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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-05-18
Methodist Episcopal

Special services at M. E. church,
Sunday, May goth.
DR.. J. E. Kundert, Dist. Superin-
tendent, will preach in the morning
at IL o'clock Reception of new
members at this service.
Cornerstone laying in the after
noon at 3 O'Clock. Mrs. II. r. T.
Ross will guide the cornerstone into
place.
There will not be any services in
the evening. Epworth Leaguers will
meet at the church at 6:15 p. m. In
stallation services for officers of La
dysmith and Tony Leaguers at Tony
at 1880 p. m.
Cars to be at church to take Leag-
uers to Tony.
REV. JOHN BIRRELL,
Pastor.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-05-18
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
CIRCULATION STATEMENT

Mark R. Bell, being first duly
sworn, on oath, says that he Is the
publisher of the Ladysmith News
Budget, published at Ladysmlth, WIS
consin: that the circulation Of said
newspaper for its issue of Dec. 10,
1916. was S65 copies. This number
does not include sample copies, sim
gle copy sales, nor any but bona f1de
subscribers.
MARK r. BELL
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 2Sth day of December, 1916.
[Seal1 H. Fl. HINTON
Notary Public, Rusk county, Wis.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
) WITH THE LOCAL CHURCHES (
German Lutheran Church

German Lutheran Church :.
Services will be held as follows
in this church next Sunday:
Preaching services at 1880 a. m.
Sunday school at $3.50 a. m.
Services at Conrath at 800 p. IN.
REV. H. BAUMBACH,
Pastor.
Church of Christ
Bible school, 10000 a. IN.
Communion service, lilo a. m.
Sermon, Hips a. m.
Subject: "ChriSt's Unanswered
Prayer"
Christian Endeavor, 700 p. m.
Evening worship, 500 p. m.
Sermon: OBSTRUCTIVE Criticism"
w. H. STORM, Pastor.
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Ladysmith News and Weekly Budget
Consolidated April IL. 1907

Entered as second-class matter April 8. 1907, at
the Postofice at Ladysmith Wisconsin unosl
the act of Congress of March 3. 1879.
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SOCIETIES

Y g. A. M. Mystic Tie Lodge No. 280 meets at
Masonic hall first and third Tuesdays of
each month. W. J. KEEMoTT,
C. c.. KILE, Sec. w. I'll.
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MISREPRESENTATION
) NEWS OF TWENTY YEARS AGO }
y Items from our files of this week in 1897:
So OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES sSSSSSss
ApoIIonia

\ ApolIonia
A number Of new farms have
been started near here this spring.
The rains of the past week have
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-05-18

You can sell it if it is adyer-
tised in our want ads.
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Baptist Church

Bible school, 1O:CO a. m.
Y. P. Society, 700 p. m.
Evening Service, 500 p. m. Sub
ject: worlds Greatest Battle
ground"
Reichl's orchestra.
C. E. O'BEIRNE, Pastor.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-05-18

M w. w. Granite Lodge No. 533 meets at
A'As I. o. o. F. hall third Tuesday evening OF
each month. Visiting members welcome.
F. E. MUNRoE, Mrs. MARY EDGAR,
Secretary, Project.
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scandinavian Lutheran

SUPERINTENDENT Lutheran
Services again Sunday, May 81
Services in Norwegian at 10:45 a. m.
Sunday school every Sunday at
10000 a. m.
JOHN RITLAND, Pastor.
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der his grave face he masked . break. ing heart. His star was setting. and since he was no longer young and ut terly incapable of bending, he sick ened slowly through the wet winter. and men spoke of him as an invalid.
 With Milt "ailin'." there was no one to take up the reins of clan govern ment. and those elements that had been held together only by his iron dominance began drifting asunder
 One mill day when a group of Mo Briars met with their sacks of grist at water-mill. someone put the ques- tion: Who's agoin' ter go down thar an take Luke Thixton away from ther Haveys now thet old Milt's down an out"
 There was a long silence, and at last voice drawled: Hit hain't a goin' ter be me. What's Luke Thixton ter me, anyhow? He didn't nuver lend me no money"
 T reckon thar's c heap O sense in thet." answered another. "'Pears like. when l come ter recollect. mos of ther fightin' an fursin' I've done in my time hain't been in my own cuarrels nohow." And slowly that spirit spread.
 When Anse Hayey wen. over to the school one day Juanita took him again to the rifie-rack, now once moro well filled. Have a look. my lord bar
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lad. 'Tm against the snootin' of any man from the la'rel."

