Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-12-01

hi .. Lucy AcuOSS, ScF0uty-SCfCA
years old, widow of Horace Kellogg,
one of Oconomowoc's oldest residents.
is dead.
A large timber wolk was killed one
and one-half miles from Wautoma
by Chester Wilcox. Wolves are rare in
the locality.
Efforts are being made to have the
Brown county board of supervisors
stock the county poor farms with
blooded stock.
A disastrous fire destroyed the
Union church at Waupun. The loss
was $4,000 and insurance was be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000
The assessed valuation of the proper
ty Of Kenosha county has passed the
fifty million mark. For the first time
in the history of the county the valua-
ton is placed at $51,O00,000.
c. M. Anderson, 500 line train
master, formerly of Stevens Point,
was disabled when his heel was
broken by fall of seventeen feet off
a bridge.
Plans for opening a free dispensary
under auspices of the public health
and child welfare committee of the
women's club are being carried out
at Green Bay.
Albert J. Haners, cashier of the
First State bank at Knowles, was
taken with pneumonia on Nov 9 and
died Nov. r. On Nov. 10 his sixth
child was born.
Farmers are receiving on the Wau-
toma markets for potatoes $40
bushel; beans, $6.25; rye, $3.50 per
bushel rhe highest prices ever paid
in that locality.
Despite the cold weather, which has
raised havoc with the iron ore in the
pockets of the docks at Ashland, the
shipments of the ore continue to go
steadily forward.
Attorney General Owen, in an opin.
ion to District Attorney James Hill,
Baraboo, says that county clerk is
entitled to the fees taken in for natur-
dllZdIIOu OI CllIZ0uS.
E. B. Rees, Denver, Colo, has writ
zen City Clerk Ryba at Racine, offer
ing to collect garbage of Racine with
out charge. He wants an exclusive
franchise for ten years.
A fire loss of $500 at Green Bay to
Henry McCloskey's residence, was
caused by children playing with
matches. The youngsters barely miss
ed being severely burned
A fair-haired worshiper clad in long
flowing cloak and chaplet with oak
leaves, who performs wierd cere.
monies on a bluff just back of the city
is mystifying La Crosse residents.
Despite the fact that many potatoes
are being held at Wautoma by farm
ers who expect still higher prices be.
fore the winter is over, hundreds of
bushels are being marketed at pres
ent.
X. e. Horst, teacher of violin at
Ashland, will organize an orchestra OF
twelve pieces and a chorus of 100
voices and soloists to participate in
"The Messiah" to be given at Ashland
soon.
Convicted the third time of selling
liquor without a license, Henry Bell,
lodging house keeper of Superior,
was fined $500, making a total Of
$1,000 he has been assessed in three
months.
Grand Rapids and Kent county have
the lowest state tax this fall in many
years, according to Chief Clerk Simon
Sullivan, of the board of assessors
The rate is $410 a thousand. Last
years rate was $5.25.
The commissioner of banking has
approved an amendment to the ar
ticles of incorporation of the Far
mers and Merchants bank of Me-
nominee Falls. increasing it's capital
stock from $4,000 to $4,000.
Under the spur of his Chicago wife,
the manageress of tearoom, the Rev.
Clarence Booth, pastor of the First
Baptist church, Sheboygan, is back in
the city again prepared to fight for
the pastcrate he resigned Nov 1S.
Mrs. Sophia Bleedorn, eighty-two,
was killed by a traction car at James
vile as she took her daily walk. Her
death is the third railway fatality at
GAINESVILLE in two weeks. All were past
seventy years of age and pioneers of
the city.
BY decision of Judge G. N Risjord,
at Ashland, Bruce is to license saloons
despite the fact that at the election
last April, fifty-seven dry votes were
cast and fifty-six wet ones. Judge Ris-
jord held that the election swung on
two defective wet ballots.
The will of the late B. E. Edwards,
pioneer traction magnate, disposes of
an estate valued at $350,000, of which
$4,000 is bequeathed to the widow,
$4,000 to the local Home for Deepen
dent Women and Children, and $4,000
to his grandchildren. The remainder is
divided equally among the three
daughters.
f. A. Walters, Stevens Points doc
tor-cowboy-lecturer mayor, won his
first court fight since starting to Ego