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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
HOLSTElN BREEDERS MEETING

Secretary J. A. Schmidt, of the
Rusk County Holstein Breeders rs.
sociation, has called a meeting Of
the executive Board of that ass2ci1-
ton to be held at the county repre-
sentative's office on saturday. FeJ-
ruary 3, for the purpose OF perfect
ing plans for the big annual meeung
Of the association to be held at IN
gram February 20.
Three Of the most prominent agri-
cultural workers in the state have
been engaged for that date. John
Curtiss, one of the most prominent
breeders in the county. has agreed
to give a demonstration Of the milk
ing machine and to serve dinner for
the visitors in his modern dairy barn
at Ingram. Perhaps this vii lie the
first banquet that was ever held in
a dairy barn in Rusk county.
The program will begin at 100 ana
continue during the afternoon and
evening" Alter the program III Inc
evening an entertainment will be civ
en- at which Luell's orchestra will
furnish the music. parties from
Ladysmith and west can go to In
gram on the morning freight and an
effort is being made to have the linn
tied stop at Ingram the following
morning in order that the visitors
may return at that time.
The merchants Of Ingram will offer
special bargains in all lines on the
goth as an inducement for every
farmer in the territory to be present.
Plan to be there February 20
G. NJ. HOUSEHOLDER,
County Representative.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
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PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
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New books Of fiction for the adult
and children's departments Of the
Public Library were received and put
into circulation last week. The non
fiction is being ordered.
The Following is a partial list OF
the adult books Of fiction:
Carleton, William-'One way Out
Dix, B. M-"Battle Months of
George Dauvella."
Lea, F. H.-"Chloe Malone"
Luehrman. Adele-"The, Curious
Case of Marie Dupont
Lynde, Francis After The Man
ner of Men"
Pryce, Observation-Disclosures
Sherwood, Margaret-"Tho Worn
Doorstep"
Wells, H. CHR. Brittling sees
1t Through
Rinehart, NJ. R.-''Tish."
"Mr. Brittling Sees 1t Through" is
not only Mr.. Wells best book, but
the best book so far published, con-
cerning the war.
THE Magnificent Adventure" by
Hough, is an historical novel giving
an account Of the Lewis ald Clark
expedition which reflects realistical-
ly the significance and magnitude OF
the task, it's difficulties and its tri-
umphs
New and attractive editions Of
''The Last Of The Mohicans," by
Cooper, "Treasure Island" by stew
enson, and "Oliver Twist" by Dick
ems are among the books added. IN
each order CT books, new editions Of
some of the standard works are in
Guided for the use Of the high school
students.
There are now four copies Of Helen
Hunt Jackson's Ramona" in the Ii
brary. Many are reading them before
it is presented at the Unique. Anoth-
er Travelling Library of forty-six vol
umes has just come from Madison.
The 1916 annual number Of the
READERS Guide" is here. This is
an index to the articles in the maya
zines of 1916 and is of great help in
reference work. The monthly num-
bers Of the READERS Guide" also
come to our Library and with the
aid Of these, material on current top
les may easily be found.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
The Year 1915 was a Very SakISfac
tory cne fer the state Bank
Of LadysmitIl

The annual stockholders meeting
Of the State Bank of Ladysmith was
held last Saturday. Last years board
of directors was reelected, as fol
lows: N. J. Smith, r. S. Johnson, R.
H. Burns, F. W. Tubbs, D. F. Clark,
R. o. and J. O. Sinclair. Officers Of
the bank remain the same for the
coming year.
The past years business was very
satisfactory, in fact the year 1916
was one of the most successful yet
experienced by the State Bank OF
Ladysmith. At this meeting, an s
percent dividend was paid for the
last 6 months
In the evening the annual banquet
was held at the Gerard Hotel.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
MAY ORGANIZE An ASSOCIATION
Movement on Foot to Organize LIVE
Stock Shipping Association

