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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Aug. Bitner to B. E. French, e1a
NV; 1916.
E. A. White to Henry Pepper, lots
10, II and IL, blk Kilgore's adm.
Henry Pepper to Marie Guist, lots
10, II and II, blk /, Kilgore's adm.
Baker Land & title Co, to E. X.
Swift, swA nwA 27-33-S.
E. K. Swift to @. McCraiken, s1a
NV; 27-33-S.
Theo Emerson to Thorledd Emer-
son, Sc ne; 31-33-7.
E. G. Kuehl to Main Valley Land
Co., Sc sw 1886; sw Sc 15-34-5; NV
he, sw ne & Sc NV; 1885.
H. w. True to w. G. Bell, lot 3,
blk 4, Ingram.
Faast Land Co. to L. Popowich, sw
Sc; 15-34-5.
Mary Wheeler to j. E Stanly, u of
W 80 # lots 9 and 10, blk. 5, Bruce.
Thos. Granger to G. B. Williams,
lot 5, blk. 6, Ladysmith Townsite 3rd.
John S. Madison to Farm Sales Co,
s1a NV 1884.
Hy. Habighorst to Farm Sales Co.,
e1@ ne, sw ne & seA swA 1864.
w. zlob to T. F. Armstrong, n12
36-36-6.
c. Van Soelen to Marie Van soelen,
NV ne; n 80 a. ne ne 33-34-8.
Geo. Buyan to Ida Duckman, sw
NV; 34-33-5.
Geo. Weed to Stanly Pelton, NV
ne; 21-34-5.
Ida Conrath to Cecil Hughes, Wa
NV ne e sw ne; 32-34-5.
J. w. Jones to M. Skar 1aint WIZ
seA; 1868
M. Skar to ]. w. Jones, Kint e1a
seA; s. &c. 8.
c. E. Worthing to G. S. Corncross,
s1a Sc; 1885.
Mary Clark to Hy Fondberg, n1a
lot 10 blk. Corbetts adm 2nd.
A. M. Peterson to Geo. Wig, s1h
ne; 23-35-3.
w. Larribee to Gates Land Co.,
VIZ NV; 25-34-7.
Thornapple Land Co. to A. J. Shi-
Ian, swA 1888.
J. E. Stanly to Edna Sweet, 80
it. lots and 10 blk. 5, Bruce.
Ida Hutchinson to Chas. Robelia,
lot blk. %, M. w. w. Co. End.
M. w. w. Co. to Charol Myra,
lot and blk. g. lot 1, 2, and 4
blk 10 M. w. w. Co. 3rd.
Gates Land CO. to B. L. Painter,
Sc NV; 3634-6.
Hy. Wilson to Betsey Ola, sw sw;
CO sw; NV sw; ne sw; 3O-35-6.
Carrie Davis to w. w. RICHTER,
part sW sw; 5-34-7.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
NEW STYLE TRACTOR

H. w. True has a new tractor here
that has attracted considerable at
tention about town this week. 1t
is formed by combining the Staude
Tractor attachment with the chas-
sis Of a Ford, the rear wheels of
the car being removed and the large
tractor wheels, which are gear driv-
en-, being substituted.
1t is claimed this tractor will do
the work of four horses and tests
made here so far indicate that this
claim is a modest one.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
WANT AUTO TRUCK
LADYSMITH DEPARTMENT ASKS
FOR BETTER EQUIPMENT
FOR FIRE FIGHTING
PROTECT ALL PARTS OF THE CITY
Outlying Portions are now Virtually
Without any Protection
From Fire

City Clerk Kiryan has been author
lied to get bids on an auto-truck for
use of the Ladysmith volunteer Fire
Department. Same is to have two
chemical tanks, each with capac-
ity of about forty gallons, so that
each tank will be able to throw
stream of chemical fire-Quenching
composition for a period of approXi-
mately twenty-five minutes, one tank
being charged while the other is be-
ing emptied.
In addition to this equipment, the
truck is to carry 500 feet Of hose
and two ladders, and have room for
eight or ten men.
This truck will be powerful enough
to go anywhere in the city, it is
said, through snow or mud. 1t would
be particularly valuable in fighting
fires in the outlying portions of the
city, a considerable portion Of which
has no fire protection now, being too
far from water mains. 1t would ena-
BILE the firemen to get to all fires
a great deal quicker, in itself a very
important consideration.
The purchase of this apparatus
would place the local fire department
in position to do very effective work
and would doubtless be a paying in
vestment for the city.
The city of Richland Center has
just recently purchased such an out
fit
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
BIG TOURNAMENT AT APPLETON
Rivals For Entry to Basketball Meet
Rapidly Narrowing Down

