Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-02-15

candidacy for mayor of Kenosha Mr..
| Joachim has been member OF the
common council for five years.
Maurice Barnett, Neenah, of the
marine corps has landed safely in
| France, according to word received by
his parents.
| Lieut.. John W. Smith, who has been
corps at Fort Riley, has been trans
| ferred to the Milwaukee base hospital
No. 2.
A military funeral was held for
Lieut.. Harold Stecker, Neenah. who
| died from the effects of an operation
for appendicitis at Camp Macarthur,
| Waco, Tex.
| Sergt Gerald j. Picard, border we're
ran and a member of Company l, of
Neenah, is in the hospital at FIT.
Bayard, New Mexico, suffering from
lung trouble.
| Out of one hundred draft men in
class 1, called for examination before
| the Neenah local board, two failed to
put in an appearance and their names
| have been given to the police.
The Hussa brewery at Bangor, was
| closed by County Fuel Administrator
D. w, Melville for alleged violation
of the Monday closing order issued
by Fuel Administrator Garfield.
Policemen and fremen are coming
| higher The commission has recon-
mended that the salary of Chief
| Watts, Neenah, be raised to 500 per
month and each fireman receive SIS
more.
Kicked in the stomach while play
| ing basketball at Waupun, Bolton Hal
versen of Stoughton, freshman at
Ripon college, was removed to Ripon,
where his condition is reported seri-
Gus.
Sheriff Henry Ireland, Madison,
| posted an offer of $500 reward for the
arrest of the slayer of Patrolman
Grant Dorsch, who was fatally wound
ed in pistol duel with store rob-
bers.
r. S. King, Chippewa Falls, is honor
man on the records of the United
States shipping board in the drive to
recruit 100000 men for the work of
building the ships necessary to defeat
the Germans.
The ice harvest has been practically
finished at Neenah, work of filling the
large houses being completed, accord
ing to ice magnates. Neenah is the
| center of distribution for the Fox
River valley.
While patriotic rally was held in
| the Ripon high school building, the
| film Rally Round the Flag" caught
| fire. The children marched out of the
building in an orderly manner. No
one was injured.
| Meat prices in Wisconsin have more
than doubled in two years, according
to figures compiled by the state board
of control, which has charge of pur-
chases for all state penal ard charit-
able institutions.
Because so many Appleton Y M. C.
A. officials are leaving for government
service in the immediate future it will
probably be necessary to have volun-
teer work by the boys department at
the desk positions.
GAINESVILLE fire alarm boxes have
been rendered practically useless
by the recent cold weather The
parts have been affected to the ex-
tent that the alarms sent in are not
a11Hih1o To "a frpr,oQ7o
Probably the most numerously at
tended funeral in the history of Mon
roe county was that of E. Leslie Nc
Mutt, Co. K, the first man from TOmah
to give up his life in the war He
died in Texas on Jan. q.
In an official canvass of the votes
cast at the special primary held in
the Second district of Winnebago
county, P. V. Lawson of this city,
| was given a plurality of 10 votes over
his opponent, Thomas Grimes.
After starting on cross-continental
| journey when they hear that their son,
Lieut.. Harold Stecker, was seriously
| i'll, Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Stecker, of
Neenah, lost the race with death
Word that their son had passed away
intercepted them at ST. Louis and they
returned home.
In the amount of cement highway
work which it is planning to carry
on this year, Outagamie county ranks
second only to Milwaukee in the state.
Phe county has asked that 62,400
barrels be provided in various points
in the county to be used in construct
ing permanent concrete highways.
An order was received by Maj. E.
A. Fitzpatrick from Provost Marshall
General Crowder advising that the
physical examination of class 1 men
proceed. The telegram indicated that
there was immediate use for some of
the men and that no further wait will
be occasioned.
ID. L. Kelly has been nominated as
the Republican candidate in the Mani
towOc district for the assembly, ac-
cording to reports of primaries held
there. Walter Whitman was nominal
ed as the Democratic candidate. This
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