Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-11-01

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factories in Vernon county alone have
been invited by the United States
food administration for Wisconsin tc
contribute SIS to their local Red Cross
chapters for failure to obtain licenses
Northern Wisconsin is making a
fight to win the war by the production
of more foods. Data compiled by
William F. Calendar Of the United
States department of agriculture, Wis
conSin branch show that in ten coun.
ties the acreage in northern Wiscon-
! sin was increased PATS acres.
Wounded when fragment of burst
ing "wrizbang" struck him in the
back, Lieut.. Donald Vaughan, Green
Bay officer, crawled five miles along a
road and through open country under
| constant shell fire, it was learned in a
letter received from France Exhaust
ed, he reached point where an am
bulance was discovered.
Wisconsin is among four states
which have completed 80 per cent of
classifying and examining registrants
of the 10 and So class. The others are
Utah, Iowa and Indiana Some boards
in nineteen state are reported by the
provost marshal generals Office to
have done less than 80 per cent of the
work.
That Wisconsin farmers have gone
over the top in one more drive for
war production is the statement made
by ]. G. Haipin, Madison. secretary of
the state poultrymen, throughout the
state. The dealers find that there has
been an increase in the number of
chickens and eggs, in spite of the talk
last spring that the farmers were sell
ing off all their chickens.
Michael A. Lucide, former attendant
at the Mendoza hospital for the insane,
was sentenced to twenty years at
Waupun prison for killing Erhardt
Pfsterer, an inmate. Lucide killed
Pfsterer when the latter refused to
obey his orders at time when the
patient was being given bath. The
patient was slow in carrying out or
ders and Lucide struck him.
A slight decrease in the insane pop
ulatiOn Of the state is recorded in the
monthly population statement of the
state board of control. In September
there We're 1928 insane patients un-
der public care in Wisconsin. The
latest report gives 1924. The reports
of the board show that large num-
Der of persons are on parole from the
different institutions at this time.
Plans for a mid-winter show that
will be in keeping with the big cereal
crop of Wisconsin this year have al
ready been made by officers of the
Wisconsin Experiment association,
Madison. The annual meeting and
grain show will be held at the time of
the Farmers Course at Madison, Feb.
8 to 8, and the program of the expert
ment association and alfalfa order,
will be carried out Feb. 7 to 8.
William Davis, believed the oldest
man in the northwest, died at Superior
at the age of 100, Born In Wales In
1912, he came to the United States
while still young. He worked in Penn
sylvania coal mines and after service
in the civil war, was Mississippi
river steamboat captain. He came to
this county from st. Paul after his
1912.
Soldier voters in the S. A. T. G..
camps in Wisconsin will have to vote
by mail or return to their homes to
ballot. Atty. Gen. Spencer Haven.
Madison, in an opinion held that un-
der the soldiers voting laws, the sec
rotary of states is not empowered to
provide messengers to collect these
votes. Forty messengers will be ap-
pointed to collect the votes of Wis
state.
The famous trading stamp" case
came up officially again when Atty
Gen. Spencer Haven, Madison, in an
opinion given to George J, Weigle,
dairy and food commissioner, held that
although the merchants" coupons
issued by the Downey-Farrel company,
and which are redeemable by the local
merchant may be used under the SUI
preme courts Interpretation of the
law, the consumers" coupon is pro-
hibited.
The meat committee of the state
food administration has designated
fifteen Madison meat dealers to make
tests of shrinkage in meat from the
time of its shipment from Chicago I'M
til it is sold in Madison, as basis on
which an allowance will be made to
the dealer. The committee is also
working out plan for cutting meat SO
standard prices may be made for vari-
Gus cuts. It is proposed to work out
the plan in Madison and then extend it
to the state in general.
Late returns received by State Sales
Director E. j. Kearney, Milwaukee,
show that thirty-four Wisconsin coun-
ties in the Seventh Federal Reserve
district went lover the top" by over
their respective allot-
ments in the recent fourth Liberty
Loan campaign. These figures do not