Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-07-19


official notice of an increase of salary
of 5000 per year for each of the eighty
employees of the Madison postofice.
Commissioner of Banking A. E.
Kuolt has approved change in the
name of the German bank of Sheboy,
gan Falls, to the Falls bank.
Edwin, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Pfaff,
missing from home at Burr Oak, Ra-
cine county, for five. years and believ'
ed dead, has wired his parents that
he is in the army at Camp Lewis.
Wash.
AsSemblyman Homer A. Stone OF
the Third district of Dane county has
announced his candidacy for re-elec-
ton. He denounces Senator La Fol
lette's attitude on the war in his state.
ment to the public.
| John Simon, Is, Marinette, is in a
critical condition as a result of bull
let wound in the lung, sustained While
he and several other boys were play
/ ing with what was thought to be an
unloaded revolver. He is not expected
to live.
| MS. John Pearson Of Wausau has
been notified of the death. of her son,
Sergeant Ernest Pearson, in hospl-
| tai in France. Sergeant Pearson left
| the River Falls normal school in April,
| 1917, to enlist, and has been overseas
since January.
Word has just been; received from
the Red Cross society by the parents
| of Private Leslie Cunningham, OF
Sturgeon Bay, stating that their son
was prisoner at Allen Grabow, Ger
many. a brother Of the young man
was killed in action May %.
Sol. Kasden, grocer of South Mad.
ispn, has been found guilty of selling
corn flakes as substitute for wheat
flour, and as a penalty, he has been
ordered by C. H. Tenney Of Enforce.
ment Division for Wisconsin, to pay
$40 to the Madison Red Cross.
The state board of control has an
nounced that by awarding the con.
tract for $4,000 tons of bituminOus
coal for the sixteen state institutions
early in June, it was. able to have over
$4,000 tons delivered before the in
creased freight rates went into effect
and saved the state approximately ST.
500.
Villas H. Whaley, former district at,
torney of Racine county, was Endorsed
for the Democratic nomination for
10, of Of 6n1
resenting the five counties in the First
congressional district Talbot Stewart
of Kenosha, who sought the indorse-
ment of the conferences announced
that he will remain in the field.
The disbursing committee of the Ke-
nosha patriots fund made an addi-
tional subscription of $4,000 to the
American Red Cross, $4,000 to the Po-
lish and Slav army fund and $1,000 to
the foreign relief fund. This brings
the total for the Red Cross for the
year up to $4,000 and the total dis
bursements of the fund up to $166,000.
Judge E. B. Belden, Racine circuit
court judge, has assumed charge of
u.
Custer. Rivalry between Camps Gus
ter and Grant has been increased as a
result of the latest health report show
ing Grant has only 14.05 non-effectives
and Custer 1927 per thousand. Usu-
ally Custer has held top rank in
health.
Alvin E. Jones of Oshkosh violated
the sugar regulations by delivering
500 pounds of the 1000 pounds of
sugar ordered by the Cakes Candy
Co. in May on June 18th without TAX
ing up the sugar certificate which was
required in June under the sugar regu-
lations. The business was ordered to
remain closed a week and Mr.. Jones
was obliged to pay $500 to the Red
Cross.
After careful consideration of the
milk situation, ten cents per quart is
declared to be the fair maximum price
for milk by the Milk Committee of the
Wisconsin Food Administration. This
minimum price is generally higher
than the price being charged in most
counties of Wisconsin by the retail
milk dealers at the present time and
should be considered strictly as the
maximum.
Eastern Wisconsin Electric COM
pany officials appeared before the Wis
consin Railroad commission at Madi-
son with a plea for an increase in the
interurban fare between Fond du Lac
and North Fond du Lac from to 10
cents. Decision was withheld. Ap-
plication of the company for an in
crease in interurban rates between
Sheboygan, Kohler and Sheboygan
Falls was also heard.
Rev. M. T. Anderegg, pastor, and
the congregation of the SIS. Peter and
Paul's church, at Green Bay, Sunday,
July 1, celebrated silver jubilees. The
priest celebrated the twenty-fifth an
| niversary of his ordination to the
priesthood and the singing Of his first
| mass. while the congregation observed
the twenty-fifth anniversary of it's or,
ganization as parish. Rev. Anderegg
was ordained June "a, 1893, and he
celebrated his initial mass June 20,
| 1898. while the parish was organized