Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-12-05
special GlecfiOn will be held in

Marathon county on Dec. 80 To- voters
to decide on the proposed bond issue
for $4,0000OO for the building OF good
Forrand, Grand Rapids, stopped in
Montana long enough to shoot an elk,
which he is shipping to Grand Rapids
lodge of Elks.
Although his automobile turned a
complete somersault when he lost con-
troll of the machine, Philip Froehlke,
Neenah, teacher, escaped with only
minor injuries. The car was totally
wrecked.
The Luxemburg Telephone company
of Luxembourg has applied to the state
railroad commission for an increase in
rates, alleging that the present rates
are inadequate to keep up operating
expenses.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fenske, old Tomah
resident, had attended a wedding, went
home, placed on table a basket she
had carried, and toppled over dead.
Her husband, laborer in the Milwau-
kee railway shops, found her on his
return for supper.
Socialist party leaders comment fav-
orably on speeches of James Thomp-
son, La Crosse, candidate for y. S. sen
ator two years ago against |. l.. Len
root, and believed to be tentative
candidate for the same Or another Of
flee in the future. He was put up for
senator by the La Toilette Republicans.
twenty-five hundred licenses had
been issued in Ashland county when
the deer season opened. 1t is estimated
that a large percentage of this num-
Der went into the woods, and in addi-
ton many outsiders from the central
and southern part of the state. Deer
carcasses have begun coming into Ash
land
After three campaigns to establish
a county nurse in Wood county, the
county board for the third time turned
down the proposition, 10 to q. The
efforts to locate a nurse there were
made by the Federated WOmen's clubs
III anu ItdpluS, WIZ Ou6Ht W tAS
board speakers to explain the benefits
of the office.
Asst Chief John B. Conroy and Capt
Nicholas Reiter have started on their
twenty sixth year of continuous service
in the Appleton fire department. They
entered the service when the depart
ment was organized on a paid basis a
quarter of century ago Chief George
P. MCCLELLAN joined the department two
weeks after his assistants.
George H. Landgraf, for eighteen
years city superintendent of schools at
Marinette, has been appointed as field
agent under the vocational board and
the state board of education to aid in
the administration of the soldiers edu-
cational law He will assume his new
duties on Jan. /. The salary of the
position is $4,000 annually.
Buck Wilson, Beloit negro, who
murdered Mrs. Inez Hobson, a COM
panion on an automobile trip to Rock
ford last June, was sentenced to life
imprisonment in the Illinois state peni-
tertiary at Joliet by Judge r. X. Welsh
in Rockford: The prisoner stood I'M
moved and silent as his sentence was
passed, and made no statement. He
had pleaded guilty.
The Oscar Mayer Packing Co.
opened for business at Madison. In
addition to adding an important COM
mercial enterprise to that city, one
that will employ some 200 wOrkmen,
the opening is especially important in
that it supplies large market for
farmers of Dane and adjoining c0un-
ties The call has gone out for hogs,
cattle and sheep, and the company is
receiving shipments.
The old Beaver brewery at Black
River Falls has been purchased by the
Wisconsin Canned Food Co., Fairchild,
and is being remodeled and will be
used for a canning factory for peas
and for manufacturing of jams and
jellies, ice cream and soda fountain
supplies During the summer months
the company will employ about $50
people and about Is people will be EN-
pIoyed the year round.
The salary of the Dodge county
Judge was increased $500 a year, The
county clerk also was raised 500 a
year, the treasurer 500 and the clerk
of courts $500 a year. A deputy clerk
is to be hired. Theodore Klink was
reelected highway commissioners, Mich
olas Klink. Dodge county poor farm
superintendent. e. Pfaff, purchasing
agent, and County Agent Brown re
tanned for another year.
concrete bridge will be built
across the Pecatoniea river In Darling
ton next spring that will cost 10000
The bridge now in use was erected
sixty years ago, and was recently de
clared unsafe by the state highway
commission Greatly increased traffic
during the past season has twice
caused the bridge to be replanked
Heretofore, replanking was necessary
only every three or four years.
When the little daughter of Herman