Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-05-30

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charged soldiers for $3.50, landed Jack
! Heating in the Rock county Jail for
six months He could not pay the fine
! Of 500.
Robert M. Smith, Kenosha, former
captain of the Pioneer division Of the
a. e. F., returned to his post in the
| city engineers office He was a cap
tain of engineers.
| An acreage sufficient to insure a
great crop of sugar beets is available
| but labor is still in demand, according
| to officials of the Rock County Sugar
company, GAINESVILLE.
| Reviving a custom of years, the Ke-
nosha Elks will entertain more than
| 1000 children at the clubhouse, June
Ia, Flag day. During the war these
| parties were suspended.
| John Perry, president of the senior
class at the Sheboygan high school,
won $40 scholarship and silver
| medal by getting second place in the
oratorical contest at Appleton.
| The Manitowoc Aerie of Eagles
completed the purchase of site for
clubhouse in the heart of the bust
ness district and will go forward with
plans for erection of modern home.
Salt was started in circuit court at
Portage by the city of Portage against
John Rasmussen G Sons, contractors,
Oshkosh, involving $4,000. The city
alleges an unsatisfactory job OF brick
paving.
Faculty of the La Crosse normal
school is making elaborate plans for
celebration of the tenth anniversary
of the schools opening. A reunion
will be held June II with class din
ners in the evening.
While attempting to lift wash
boiler containing boiling water, Off
the stove, Mrs. Herman Wisch, She
boygan, suffered severe burns when
! the boiler was overturned. and the con-
tents spilled over her limbs.
The La Crosse common council re-
pealed an ordinance passed a year
ago, prohibiting use of wireworks Of
all descriptions in Fourth of July
celebrations The ordinance was
passed as a war conservation meas
ure.
Following the near-killing of a little
girl, who had strayed onto the rail
road bridge crossing the Fox river at
Neenah, the company has sounded the
warning that all trespassing on the
bridge in the future will be followed
by arrest.
George MacKove, Eau Claire, 26, re-
turned soldier, died of gunshot wounds
received while cleaning shotgun
which he didn't know was loaded. His
mother, Mrs. Frank MacKove, was in
the room and part of the charge bare
ly missed her.
The year-old child of William Wart-
ick, residing on farm near Wausau-
kee, drowned in a pail of water The
mother was washing and had the
water in the summer kitchen, when
the little one toppled in head first.
The mother was in an adjoining room
and did not discover the child until it
was dead.
Lake Winnebago will be well stock
ed with fish this year. About 1900
900 pike fry were put into the ba3
near the mouth of the Fox river.
Eighteen thousand eggs at the Osh.
kosh hatchery of the Wisconsin con
servation department will soon b>
Matched Part of these also will bt
placed in Lake Winnebago.
The new Catholic church, at Eat
Gale, Dunn county, erected by st
Henry's congregation at cost Of $50,
900 was dedicated. The service
were under the direction of the Ri
Rev. James Schwebach, ID, bishCl
of the La Crosse diocese. The neN
church takes the place of one de
stroyed by lightning in 1917.
Both Jefferson and Dodge counties
are to benefit by the receipt Of wa
motor trucks for use in highway work
part of the gift of the nation to tn.
various states from the supply pu-
chased by the war department durins
hostilities.> Commissioners Klug an,
Royce of Dodge and Jefferson coun
Ties Say d uuIuU6I VI L1uCho d1 . " w
assigned to these counties.
In a special message to the legisla
ture, Gov. Phillip submitted state
ments showing that the expense @
the state council of defense n Wis
consin to date has been $73,984.25.
statement of expenses in excess {,
500 to any one person is submittet-
The largest salary expense was A. Il
Melville, who acted as secretary @.
the council for a time He drew s.
1866 A number of members of til,
state council received varying SUM,
as per diem.
Officials of the Nash Motors plant
Kenosha, made the statement thai
unless they can add more men to theil
staff of mechanics, they can not meet
the demand for cars. Scarcity of liv
ing quarters is keeping workmen away
from the city. Charles r. Bixby.
United States department of labor, is
in Kenosha aiding the housing com
lnittee, which plans to build 5000
I,oforo oo1d x1roofbar in