Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-10-04
Badger State
Happening S

Charles Coppus, Little Chute, repor-
known to be alive and well. He is a
member of Co. /, of Neenah.
Alice, the 2-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Trunnel of Stockbridge,
of injuries received when kicked by a
horse
Two fishing crews are seining the
rough fish in Beaver Dam lake under
supervision of the Wisconsin state
game warden. One haul netted the
fishermen ten tons of fish.
Prompt treatment saved the life of
the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. j.
swallowed a saucer full of poisoned
fly water.
George P. Hambrecht, Madison,
chairman of the Wisconsin Industrial
commission, has been elected a mem
Der of the board of directors of the
National Safety Council.
E. G. Sensenbrenner, 81, former
resident of Menasha, head of the Chi
cago Office of the Menasha Paper com
pany, died of pneumonia while visit
ing friends in Hilbert.
Joseph Poehlmann, Milwaukee, has
been appointed head of the baking di-
vision Of the state food administration
to succeed S. w. Treadway, who re-
signed to accept a position in New
York
According to information received
by the Northern Hemlock and Hard
wood Manufacturers association, Of
Oshkosh, lumber has been placed on
the priority list by the war industries
board.
Reconstruction and Americanization
will be the chief topics at the twenty
second annual convention of the Wis
consin Federation of Women's clubs,
which will be held in Eau Claire, Oct.
8, 10 and II.
When she attempted to step into a
row boat, Mrs. August Drake, of Nee
nah, slipped and fell into twenty feet
of water, and only the presence of two
men who CHANGED to be near the spot,
prevented her from drowning.
Rev. Father Pell of Marinette has
been accepted as chaplain in the army
He is awaiting his call, having re,
ceived special permit from Bishop
Rhode to enter the service. He is
one of the youngest priests in the
state.
Northwestern Military and Naval
academy, which opened at Lake Gene
va recently has been named by the
war department as an honor school.
The academy is now permitted to
name one student each year for
West Point.
Marvin H Bacon, widely known to
members of the Grand Army of the
Republic and for the last eighteen
years in the census bureau at Wash
ington, died suddenly at the home of
his son in Kenosha while on a vaca-
ton. He was 70 years of age.
A drive has been started by the Red
Cross chapter in Brown county to Sc
cure clothing for the people of Bel
GUM. Auxiliaries of the Red Cross
throughout the county are collecting
garments of every kind to be assem-
bled later and sent overseas.
Word has been received at James
vile telling of the wounding of Capt.
Fred Rau in the battle of Juvigny,
while leading his troops in a charge
against the Germans. This is the Sec
ond time Rau has been injured. He
was discharged from a hospital ten
days before being wounded again.
Capt. Myron C. West, formerly
member of the faculty of the Madison
Ugh school, died Aug. from wounds
received in action the day before, &C.
cofding to dispatch from Washington
to his wife at Beloit. West was cap
tain of the headquarters company of
the One Hundred Twenty-seventh in
fantry.
That the University of Wisconsin
has contributed an unreasonable
amount of material and scientific
knowledge to help in winning the war,
was declared by Prof Otto L. Kowal-
Ike, Of Madison, in an address in
Green Bay. The important part the
state institution has played in the
successes of the American and allied
troops in the field, and the important
part the university has played in the
defeat of the enemy U-boats can not
be over-estimated according to the
professor.
The following retail prices for
bread were fixed by the Wisconsin
food administration: All lOaves pur-
chased at wholesale by the retailer
at cents or less must be sold to the
consumer on a cash and carry basis
at not more than 8 cents, Or on
charge and delivery basis of not more
than 10 cents. Loaves purchased at
wholesale by the retailer at II cents
or less must be sold to the consumer
on cash and carry basis at not more
than IA cents and on charge and de-
livery at not more than Is cents.
Stiff penalties will be imposed on vio-