A farmers meeting was held at the
Rusk County Training School last
Saturday afternoon for the purpose Of
organizing a Cooperative Live stock
Shipping Association. The PROPOSE
ton was thoroughly discussed and a
temporary organization perfected.
Chairmen were appointed in each
community ajacent to Ladysmith
whose duties it will be to interest
their neighbors in the proposition. If
a sufficient interest is manifested a
meeting to perfect a permanent Cr-
ganization and elect officers will be
afternoon, February 10.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
YOUNG LIFE sNUFFED OUT

The entire community was shock
ed Monday to learn Of the death Of
Miss Mildred Allen daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs I. W. Allen, which occurred
early Monday morning. She was d
member Of the senior class in the
high school and was in school as
usual on Monday last week but te-
came i'll Tuesday with what was at
first diagnosed as cold, but grew
steadily worse, and when a doctor
from Ladysmith was called the case
was declared scarlet fever The fam
lily was at once quarantined. A young
er sister in the family had been i'll
but this case had been declared a
light case Of measles.
The remains were taken to cas-
talia, Iowa, the former home Of the
family where the funeral services oc
Cured Wednesday. The father, I. w
Allen and c. D. Birdsell, accompan
led the body to it's last resting place
Bruce Newsletter.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
FAIR MEETING MONDAY

The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Rusk County Agricul-
tural Society will he held next Mon
day evening at the city hall com
mencing at 700 p. m. All are urged
to be at the hall early, as Secretary
Miller will leave fer Madison On the
evening train
Officers reports will show The fl
nancial condition of the society and
the annual election Of directors will
take place. Directors will be elected
to succeed the following, whose
terms have expired: E. M. W0rden,
Thos. Baker, L. C. Streater.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
BANK AT CATAWRA

Catawba now has the convenience
Of a local bank, the Catawba state
Bank benig the name Of the new
financial institution which has just
opened up for business in a hand
some new building. The capital stock
is $4,000 and the officers are as
follows: President, John B. Gruber;
vice-president, .Chas. Peisker; cash
ier, Lewis F. Page.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
SHELDON

Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Stushek,
Friday, Jan. 26, a son.
r. L. Beveridge is much better but
does not, as yet, venture out any.
Mrs. w. S. Sergeant has been en-
joying an attack of grippe the past
three weeks.
Miss Mabel Bollom, Of Osseo is
visiting with her brother George Boil
lom and family
Archie Shultz has come home from
camp, having an attack of the rheu-
matism, his old enemy.
Walter Oetzman packed his suit
case and started for the west"
again one day last week.
w. S. Sergeant was in Ladysmith
Wednesday, and Thursday, on some
business of the Farmers ms Co.
Seats for the Congregational church
arrived here not long since, and are
stored against the erection of the
edifice early in the spring.
1t is reported that another case
of diphtheria has developed in
family in the Hause neighborhood al
though Mr.. Hause and children,
though still quarantined, are well.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
NET LARGE SUM AT SOCIAL
County Representative

A necktie social was given in the
new school house in District NO. 3,
Grant, Saturday evening, Jan 27. The
proceeds, which amounted to $3.50,
will be used in the purchase CT a
new organ.
Two sleighloads Of young people
from Ladysmith attended, among the
number being Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hoff, the Misses Wheeler, Beck, Ash
ley, Munth, Stevens and Levine, and
Messrs. Long, Gerard, Fridy, Woods,
Burdick, Hartman, Dokter, Norman
HOff, NJ. K and Alex. Stevens
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
SSEMBLYMAN MILLER HOME

Assemblyman Vance Miller came
home Saturday morning from Madi-
son, but will return to the state
capital the first Of next week. Yes
terday he was at Hayward, where a
hearing was held on proposed town
ship and school district division mat
ters. Another matter taken UP there
was the proposed reservoir dam
which the Minnesota Light & power
Co. wants to build in the Indian res
ervation and which cannot be car
ried through until land now outside
the reservation is added to the res
ervati0n to take place of the land
which will he flooded by the dam!
The land so given the Indians will
have to be freed from taxation, while
the land occupied by the dam and
covered by the flowage will thereaf-
ter be subject to taxation. Uncle
Sam doesn't intend that anyone is
going to beat his Indian wards.
Mr.. Miller will hold a hearing at
the courthouse here tomorrow in the
matter Of the proposed division of
the towns of True and Hawkins.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02

