Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
"a, Around the Badger State


Conductors and motor men on the
Eastern Wisconsin Electric company's
lines in Sheboygan have been granted
a wage raise of one cent an hour.
:, Rack county's war chest drive rails.
ed S165,000 to pay allotments for Red
Cross, Knights of Columbus, Young
Mems Christian association, and 9th.
er patriotic activities. ta.es
Winnebago County Beekeepers' as.
ISOLATION, formed to increase the pro-
duction of honey, has William Nelson
of the town of Omro for its first vice.
president H. E. Greenwood, Oshkosh.
was elected secretary-treasurer.
Heirs-at-law of the late Mrs. Johan.
ma Booker, ShebOygan, will share half
the $4,000 estate, instead of re-.
eciving only SIS each, and Mrs. Sell
ma Mueller, an adopted daughter, will
receive but half, according to the SUI
preme courts decision.
Official notification of the death of
Edward Gerl, Manitowoc,' in the sink
ing of the steamer Moldavia in the
English channel; has been received
by his parents. Gerl was former rail
way mail clerk and left, Manitowoc
with the contingent in October.
Reports on file at the state board of
control show that 374 Wisconsin boys
have been returned from environments
because they were affected with tu-
berculosis.1 The record also shows
that $50 additional have been returned
to date because mentally defective.
Wisconsin knights of Pythias are to
bold their annual convention at She
boygan ON June IL, 10 and 10, instead
of Eau Claire, the change having been
made because of temporarily limited
hotel accommodations in the latter
city.
g. silver jubilee. zeelebration, com.
memorating the twenty -ffth anniver.
sary of the ordination to the priest
hood of. the Rev. =. B. Hauck, pastor
Of st. Mary's Catholic church, Wau.
sau, was given on Memorial day IN
der the auspices, of the pupils of ST.
Mary's school Thirty-fve visiting
priests were present.
/ Grace Lusk, Waukesha, is guilty of
rnurder i'm the second degree. This
is the verdict, after four hours DELHI
GRAFTON, of the twelve men who have
sat on the judgment seat before her
for two weeks during her heart-grip
ping trial for the Staying of Mrs: Mary
Newman Roberts, wife of DR.. David
Roberts, former state veterinarian.
The Sheboygan common council
adopted formal protest against pass
age by congress of the Randall lamend-
1rient to the food stimulation bill. The
resolution was introduced by Alder
man William Brockman, a saloon
Keeper. The amendment seeks to pro
hibit use of foodstuffs and fruit in the
manufacture of beverages. ...,'
E Sixty men,, class i registrants yet
to be called to war service, began
training at Oshkosh to operate army
motor trucks. A number of local
concerns donated use of their heavy
trucks for practice. Other classes for
registrants at the Beach school are in
electricity, stenography and type
writing. carpentry and radio work.
At massmeeting in West Algoma,
called to. discuss the Punchoqua school
problem, action was taken to show
that the patrons of the school want a
larger building than originally pro
posed. favOring an eleven room struc-
ture.. The council has been standing
out for smaller school than the ma.
jority of the school board recommend,
ed
RI Aggressive patriotism of North
American Indians was responsible for
a. Liberty Loan record, which may
not be surpassed in the United States
1T was officially announced that Odan-
ah, an Indian reservation village in
Ashland county, subscribed thirty-fiye
times its quota The quota was $4,000
and the total subscription was $780,.
900.
Conservation Warden Graves has a
crew of men at work in the Bibon
swamp near Drummond, Bayfield, coun.
ty, blowing out the beaver dams in
that vicinity. The beavers are pro-
tected until 1920, and during the past
few years have multiplied, in great
numbers and especially in the Bibon
swamp, where their great dams have
backed up the water to such an extent
that in places it is flooding the county
highway and a part of the timber pre-.
serve of the Rust.Owen Lumber com.
pany.
II The industrial commission in a Ia
Bile shows the number of industrial &C.
cidents i'll the state during the past
three years. About 40,9SO cases were
reported, SIT of which resulted in
deaths. The total working time loss
because of the accidents is 1851, 1888
days or between $12,OOO,O0O and $15,.
100000 in wages. Only 10 per cent of
the accidents were caused by ma.
chimes and a larger number of acct.
dents by handling objects. Other
causes were from falls, falling objects,
hot substances, cranes, derricks and
hoists.
II An increase of ten per cent in wages