Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-08-18
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The Simon hotel. one Of Madison's
oldest hostelries and the former stop
ping place Of Wisconsin legislators,
was sold by Orlando Cleveland to
Frank Stoldt, Evansville. The con-
!. sideration was not made public
The Rev. James Parker, who form
erly assisted the Rev. w. J. Davies Of
Eagle River in missionary work in
Villas county, is now enroute to India,
where he goes as a missionary educa-
tor to join the staff of one of the col
leges.
Prof. A. Sommerfeld, professor OF
mathematical physics at the Univer-
sity of Munich, will be in residence at
first semester Of the coming academic
year, holding the Carl Schurz memori-
al professorship In the university for
! that period.
President Harding is undecided as
to whether he will make his proposed
trip to Chicago to visit Mooseheart
late In August, but If he does make
this trip, indications are that he will
come to Madison Aug. 20, and partici-
pate in the Red Arrow field day staged
for the Thirty-second Division Vet
Grams association.
| George L. Ross. leading paper ma
chinery expert, who during more than
thirty years association with the
BeIoit Iron Works had installed many
of the largest paper making machines
in the country, died in Beloit at the
age of 81. He was a prominent Pythian,
Elk and a former National guard
officer.
Selection of five bankers to assist
the Is members OF the board Of direc-
tors of the Northern Cooperative
Tobacco pool in working out plan to
finance the 100000 pool, was auth
orized by members of the cooperative
association at a meeting in the as
sembly chamber of the capitol at
Madison.
DR.. N. Fl. Hewlett, federal inspec-
tor, has completed applying tests to
a,379 head of cattle belonging to 113
Of Washington county's farmers. Only
IS reactors to the test were found.
Washington county now has 1913 herds
under federal supervision for tuber-
oulosis. It Is the first county in Wis
consin to have Ave active cow testing
associations under federal supervision.
The car and machine shops of the
300 line at North Fond du Lac were
teopened after being closed since the
| beginning Of the strike. The round
house. which has been kept running
by small force, also has number Of
hew men employed in It. More than
loo men have been set to work in the
shops and 800 are expected to be work
Ing within the next few days.
One Of the strangest contracts in the
history of the state of Wisconsin was
signed at Kenosha when officials Of
| the city and Of the county signed an
agreement whereby sites were swap
ped" for the new court house and the
new high school building. The ex7
change was brought about by the
adoption of the civic center plan which
Is to be put into effect In Kenosha.
the sites were traded even.
| John A. Hess, North Fond du Lac,
and Mrs. William Ferguson, town Of
Byron, Fond du Lac county, were
killed and four other persons were
| injured when an automobile driven by
Herman Rosenow, North Fond du Lac,
ran down horse and buggy on high
/ way No. ID, short distance from
Byron. The injured are: Herman
Rosenow, Glenn Edgerton. John b.
hardt, all Of North Fond du Lac; and
William Ferguson, Byron. Mr.. and
Mrs. William Ferguson, in the rig, had
been attending a wake at the William
Mccullough farm in Byron and were
driving home when the accident oc-
eurred.
Two brutal murderers and a vicious
attack which may cost the life of a
third person nearly wiped out the Bal
Ger family on farm II miles west Of
Sank City on highway 80. julius Bal
ger, 81, and his sister, Mary, As, are
dead, and brother, William, "a, lies
In the Sank City hospital in critical
condition, with his skull fractured. All
three were beaten over the head with
slubs. Robbery is the motive imputed
to the slayers by Henry Bohn, district
attorney, who said he believed the
murders were the work of persons liv-
ing in the community, who knew the
aversion of the wealthy Blazers to
banks and safety deposit vaults. How
much loot the murderers took is un-
known. julius Balzer was beaten to
death in garage at the rear of the
farmhouse and William was left lying
tor dead near him. Mary APPARENT
tried to run and get help from neigh.
bors, but was overtaken by the MUIR.
derers, for her dead body was found
nearly 800 yards from the house, near
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