Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-03-26

| BUSINESSMEN CT Bruce SUBS cflDoQ
| $1,000 in less than one hour towara
Rusk county's $1,0OO,Oo0 land clearing
project, at the regular monthly bust
nessmen's supper.
Mrs. Maud Ramsey, 81 years old,
noted elocutionist and wife Of c. j.
Ramsey, agent of the Milwaukee road
at Racine Junction, died of influenza
after brief illness.
! At the largest cattle sale ever held
In Sheboygan county 200 full hloods
and 125 high grade Holstein cattle
were disposed OF for a total of $4,000
at Plymouth.
The county jail at Racine has an
eight months old lion Cub as mascot.
The animal was presented to Sheriff
Lutter and has been housed in cell at
the institution pending the building of
more suitable quarters.
Mrs. Albert Abraham, 70, was found
dead at her home, IL miles north of
CclfaX, by her daughter who lives near
there Mrs Abraham lived on the
farm for more than thirty years and
! is survived by her husband, who is So.
After Beloit police had searched
Rock river all night for his body, Will
: liam futile walked into the police sta
tion and offered himself for arrest. He
had left his coat and hat on the river
bank with note saying that because
! Of domestic troubles he was about to
drown himself He will be examined
for his sanity.
! Eva Fairbanks, IS, daughter of Lee
roy Fairbanks, north side citizen OF
La Crosse, will have seven days in the
county jail to determine whether she
can overcome her antipathy to school
! rooms. She repeatedly refused to go to
school and Judge Brindley finally de-
cided that drastic methods were neces-
sary to convince the girl she must
| have an education.
TIL Brown county fair will be en-
larged to a district fair this year and
will be called the Northwestern Wis
consin fair The grounds will be i'm
proved by the erection of stock barns,
horse barns and by an addition to the
grandstand A water and sewerage
system will be installed. The county
board OF supervisors has appropriated
$40 eco for the purpose.
Trial of DR.. j. A. Freudenberg of
Markesan, charged with numbering his
rich mother-inlaw, was continued to
March % at the request of the prose
cution. Illness of Mrs. Grace Brehl,
important state witness, was the rea-
son presented for asking the delay. In
the meantime pathOlogistS at Madison
are examining the organs of Alfred
Duffiies husband of the yoman.
The tiniest mite of baby ever born
in Sheboygan is that of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mike Posawac The midget was born
three weegs ago, weighing at birth one
and half pounds, but apparently sat
isfied with her surroundings, the in
FAINT started immediately to add 10 her
weight and now tips the scales at
three pounds. The baby's mouth is
80 small that rubber pple must be
squeezed into it for feeding.
The fact that a marriage is absurd
does not justify a court in granting
divorce in the opinion of Judge E. G.
Higbee, La Crosse, who denied the Pc
tition of Emma Narverson for a sepa-
ration from Thomas Narverson. Both
had been married before and were the
parents of mature children when they
welded She alleged non-support and
drunkenness, neither of which charge
was proven in the opinion of the
court.
A new outbreak of hog cholera in
Jackson, Trempealeau and Richland
counties has been reported to the state
department of agriculture. Reports
indicate that the disease has gained
foothold at Hexton and Taylor in
Jackson county; Whitehall and Osseo
in Trempealeau. and near Blue river
in Richland county. Farmers in the
vicinity of the infected territory are
advised to protect healthy hogs by the
use of serum and virus treatment.
Charles Bodine, 65 years old, and q
painter, had his foot snapped off, and
suffered probably fatal injuries when
an elevator at the Girnan & Son Co..
wagon and carriage plant, at Eau
Claire dropped three stories carrying q
heavy Cadillac car. J. c. Plumby and
Charles Strang, painters, were inter-
nally injured, but not fatally, it is be-
leved, while Andrew Olson who also
was on the elevator miraculously es
capped with only a cut under the eye.
twenty-five people were hurt when
passenger Train No. 116 of the North
western line was derailed south of
Oshkosh as the result of damage to
the rails caused by the heavy rams
which fell throughout eastern Wiscon-
sin. Four of the coaches were turned
over OH their sides and that there
were no deaths or more serious in
juries is due to the fact that the
coaches were of steel. On the 500
line south of Oshkosh, bridge WAS
washed out.
AS result of a vigorous protest
against the proposed installation Of