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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-10-25

State of wisconsin, In County Court
For Rusk County
In the Matter of the Conveyance of
Real Estate of Fred Barfknecht, de-
ceased, pursuant to the contract in
writing.
Notice is hereby given that the petit
ton of Oscar G. Skinner that the spe-
cial administrators of the estate of
Fred Barfknecht, late of the city of
Ladysmith, deceased, be authorized and
directed to convey to petitioner the fol-
lowing described real estate to-wit !:
The South half of the Southeast quar-
ter Of Section 10, Township "a, North
of Range 6, Rusk County, Wisconsin,
excepting therefrom the railroad right
of way as now laid out over and across
said land, pursuant to contract made
by said Fred Barfknecht, deceased in
his lifetime is now pending in this
court.
Also that said petition will be heard
at special term of the court to be held
in and for said county at the court
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morning when the papers were trans
ferred. I'll vouch for you, Wallace
will, presume, vouch for me, and you,
I presume, will vouch for Wallace"
The sinister look on his face affect
ed Mark more disagreeably than ever.
Mark felt nettled, though the words
had been fair.
eff there's been leak" he said sit
seems to me it's up to the Brigadier
to discover it. It's outside; it isn't
our business to locate it. We're doing
our part-what more can we do?"
"Come along and tell the Brigadier
that" suggested Howard.
Mark, nothing loath, accompanied
him to the Generals room. But the
Brigadier was more furious than How
ard.
Il don't know how it happened, Col
onel, and / don't care!" he cried,
humping the table. 'No great harm
has been done SO far, and of course
none of the departmental clerks can
be suspected. But it's got to stop, and
we've got to find out how it originated"
1t was on that night that Mark felt
at the end of his powers.
1t was early, he had dined and was
sitting disconsolately in his apartment /;
nothing seemed Of any value to him at
that moment, and his thoughts were
ranging round their eternal subject.
Had it been necessary that he should
have treated Mrs. Howard and FL
eanor boorishly, to protect himself?
He put on his hat and went out,
meaning to pay them a visit, or, at
least, to walk toward their house while
making his decision. He had not de-
cided by the time he reached Massa-
chusetts circle, and, as he stopped in
doubt, he saw a man across the road,
staring up at the house.
OF sudden Eleanor's story required
| to his mind with vivid force. The man
was obviously watching the house, and
he meant to stay there.
But, as Mark started toward him,
| the man seemed to take fear, and
shambled away. Something in his gait
| brought back to Marks mind the recOl-
! lection of the man whom he had seen
outside the Misses Harpers' school.
And he began to follow him. 1t was
role that he had never played before,
but justified, in his mind, by the neees-
sity of discovering the fellows identi-
ty. Without any very clear intention
in his mind how he was to accomplish
this, Mark made his way after the soil
tary figure, keeping well behind it.
1t soon became clear that the man,
although he looked like a tramp, had a
definite objective. Mark pursued him
/ toward Pennsylvania avenue, until he
/ discovered that he was nearing the
least desirable part of Washington,
! whose location, SO near the residence
Of the chief executive. has always been
the wonder and scandal of visitors.
i He was in one Of those streets that
start bravely in the city and debouch
into the low-lying land in that interme-
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much, Captain Wallace. I've sunk low,
but not to theft. Only didn't feel /
could stay"
Good Lord, man, is that all you
have come to tell me?''
well, you sce--therc was something
else, but" stammered Hartley.
"Out with it, Them
81 wanted to thank you for what
you did for me. and"
The man seemed to be trying to spin
out the interview for some indefinite
purpose. Mark turned on his heel.
His temper was not of the best just
then, and Hartley was the last man
in the world whom he wanted to see.
"All right" he answered. "Steer
clear of that woman--of Mrs. Henson,
Hartley. It's evident that she doesn't
reciprocate your feelings, or whatever
they are, and she seems to have some
dangerous friends about her."
He relented suddenly, and, going
forward, clapped the man on the Shout
der.
Il guess you've had your troubles,
Hartley" ne said. "But pull yourself
together, man."
The sheepish, unmanly mask
dropped from Hartley's face. He
caught Marks hand impulsively.
''Im a cur, Captain Wallacew he
cried. I'll"
'That's all right, Hartley. But, by
the way, who told you my name?"
captain Wallace, don't ask me that !!
Go back! Never mind me! Go back
into your office at once! cried Hart
ley.
Continued next week
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In this case there can be none, at least,
in the war department. And I've told
the Brigadier I'll answer with my place
for discovering where the leak lies"
He closed the safe and strobe off in
to Kellerman's room, to return with
Kellerman, looking angrier than be-
fore.
what are we going to do, Keller
MANI" he asked.
Kellerman pursed out his lips. "Well,
Colonel, you know as much about it as
any of u.s." he answered. There's al
ways been two of us present night and
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER MARK Wallace, a young
officer in the United States army, is
wounded at the battle of Santiago. While
wandering alone in the jungle he comes
across a dead man in a hut outside of
which little girl is playing. When he
is rescued. he takes the girl to the hospi-
tai and announces his intention of adopt
ing her.
CHAPTER Hills commanding officer.
Major Howard, tells him that the dead
man was Hampton, a traitor who sold
tonal gang in Washington, and was de-
teeted by himself and Kellerman while
they were working in the same office
with him.. Howard pleads to be allowed
to send the child home to his wife and
they agree that she shall never know her
fathers shame.
CHAPTER III-Several years later Wal
lace visits Eleanor at a young ladies'
boarding school. She declares that when
she is eighteen she intends to marry Wal
lace.
CHAPTER IV-Years pass Wal
lace is stationed out West On the out
break of the European war Colonel How
ard secures him staff post i'll Washing
ton.
CHAPTER Vile finds Eleanor there,
the center of attraction, also kellerman,
In whom he diScerns an antagonist.
CHAPTER VI-For years a strange
man has haunted Eleanors footsteps,
following, but never accosting her. One
night Wallace sees the man and follows
him to a gambling house kept by Mrs. Ken
son. Here he is attacked by Kellerman.
but in the night Hartley disappears.
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Continued from last week
CHAPTER vi.

