Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-10-11

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urer and member of the legislature
I from Verify for several tossla, has
1 entered the automobile business at
| Kenosha.
] The Grand Rapids Street Railway
company is permitted by the railroad
commission to discontinue the sale of
six tickets for IS cents and to charge
a straight scent fare.
The sum of 100000 has been with
drawn from state banks by State
Treasurer Henry Johnson. The
amount is needed for road work and
other state activities.
While any mature deer may be
killed in Wisconsin this year, the con-
servation commission will protect all
| fawn. Notice to this effect was mailed
to game wardens and county clerks.
Green Bay BARRIERS have advanced
| the price of shaves from Is to 20
cents. The price of haircuts went
| from 35 to 40 cents. Fifteen cents has
| been the cost of shave for dozen
years.
The first Wisconsin woman to be
mentioned On the official United
States casualty list is Nellie M. Ding
| ley of West Ashland. Miss Dingley,
a nurse, died of disease in a French
| hospital
+ A meeting of the dairy farmers Of
northeastern Wisconsin, will take
place at Green Bay on October 10. B.
| H. Rawl, chief of the United States
dairy division, will attend and discuss
dairy and livestock situation.
A. G. Burg, Wausau, agent for Mar
athon county, is urging all potato
| growers in the county to exhibit sam
pies of their potato stock at the pota-
to show to be held in Milwaukee, Nov.
| 20 to 3D.
Madison's No. 322 in the draft lot
terry is Ambrose j. James, who for
months has been doing his bit" lie
is one OF the leading increase food
| production experts of the University
of Wisconsin.
A picture of the kaiser and his six
|
lander resident, was sprinkI~, with
kerosene and burned before 1000 peo-
| pie at the close OF Liberty Loan
meeting.
| Two new state guard companies
| have been mustered into service, the
Thirty-sixth at Middleton, under com
mand of Capt H. c. Ruenzel, and the
| Thirty-seventh at Waupaca, under
command Of Capt. Roy Holly.
| The Herald and The News, Mantle
Voc, daily newspapers, have been con-
| solidated as The Herald-News and
| will be issued from the Office of The
Herald. George McFarlane, formerly
with The News, becomes city editor.
The combined circulation is 5000.
The paper will occupy new Office
building and will add new equipment.
| Milk was advanced / cent per
| quart and cream cents quart by
| Green Bay milk dealers. Milk went
from 10 to IL cents and cream from
| "A to 43 cents quart. Higher cost
in doing business since last winter
and the increased prices which deal
ers will be obliged to pay farmers are
| given as reasons for increasing the
cost to consumers
Miss Esther Ashman of Appleton
has joined in the ranks of Appleton S
women who are taking the place of
men called into the service. She ac-
cepted position with the local gas
| company as meter reader. 1t is eX-
pected soon that all positions in
| meter reading will be filled by women
| Miss Ashman is the second meter
| reader to accept position in Apple
| ton
A disastrous fire occurred in farm
| ing district just outside the De Pere
| city limits. The fire destroyed the
| barn of Charles Klipstein and the sea-
sons crop of unthreshed wheat and
| oats any many tons OF hay. The high
wind carried the fire to the farm OF
| NJ Corneilssen, and burned his barns
with the gathered crops. The district
| school house and the barns of Theo-
| dore Koecken were destroyed. The
total loss will be about $4,000, with
| about $4,000 insurance.
| Twelve firms have been penalized
| by the state food administration for
| failure to obtain license for opera
ton Of creameries or cheese factories.
| Among those invited to contribute SIS
| to the Red Cross are the Brooklyn
| Creamery Co., Green Lake; Kingston
| Cooperative Creamery association,
| Kingston; Oxford Creamery, Oxford );
| Steiner Bros. Creamery, Mauston; Mt
Horeb Cooperative creamery; Lindina
| Cooperative creamery; Iindina
Cheese factory, Mauston; Wauwatosa
| Creamery, and for fragrant violation,
| the lola Cooperative Mercantile Co.
was requested to pay 500.
| The total valuation of all property
| in this state, real and personal, for
assessment purposes for the year 1918,
was announced by the state tax COM
mission at $3,846,263,744. Upon the
| figures credited for the various coun-
ties will be based the amount of state
| taxes to be levied next year upon each.