Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-11-22
Badger State
Happenings

WI sfARHLl4Eft &sI GTGHsgj A9et III etE
whan his accidentally dropped q light,
I'D match Tito q can OF powder. One
side Of bis face Was badly burned and
i6r,i
Urville, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs
Dollar Castonquay, Amigo, was bern
on March Is, 1918, and died on the
thirteenth day of his illness at the
thirteenth hour after sunset G a. m.) !.
Burial was Nov. Is.
Gov. e. l.. Philip has approved the
suggestion Of the American Forestry.
association that public highways be
lined with trees in honor of soldiers.
The letter to the governor suggests
that this would be a fitting recognition.
Mrs. Anthony Kramer, Racine, 80
years old, was fatally burned and her
husband and Joe KreStler, boarder,
were seriously burned when she used
q can Of kerosene to start fire in
range.
Baby girls born in ST. Joseph's hos
pital, Menominee, while the city was
celeb. ating signing of the armistice,
were named Mary Victoria. One is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Augue and the ether daughter CT
Mr.. and Mrs. James LeClaire.
The Chicago, Milwaukee G. ST.
Paul railroad has decided to allow its
depot to remain at Neenah. When
the company proposed to discontinue
the station such storm OF protest
arose that the action was reconsid-
cred.
Three hundred men employed at the
mills of the Marinette and Menomlnee
Paper Co., went on strike after their
demand for a minimum wage of 80
cents was refused The men assert
they would have walked out some time
ago had it not been for the war;
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles D. Parker,
River Falls, received many messages
of generalization on their siXty-flfth
wedding anniversary, Nov 10. MI.
Parker was ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fol-
four years, a regent OF the university
and a member of the board OF control,
Secretary of War Baker telegraphed
Gov Philip saying that the signing
of an armistice in no way lessons the
responsibility of civil communities for
the protection of soldiers from bad
women and sale of liquor. He says he
is determined to return soldiers to
their homes uncOntaminated.
A Washington order received by
Maj.-Gen. Holway, Madison, lifts the
ban on fraternities. 1t rescinds the
previous order restricting all but bus.
mess meetings. Fraternities may now
pledge and initiate new members and
hold what meetings and parties they
please as long as they observe mill.
tary regulation.
After fifteen months army service,
Roland L., son of Assemblyman 0. F.
Vaughan, WauZeka, died of pneumo.
mia in France. He was the first volun.
teer from Crawford county and en-
listed May Is, 1917. He trained at
Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, on the field
where fifty-two years ago previously
his father had prepared for civil wal
service.
Officially reported died of wounds
are: Sergt. Charles Gislason, Wash.
ington Island; T. w. Ashlswede, Brus.
sells; Ole Olson, Sturgeon Bay, and
Walter Cunningham, Sturgeon Bay
This totals thirty-flve deaths from
volunteers in the old Co. F, which
trained at Sturgeon Bay, then at Camp
Douglas, and in Texas before going to
France.
Erection and operation by the state
of plant for the manufacture by
prison labor Of reapers and movers
will be proposed in bill which will
be presented to the Wisconsin legis.
lature, with the backing of the Ameri.
can Society of Equity. The plant is
that the initial cost shall be 100000.
Such a plant is now maintained by
Minnesota at Saltwater The bill will
be introduced by Assemblyman-elect
L. A. Pierron, Ozaukee county.
Instructions were received at Ra
cine from the Dupont Powder com
pany at Wilmington, Del, to not be.
gin the construction of new buildings
at the powder plant at Ives, north OF
Racine, where $500 men are en-
ployed. All buildings now under con
struction will be completed. None OF
the employees of the company, now in
Racine, appear to know what will be
done but believe that a factory will
be erected for the manufacture OF
some other product than powder.
Henry Clark, Is, Kenosha. who is
said to be the youngest soldier. in the
United States army has been invalid
ed home and is now in an army hos.
pital at Des Moines, Ia. Clark began
service in the infantry and finished
with the aviation corps. The plane in
which he was flying fell 2,10O feet
The youngest soldier was picked ur
with broken thumb, dislocatec
shoulder and hip and four ribs bro
ken. His spirit, however, was not i'm
paired. He is recovering and says he
will remain in the service.