But Mark refused Colonel Towards
invitation to become his guest, and
avoided the house in Massachusetts
circle as much as he could with de-
cency. He was courageous enough to
analyze his reasons and he did not
conceal the result from himself.
He wanted Eleanor with all the pent-
up longing of the denied years in the
desert. His love was the strongest
passion that he had ever felt, and yet,
strangely for man of his years, it had
in it much more of the paternal ele-
nent than of the lover. All his life
he had been almost kinless, his only
sister was dead, he wanted EleanOr's
presence, Eleanor with him, to see
her every day, whether as wife or
daughter. Yet he was brave enough
to acknowledge that this love, selfless
in a measure, threatened to become
consuming passion # he did not hold
himself rigidly in check.
He, the middleaged captain, and
Eleanor, with her station, her. pros
possible dream, or one that would ruin
the girls life if, in some wild moment,
she made it truth.
He had his reward in cleaners in
creasing restraint, her quite visible in
dignation. They had fallen apart again,
after that single meeting. 1t was a
poor reward, but the sort that Mark
had received all his life from fortune.
But there were lonely nights when
life seemed unbearable, and he had to
exert all his will power to keep him.
self in check. Mark had rented lit
tie furnished apartment in the North
west section, off Pennsylvania avenue,
and he had found The desert more COM
panionable.
One night he felt at the end Of his
powers. That was after a grilling day
in the war office, one Of those days
that sometimes come in Washington
toward the middle of September, when
everything is as sticky as the asphalt
sidewalks.
1t had been day of evil portent be-
sides. Colonel Howard, who had
seemed of late to reflect Eleanor's
GOODNESS in some measure, had greeted
him with wry face when he came in.
'The DEVILS to pay, Mark" he said.
''Draw up your chair. There's leak
age in the department.
"What?" cried Mark.
"Things are getting known---for in
stance, our dealings with the shipping
people, They've found the exact num-
Der of ships we've requisitioned. You
know whom 7 mean by they"
Mark nodded. The cosmopolitan In
fiuences in Washington, whose ramifi-
cations extended to the ends Of the
earth, or, at least, across the Atlantic,
were busy in every drawing room eX-
tracing news, the tiniest and least re-
liable of which was not despised, since
many such single items make UP a CO.
herent story.
"The Brigadier's wild about it," con-
tinued the Colonel, pulling at his mus,
tache. "And it seems impossible to
detect how the leakage occurred. IT
must have been through the shipping
companies, of course; yet they couldn't
have pieced the thing together without
concerted action, which is out of the
question. Let's go through the pa
pers."
They opened the safe and went
through them one by one, but nothing
was missing.
Damn itr growled Colonel Howard
ssIve been through this before, Mark
YOU know that. In that case there
was traitor at work. We found him.
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house in the city Of Ladysmith, in said
county on the 9th day of November,
1918, at 10 o'clock a. IN.
Dated October Is, 1913.
BY Order of the Court
d. W. MALONEY,
County Judge.
T. NJ. Thomas, Atty.
First publication Oct Is. 1918 27-29)
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IN PROBATE

