Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-28
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

pdCiuo is again suffering lIOlu du
epidemic of bicycle thefts, the rate
being two a day.
Private Byron H. Comstock, of Port
age, was severely wounded with Unit
ed States marines at the French front.
In an opinion to District Attorney
G. ]. Smith, Viroqua, Attorney Gen.
eral Haven holds that fish peddlers are
required to obtain licenses.
The thirty-fourth annual Old Set
tiers day at Palmyra was turned into
a patriotic demonstration and every
cent spent by the 10000 visitors went
to the Red Cross.
American soldiers, returned from
France, will be engaged by the State
Council of Defense, if possible, to give
addresses on the war at the county
fairs of Wisconsin this fall.
The fourth annual state convention
of the Wisconsin Association of Mas
seurs and Masseuses will be held in
the assembly chamber of the capitol
at Madison, June 20 and 80.
uc tOWA VI Mt. L lCttoduI Will SUI
the city of Racine for 1000 alleged
to have been paid through error by
the Horlick Matted Milk Co. as income
tax for 1914. The company has prop
erty in both localities.
Anthony Simmons, mentioned in
war dispatches for bravery, is thought
to be Wausau boy. He left Wausau
thirteen years ago. He was home on
a furlOugh last Christmas and was
then stationed at Camp Funston.
Mrs. M. G.. Jeffris, wife of Malcolm
Jeffris, we'll known Wisconsin lawyer,
died suddenly at her home in James
Vile She was well known throughout
the state as active in wOmen's club
and war work.
Myron MacLaren, Milwaukee, Joined
the growing army of 81 year war
workers when he assumed the office
management of the state draft admin
istration in the capital under Maj. E.
A. Fitzpatrick.
Richland, Crawford and Green coun-
ties have been found by state and fed
eral authorities to be free from bar
berry that causes rust in grain.
Eradication of the weed is being push
ed vigorously all over the state.
julius Mayer of Sherman, Clark
county, accused by the state fire mar
shaPs department of having killed his
wife and set fire to his house on last
Thanksgiving night, was found guilty
by jury at Black River Falls.
Treasurer Schilder of the Sheboygan
County War Chest committee reports
as an estimate that the city of She
boygan has already pledged more than
100000 for the War Chest, which ex-
ceeds its allotment by $4,000.
The state railroad commission has
received application from the Eastern
Wisconsin Electric company for the
privilege of increasing it's fares on the
interurban systems operated between
Fond du Lac, Oshkosh and Neenah,
and Oshkosh and Omro.
Six more Kenosha County saloons
went into the discard when SherlH
Hermann issued an order preventing
the opening of any saloons within hve
miles of Camp Herring at Kenosha.
following federal order. The saloons
affected were in Pleasant Prairie and
Somers, which recently voted wet.
Because most of it's members have
gone to war the Baraca club, Madison,
has closed it's doors. The club had
membership of about fOrty-nine, and
practically every one is in the service
of the country. The organization was
formed two and half years ago to
provide a home and social center for
boys.
After thrilling his friends at La
Crosse for several months with his
stories of experiences" in the trench
es of France and after having claimed
he was a lieutenant, Fred. j. Bartheld
has admitted that he was only pri-
yate and has retracted all he said dur
ing war stories. He made the retrac-
ton at the request of the war depart
ment.
Upon complaint of J. H. MCGOWAN,
county food administrator, Herman
Moede. of Luxembourg, has been charg-
ed with violating the food regulation
forbidding the boarding of flour. Mr.
Moede was ordered to pay $50 to the
Luxembourg Red Cross chapter, and di-
rected to take the surplus amount OF
flour back to the Luxembourg Milling
company.
A total of 873 degrees and diplomas
of graduation were conferred upon
members of the graduating class at
commencement at the University OF
Wisconsin. With 179 graduated since
last commencement, the total for the
year is 1852. War diplomas were
conferred on 254 men who have left
to enter war service since fall. OF
these, 2OS received their diplomas now,
and forty-six received diplomas dur
ing the year.
Twelve large boats for the emer-
gency fleet corporation are to be built
at Green Bay within a year by the
Northwest Engineering works. The
company will construct $4,000 ad-
dition to the plant. Four ships may
he built simultaneously.