lad. "rm against the snootin' of any man from the la'rel."
 Just as the earliest flowers began to peep out with shy faces in the woods. and the first softness came to the air. men began rearing a scaffold in the courthouse yard at Peril.
 One day a train brought Luke Thix. ton back to the hills, but this time only a few soldiers came with him and they were not needed. Juanita tried to forget the significance of that Friday, but she could not. for all the larger boys were absent from school. and all day Thursday the road had been sprinkled with horses and wsg. ons. She knew with a shudder that they were going to town to see the hanging. A gruesome fascination of interest attached to so unheard of an event as a McBriar clansman dying on a Hayey scaffold with his people stand ing by idle.
 But Luke Thixton, going to his death there among enemies, went without fiinching. and his snarling lips even twisted a bit derisively when he mounted the scaffold. as they had twisted when he declined Good Anse Talbott's ministrations in the jail.
 Since he must die among enemies he would give them no weakness over which to gloat in memory.
 He raised his head. and his snarl turned slowly and unpleasantly into a grin of contempt. and his last words were a picturesque curse called down alike on the heads of the foes who put him to death and on the false friends who had failed him.
 Afterward Young Milt and Bad Anse shook hands. and the younger man said to the older:
 Now that I've proved to ye that l meant what 1 said. reckon we can make peace thatll endure a spell. can't we?"
 And Anse answered: "Milt, I've been hopin' we could ever since the day we watched for the feller that aimed to burn down the school"
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ner I'd just about do 1t. I reckon that's about how much manhood I've got left"
 But he laughed. too. in the next mo ment
 The morning of the trial dawned on a town prepared to face a bloody day Long before train-time crowds had drifted down to the station
 As though by common consent, the McBriars stood on one side of the track and the Haveys on the other.
 For an hour they massed there, low ering of face. yet quietly waiting Then the whistle shrieked across the river and each crowd moved a little forward. hands frightened on rifies. awaiting the supreme moment. The deputy sheriffs came out of the depot and stood waiting between the two groups with a strained assumption of unconcern- But when the train ar rived 1t carried an extra coach, and q, sight of it the McBriars groaned and knew once more they were defeated.
 They had come to wrest a prisoner from a sherin's posse and encountered trained soldiery. Behind the opened sashes of the coach they saw . solid mass of blue overcoats and brown sersice-hats Every window trise;ed with rifebarrels and fixed bayonets. Than. while the train was held beyoad
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CHAPTER XXI.

