Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-08-29

RES IN the LOngfellOW ana JeEersOn
schools.
Word was received at Racine from
Los Angeles announcing the death of
Lieut.. N. T. Simpkin, former resident
of Racine Death was due to wounds
received in battle He was a brother
in-law Of E. B. Hand, an attorney Of
Racine.
| Mrs. Kate Devine, Eagle River, a
Chippewa Indian, is the mother of
! sons, every one of whom served in the
army of the United States during the
war. Six of the sons served with the
American Expeditionary Forces in
| France.
Horses which he was leading to pas
ture with a strap tied around his arm
ran away and dragged Clinton Wag-
ner, son of Matthew Wagner, farm
er living near Kiel to his death. The
boys head struck a stone and his skull
was fractured.
The Brinkman speed boat, the fast
est on the lakes near Minocqua, ran
into a small row boat and smashed
the latter badly. The speeder was be-
ing tested out after being repaired and
the steering apparatus was RESPONSE
BILE for the accident.
The Rev Father J. j. Crawford,
vicar of ST. Ambrose Episcopal Church
of Amigo, has accepted an invitation
to become personal assistant to Bishop
George Allen Beecher at Hastings,
,Neb. He expects to assume his new
position within thirty days
Quarrels of Greeks and Turks, em-
plOyed in a Racine automobile tire
manufacturing company has resulted
in serious fights in which men were in
jured and the sending in Of riot calls.
Warrants were issued for arrests Of
three Turks on the charge of rioting.
Jake Hermann, "a, farm hand and
Iself-cOnfessed slayer Of Ben Zuelke, 10
year old Oakfeld youth whose lifeless
farm of Albert COLLEEN, near Oakfeld,
was arraigned. before Justice r. c..
Fairbank in Fond du Lac for prelim-
inary hearing. Jealousy because Zuel
lie was keeping company with Myrtle
Wiegert, aged Is, was given by Her
mann as the sole motive for his crime
Theodore Steinmetz, director of the
newly organized Liberty Band at Eau
Claire, intends to organize boys
band Of sixty players as soon as school
opens. Besides providing an attrac-
ton in school athletic tours the boys
band will be a source of recruits for
the Liberty Band. Mr.. Steinmetz was
director of the 127th infantry overseas
band, as well as a composer and in
gtrument maker.
Reduced appropriations have made
1t necessary for the forest products
laboratory, Madison, to cut down its
force to less than half that maintained
during the past year. For lack of funds
the laboratory will be forced to dis
continue work on several new projects
of considerable industrial Importance
it has, however, accumulated a ire
mendous amount of valuable informa-
ton as a result Of its high pressure
war work, and the plan is to stimulate
commercial application of this knowl
edge as much as possible.
John r. Commons, professor of eco
monies at the University Of Wiscon-
son, accompanied by a party of gradu-
ate students and assistants in ecOnom-
les at the university, has left for q
seven weeks tour to investigate labor
problems in factories of the east
Among the cities in which the party
will work are Freeport, ILL.,; st.
Wayne, Ind; Cleveland, Philadelphia,
New York and Boston. The mateE&l
gathered will be used in the graduate
seminary which Prof Commons will
conduct at the university next fall
The Wisconsin conservation com.
mission met at La Crosse and officially
accepted a gift of Trempealeau county
land, twenty miles north of La Crosse
in the Mississippi river as state
Wisconsin by John A. Latsch of Wi
mona, Mimi. The land consists Of 900
acres on sharp mountain peak, which
rises directly out of the Mississippi
river at the junction of the Trempea-
leau river in Trempealeau bay. The
place has historic significance as it
was near there that the famous
French explorer, Nicholas Perrot, had
"a cabin In 1855, first to be erected by
"a white man in this vicinity. The
tract is to be called Perrot park.
With 80 counties fully organized
the pure-bred bull campaign, after only
I@seyen months of the drive, a clean
sweep of the state is to be hoped for
at the end of 1919. Several counties
not already organized are making
plans for definite organization early
in the fall The census indicates the
percentage of pure-bred bulls in the
state Is about 80 per cent. Waukesha
still shows the best condition Of any
county in the state, with So per cent
/ pure-bred bulls Other counties vary
| from II to SO per cent. IN addition to
counties organized, at least four 9th
| ers have made cattle census to deter