Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-07-19
Badger State
Happenings

combine the poor farm and insane
asylum at Gatliff, following recen
burning of the poorhouse.
James Murray, GAINESVILLE farmer, is
held to the federal grand jury under
1880 bail on a charge of giving liquor
to Camp Grant soldiers.
Slaves and hair cuts were raised al
for shaves and 35 to SO cents for hail
cuts went into effect.
Eyre Scot of Marinette was indicted
into the navy for nonsupport of his
wife and two small children. His wife
waived exemption at the board.
Gov. Philip has appointed Scion
Berrin of Superior county judge of
Douglas county, to succeed the late
Judge Charles Smith.
Charles o. Coyne, Madison, carpen-
ter at the University of Wisconsin,
has been appointed by the Knights of
Columbus as secretary of soldiers aid
in France.
The parents of Arnold J. Peterson
of Beloit were notified of the death of
their son in France from accidental
gunshot wounds. He is the first Be-
lott man to die overseas.
Attorney General Haven has ruled
surance CO., Milwaukee, do not permit
writing of tempest, cyclone and wind
storm insurance
After having headed the domestic
science department in the Neenah high
school for the past twenty-five years,
Mrs. Jennie Jamison has resigned and
will go to Milwaukee to reside.
Louis w. Wolfensen, professor of
Semetic languages at the University
of Wisconsin, has been appointed as
sistant to superintendent of the Wis
consin employment bureau at Madison.
Raymond Christensen of Oocnomo-
woe was member of the crew of the
transport Henderson, which caught
fire on its recent trip across the At
lantic, but was able to make port in
safety. No one was injured.
Green Bay now has fourteen mem.
bers in it's $1,000 w. S. S. club. One
family-man, woman and one boy
has subscribed $1,000 each to War
Savings stamps, thus becoming 100
per cent family.
Peter Nicholson and Albert Graft
of the town of Neva, near Amigo,
have been bound over to the United
States District court at Milwaukee for
trial on the charge of buying liquor
for three Indians employed at Amigo.
John Freehoff assemblyman from
the second district of La Crosse coun-
ty, will not be candidate for re-
election. Orrin Fletcher, member of
the county board, has taken out nom
ination papers as a Republican candi-
date.
An ordinance, effective Aug. 1, per-
uniting residents to keep pigs within
the Rhinelander city limits, but limit
ing the number to two pigs to fam
lily, was passed by the city council.
The ordinance is to be in effect only
during the war.
Announcement has been made at
Madison that Congressman John M.
Nelson will not be a candidate for re-
election. He is going to Canada to
manage the farm, started by his son,
who has enlisted in the army, and gave
this as the reason for his withdrawing
from the race.
The remarkable finding of a pearl in
clam which was caught in the Wolf
river by Mrs. Ida Peters of Fremont,
Waupaca County, has caused consider
able excitement in that section of the
county and pearl fishing has increased
rapidly. The pearl brought $110 A
Chicago firm purchased the pearl from
Mrs. Peters.
A. H. Melville, executive secretary
for the Wisconsin Food Administra-
ton, has telegraphed all county food
administrators that in one week the
Americans have saved up such a sur
plus of beef by obeying the food reg
ulations that now hotels and other
public eating places may. serve beef
daily at the evening meal from five
CLOCK until lalQnlSnL.
On petition of the Farmers State
bank of Sullivan, the Sullivan Con-
densed Milk company has been placed
in the hands of receiver c. F. Lamb,
referee in bankruptcy, appointed B. J..
Edgerton of Oconomowoc as receiver
The Sullivan Condensed Milk COM
pany has an authorized capital stock
of 100000 of which $4,000 had been
paid in, according to reports of the
secretary of state.
A woman and two men are dead and
the authorities are looking for third
man to clear up the mystery surround
ing murder and double suicide which
occurred at the farm of William Hille,
six miles southwest of Waukesha.
Hille, 53-year old farmer, shot him
self with shotgun; his sister Hulda
took her life by swallowing a portion
of carbolic acid and Ernest Sentz, a
former farmland in Hille's employ
was killed by Hille in quarrel.
Cyrus Philip, son of Gov. e. l..
Philip, and junior in the University