Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
!" HAPPENINGS
OF THE WEEK
!" IN WISCONSIN


Washington Miss Harriet +. BAN
of Kenosha, Wis, has arrived mere 10
work for the passage OF the natlonai
suffrage amendment. ,.u.
West Salem = Joseph Coyle froze
both feet working on the road mere
and a doctor was forced to amputate
them.
Appleton-A Clearing house" to
supply the farmers with assistance
during the months when help is
needed, is to be Instituted by the Outa-
game county council of defense.
Sheboygan-The ShebOygan County
Agricultural association at Its annual
meeting at Sheboygan Falls, reelected
P. K. Wheeler president, and elected
LIB. Wensink as vice-president.
Marshall = Principal Earl Cooper,
who has been teaching in the high
school here, has been named to take
charge of the county agricultural
work.
Madison - The pork making inter-
ests of the state will be centered in a
series of sales and conventions to be
held at the College of Agriculture,
Madison, Feb. 20-21.
Madison-Gov. Phillip has appoint
ed Spencer Haven of Hudson, attorney
general, to succeed Walter c. Owen,
who resigned to take his place on the
supreme court bench.
Racine-Louis Hanson, millwright
and foreman of the pattern shop OF the
Bell City Malleable Iron company, is
certain to have lost his life in the fire
which destroyed portion of the plant,
causing loss of over 100000.
Beloit-Fire caused $4,000 to $780,
900 damage when flames started in the
basement of the Hamlin block on East
Grand avenue. Among the tenants
who suffered most is A. Levy, cloth
ing merchant.
Madison = State Banking Commits
sioner A E. Kuolt has issued charters
to the Peoples State Bank of New
Holstein, $4,000 capital, and the
Brown County State Bank of Green
Bay, $4,000 capital.
Oshkosh = The Waite Grass Carpet
company of this city, has increased it's
capital stock from $150,000 to $250,000.
The Oshkosh Fuel company, has in
creased its capital stock from $4,000
to 100000.
Madison = Mangus Swenson, state
food administrator, addressed twenty
farmers institute leaders in confer
ence rere. Farmers institutes will be
held throughout the state during Feb
ruary and March.
Madison - That Wisconsin hemp is
the best produced In America, and that
manufacturers have found it especially
army shoes and harness is the encour-
aging news reaching Badger hemp
men, through A H. Wright, College of
Agriculture, secretary of the Growers
association.
Masidon-The conservation commits
sion has called attention to the fact
that the law of former years permit
ting the shipping and sale of game fish
from Jan / to March / has been
amended, and that it is now unlawful
to sell game fish at all. They may, of
course, still be caught for ones own
consumption, and private shipments of
twenty pounds each week are still
permitted. The law applies only to
game fish caught in inland waters.
Fond du Lac-While the Fond du Lac
County Council of Defense is seeking
seed corn for the coming year, else
where other counties are coming here
in quest of seed corn. The bankers
of Polk county have placed at the dis
posal of the Council of Defense $4,000
without interest with which to boy
seed corn. Two thousand bushels are
needed the coming season. This large
amount is needed because for the first
time in years the corn froze before
maturing.
Milwaukee, Jan. WISCONSIN was
visited on Sunday by one of the worst
snow storms it has experienced In
years. Starting early in the morning
the storm increased in severity
throughout the day. With gale blow
ing forty miles an hour and the air
thick with snow, the singing particles
made It almost impossible to face the
storm. Telegraph and telephone serv-
ice alone withstood the storm. The
steam roads are tied up, interurban
traffic is at standstill on some lines
and on other lines almost completely
Sixteen inches of snow fell, according
to the government records, between
O'Clock in the morning and O'Clock al
night The only relieving feature OF
the situation was the fact that the
temperature was mild. standing at e