Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-07-12
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

"A PAPER mdCnG mOQ0l OIL the SLdI6
fair grounds will be prepared for ex
hibition before the next legislature in
Improvement appropriations.
The body of Andrew Gurauski, 81
who disappeared at Racine, has been
found in the lake. Relatives say he
had money when he left home, but
none was found on his clothing.
Theodore Kronshage, Sr., and w. E.
Howe, trustees of the Varrell Calam-
ity fund, have paid SLOTS to the au-
thorities of Lone Rock for the benefit
of the cyclone victims.
Fifteen committee meetings and two
of the common council were required
to cut the number of saloons at La
Crosse from LAG to 119. Seventeen
closed voluntarily, while ten were re
fused licenses.
The strawberry crop in the neigh
borhood of Pittsville this year is esti-
mated to be about a third it's normal.
The Babcock district claims better
than this, but of all other sections the
crop is extremely light.
Seven head of Holstein cattle be-
township, Green county, were killed
by lightning The cattle were standing
under a large tree in the pasture and
were struck by single bolt.
A 10 per cent increase in wages has
been given employees of the state
prison. The increases were necessita-
ted by the large number of employees
who left the institution seeking more
lucrative jobs.
Jacob Gensman, Is years old, pio-
neer Wausau merchant and lumber
man, died of apopleXy. He resided at
Wausau fifty-eight years and had
many investments in Wisconsin and
Michigan.
Hazel Green, Grant county, has vot-
ed to extend the boundary of the viii
lage a mile square. The two saloons
which were in the outside territory
are now inside of the village, and the
village being dry territory the saloons
had to go out of business.
Stephen w. Gilman, professor of
business administration at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, has been appoint
ed special assistant to w. N. Fitzger-
aid, United States fuel administrator,
to aid in enforcing the requirements
in Wisconsin, as to coal handling and
distribution during July and August.
Salaries of members of the Racine
fire and police departments, excepting
the head of the two departments,
were increased 10 per cent at a meet
ing of the common council. No in
crease was granted heads of the two
departments because they are now re-
ceiving higher salaries than paid SIM
liar department heads by other cities
of the state.
Much ordnance material will be
made in Wisconsin. The war depart
ment at Washington has announced
that contracts had been awarded to
the following Wisconsin firms: Paine
Lumber Co., Oshkosh; Nash Motors
Co, Kenosha; McIntyre-Burrall Co.,
Green Bay; J. C. Nichols Co., Sheboy-
gan; Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.,
Clintonville.
Appleton is not as hard hit as dur
ing the civil war in 1862, one year af-
ter the war was declared, this county
had furnished SGT men or about per
cent of the population. Today only 8
per cent of the population, or 1850
men, are in the service. Nearly SO
per cent of the men are drafted, while
in the first year of the civil war only
sc per cent of the men were drafted.
Boys livestock judging contests will
be held this fall at at least twenty-four
of Wisconsin's county fairs. Officials
of the Wisconsin Livestock Breeders
association were notified by the fair
secretaries that this judging event has
been added to the list of special fea-
lures and have applied for gold med
al which the state association is offer
ing to encourage greater interest in
livestock breeding.
Weather conditions last fall and dur
ing the blossom time this spring have
crop in Door County. Only so per cent
of the famous product will be available
for the market this season. The ex
ceedingly light cherry crop of this
county will mean loss of thousands
OF dollars to the growers and to fruit
merchants throughout the country
Fruit growers predict a big apple
crop this fall.
High prices of farm implements will
be cut, the secretary of agriculture
warns the state food administration
1t will be necessary to survey the in
dustry with a view to discover wheth
er the commissions, profits or prices
are unjust, unreasonable, discrimina
tory and unfair, and if so, to cause
their discontinuance. The law doe!
not provide for direct price-fixing, bu
the food control act grants power tt
prevent unfair profits,
Stenographers are wanted at Caml
Robinson, Sparta, but no girls neet
apply Only boys can be taken. TIL
Three Hundred and Thirty-first fiel'
artillery is especially in need of them
rrhoso who enlist will start work i'm