Appleton, Wis, March Especially
With the Thirteenth Annual Basket
ball tournament held under the aus
plces of Lawrence College only three
weeks away, the outlook for places
IN the big meet is beginning to mar
row down to comparatively few
teams in each section of the state.
Indications, according to announce
ments made today by the Lawrence
basketball committee. point to one
Of the fairest and most exciting tour
naments ever staged in the state.
In the northeastern district, Fond
du Lac, with victories over Neenah,
Ripon, West Green Bay, Appleton,
and Rhinelander has a strong chance
in the meet. Ripon, Appleton and
Wittenberg are still in, as are Ocon-
to, Tigerton, Algoma and Menasha.
Probably this weeks games will mar
row the running down to a half doz-
en- teams, three Of which will be
chosen from this section.
In the northwestern district, Eau
Claire, Cumberland, Medford, Lady
smith, Rice Lake, and the two Super
ior highschools are showing up
strongest, with advantages at present
apparently in favor of Eau Claire and
Medford.
In the southern section, the race
is so close and the record so nearly
alike that no predictions are as yet
made as to the outcome, though
Monroe, Brodhead, Columbus, Edger-
ton, Hillsboro, Kenosha, Stoughton,
and West Bend are making the best
showings to date. Lawrence Off
cials state, however, that a number
of elimination games probably will
be necessary to pick the three rep
resentatives from the southern sec
ton.
Lawrence College announces that
1t is planning to spare no expense
to make the tournament a success.
Railroad fare will be paid and lodg
Ing Accommodations and entertainment
provided. Instead of a pennant this
year, the winning team will receive
a silver loving cup. Probably pen
ant will be given to the one gaining
second place. AS in previous years,
members of the first team will re-
ceive gold medals, members Of the
second, silver and members Of the
third, bronze. Additional prizes and
awards will be announced later.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
NEW SETTLERS COMING IN

w. F. Kressin, of Lone Rock, Iowa,
arrived here Wednesday with car
load of cattle, horses and household
goods and Immediately moved onto
the 80-acre farm located 5 miles
north of this city that he purchased
last fall from Kilgore & French. A.
A. Kressin, a brother of w. F., came
UP a few weeks ago and has been
doing some work on the place.
AleX Sutter, from Palo Alto coun-
ty, Iowa, has moved onto the Emil
Laufer place north Of this city,
which the former has purchased. Mr..
Laufer has rented and moved onto
the r. B. Macdonald farm Of 400
acres in the northern part Of Chippe-
wa county. John Swanson, who
has managed this farm for Mr. Mac
Donald, has bought and moved onto
another farm nearby.
William Snyder, another man from
Palo Alto county, Iowa, has recently
moved onto the S0-acre Benson farm
one-haf mile north of the city, which
he purchased through R. B. MacDon-
aid. Benson has moved into town
and is now in the employ Of the
Fountain-Campbell Lumber Co.
The annual spring vacation will oc-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
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COUNTY SCHOOL NEWS !
y BY COUNTY SUPT, o. E. RICE
80 8 . 8 . ! . 8 .

Fifty-two pupils in the county
schools submitted essays in the es-
say contest. The Judges are busy
reading them.
The central division Of Rusk coun-
ty teachers will hold a one-day in
stitute at the Ladysmith highschool
building on Saturday the 18th in
stant, commencing at ten o'clock. A
strong program is being prepared,
and with the loyal support always
shown by our teachers, very profit
able meeting is assured
A. T. Anderson, graded schol in
spector, visited the first class grad
ed schools Of the county this week.
Miss Leone Zimple, of No. 8, At
lanta, owing to illness, closed her
school for this week. She will re
sumo work next Monday.
Scarlet fever appeared last week
in Dist. No. 3 Grow, in a mild form
The cases are under quarantine so
no further trouble is anticipated.
Teachers should carefully watch for
suspicious SYMPTOMS, and if seen,
promptly report same to parents and
ask that the child be examined by a
physician. This may prevent serious
results, and prevent closing school
A strong teacher for a rural school
at $50 per month is wanted at once.
Only safe and reliable teacher is
needed.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
Death Of Wilson Decker

