Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-09-27

TO Camp Grant.
j John L. Sell, Wausau, and Andrew
Kaiser, Stratford, have been elected
members of the Democratic congress
sional committee.
La Crosse city firemen have, been
organized and will be affiliated with
the Trades and Labor council of the
state Federation of Labor
The state board Of control has con-
demned the La Crosse city jail. Steps
to build joint city and county jail to
cost 100000 have been taken.
Lieut.. Byron Bell and Lieut.. Mel
VanderWalker, both Of Neenah, are
home from France and will be assign
ed to instruction work in the United
States environments.
1 Mrs. Romance Bum, Madison, "a,
widow Of Judge Bum, for many years
! on the bench of the federal court for
/ the western district Of Wisconsin,
dropped dead of heart disease.
The Rev. J. w. Laughlin, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church, Osh-
kosh, was elected moderator for next
year at the sessions of the Winnebago
Presbyteriy, held at Appleton.
An explosion of gasoline in the Col
umbus Steam Dye works caused fire
which for a time threatened Column
/ bus with destruction. The financial
4 loss will not be large. Charles Kohlin
was injured
More land is being fall-ploWed in
! Wisconsin this season than ever be-
fore. This is particularly true on the
clay and heavy loan soils where fall
| blowing has increased the yields sew
eral bushels an acre.
Mrs. Randolph o. Grassold, Chill
ton, has received word from Washing
| ton that her husband, Lieut.. Randolph
Grassold of Company c, 127th Infan-
try, died of wounds received in action.
He was a son of former Mayor Joseph
| Grassold.
| In an effort to keep 1000 brewery
workers of La Crosse in home jobs
after the breweries close Dec. l, an
| industrial welfare committee will be
appointed by Mayor A. A. Bentley, to
cooperate with the federal employ
ment bureau.
Six persons were summoned before
the Marinette county war board to
answer charges of disloyalty and fail
ure to purchase bonds and war
stamps. All gave satisfactory expla-
nations, it was reported, except Mrs.
Fred Lepinsky of Grover, wife of a
| farmer
Joseph Gagnon, who makes his
home with his daughter, Mrs. Walter
Johannes, Two Rivers, returned from
St. Paul, where he visited his brother,
whom he had not seen for siXtysix
years. Mr.. Cagnon is "a and his
brother 80. Both fought on the side
of the Union during the Civil war.
Although more than 100 sorghum
mills will be running in Wisconsin,
these factories may not be able to han
die all Of the cane this fall. The fields
occur from the southern part of the
state as far north as Polk county
many farmers growing the crop for
the first time and others renewing
their acquaintance with it.
Gov. Philip received a telegram
from Provost Marshal General Crow
der saying that Wisconsin was the
first state to make report under the
registration Sept. r. The District of
Columbia made the first report, but
Wisconsin was the first state. Under
the first registration in 1917 Wiscon-
sin was also the first state to render
its report.
Herman Heller, alleged enemy
alien registration evader, who was
being held in the Appleton police sta
ton awaiting the arrival of a United
States deputy marshal from Milwau-
kee, committed suicide in his cell by
hanging himself with rope. Upon
investigation of Heller's effects at his
room, nothing was found to attach
him with the German government.
John e. Mahoney, a Kenosha man
serving with the 10th military police
on the western front in a letter to
relatives declares tIdL German WOm-
en-, wearing the regular uniform of
the army, have been taken prisoners
by the American sunits. He declares
that the women had trimmed their
hair short and that when captured
they were fighting in the regular lines
with the men.
Options have been obtained on
about 100 farms, embracing 20o0. acres
north Of Racine, by man claiming to
be a government agent, the surface
to be used as an aviation field, accord
ing to a report. The tract extends
from the Northwestern railroad
tracks to Lake Michigan and lies be-
tween the four and one-half and
seven mile roads. The large farms
were optioned at $500 an acre and the
smaller ones at $500 an acre.
By vote of Sc to 5 the Wausau
Rotary club instructed Secretary
George w. Philips to petition the Wau-
sau board of education to reconsider
it's action of denying the petition for
thn S11Span sion of tho fnachinp of