Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-03-07

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Crosse for burial.
! The opening of a public milk depot
in La Crosse caused retail dealers to
reduce the price from II to 10 cents
quart. 1t is selling for 8 cents a
quart at the depot.
| According to the report of A. j.
O'Melea, county director, the sale OF
War Savings certificates and Thrift
stamps in Oneida county during 1918
amounted to $191, 1922.
Frank l.. Koppelberger, theater
man, and Frank r. Schwalbe, will
erect a 100000 moving picture thea
ter in La Crosse, with a seating ca
pacity of 1900 persons
Mrs. Michael Heigl, 81 years old, the
| oldest resident in Winnebago county,
lied while sitting in chair. She was
born in Vienna and had been a Nee
oah resident for sixty-three years.
| James E. Sanders, Oshkosh pioneer
resident, died at the age of II, after
an illness of ten days with pneumonia.
For many years he was general agent
for Milwaukee and Chicago newspa-
pers.
| Teachers in ManitowoC grade
schools have filed a petition with the
school board asking that the increase
denied them last fall be paid as
bonus. A 20 per cent increase was
asked for.
Over 1000 soldiers passing through
Marinette have been served with re-
freshments during ten weeks. The
total cost of this service was over
$500, and it is borne by the county
war board.
| Andres Urmanski and Fabian Kol-
ter, of Wausau, both IA years old, were
sentenced to the state refOrmatory at
| Waukesha for entering homes, de-
stroying property and carrying away
articles of value.
The United States Tractor company
| is the latest addition to MenaSha'S
| list of industries. The plant is now
being moved from Chicago, following
| the enlistment of Menasha capital in
the corporations business.
| w llldlu TcltCI, du SLuplCyo VI lHC
Wisconsin-M Minnesota Light and Power
company, Eau Claire, received serious
cuts to his eyes when a gas meter he
was repairing exploded. The accident
occurred in the company's shop.
Hugo Roeber, Milwaukee, 81 years
old, was sentenced to ten years in
Waupun, when found guilty by Munic-
ipal Judge A. G. Backus of an offense
against his daughter Hattie, at the
time she was Is years old. Roeber de-
MED the charge.
| Miss Hannah Murphy of Wausau-
kee, who received fractured nose
and other painful injuries when she
| tripped on loose steel gutter plate
| in a cement sidewalk, asks the Mari
nette town board for $50 damages and
| the doctors fees.
Judge Tully wants to appoint a
| probation woman for Kenosha county,
| but is handicapped ON account of the
| fact that there are no applications for
| the position. He has prepared ques-
| tiOnnaire, showing just what he re-
quires in the line of a probation Off
| Ger.
The Racine county jail was the
scene OF wedding ceremony, one
without decorations or music and with
| Thomas hahn, justice of the peace, Of
| ficiating. The parties to the cere-
| mony We're Mrs. Emily Gissel, SO years
| old, mother of six small children, and
| Stevan kikosicki. "a years old, who
| was a prisoner.
George &. Nooyan, son of Mr.. and
| Mrs. N. Nooyan of Appleton, died of
pneumonia at Allrich, Germany, Feb
| r. Just & few hours prior TO receiv-
| ing the telegram the father received
| letter in which George related his ex-
periences in the army of occupation
He apparently was in excellent health
when the letter was written.
Attorneys of the northern part of
| the state have adopted resolutions
| favoring the division of the circuit
which now includes Douglas, Wash
burn, Burnet, Barron and Polk coun-
| ties, and make one circuit of Douglas
county alone. In case this is done,
Judge James Robbins of Rice Lake
will be the candidate who will be in
dorsed by the bar. Judge w. r. Foley
| of Superior is now Judge of the pres.
ent district.
Two inmates of the Fond du Lac
| Catholic Home for the Aged persisted
when the home was destroyed by fire.
Three were injured, one probably
fatally, and a score of others suffered
from exposure when they were forced
| to flee into the cold clad only in their
night clothes. Sister Patricia did he
| roice rescue work until her arm was
fractured and she was taken to the
hospital. After she had helped many
OF the inmates to safety she entered
the building, which by that time was
a mass of flames, and found the body
of Mrs. Weinard. She continued her
attempts until she was injured. The
fire was discovered in clothes chute
shortly after many of the old people
had retn ed. Before it could be
checked il had spread to all parts of