Later she heard the story. The Mo Rriars had come expecting battle They had found every road open and fhe town deserted. For a time they had gone about looking for trouble. but found no one to oppose them Then old Milt and his son had rid den to the courthouse to demand the keys of the jail. They found Judge Sidering sitting in the little office. and with him, quite unarmed and without escort. sat Bad Anse Havey- W5en the two McBriars. backed by a score of armed men. broke fiercely into the room, others massed at their backs. crowding doorway and hall
 Judge Sidering greeted his visitors as though DO intimation had ever reached him that they were coming with a grievance.
 Come in. Milt. and have . chair" he invited.
 Cheer. heIl," shouted Milt McBriar -,;iye me the keys ter thet jailhouse. an give 'em ter me quick'"
 Opening the drawer of his desk as if he had been asked for a match, Judge Sjdering took out the big iron tey to the outer door and the smaller brass key to the little row of cells- He tossed the two across to Milt in a matter-offact fashion
 Five minutes later the McBrial chief was back trembling with rage .a h.d found the jail empty.
 If you're Iookin' for Luke Thixton N,lt." said the judge calmly. the high shsr,6 took him to Louisville yestG <ss cpg safe-kseDtu.
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and marry her-and then-at that point Bad Anse Havey refused to fol- low his trend of thought further. He only ground his teeth.
 "Ye damn fool" he told himself. That ain't no reason why ye shouldn't make the most of today. She's right here low. an she's sun an moon an star shine and music an sweetness"
 She did not know. and he gave her no hint. that in these times, with plots and counterplots hatching on both sides of the ridge, he never made that journey in the night without inviting death. He was walking miles through black woodland trails each evening to relieve for an hour or two her loneli- ness and to worship with sealed lips and a rebellious heart.
 On the night before he was to go to Peril to attend the trial of Luke Thix- ton he came with a very full and heavy heart. He knew that 1t might be farewell. Tomorrow he must put to the test all his hold on his people and all his audacity of resolution. He stood at the verge of an Austerlitz or a Waterloo. and he had undertaken the thing for no reason except that 1t had pleased her to command 1t.
 He knew that among his own foi- lowers there were smiles for the power which turin" woman had come to wield over him, and if one failure marred his plans those smiles would become derisive. It was weak, ness to go on as he was going. gazing dumbly at her with boundless adora- tion he dared not voice. Tonight he would bluntly tell her that he was do ing these things because he loved her: i: that, while he was glad to do them. he could not let her go on misunder' standing his motives.
 But when he reached the school she rose to receive him. and he could see only the slimness of her graceful fig. ure and the smile of welcome on her lips. and the man who had never been recreant before to the mandate of resolution, became tongue-tied.
 She held out hand. which he took with more in his grip than the hand clasp Of friendship. but that she did not notice.
 "Anse." she laughed. I've had a let. ter from home today urging me to give up and come back. They don't realize how splendidly 1 am going to succeed, thanks to your help. l want you to go with me soon and mark some more trees for felling. It won't be long now before they can begin build ing again"
 q wonder" he said, looking at her with brows that were deeply drawn and eyes full of suffering. If yell ever have time to stop talkin' about the school for little spell an remember that I'm human bein'."
 Remember that you're a human being? she questioned in perplexity
 She stood there with one hand on the back of her chair. her face puzzled He decided at once that this expres sion was the most beautiful she had ever worn, and he sturdily held that conviction until her eyes changed to laughter. when he forswore his ale glance to the first fascination for the second.
 Are you sure you are a human be | ing?" she leased. When you wear that sulky face you are only half hu man. ought to make you stand ir the corner until you can be cheerful
 'I reckon" he said little bitterly If ye ordered me to stand in the cor
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armed at the poor.
 barian," she laughed Mars is pay ing me tribute. So shall it ever be with tyranny"
 Slowly. and one by one. Anse Havey took up the pieces and examined them. Tt ain't only Mars that's paying ye tribute" he thought, but he only said: That's all right. l seem to see more l McBriar guns there than Havey guns. It would suit me all right if ye got the last one of em."
 Hadn't you as well hang yours there. too?" she leased. I'm still willing to give you the honors of war"
 But he only smiled. I'll hang mine up last of all, l reckon. Luke Thix ton aint hung yet. and there's other clouds brewin' besides that" What clouds?" she asked. There was a bunch of surveyors through here lately" he replied slow ly. They just sort of looked round and went away. Some day they'll come back"
 And them"
 Anse Havey shrugged his shoulders T may need my gun" he said Not until 1t became certain that he must die did Old Milt send for his son. or even permit him to be told of his ! illness. But just as the winters siege was ending Young Milt came home. | and two days later the mountains heard that the old feudist was dead Brother Anse Talbott and Juanita and a doctor who had come from Lexington were witnesses to that leave-taking. They saw the old man beckon feebly to the boy. Young Milt came and sat on the edge of the bed. schooling his features as he waited the final injunctions which. by his code. would be mandatory for life. | They all waited to hear the old lion break out in final burst of vindictive- ness, to see him lay upon his boys | young shoulders the unfinished or deals of his hatreds. But 1t was the eye of the father, not the feudist, that | gazed up from the pillow. His wasted fingers lay affectionately on his sons knee and his voice was gentle. | Son." said the old man. I'd love pter hev ye live at peace ef ye kin. I've done tried ther other way an hits kilt me. I'd ruther ye'd let my fights be buried along with my body. Anse Havey's goin' ter run things in these mountings. He's a smarter man than me. l couldn't never make no peace with Anse Havey, but the things that's always stood betwixt us lays a long way back. Mebby you an him thought pull together an end ther feud- I leaves thet with you; but hit took death ter make me see hit" Here he broke of exhaustedly. and for a time seemed fighting for breath. At last he added: I've knowed all along thet Luke killed Fletch McNash. l thought I'd ought ter tell ye."
 A week after the death of the old leader Young Milt rode over to the house of Anse Havey. and there he found Jeb McNash. The two young men looked at each other without ex pression. Just after the death of his father Jeb would not willingly have renewed their quarrel, and as for Young Milt, he no longer felt resent ment.
 "Anse." said the heir to McBriar leadership. T rid over here ter offer ye my hand. I've done found out that Luke is es guilty es hell didn't be- lieve hit afore. So fur es I'm con cerned. he kin hang. an I'm goin' ter tell every McBriar man that will harken ter me ther same thing. So fur e I'm concerned" went on the
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CHAPTER xx-Continued.