Wilson Decker, aged 68 years, 8
months and days, died Tuesday af-
ternoon at the home of his grand
daughter, Mrs. VIM. Wilson, Of Neu-
phritis. A funeral service was held
at the house yesterday and the re-
mains were shipped to Tomah, Wis,
for burial, which will be made Sun
day
Deceased is survived by one son,
George, of this city, and one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Hattie Hanson, living 'at
San Francisco.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
PAST MASTERS NIGHT

Observance of "Past Masters
Night Tuesday was a big event in
local Masonic circles. One of the
features was@a sumptuous banquet
at the Odd Fellows hall, after which
the members OF the fraternity pro-
ceeded to their own hall and took
UP the business of the evening, which
included degree work.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
Weirgor Correspondent Leaves

Miss Marie Schroeder, who has
been the News Budgets correspond
ent at Weirgor for many months
past, leaves tonight for Neillsville.
The News-Budget would therefore
be pleased to secure a new CORES
pondent at Weirgor.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Irwin c. Turner, Viola, Wis, and
Josie McCracken, ISLAND Lake, March
9Th.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09

w. J. Kermott had business at
Exeland today.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
BAD FIRE AT HEMLOCk

The Fountain and Campbell com
pany suffered quite a serious loss
Monday morning in the burning Of
their log hauler. The fire originated
in the roof Of the building housing
the engine and spread so rapidly
that nothing could be done to save
the machine
The loss to the company was in
creased on Tuesday morning by the
burning of the blacksmith shop and
most of the tools.-Radison Courier.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09

Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Torley received
word Sunday Of the serious illness
of their daughter, Mrs. Bernard Car
roll at Detroit, and left Monday even
ing for that city. Mr.. Torley re-
turned home this morning and re-
ports his daughter as much i'm
proved. Mrs Torley will remain at
Detroit for some time.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09

The annual spring vacation will oc-
cur the first week in April.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30
SOME FRENCH IDEALS

From 'arhe French-As Seen by an
 American," by Edith Wharton, in the
 December (Christmas) Scribner.
 I0TlHE French people are one or the
 most ascetic and the most la
 S borious in Europe; yet the four words that preponderate in French speech and literature are: Glory, love, voluptuousness and pleasure. Be- fore the Puritan reflex causes the reader to fling aside the page polluted by this statement, it will be worth his while to translate these four words into la gloire, Iamour, la volupte, le plaisir, and then eff he knows French and the French well enough) consider what they mean in the language of Corneille and Pascal. For it must be understood that they have no equivalents in the English consciousness, and that, if 1t were sought to explain the fundamental diff ference between the exiles of the May flower and the conquerors of Valmy and Jena, 1t would probably best be illus trated by the totally different signifi- canoe of Hove and glory and amour ct gloire."
 To begin with '1a gloire": we must re- sign ourselves to the fact that we do not really know what the French meal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30
Early Christmas
 Shopping the Rule

