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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
PROsP PECT5 GREAT
FOR The FAIR
MORE ADVANCE CATTLE EX-
H!BiTs THAN AT THE COM
PLETE FAIR LAST YEAR
FINE RACING PROGRAM ARRANGED
Additional EXHIBIT Space Being AR
ranged--Disp4ay of Rusk Prod
Ucts to be Unequalled

Three weeks before the opening of
the Rusk county fair, these facts
stand out boldly.
More entries for cattle now than
when entries closed in 1916.
More exhibit space arranged and
all Will be taxed to capacity.
Better and bigger. exhibit OF prod
ucts than ever before.
Best exhibit by the potato club.
Five towns already entered in COM
petition.
Frank T. stare secretary is busy
gttinag everything in ship-shape. For
the care of cattle shown stalls and
managers have been put in the cat
tie sheds The exhibit building has
been put in good shape. Men are
at work preparing for 100 feet addi-
tional space under the grand stand.
H. w. True and Mr.. Stare were in
Rice Lake Thursday and Mr.. True
got some pretty good racers lined
up.
The outlook is that the horseflesh
shown in the racing events will be
about the best on the fair circuit.
BlakeNs Animal Circus will give a
free show twice every day with dogs
and monkeys and ponies.
The Christensens in a startling Sc
ries of aerial acts will help enter
tain the crQrds twice daily.
The program is being made. TWO
events have been fixed. Rusk Coun-
ty Iowa Day and Senator Kenyon
and Gov. Harding are now both ex-
pected. That's on Thursday, sept.
81 The 2Sth is school day.
The fair management expects all
records to be broken for both exhib
it's and attendance if the weather is
at all good.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
RUSK GETS CATTLE DISEASE
Sawyer County Epidemic Spreads to
Few Herds Over the Line

During the past week many cases
of hemOrrhagic septicaemia have
come to light in Rusk county and
DR.. Kinyon, who telegraphed for
serum at the. development of the
first case, had inoculated a total of
so head by Monday. The first case,
and most of the other cases showed
up around Bruce and Weyerhaeuser,
herd on the McDOnald farm being
the first attacked.
Since then there have been cases
in almost all parts Of the county,
one only proving fatal.
Sawyer county has been having
trouble for several weeks and cases
have appeared in other adjoining
counties.
The disease shows first in the
staring eyes Of the cattle attacked,
watery eyes also, loss Of oppetite
and high fever, occasionally in sew
eral cases blood will appear in nos
trils or clots be passed. 1t is a
blood disease, the germ being found
mostly in marshes which have dried
out. 1t attacks young cattle though
the older ones are not immune.
The serum is a sure prophylactic,
and cattle inoculated will not get
the disease, and for those already
is almost certain cure.
DR.. Enger has been inoculating
cattle having had number of cases
north and west of Ladysmith. He
reports the disease as being abso-
lutely controlled by the serum and
has lost no animals after admins
tering treatment.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
FORCHETTE REPORTS FOR DUTY
Final instructions to Send Rusk
County Man to Cantonrent
Net Yet Received

Joseph Forchette, drafted first
from Rusk county reported to Coun-
ty Clerk Munroe as he had been no.
titled to do, on Monday, ready to
go to the Rockford cantonment.
Mr. Munroe has expected specific
instructions in reference to sending
five per cent of Rusk's quota Of two
but up to this morning had received
no definite instructions from the ad-
jutant generals office. AS stated
in the News-Budget last week, tick
ct. meal arrangement and all had
been made for Forchette, and had
the soldier so desired he could have
remained in town and the county
would have given him subsistence
and domicile.
But Forchette wanted to go back
to his employer, Mr.. Mitchell, east
OF town and promising to hustle to
town when called. has gone back
waiting for the word.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
RURAL PHONE RATES
WILL BE RAISED
Booost in Price of Wire Talk to be
Made October