IN PROBATE
It appearing by the verified petition
of Monroe K. Sands, Of WATERFOWL.
South Dakota, among other things that
Robert j. Sands, of Ladysmith, in said
county, lately died intestate, leaving
prayed administration be granted, and
notice of herein thereof having been
waived by all parties interested and
administration having been granted
herein to Ida NJ Sands.
1t is Ordered, that the time within
which the creditors of said deceased
shall present their claims against such
estate for examination and allowance,
be and hereby is fixed and limited to
Four Months from the date hereof;
1t is Further Ordered, that all
claims and demands against said de-
ceased be received at the court rooms
Of said court on any day hereafter I'M
til the expiration of the said four
months and be examined and adjusted
at the regular term of said court APP
in said county, in the city of Lady
smith on the 4th day of March. 1919, at
The opening of court on that day, or as
soon thereafter as the matter can be
heard;
And it is Further Ordered, that no
tice hereof be given to all persons in
terested, by publication hereof for
three consecutive weeks in the Lady
smith News-Budget, a newspaper pub
lished in said county, the first publica-
ton to be made within fifteen days
from the date hereof.
Dated October -, 1918.
By the Court,
d. w. MALONEY,
J. W. Carow, Atty. Judge.
(First publication Oct. IS, 1918 27-29)
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Order for Hearing Petition for Admin
istration, and for Adjusting of Claims
State of Wisconsin, County Court
Rusk County:
In re Estate of Robert ]. Sands, De
ceased
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HOUSEHOLD Furniture, good as new
Inquire of MRS. ED. WALK, 312
Worden Ave- Its
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VIII buy railroad ties on Chicago
and Wisconsin divisions of the 500
Line, paying highest government price
Thompson Mercantile CO., Lady
smith, Wis 25-27
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FOR SALE-PIGS
FOR SALE-LIVE STOCK

GOOD BROOD MARE, years old, W.T..
125, and 2 colts one 2 yr DID, one
months old. Right price. M. d.
MOORHEAD, Route 1, Ladysmith.
Az miles S. e. of city, 2S-29*
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LADYSMITH BUSINESS DIRECTORY
LADYSMITH POSTOFFICE

Week Days
Lobby opens A. M.
Lobby closes p. M.
Registry, Money order window open
from s to p. m.
Stamp, General Delivery, Parcel
Post Window open from s A. M. to
Z L. M.
Sundays.
Lobby opens 8 A. M.
Lobby Closes Z 80. Mail distributed
in Lock Boxes.
Mail for all trains closes at 1870
p. M.
Mail Closes AS Follows
Trail; No. COL North, for Crane,
Weirgor, EXeland, Lexington. Meteor,
Stone Lake, Stanberry, TO- 10 A. M.
Train No. S5--West, II 40 A. M.
Train No. S4-East, 2:O5 p. M.
Train No. 902-South, 2:15 p. M.
Train No. Is, South; No. s, East;
No. T. West SIP. M.
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ROOMS FOR RENT

SLEEPING ROOMS for rent-E. A.
KIRVAN, 513 e, Second-st., second
house south of Scandinavian church.
26tf
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FOR SALE

200 ACRES Timber Stumpage; hem
lock, spruce, cedar, tamarack, pine
and hardwood. All solid timber Good
logging road to r. R.-HILL & SER
GENT
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Arrival of Mail Trains

RAILROAD TIME TABLE
South Bound, for Milwaukee and
Chicago
No. Is, Daily. ..... ;. ....9 :23 p. m.
No. 902. -. :. ;. ;. $50. 2 :45 p. m.
(To Owen only
North Bound, for Duluth and
Superior.
No. IL Daily. :. ...... 4 :36 a. IN.
No. 901 Daily. ~. :. :. :. 10 80 a. m.
Ito Superior only
West Bound for Minneapolis.
NO. Daily ........ % ~ n. IN.
No. So Daily Ex. s.. ;. ..12 :01 p. m.
East Bound for Prentice, Rhinelander
ard 500
No. s Daily. -. ;. ;. IL 10 p. m.
No. "a Daily Elk. S. -. 2:4O p. m.
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5 PURE-BRED SHORT-HORN Bulls.
ranging from months to year old.
O. B. WILLHITE, Ladysmith. Phone
302-717. 27-30
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SOCIETIES.

