Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-06-30

Viola e. Buffers, Burlington, was
appointed copyist in the patent Of
fee at Washington.
A postoffice has been ordered to be
established at Lexington, Sawyer
county.
Company D, Second regiment of
Ripon, succeeded in en1isting ten men
at Berlin.
An extensive joint Fourth of
July celebration is being planned for
Washburn and Bayfield, at Washburn.
Marion R. Rugar, aged rs, widow of
William Rugar, lawyer and civil war
veteran, died at her home in James
vile.
Aug Friedrich, aged SO, 81 Fulton
street, Oshkosh was struck by falling
wall at the Frentz school and instant
ly killed.
1t is agreed to hold the republi-
can state convention in the university
gymnasium, Madison, at 2 p. M, on
Wednesday, July II.
G. w. Morrison, one of the leading
business men of Portage and for
mer registrar of deeds, who came to
Wisconsin in 1916, is dead.
Elevation of tracks of the North
| Western railway company through
Kenosha is to be put to a referendum
vote of the people of the city.
Cupid took Wisconsin's best known
telephone girl, Miss Dorothy Cunning
ham, who was married at Madison to
j. G. Hammerschlag of Milwaukee.
Robert Cuppage, seventeen years
cid, Of Chicago, while visiting at
Rhinelander was accidentally killed
when gun he was carrying was dis
charged.
George Little, Yale farmer, died of
gangrene poisoning. His leg had be IN
amputated a few days ago when the
poisoning developed, in an effort to
save his life.
A compulsory course to freshmen on
how to use the lakes surrounding the
university was strongly recommended
by the board of visitors of the Univer-
sity Of Wisconsin in it's report.
The two days session held at Wa
tertown of the grand lodge K. of P
closed by selecting Manitowoc as the
convention city for 1917. F. G. Esch-
weller, Milwaukee, was chosen grand
chancellor.
]. Titlair, Green Bay, switchman on
the North Western railroad, was al
most instantly killed, when his body
was pinned between couplers on two
freight cars. wife and ten small
children survive.
Former Mayor Herman femme, of
Berlin, broke one of his legs and was
otherwise injured when furniture he
was loading on a wagon preparatory
to his leaving for his summer home at
Silver Lake fell when rope broke
Six brothers joined the company of
militia which left Neillsville for
Camp Douglas on Thursday. Joe, a
sergeant; Arthur, Herman. Chorniel,
Melvin and Otto Haugen are the
brothers, whose ages range from Is to
3D.
The body of William McFarlan, a
resident of Sheboygan Falls, was
found hanging by strap in the tool
house of the Sheboygan Falls GENE
terry. Beside the body was an empty
bottle that had contained carbolic
acid.
The Fairbanks-Morse company's Be-
lott plant lost more than forty
employees by the call to arms VT Com
pany L. Superintendent Hovey an
| ioh
be waiting for him when he comes
back.
Viola Wright, of La Crosse, plan
ned to be June bride a few months
ago, her fiance being a member Of
Company NJ. Wisconsin National
guard. She became not only a
"June BRIDE" but the first war bride
in La Crosse.
A fish drowned Halvar Balkan, Dali
las, when he was fishing for muskel-
lunge near Haugen, in Bear Lake His
companion, who was with him when
the boat capized, John Lystle, manag-
ed to save himself by hanging to the
overturned boat.
Gov. Philip will not take steps to
organize Wisconsin regiment of
cavalry until he is able to give it his
personal attention, following his re-
covery from an operation for appendi-
citis, which is still keeping him con-
fined at Milwaukee hospital.
With 200 or more old grads" back
to the campus the University of
Wisconsin commencement program
gave over on Tuesday, June 20, to the
annual alumni reunions, and every
class was represented from 1866 to
1916 that ended in either "6' or a
81"
Insurance on Wisconsin dwellings
will be reduced from II to 80 cents by
companies doing business in the state,
on July 1, according to the new SEIZED
ules issued by the Wisconsin inspec-
ton bureau These rates apply to
} cities from the first and including the
fifth classes.
The marriage of Miss Mary Riley,
the popular daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Charles Riley of OcOnOmO-