Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-07-07

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Fifteen men from Depere have
been sent from there to fill in the~va-
cancies in Battery A of Milwaukee.
Nearly al of the 5000 BARRIERS in the
state of Wisconsin have renewed
their annual licenses from the board
of health.
The largest cargo of pulpwood out of
Escanaba in the last ten years is on
the way to Green Bay. There are
$500 cords of pulpwood in the raft,
valued at $4,000.
The reunion of the 18th regiment,
w. V. l., will be held at Depere on
July p and 20. 1t is to commemorate
the fifty-fourth anniversary of the bat
tie of Gettysburg.
H. Schluchter, living southwest of
Berlin, was found dead with knife
wound over his heart and large
butcher knife at his side. He was en-
gagged to be married.
New Richmond High school grad
uated- the largest class in it's history,
fifty-three. And for once the boys out
numbered the girl graduates, there be-
ing twenty boys.
Ripon will get it's wish regarding
the proposed public building to
cost $4,000, the funds for which are
to be withheld and the money divert
ed to military channels,
About four thousand people-all OF
Depere-gave it's eight recruits rous-
ing sendoff as they marched through
the streets for three hours, headed by
the Depere city band and Mayor Will
cox.
Civil service examination has been
for postmaster at the following places:
Nye, Miner and Winchester. Homer
J. Samson was appointed rural letter
carrier at Cameron.
The Milwaukee milk shippers asso.
citation, whtch furnishes half of Mil
waukee's total supply of milk, has no.
tilted dealers there that beginning July
1, there will be price increase of /
cent per quart.
An order for 10000 ton steamer
for lake traffic for delivery in
1917 has been placed by M. A. Hanna
& Co., of Cleveland, with the Ameri-
can Shipbuilding company. The new
boat, it is expected, will come out
early in June.
Senator Husting received a tele-
gram from the Ripon Commercial
Club and ,456 citizens asking that the
$4,000 appropriation made sby the
congress for a public building there
be diverted to help pay for equipping
the national guard.
Two minutes after jumping into 20
feet of water for a swim with several
other young men, Herman +. Fuchs,
twenty three years old, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wenzel Fuchs, Milwaukee, utter.
ed a groan, sank to the bottom and
was drowned at Pewaukee.
Otto Endres, athlete and q
member of the University of Wiscon.
sin track team, was supposed to rep
resent his school in the pole vault at
the Wisconsin Athletic club meet at
Milwaukee. Instead he did duty as a
private in Company M, Third infantry
Of La Crosse.
A. j. Pusch was reelected president
of the Wisconsin Firemen's associa
ton at the annual convention and
tourney at Juneau. Tomahawk was
chosen as the next convention city and
thirty-five fire departments competed
in the state championship contests.
Justices John B. Winslow, D.
D. Marshall, R. G. Siebecker, J. C.
| Kerwin and A. J. VingM of the
supreme court, banquetted at Wausau
given by the Marathon County Bar
association, at which Justice M. B.
Rosenberg was the guest of honor.
Freddie Stewart, aged Z, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. Stewart of Wautoma, &C.
cidentally fell into the millpond while
| fishing and was drowned. His body
| had been in the water about an hour
when discovered Workmen saw his
can and fishpole floating in the water
which led to the finding of his body
The American Writing Paper com
PAW at it's Depere plant has adopted
the eight hour tour system in its bic
mill Three shifts of employees are
now doing the work of the two-tour
men. The men in the mill recently
| organized union. This was the last
paper mill in the Fox River valley to
Adopt the system.
| Included in the offerings at Fond
du Lac, Wis, received at the enchar
ist service at ST. PauTs cathedral was
a $4,000 check, the gift of Commodore
Elbridge OF New York, donor of the
Grafton memorial chapel. Commo
dore Gerry accompanied the $4,000
with solid silver altar set for use
In ST. Michael's chapel
The mass of citizens who march
in preparedness parades are marching
Tor "big business" according to Sen
ator R. M. La Toilette in a signed
editorial in the current issue of his
magazine. In the wave of patriotism
| that is sweeping this country, ir the
demand of the people for adequate