Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-12-20

Sergt j. Bonrassa, returned from
Central Africa to Marinette, reports
that he found town there, fisherman,
named in honor of a former Mari
nette man, A. fisherman.
w. M. Ellis, Endeavor, received a
cable from his son, Lieut.. Robert H.
Ellis, Seventeenth Aero squadron,
who has been prisoner in Germany,
stating that he has arrived in Paris.
The r. D. Lang Manufacturing Co.,
Racine, suffered loss of $4,000 when
crossed electric wires caused a fire
which swept the entire upper part of
the main two story factory building
! The rumor that students would be
granted a three-weeks' vacation he.
lore Christmas is denied by university
{ fficials. Civilian students will be al
lowed leave from Dec. 81 to Dec. so.
The second quarter will begin Dec. go
Deposits in the Milwaukee Postal
Savings bank aggregate $1,011, 1915.
During November, 1917, the amount
was $63, 607. The number of new ac-
while the number q year ago was 100.
Erected at a cost of $4,000, La
Cross county'5 tuberculosis sanatori-
UNI, twelfth in the state, is open for
patients. With accommodations for
forty patients, the sanatorium is now
treating thirty-fve and has waiting
list which will tax the capacity.
Eight hundred students and the fac
uhy OF the Beloit high school plan a
carnival, the proceeds CT which will
be turned over to the war relief fund.
It Will be held Dec. 20 1t will include
Il play, motion pictures and animal
show and side shows.
Andrew Frank, of Fox Lake, shipped
forty-fve Holstein cattle to Fond du
Lac. They sold for nearly $4,000.
One 7-nlonths bull brought $3.50, and
four 2-year-old heifers brought $500
each. The Elilch cows were sold at
prices from $3.50 to $50, and a g.
Neeks-old heifer brought $780,
When r. Fl. j. Schmit,' Fond du Lac,
Eighty-sixth division, was brought into
the operating room in a hospital in
france, the nurse assigned him was
Hiss Genevieve Dyer, from the old
home town, who helped him celebrate
his birthday He writes that when the
peace news became known, Nov. IL,
the hospital was "a wild place" Sol
dicrs, sick and well, sang all day long.
Drxr o+.
through the Wholesale Credit Mems
association, have filed objections to
the revenue bill as prepared for pas
sage by congress. They ofeel that
while the bill is framed for the pres
Gnt emergency, it should be listed to
the present year, and that new bills to
fit the conditions as they may arise
III the future should be passed for the
succeeding years.
The wisconsin Dairymen's conven
ton at meeting in Menominee elect
ed. officers as follows: President, Geo.
McNerrow, Pewaukee; president,
A. j. Glover, Fort Atkinson; secretary
treasurer, Paul c. Burchard, Fort At
kinson; directors, Math. Michels
PEBBLES; ]. @. Emery, Edgerton; E. G.
Jacobs, Elkmound, and G. H. Everett,
Racine. The association adopted reso-
lutions favoring league of nations
TO enforce peace.
TO aid worthy and needy students,
especially returning soldiers and S.
A. r. C. men, who wish to remain in
college, the University of Wisconsin
regents voted to devote $4,000 to ad-
ditional scholarships this year. They
established fifty scholarships of S75
eaca and fifty Of $25 each for under
graduate student residents of the
stale. These will be followed by fifty
scholarships of 400 in succeeding
years.
Turning willow bolts into wooden
legs for disabled soldiers is one of the
latest activities of the federal forest
products laboratory, University of
wisconsin. At the request of the
army surgeon general the laboratory
is experimenting on artificial season
ing of willow. This process turns out
willow thoroughly seasoned in from
sixty to seventy days, whereas the
natural process takes from three to
Ave years. Willow is the best wood for
wooden legs.
That Wisconsin farm boys are
coming back to take up their work
on Wisconsin farms is the message of
G. J. Galpin, assistant professor of
agricultural economics, University Of
Wisconsin, who has completed sur
vey OF the subject in Dane county.
That Prof Galpin is recognized as an
authority on this subject is indicated
from the fact that the United States
government has just sent 1900 copies
of his recent book on Rural Life to
Y, NJ. c. A. huts in France.
The Wisconsin Dairy-men's associa-
tign, in session at Mencminee, adopt.
ed resolutions calling upon the legisla.
tuTe to enact laws against teaching
and foreign language in the grades of
public Or private schools, and provid-
ing that the basic language in high
schools and colleges be English, and
teaching Of any foreign language shall
ha Incidental thereto These rpSol1.