Rural Telephone Company's rates
are to be increased Oct. 1. The state
r. R. Commission has given permis-
sion. Business phones will cost $1.85
instead of $3.50 and $1.75 and resi-
dences phones $1.35 as against $1.OO
and $1.25 heretofore. There is a ten
centrebate if bills are paid promptly.
The Rural Telephone CO. has $50
subscribers and the Railroad com.
mission granted the increase because
the rates charged were not sufficinet
to cover expenses though the com
pany's Affairs were most economical-
ly administered.
The officers of the company are
Sam Johnson, president, T. M.
Thomas, vice president, A. J. Laid
law, secretary and treasurer.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
WANTS SALOON TO PAY MORE
Tony Citizens Will Have Chance to-
Vote on Higher License for
"GoId Mine"

Preliminary steps are being ta-
ken to raise the license of the sa-
loon at Tony from 5000 to $500. The
question is likely to be voted on as
soon as it can be put up to the
people.
Those who favor such move
point to the fact that the saloon
comes close to being a gold mine.
1t is alleged that it is no seldom
case where the liquor shop does
business of $400 on a saturday, in
credible as this amount may seem,
and that the saloon can we'll afford
to pay back the receipts of two
Saturdays a year for the privilege
Of cleaning up huge profit for fifty
other Saturdays to say nothing OF
the other days of the week.
The ''Whiskey Bottle Trail, other
wise the road from Ladysmith to
Tony, is worn deep in dust, help
ing to increase the saloons reve-
nues.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
TONY FARMERS HOLD BIG PICNIC
American Society Of Equity, Eats,
Hears Speech and Plays Games
Sunday

There is one thing that you have
got to say of the Tony branch OF
the American Society of Equity
they do not starve when they go
on picnic. Sunday at Mattoon's
grove was held the Society's annual
picnic all day. After the big feed
at which some 200 persons showed
they had no fear of the high cost of
living there was an address by w.
G. Kunsulman, General Organizer
of the Equity, who came over from
his home in Cumberland. That he
twas appreciated was shown by the
close attention given to his address
and frequent applause. He appealed
to the farmers to organize on "a bet
ter basis of marketing crops, and not
to let the gamblers and spectators
in food products fix the prices.
Games were played and there were
comedy races and a eating con-
test in which little Ernest Frostrite
showed he could reduce the visible
supply of blueberry pie at frlghtful
speed. He got the fifty cents cash
prize.
Everybody enjoyed to the fullest
extent the beautiful day, the dinner
and the exercises.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
NEW RED CROSS
BRANCH AT BRUCE
Organization With Many Members
Completed Monday Night

Bruce branch of the American Red
Cross was organized by Mrs. L. NJ.
Landmark, head Of the county organ
ization, Wednesday afternoon at the
Rex theater. A large membership
was obtained. These officers were
elected Chairman, A. G. Krause;
vice chairman, Mrs. Fiker; secre-
tary, Mrs. Ed. Knudson, treas, Miss
Anita Arpin. The officers with the
following constitute the executive
board: j. z. Arpin, E. Stahl and
Mesdames Stenson and Burpee.
Bruce branch takes in the village
of Bruce and the towns of Atlanta,
Thornapple and Big. Bend.
Rev. John Birrell, Of Ladysmith
delivered stirring address in the
afternoon and also spoke before the
branch at Weyerhaeuser after the
picture show in the evening.
The county branch has a petition
signed by 16 persons from Ingram
and the town of Rich4and, for the
organization of branch and Mrs.
Landmark will go there some time
next week to complete it, A. e.
Kuhlman is temporary chairman, E.
A. Kersclager, temporary secretary.
Mrs. E. M. Dresden, of Ladysmith,
addressed the Ladies' Aid society,
of Glen Flora. Mrs. IA Michael
son, who drove over in her car with
Mrs. Dresden, was also present. The
necessary number of names was Sc
cured to form branch there.
Hawkins was organized last week.
Prof Rahr, of Ladysmith, delivered
an address. twenty-five members
joined. The village and town of
Hawkins and townships "a and Sc,
range 3 west are included in the
jurisdiction of the branch. Officers
are: Chairman, Mrs. r. Stone; vice
chairman, Mrs. j. Marcott; secretary
Mrs r. P Ellingson; treasurer, G..
10. Wig. Executive committee, the
officers and r. w. Richardson, r.
P. Ellingson and Mrs. L. D. st.
Clair
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
ALIENS BARRED
FROM HUNTING
SETTLERS, LONG RESIDENTS OF
RUSK, BUT NOT CITIZENS
OF THE COUNTRY DE-
MED LICENSES
NEWS-BUDGET ARTICLE CORRECT
Only Citizens of the United States
Come Under Settlers
License

