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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21
PROPOSED ORDINANCE
Chief of Police.


Ordinance Providing for the Issuing
of 100000 of Bonds for the Purpose
of Providing Funds for the Improve
ment of the Lighting Works in the
City of Ladysmith, Rusk County,
Wisconsin, and providing for the
levy of an Annual Tax for the pay
mellt of Principal and Interest
Thereof.
Whereas, it is deemed eXpedient and
advisable to improve the Lighting
Works in the City of Ladysmith, Rusk
County, Wisconsin, and it is estimated
that the cost of said improvement will
be at least the sum of Four Thousand
Dollars ($4,000.OO), and there are in
sufficient funds in the treasury of said
City of Ladysmith to pay the cost of
said improvement, and it will be neceS-
Sary, in order to raise funds for such
purpose, to issue negotiable coupon
bonds of said city in the sum of Four
Thousand Dollars ($40Q0.00).
Now. Therefore, the Council of the
City of Ladysmith, Rusk County, State
of Wisconsin, do ordain as follows:
Section /, That there will be and
are hereby issued the negotiable coupon
bonds of the City of Ladysmith, Rusk
County, Wisconsin, in the sum of Four
Thousand Dollars ($4,00000), said
bonds to be four ca in number and to
be Of the denomination Of One Thou
sand Dollars ($1.000.00) each, and
numbered from one % to four az,
both inclusive, to be dated September
LIST. 1918, and to become due and pay
able One Thousand Dollars (S1,000.O0)
on September list in each of the years
1928 to 1881, both inclusive, each bond
bearing interest at the rate of five and
one-half per cent (51a per cent? per
annum, payable semi-annually on the
first days of March and September of
each year, both principal and interest
payable at the offices of Wells-Dickey
Trust Company in the city Of Mime
apolis. Minnesota, said bonds to be
issued for the purpose of improving the
Lighting Works in the city of Lady
smith, Rusk County, wisconsin.
Section 2. That said bonds and
coupons shall be in substantially the
following form:
(FOrm OF B0nd)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State of Wisconsin County of Rusk
City of Ladysmith
LIGHTING WORKS BOND
No. $1,OOOOOI
Know All Men BY These Presents,
that the City of Ladysmith, in the
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21

denly a star shell went UP and we
crouched down in it's light. I was lay
ing so that I could see Watkins
blime me-he had no rifle or bayonet.
/ whispered over to him: Where's
-FOUR rifie?' He answered: Il threw
it away Before I had time, to reply,
the signal to rush the German trench
was given and lost sight of him.
''It was rough going in the German
trench, and we had quite a little Of
hand-to-hand fighting. Star shells were
going up all around us. One of our
boxes in front of me was just go-
ing around the corner of a traverse
when a big German got him through
the throat with his bayonet and he
went down. Something sprang past
me like wildcat and closed with the
Fritz. They both went down to-
gether. Just then another German
came at me from the entrance of a
dugout and I was busy. managed to
get him. Then our lieutenant and two
men came round and gave the order
to get back to our trenches. The
lieutenant stumbled over the three
bodies in front of us. One of them
groaned. 1t was Watkins all right.
Unarmed he had sprang at the German
and with his bare hands had choked
him to death, but he had nasty jag
ged bayonet wound in his right side.
We managed to get him back to our
trenches, but he died on the firestep.
Before casning in he looked up at the
lieutenant and with a grin on his
face said: Tell the bloomin' king and
the Top Hats at 'ome that 1 died for
England, and I hope that like old
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21

that call is as urgent now as 1t was
in 1917 or 1918. Because an individ-
ual has done his duty cOnspicuously up
until now does not excuse him from
further efforts. There can be slack
ers in peace times as we'll as in war
times, and our organization will work
untiringly to see that all OF the peo-
pie of these Northwest states realize
their duty and do it. Incidentally,
while we are performing our duty to
the nation and upholding the honor
Of our district, state and community,
we will be doing a favor to ourselves
by learning habits of thrift and the
value of service.
There will be Fifth or Victory
Liberty Loan, a movement in which
we can show our thankfulness for the
safety of our country and the saving
Of the lives of hundreds of thousands
Of those dear to US.
Organize Societies.
"Just now we are most vitality in
terested in properly starting the 1919
campaign for Thrift. In order that
this shall be complete success, we
are convinced that it is necessary to
organize War Savings societies. They
are the means to a great end. We
should organize $4,000 of these soci-
cites in the Ninth Federal Reserve
District. With the cooperation of all
the people this will be an easy task.
1t will burden no one and it will bene-
fit all OF us"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21
NOT TIME NOW TO LAY
YOUR PATRIOTISM ASIDE

