Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-08-09
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

AlSOIua SINCE 1900, Is Uodu.
M. P. Mccullough of Wausau was
elected general chairman of the war
industries board of District No. 2, Wis
consin, comprising Marathon, lincoln.
Langlade and Shawano counties.
The Rev. George Shepherd of West
field has accepted call from the Hor-
icon Presbyterian church. The former
pastor, the Rev. M B. MacNeil, has
gone to Upper Lage, N. Y.
Considerable damage to crops near
Neenah was done by the recent terrific
wind and transforms. In many places
the grain was laid low by the storms.
lightning played havoc in many places.
Hans Christensen, farmer of Franks
vile, Racine county, tried to cross a
track ahead of train. The engine of
his automobile died on the track. He
Jumped to safety. The machine was de-
mOlished.
DR.. Neil Andrews of Oshkosh has
received a commission as captain in
the medical corps of the United States
army. He is the eighth Oshkosh ply
stefan to volunteer and will go as
specialist in heart and blood diseases.
Prof. G. N. Wilson, head of the COM
mercial department of the Sheboygan
high school for the last four years, has
resigned to become assistant secretary
and auditor of the state board of con-
troll at Madison.
Herbert Glawson, Is years old, and
Kenneth Lynch, 10 years old, both of
BelOit, are under arrest charged with
a series of burglaries. They are al
legged to have caused damage of $500
to machinery and food at flour mill.
Keke Majarus, 5-year-old daughter
of James Majarus, Sheboygan, Greek
saloOnkeeper, lost her left eye when
a boy playmate shot an arrow which
pierced her eye ball. An immediate re-
moval of the organ was necessary.
Neenah and Menasha auto dealers
report a great number of sales of ma
chimes of late. The proposed 10 per
cent tax, which will be levied by the
government soon, is said to be respon-
sible for the stimulated business.
The NOBLE Typewriter company of
Oshkosh. new industry, is now en-
gagged in manufacturing the first unit
of thirty machines and expects to
make from ten to twenty-five machines
a day by the middle of September.
For violations of meat regulations
&c
consin food administration asked
Chas. w. Garrick, the manager of the
KAPPA tea room in Green Bay to pay
$40 to the Red Cross, John J. Flaherty
of Green Bay, SIS, and J. F. Aron, also
of Green Bay. $40.
The $4,000 penalty imposed upon
the Horlick Matted Milk company of
Racine by State Food Administrator
for violating regulations covering the
use of wheat flour, has been upheld
by the national food administration.
The Horlick company will not be per-
mitted to pay the penalty in cash, but
must turn over to the army $500 cases
of one pound bottles of matted milk to
cover the amount.
"Unscrupulous persons who try to
defraud the public under food admin
istratiOn guise must be subject to i'm
prisonment," said A. H. Melville, ex-
ecutive secretary to the Wisconsin
food administration, on hearing of the
arrest of Charles E. Meyers and James
A. Alvin, who were imprisoned for six
months and fined 500 each for repre-
senting themselves as food agents in
Pennsylvania.
Timothy Brennan, Fond du Lac,
democratic leader and late candidate
for appointment for postmaster Of
Fond du Lac, died following an illness
of a few hours. Mr.. Brennan was the
son OF Timothy and Mary Brennan,
pioneers of the town of Lamartine.
He was triplet-two boys and girl
having been born. The sister died in
infancy. The triplet brother, John B.
Brennan, resides at Superior.
Five years of litigation over set
of books came to an end at La Crosse
when Judge Higbee of the circuit court
ruled that Bernhard F, Keller, state
deputy for the Modern Woodmen of
America and leading Mason of the
state, did not have to pay the Inter
state Finance corporation which sued
him. The court held that the company
did not make the proper delivery at
the house as they represented they
would do.
Hotels, clubs and restaurants are
requested to discontinue to serve
broiler turkeys weighing from two to
four pounds because during the pres
ent meat shortage, it is considered
wasteful to slaughter them. The Wis
consin food administration appeals
to dealers to refrain from purchasing
these immature birds which are only
25 per cent of the weight of the full
fledged ones, and encourages produc-
ers to allow them to mature in order
to increase our meat supply.
Co. B, Wisconsin state guards, eX.
poets to land the Chase trophy for be-