Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-06-25


son.
The First National, the Merchants
and Savings bank and the Wisconsin
Trust company of Madison, have been
National bank Louis M Hanks, presi-
dent of the trust company, will head
the new bank.
A five-day campaign of social and
health work was conducted through
out Bayfield, county under the direc-
ton of Miss Martha Riley, director of
social work for the Wisconsin state
/ board of health, assisted by Miss Anna
Thompson, county visiting nurse.
Charles H. Everett, editor of the
| Wisconsin Agriculturist, of Racine,
who represented the Third senatorial
district Of Wisconsin for one term, an
nounced his candidacy for the Repub-
/ lican nomination for lieutenant gov
ernor at the primaries in September.
Francis McCue, % years old, and
Francis Cunningham of GAINESVILLE,
Rock river, and both were drowned.
/ The two young men had been attend
ing a picnic up the river six miles.
They were upset in the wake of d
launch which was making high speed.
William Jensen and B. A Nordall
were killed and four were seriously
injured when gas tank in the ma
chine shop of the Flambeau Paper
company at Park Falls, exploded. DR..
HOrheim, one of the four seriously in
jured, was burned while going through
the blazing building searching for in
jured.
DR.. G. III. Gephart answered a call
from the Kenosha hospital Walking
into the operating room, he discovered
his four-year-old son, Curtis, laying
upon the table. He was overcome as
he pronounced the child dead. The
child's skull was fractured when
struck by an automobile driven by
Mrs. Samuel Newman.
Watertown has a freak of nature in
a little chick, one of ten Matched from
White LeghOrn eggs. The chick has
four legs, one pair in the natural posi-
ton and the other the reverse. The
chick appears to be very strong and is
the liveliest of the bunch. When
walking, it raises the hind legs but
when standing it rests on all four legs.
About fifty log drivers, mostly In
dams, reached Ladysmith, having just
completed the drive for the F'lambeau
River Lumber company. There are
now millions of feet of logs in the
Flambeau river above the booms
awaiting the sorting crews. The
young redskins who worked on the
drive this season were paid $6 per day
and board.
When she became Respondent over
love affair, Violet Jackson, p, of
Menasha, placed the muzzle OF a 80
caliber revolver to her temple and
pulled the trigger. But fate inter
vened. A blank cartridge was in the
chamber. After her attempted sui
eide, Miss Jackson phOned to a friend,
who in turn informed the police. She
is now in the hospital.
The First Baptist church at Honey
Creek, near Racine, was completely
wrecked when a gasoline stove in the
basement Of the church exploded and
then set fire to the WreckaGe. The
loss is estimated at $4,000. Chill
dren's services had been held in the
church earlier in the day and it is
thought that before leaving some of
them lit the burners on the stove.
Teachers of the Green Bay public
schools will receive an increase in pay
ranging from "a to Al per cent during
the next school year, it was an
nounced by Supt. A. w. Burton, fol
lowing a meeting of the board Of edu-
cation The total increase in salaries
will be $50,370. The minimum pay of
grade school teachers will be $1,000,
and of high school teachers, $500.
The First Presbyterian church of
Wausau will open a camp for boys
and girls at Clear lake beginning July
l. The Rev. F. W. Eastwood will have
charge of the camp. The younger
boys of the church will be first to
leave for the camp and will remain
there for ten days Then group Of
girls will go up for ten days and the
last ten days of the month will be
given over to the older boys.
Michael De BartellO, an Italian ac-
cused of shooting Peter Malinero, in
Memorial day fight, appeared at the
office of Dist Atty Fisher, Jr., at Ko-
nosha, and confessed to the crime. He
was released on bonds of $4,000. He
was charged with attempted murder.
He said he had been in hiding at
Grand Rapids, Mich. The shooting
followed remarks made about Annie
De Bartello, dauphter Of the accused
man.
Only one Green Bay brewery has
been adjusted to meet the new order
of things now that the eighteenth
amendment has been declared consti-
tutional. The Hagemeister Brewing
company's plant has been converted
to the manufacture of ice cream on
a large scale, but the Rahr Brewing
company and the Hochgreve Brewing
company have made no plans for the