We are spending at the rate of
two billion dollars a month, and
1t is not the time for people to
lay their patriotism aside. To
the contrary, it is time when
people must exhibit a higher type
y than ever before. 1t is not SO
very difficult to, induce people to
"asrespond to an appeal when we are
feeling the fever of fighting in our
veins, but it is a little difficult
when people think the war is at
an end.
There are two million American
soldiers in Europe, and the ob!ga-
y ton is just as much on the Gov
eminent today as when the guns
were firing to see that they are
= maintained in comfort, to provide
for their return home, and to pro-
vide when they shall return for
+" their places in the social and in
dustriaI life of the country. It is
just as important, and even more
important, to impress upon the
American people the necessity of
cultivating the habit of thrift and
saving.
CARTER GLASS,
Secretary of the Treasury.
December 80, 1918.
n III Il a
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21

County of Rusk, Wisconsin, acknowl-
edges itself to owe, and for value re-
ceived. promises to pay TO bearer the
sum of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
lawful money of the United States of
America. on the LIST day of September,
b.. with interest thereon from the
date hereof at the rate of five and one
half per cent (512 per cent? per annm,
payable semi-annually on the first days
of March and September of each year,
on presentation and surrender of the
annexed interest coupons as they sew
orally become due. Both principal and
interest of this bond are hereby made
payable at the offices of Wells-Dickey
Trust Company, i'll the City of Mime
apolis. Minnesota.
This bond is one of Il series of
like tenor, except as to date of matur-
ity. issued for the purpose of improving
the Lighting Works i'll the city of La
dysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin, and
in strict accordance with the ConStitu-
ton and Laws of the State of WiscOn-
sin, and an ordinance duly passed by
the Council of said city.
1t is hereby certified and recited that
all dCtS. anu TeQulEcu
to be done. to happen and be performed
precedent to and in the issuing of this
bond have been done, happened and
been performed in regular and due
form as required by law; that direct
annual tax has been duly levied upon
all the taxable property in the city of
Ladysmith, Rusk County. Wisconsin,
sufficient to pay the principal and in
terest of this bond as they severally be-
come due; and that the total indebted
ness of the said city, including this
bond, does not exceed the statutory or
constitutional limitations.
In Testimony Whereof, the Council
of the City of Ladysmith, Rusk Coun-
ty, Wisconsin, has caused this bond to
be signed by the Mayor, attested by the
City Clerk and the seal of the said city
to be affixed hereto, and the annexed
interest coupons to be executed with
the fac smile signatures of said Off
GERS, this first day of September, 1919.
-------------.-------.----------
Mayor
Attest
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City Clerk.


Section 3. That said bonds, when
duly prepared, in the form aforesaid,
shall be signed by the Mayor OF said
city, attested by the city clerk and the
seal of said city shall be affixed to each
bond. and the interest coupons at
tached shall be executed by the fac
Simile signatures of said officers, and
shall thereupon be delivered to the
purchaser thereof, upon payment OF
the purchase price of said bonds to the
City Treasurer, the same to be price
not less than par and accrued interest
thereon.
Section 4. That the proceeds Of
said bonds shall be deposited with the
City Treasurer of the City Of Lady
smith and shall be received by him to
be paid out by said City Treasurer only
by warrant of this Council, as provided
by law. The proceeds of said bonds
shall be expended exclusively for the
purpose of paying the expense of i'm
proving the Lighting Works in the
said city, but the purchaser shall not
be bound to see to the application of
the purchase price to such purpose.
Section ). That for the purpose of
cipal and interest of the said bonds,
there shall be and there is hereby
levied a direct annual tax upon all the
taxable property in the city of Lady
smith, Rusk County, Wisconsin, suffi-
cient to produce the following sums in
the following years:
In the. year 1918, the sum of $4,000
for interest.
In the year 1910, the sum of $4,000
for interest.
In the year 1920, the sum of $4,000
for interest.
In the year 1921, the sum of $4,000
for interest.
In the year 1922, the sum of $4,000
for interest.
In the year 1923, the sum of $4,000
for interest.
In the year 1924, the sum of $4,000
for interest.
In the year 1925, the sum Of $4,000
for interest.
In the year 1926, the sum of $4,000
for interest.
In the year 1927, the sum of $4,000
for interest and $1000.00 for principal.
In the year 1923, the sum of $4,000
for interest and 100000 for principal.
In the year 1920 the sum of $1,000
for interest and $1,000.00 for principal.
In the year 1890, the sum of $500
for interest and 100000 for principal.
And the City of Ladysmith, Rusk
County. Wisconsin, and its Council
hereby obligate themselves and their
successors to annually, in due time,
manner and season, take all steps
legally necessary TO enforce the levy
and collection of taxes, sufficient in
amount to satisfy the requirements OF
this ordinance.
Section 6. This ordinance shall be
in force and effect from and after it's
passage, approval and publication.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21

