert suspicion.
Horrible examples" of livestock
will be collected and placed along
side prize animal money makers at
eight county fairs and the Wisconsin
state fair this fall. This plan to EN-.
phasize the value of scientific stock
raising on Badger farms is result
of cooperation between officials Of
the several fairs and of the Wisconsin
Livestock Breeders association.
Kenosha advertises that 1t is to
have congress of mothers" for the
protection of the babies Of the
city and mothers representing thirty
nationalities and speaking as many
| different languages have been invited
to cooperate with the board Of health
| in the movement. The official visiting
nurse of the city will be at the head
of the organization.
Disqualified National GuaTdsmen
determined to serve the country in
the event of Intervention, will ''beat"
their way to Texas on freight cars
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