Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-12-27
Badger State
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and the unit demobilized.
yeggs cracked the door Of the
vault in the Klueter company Offices.
Madison, and found it empty
Ernest Boebel, Fennimore farmer,
paid a fine of S35 in federal court at
Madison for making pro-Gernan ut
terances.
The quadrennial convention of Wis
consin Maccabees will be held in June,
according to plans completed by di-
rectors at Superior.
A strip of canvas from a German
aeroplane, shot down over the Ameri-
can lines, has been sent Louis Kola-
sinsl1i, Menasha, by a brother.
A reunion of La Crosse aviators who
served in the war with flights by those
most efficient will be feature of the
1919 interstate fair here.
ALI Kemmett, GAINESVILLE, aged 20,
fell from an auto truck and was in
stantly killed when wheels of machine
crushed his head.
Within two days Mr.. and Mrs. Hans
l.. Hanson and Mr.. and Mrs. liver
Hanson of Hoimen, La Crosse County,
died of Influenza. The husbands were
brothers.
Safe blowers looted the safes of the
Schlitz, Val Blatz and Consumers
Coal company, GAINESVILLE, obtaining
considerable money, Thrift stamps
and Liberty bonds.
Private Frank Foster is the first
wounded La Crosse soldier to arrive
home. He lost his right leg as re-
suit of a high explosive striking his
knee.
E. r. Hicks, Oshkosh, was chosen
president; e. A. Williams, Neenah,
vice-president; John w. Brown,
Stevens Point, secretary and treasu-
rer, of the Wisconsin Fraternal con-
gress.
The eighth annual road school I'M
der the auspices of the Highway Com
mission, will be held in Madison on
Feb. 3 to 8, at which time it is expect,
ed from 400 to 500 road men Of the
state will be present.
Frank V. Harnacker Of Co. E, Fond
du Lac, part of the Rainbow division.
has arrived in New York. He has
seven wounds, all from fragments OF
one she'll He writes that bunch
OF Fond du Lac boys have returned.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Weigle has announced that he would
prosecute manufacturers of "egg sub
stitutes" Weigle declared that some
OF the socalled substitutes" are moth.
ing more than corn starch and skim
milk.
Private Peter J. Beisbier, town Of
Wayne, Dodge county, has been cited
for bravery, according to a message
received by his mother, Mrs. Mary
Beisbier, from the war department.
Beisbier the citation states, was
caught back of the German lines but
refused to surrender, putting up a
vigorous fight until severely wounded.
DR.. A. J. Williams, member of the
Racine board Of health, has demanded
an investigation of the methods of
DR.. Fl. E. Wilson, deputy health officer,
whom he charges with circulating Pc
titions for appointment of Miss Marie
Corse as health inspector at S100 a
month. DR.. Williams declares the po
sition is one for which a women is
not fitted.
Ripon college just received official
notice that Ripon will have reserve
officers training corps. Following is
| the telegram received from Washing
ton: President Ripon college: You
may proceed with the organization OF
| a reserve officers training corps pend
| ing official notification from the adju-
tant general Of the army. A profess
sor of military science and tactics will
be assigned to your institution in the
near future"
The Wisconsin Food Administration
| received a telegram from Washington
asking it to make plans for closing up
its work after Jan. l. This order
means that the federal government is
! planning to curtail the work of the
state food administration. The big
| Wisconsin food staff will be laid off
on that date, with the exception OF
county administrations, which will
| be retained temporarily for food price
fixing purposes.
In one of the quietest primary cleo
tions in the history of Oshkosh Hen
| ry T. Hagene, former council commits
/ sioner and Charles F. Hart, for assem-
! blyman from the Third district, were
nominated from field of seven can
/ didates to stand for election Jan. q
for the unexpired term of Florian Lam,
| pert as third member of the commits
sion council. Mr.. Lampert was elect.
| ed to congress fro mthe Sixth district
/ and there remains year and four
months of his term as council commits
| sioner. Not more than half the vot.
ing strength of the city went to the
! poles.
/ Fifty students at the officers mate.
| rial school at Great Lakes have re-
ceived their commissions as ensign
These men were the successful grad
! yates of a four months course at the