Smith, my nippers will be proud OF
their father. God save the king
anu then he died.
1--WE buried him next morning. No,
my opinion of conscientious DIRECTORS
and pacifists has not changed. They
ore either towards or prO-Germans.
you see Watkins wasn't either; he
was a soldier of the king. and q
damned good one, too"
THE END
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21
TAX NOTICE, TOWN OF GRANT

| will be at the State Bank of Lady
smith, beginning Saturday, Jan. II,
and every Saturday thereafter to and
Including Saturday, March Sth for the
receipt of taxes for the town of Grant.
All personal property tax must be paid
by January 31st.
GEO. WAKEFIELD,
Treasurer.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21

City Clerk.
The above ordinance thereupon had
its first reading.
Upon motion Of -..-..---.-..-...--.
duly seconded, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:
Be 1t Resolved, that the foregoing
ordinance providing for the issuance Of
Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00)
lighting works bonds of the City of
Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin,
be published in the Ladysmith News
Budget and Rusk County Journal, the
official papers of said city, forthwith,
and that the said ordinance be not
brought to vote by the Council of the
said city until at least one Cd week
after the proposed ordinance shall
have been so published, in accordance
with the provisions of Sections 925-133
of the Wisconsin Statutes for 1917.
C. C. KILE,
City Clerk.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF THE
TOWN OF FLAMBEAU
!. A. MICHAELSON,
Plaintiffs Attorney

/ will be at the State Bank of Lady
smith to collect taxes for the Town of
Flambeau every Saturday until and
including March /, 1919.
EDWARD RHEINGANS,
Treasurer.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21
NOTICE TO OWNERS OF AUTOS
AND ALL MOTOR VEHICLES

All automobile and motor vehicle Ii
censes expire Dee. 81, 1918. You are
hereby notified that the law for dis
playing licenses for 1919 will be strict
ly enforced.
LEN LOZIER.
Chief of Police.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21
Mayor.
City Clerk
(FOrm of C0upOn)

NO.--.-..-.--.-.--- pZI.DU
On the LIST day of March September,
49,, the city of Ladysmith, Rusk
County, Wisconsin, promises to pay to
bearer Twenty-seven and 5O-1OO Dol
lars ($2750). at the offices of Wells
Dickey Trust Company, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, for interest then due on its
lighting works bond, dated September
LIST, 1919. NO..-.-.----..-..
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State of Wisconsin
III Circuit Court For RuSk County
r. +. Macdonald. Plaintiff,


r. =. Macdonald, Plaintiff,
Philetus Sawyer and Melvina M. Saw
yer. his wife; Edgar F. Sawyer and
Mary f. j. Sawyer, his wife: Ed
ward Rutledge; William H. Laird );
James l.. Norton; Matthew G. Nor
ton: Matthew G. Norton; Peter
Beyer: Peter Bever and Mariana
Bever. his wife; Alexander Nc
Laren: A. J. Hayward and Martha
f. Hayward, his wife: and the I'M
known wife of any of the above
named parties, if such be living, and
all unknown heirs, legatees, devisees
and personal representatives of each
of the above named defendants and
all unknown grantees, unknown own
erS and persons claiming any inter-
est through or under said defendants
or any of them, or any estate, right
title or interest in or incumbrance
upon any of the real estate described
herein, as well as other unknown
heirs devisees and legal representa-
tiyeS, whose names are unknown
and who are hereby designated as
unknown defendants and all persons
whom it may concern. Defendants.
The State of Wisconsin, to the said De-
PENDANTS:
You are hereby summoned to appear
within twenty days after service of
this summons. exclusive of the day of
service. and defend the above entitled
action in the court aforesaid and in
case of your failure SO to do judgment
will be rendered against you according
to the demand of the complaint, of
which a copy is herewith served upon
you.
J. A. MICHAELSON,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Postoffice Address: Ladysmith, Rusk
County, Wisconsin.
Note THE lands and premises af-
fected by this action are described as
Southwest quarter of Section Twenty
one (2D. Township Thirty-four (34)
North, of Range Six CO. West, in Rusll
County. Wisconsin,
The object of this action is to quiet
the title to the above described lands
The original summons and complaint
in this action are on file in the office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Rusk
County. Wisconsin.
j. A. MICHAELSON,
Plaintiffs Attorney
(First publication Feb. z, 1919 43-4S)
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The Conscientious
Director; or, Coming
Through Under Fire

