Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-04-09

Frank Hanning is a patient lin hos
pital at Chippewa Falls as a result OF
receiving heavy charge of fine shot.
in one of his arms as result OF the
accidental discharge of a shotgun.
Physicians hope to save his arm,
which is badly shattered.
Sluice gates at the Neenah and Me-
nasha dams have been opened to re-
duce the water level in the lake and
river and great volumes Of water are
now finding an outlet through the
lower Fox to the Great Lakes.
Mayor Mechanic, Hayward, has been
informed by Representative A. P. Mel
son of the Eleventh Wisconsin con
gressional district that Hayward is to
be presented with. an artillery field
piece. The gun is one captured by the
French army from the Germans.
Conductor John Misslen of the 500
line was severely scalded in an acct
dent which occurred in the caboose OF
his train at Owen. A basin containing
boiling water was Jared from the
stove when the train came to sudden
stop. the water hitting him full in the
face.
John Leuthi, a Rusk county farmer,
| has a family Bible which was printed
| in Switzerland in 1772. 1t has 1850
| pages, picture and maps and meas
ures ten inches wide, sixteen inches
| long and four inches thick The COW
ers are boards one half inch thick and
are covered with hog skin, the corners
being edged with tin. The book is in
a good state of preservation.
| The Milwausee-Oconomo Water
town road is 10 be kept open for auto
| traffic this spring, in SO far as the JEFF
| ferson county portion is concerned.
| The road and bridge committee of JET
| ferson county held meeting at Water
| town and plans were laid to keep the
road passable. Posters are to be
| placed limiting loads which may be
carried over bad portions OF the high
/ way.
Truman Rice, 95, one of the oldest
| residents of central Wisconsin, is dead
at his home in Stevens Point. lie
came to Wisconsin in 1856, residing
| for time at Plover, and later at Me-
| Dill. He was a veteran of the Civil
war. His fourth wife, suries him. One
son and one daughter, several grand
| children and great-grandchildren also
| survive He learned to ride bicycle
at 70.
Farmers in the towns of Oak Grove
| and Clyman, seeking the convenience
Of electric lighting III their homes anu
Hairy barns, have contracted for an ex
| tension OF the Juneau city service line
| zen miles to accommodate thirty farm
| homes The cost is $4,000, and when
| The line is completed in August the
city of Juneau will take it over for
operation and maintenance as part OF
| It's lighting and power system.
ELAN Beardsley, a. FARMER near Ra-
cine, missed three colts and heifer
recently. He found the colts, but the
| heifer never came back. A short time
later he saw a pelt on sale which he
| recognized as that Of the missing
| heifer. He learned that it had been
procured from Alvin Heimbauch,
| 1eighboring farmer near Waterford.
jury in the Racine Municipal court
found Heimbauch guilty of larceny o.
| he heifer, which was valued at SIS.
Carl Garthwaite committed suicide
at the home of his brother-in-laW,
eight miles north Of Lancaster. His
| body was discovered hanging from a
| oeam in the barn. He had tied rope
o the beam and jumped off, choking
himself to death. Carl was an ex
soldier, having spent twenty-five
months in France He had been on
| i've battle fronts, and had suffered
arom shell shock. He was recently
married, and for some time has Wor
| lied over money matters
Vernon county, Wisconsin, gets its
name from George Vernon Weeks,
Lyons, Walworth county, who cele
| grated his eighty-second birthday
Mar 13 and has been a resident of the
county for seventy eight years. The
| county nowSknOWn as Vernon was at
first known as Bad Axe county, but
The settlers did not like this name, as
t sounded too warlike At that time
the county judge was Sylvester Fish,
who came from near Buffalo, n. Y,
and was a boyhood friend Of Mr..
Weeks. At the suggestion of Judge
Lincoln, the name of the county was
changed to Vernon in honor of his
friend.
Opening the 1920 travelling clinic
program of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuber-
culosis association, physicians con-
Quoted free chest examinations in Eau
Claire DR.. J. w. Coon, medical di
rector of the River Pines tuberculosis
sanatorium, Stevens Point, and presi
dent of the association, with two mem
bers of the staff, DR.. Oscar Lott, med
ical director of the clinic activities,
and DR.. A. A., Pleyte, are the examin
ers A total of more than $500 people
were examined at the clinics conduct
. ed last year, and of this number re-