Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-08-30
Badger State
Happenings

fuel yard at Neenah is being consider
ed by the common council acting at
the instigation of Mayor G.. B. Clark.
Over $4,000 has been spent for war
purposes by the Neenah committee of
twenty since the war chest fund was
put into effect April l.
Alexander Buchholtz, 72, was fined
500 for selling liquor at his park near
GAINESVILLE. 1t was alleged that sol
diers had been going to the park and
getting drunk.
The Sunday school association of
the Wisconsin synod of the English
Lutheran church in conference at
Madison, reelected the Rev. G. A.
Naumann, Milwaukee, president.
Wisconsin men recently commission
ed in the army by the war department
are Paul Mace, Delavan, and Theodore
A. Seiferth, Milwaukee, who have
been named second neutenants in the
sanitary corps.
In 1885 the assessed valuation of
Barron county was given as $59,431.
An idea ofthe progress made in that
county sine that time may be OBJ
tanned from the fact that today's as
sessment is over s30,000,000.
J. j. Fish, clerk of Winnebago coun-
ty for upwards of twenty years, has
announced that he will not be can
didate for reelection to that office.
Mr. Fish intends to retire from active
business life.
Mayor T. w. Thiesen, Racine, was
elected president of the League of
Wisconsin Municipalities at the clos
ing session of the convention at
Rhinelander. The next meeting will
be held in West Allis.
The Rev. Edward Kuhlmann, pastor
of the First English Lutheran church,
Oshkosh, has received call to De-
troit as city missionary. The Oshkosh
pastorate was organized eleven years
ago by Mr.. Kuhlmann.
Miss Melva Roach, Fennimore, for
merly teacher in the public schools at
Waupun, has been appointed woman
deputy by the industrial commission.
Miss Roach has been employed by the
shipping board in Washington.
Two Lutheran churches at Beloit,
Bethlehem and Trinity, have united
and will hereafter be known as Our
Savior's Lutheran church. The Rev.
T. A Mason of Bethlehem church has
been asked to be pastor Of the new
church.
The Fond du Lac City council and
Council of Defense are considering a
plan for a general memorial service
for the Fond du Lac county boys who
have died in the service. There being
now twenty-three who have made the
supreme sacrifice.
Miss Viola Nohr is the first Ripon
girl to go to France as Red Cross
nurse. She was graduated from
Lakeside hospital, Oshkosh, in 1913.
Miss Nohr has been appointed by the
American Red Cross to do public
health work in Paris.
DR.. N. C. Evans. aged 81 years. who
practiced at Mount Horeb for more
than thirty years, died at his home
there after a long illness. DR.. Evans
was former member of the assembly
from the western district of the county,
and also represented Mount Horeb on
the county board several times.
No state bonds will be issued this
year. This announcement was made
at Madison. 1t is said that despite
the fact that the legislature at the spe-
cial session voted to issue $1,000000
worth of bonds if necessary, there will
be sufficient funds to meet expenses
until the legislature meets next win
ter
President Herbert P. Houghton of
Carroll college, has been notified by
Acting Adjt Gen. Harris at Washing
ton that the institution was satisfied
the conditions prescribed by the war
department and steps will be taken at
once to establish unit of the Stu
dents Army Training corps at the col
lege which opens Sept. 16.
Traffic over the Appleton-Hilbert
branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
ST. Paul road is liable to be discontin-
ued for the remainder of the war. 1t
Is expected that the Northwestern road
will handle the business In order to
economic on both help and fuel. In
the event the Appleton depot is closed
it will also mean the closing of all the
depots on the st. Paul branch.
Fire, which is thought to have orig
mated in thrashing machine working
close to a barn, destroyed two barns
containing several thousand bushels
of grain, the farm house and other
buildings, including sheds and chicken
houses, on the farm owned by A. A.
Schlesinger Of the Northwestern Iron
company of Milwaukee, six miles south
of Mayville. Harvesters, working on
the farm at the time, made desper-
ate effort to save the LOO bushels OF
rye, 1000 bushels of oats, 500 bush
els of barley and several tons of hay
stored in the barn, but all was destroy
ed. The loss is estimated at from $10,-
600 to $4,000.