AS precautionary measure the
schools were closed this week to pre-
vent the spread of scarlet fever in
fection in the village. While it is
known that the entire school has
been exposed, no new cases have de-
veloped at this writing, and let us
hope that there will be none. AS a
precaution children should be kept
at home and at the first sign of any
suspicious SYMPTOMS, doctor should
be called. Much can be done to avoid
serious consequences by a prompt
treatment of most cases of infectious
diseases.-Bruce Newsletter.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
CHANGE AT HOTEL

H. S. Stoughton, OF Joplin, Mo-, has
purchased the dining room and kitch-
en- furniture Of the Manley hotel from
John Krcma and will take possession
Monday morning. Mr. Krcma will
retain the lodging part OF the busi-
ness and they will both use the same
office.
A lunch counter will be put in.
Regular meals and short orders will
be served.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02

Mrs. L. n. Edling returned Wednea-
day night from three-weeks' visit
with her own and her husbands par
ents at Lewis and Luck, respectively.
Roy Edling accompanied her home
and will visit here at his brothers
home for several weeks.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
IMPORTANT WATER POWERS DEAL
Appleyard Interests Sell Out tc Still
Larger Light and Power
Concern

By a deal which was completed
yesterday Mr.. l.. E. Myers Of the l..
E. Myers Co., one Of the largest op-
orators of light and power public
utilities in the country secured con
troll of all the Appleyard interests s
in Ashland and on the Gogebic
Range and hereafter he will be in
control of these properties. This is
good news for the people of the
northwest, for Mr.. Myers intends to
continue with the development Of all
the water power that the Appleyard
interests own in Northern wisconsin
and Michigan and which Mr. Apple
yard has been developing. When this
is done the company will have close
to $4,000 horse power
Mr. Appleyard, who has ever since
coming to Ashland, been one Of its
most wide awake and progressive bus
mess men will not leave Ashland
but will remain in charge Of the af-
fairs of the new owner, in fact there
will be no changes in the business
management Of the various plants.
Over Three Million lnvoNed
The various projects which Mr..
Myers will control from now On are
valued at over three million dollars
and consists Of the Ironwood & Bess-
mer Railway G Light Company, the
Ashland Light power & ST. Railway
Company and the Ashland power
Company, operating in Ashland, IRON
wood, Hurley, Bessemer and thirteen
other cities and towns.
Have Many PIarts
Mr.. Myers, by his purchase, has at
the present time in Northern Wiscon-
sin and Michigan, three steam elec-
trio plants, three developed and four
undeveloped water powers, one gas
plant, two water works systems. two
street railways and one interurban
railway. These control the electric
and gas power situation at Ashland
the Gogebic range and surrounding
cities.
President Myers Here
Mr.. Myers was in Ashland yester
day and completed the deal Mr.. My
ers company are operators and man
ayers of large and numerous pub
utility propositions in Wiscons
Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska and
er western states. At the present
time their interests secured yesterday
in this vicinity consist of eleven thou
sand horse power in steam plants and
five thousand in hydro electric pow
er. Thirty five hundred horse power
more is being developed at the pres
ent time on the Montreal river and
the company owns undeveloped pow
er of approximately twenty thousand
horse power more. This will be de-
velOped in the near future. shland
Daily Press.
The above named interests, sold
to the L. e. Myers Co., now own the
Ladysmith Lighting Co. and the Big
Fails power site.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02

County Clerk, F. E. Munroe, has
been on the sick list this week.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-02-02
BOUNTIES

B. H. Davis, Atlanta, one wolf, one
wildcat.
Ira Calkins, Rusk, two wolves.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12

OUR Tax Commission, trinity of con-
fusion, has become an avowed advocate
of Henry Georges single tax theory,
which it learnedly discusses as if it
were something recently extracted from
it's own brain. When the country ad
iusts itself to any system of taxation,
no matter what the theory may be, he
who tries to disturb it is a business
wrecker pure and simple. In view of
the fact that taxing is the exercise of
an arbitrary power, without the tinge
of equity in it, and that there is no
such thing as scientific taxation, or
scientific tax laws, the proposition now
made to place all governmental burdens
on land, thereby adding to the burdens
of the farm and home, will cause an
uprising among the farmers and home
owners that will result in hurting from
power those responsible for the change.
You cannot have scientific or equitable
arbitrariness, which the power to tax
is, and has been so dominated by every
court called upon to consider the effect
of its operation. The fact that our
Tax Commission proposes the change
ought of itself to be sufficient reason
to condemn it, for if there be an his
torical fact connected with the work it
has done, it is the absolute lack of
practicability which charactizes every
suggestion it has ever made on the sub
iect of taxation. -MadisOnian.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12
Early Artificial Limb.

