Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-02-22
| WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

lions Evangelical Lutheran church
| at Manawa will erect new $4,000
| building as soon as the weather will
| permit.
Fire swept over the village of Ban
| croft, destroying the post Office and
Ave business houses. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
| Michael Gaffney, IS years old, a
wealthy former of Racine county, com
| mitted suicide at his farm in the town
OF Dover, by shooting.
Rev. Howard E. Snyder, pastor of
| Luther Memorial chapel, Madison, has
left for Great Lakes, ILL.,, where he will
serve as jackie chaplain.
H. X. LOOMS, pioneer resident of
Wisconsin and for number of years
secretary of the Wisconsin Cheese
makers association, died at Sheboy-
gan.
Winnebago county roads are to be
| patroled this summer. Men are being
hired whose duty it shall be to tend
to thestate roads and keep them in
repair
Fishing off Sheboygan was resumed
after a tieup for four weeks. Nets
that were frozen in the ice and car
ried away by the ice foes, has resulted
in heavy loss to the fishermen.
Supt. c. w. Schwede, Grand Rapids,
| rendered his resignation to take effect
at the close of the school year. He will
pursue a course of study along spe-
| cial lines in psychology.
| John Mazzaro. 80 years DID, is being
held at Madison without bail for pre-
liminary examination on charge of
having murdered Policeman Grant
Bosch two weeks ago.
Because of the serious sugar short
Brentwood are planning to greatly in
crease the supply of both maple sugar
and maple syrup.
Gov. Philip paroled Thomas Krat-
ochvil of Chippewa Falls, from the
state prison. Kratochvil was convict
ed last October of forgery and was
sentenced to two years.
p " King, a Lafayette County far
mer, had his entire lower lip bitten off
| by a horse. MI King was shoyeling
snow in front of the animal when sud
denly it reached forward and nipped
| him.
| Probably the oldest resident OF Wis
consin, Mrs. B. Dryer, 107 years old,
died at her home in New London. She
was born in Queensland, Ireland, in
1911, and came to the United States
| in 1S43.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Noel of Port
Edwards received cablegram from
their son Frank, amounting his ar
rival in England He was rejected by
the United States and joined the Ca
madam forces as orderly.
The Wausau city hall was filled with
| workingmen at the Lincoln week pa
| triotic meeting held to boost the sale
! of Thrift stamps. Speakers talked on
patriotic topics. Manufacturing plants
presented employees with Thrift cards
and stamps.
Members of the Kenosha lodge of
Elks, unanimously voted to turn over
all dormitories of their new 100000
club for the use as barracks for
soldier officers stationed in Kenosha,
for the period of the war, and have
| notified United States officials to this
effect.
Exactly 399 members of the faculty
of the University of Wisconsin signed
the protest against those utterances
and actions of Senator Robert M. La
Toilette which have given aid and
comfort to Germany and her Allies in
the present war;" which was recently
circulated ON the campus. This num-
Der represents SO per cent of the facul-
ty members, of the rank of instructor
or above, who are in residence in Mad
ison at this time.
Permission was granted by the Wis
consin supreme court to G. M. Sheldon
of Tomahawk to begin an action to as
certain whether Gov. Philip can be
mandamused to call a special election
In the United States senatorial vacan-
cy. It was ordered that leave be
granted to Sheldon to commence and
prosecute an action of mandamus on
his own relation against the governor
and that the question be brought up
for argument before the court on
March s.
William Gessert, Shehoygan county
farmer, convicted in United States
court at Milwaukee of violation of the
espionage law, was sentenced to serve
five years in Fort Leavenworth prison
by Judge Alfred Anderson. Judge An
derson delivered singing arraign-
ment of all foreign born whose hearts
are not with this nation in the time of
war. Gessert was convicted on three
Of seven counts in the indictment-at.
tempting to obstruct the operation of
| the selective service law by advising
his son not to respond to the calls of
the Plymouth exemption board; actu.
ally accomplishing the action attempt
ed, and willfully obstructing the en-.
listment service.