Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-05-17
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

by the city and the ground will be par
celed out to persons who wish to
make gardens.
A special election is expected to be
held at Grantsburg soon to vote on
the question of selling the municipal
electric plant to the General Electric
and Power company of Cloquet, Mimi
Explosion of railway signal tor
pedo, mutilated the hands OF Adam
Schnefski, 10 years old, and Steve Pu-
toski, 9 years old, both of Racine. They
smashed it on a rail with stone.
The first Door county soldier to lose
his life in France was Private Lester
Dewey Erskine, 20 years old, son OF
Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln H. Erskine OF
Jacksonport He died of meningitis.
Owing to a series of acts ranging
from petty depredations and rowdylsh
performances by young men, officers OF
the law at Hudson have got busy and
adopted a slogan, Work, Enlist or
Get Out"
Berlin street. is now Liberty
street" The La Crosse common coun-
Gil at recent meeting acceded to the
demands of residents along that
street and changed the Objectionable
German name.
John Breen, held in the Madison
Jail for alleged failure to register un-
der the draft, found ground glass in
his breakfast food. John Schmidt, an
alien enemy, fellow prisoner, is charg-
ed with the deed.
Jerome Brewster, civil war soldier,
70 years old, died in Waupaca. Chas.
Ellis, prominent Grand Army of the
Republic member and resident of
Plainfeld half century, is dead. He
was 70 years old.
The Rev. C. o. Olander, 68 years
old, pioneer pastor among Swedish
Lutherans of Marinette and northern
Michigan, died in Minneapolis. He
erected the first church of this denom-
nation in Marinette in 1876.
A hen owned by Mrs. Henry Dali
man of Oconomowoc is doing her bit
in these days of high cost of living.
Mrs. Dallm,an found an egg in the nest
that was about the size of goose egg.
When broken open it was found to
contain another perfect egg.
Archbishop S. c. Messmer of Mil
waukee ordained the Rev. Fathers
Aloysius Kipells of ST. Paul, Frank
Berg of Milwaukee, and AlOysius Pre-
genzer of Chicago to the Redemptorist
priesthood at the Redemptorist college
chapel at Lac La Belle.
Girls of the GAINESVILLE high school
have become so interested in the mill
tary work of the boys that they have
organized a company of their own and
are being drilled by the officers of the
boys company. About $50 girls are
taking the training.
Word has been received by relatives
that Lieut.. Clarence H. SchOenike, OF
Oconomowoc, One Hundred and Sixty
third infantry, who has been in France
several months, is on his way to the
United States. The reason of his re-
turn is not known.
The Winnebago county board of SUI
pervisors has taken action to buy five
acres adjoining the present fair site
and will acquire four acres more when
the Winnebago County Fair associa-
ton fulfills an agreement to distribute
its stock among the farmers
1t is understood that pearl fishing
will be renewed at Rhinelander on
the river again this year. Nearly a
carload of clam shells are piled up
near the Fetke farm where pearl hun
tiers have their camp. These shells
will be shipped to button factory in
Iowa.
The war on fortune tellers, who
make money off persons having rela-
times in the army, started by Mayor
A A. Bentley, of La Crosse, reaped
another victim in municipal court
when a jury found Mrs. Samuel
Mitchell, trance medium, guilty She
was fined S41.43.
Theodore Hauge, missing and want
ed in connection with the murder of
Mrs. Cora Miller, wealthy West Salem
widow. last July, stands first on the
cOunty's list of alternateS for the
next draft increment. A charge of de-
sertion will be laid against him in case
he fails to appear when called
First place in the Lawrence con
test for oratOrical and extemporane-
Gus speaking at Peabody Hall was won
by Louis Katelanoss of Beloit and
Morgan Schaefer of Wausau, respec-
lively. Schaefer spoke On why
American Democracy Must VIM" and
Katelanoss' subject was 1.-THE Wander
ing jew"
Residents of New Lisbon witnessed
an impressive sight when several fiat
cars filled with blazing lumber pulled
into the city at sixty-mile gait. The
trainmen discovered the fire after
leaving Necedah, abandoned the rest
of the train and rushed with the .blaZ.
ing pile to New Lisbond for water
The fire department saved all but one
OF the cars.
John Wagner of the town of Ridge
way has the following record of the
capture of wild animals the past sea