Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-11-30

sum of 900 to complete the county
tubercui sis sanatorium which will be
ready fer occupancy next spring.
Neenah- Contracts have been let for
a $4,000 addition to the Lakeside
Paper company's mill here. A build
ing 150x60 feet is to be erected.
Madison = Madison, thru wheatless
and meatless days in its twenty-four
restaurants, is saving LOO pounds of
meat and from 5000 to 5000 pounds Of
wheat flour.
Appleton - Another draft romance
eliminated in the marriage of Miss
Mabel Nash of Neenah to Ray Fox.
grover Of this city. The groom leaves
on Friday for Camp Grant.
Green Bay-Dr J. r. Minahan of
Green Bay, for 90 years a prominent
surgeon here, has been commissioned
captain in the medical corps He will
go to France for base hospital work.
Commerce received notice from the
pOstoffice department that bids were
out and the contract would be let next
month for the construction of the new
federal building in Oconto.
Oshkosh-Frank James Davis, Osh-
kosh young man reported to have been
lyi1Iod in tho c 91jUn and
well, according to letter he wrote his
father at Clintonville, Wis. He is on
the Nashville.
Milwaukee-Edward Brock reported
to the police the loss of his savings,
$3.50. Fearing to trust it to banks, he
kept the money, in gOld in barrel in
the basement of his home, and covered
It with rubbish.
Oshkosh = John, 11-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs Grin Hooper, was killed
when struck by the engine Of log
ging train on the switch tracks of the
500 line tracks here. John was the
grandson of Moses Hooper, dean of
the Wisconsin Legal fraternity.
Madison Because of the doubts
which have been expressed by Carl
VTSOman, assistant secretary of agri-
culture, regarding the loyalty and lead
ership of the University of Wisconsin,
1t has been decided to organize a
branch of the Wisconsin Loyalty le-
gion.
New Londonderry soldier in I'm
Gle Sans army from New London and
adjacent country will be made glad
with a Christmas box from the folks
at home" Forty local organizations
are cooperating to make these
Christmas boxes a fact for every sol
der boy from this territory.
Waupaca - Leonard Whiprud, H.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Merle
Whiprud of lola was fatally shot
while hunting. The boy had gone out
with companions and in attempting to
crawl through fence his gun dis
charged, the bullet going through his
brain. The boy died a few hours later.
KenOSha - Ten thousand KenOSha
people marched in a great parade in
KenOsha to show their approval of
the "Kenosha Plan" of central fund
for all war finances. Every man in the
line had signed a pledge guaranteeing
onc-half hour weekly until the war
ends to the support of the movement.
Sparta-Leslie Baker, q local bust
ness man, was held up and robbed at
the point of gun during the hight. by
five men dressed in soldiers uniforms.
Several hours later five soldiers were
arrested in La Crosse and locked up
after discovering S. in the same de-
nominations as Bakers money in their
possession.
New London-What is probably the
largest yield of wheat ever secured In
Wisconsin was produced on the farm
of George Cuff near this city. The
wheat was of the Turkey Red variety
and yielded ISL bushels on one and
three-fourths acres or at the rate of
eighty-six bushels per acre. The wheat
was raised on an old alfalfa field which
probably explains the yield.
La Crosse William c. Allen, farm.
er living near Stevenstown, ten miles
north of here, has reported that his
12-year-old son had been held up in
his home while the family was away
and robbed by man whom he recog
nized as Edwin Hauge, wanted for
the murder of Mrs. Cora Miller, of
West Salem. District Attorney Schla-
bach began an immediate investiga-
ton.
Madison-Co in the Wis
consin state guard were issued as fol-
lows: Charles Worth, Fond du Lac
second lieutenant; Ralph Edietz, Nee
nah, captain; Benjamin H. Metternich,
Neenah, first lieutenant; Phillip E.
erode, Neenah, second lieutenant.
Kenosha = The Kenosha county