Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-10-03
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

The 1920 convention of the Wiscon
sin Association of Real Estate Brokers
will be held next February in Green
Bay.
Louis Wagner, La Crosse hunter
was fined $50 and costs in Caledonia
Mimi, for shooting more ducks than
the law allows.
The Eau Claire city council issued
saloon licenses to seven local saloon
keepers, who are selling 2.5 per cent
beer. The license is $500.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for a $4,000 housing company for
Edgerton. Subscriptions for $4,000
of capital stock were received at a
banquet of the Chamber of Commerce.
AS result of car shortage, Mari
nette lumbermen are obliged to ship
lumber by express. The shortage is
due to the cars being used for move
ment of wheat, for which this is the
season.
The compensation insurance board
at Madison has authorized an increase
of ia per cent in the cost of policies
against compensation awards. An in
crease of 20 per cent was asked by the
companies.
Joseph B. Messmer, prominently
connected at Superior and Chicago,
was found guilty of manslaughter. On
June Messmer ran down and killed
Ben Johnson with his auto. Sentence
has not been passed.
George Wells, who succeeds Frank
J. Green as manager of the, GAINESVILLE
Chamber of Commerce, arrived to take
up his duties. Mr.. Wells was former
ly manager of the Corning. N. Y,
Chamber of Commerce.
Manitowoc business men will have
to shave themselves or get shaved the
night before if they expect to appear
on time at their Offices. Barber shops
have posted notice that they will
not open until s a. m.
Hard coal freight rates from Mil
waukee to Madison and vicinity will
not be increased, according to word
received by Carl d. Jackson, chair
protested to Washington against the
proposed raise of 10 to 80 cents a ton
A collection of more than two hun
dred historical relics, belonging to the
late Dr. T. w. Evans of Madison is
among the recent acquisitions of the
state historical museum of Madison
Dr. Evans was a surgeon in the Wis
consin National guard and served dur
ing the Spanish-American war.
A shoe factory is to be established
in Oshkosh. Badger club hall will be
purchased and converted into a shoe
manufacturing plant. Most of the
present stockholders will take stock
in the new project, more than $4,000
being subscribed already. The CAPT
tai will be 100000. About 100 hands
will be employed.
Another large addition to the in
dustrial life of Kenosha was started
when announcement was made that
the International Earth Boring Ma
chased seventeen acre site on the
north side of Kenosha and would start
building factory early in October
1t will employ several hundred men.
Orders for seed are being received
daily by cabbage growers in Berry
vile from growers in all parts of
America. The Berryville cabbage is
unusually immune from disease,
furnishing in soil known to be in
fected The bariety was developed in
cooperation with the agricultural de-
partment of the University of Wiscon
sin
A pure bred bull roundup is SEIZED
uled for Princeton on Friday, Oct. 81
Live stock breeders, bankers and bus
mess men in Green Lake county are
backing it and the arrangements are
being worked out by County Agent
James Lacey. Prizes have been Of
fered. The celebration is in recogni
ton of the most successful year
Green Lake county has had in the
way of dairy Improvement.
The wealthiest packing company in
the world is defendant in a suit at
Racine, in which the smallest dam
ages ever demanded in the history OF
the court are involved. T. 8. Regard
of Racine is suing Armour & Co., his
former employers, for 9 cents, which
he claims is due from money paid
into the company's pension fund. In
another suit he asks $3.50, which he
claims he should have received as a
bonus.
Graduates of Wisconsin high schools
encounter considerable difficulty in
gaining entrance to colleges of the
country according to members of the
Superior board of education who dis
cussed the problem at a recent meet
ing. 1t was pointed out that many OF
the schools fail to establish courses
that will make entrance possible
Several complaints have been re
ceived from parents to that effect.
The matter will be investigated at SUI
perior.
The railroad commission issued a