Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-05-10
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State


ducking for eight freshmen in Lake
Mendoza. Several others were put
through mild forms of hazing.
T. H. Fielding, Washburn county
food administrator, member OF the
County Council of Defense and prom
inent banker and merchant, died sud-
denly at his home in Spooner of heart
failure.
: Rheinold FRANKIE, of Sheboygan, lost
his life when the American steamer
Lakemoor was torpedOed and sunk
April IL, according to reports recelv-
ed by his father, Richard FRANKIE,
from the navy department.
Pursuant to orders from Director OF
Railroads McAdoo, strong guards were
placed at all of the bridges on the
transcontinental railroads which cross
the Mississippi and the Black rivers
at La Crosse.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
big barn, thirty-two head of valuable
dairy cattle, six horses, machinery ana
other property on the farm OF Ole Tor
gerson, fourteen miles south of Eau
Claire. The total loss is $4,000.
Coal users of La Crosse were saved
from So to 81 ton for coal when the
Chamber of Commerce succeeded IN
having La Crosse continued in dis
trict which makes it possible to OBJ
tain fuel from the Illinois fields.
When Roy Smith, school teacher
near Brentwood, received word to re-
port for military duty, he and Miss
Ruby Dakins, also a teacher, were
married. Smiths wife will complete
his term of school.
Manitowoc brewers have increased
the price of beer 81 key, and 1Oc
per case The retail liquor dealers, 1t
is said, will increase the price OF the
beverage to cents glass or cut
down the size of the cent glass.
James B. Borden, assistant state
superintendent of schools and recent
ly named assistant dean of the Uni
versity College of Agriculture was
elected secretary of the State Coun-
Gil of Defense at a special meeting.
Beginning May 1 the eight-hour
work day with ten hours pay went
into effect in the meat packing houses
of Milwaukee and Cudahy. About 81
900 workers will be benefited by this
arrangement.
Gen Charles King, U. S. A, will
come to GAINESVILLE on May IL or 20 to
inspect the Sixteenth Separate COM
pany. Wisconsin state guard. This
will be the first Inspection of the To-
cal company since it was organized
several months ago.
When arraigned on the charge OF
stealing jewelry valued at from $4,000
to $4,000, Robert Reed of Racine,
waived examination. Most of the jew
elry was recovered. 1t was taken
from the residence of Harry M. Wal
lis, president of the Case Pillow works.
DR.. Elizabeth A. Woods, supervisor
of subnormal and exceptional classes
in Wisconsin, told the Racine Rotary
club there are 10000 subnormal chill
dren in Wisconsin, and urged the en-
actment of laws by the state legisla-
ture to provide for their care.
Announcement was made by Fair
banks, Morse & Co., that every
employee who continues with the COM
pany for year will receive bonus
of 10 per cent of his wages in quar-
terly payments. The bonus does not
apply to those whose salaries exceed
$2,10O per year.
Banking Commissioner A. E. Kuolt
has refused to grant charters to sew
eral new state banks recently where
banks are already established in the
district on the ground that if the peo-
pie have any excess money at this
time of war it should be invested in
government securities and not in bank
stocks.
Under the May draft call announced
by Provost Marshall Crowder of Wash
ington, Wisconsin will furnish approx
imately 10000 men, according to Adjt.-
Gen Orlando Holway. Gen. Holway
also announced that the counties will
furnish their respective quotas based
on population and not upon the num-
Der of men in Glass 1.
The state council of defense is MAX
ing every effort to solve the problem
of marketing the surplus of the 1917
potato crop. Marketing agents have
been sent to potato shipping centers,
to help producers find ready market.
p. c. Eldredge of Milwaukee, a mem
Der of the council, reports no car short
age, and there should be no scarcity
of potatoes anywhere.
The Wisconsin railroad commission
has requested DR.. HI. A. Garfield, fed
eral fuel administrator, to conduct a
thorough examination into the cost of
handling coal on the docks. The COM
mission has been forced to grant many
utility companies permission to in
crease their rates on account of the
increased cost of coal. The commits
sion acted at the suggestion of the
Wisconsin public utility operators.
The 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Fischer, Manitowoc, was
scalded to death when he fell into a
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