lM0OW that Thanksgiving Day is S behind us, Christmas shopping is in order. Time was when the holi- day rush did not begin until week or two before the joyous festival was due, but shoppers here and elsewhere have been educated to make their purchases early. Not only are sales men and saleswomen relieved of a great strain in the closing days of shopping activity, but the advantages offered to the people who do the buy ing are obvious.
 The merchants of Birmingham have stocked their stores with a great variety of wares and the early shopper gets the pick. Retail trade has been exceptionally brisk during the fall months and strange it would be were 1t otherWlSe.
 Record-breaking prosperity marks this industrial district, and as re- suit of the enormous pay rolls more money has been in circulation here than at any other autumn period. Wage workers are better paid now than ever before and in spite of the high cost of living most of them have been able to save.
 All lines of business are thriving and few persons there be hereabouts who cannot afford to "shop" literally as Christmas approaches. Now is the time to lay in holiday supplies. Let's not delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Som& fellows have an idea that the
 way to make your mark in the world is
 to paint the town red. Once in awhile you run into a man
 who hasn't owned a 10-spot for so long
 that he knows the mathematicians were
 correct when they made x an unknown quantity.
 When he sees fat woman trying to hurry along the street, a man is willing to admit that the more waist the less speed.
 Many a holier-than-thou guy who is too pure to know his neighbors here goes
 around preaching that we shall know
 our neighbors there. Love is never so blind that it forgets to make goo-goo eyes at big bank ac- count.
 Maybe the reason why the things that mother used to make tasted so good was because in those days you started a meal with an appetite instead of start ing it with an appetizer. Many a man who treats his wife like
 red-headed stepchild would want to fight if some other man attempted to treat her that way. When a corn fed Is built so that she
 resembles the rear end of a touring car it is hard to get her interested in a
  1t is hard to understand a girl At t she can't get her skirts long enough and at 25 she can't get them short enough l The real stuffed idiot is the man who | thinks he knows it all. You will never acquire any knowledge until you realize | how ignorant you are. ! Once in awhile you will meet mar with pronounced nose who uses i to speak through.
 As & rule the fellow who is alway. harping on one string is always out O tune with the rest of the world. fool man may imagine that he hal unusual powers of observation and de Iscription. But woman can look at an 1 other woman's dress for two second and describe it for two hours. | If our American women so in fo
 conservation of dress. goods the wa, they have gone in for conservation O foods. this will be a pleasant land t'
 live in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30
x x To Promote Public Nursing Efficiency

TT HE visiting nurse has been a
 J great boon to the poor of this city, but in order to promote effi- ciency and avoid overlapping and du- plication of public health agencies centralization is needed.
 An effort will be made at meet ing to be held today in the Civic asso- citation rooms to unify the nursing forces. The proposed plan will be explained and all persons interested in this humane work as we'll as the nurses themselves are urged to be present.
 The unification of public health nursing is not to interfere in any man. ner with the individuality of the dis trict nurse. It is merely to make the system more business-like.. The visit ling nurse of today, 1t is pointed out, will be the same visiting nurse-the same angel of mercy. As one of the good women actively engaged in the cause puts it: "The visiting nurse is the strategic object in the public health campaign"
 Joined to centralized organization the nurse will find her services all
 the more efficient and the fruit of
 her self-sacrificing ministrations ap- preciably increased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30
WHAT'S NEEDED IN FLYING

Frederic w. Finn, French Aviator, in
 Leslies.
 0TIHAT an aviator must have the
 lair instinct,' the ability to
 balance and land an airplane, is foregone conclusion, but it is equal ly evident that possession of this fac ulty alone will not necessarily make successful military pilot; he must have other abilities. There is popular mo- tion to the effect that to control the complicated mechanism of a flying ma chine, an aviator must be something of g mechanical genius. It is true that he must have the ability to understand the simple underlying principles of flying, but to go farther and lay great stress on mechanical or engineering educa- ton in selecting candidates for the aviation service would be decided mistake. On the front there are two | skilled air mechanics assigned to each machine, who are kept busy looking after it, and who are responsible to the under officer who commands the me chanics. If the pilot, out of supera- bundance of mechanical Knowledge, | tries to tinker with the machine him- | self, or insists on giving detailed or | ders as to how the spark plugs should {! be cleaned, he reduces his mechanics to the status of engine wipers and their
 work shows it. As far as education goes, high school boy is as well equp- 1 ped for piloting as an engineering 1 gradute.
 From the standpoint of qualifications l pilots fall into at least three different
 classes: fighting pilots reconnaissance 1 pilots, and those who, for want of a better term, may be called officer pilots The nature of the work they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30
THE FIERY CROss

