Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-11
GRAN
Special Correspondence

There is some talk of organizing
small stock company for the pur-
pose of starting a paper in Crane.
Every time the wind blows from
the south we smell the breath of a
town going dry-gets stronger each
time.
The annual school meeting was
held in the schoolhouse Monday
evening. Tom Husom was awarded
the contract for painting the building.
E. Nelson, of Curtiss, visited his
brother between trains Monday, go
ing back to COnrath on the 2:4O
limit, where he will oversee the
starting Of new creamery Tuesday
morning.
Thanks, Weary, for your cordial
invitation to the stump pulling con-
test and thanks again for the offer
of "big eats" but we've eaten up SO
many big stumps down here this
spring that our appetites are thor
oughly satisfied.
G.. E. Cooper was in the village
this week in the interest of the WIS
consin Logging & Mfg. Co. They
are having some trouble in getting
cars fast enough to load out cedar
for the orders the company have on
| hand for immediate shipment.
Some of our settlers are talking
seriously CD of having a special
meeting of the town board to de-
termine what has become Of a GER
tain sum of money which they think
has been accidentally lost track Of.
The exact amount is unknown, but
they sum it up as enough to buy
| Ford"
Good boy Weary-You're not as
dead as We chunk" SO your see
ing the bright spots in Crane al
ready-Fan it-Fan it brother where
there's a spark of life that large,
it's worth saving And now that you
admit there are three live ones down
here, can't you wake up two more
up there-it must be lonely. It's hard
to take your own medicine but a
little of that famous Ketch-up you
speak of might put you back in the
lime-light.
A new settler landed with his axe
and dinner pail on his new hOme-site
last Friday. His name is Rhinehart
and he weighs 225 pounds. He
brushed acres the first day and
left the next morning for Lady
smith. He wants another 40 Of the
famous Hassett and bureau farm
i lands. At Ladysmith, he let con-
tracts for the erection Of a house
and barn and the digging of we'll,
on his place And he bought the
other forty.
The County Highway Commission
er appeared on the new Chippewa
bridge Monday for the purpose of
letting the contract for building the
approaches. He is sure some auc-
tioneer. He also has a big heart.
After some hard bidding and getting
a few of us hungry settlers bidding
against each other until the job was
SO cheap that the jobber couldn't af-
ford rice for meals, he refused to let
a $500 job for $265, saying the coun-
ty could do it for less. We haven't
a job now, so We are going to set
on the bridge, fish and watch the
county "do it, Then We'll know
how to do the next. one cheap.
At a special meeting last Friday,
it was voted to refund to the tax
payers of the town Of Hubbard, their
proportionate share of $78383 which
they were over-taxed last year on
account of an error of 100000 in
crease in the towns valuation. A
resolution with flowers on it was al
SO presented to the board asking the
town of Hubbard to set aside the
sum of $500 for the purpose Of help
ing to build a one-half mile of road
with the supposition that the town
Of Flambeau and the county would
bring over on a tray, like amount.
This is at the rate of $500 a mile.
HID WIS that weary" have you any
settlers up there yet that gets a
paved street and sidewalks?
Come To Crane
We don't care who's President here,
Nor the amount Of tax that's put on
beer.
Our COWS give milk in the same old
way,
And the hens have never refused to
lay.
The ladies here are looking fine,
And the men are busy all the time?
Our girls are pretty and sweet as
pie,
! And you never hear a baby cry
Chorus
Casey Jones-We've got a dandy
town;