Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-04-26
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

furnished by farmers who will haul
all wheat not needed for seed to town
without an hours delay, according to
Food Administrator Magnus SwensOn.
In a patriotic address at univer-
sity convocation Gov E. l.. Phillip de-
nounced the Carpet baggers" VINO
have accused Wisconsin and the UNI
versity of Wisconsin of being dislOyal.,
Frank Vonesh, GAINESVILLE, charged
with stealing an automobile and then
taking a JOY ride, has been sentenced
to eighteen months in the county jail
by Judge Maxfield.
]. B. Borden, assistant superintend-
ent of public instruction in Wlscon-
sin, named as assistant of the Wiscon-
sin college of, agriculture, will assume
his new duties on July 1.
School children of La Crosse will
donate pennies, nickles and dimes Tor
the purchase of large flag pole ana
flag of the United States which Will
fly in Riverside park.
Because they deemed it unpatriOtlc
to hold social functions in war tunes,
the Alumni association of the Neenah
high school has given up the annual
dance and banquet.
Four robberies in as many places OF
business in the center OF the Neenah
downtown district within the past
week have put the police on the track
of a band of youths suspected OF being
implicated in the affairs.
Leaving his cap and several notes
written in rambling manner lying on
the Lake Mendoza shore near the uni
versity farm, man, signing his name
as George Stylers, is believed to have
ended his life by drowning himself.
The first helmet of German soldier
to arrive in Marinette from the battle
field of France was received by Miss
Lenore McLain. The token was sent
her by friend, a lieutenant, now on
the firing line.
There are 592,233 Catholics in Wis
consin, according to the latest edition
of the official Catholic directory. Wis
consin now stands in ninth place
among it's sister states with regard to
Catholic population.
The following Wisconsin men were
commissioned as officers in the reserve
corps: William A. Fannon Appleton,
major in ordnance reserve corps; Ste
phen Stachowiak, Milwaukee, second
lieutenant in tank corps.
Four Menasha men miraculously
escaped death when big touring car
turned turtle on the Appleton Menasha
road while running at high rate OIL
speed. Three of them were pinned be-
meath the car which was demolished
All received minor injuries.
Gus Price was killed and George
Price sustained serious, if not fatal
injuries, when they drove their car
through barn and out OF the back
door, falling several feet with the au-
tomobile overturned upon them. Both
were residents of Waupaca.
Despondent because he was rejected
for army service, Martin Bartlett, 22
years old, of the town of Hamburg,
committed suicide by using twelve
pounds of dynamite which tore his
body into many pieces and scattered
them in many directions.
BY vote of four to two, the city
council of the city of Mellen, declared
that license won by one majority in
the recent election and unless court
action is started to prevent them, Ii
censes will be issued to saloOnmen to
sell Intoxicating liquors beginning on
July /.
A town that has been dry and goes
back ino the wet column cannot is
sue licenses until July 1, Atty.-Gen.
Spencer Haven held in an opinion to
Dist.-Atty Archie Mckay of Douglas
county. Haven, in his opinion, upholds
one by Atty. Gen. Walter Owen issued
two years ago.
Although the bond law passed by the
special session of the legislature per-
mits the maximum interest rate of 4 1a
per cent, state officials do not expect
to issue bonds at that rate. From
present indications the highest rate of
interest which the state will pay will
be Az per cent, the same as paid for
the third Liberty Loan bonds.
The protest of the farmers of the
state that they have not been prop,
erly recognized in the organization of
the State Council of Defense will prob
ably be remedied as the result of a
letter of Gov. Philip to Magnus Sven
son asking for a separation of the
work of the State Council of Defense
from the federal food work of the
state.
James A. Fathers, who has just end
ed his public career in the city OF
GAINESVILLE, has served in public Off
ces for twenty-four years. For eigh-
teen years under the old council form
Of government he acted chiefly as city
treasurer and during the control Of
the commission he was mayor for si1
years. With the abolition of the com
mission he has now retired from pub
lie life.
At the closing session of the Cen
trail Wisconsin Press association, helt
of Grand RaOidS John GlennOn of the