There is preserved In the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons. London. what is prob
ably the very earliest specimen extant
OF an artificial leg. This remarkable
limb is considerably over 1000 years
old. having been unearthed in 1885
from tomb at Capua. which was built
at least as far back as 300 B. c. Yet
for beauty of shape and carefulness OF
construction it might vie with many OF
those turned out today. 1t is made
with pieces of thin bronze. fastened by
bronze rivets to hollow wooden core
and is modelled SO as to accurately rep
resent the form of real leg. The out
side is believed to have been enameled
flesh color. and the upper part of the
artificial leg was connected with the
living stump by means of circlet OF
sheet bronze edged with small rivets
probably used to fasten a leather lin
ing.-Pearson's
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12
Fresh Air Sleepers Should Be
Warmly Clad and Covered

The North Carolina board of health
gives the following advice to fresh air
sleeperS:
People cannot expect to sleep warm
in cold weather whether their windows
are open Or not without first making
preparation for it. This requires, first,
Soft warm night clothing that covers
the arms and feet; second, plenty Of
light, warm covering, preferably wooden
blankets, which are lighter and warmer
than quilts; third, soft, thick bed
that let's no air in from underneath;
fourth, warm bathr0be and slippers
that will enable one to get in bed warm.
One of the essentials for sleeping
comfortably in cold fresh air is going
to bed warm in warm night clothes.
If necessary, nightcap and eiderdown
foot warmers should be worn. The
bed should be more than a thin mat
tress. One can get cold for lack Of COW
ering underneath as well as on top. A
cold sponge bath in the morning will
not only make fresh air sleeping easier
and more delightful, but it will create
such resistance to cold that thinner
clothes may be worn and less covering
needed at night
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12

Too MUCH legislation; too manystat-
utes; too much court formality; too
much red tape-thus Circuit Judges G..
w. Burnell of Oshkosh and Chester A.
Fowler of Fon du Lac sum up the chief
defects of the courts and the law, at a
recent meeting of the circuit judges in
Milwaukee. The soundness of the crit
cism is evident. AS Judge Fowler says
too much red tape is the bane of our
judicial procedure. There are too many
useless formal frills; too much techni-
cality, too many loopholes, too many
senseless frills, too much unfathomable
cOmpleXity, too many nice legal points,,
too many ways of delaying and even
defeating justice and adding to the cost
of court action. Judge Burnell says
''our legislature has butted into nearly
everything under the sun" Everybody
knows we have too many laws. We
have laws for everything; what we
shall eat, wear, drink, enjoy; where
and when we shall go and come; when,
where and how we shall work, under
what conditions and how long-in fact
we live under and by artificial law. We
are overlawed and were all laws en-
forced we should all be outlawed We
are lawed from the day Of birth to the
day of burial; nearly half Of our laws
are never enforced and many of the
others are needless. Elimination and
simpliication-to the mind of the lay
man, these two processes properly ap-
piled would remedy many laws and
court defects. Eliminate useless and
unnecessary laws; legislate for .pur-
pose and make the law fit that purpose;
Il.
procedure; simplify legal language
make simple justice the primary aim
Nouc
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12

