Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-11-15

Ashland voted overwhelmingly to
return to the aldermanic form of city
government The vote was 1910 to
464.
d The advisory wage board created
under the act which will fix mini
mum wage for women in Wisconsin
has been named by the state industrial
commission at Madison
i e. T. Cronin, Oconomowoc, city at
torney, will leave in few days for
Camp Taylor, KY, to enter the artil-
lery officers training camp, for which
he recently passed examination
i Herman J. Verhusen, Madison, a
clothing merchant, died from the eff
fects Of a fall from a passenger train
returning from Milwaukee. He was
81 years of age.
The Northern Wisconsin Veterinary
association met at Chippewa Falls and
discussed ways and means of handling
live stock under present conditions.
State Veterinarian O. H. Eliason made
an address.
to $21,S00 have been made by Green
Bay corporations to the United War
Work campaign previous to the formal
/ opening. Brown county's quota of the
war fund is $112,500.
Milwaukee county will receive S219,-
s. 343 6S from the state and federal gov
i ernments for maintaining the roads.
This will constitute the last money
the county will receive for this pur-
pose until 1920.
: Adjt. Gen. Orlando HolWay Of Madi-
| son has announced that Wisconsin has
! 125,O00 men fighting in this war, 49,
! 900 soldiers and 10000 sailors. Of this
number Milwaukee has furnished 23,-
600 soldiers and 1000 sailors.
Leo Zieryogel, aged 4 years, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Ziervogel. Ocono-
mowoc, was painfully burned when
his clothing became ignited from the
candle in pumpkin lantern with
which he was playing.
The Association of Commerce has
sent letters to all it's members in an
attempt to raise Milwaukee's quota of
/ $4,000 to be sent to the forest fire
sufferers of northern Wisconsin and
Minnesota. The members of the asso-
| citation are being asked not to send
less than SO nor more than $500 to
William M. Post, secretary of the as
| sociation.
Word came to Marinette from Ath-
elstane, Marinette County, of the
death of Charles Wall, the fourth
member of the family to die within
few days Mrs. Wall and two sons
died few days before. The whole
! family succumbed to influenza. Mrs.
| Hardiman, a sister of Mrs. Wall, who
made her home with her, died, and
| her husband is critically i'll.
Three Of the five breweries in La
| Cross will be converted into plants
| making products deemed essential in
| time of war after the ban goes on the
brewing industry Dec. /. The two
| largest plants, owned by the John
Gund Brewing company and the G.
Heilman Brewing company, will be
| closed and await resumption Of the
brewing industry after the war.
Chippewa Indians are preparing for
elaborate burial rites to be held at
cemetery in Superior where the bones
of nearly geo of their tribesmen have
been inferred again after being re-
| moved from their former resting place
near the harbor The old Indian burial
ground is being converted into the site
for an industrial concern and the
company engaged in the work is plac
ing the skeletons Of the redmen in the
new cemetery.
A federal probe of the explosion at
the SteWart-Warner grenade factory,
Beloit, that resulted in the death of
one man and serious injury Of five per
sons, is under way. Within an hour
after the terrific blast that endanger-
ed lives of $50 employees, many of
them women, guards were thrown out
and no one allowed to enter. Federal
investigators will examine debris
closely for traces CT bombs or Internal
machines. The blast occurred in a
coredrying oven.
Hats off to Wisconsin, the leader
among the dirt road states. By this
is. meant that in a group OF states
where the preponderant type is the
dirt road, Wisconsin leads them all in
the condition of its highways. This
eliminates groups Of eastern states
such as New York and Massachusetts,
which have been building surfaced
roads for about thirty years" This is
taken from "Good Roads," the official
publication of the Good Road associa-
ton of Wisconsin. The authority for
this statement is r. A. Woodall of the
Automobile Blue Book
In an effort to reduce unnecessary
calls On physicians because of infu-
enza, the United States Public Health
service has issued bulletin calling
on the people to- learn something
about the home care Of patients i'll
with the disease. Physicians every
where have complained of the large
number of unnecessary calls they
have been compelled to make because