Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-05-24

at the Valley Inn.
The wild ducks in the Beaver Dam
city park are raising young ones and
a batch of twenty-six were turned out
last week, with many more to be heard
from.
A weekly newspaper, written, edit
ed and printed entirely by boy scouts,
will be issued at Neenah soon. The
scouts have purchased printing press
and type.
The Twin City State guards have
signified their willingness to serve at
Camp Douglas this summer without
pay, following such request from
state headquarters.
S. R. Brough has been appointed by
State Fuel Administrator Fitzgerald
to succeed W. e. Morton as fuel ad-
ministrator for Marathon county. who
has resigned
The Eastern Wisconsin Electric
Railway company has filed request
with the Wisconsin railroad commits
sion to discontinue the operation OF
street cars at Neenah.
Another new hotel, along lines SINH
lar to the ManitOu, recently opened,
will soon be erected on Washington
street, Manitowoc, John M. kadoW
will build the structure.
The body of J. F. Brinkerhoff, 5O
years old, city clerk for Waupun the
last three years, was found IN MS
home. A bullet wound was the cause
of death. No explanation is known.
While knitting on the last SOCK OF
the twentieth pair she had made Tor
the Red Cross, Mrs. Eliza Heath, rs,
a pioneer, passed away at her nome
in Maiden Rock. The body was tound
by her daughter.
The University of Wisconsin can
torment, quartering 400 troops from
Iowa, is under quarantine for scarlet
fever. There are now fifty patients IN
the University gymnasium, where the
soldiers are quartered.
Green Lake county farmers nave
bought cooperative limestone
crusher, since it was proved to them
that the land in their county was quite
generally acid. The crushed limestone
is being produced at half-price.
Paul Voight, who sued the Racine
street car company for S1O,O0O dam
ages, will be unable to collect the $554
awarded him by jury in the circuit
court, because the same jury found
him guilty of contributory negligence.
While bark has not increased in
price, big shortage is likely,
as many mills will not even at
tempt to peel hemlock this year, due
to the shortage of labor. A 80 per
cent decrease in production is anticl-
pated
James Mckee, a town board chair
man of Vernon county, was killed in
stantly when he stepped out OF an
auto in the town of Christiania to in
spect a road. An auto driven by Ole
Olson Aas, coming from behind, ran
into him.
The Walter Brewing company and
the Appleton Brewing company an
nounced an increase of $3.50 a barrel
for keg beer and 10 cents case on
bottle beer. The new price list is $1l
for key beer or $40 for case OF
twenty-four bottles.
Residents of Racine county are en-
deavoring ito arrange that the 3l7
men leaving May 26 for Camp Grant
go on a special train in order that on
the evening previous they may be
guests at a banquet and ball to be
given in their honor.
The womans committee of the Wis
consin State Council of Defense has
been asked to recruit women for sta
tistical positions in the ordnance de-
partment at Washington. 1t is stated
that there are 200 positions open to
women, the salary being about $1,000.
Prospective dairymen in Texas. and
other border states, are buying up all
the mich COWS in the market in Ra-
cine County at an average price OF
$175 Stock buyers at COrliss shipped
five carloads of mixers by express to
Texas and Arizona farmers.
Earl Scoville, former employe of a
GAINESVILLE newspaper, is held under
arrest by the CarranZa government in
Mexico. He was taken into custody
with two other newspaper men charg-
ed with writing articles derogatory to
the Mexican army.
Eliza Demunck, of Kiel, widow Of
the late Abraham Demunck, who was
charged with the poisoning of her huS-
band, was dismissed from custody by
Court Commissioner Phelan at She
boygan, the state having failed to es-
tablish any evidence to implicate her.
The Racine palice are seeking an
unidentified man who entered the
boiler room of the power house Of the
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light
company at Racine and opening one of
the furnace doors, threw into the fire
the body of an infant about months
old The body was nearly cremated
before discovered.
When a clerk in the Office of the
secretary of state stuck paper knife