1T IS tax paying time when people
begin to study the receipts and ask
themselves what are all these increase
of items for. There is some food for
analysis and thought in a quotation
from the letter of Ellis B. Usher of
Milwaukee, sent out to the press of
this state, and we commend to care
full reading of every taxpayer: evils
consin has not only been taxing its peo-
pie from four to six times what it did
before the days of La Toilette, but it
has used the increased assessment as
basis for municipalities and other civil
divisions to run in debt. The two things
have gone together as they always do.
The spendthrift never lives within his
income, no matter what it is. Does
anybody suppose that the wealth of
Madison, or its ability to pay, has in
creased more than six times, while its
population has increased less than so
per cent? 1t is not Madison's fault. 1t
is the fault Of a system of public ex-
travagance. 1t is not confined to one
city nor to any section Of the state. 1t
is q general and alarming condition.
Moreover it is a state of things that
will grow worse, as it has done stead
ily for the past sixteen years, since
Mr.. La Toilette taught his disciples to
damn corporations and spend all the
money taxes could drain from the peo-
pie, for the taxes all come ultimately
out of the pockets of men who produce
something. Public service corporations
are not producers. They get their
earnings out of service for those who
do produce, md who pay all the public
bills. Such figures as those of Madison
should suggest that the people are car
rying the load. But says the apologist
for this growing burden: Just see
what you get for your money. The
state does so much more for its people
than it used to- Who is the slater
Don't the people pay their own bills?
If they don't the money to do it is bor-
rowed on their paper and their homes
are mortgaged for it. !"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12
Sy@t1 -4 ,EEssg9.

I asked al ltaIiaf who speaks cor
rect English which language his chill
dren learned to write more readily,
italian or English.
italian" said he Your English
words don't sound the way they look "
To show what this poor man had in
mind l shall quote some suggestions
given to me by one of the most famous
scholars, philosophers and professional
men in America. They show what a
curlicue language English is:
If daughter equals dawter and
slaughter equals slaWter. why does not
laughter equal lawter?
Put it vice versa. and. if laughter is
LATTER why is not daughter dafter and
slaughter SLATER?
Enough is enuff. but cough is not
cuff However. if cough is cawf
shouldn't enough be enawf?
Plough is pronounced pillow. and
bough is bow. but cough is not COW
Moreover, little Italian. knowing
that cough is pronounced coff. is liable
to spell the cup of morning beverage
cough ee.-Philadelphia Ledger
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12
Fried Chicken.

Cut one chicken as for fricassee.
wash clean and put in stewpan with
as much water as will cover. Sprinkle
with large spoon of salt and let boil
till tender. Keep pan covered as much
as you can. When boiled enough pour
off liquor, take chicken out of pan and
put half cupful of butter or lard in
pan. Put into pan large onion sliced
and let fry till brown, often shaking
pan. Make batter of two eggs and
half cupful of milk or water and beat.
Dip chicken into this and put in pan to
fry till brown. often shaking pan.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12

THE health instruction bureau of the
state has issued a statement saying
that one thing that everybody should
know concerning disease germs is that
they are not leaping or flying animals.
AS rule, they are small plants with
no more disposition to leave their homes
than has seaweed to leave the water.
While disease germs may occasionally
live for long time outside the warm
body of victim, they do not thrive
under such circumstances. What we
most need to guard against is the direct
transference of disease germs from a
warm, moist breeding place in one per-
son to an equally favorable garden spot
in another. Coughing, sneezing and
splitting are the greatest "seeders' of
CONTAGIOUS diseases.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12
The New and Old Geology.

In it's early history geology present
cd two schools-one insisting on doc
trine of "catastrophes.' the other on
a doctrine of uniformity" The for.
mer regarded the changes which have
manifestly taken place in our planet
as having occurred at epochs abruptly
while the other school, reposing On
the great principle of the invariability
of the laws of nature. insisted that af
FAIRS had always gone on in the same
way as they do now. 1t is hardly nee
essary to say that the latter theory has
driven the old theory of catastrophe
completely from the field.-New York
American.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12
Bio William Penn.

The statue of William Penn at the
city hall in Philadelphia weighs thirty
tons and is thirty-seven feet high
Some other dimensions are: Hat rim.
twenty three feet in circumference;
nose, thirteen inches long; eyes, twelve
inches long and four inches wide: hair
four feet long; arms, twelve feet six
inches long; waist, twenty-four feet
in circumference; legs, from ankle to
knee, ten feet; calf, eight feet eight
inches in circumference.