Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-02-08

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ordance department and has left for
Washington.
An ordinary feed cutter, used in
chopping up all kinds of fodder, is do
ing service in the Green Bay Red
Cross workshop in cutting waste ma
terials for pillows.
Lieut. Harold Stecker, Col, Neenah,
died at Camp Macarthur, Waco, Tex,
following an operation for appended
tbs The remains were sent here for
burial.
Erwin Sachse, 10, Sheboygan, was
unanimously elected president of the
Commerce club of the University OF
Wisconsin Herbert Baker, 10, Zanes-
vile, O., was elected secretary.
DR.. H. L. Russell, dean of the col
lege of agriculture of the University
of Wisconsin, has been appointed an
aide to Food Administrator Hoover to
coordinate the production problems.
The Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance company has the right to issue
sickness and health policies, according
to an opinion from Attorney General
Spencer Haven to Insurance Commits
sioner NJ. J. Cleary.
The University of Wisconsin mill
tary department will offer a course in
military training TO students during
the summer session of 1913. The
course will be optional, and no uni
forms will be required.
Rev. Daniel Woodward of Omro, has
accepted the call to the Congregational
passionate at Oconomowoc, and took
up his duties there Feb 1. Rev. Mr..
Woodward was at one time warden
of the state penitentiary at Waupun.
Green Bay Retail grocers and butch
ers will inaugurate program for re-
stricting deliveries to two day to one
family, and requiring a settlement OF
accounts every fifteen days beginning
Feb. 1.
During the last Liberty loan drive
the teachers, students and janitOrs OF
the GAINESVILLE schools subscribed for
$29,750 worth of the bonds. The high
school led the list of schools with
total OF $12,550.
Prof. f. A. G. Cowper of the French
department at the University of Wis
consin, has been granted leave OF alb
sence to go to Camp Grant, ILL.,, to
take charge of the teaching of French
to officers in training there.
The district attorney has the names
OF suspected food ho-Tders in Winnie
bago county and he will begin a vigor-
Gus campaign against them. Severe
penalties will be inflicted wherever it
is found that rules have been violated.
DR.. William F. Whyte of Madison
was re-appointed by Gov. Philip as a
member of the state board of health.
DR.. Whyte is absent from the city,
having been commissioned first lieu
tenant in the Medical Officers Reserve
corps
In an effort to save fuel, Monroe
business men have agreed as a patri-
otto move to shorten business hours.
city attended a meeting at which it
was decided to conserve the supply OF
coal in this manner.
Herman A. Marth, of Wausau, is
Socialist candidate against sohn
Manser, Republican, for assemblyman
in the Marathon county district at the
special election called by Gov. Philip
for Feb II, to succeed D. S. Burnett,
now in army service.
The body of Peter BigelOW, Rhine
lander, SO years old, was found on the
floor of his room with his throat slash
ed with a razor BigeloW had been
suffering from nervous trouble. He
had Just returned from Milwaukee,
where be was receiving treatment.
Clarence Olson, Minneapolis, for
merly of Brentwood, Wis, fell down
an elevator shaft in Minneapolis,
breaking both knee caps, one in four
places, and fracturing his right wrist
His jaw was broken in two places. He
is well known throughout this section
of the state.
Between 1000 and 5000 drafted men
of the United States army will be sta
toned on the campus of the University
of Wisconsin this spring, according to
word received here from the war de-
partment. A barracks will be con-
structed on the campus for the men,
who will do special work in the uni
versity laboratories and experiment
stations.
A resident of Marengo, Saskatche-
wan, Canada, who is native of Sun
Prairie, Wis, faces draft into the Brit
ish army because the physician failed
to make legal record of his birth
He applied to the board of vital sta
tistics for a birth certificate. He can
not prove he is more than "a years old,
although he is 40, and the CONSUMPTION
law can force him into the army.
Gustave Sternberg, proprietor of
the Park Hotel, Wausau, is being held
on the charge of having "unlawfully
made false statements with intent to
interfere with the operations and sue