Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-07
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dL fOTC Atkinson.
A chapter of the war mothers of
America was formed at Fort Atkinson
with fifty members.
According to A. j. O'Melia, Oneida
county chairman for the Red Cross,
the total membership there is approx
mately $500.
The railroad commission handed
down a decision denying the applica-
ton of the Ashland Water Works
company for authority to increase it's
rates.
Officially reported killed in action
Oct. 4, Lieut.. Melvin Miller, La Crosse.
got word to his parents that he is
alive and well in Germany. His let
ter was dated Dec 16
The Rev. Carlos c. Rowlinson, La
Crosse, Congregational church, is re
covering at a hospital after having a
double goiter removed. He collapsed
in his pulpit recently.
The Racine Public association has
been formed there by twenty-five citi
zens, under the leadership OF school
and medical men OF prominence to
carry on a campaign OF hygienic edu
cation.
A mems club of fifty-two members
has been organized at the Congrega
tional church in Appleton. f. G.
Wheeler was elected president, B. w
Wells, vice-president, and #. +. Welt
engel, secretary.
Ewald Deters of La Crosse was
picked as one of $50 men for the presi-
Dental and peace commission guard
company, the American soldier con.
tingent on duty at Paris during the
peace negotiations.
Sturgeon Bay, Washington island
and Marinette will be without boat
service the coming season, since the
Hart Transportation Co. has taken nc
steps to replace the Bon Ami, which
burned early in the winter.
Just as the funeral of her son,
Charles Ferguson, grip victim, was
taking place, Mrs. Charles Ferguson,
died at the hospital at Neenah. She
also succumbed to influenza. She was
never told Of her sons death.
At the forty-ffth annual council Of
tho diocese Of Fond du Lac, Bishop f.
II. Weller celebrated mass and deliv-
cred an address in which he said that
Jan. "a, 1919, when a league of nations
was assured, was the birthday of the
rights OF man.
While residents of Racine county,
during the four Liberty loan drives
subscribed a total of $12,986, $50, the
total deposits in banks OF the county,
Dee. 81, 1918, amounted to 4,524,700,
an increase of $2,596,307 over Dec. 81,
1916, when the first drive was made.
Two Neenah boys, and years old,
had thrilling experience drifting
Gown river on a loose cake of ice.
they had been skating below the dam
when chunk on which they were,
broke away When the cake hit the
pier of a bridge they jumped to safety
Prof. W. II. Lightly, acting dean Oh
the University of Wisconsin extension
division, was reelected secretary anu
treasurer of the National University
Extension association at the confer
ence in Chicago. Wisconsin holds
prominent place in the association be-
cause it is taking the lead in Ameri
canization work, which was one OF the
b prNhlor1c dica1IScnd Of tho
ence.
Prof. j. J. Pettijohn, graduate of the
University of Wisconsin in 1911, has
been named director of the federal
university extension division estab-
lished by the department of the int
rior, bureau of education, for preserv
ing war material and collecting mate
rial on community center work, for
egn trade, visual instruction, for com
mercial service and for package libra
ries.
a record of rolling tobacco into CT
gars for Sixty-seyen years is that OF
J, L. Spellman, GAINESVILLE but he plans
twenty-five more years at the same
craft. He claims 20 be the only gen
uine Dutchme4n in GAINESVILLE, having
been born in Rotterdam, Holland, in
l843. He used to buy wrappers for IS
cents a pound and filters for 40 cents
a pound Now wrappers cost 81 to IS
d pound and filters S160.
Exactly 205 musical organizations,
comprising approximately 10000 per
sons from forty-eight counties in Wis
consin, have been enlisted in the Lib
erty chorus service OF the state coun-
Gil of defense since it was first organ
lied a year ago, under Prof. E. b.
Gordon, university extension division.
From the many reports received at
Madison it is believed that these must
cal groups were responsible in large
measure for the development of the
spirit of patriotism and the determine
ton to support the government in its
war policy. Wisconsin was one of the
first states to organize such a musical
service and has thereby attracted ma
tional attention.
Eleven more rural schools in 0uta
gamie county have adopted the plan
OF serving hot lunches at noon, &C
cording to a report by Miss Loretta