Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-12-06
Badger State
IL min 6 S

| Of Manawa, was elected to the Oregon
| state senate at the fall election
| The Burger Boat Building Co. plant
has been closed and discontinuance of
work on government contracts is re-
! ported from Sturgeon Bay, Green Bay
and Marine City.
Girls and young women from Is to
"A years OF age from all over the state
| attended the Older Girls conference,
| 1eld in GAINESVILLE on Nov 20 Dec. l.
| Work in the organized Sunday school
| classes in the state was discussed
Wisconsin state banks increased
| heir resources almost SIS 100000 in
| one year. In three weeks the increase
was almost $11,OOO,O0O State banks
| IN a year added about 100000 900 to
| holdings of government securities
Whitney Seymour, Madison, associ-
ate editor of The Badger. is circulat-
| ing a petition to submit to the regents,
| asking appointment of William H.
! Taft as successor to President Van
tIise. The petition has been signed by
more than 200 students.
State Banking Commissioners A. E.
| t1uolt Of Madison has been limited to
| one and one-half pounds Of sugar a
| month for each member of his family
| .ntii Jan. 1, by the United States food,
| administration at Washington. He
was charged with cashing a sugar
| certificate after the time had expired.
1t is probable that Wausau will be
| served by an aerial mail route. Mayor
| John L. Sell has received a letter
| from the Aerial League of America
| asking the city to give consideration
10 the matter of establishing an aero
| irome for the landing of planes. Wau-
| sau is located on the tranS-continental
| a-rway The mayor will appoint com
mittee.
| Five La Crosse men, including two
members of Co. B, Wisconsin National
| guard, lost their lives in France in the
| final battles of the war, according to
| kilograms received by relatives. Sergt.
| Robert Hatke, Corp. Elmer Schroeder
and John Winslow who died of
! wounds; Charles Schlicht and Fred J.
kolb were killed in action. William c.
Hatke, brother of Sergt Hatke, was
wounded.
information has been received at
Racine from Madison announcing that
| Gov Phillip had granted pardon to
| Sam Dumato, sentenced July 7, 1913,
to serve twenty years at Waupun pris-
on for the murder of Frank Lochner.
| foreman in the plant of the Belle City
Malleable Iron company. The pardon
is granted because Dumato is suffering
with tuberculosis. Dumato murdered
Lochner because of being discharged
| as a worker in the foundry.
After eighty years, death has sepa-
| rated the Hall twins, of La Crosse,
famous in that part of the country for
forty years because of their colse re-
semblance. For years the only way
by which friends distinguished be-
tween them has been the fact that
William wore G. A. r. button.
George was in i'll health at the time
of the war, Snd was refused by the
recruiting officer, or even this small
difference would not have existed.
Judge John M Giblin. 70 years old,
died at Sheboygan. Judge Giblin was
born in the town of Rolling Prairie,
Washington county, and later moved
with his parents to Kewaskum, where
he received his early education.
Thirty-six years ago he married Miss
Julia Lane of Oshkosh and moved to
Sheboygan. Judge Giblin inaugurated
the ''stone pile" where law breakers
were compelled to work out the cost
of their maintenance and it was he
who introduced and aided in estab-
fishing the probationary office.
The S. A. T. G. at the University Of
Wisconsin will be sent home before
Christmas. Orders have been receiW-
ed for disbanding of the organization,
| which includes 5000 men. They will
be held at Madison until the compile
ton of the first quarter on Dec. 81
Decentralization of the S. A. T. C. in
Wisconsin will seriously impair at
tendance at the university and normal
schools according to educators. At
the university there are approximately
2,I00 army students and only 421
| other male students. Many army stu
dents will not continue their work.
Eight of the nine normal schools have
army students.
Secretary of State Merlin Hull car
ried off the vote honors in the recent
general election, according to com
plete unofficial returns received in
Huli's Office. He lead the field at the
poils with 1880 ballots. Returns re-
ceived by Secretary Hull, but in which
several errors are known to eyist, fol
low: For governor Moehlenpah,
Democrat, 1856; Philip, Republi-
can, 155,799 for lieutenant governor
Hogan, Democrat, 92,899; Dithmar,
Republican, 65,401; for secretary of
state - Herman, Democrat, S2,649;
Hull. Republican. 1880; for state
treasurer Egerer, Democrat, 82,044;
Johnson, Republican, 1855; for at
torney general-Ryan, Democrat, &c.
293; Blaine, Republican, 166,540.