Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-09-06

sion which caused destruction Of her
home.
! Cornelius S. Leinfelder, leading La
! Crosse businessman, changed his name
| to Cornelius S. Linfield, because Lem
fielder was too German to suit him.
Edward Schumacher, 81 years old,
veteran member of the Racine police
department, was stricken with heart
disease at his home and died suddenly.
Henry Krumrey of Plymouth, who
it at the head of the cheese federation
in Wisconsin, is at Washington confer
ring with officials of the food admins
tratiOn
Wisconsin Holstein cattle are con-
quering market in South Carolina.
A herd Of twenty-five head were ship
ped from Hartford. The average
price paid was $119 head.
Mrs. Annie Vankammen, wife of a
Kenosha real estate dealer, was killed
in an automobile accident at Waters
meet, Mich. She left Kenosha by au.
tomobile, hoping to recover her health.
Permits to work were granted to g.,
645 Milwaukee children in the months
of June and July, according to report
issued by Miss Tracey Copp, head of
the woman's department of the United
States Employment bureau.
Floyd Sapp, Cornell, Chippewa
county, has been charged before mil
itary court-martial, with having placed
his right hand under the wheels Of q
circus train, having all his fingers
smashed, to avoid military service.
La Crosse has been put on the
route of proposed aerial mail route
between Minneapolis and Chicago. The
postmaster there and Frank P. Hixon,
leading capitalist, have been asked
to obtain a site for landing the mail.
Miss Lydia Rhode of Appleton was
drowned in the Wisconsin river when
a gasoline launch in which she was
riding to Tomahawk from Millen col
1ege at BUYERS Bay, struck some
piles causing the boat to sink.
The body of Clarence O'Keefe, ru-
raj mail carrier at Custer, was found
in Wisconsin river at Stevens Point.
tainment at Stevens Point. His auto
mobile has not been located.
Thirty women have been put on at
the plant of the La Crosse Tractor
company at La Crosse to take the
places of men who have been released
for service. 1t is the largest female
factory force of its kind in the city.
George McGill, star full-back of the
La Crosse state normal school football
eleven last season, has been signed to
coach the football eleven of the Wi
mona normal school this fall. He will
teach physical education in that insti-
tuition
Ground was broken for the new army
barracks on Camp Randall, the Uni
versity of Wisconsin athletic field.
The structures will house selective
service men who are receiving special
training at the University of Wiscon-
sin.
Declaring that he would consider
himself a Stacker if he accepted ex-
emption from army service because
of being a student of divinity, Herbert
S. Stanton of Racine college appeared
at a Racine exemption board to be in
Quoted into service.
Otto C. Husting, 81, brother of the
late Senator Paul o. Husting and pri-
vate secretary of the later until his
death, died of heart failure in his Of
fee in the federal building, Milwaukee.
Mr.. Husting was chief deputy in the
| office of Collector of Customs.
Farming property in Racine county
hit high mark when the Racine cOun-
ty poor farm consisting of 120 acres
was sold for $14,700. 1t was sold to
George w. Smith, superintendent of
the Case Thrashing Machine company
who proposes to conduct stock farm.
United States District Attorney A.
| G. Wolfe has launched drive against
residents OF the Western district of
| Wisconsin alleged to have furnished
| liquor TO members OF the ,iv-o. s,rtlI ely
brigade, now at Camp Robinson. Nine
| teen arrests were made in less than
| ten hours.
Joseph J. Mallek, 311th trench NOR
tar company, Camp Robinson, was
! killed while returning to camp from
La Crosse He was struck by a train
Joseph Telz, companion of Mallek,
was found on the right-of-way by sol
| diers and taken to hospital, badly
] hurt. He was also hit by the train
Instead of waiting indefinitely for
| indictments to be returned by the fed
eral grand jury against persons who
give or sell liquor to soldiers, United
States District Attorney A. c. Wolfe
will file information against violators
F! and then have them arrested and i'm
| mediately brought to court for trial.
Departure of soldiers overseas has in
many cases made posecution impossi-
BILE.
A cable message received at Keno
sha announces the death at FriebOurg,
Switzerland, of Sister Mary George
| Adamson, a former KenOsha woman.