Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-06-16
John Merz, of Askeaton, son of Mr..

A. E. Krippene, 5S, leading Osh-
kosh business man, died in Augustana
hospital at Chicago after a long i'll
ness from anemia
AT his wife's bedside while she
breathed her last, the heart of August
F. Johnson snapped and within an
hour he was dead, at Fond du Lac.
The ST. Patrick's congregation of-As
keaton is having plans drawn up for
a new parsonage to be erected this
season at an estimated cost of $4,000.
Stephen Wicker, Stevens Point, was
badly cut about the head by metal
wheelbarrow that fell upon him from
the second floor of the new Ideal
theater.
Prof. Hutton, supt. of the Wiscon-
sin Industrial School for Boys, Wauke-
sha, was commencement orator at
the graduation exercises of the Wis
consin School for the Deaf.
Racine has the schoolboy record of
Wisconsin attendance in Walter Seib,
who has not been absent or tardy dur
ing his thirteen years attendance a
single day and was never tardy.
The nine months old son of George
PennOW of Summit met with a tragic
death at the Pennow home while play
ing with a small sand pail, the bale
of which was thrust down it's throat.
Fire at Milwaukee in the S. J..
BrOuWer Shoe company, Grand ave-
nue., near Fourth street, caused loss
of $250,000 to the buildings and con-
tents of three other firms adjoining.
A straw vote before the convention
of the business and professional men
on the presidency resulted as follows:
Roosevelt, 62; Wilson, 40; Hughes,
25; Root, /; LaFollette, / Sherman,1
Burglars at Berlin broke into
the saloon of Lupinski & Wiecke early
in the morning, taking 1925 in curren-
cy. They gained entrance through a
back door. Local parties are suspect
ed.
Peter D. Champion, chief of police
at Jacksonville, Mich, surprised his
friends by announcing that he would
where he married Florence Wigging
ton
A black bear weighing two hundred
and fifty pounds has been trap
ped and killed by Harvey Mckinney
near Ormsby. This one makes the
fourth bear to be killed by Mckinney
in the last week.
H. Waters, newspaper man, died in
Chicago after an illness of six weeks,
due to heart trouble. Mr.. Waters was
years ago. and was educated at the
University of Chicago.
Eight children of Amigo have
entered the garden and backyard con
test conducted by the Community Wei
fare association. Prizes for the best
garden and the cleanest backyard will
be awarded in September.
Robert Collier, a student from
Denver, Colo, received his diploma
from Beloit college on June IA with
out ever having seen a college com
mencement He was not even pres
ent to see himself graduate.
Mrs. Alive Kennedy, Co. attempted to
cross ahead of westbound Milwaukee
freight train at the SaXer crossing at
Bangor and was struck by the
engine and probably fatally injured
William f. PerstOrff Of Mid
dletOn has been elected chairman of
the board of supervisors of Dane coun
ty He has held the office for seven
consecutive terms and has held it for
more than a dozen years at different
times.
Two noted savants, Professor E. A.
Ross of the department of sociology
and Professor M. V. O'Shea, director
of education of the University of Wis
consin, have been appointed members
of committee Of sixty by the Ma
tonal Prohibition party.
A happy passenger from Amigo
was On the tr;sn bound for Rochester,
Mimi. Marvin Worden, who has not
spoken since he was six years old
ten years ago-expects, when he re-
turns from the Mayo Bros. hospital
to talk like other children.
Pensions have been granted the fol
lowing Wisconsinites Sarah A. Duffy,
Wilmot, $12; Augusta Schanick, New
London, $12 Louise O. Solverud Am
herst, $21; DOllie S. Werlich, Baraboo
$12; Addie McHurch, WalWorth, SIP;
minor of John August Lang, Fond du
Lac, $12.
While at work on a pole. at
Green Bay, Charles Wesley. thirty
years old, lineman in the employ of
Wisconsin Public Service company,
was electrocuted when a short circuit
was caused and 1900 volts entered
his body. Wesley was dead when TAX
en- down from the pole.
Thomas Phillips, who lives at
Depere, was run down by an automo-
bile on the Depere Green Bay concrete
road at the city limits at night. He
was walking to town He was badly
The automObilists sped quickly away
The automobleists sped quickly away
and their identity can not be learned