No alien, whether a settler or not
may get a hunters license in wis
consin. A settler not a resident OF
Wisconsin, but "a citizen of the u.
S. may obtain license through the
county clerk and the state conser
vation commission in their discre
ton
Notwithstanding statements made
in other newspapers the NeWs-Bud
get article last week was correct in
every detail.
Fifty-four licenses had been is
sued Wednesday, County CLERK
Munroe had refused five aliens set
tiers licenses one a resident here 20
years with only his first papers.
The following from County CLERK
Munroe covers all these mOoted
questions:
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
WHO HAS THE TALLEST CORN?
A Years Subscription to the News
Budget as Prize to Winner

From every section Of the state
come stories of tall corn Waterloo
township, Grant county, claimed the
championship with stalk II feet high
but Henry Embretson, of Hixton
beat that 61a inches. Shiocton has
two stalks each 1912 feet.
The News-Budget believes Rusk
county has some tall corn this year
and will give a years subscription to
the corn grower bringing to the Of
flee the tallest stalk of corn raised
in Rusk county. When the collec-
is made it will be exhibited at the
fair.
Competition closes Saturday, Sept.
Is, at o'clock p. m.
Now bring in the corn. Be sure
there are ears on the stalk.
Rusk county in spite of the back
ward season, the cool summer and
the frost has raised some fine corn.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
H. w. TRUE BREAKS
ARM CRANKING FORD
Serious Fracture at Wrist Whei1
Machine Back-Fires, Mon
day Morning

While cranking his automobile in
front of the pOstOffice on Monday
morning, H. w. True broke his arm.
Back-firing, the crank caught Mr..
True, breaking both bones of his
right fore arm near the wrist and
the ends of the broken bones pro-
truded through the flesh tearing it
almost loose from the bone at base
Of the thumb
Assistance came at once and DR..
O'Connor promptly dressed the
wound and reduced the fracture.
Monday night Mr. True went to APP
pleton, where the break was x-rayed,
disclosing a bone silver in the
wound yet to be removed. He re-
turned to Ladysmith Tuesday, and
is getting on we'll.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
SHALL CITY BUY
LIGHTING PLANT?
COUNCIL STARTS ACTION FOR
SPECIAL ELECTION OCT. IS
TO DECIDE QUESTION
WILL REQUIRE MORE BOND DEBT
Much Discussed Proposition Reaches
Stage of Real Activity in City
Legislature

Shall the city of Ladysmith own
and operate the lighting plant?
Unless the common council re-
verses itself the voters will be
called upon to decide this question at
a special election, Tuesday, Oct Is,
1917.
This is set forth in a resolution
drawn by the city attorney in ac-
cOrdance with the Instructions of
the council, introduced by George
Luel and passed unanimously at
the council meeting held wednesday
morning at the city hall.
Messrs. LuelI and anderson were
present and it is understood that
the mayor, now absent on account
of Illness, is in favor of the action.
Two weeks later, on Tuesday, sept.
Is, the council and mayor will act
finally for or against the resolution.
While this is the first publication
of definite action, the matter has
been incubating a long time. It
finally took more or less coherent
shape at the session of the common
council on August % when City
Attorneys McGill & Williams were
Instructed to prepare the proper
resolution
Bond Issue Required
KnOWcs oil rrion n
be paid for the plant but the resolu-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
HAWKINS LOSES BALL GAME

Place: Fair grounds, Ladysmith.
Time: 2:3O p. m.
Event: Ball game.
Participants: Ladysmith VS. Hawk
ins.
Crowd: Just tOlerable.
Features: Concert by Ladysmith
band.
Result: Ladysmith Z, Hawkins 2.
When Hawkins came to town to
play a game of ball they little
rocked the ancient saw that pride
precedes fall. So in their pride
they strobe like Casey to the bat,
to find, alas! this game was not
their "two- -old-cat" There is no
joy in Hawkins, sunshine brings no
cheer, the memory of this Sunday is
saddest of the year
Powers and Cushman. Of Bruce,
was the Ladysmith battery.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
CALLED HIM "SCAB"
COSTS HER HUSBAND $11.76
Maple Hill Scrap of Lurid Language
Grows Out of Paper Mill
Strike

