Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-04-19
Dry Forces of RuSk -.nty Will
Start 1918 Campaign At
Convention At Lady
smith, April %

Prominent dry voters of this county
have called a county Dry Referendum
Convention to be held at the Christian
church in this city at 2 200 p. IN. Tues
day, April %, TO organize the Rusk
County Dry League.
The purpose of the League, as stated
in the call. will be to cooperate with
similar leagues throughout the state
in conserving our food fuel and man
power in promoting the national dry
amendment, to clean out the last sa-
looms in this county next spring, and
to elect legislature and governor
favorable to state and national pro-
hibitiOn.
Counties are being rapidly organized
all over the state. Among those recent
ly coming into line are Rock, Grant,
Columbia, Eau Claire, Brown, Wood,
Waupaca, Ashland Bayfield,, Juneau,
st. Croix, Waukesha, Portage, Dunn.
Price. Chippewa, Douglas, Winnie
bagO and Clark
County Dry League was organized
with a good lineup of officials. DR..
j. NJ. DOdd, the well-knOwn surgeon
and former mayor of Ashland, was
elected chairman and Hon. j. c..
Chapple, member of the legislature and
accepted the position of first vice
chairman A direct result of the or
ganiZatiOn of this county was the put
ting of Ashland dry April ,, by IS
votes.
\ few weeks ago the Brown County
Dry League was successfully organ
lied and DR.. J. J. Bellin, prominent
surgeon and capitalist. Green Bay.
was elected chairman. Among many
ardently supporting the movement
are: Bishop p. p. Rhode. of the Green
Bay Catholic diocese; DR.. r. E. Mime
han. the eminent physician and sur
ge0n Rev. Father O'Brien J. III. Tay-
lOr president of the Mccartney bank !:
w. p. Wagner. president of the Citi-
Zens' National bank, and other lead
ing business men.
January Is. Douglas and Price
Superior and the latter at Phillips.
Among the league officers of the
Douglas County Dry League are
Prof. \. J. Mccartney, of the State
Normal school Peter EimOn, head of
the largest wholesale grocery COM
pany at Superior and Louis Han
mitch, leading attorney. OF the Off
cials elected at Phillips may be men
toned: c. i. Clubine, manager of the
Park Falls Lumber Company; Guy
Waldo manager of the Flambeau
Paper Mills. Park Falls; and Thos.
Patterson, Fifield. The splendid dry
victory that brought Superior back
into the dry column April =, was lead
by the County Dry League.
Other leading men in different
parts of the state supporting this
movement are: f. j. Yea, president of
the StOughton Wagon Company; ]. ].
Phoenix. Delavan. president of the
Bradley Knitting Company l.. NJ.
Alexander. head of the NekOOsa- Ed
wards Company, with large mills at
Grand Rapids. BirOn and Appleton !:
o. III. Ingram and Rev. Father A. B.
c. Dunno. Eau Claire; E. J. Lindsay,
Lindsay Bros, Milwaukee: John Geer-
lingS, Federated Trades Council, Mil
waukee: Mayor C. B. Clark, Neenah,
head of the Kimberly Clark mills !:
Mayor John Faville. Appleton; Hon.
Strange, Neenah, paper manufacturer
and former lieutenant governor Jud-
son ROsebush. Appleton, president of
the Patton paper company. and pres-
dent of the Wisconsin Loyalty Legion
President Samuel Plantz of Lawrence
College, Appleton: Mitchell Johannes,
Green Bay, president of the Johannes
Brothers Company, wholesale grocers.
and many other well-knOwn men in all
parts of the state
The convention will be followed by
a mass meeting in the evening at the
Christian church. The principal adj
dress will be delivered by Rev. E. III.
Goodell, of Superior, an able platform
orator. Other speakers will be W. G..
Osborn, the newly appointed anti-sa-
loon league district superintendent
Prof. Il. M. Dresden and others.