Il. r. F. f. Ladysmith Colony No. 4O2
Beavers Reserve Fund Fraternity
meets at l. O. O. f. Hall second and
fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month.
OTIS G. ADAMS, M. w. d.
A. J. Laidlaw, Sec. j. O. Sinclair, Treas.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-10-25
WRITE A LETTER
By Walt Mason

Write q letter to a soldier when you
haven't much to do; 1t will brace some
homesick fellow who is feeling pretty
blue. Oh, our boys are lion-hearted,
andthey'n whip their weightin snakes,
but they have their lonesome moments
when their hearts are full Of aches;
there are hours when they are longing
for the homes go far away and the girls
they left behind them, and the parents
old and gray; and aletter full Of sun-
shine makes their melancholy shrink
therefore, get your pen in action, with a
demjjohn ofink. Write a letter to a sold
Ter full of cheerfulness and joy; let the
sob stuff go to thunder-it wont help q
lonesome boy. Tell the soldier you are
betting he will make the Teuton fly tell
him all is hunkydory, and the goose Is
hanging high. Tell him all his friends
are banking on the big things he'll
achieve, let him know he's not forgotten
since he took his final leave. Write a
letter to q soldier ere you go to bed to-
night; some poor chap is tired of waiting
for the letter GU don'twrite. 1t willtake
you fifteen minutes such a letter to COM
pose, nd so~ldierwhen
he's billed to face the foes. Make it
bright and brave and breezy, full of
courage. smiles and snap, show the
confidence you're feeling in the outcome
Of the scrap and some soldier boy will
bless you as he takes his little gun and
prepares to shoot the gizard from a lewd
inn moral Hun.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-10-25
Report of the WOmens Committee
of the Fourth Liberty Loan

North Wildwood, Mrs. G. E. Riggin,
captain, SO, $50
Wildwood, first ward. Mrs. e. g.
Eldredge, captain, $l5,050.
Wild wood, second ward, Mrs. Albert
Austin, captain, $3.50.
Wild wood, third ward, Mrs. Carrie
Haughey, captain, So. ZOO.
Wildwood Crest, Mrs. Glenn L. Fol-
som, captain, $3.50.
Total number of bonds sold, $28, 200.
The committee OF the Council OF
Jewish Women brought in a total sub
scrlption of $3.50. OF that amount
Sc, $50 was subscribed by the council
members.
The ladies of all the committees de-
serve a great deal of credit for their
work, owing 10 the short time allotted
them, and with so much illness every
where, it was difficult to make a COM
plete house to house canvass.
The workers were all very diligent
and faithful and have my apprecia-
ton and thanks.
EMMA GROSS, Chairman,
FLORENCE E. CALDWELL,
Secretary.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-10-25
September Is, 1918.
ERNEST.

oODlO l4CIC IA ohO
This morning there was a large mail
came in, it was dated from August 9,
to IA, one dated II aud one Ia of Au-
gust, and one from the folio wing: God
dards, Aunt Lennie, Bailey's, Cousin
Dorothy and Billiards. Believe me it
was a very happy family around here
this morning; everyone was reading
letters, first one would read something
out loud and then another. Jokes,
poems, everything imaginable. Now
there is going to be a busy job for our
lieutenant censoringthe outgoing mail,
as there are a good number writing
letters this afternoon.
Your letter I received two or three
days ago told me you hoped I received
the box safe; now this one tells me
you sent it off by the came mail. l
thank you yer 30 much for it, and I
will be glad to receive it too, for 1 sure
ly do love candy. But there is things
l love better home, mother and father.
I am glad they allowed you to send
that much. 1t surely would have been
a surprise If you had been able to send
alI.that you wanted. 1 would not send
any more for L do not think the thing
Is going to last much longer, that is
my hope. Also the Y. M. G. A. is get
ting some, and once a great while the
canteen has some for US, so 1 will not
trouble you to send it, for they need
the room for food / think.
We can also get face soap and oil.
We are on the Alsace Sector, not
veryfar from Germany. and it will not
be long before we are on the battle
ground, unless peace comes mighty
soon.
am glad Evelyn is doing so good
and will be glad to see it Sure, / am
going to bring souvenirs back to all
can, but the thing I want to do first ID
bring myself back. +
That gypsy ~fortune-teller will never
| tell any more fortunes II I know any.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-10-25
SOLDIERS LETTERS
Two Letters From Ernest Smith,
Formerly of the Journal Office,
to his Parents In Wildwood.


