Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-02-15
WISCONSIN NEWS
important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State


arrived in France, according to mes
sages received by relatives.
Supt. F. E. Converse has ordered all
Beloit public schools closed, when
Fuel Administrator A. j. Raubenhei-
mer refused further coal deliveries to
schools
Nearly 1000 farmers and their
wives from all parts of the state at
tended the sessions of the farmers
week course of lectures and demon
strations given by the college of agri-
culture and the home economics de-
partment of the University of Wis
eonsin
A bond issue of not to exceed ST.
000, 900 will be asked of the legislature
which convenes on Feb. 49,. The
bonds will bear interest at the rate OF
Az per cent and the public will be in
yited to make purchases just as dur
Ing the Civil war. The bill follows the
measure passed in the legislature of
1862.
The annual death rate for Wisconsin
for 1917 was lis per thousand esti-
mated population. This was the same
rate as for 1915, and is not higher
than the average for the ten-year Pc
ROD The mortality figures announced
by the state bureau of vital statistics
show 90, 1877 deaths, exclusive of still
births.
About 40 per cent of all the peas
grown in the United States are raised
in Wisconsin. Production figures have
been compiled by w. F. Calender,
Held agent for the United States de-
partment of agriculture. He finds that
Wisconsin had 43,600 acres of peas
last year, and that the production was
1855 tons
Food boarding, whether in violation
of the law or through a misunder-
standing of its provisions and penal
ties, is to be stopped in the Badger
state. The campaign inaugurated by
Food Administrator Magnus Swenson
Is to be thorough, to cover every
county, and in advance of action in
other states.
Wisconsins 1917 state boys pig
club championship was won by Erwin
Eckert of Markesan, according to re-
ports received from the Office Of T. l..
Eswick, college of agriculture, state
leader of agriculture clubs. Young
Eckert secured first position because
Of his excellent record with. two filters
Of Duroc Jersey pigs. farrowed after
April 1.
The Wisconsin county school super
LatendentS, in annual session ct Wau
sau, adopted the following resolution:
''De it resolved that we condemn the
d4sloyal expressions of our senior
senator. Robert III. La Toilette, ano
recommend that he be dismissed from
the senate" Prof H. N. Sherwood of
La Crosse presented the question as
loyalty proposition.
United States Marshall O'Connor
has mailed to the chiefs of police and
nostmasters in the western district of
Wisconsin, letters informing them that
according to word received from the
attorney generals department at
Washington, the contents of all exc
cuted registration aff1davits made by
German aliens are to be held strictly
confidential.
About SITS a mile will be spent in
Wisconsin this year for the mainte-
nance of the 5000 miles Of trunk line
highway system. This was made clear
by ]. T. Donaghey in an address be-
fore the good roads convention. He
pointed out that the financial provision
for the maintenance of the trunk line
tomobile license fees.
1904 Beloit mystery was recalled
by the filing OF all application for the
administration of the estate of John
Gard in the county court of Rock
county In 1904 Gaard, who was then
a successful jewsler, disappeared mys-
teriously Under Wisconsin laws he
has now been declared legally dead,
and an effort Is being made to dis
tribute the estate.
The lives of number of people
were imperiled when a Northwestern
passenger train jumped the track on
the edge OF a big embankment, near
appleton. The engine and tender and
the trucks of one of the coaches were
t.erailed. No one was injured. The
Cmbankment where the wreck oc-
Cured is fifty feet high and bad
wreck would have meant large loss
Of life.
The woman's committee of the State
Council of Defense is sending c
call to the women OF Wisconsin, urf-
ing tkem to avail themselves Of the
opportunity to secure training as
teachers of domestic science which is
now being offered by the university.
Beginning on Feb. 10, two years.
course leading to the granting of g
special license for teaching in voca-
tional schools will be open to high
school graduates or to women resident
of the state who are past 81 years of
age.
Maj-Gen. Mccain, adjutant general
: OF the army, has announced a list of
appointments in the officers reserve
osrnc and in the national army Tho