Mrs. Frances Kellner's husband
was paper mill worker. He is one
OF the strikers. Stanley Perczynski,
a neighbor, is working right along
Evidently Mrs Kellner did not like
it, What she said to Stanley is now
recorded in the docket in Justice
Reeves court and it came near re-
Quiring asbestos paper to preserve.
The Justice fined her $5 fine or 20
days in Jail. The cotss were $6.76,
and Mr.. Kellner paid the $11.76.
Cussing is expensive even on Ma
pie Hill.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
SUPPOSED AGITATOR
ARRESTED HERE
Three Taken, One Held in Jail on
Message From U. S. Secret
Agents

Upon a telephone from HI. u. Ga
baugh, head of the Department or
Justice special agency secret service
in Chicago, two men were arrested
on train II, one locked in the county
Jail, one in city Jail. Both were Ia
ter released. Another man anwer-
ing the description in the message
was arrested at Maple Hill and is
locked up in the county Jail to await
further instruction to Chief Lozier.
This is a part of the general RAID
on agitators and I. w. w. leaders.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
LADYSMiTH VS.. GILMAN

Baseball fans are promised a good
game Sunday when the Gilman nine
will play the local team at the fair
|3 o'clock. Admission 25 cents.
Hayes and Towers will pitch for La
dysmith. Paul Christensen will catch.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
CAVALRY BOYS HOME

Chauncey j. Marier. of Hawkins,
James Thatcher, of Glen Flora, John
Larson, of Weyerhaeuser, and John
Shladek and John Yancey, both of
Ladysmith, came up today from
Camp Douglas on a 4S-hour furlough.
The boys expect to go to Waco next
week
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
10000 WORDS TESTIMONY
IN $50 DAMAGE CASE
Justice Reeves Hears Suit of Elmer
Adams Against 500 Road

A few carloads Of sheep being
Watered and fed in the 500 yards
last May caused a crowd to assem-
bic in Justice Reeves court Thurs
day. Some sheep it is claimed got
into Elmer Adams garden and he
sued the 500 for $50 damage. De-
cislOn was reserved until next
Monday. o. j. Falge appeared for
Adams and l.. E. McGiIl for the Soo
The testimony made 10000 words.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
CERTIFICATE TO FAME.
CANNING COMPANY

Secretary of State Huh has is
sued a certificate to the Fame Can
ming Company of Upton, Ind, new
owners of the Ladysmith pea can
merry, to conduct a business in wis
cOnSin
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07

But this apparent deficit is more
than made up by the increased en-
rollment at the Model school where
there are 80 pupils registered. In the
teachers training course there are
33 enrolled.
To this also must be added the
pupils at ST. Marys'S school so that
there are many more pupils at
school desks this year than last.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07

w. S. Sergeant was up from Shell
don today on business. He also at
tended a meeting of the directors
of the Farmers Mutual Town Fire
Ins. Co. at Bruce today
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
MAYOR IMPROVING SLOWLY

News from Mayor A. C. Thomp-
son, who is at Waukesha, being
treated for rheumatism is that he
is gaining slowly but not able yet
to use his hand.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
CHALVEk TAKEN TO MENDOZA

Frank Chalvek, who imagined he
was married to a girl ''in a yellow
house as told only in the News
Budget hast week. was adjudged in
sane on Saturday and taken to
Mendoza asylum Sunday evening by
Sheriff DodsOn
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
DON'T WAIT, you
ARE WANTED NOW
Red Cross Rooms Open For Work
ers Who Are Much Needed

One woman in Ladsysmith said
she was not going over to the Red
Cross rooms because she had not
been asked, personally. There is no
xcuse in waiting. Everybody is in
vited, especially in fact to
come and work and help.
Do your bit.
Consider this an engraved invita-
ton.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
GOING TO THE SHEEP SHOW?