Amelia J. Burr. in the Outlook.
 TO HARRY LAUDER He stood behind the footlights and he
 set the crowd a-laughing With the same old grooming chuckle
 that we loved in other years, And only those who knew could guess
 the grief behind the daffing- But for those wo knew. the laughter
 had secret salt of tears. Then at the last he came out in his
 grass s-green coat and bonnet. With his gaudy tartans colored like a
 garden lin the sun, The same quaint little figure--but a diff
 ferent face was on it. When he sang of the laddies that 5 fought and won. A face lined hard with furrows where
 the blow of pain had driven, Blue eyes that had grown shadow-set
 through many a sleepless night. The face of one who more than life un-
 grudgingiy had given, Who called on us to do as well-and,
 ah, we owned his right! We saw in him the fiery cross of Scot
 land. charred and gory, And the spirits burned within ais to the challenge that he gave. |For the player was prophet as he
 spoke his peoples glory ssWe'reA wee land and s-puir land, but
 by God. we're bra W
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30
'. < Y General Gorgas Reports on Camp Wheeler

e URGEON GENERAL WILLIAM 0 c. GORGAS' report on his in- vestigation of Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga, may alarm relatives of men who are encamped there, but he has made no attempt to conceal the true state of affairs. There are twenty two thousand southerners at Camp Wheel CT. Approximately three thousand cases of measles have been reported and three hundred cases of pneumo- mia, the latter disease causing about sixty deaths, during hte past month
 General Gorgas attributes the prev alence of pneumonia to the fact that the men were exposed to cold weather for month with insufficient cloth- ing. The necessity of supplying camps in the north with heavy clothes and bed covering, together with traffic congestion, is said to have caused the delay in providing for Camp Wheel CTS needs. General Gorgas thinks the epidemic of measles due to the men coming from sparsely settled districts where they had not contracted the dis ease before.
 He expresses the fear that an cpl demic of septic pneumonia may be starting at Camp Wheeler, and recommends precautions to check the spread of the disease, which are being put in force. The soldiers are being supplied with woolen blankets and more tent space.
 The situation at Camp Wheeler is to be regretted and may subject the war department to censure. The gov ernment has done it's best in spite of tremendous obstacles. Few people re alize the gigantic task of clothing and caring for our draft army on short notice. No doubt most of the men whc died at Camp Wheeler were the vic tims of our national unpreparednes for war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30

by the trucAload. some badly worn about the fingers and others hardly soiled, are being heaped together and tied in bum .dles for Mrs. Martin Burke of 147 Lex ington avenue, who distributes them to earnest women workers in the city. The latter have undertaken the task of con- verting. the kid tops into Things for aviators' vests. The soft, warm leather covering thus prepared has been found of great service to men at the front. When placed inside the flyers vests they form an almost impenetrable protection against the cutting winds above battle fronts. Because of the light weight they offer greater protection than could be obtained by heavier material, for the aviator cannot clothe himself heavily with cumbersome garments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30

when they say it--what, for instance, Montesquieu had in mind when he wrote of Sparta: 'The only object of the La cedaemonians was liberty, the only ad- vantage it gave them was glory" At best, if we are intelligent and sympa- thetic enough to have entered a little way into the French psychology, we know that they mean something infin- itely larger, deeper and subtler than We mean by glory The proof is that the Ang1o-Saxon is taught not to do great deeds for glory" while the French, unsurpassed in great deeds, have always avowedly done them for ia gloire."
 It is obvious that the sense of duty has large part in the French concep- tion-of glory; perhaps one might risk defining it as duty with a panache But that only brings one to another untrans- latable word. To put panache-a plume, an ornament-on prosaic deed is an act so eminently French that one seeks in vain for its Englsih equivalent; it would verge on the grotesque to de- fine 'la gloire'' as duty wearing an ai- grette The whole conception of ''la gloire' is linked with the profoundly French conviction that the lily should be glded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery Advertiser: It appears that Senator Calder of New York pays sbc apiece for his shirts, but the dis coyery comes so far in advance of the
 next senatorial primary that it may not
 do any good.
 Dothan Eagle: The Kaiser's soldiers
 seem to have misunderstood his com mand of "Forward with God" and ran backward from that devil of a Hais. Selma Journal: Many things have brought it about but nevertheless Hon. tJ. Thomas Heflin can point with pride" to 30-cent cotton.
 Mobile Register: It Is suggested thai the disloyal in this country be defined l by requiring every American to take 1 the oath of allegiance. Why not? True 1 Americans will be glad to take it. 1 Livingston Southern Home: The ques | ton as to where the British fleet is is always promptly answered whenever the l German fleet comes out