Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-05-24
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

the University of Wisconsin on Memo
rial day will bear 1900 stars in honor
of students gone to war. 1t is 20x30
feet in size.
Herbert Rosenow, Menasha boy,
has been gassed somewhere in
France, and has been in the hospital
since March 10, according to word re-
ceived from him.
To date 48S of Wisconsin's 2,803
physicians have been recommended
for commissions as army surgeons. A
quota of 100 is required of this state
by July 1, 1918.
The Marinette-Green Bay Manufac-
turing company, Marinette. has fol-
lowed the example of the M. & M.
Box company and has begun to employ
girls for light work in the factory.
The Milwaukee council, Boy Scouts
of America, has purchased a 4O-acre
tract of land on Silver lake, near
Oconomowoc, which will be used as a
training camp and outing place for the
scouts of the Milwaukee branches.
Because of the large number of vol
unteers with which Washburn county
is credited there was no call upon
that district for draft quota May 25-
80. This is the second time Washburn
has been exempt.
"Curfew shall not ring tonight"
Mayor John L. Sell of Wausau ex-
claimed as he issued an order discon-
tinuing the ringing of the 8 o'clock
curfew until next fall. No reason was
given for the action.
Increases in pay OF war bonuses
we've given to nine assistants in the
Brown county Offices and employees in
the courthouse by the county board.
The total amount of increases amounts
to $3.50 year.
With army medical officers, univer-
sity clinic physicians and members OF
the Ntadsan health department CO.
operating, it is believed that the scar
let epidemic which swept the student
section of the city has been checked,
Half the cost of maintenance of the
agricultural course recently establish
ed III the Oshkosh public schools will
be borne by the federal government,
under the Smith-Hughes law. Aid this
year is figured at $4,000.
Hundreds of acres of pine timber,
one of the few tracts of original pine
left in Western Wisconsin. burned in
a forest fire which swept over the ter
nd
in Jackson county.
There are rumors that the G. & N.
w. expects to make Marinette a divi-
sion point and the fact that quite a
few railroad families have located in
that city during the past few weeks
lends some credence to it.
William O'Pelka, Rhinelander, who
was arrested on a charge of using alb
usive language against the United
States. was sentenced to buy $3.50
worth of Liberty bonds or serve ninety
days in jail He bought the bonds.
Following his pleading of guilty in
the Green Bay municipal court, George
Lemke, OF the town of Morrison, was
father, Frederick Lemke, not to aid the
United States in the prosecution of
the war.
The total in Kenosha patriots fund,
for the first five months of it's exist
ence was made public on May Is. 1t
showed $4,000 contributors and $751;
1860 in contributions to various or
CARNATIONS for work in connection
with the war.
Some 400 friends of o. TheO. Tor
gesos, Meridian, Dunn county, who
suffered loss by fire razing his farm
building recently, paid him surprise
visit, leaving with him collection
amounting to $7S3.35, several cows,
and a flock of chickens.
report made by officers in charge
or the Racine county war relief fund
showed the total receipts for the
month of April to be $42,650.30 and
disbursements $9,757.63. From the
fund will be taken the couhty's share
in the Red Cross war fund.
The Wisconsin Valley Electric com
pany has submitted proposals tc
Marshfield to acquire control of the
electric lighting plant at that place, to
reduce the rates and increase the eff
cheney of the service. 1t is proposed
to either lease or purchase the plant
Judge Park dismissed the suit be
gun by ex-Mayor F. A. Walters of Ste
vens Point against Edward McGlach
lin, T. L. McGlachlin and Carl w
Mason, asking $4,000 for alleged libe
by a Stevens Point newspaper. The
court held that neither of the two ar
ticles cited in the complaint was libel
Gus.
Charges OF mismanagement of the
Brown county tuberculosis sanitariun
and extravaganza in handling funds
and ill-treatment of patients, which
were lodged against Superintendent
Emma Rosenbohm in March by Adells
Taylor, a nurse, were dismissed as I'm
warranted by special investigation
committee of the county board.
Attorney f. ]. Shuttleworth, o
Madison, Republican, making loyalt.