Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-04-18
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

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land Y. Nj. C. A. has ended with full
subscription The entire amount was
raised in less than one week
BY the will of Miss Bertha Lyman
is bequeathed to the Rosendale M. E.
church. The estate is valued at 49,.
500
The Wausau Radio club has been
formed in that city with ten members.
who have been in United States serv-
ice Neal Cook is temporary presi-
dent
Safe blowers secured $50 from the
| Consumers Lumber and Coal company
Offices at Portage. The office is loca-
ted about one block from police head
quarters.
The Belle City Oil Co. capitalized
ct $650,000 and promoted by Racine
business men, has been organized.
Options have been taken on 344 acres
Of land near Cement, Ohio.
A junior marine corps division will
be organized III Green Bay soon.
Twenty youths have signed their
names to the roll. Sergeant E. A.
Treu is organizing the boys.
Through A. f. Gafke. secretary of
the Jefferson County Holstein Breed
ers association cooperating with a
Minnesota county agent. Il car OF JEFF
ferson county Holsteins was shipped
TO Minnesota.
Kenosha merchants contemplate in
stallation of electric burglar alarm
that steps must be taken to protect
merchants against robberies that have
been frequent for the past month
The Wittkopp Furniture company,
Plymouth, is exhibiting library table
made by John Kleefsch OF that city
containing 316,360 small pieces of
wood 1t consumed the leisure hours
of the maker during four years to fin
| iSh it.
The Armenian Ice company OF
Neenah has refused an offer of $751;
500 for their entire 1919 crop of ice,
made by a Chicago concern. Had the
firm sold, ice would have been eX-
tremely scarce in Neenah during the
coming summer.
The housing situation in Green Bay
has reached a critical point Dwell
| ingS are at a premium and the real
estate agents are flooded with appli-
cants for fats and homes. The Asso-
citation of Commerce has undertaken
to relieve the situation.
| Kenoshas first venture in munich
pal ownership of an electric light
| plant is proving a success. The first
report OF the plant which is in opera
ton at the pumping plant of the water
works, shows a saving to the city of
several thousand dollars annually.
The Northwest Engineering Works,
Green Bay, will launch four boats be-
This plant is working overtime. It's
production during the past four
months ranks we'll up among the big
gest yards on the Great Lakes.
Because he did not buy any Lib.
erty bonds or war stamps or help any
of the relief organizations during
the war with Germany, citizenship pa
pers were denied Charles Zimmerman,
| Wausau, by Judge A. H. Reid at a
term of Circuit court in Lincoln coun-
| ty
Lawrence college students are up
| in arms over the ruling of the student
senate that they must wear green
caps and arm bands. Occasional in
| fraction of the rule will cause trial
with penalty of being barred from
participating in picnic at Clifton
| May 8.
! The garden campaign in Green Bay
| is off to a splendid start. Joint as
sistance by the city council, Associa
ton of Commerce, and others enabled
use of every vacant lot Every school
will have it's garden plot and prizes
will be given to youngsters who make
the best showing.
Capt. Joel B. Moore of La Crosse,
| former Normal school teacher, re
Gently decorated with the Medal Of
ST. Ann in Russia, has also won d
Croix de GuerGe, according to a mes.
sage received. He is believed to be
the only La Crosse soldier who has
won two foreign decorations.
Valuable plans for the new st.
Maries church, Kenosha, have been
lost in the mail, and construction is de-
layed until they can be found The
plans we're ready for submission to
the officials when mailed in Chicago
last week, and they have not been
seen since. Tracers have failed to To-
cate them.
The Marathon county roads and
bridge committee will recommend to
the county board the building of a
piece of concrete road to connect
Wausau with the village of Schofield,
the cost to be $4,000 The road may
be extended to Rotschild, if the cost
price of $4,000 is guaranteed. This
will be the first concrete road in Mar.
sthon county.
Reliable fp1rpS show that durn O