 -1o-
 The little town itself lay dismal and helpless, with its shacks scattered over its broken and uneven levels.
 Dawn. perhaps. found it hardest: for in this one day Dawn had grown up. and tomorrow would bring the boy whom she now confessed to loving. though she confessed it with self-con. tempt. leading force to meet that of her own people. fighting to avenge her father. Iuanita. whose eyes could rot escape ironical reminders when she glanced down at the Christmas pack ages. seemed to hear over and over the voice of Anse Havey saying: I'm doin' it because ye asks it."
 She had sought to avert an assassi- nation. and it seemed that the effort would precipitate a holocaust
 Anse was very busy. but he found time to come to her that afternoon In the bare little hotel lobby the fire light glinted on many rifles as their owners lounged about the hearth.
 And in Anse she saw once more the stern side. His face was unsmiling and in his eyes was that expression which made her realize how infiex- fbly he would set about the accom- plishment of the thing he had under taken Then. as he spoke to her, a sudden softness came into his eyes
 God knows I'm sorry" he said ~that this thing broke just now. l didn't aim that ye should be no eye witness"
 Juanita smiled rather wanly. Old hilt. he told her, would soon be re- leased. We ain't even goin' to keep him in the jailhouse no longer than mornin'. We couldn't convict him. an 1t would only bring on more trouble "Why was he arrested?" she asked blankly.
 Just to keep him out of mischief overnight" he smiled. Even the law can be used for strategy"
 What will happen when the Mo Briars come back!" she demanded in . shaken voice.
 He shook his head. T can't hardly say" he replied.
 But the next morning Anse Havey came again and cautioned the two women not to leave their rooms and not to keep their shutters open. All that day the town lay like a turtle. tight drawn into its shell. Streets were empty. Doors were locked and shutters barred. But toward evening. to the girls bewilderment. she saw Haveys riding out of town instead of into it. Soon there were DO more horses at the racks. By night the place which was to be assaulted to- morrow seemed to have been aban- doned by its defenders
 Old Milt McBriar had ridden out in the morning. freed but wrathful. to meet the men who were hurrying in. The figure of Bad Anse Havey she saw often from her window. but for the most part the force of Haveys had evaporated.
 Then followed another wretched night, and with forenoon the snow wrapped town settled down to the empty silence of cemetery. but with early afternoon the new procession began to come in. A long and con. tinuous stream of McBriar horsemen each armed to the teeth, rode past the hotel and went straight to the court house. Then she heard again the sound she had heard on her first night in the mountains. only now il came from a hundred throats.
 It was the McBriar yell. and after 1t came a scattering of rife and pistol shots The clan was going away again and shooting up the town as they went, but what had happened down there at the courthouse?
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Butter. Eaas and Poultry.

Chicago Butter - Creamery, 32Q 42c
 Eggs-Firsts, 41z d4 42c; ordinary firsts, 3s12 939c; at mark, cases in- cluded, 3aG i012c.
 Potatoes-Steady. Wisconsin white, s2.3OG240; Michigan white, s2.354 2.4O; Idaho. Colorado and Washington, s2.40G2
 Poultry-Fowls, 2lc: springs, 20hc.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Metal Market Quotations,

Bar silver, 7s9sc; lead. New York, ss.5O; copper, s30.l2h; spelter, St. Louis, s9.42.
 Boulder-Tungsten concentrates, 60 per cent, s17.O0 per unit. Crude ores. 50 per cent, s15.00; 25 per cent, $9.40 GI2.00; 10 per cent, sS.70G 1000 per unit.
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Hogs.
HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
F. U. B., DtnNtf, IdTIOdU TT
 Hay.

Hay.
 Buying Prices. Colorado, upland, per ton. sl5.00a l6.OO Nebraska upland. per ton. 12.0O4 1900 Second bottom, Colorado
 and Nebraska, per ton. 12.O04l3.OO Timothy, per ton. ....... 17.OO9lS.O0 Alfalfa, per ton. ......... l2.OO4 l3.OO South Park, choice, per
 ton l7OOGlS.O0 San Luis Valley, per ton. 14O0gl5.00 Gunnison Valley, per ton. 16OOG17.0O Straw, per ton .......... 4004 500
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Grain.

