Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-11-09
News Of the
Badger State

ers have advanced the price of milk
to IL cents, which is just double the
price it was one year ago.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS county teachers
have pledged themselves to make 64,-
900 trench candles. They are made
from old newspapers and wax.
Angelo = Edmund Cole Busby, sc,
veteran of the Civil war, died here.
He was member of the 10th Indiana
Infantry.
Plymouth = Z te Wisconsin Cheese
makers associations will hold it's an
nual convention at Milwaukee, Jan. 8,
10 and II. Gustave w. Schiereck of
Plymouth, Wis, is the secretary.
Oshkosh-Poultry raffles in Winnie
bago county are doomed. District.
Attorney D. K. Allen instructed Sher-
iff Spalding to put the lid on all such
gambling.
La Crosse-John B. Fries, father of
City Comptroller William F. Fries, is
dead here at the age of 67 years. Rev.
A. c. Fries, of Summit, Wis, is an
other son.
HOricon-Frank Weber, alien, pro-
prietOr of the New York Hotel, was
arrested on a charge of using abusive
language against President Wilson,
He was given sixty days in the work
house.
ShebOygan- little steamer J. S.
Grouse, Capt. Charles Anderson tipped
over while unloading a cargo of hem
lock slabs at the dock of the Sheboy-
gan wood yard hut after dumping the
cargo from the deck Immediately
rtghted itself and little damage was
caused.
AppletOn-The high price of booze
resulting from the new revenue tax,
has caused dearth of drunkS in this
city and in Outagamie county in gen
eral There has not been man ar
rested charged with drunkenness
since Tuesday, Oct. 16. According to
the police records this scarcity is I'M
precedented here.
Waukesha-Arthur F. Schilz, Gale
donia, and Oscar Rasmussen, West
Allis, who were arrested by Conserva-
ton Warden Valentine Raeth for vio-
laW toT
fowl on open water at Muskego lake,
pleaded guilty to the charge in Judge
Thomas court and were fined $50 and
costs.
aukesha-FOllowing an illness of
three years, Charles R. Hill, aged 81
years, former coroner and resident Of
Waukesha county all of his life, died
at his home. He was we'll known
member of the republican party. He
was member of the knights of Pyth-
las, Odd Fellows and United Order of
Foresters.
De Pere-Mrs Fred Fields suffered
a broken hip bone and other serious
a broken ankle and Fred Fields, hus-
band of Mrs. Fields, was badly bruised
when their auto was struck on a Mil
waukee road crossing in this city by
freight train. The injured are well
known De Pere people.
Completion of the Sheri-
n in ho
ties by federal and state aid was made
certain when the state highway COM
mission sent to county clerks in Ra-
cine county the estimates for the COM
ing year. Thirty-six thousand dollars
of the joint state Id federal fund is
appropriated for It's completion of the
road in KenOsha county.
Madison - W. N Fitzgerald, state
fuel commissioner, has announced that
before another week he would have
appointed a fuel agent in every coun-
ty of the state. The state fuel agent
has been surrounded by an advisory
committee of three members, George
A. Buckstaff, Oshkosh Stephen w.
Gilman, Madison, and F. w. Rogers,
Milwaukee.
Appleton = Carelessness in leaving
the furnace door open nearly cost the
lives of the Misses Mathilda Schmit,
Pearl Heller and Josephine Letter at
the Schmit home, this city. But for
the fact that Alois Schmit, a brother
of Mathilda, was a light sleeper and
heard two of the girls fall to the floor
in their room about o'clock in the
morning they would have been asphyx-
lated.
Ladysmith a. H. Mccormack was
tound guilty of the murder of his wife,
Ida Kimball Mathison Mccormack
the jury being out two hours. The
prisoner was greatly affected when the
foreman delivered the verdict. On
Aug. 8, 1915, Mrs. Mccormack was
taken ill at dinner and her death fol
lowed shortly afterward. Her hus-
bands arrest on the charge of muir
der followed.