Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-12-15
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high cost of living.
Colonel Thomas H. Ijams, governor
of the Soldiers home, will retire on
Jan. /.
First Assistant District Attorney
Gilbertson resigned his Office. He will
enter private practice.
G. Deverell, of Hayward, has en-
listed in the United States Marine
corps and is now stationed at Port
Royal, S. c..
William Miller and his newly born
son will celebrate their birthdays to-
gether. The son arrived on the faith
er's birthday anniversary at Madison.
Jim Cordavello, confessed murderer
of Raffelo Palmero, October rs, was
sentenced to life imprisonment on a
plea of guilty by Judge Grimm at
GAINESVILLE.
Two sets of twin calves weighing in
all 140 pounds, were born to COW
on the farm of B. N. Nelson at Barron.
One pair was born in the morning, the
other in the afternoon.
I1OIuldu SlAIOCl yCdI Oiu,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Steiner of
Mauston and student in the eighth
grade of the public schools, was
drowned in the Lemonweir river.
Fourteen head of cattle, 500 bushels
of oats, forty-five tons of hay, partly
baled, were burned when fire of an
unknown origin destroyed a barn on
the James Keneally farm, near North
Lake
The tax rate will be 1886 per hun
sessment for Amigo of $4,641 568, a
large increase being due to a $4,000
addition tothe budget for new high
school,
Mr.. and Mrs. Christian Johnson,
their daughter and son were painfully
injured on the Milwaukee road south
of Kenosha when, during dense fog,
their automobile collided with NOV
ing van.
The youngest tar in the United
States navy is a Wisconsin boy. He
is Howard j.. Dawson, Ashland. who
enlisted after a special examination in
Minneapolis. He is sixteen years, nine
months old.
While the last ore boat cleared from
Ashland in 1915, on Dec. l, six ore
freighters arrived at Ashland for car
goes. There is little ice in the bay,
and the season may continue for an
other week.
Authorized by Governor E. L. Phi
lipp, Adjutant General Orlando Hol-
way went to Washington to ask the
authorities there to order all Wiscon-
sin troops on the Mexican border sent
home before Christmas.
Found in the woods two miles from
Manitowoc with a revolver clinched
in hand, Alex Skid, believed to be
a Chicago man, committed suicide by
blowing out his brains. Nearly $500
was found On his person
Frederick S. Pellet, son of Clar-
ence S. Pellet of the Chicago insur-
ance firm of Critchell, Miller, Whitney
e Barbour, and Miss Elizabeth Smith,
daughter of Professor e. G. Smith of
Beloit college, were married.
General Manager w. H. Ryan of the
KimberlyClark paper mills of Mag
ara, has made public an industrial
plan for an increase in wages which
amounts to bonus for steady and
faithful service of employees.
The new sawmill of the Langlade
company, which embodies the most
advanced ideas in mill construction
and which has an estimated capacity
of 100000 feet of lumber daily, is
about ready to commence operations
at Amigo.
The biggest development project in
Wisconsin history, outlined as being
already partially under way, will also
involve the setting aside of one of
the biggest game preserves in the
country, 100000 acres, as a refuge
for wild game of all sorts.
Alvina Goetzke of Schofeld, six
years old, was instantly killed by an
automobile driven by Thomas Ryan,
who is alleged to have been intoxi-
Gated and driving recklessly. She was
walking in the road, returning from
Sunday school with other small chill
dren.
Missing for eight years, during
which time an extensive search for
him has been made, John Kruger
has been declared legally dead by
Judge Chloupek at Manitowoc, Wis,
when the estate of the late Mrs. Krue-
ger, the missing mans mother, was
settled.
While Mr.. and Mrs r. Rosenheim-
er and their three boys were attend
in ga moving picture show at Kewas-
llum, burglar ransacked their home,
taking jewelry valued at more than
$780, The marauder was captured by
Marshall George Brandt about an hour
after he left the house.
George Madden, son of former Sher-
iff Mike Madden, of Brentwood, who
captured John f. Dietz, defender of
Cameron Dam, is now fighting in
Frame with the Canadian army, ac-
cordiag to postal card just received
from the boy. The word was the first