Somewhere in France,
Sunday, Sept. Is, 1918.
Dear Mother and Father:
Here it is Sunday again, and nearly
time for our second trip up to finish.
When you receive this, more than like
ly we will be going back from our
third trip. L am glad you cannot be
where 1 am writing this letter, unless
it was under different circumstances
as it is in a big dugout, and it is big
too. There are n or two enemy aero
planes overhead being shot at by our
aircraft guns. Once in a while they
bring one down. The town where We
were last night was bombarded-see
part of our company was in n place
and the other part in another, then we
change about. This time we did not
get to the front line; it don't make US
mad no how.
Well, anyhow we were fixed away
nicely in our beds-chicken wire beds,
with bedsacks filed with straw. They
are fine, just like a feather bed, along
side of the ground or cement floor.
1t must have been midnight when we
heard wh-r-r-r-boom. 1t did not land
in the town, but not long after they
started to work in nearer aud about
quarter of two one hit 100 feet from our
billet. That was our warning to be
starting, and We did; as luck had it [
had put my shoes on not long before.
Out of bed I went, grabbed my gas
mask and run for all l was worth to the
nearest dugout in the town. | believe
[ run faster than ever. Well it kept
Up till daylight, wh-r-r-r-boom, wh-r-r
boom, wh-r-r-r-boom. There were
only two pauses for a short time.
Some of the fellows thought 1t was
over when the pause came and went
out, but on the next report they were
back or on their way fast. There was
some damage done. 1t was over at
daylight, as the guns had to get back
out of sight of our side. Things seem
to be livening up.
I hope that you do not worry over
me, as 1 will come through alright, If
possible; and all things are possible
with God.
When L finish this letter to you, 1
have one to write to Frida and then 1
am finished till I receive some. Cousin
Florence's letter was the only answer !
have received from all the ones l have
written, except yours and Frida's. Per-
haps they have been sunk. just SO l
hear from home and somewhere else,
I will not worry about the rest.
1t certainly is one lovely Sunday.
The clear days which are happening
Just now certainly are appreciated
alongside of the wet weather we have
been t~olerating. Best of all we are
still alive and able to do our bit.
Your ever loving sou,
ERNEST.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-10-25

thing about it, for I don't know Of the
Kaiser killing himself.
Thank Mrs. Boyer for what she sent
me, will you. No, 1 will not get sick
on the box. / will have to guard it,
so l Will have some. We are not in
either the 4th or 5th corps now, but
the 7th. We also have a real Colonel
and Brigadier General. Our major is
a fine fellow, Major Meade. The lieu
tenant of our platoon is best Of all.
Your ever loving son,
ERNEST.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-10-25
A E F.

Jonathan Hand, Esq, has removed
his law offices to the Coombs building,
Pacific avenue, adjoining the Marine
National Bank, where he will continue
the general practice of the law. at
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-10-25

l have a large quantity of well-rot-
ted Philadelphia manure, which l can
offer at $500 per ton, including de-
livery to any part of Five Mile Beach.
No orders accepted for less than a
ton, except from owners of properties
in my care.
Top soil at $500 per ton, and
gravel for cement work at same price
to any part of the islaud. No orders
taken for top soil or gravel in any
quantity less than two tons.
All above quotations will hold good
until Saturday, November a3d, in
elusive, after which date no orders Of
any kind will be taken-either for
labor, fertilizers or other material.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-10-25

The following letter is from Joseph
H. Bolton to his grandfather, George
]. tt wart, who is living in the Foster
cottage at Rio Grande bridge:
Somewhere in France,
Sept. Is, 1918.
DEAR GRANDFATHER:
L received your letter today and you
can't imagine how pleased 1 was to get
it, for 1 just came out from a big drive.
We lost quite a few men, but 1 did not
get a bit hurt. L have been very lucky,
for L have also been at the front a good
many times and over the top four times.
Do you read the papers much and do
you read about the 9th Inf? We are
doing great work over h~ere--have not
lost a battle yet. Well, [ guess we will
be coming home pretty soon, at least
/ hope so any way. Tell tho people at
Wild wood where you are staying, 1
send my best regards to them all, for l
guess some of them know me. / re-
ceived a letter from Aunt Nellie and
she said that Uncle Bill is going to be
drafted. Well, we need men like him,
for some of us little soldiers have to
fight like the dickens, and a big man
like him would have it easier. From
your grandson Joe.
Company D, 9th Infantry,
A. e f.