Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-10-05
WISCONSIN news
| Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

prominent business man ana cnurcD
worker, was asphyXiated by gasoline
fumes in his garage here.
Plainfield = The Plainfeld high
school and all lower grades have
closed for two weeks. The students
will help gather potatoes.
Neenah = A letter from Cornelius
Quinn of this city, who is in the fed
eral service as wireless operator,
gives the information that he is on his
way to Russia.
Columbus = John e. Wheeler. presi-
dent of the Farmers and Merchants
Union bank of Columbus, died here at
the age of 66 years. Mr.. Wheeler lived
inLa Crosse for many years.
Racine - Rhinelander was selected
as the next convention city of the
League of Wisconsin Municipalities
and there will be celebrated the TWEEN
tieth anniversary of the organization.
La Crosse-Dr. X. D. Shastri, Hindu
lecturer, may be arrested on another
charge He was recently discharged
of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
Fond du Lac Announcement was
made here Of the merging Of the A. e.
schaar job printing establishment with
the p. B. Haber Printing company.
The consolidation results in enc Of the
largest and best commercial printing
establishments in the state.
Madison-Earl 8. Driver las been
commissioned major by Gov. e. L.
Philip and has assumed his duties as
assistant adjutant general in place of
Col John G. Salesman. A. 3. Beecroft,
clerk in the office, has been made sec
rotary to Adjt Gen. 0. Holway.
Sheboygan - After his wife had
ieaped off bridge into the Sheboygan
river to save the life of their 2-year
old son. William Poetschke dived off
the rail into the water where the
mother was frantically struggling to
save her babe, and managed to keep
them both above water until Anton
Botkus, in a row boat, picked them up.
GAINESVILLE = Seven complaints have
been fled in the municipal court by
the Leaf River Creamery company
against the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad for its alleged failure to de-
liver shipments of cheese to destina-
items in good condition. One com
plant has also been filed against the
Milwaukee road.
Janesville-Two firms of this city,
The Rock River Cotton company, and
the GAINESVILLE Machine company, have
distributed prizes to employees who
had the best gardens during the sum-
mer Over three hundred men and
women took part In the contests
which resulted In large increase In
the vegetable production of the city.
Madison = Permission to commence
business was granted the Farmers
State bank Of Canton. Wis. The CAPT
tai Is $4,000 An amendment to the
articles Of incorporation of the Mem
hardt bank Of Burlington, increasing
capital from $4,000 to $62.500 was ap
proved and a certificate to commence
business issued to the Eldorado State
bank, Fond du Lac county
Madison = The monthly report of
State Treasurer Henry Johnson to the
governor shows the total In all funds,
Oct. 1, to be $1,396,043.27, against
$1,899, 861.38, Sept. 1, and S1,951 5000
on Oct /, 1916. The total in the gen.
eral fund is s214.618.26, against $780,
62368, Sept. l. and $527,s34.5O year
ago. The expenditures from the gen
eral fund for September were $751;
1868.
Madison = The Wisconsin conserva-
ton commission authorized the fisher
men of Green Bay to catch and sell,
in Wisconsin. perch measuring seven
inches in length. The commission sus-
pended the provision of the law pass
ed by the last legislature prohibiting
the taking of perch Of less tnan eight
inches in length. but made the sus-
pension apply only to the Green Bay
fishing district.
Green Bay-Fewer hunting licenses
have been sissued In Brown county to
date than up to the same day in 1915.
1t was learned upon investigation.
of County Clerk r. B. Vickery's rec
ords. This is due to the fact that
many sportsmen are among the en-
listed and conscripted men. and be-
cause aliens can not obtain licenses
under the revised law. The humble
of licenses issued so far this year is
'1,248, while up to the same date last
year, 1875 licenses were issued, More
deer tags than usual have been issued
to hunters, the number being close to
500 up to this time.
GAINESVILLE = George J.. Magee, for
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