Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-06-06
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
News of the Badger State Arranged
....... in Condensed Form .......

The twentieth annual department
convention of the United Spanish war
veterans will be held at Oshkosh from
June IL to 10. inclusive.
AS the automobile has replaced the
driving horse in the city so is the trac-
tor replacing the pillow horse in Outa-
gamie county. 1t is estimated tnat
there will be 100 in use there this
summer.
There is a job for every Thirty-sec-
ond division man in La Crosse, accord
ing to w. r. Phillips, director OF the
federal employment bureau. He lined
up Jobs for the returned soldiers De-
fore they arrived.
A new wage contract was entered
into between La Crosse carpenters
and builders. The scale is % cents
per hour for the first year and 70
cents for the second year. The men
had been receiving so cents.
La Crosse police are looking for
three stylishly dressed young men who
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silk shirts enroute to La Crosse mer-
chants. They were seen leaving one
box car. from which twelve shirts
were taken.
Kenosha school children will aid in
the cleanup and paint-up campaign Dy
picking up all pieces of paper or ref
use in parks and along highways. The
children pledged themselves to help
in keeping Kenosha the cleanest city
in Wisconsin.
Commercial fishermen are making
big hauls of rough fish along the up
per Mississippi, and highest prices
known are being paid. Hauls OF 5000
to 10000 pounds of carp and buffalo
are common between La Crosse and
McGregOr, Ia
The body of George A. Mack, Supe-
rior, returned soldier, was found near
Calvary cemetery by party of Y. M.
C. A. mixers An empty acid bottle
was found close by. Mack had sent
his mother a letter telling her where
she could find his body.
A ten weeks course in "The Case
line Automobile" which was started
in March in the Oshkosh district by
the University of Wisconsin Extension
division. now has 120 persons enrolled.
Weekly classes are held in Fond du
Lac. Green Bay, Manitowoc and APP
pletOn.
William Doerflinger, w. f. Goodrich
and H. H. Long have been appointed
members of a special committee to
arrange a program for a Fourth OF
July celebration at La Crosse IN honor
of returned soldiers and sailors. A
fund of $4,000 is being raised for fire.
works.
With the death of Mrs. Eva Scobey,
WatertOwn, 102, the Oldest resident OF
this portion of Wisconsin has been
taken. She was born in Poland and
lived in Watertown since 1855. Her
husband died thirty years ago. Up to
three days ago she was caring for her
garden.
The Manitowoc Knights of Column
bus decided to erect either a two or
three-story building for the lodge. If
the two-story plan is adopted it will
be a clubhouse only and if the other
plan is adopted business block will
be erected with the lodge hall on the
third floor.
Five hundred and fifty members of
the Sheboygan United Leather Work
ers' union struck, demanding an eight
hour day and more wages. One hun
dred and ninety were employed by
the American Hide and Leather Co.,
$50 at the Badger State Tanning Co.
Present wages are 1925 to $4.25 a
day,
A university postal station, to han
die the mail of the University of Wis
consin, will be established near the
campus during the summer as a
branch of the Madison post office.
Because of the volume of mail for the
university and it's students and facul-
ty, postal authorities decided that a
university station is needed to relieve
the central postoffice.
Superior schoolmen, clergymen, and
many others are stirred over a meas
ure pending in the legislature which
makes influenza a quarantineable dis
ease and provides for the closing of
certain places to control influenza
epidemics. The complaint of the
schoolmen and clergymen is that the
proposed law would close schools and
churches, while permitting saloons,
poolrooms, cigar stores and similar
places to operate.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Moore, Kenosha,
widow of Col. Webster Porter Moore,
willed practically 100000 to st. Mat
thews Protestant Episcopal church.
Her will, filed for probate, leaves $751;
900 of the estate to the Kenosha hos
pital. The remainder of the $175000
goes to the church. Thirty thousand
dollars becomes an endowment memo
rial to Elizabeth and Charles O'Neil,
parents of Mrs. Moore, her brothers,
and former husband Orlam Calkins.
A class of 125 candidates were initi-