Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-05-03
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

kllOWN CuSluS0I VI Tic NOI Iu-N CoIclu
road. died suddenly of apoplexy as his
train was nearing TOmah.
Departure of Company E, First Wis
consin National guard, for the war
with Spain twenty years ago, was eel
ebrated at Beloit by veterans of that
company on April 25.
Nick Gallo, Barron, who killed his
brother last fall, pleaded guilty to muir
der in the second degree before Judge
Ross at Superior, and was sentenced
to fifteen years at Waupun.
June 5 is the date set for the open
ing of the new Elks' clubhouse at
Manitowoc. At a meeting OF the Elks'
Club company reports showed that
$6S,696 has been spent on the new
building.
The Entering Wedge and the Pepin
County Courier, the two Durand CWls.)
papers have been consolidated. Both
the proprietors of the Pepin County
Courier, Bardell brothers, are going
into the army.
Chicago and North Western railway
employees of the Ashland division have
subscribed more than $140,95O to the
third Liberty loan. Of this amount
S118,050 was subscribed under the
North Westerns plan.
At a meeting of the Waukesha coun-
ty defense council, Chairman Howard
Green announced that $1,006,0O0 worth
Of bonds had been taken. The coun-
tvs quota is $1,O00,000. All but four
towns have gone over.
August, Fall Creek, and other north
ern Wisconsin villages which gave
Victor L. Berger, socialist candidate
at the recent election a substantial
vote, were among the first to Oversub-
scribe their Liberty bond quotas
The Parent-Teachers association of
the Washington school, one of those
in the public system at La Crosse,
passed a resolution calling for new
school building, the present structure
being a firetrap, so it was alleged.
The Beloit Liberty Loan committee
passed resolutions, demanding that
teaching of German in public schools
be abolished, a petition to that effect
being generally signed. German is
taught only in the BelOit High school.
y picture of Robert M. La Toilette
was cut from it's frame, where it hung
alongside the pictures of Washington
and Lincoln in the high school at
Genoa Junction, and was found pinned
to a telephone pole on the main square.
The yellow heart, which was painted
on tie picture, was pierced with
Knife.
The first Junior Volunteer company
Of WauSau has been organized with
boys under Il years of age as mem
bers. The purpose is to bring feel
ing of cooperation with the govern
ment, in every possible way; keep
UP home spirit, and to prepare the
boys for military duties in the future
if needed.
Members of the First District Wis
consin Federation of Women's clubs
in convention at Racine unanimously
adopted a resolution offered by Mrs.
A. B. West of Milton, pledging them
selves to eat no more wheat until
after the next harvest and to urge the
women OF their respective communi-
ties TO do the SAFE.
The first Great Lakes transport built
under government supervision for
service on the Atlantic ocean, was
launched at Sturgeon Bay before
huge crowd Miss Eleanor Wolter,
daughter of one of the builders of
the vessel, christened the transport
the Sturgeon Bay" The vessel is 261
feet long and has been in the process
OF construction for over nine months.
The Wisconsin committee of ma
which DR.. Rock Sleyster Waupun, is
secretary, sent out an appeal to physi-
cians for enlistments. Wisconsin al
rely has given Literally of her med
ical men. The state stands second in
tie ration in the number of physicians
eniBting in percentage to population.
Pennsylvania being the only state with
q better showing.
After heroic battle by firemen at
Eau Claire the Eau Claire house, one
of the city's two largest hotels, was
saved after $4,000 damage had been
done to it in a $175,000 fire. 1t was
the worst blaze in forty years The
fire originated N and completely de-
stroyed the Continental clothing store.
The origin of the fire is a mystery.
Guests i'll the Eau Claire house were
driven from their rooms in night
clothes.
Mrs Eliza DeMunck, "a years old,
was arrested at Kiel on a warrant
charging first degree murder, follow
ing the death of her husband, Abra-
ham DeMunck, 62 years old. De-
Munck, a farmer, died at Greenbush
at the home of his son, William De-
Munck Distinct traces of poison were
found in his stomach by Sheboygan
physician, according to Charles
Weight, district attorney of Sheboygan
who conducted the investigation.
Explosions of dynamite caps during
a fire at the Morley-Murphy Hard
ware company warehouse at Green