Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-04-18

may have more time for recreation.
The fishing season opened with a
rush at Oconto. Seven hundred
pounds of whitefish and lake trout
was the result of one net being lifted.
The road and bridge committee OF
the Winnebago county board has ar
ranged to build three bridges in the
four townships of Poygun, Oshkosh,
Vinland and Winneconne.
The Rev l.. Curtis Talmage of Terre
Haute, Ind. has been appointed SUI
perintendent of the Wisconsin Con
gregatiOnalists as successor to the
Rev. L. H. Keller, formerly of Madison
Beryle. 2-year-old daughter of Gil
bert Ashley, Marinette, died after
swallowing two strychnine pills, which
were in box found by the child. She
died before doctor could reach the
home.
The boiler in the Wren saw mill,
near Neillsville, was tested after thir-
ty-seven years of almost continuous
use. and was found in perfect condi-
ton, being submitted to 100 pounds Of
'hydrostatic pressure.
Kenosha has taken up the tribute
tree" campaign for planting trees for
men who left for the army. Several
of the wOmen's societies adopted reSO-
buttons urging that trees be planted
and petition will be circulated.
Monroe county's three-cornered po-
litical contest for county superin-
tendent of schools resulted in the re-
election of Michael M. Haney, TOmah.
His opponents were Miss Dora Dec.
watzky and Mrs. Mime Dauffenbach.
Mr. Haney had the office for sixteen
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rathsack, for
mer well known residents of Manito-
anniversary at the home of their
daughter, Mrs John Nicholas. Mr..
Rathsack was for twenty-seven years
conductor on the Northwestern. He
is on a farm at Butternut.
Unless Frank l.. Kline, who former
ly lived in Prentice is found within
the next ninety days, he will lose a
$4,000 beQuest, according to the terms
of the will of Martha E. Kline.
While sleeping in his bunk in a
logging camp, near Rhinealnder, Bert
Hebron was bitten on the arm by a
strange insect Blood poisoning de-
veloped and amputation of the arm
was necessary.
Whether or not Stevens Point fire
men can be compelled to extend their
duties to flushing down town streets
may have to be settled by the court
A request by the street committee has
been ignored by the firemen because
request for a SO raise was refused
The council will make another request
and if it is not complied with, the fire
men will be put on trial for insubordi-
nation, it is said.
What is believed to be a new high
price record for an INFESTED cow was
set at the dispersal sale of the H. j.
Goelzer herd at Plymouth, when
George Wilson, Neillsville, bid in Il
7-year-old Holstein for 1855. w. H.
Krause, Thorpe, who auctiOned the
sale, declared he doubted If COW Of
that age, which had never been tested
for milk or butterfat production, had
ever brought such price at either a
public or private sale.
A total of $141,207.45 has been ex-
pended by the state to aid families OF
soldiers gone to war. B. j. Castle
Madison, who has charge of that de
partment, announced that the number
of families aided up to April 8, this
year, was $50 and that the number
receiving aid on this date was 351.
During the part of the year 1917 that
the law was in force the aid was $2S,-
272.20; for the year 1918 it was $685.,
967.11 and so far this year there has
been expended $22,968.45.
In order that the boys and girls may
have a chance to get the right start
in growing pigs, breeders of Waukesha
county will sell excellent pure-bred
pigs to the juniors for not more than
SIS. One breeder will sell a pig for
SIS, the immediate ancestors of which
are valued at 5000 and $500. The
boys and girls" says T. l.. Bewic.a
state leader of the clubs, "are required
to care for the pigs and to fatten them
by fall. Then there will be roundup
and the pigs will be sold. The young
people will have an opportunity to buy
their pigs back if they choose"
The staff of superintendent for the
1919 Wisconsin State Fair, as an
nounced by Secretary O. E. Remey,
Madison, shows several importan.
changes. R. Baker, assistant secretary
of the Live Stock Breeders aSsOcia
ton, has been appointed supern
tendent of the cattle department, sue,
ceeding H. W. Clafin. Dairy and
Food Commissioner G.. j. Weigle
succeeds Fred Marty as superintendent
of the dairy department. G.. Dittmer,
president Of the beekeepers' assOcia
ton, succeeds H. E. France as super
intendent of the bee and honey depart
ment. r. R. Harrison, Madison, who in