Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-02-08
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

MenasEa, in 1855, and has lived here
all her life.
L. l.. Olds, Hurley, is under arrest
on charge of impersonating federal
officer. He will be taken to Madison
for trial
Because he expects to be drafted
soon, Ernest Rhoades, Neenah, has
sold his clothing store and now stands
ready to serve with the national army
Sparta and Camp Robinson, the mil
itary cantonment, claim to being the
coolest spots in America on Feb. l..
The mercury registered AZ degrees be-
low zero.
A service flag, bearing 120 stars is
displayed by the Kimberly Clark com
pany, Neenah. 1t is estimated that
over a hundred more OF it's employees
will be taken on the next draft.
William Chrouser of FenwOod plead
ed guilty to saying: "The damn Red
Cross, l wouldn't give five cents" and
other unprintable things, and was
fined and paid costs amounting of $44.
A proclamation calling for a special
election to determine whether James
vile shall continue the present COM
mission form of government or return
to the old council form has been issued
by Mayor Fathers.
Five Green Bay officers, Lieuts. Ray
mond Hefferman, John V. Diener, Ed
mond Arvey, Donald Vaughan and
Clarence f. Hatch, have arrived in
France, according to cablegrams re-
ceived by relatives.
Ed. Prichard, Maiden Rock, IS years
old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Prich-
ard, probably will lose his right arm,
as a result of having it drawn into the
machinery of his fathers mill, which
he was repairing.
T. H. Melville of Madison was chos-
en- as Wisconsin director of the public
service reserve, the recruiting branch
which will eudeavor to mobilize and
distribute az industrial army of 3,000,.
600 men for war service.
William Quinn, a Neenah high
school boy in the wireless service, has
landed safely at an Atlantic port after
a trip to South America. Young Quinn
also has a brother, Cornelius Quinn,
who is in the wireless service.
Unless new cases of scarlet fever
are discovered in the meantime, the
quarantine on the State Boys Indus
trial school at Waukesha will be lift
ed on Feb. 10, Chairman James o.
Davidson of the state board of control
has announced.
Clifford Horner and Julius F. Due
sic, OF, MenOmOnie, who confessed they
held up and robbed the Knapp State
bank, on Jan. 3, have been sentenced
to fifteen years in the penitentiary by
Judge George Thompson. This is the
maximum penalty.
Tn advet of cold weather, bringing
closer confinement, bad ventilation
and more pneumonia, influenza, ETC.,
raised the states death rate slightly
in the last quarter of 1917. Deaths
from pneumonia we're nearly double
those OF the thlrd quarter.
The First Congregational church at
Eau Claire, a $4,000 edifice. was de
stroyed by fire. 1t is supposed the fire
started from an overheated furnace.
The Community house adjoining, a
$4,000 memorial to the late Mrs. O.
H. Ingram, was barely saved.
Benedict e. Anderson, who regis
tered at Racine, was arrested at Be
lott, as a deserter, having failed, it is
claimed, to respond to the call in the
draft He was turned over to the COM
mander of Camp Grant. Anderson
says he did not mean to avoid the law.
One of the lightest votes ever polled
at Menasha characterized the special
primary in which p. V. Lawson and
Thomas Grimes opposed each other
forselection to the assembly to fill the
unexpired term of William Armenian.
Lawson led with $50 TO 1877 for
Grimes.
The Wisconsin railroad commission
is chipping in with commissions OF
OJnef states 10 Keep du eApeIC III
Washington" The Badger commits
sion has asked Acknowledgement HaV
en- for ruling of its authority to con-
tribute $500 year to the general fund
for the expert salary and expenses.
Gov Phillip appointed w. K. COT
fin of Eau Claire a member of the
state board of normal school regents
for a term ending on the first Mon
day in February, 1928. Mr. Coffin sue.
ceeds Emet Koran. The position car
ries no compensation other than ex-
pense allowance
After thirty-three years at the head
of St John Lutheran school, Two
Rivers, Prof. Bernard ]. Wetzel tend
cred his resignation. Prof. Wetzel
came from Watertown, Wis, his home
city, Immediately after his graduation
from the Wauwatosa Lutheran semi.
nary and the Capitol university, Co.
lu1nbus, o. With his son he will en-.
gage in the mercantile business in
Milwaukee.
Mrs. Eli Defeut, Neenah, Sc years
old, wife of a wood and coal dealer,
dropped dead from apoplexy while on