Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-01-10

| M s. UudgHofl, Madig0il sailed FOR
france Jan. 2 to supervise distribution
bf books for the army educational com
mission.
Guy Anderson, Galesville sailor who
was aboard the U. s. Housatonic for
! nearly year, has been detailed for
duty with a. mine-sweeping crew.
Frank B. Morris, college of agricul-
ture, Madison, has been elected presi-
dent of the American Society of Ami
NAL Protection
Mr.. and Mrs William Sieger, RAJ
! cine, have received letter from their
son, Charles, reported month ago as
killed in action and buried in France,
that he is well and expects to be home
4 soon.
George Zeisler, stakeholder,
bought the plant of the G. Heilman
Brewing company, La Crosse, for
100000. The brewing machinery is
to be removed. The capital of the
Holman Company is $500, 600. Mr..
Zeisler said he had no plans outlined
for the plant
The La Crosse Rubber Mills COM
pany distributed $4,000 among its 500
employees on Christmas day, each
worker drawing from 81 to $50 as a
| bonus. The company furnished a
large part of its output of rubber
shoes to the government during the
1 war
Prospects are that the big dye plant
/ in course of construction at Cable,
near Ashland, will be ready for opera
ton by Feb. with 200 employees.
Five carloads of machinery have ar
/ rived and are being installed, in the
| two new buildings, one 480xS0 feet and
/ the other 75x60. The Sunbeam Chem
ical Co., Chicago, is establishing the
industry.
Because, as she says, her husband
called her Dutch carp, Mrs. Moni
4 Hichcox, Spring Green, is seeking a
divorce from Tracy Hichcox. She was
| born in Germany. Besides a divorce
Mrs. HichcoX wants her husband to
"get OUT, possession of the house,
food and clothing for the children and
| herself, use of the garden vegetables
and three quarts of fresh milk daily.
! Louis B. Cone, one of the best
known newspaper men in Wisconsin,
died at Fond du Lac. He had held po-
sitions on Chicago, Milwaukee, Joliet,
Grand Rapids, Menominee, Oshkosh,
Sheboygan and Fond du Lac papers.
He was direct descendant of two of
the signers of the Declaration of indie.
pendence, and was a grand nephew of
James Fenimore Cooper, novelist.
More honors for the Thirty-second
division - Wisconsin's own troops.
Members of this unit will be permitted
to wear as special insignia an arrow
outlined on their left sleeves, wires
Sergt. Lester T. Williams, Watertown,
Co. B, One Hundred Nineteenth Ma.
chine Gun Battalion. The arrow was
adopted as a symbol, Sergt. Williams
explains, because their division always
blazed the way in battle.
AS settlement in suit brought
against the Milwaukee Country Club
by Joseph Cuppan, Jr., for injuries re-
ceived to his eye when struck by a
golf ball, -Cuppan will receive $500.
This amount was entered and agreed
to in the Milwaukee Circuit court by
Judge E. T. Fairchild He sued for
$4,000, while his father, Joseph Cup
i pan, Sr., asked a similar amount. The
/ puit brought by his father was settled
come time ago for $500.
George Lubinski, Tomahawk, was
i sentenced to six months in the House
Of Correction by Judge A. L. Sanborn,
in Federal court at Madison He
! pleaded guilty of making disloyal re-
marks. Felix Marcoullier, Tomahawk
saloonkeeper. was fined $500 when he
pleaded guilty to selling liquor to a
Chippewa Indian, Charlie Catfish.
| Lynn Messmer, GAINESVILLE, pleaded
guilty to giving liquor to a soldier and
| was fined 500.
/ Capt. D. M. Cochrane, Manitowoc,
for nineteen years general superin-
! tendent of the Goodrich Transit Co.,
|Shas announced his retirement from
| The post, though he will remain with
1
| succeeded by Capt. Franklin, former
| captain of the Goodrich steamer Indi.
ana and assistant TO Capt. Cochrane
| For sixty years Capt. Cochrane has
| been identified with the marine serv-
| Ice.
The first military funeral in Hori-
/ con took place when Gunner Charles
Dewitt BoutOn, 10, was laid to rest
1 The services, which were held at the
home of the gunner's parents, Mr.. and
| Mrs. Louis Bouton, were in charge of
Capt. Charles Hawks, mayor Of Hori-
con, The city band headed the pro
cession, followed by the home guards.
The active pallbearers were six sail
0rs. Twenty-Five sailors and soldiers
acted as honorary pallbearers.
/ Five counties report having public
health nurses in November, largely as
a result of the agitation carried on by
the local members of the child well
fare department. These counties are