Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-10-18

Rev. William Brown, 81 years old,
pastor of st. Joseph's church, KelI-
nersville, Maniotwoc county, died Of
pneumonia.
H. S. Siggelko, Madison attorney,
who was nominated for attorney gen
eral on the Prohibition ticket a month
ago, filed a declination with Secretary
of State Merlin Hull
After an illness OF four days, DR..
Clyde Storment Of Viola, one of the
most prominent physicians in that
part of the state, died Of Spanish in
f1uenza. He was 35 years old.
Co. B, Ninth Regiment, Wisconsin
State Guards, composed Of Neenah
and Menasha men, won the Chase
trophy and first place for being the
best trained unit in the regiment.
Dr.. G.. O. Latham, for the last five
years resident physician at the Wis
consin State reformatory, Green Bay,
has been commissioned captain in the
medical corps and ordered to report
at Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark
A six-cent fare was installed in Ra-
cine ON Sunday, Oct. 6, by the Mil
waukee Electric Railway and Light
company, operating the local street
railway system, following a decision
of the state railroad commission.
The city OF Green Bay has reached
$50 per cent subscription in the
fourth Liberty Loan The volunteer
plan has proved successful in Brown
county. Out of 1861 allotments over
1880 were completed without per
sonal solicitation.
Ninety-one S. A. T. G. men from
the University Of Wisconsin left for
officers training camps. OF these
seventy-five went to Camp Grant for
infantry training, eight to Camp Han
cock, Ca, for machine gun, and eight
to Camp Taylor. Ky, for artillery.
Claiming the bible excused him
from serving in the war, George
Wickland. 80 years old, of Maiden
Rock, said he refrained from register
ing for army service because of re-
ligious scruples, when arraigned be-
fore United States Court Commits
sioner Alfred Harrison at La Crosse
He was held to the grand jury.
The Racine county board Of super
visors voted to accept and amintain
a 100-bed hospital, which is to be con-
structed through private subscriptions
and $4,000 appropriation from the
Racine county war chest. The board
has also unanimously voted to pur-
chase 100000 of the fourth Liberty
Loan bonds.
On a hurryup call for nurses for
Camp Grant to assist in the effort to
control Spanish influenza, five Osh-
kosh nurses were secured in four
hours time and they were on their
way to camp. The volunteers were
Misses Anna Bodden, Ellen Allen,
Charlotte Case, Anna Naby and Alice
Giroux. All are graduate nurses
Adjt. Gen. Orlando Holway, Madi-
son, has received calls from the fed
eral government for 1895 men. They
are to entrain in the five-day period
beginning Oct 81. OF this number, g.
453 men are wanted for general sew-
ice at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg,
Miss, and LAP for general service at
jackson Barracks, Louisiana
Byron B. Northrop, SO years old,
dean of Wisconsin bankers, died at his
home in Racine. Death was due to
shock received when he fell week
ago and broke his right hip Mr.,
Northrop was born in New York in
1880, coming to Racine county in
1912. He attended colleges in Wis
consin and Michigan, graduating from
the University of Michigan in 1855.
In order to determine who the
slackers in Outagamie county are, all
those who have refused to purchase
Liberty bonds will have their names
published and also placed in the Outa-
game County War history It is fear
ed that there will be a large number
of names to be published according to
members of the Liberty Bond commit
tee.
eff you have any unused sugar certi-
ficates please return them to the sugar
committee at the state capitol SO that
the sugar may be redistributed where
it is needed" is the plea of the Wis
consin food administration. 1t is only
through such cooperation that the
committee is able to furnish sugar
for home canning purposes and other
emergency cases.
The following officers were elected
at Rhinelander at the annual meeting
of the Wisconsin w. C. T. u: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Mary Scott Johnson, Supe-
rior; vice-president, Mrs. A. W. War
rem, Stoughton; corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. e. w. Follett, Marshfield;
recording secretary, Miss Julia Hutch
inson, Waupaca; treasurer, Mrs. Ida
M. Cooke, Green Bay.
Edward Tetzlof, retired farmer,
De Pere, was arrested On q charge of
violating the espionage act. According
to evidence in court he made sarcas-
tic remarks to a representative of the
Liberty Loan committee. Judge Mona
han suspended sentence after Mr..