Wheat, ch. mill, 100 lbs. buying s2.51 Rye, Colo. bulk, 100 lbs, buying. 1.S5 Oats. Nebraska, 100 lbs, buying. l.S5 Colorado oats, bulk, buying. ..-.. 1.S5 Corn chop, sack, selling ........ POO Corn in sack, selling .......... 1.sI Bran, Colorado, per 100 lbs,
 seIItu6 A-'N
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chieaoo Grain and Provision Prices.

Chicago OFdIh aho P1cVIsIoh FrIces- Chicago.-Wheat-N reds s1.7i4 1.74A; No. 3 hard, s1.70%4. Corn-No. ? yellow, s1.0l; No. { yellow, 9S%.c4s100; No. 4 white, 9S24 Q99zc.
 Oats-No. 3 white, 574 5sAc; stand. ard, 571z a59c.
 Rye-No. ?, $1.47.
 Barley-sE00q1 1.30.
 Timothy-s3.50G5 G $50.
 Clover-$12.00Q 1900.
 Pork-$30.00.
 Lard-$16.57.
 Ribs-Sl5.37Q 1887.
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tton Prices.

New York March. s15.92; May, s16.OO; Huly. s16.03; October, Sl5.55; December, s15.G9.
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LATE MAR K EFT e u OTATlON s
DENVER MARKETS.

Cattle. steers (pulp fed). good to choice ................. .s9.OOq lO.oV Steers (pulp fedD, fair to
 kOOu o.VO4 S-VN Steers (hay fed), good to choice ............ s.0Oq1o.15 good .................. 775@ 300 Heifers. prime ........... 7.5Og s.2S Cows (pulp fedD, good to
 CHOlce ......-.......... i.zog s.iS Cows (pulp fed), fair to
 good ................. 6.5OQ FPS Cows (hay fedy, good .... 7.O0q7.50 Cows (hay fed), fair eco. .6.259 7.O0 Cows, canners ............ f.5Oqo.Io Veal calves ........... 9.5O4l1.00 Bulls 5.504 100 Feeders and stockers, good
 10 choice .............. e--o4 s.oo Feeders and stockers, fair
 to good ............... 7.259 s.25 Feeders and stockers, com
 mon to fair ........... 6.25g i.zo
 Hogs. Good hogs -........... .sll.SVl lZ.-o
 Sheep. Wethers .1O.5O411. fearlings ........... .ll.t54 IZ.oO LdinDs ....-....... 'lo'-O v lo'to Ewes ............... 9.oO4 lO.So
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Live Poultry.
Eggs.
Eggs. gs, graded No. 1 net, F. O. B.

Eggs, graded No. 1 net, F. O. B.
 Denver 36437 Eggs, graded No. net, F. 0. B
 DenSer oU Eggs, case count, misc. cases,
 less commission .10.UJd10.50
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Butter.

Creameries, ex. 1st grade. lb. .34436 Creameries, 2d grade, lb. ..... .31q3i
 Process .30Q32 Packing stock ,...... 25
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Fruit.
Vegetables.

Apples, Colo, fancy, box. .s1.0093.00
 Pears, Colo, winter, box... 25043.00
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Every evening found Anse Havey seated before Juanita's hearth. study ing the flicker of the firelight OF her face. Every detail of her expression became to him as something he had always known and worshiped-
 Some 6ay Malcolm would conc back
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-26
C0LL|NSV|LLE IS
FACTORY CENTER
Smoke Of Smelters, Brick
and Gas Plants Hovers
Over City.
is RICH IN MINERALS
Coal and Gas Help Supply
Fuel and Add to City's
Development.

COLLINSVILLE,, Okla, Sept %
Especial al)-Collnsville has had a
steady growth in population during the
past year A conservative estimate puts
this city's population at 5000 inhabit-
ants, In 1911 it had only 100 More
than 5000 men are employed by the va
rous industries SO liberal are wages
received and the pay days so reg
ular that the people Of this city never
suffer hard times or tight money" "
During the past year there have been
no empty houses in Collinsville, Fami-
lies have lived in tents and over stores,
the demand for houses being so great
that it has been impossible to build
rapidly enough suitable houses to rent.
A modern iyc-room house has easily
rented for $50 1t is evident that great
progress has been made in building
from the fact that 7S2 cars Of building
material have been shipped into Col
linswlle since January !. Two new gar
ages, modern IN every respect and val
ued at 10000 and $4,000 respectively /;
commodiouS theater constructed on
Main stree, at cost of $4,000; a Car
nesie library costing $4,000, along with