Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-08-09

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and cents per pint.
Ground for a new English Lutheran
church at Horizon has been broken
and it's building is to be rushed.
The Oregon Equity society of the
village of Oregon, Dane county, has
filed articles of Incorporation. The
capital is $4,000.
The celebration of the birthday Of
Queen Mary of Belgium was held in
Green Bay, July 81, and netted about
$4,000 for the relief of Belgium babies.
Because leaders believed the Slough
ton community fair, planned for fall,
would interfere with the next Liberty
loan drive, the move has been dropped.
Neenah has been selected as lOca-
bureau to have jurisdiction over all
territory between Oshkosh and Apple
ton
Idrys Howell, nephew of Mr.. and
Mrs t. D. Howell, Racine, and for
merly teacher in the high school
there, is now on the Italian battle
front.
Miss Katherine Shields, Racine, rec
reation director of the Central associa-
ton, is to leave for France soon to en-
ter the service of the Red Cross as aid
to nurses.
Gustavus Milling company of Osh-
kosh is invited to contribute $1,000 to
the Red Cross for prOfiteering on bran
and grinding excess amounts Of wheat
for farmers.
Gerald Koch, son of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
j. Koch, Appleton, has been selected
for special duty in France because OF
his wide knowledge of machine guns
and small arms.
Ernst Jaeger broke Jail at Port
Washington by saving through an iron
window bar, making a forty-foot rope
out of his bedding which he tied to the
cell bars, and sliding down.
John A. Kittell, fuel administrator
for Brown county, announced the ap-
pointment of Henry A. Foeller and
Max H. Schober, architects, as con-
sulting engineers of the fuel admins
tratiOn.
One woman and four men were ar
rested at La Crosse charged with pro-
viding Liquor for officers and other
soldiers from Camp Robinson, near
Sparta. They will be tried in fedearl
court.
The Rev. A. c. Skoogard, newly or
dained pastor of the Danish Lutheran
church in Marinette and Menominee,
has received a call from Camp Dodge,
Des Moines, Ia, where he will be camp
chaplain.
Ninety thousand dollars worth of
wool was shipped from Portage by the
T. H. Cochrane company for use by the
government. The wool shipment took
six cars. The average price was 60
cents a pound.
William A. Opel of Madison, has
been asking excessive prices for corn
-four, canned corn and eggs. Magnus
Swenson, Food Administrator for
Wisconsin, asked him to pay SIS to
the Red Cross.
Dr. Geo. F. Hauser, As, La Crosse,
discoverer of a method of planting
teeth in the human jaw, now in use
in war hospitals in Europe, was found
dead in bed by his wife. He had been
ill since May 16 with rheumatism.
The Bonduel Feed and Light COM
pany of Bonduel, operating without a
license and grinding excessive
amounts of wheat for farmers, has
been ordered closed and to contribute
$500 to the Red Cross.
Loyalty is the paramount issue in
the best politics now" declared Sena-
tor Roy P. Wilcox of Eau Claire, Re-
publican candidate for the governor
ship of Wisconsin at an enthusiastic
meeting held at Waupaca.
At the biennial convention of the
Fraternal Reserve association at the
home Offices in Oshkosh, it was de-
cided to invest the balance of conven-
ton fund in the treasury in War Saw
ings stamps. 1t is expected about
$1,000 will be available.
The firemen's pension funds of paid
departments and the volunteer depart
ments of Wisconsin receive $154,677
this year as against $138,235 in 1917.
The fund is 2 per cent of the incomes
for fire insurance premiums in the
cities which have five departments,
and it has been growing each year.
The Sheboygan Mineral Works has
been found guilty of overrunning their
sugar allotment from January to July
1st to the amount of 1851 pounds.
The Enforcement Division of the Wis
consin Food Administration asked
them to give to the Red Cross the
sum of $13224 The plant is ordered
closed for such period as the future
allotment to this plant will equal the
overrun.
Lemonade at the county fairs this
fall will not be served. No sugar GER
tificates will he issued to churches.