A number from Rusk county are
expecting to attend the sheep and
wool show in Chicago on Sept. 18th
and 18th The moving pictures OF
sheep and cattle raising in Rusk
county will be shown.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
SCHOOL ENROLMENT is LOWER
First Three Days Due to Sew
eral Causes

For the first three days of school
the enrolment was II less than in
1916. The total for this year being
718, last year 730.
Speaking of this Supt Rahr
said to the NeWs-Budget:
This slight decrease rather than
the expected increase is due to the
fact that the public library was not
in readiness for occupation until
Wednesday noon, the fact that there
are only single sessions of the two
kindergartens, and that the increas-
ing cost of living makes it neces-
sary for many pupils to find en-
ployment who otherwise would be in
school. BY next week it is expected
that the total enrolment will have
passed the high mark of last year.
The enrolment by grades is
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
LAST CALL FOR LATE MUSIC

Midnight music in Ladysmith is at
an end. Council passed the ordi-
nance prohibiting it after IL p. m,
at the meeting Wednesday. Here
after the only music of that hour
will be the snoring Of the honest citi-
zen.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07
C. X. ELLiNGsoN MOVES WEST

Former ASsemblyman c.. K. Filing
son, of Hawkins, has moved to
Minneapolis with his household goods
and family and expects to remain
there for a year at least.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07

Geo. Kilgore, Jr., went to Camp
Douglas Wednesday morning to try
to get into the cavalry again.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07

Get your public sale bills at the
News-Budget office. Best a n d
quickest.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07

For Mondays washing, White
Laundry Soap, sc per bar. Three S
Store.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-07

Frank Putnam has had work
started on a new bungalow on the
lot just west of his residence, on
| Lake-av.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-25
POLICE BUREAU HARD HIT
BY WAR CALL FOR GUARDS
Enlistments and Replacing of Soldiers
Depletes Force for Street Duty
in City

Philadelphia police bureau is being hard
hit by enlistments in the headquarters
train service by the assignment of men to
guard property which national guardsmen
protected until the date Of mobilization, and
by the entry into various branches of the
Government service of patrolmen and on
@esrs
In order to meet the shortage OF men
q Director WILSON, of the Department of Pub
lice Safety. is making use of large num-
Der of substitute patrolmen, who are filling
In the places of missing regulars as well as
hlling vacancies caused by an unusually
long sick list. AS the number of substitutes
Is limited, and as the force has already
been augmented this year by the 500 new
men authorized by Councils, the shortage
OF men is causing a doubling up Of beats,
especially at night.
Ultimately IT Is hoped to have a portion
OF the home guard organized by the home
defense committee qualify for guard duty
at plants and railroads. At the present time
this body OF 5000 men stands ready 10
answer any emergency call issued by Mayor
Smith AS yet the Mayor is not convinced
OF the need of calling out the home guard
or Of asking for provisional State organi-
cation to aid in policing the city. Some of
the plants are expected to take over their
own guard duty and thus relieve the mem
bers of the regular police force who are now
on special duty away from their stations
and beats.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-25
EARLE STORE WINS GRAND
PRIZE IN WINDOW DISPLAY
Other Stores Throughout City Receive
Awards in Paris Garter
Contest

The Earle Store won the grand prize Of
the window contest conducted through the
Ledgers' Bureau of Trade Promotion. The
contest was conducted by A, Stein & Co.,
manufacturers OF Paris garters. Depart
ment stores and mems furnishing stores in
different parts Of the city participated,
The city was divided into five sections,
Camden making a sixth section. The stores
in each section competed for a silver loving
cup, standing eighteen inches high
The closest contenders in the central
business district were the Becker Store IN
the Widener Building, and Philip M Cade,
at the corner of Fourth and Market streets.
Both of these stores were awarded silver
cups for the high excellence of their dis
splays.
Winners in other sections Of the city
were as follows: South Philadelphia, M.
Sllverman & Son, northwest corner Sixth
and South streets; North Philadelphia,
Fred c. Hangsterfer, 2S12 Germantown
avenue; West Philadelphia, Bacharach's
Fifty-second Street Store. South Fifty.
second street Northeast Philadelphia, John
w. Woods. 2777 Kensington avenue Cam
den. Toone Hollingshead, Broadway and
Kaighn avenue.
Every store that entered the contest had
handsome displays Of Paris garters.