Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-06-02
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land, with a capital stock of $4,000.
A charter was granted for organzi-
alton of the First National bank of
Barron, with a capital stock of $685.
900.
The North Western road is to es-
tablish new station near Wausau,
at Rib View, the site of the county
tuberculosis sanatorium.
Caught in a rOwboat during a
storm on Green Bay, Cecil Duclon
and George Lemon, boys of nineteen
years, barely escaped losing their
lives.
Congressman Cooper of the First
district notified Arthur Mickelsen of
Kenosha that he had appointed him
as cadet at West Point Military
academy.
Scarcity of boats is causing docks
at Superior to become so congested
with ore that only early relief can
prevent serious handicaps to ship
ments from the mines.
John Rasmussen of the town of Ell
deron, Marathon county, pleaded guilty
in circuit court to a charge of illegal
voting and was fined 500 and costs
He is eighteen years old.
Boy Scouts of Sheboygan Falls
Showed their worth by cleaning the
town of rubbish and tin cans in the
annual cleanup day under the auspc-
es of the Falls Woman's club.
Cans of pike and bass fry num-
bering hundreds of thousands of tiny
fish were received at Fort Atkinson
from the Madison state fish hatchery
and planted in Rock river.
Corporal Caldwell of Co. B. First in
fantry, w. N. G.. Fort Atkinson, has
been transferred to the headquarters
company, noncOmmissiOned staff sec
ton, for duty as instructor in the
First regiment.
Colonel and Mrs. E. O. Kimberly,
aged GAINESVILLE people, celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary at
the home of the Spaulding sisters in
BrOdhead. There was a reception
in the afternoon.
DR.. J. r. McDill, Milwaukee, heads a
delegation of surgeons and nurses which
sailed May q for Germany, to es-
tablish and equip hospital units in
Europe, about which base hospitals
will be developed.
Authorities of Rice Lake are busy
looking for burglars who entered the
home of the Reverend Charles Nord
and obtained $40 that had been re-
ceived in the collection box and sill
verware valued at SIS.
Twenty thousand dollars was paid
at Sheboygan, Wis, for a residence
site on Wisconsin avenue, near Eighth
street. with a frontage of 1870 feet. 1t
was the highest price ever paid for
a residence lot in Sheboygan.
Mrs George Everson, widow of
George Everson, who was killed last
fourth of July in an automobile wreck
at Milford, brought suit against Mr..
Strasburg, owner of the machine, for
the sum of $4,000 damages.
Two bank charters have been issued.
One is the Farmers and Merchants
Savings bank of Luck, Polk county,
with capital stock of $4,000. The
second bank is the Farmers Exchange
bank of Osseo, Trempeleau county,
with capital stock of $4,000
A list of the Alumni Association of
the Oshkosh Normal school is being
made up by Miss Emily Webster
Records showing the membership
were destroyed in the fire which burn
ed the building Miss Webster urges
all graduates to communicate with
her.
An attempt failed in the Brown
county board of supervisors to re-
scind all proceedings held in connec-
ton with issuing $650000 in bonds for
building eighty-fve miles of concrete
highway. By a vote of 10 to Is, the
supervisors turned down the resolu-
ton.
Navigation on the upper Mississippi
river about La Crosse officially
opened when the night lights along
the shore were turned on. Through
the campaign waged by the 500 mo-
torboat owners of the city the season
will be extended from Sept Is to
Oct. Is.
Prof. c. J. Brewer, for many years
head of New Richmond public schools
now occupying similar position in
Chippewa Falls, has resigned, effec-
tive July l, and accepted the post of
head Of the training department of tho
new state normal school that is to be
opened in Eau Claire in September.
Michael B. Olbrich, the Madison or
ator, formerly a professor in oratory
at the University of Wisconsin and q
member of the Wisconsin delegation
to the republican national convention
at Chicago, has been selected by Sen
ator Robert NJ La Toilette to pre-
sent his name as a presidential candi-
date to the convention.
Following the death of Grace Car
meth and her infant at a Milwaukee
hospital, 200 citizens of East Troy
forced Barney Ward to leave town
Ward had been compelled to marry
the Carneth girl on her deathbed.
Before leaving, Ward was permit.