Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-08-25

| dealers are Soll1ng irish potatoes al
$1.40 bushel, which is the highest
price the "spuds" have sold at during
| the summer season in many years.
| Pensions have been granted to Wis.
consin widows: Susie Albert, Milwau.
kee, SIP; Friedericka Hoeliner, Sank
City, $12; Rosalie NJ Harris, Sturgeon
Bay, $12.
The Manitowoc County Dairy In
dustrial association has decided
| to adopt trade mark and name for
products manufactured by the associa-
ton.
Because Rose Lor dision changed her
mind about marrying him, Vitos Litone
slashed the girl on the face at Rock
ford and fled to Beloit, where he was
arrested.
An investigation into the recent fire
at Stevens Point that wreck
ed the Sellers hotel has been started
by Deputy State Fire Marshal L. M.
Shearer of Madison.
Poison, believed in the hay, killed
three horses on the farm of John b.
can, near Tomah. A fourth animal is
expected to die. The state veterinar-
ian is Investigating
After his term as sheriff Merrill
Guyant, the youngest official in the
state, will take up stock farming.
With his brother he will take over
his fathers 200-acre farm in Belmont
and will raise blooded Guernseys.
Six thousand attended the fifth an
nual Marinette county new settlers
picnic held in connection with the
first annual Marinette county cattle
congress and sale. Stock from all
parts of upper Wisconsin was sold.
Rodney McDougal and Olaf Erick-
son were held up at Cass Lake,
Mimi, by the l. w. w. organiza-
ton, who threatened them with death
if they attempted to work as harvest
hands without joining the l. w. w.
The state has issued charter
to the Fenwood State bank Of Fen.
wood, Marathon county, The bank has
capital of $4,000. Incorporators are
w. Fl. Clark, M. B. Emmerich, Albert
Nahring, Ernest Hoffman and six
others.
GAINESVILLE has the honor of furnish
ing two recruits for the naval pre-
paredness cruise, Frank Hayes and
Archie Heating. Hayes is a former
newspaper writer who has retired to
manage his estate and Heating is the
son of merchant.
The formation of a division at the
Mexican border to include the Wis
consin and two Illinois bridades and
auxiliary troops of both states is
announced. This makes it seem almost
certain that there will be divisional
maneuvers next month.
Edward Hennessey, New Rich.
mond fisher, caught nine and half
pound German trout in Willow river.
A few weeks ago Mr.. Hennessey
landed a trout of the same variety In
about the same locality weighing
eight and one-quarter pounds.
The Wisconsin soldiers are nearing
the end of their training course at
Leon Springs. In about a week the
Wisconsin, brigade will march to
Iandas park at New Braunfels, a dis
lance of over thirty miles, where they
will camp for week or ten days.
Mrs. Fred Violin died as a result of
injuries received by being stru:k by
an auto while crossing Chicago
street. She, with other members OF
her family were returning to Chicago
from a visit with Oconomowoc rela-
tives when the accident occurred.
Many theaters of Milwaukee are
the objects of moral campaign be-
gun by the Milwaukee County Fedora
ton of Catholic societies. This is the
first action resulting from Archbishop
Messmer's pastoral letter, which was
read in Catholic churches of the city.
La Crosse denies the report pub
lished in Madison that one death due
to infantile paralysis had occurred in
that city. No cases have been report
ed and vigilant watch is being kept.
No communication is being held with
Winona, where the disease exists.
With the marriage of Miss Freida
Eberhardt, whose home Is at Manito-
voc, and Carl Stammerjohn, Chicago,
two sisters have been welded to two
brothers, the wedding of the other
Miss Eberhardt and John Stammer-
john having taken place some time
ago.
Congressman Frear gives notice
that another cadet Is to be appointed
to the West Point Military academy
from the Tenth district He has asked
the Wisconsin state civil service COM
mission to hold competitive exami-
nation prior to the third Tuesday of
March, 1917.
While she was leaning over
the bank of Isle La Plume to wash off
crumbs from picnic lunch, Eta
Cohen, thirteen years old, drowned
in the Mississippi river when the
shore caved in and threw her into six
feet of water. Her younger sister was
the only witness.
The associated grocers of Milwau-
kee won their fight against a change
in the name of the Wisconsin Retail
Grocers and General Merchants asso-