By
Sergeant Arthur Guy
E.rnpey
Author of "Over the Top"
First Call" Etc.
600
Mr.. Employs Expert
encesDuring HisSeven-
teenMonths in theFirst
Line Trenches of the
British Army in France
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Attest:
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our money to our Government for that
purpose Will we do it gladly and in
the spirit of thankfulness? | believe
we will
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21

THINK IN INTEREsr-sAvE-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21

Mayor
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-21

County of Rusk Wisconsin, acknowl-
edges itself to owe, and for value re-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-28
CONCERNING PROMOTED COMPANIES

Has any contract been made
for the continuation In office OF
any of the present officers or
promoters, or for the employ
ment Of any person as manager
or any other responsible posi-
ton? If SO, give full information
concerning such contract or
agreement, together with the
names of the persons interested,
their past experience in this par
ticular business, the firms with
which they have worked during
the past ten years.
How many shares Of stock
have been paid for in cash by
the various officers and promo
tiers of the company? Did they
receive a discount in the price
paid for this stock?
The foregoing questions do not
cover all of the information
which ought to be obtained be-
fore a farmer decides to invest
in a promoted company; but they
do include information which it
is very important for him to have.
In many of the packing compan-
les which have been promoted in
the past, and which have failed
with practically a total loss to
the stockholders, investigation
has shown that the promoters
first secured or entered into
contract for the purchase of some
old plant or some land, and then
made a contract with themselves
as directors of the new company
for the resale of such purchase
at very large profit, usually
several times the amount they
in the first place. After selling
enough stock to give them
handsome profit on this deal,
they have not been particularly
concerned as to the future of the
company, but have turned it over
to the innocent stockholders to
run it as best they might, and
failure has invariably resulted.
Another favorite device is the
organization of an underwriting
company to sell the stock, which
means usually a very handsome
side profit for the promoters.
Again, contracts are very. often
entered into in advance for the
employment of the promoters for
a term Of years at saleries out of
all proportion to the services
they can possibly render the COM
pany.
II farm bureau organizations
undertake to protect their mem
bers from bad investments by
making inquiry concerning COM
panies which are being floated,
then they should go at matters
so thoroughly as to expose any
secret deals which may have
been made for the extra profit
of the promoters.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-28
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Republican: AS long
as the only grievances listed are
those brought forward by men like
Mr. Foster, syndicalist, and lot of
red devils who carry bombs and dis
tribute soviet literature, that long
one is almost forced to agree with Mr..
Gary that there is nothing to arbitrate
with a man who believes that the
government of the United States
ought to be oyerthrown and a soviet
lset up in its stead.
NarshaIltown Times Republican:
mo trouble at all to get job. The
trouble comes looking for the partl-
cular snap desired. Not every job
is a snap, but most Jobs nowadays
have living in them.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: If the
soft coal miners cannot have their
five-day working week and their six
hour working day, they are going to
strike and make the whole nation
suffer in consequence. And our
lforefathers braved the terrors OF the
Atlantic in an early day TO get away
| from tyranny! Something's gone
wrong.
Baskerville yindicator and Repub-
Ilican: Whenever You please every
body, let us know.
Waterloo Tribune: When a
coal miner works thirty hours pei
week and a farmer works eighty
hours and farmer has to buy thirty
hour work coal and miner buys
ieighty-hour work food, who is stand
! ing the bill?
Anthem Herald: You can buy but
Is cents worth of sugar per day at d
store, but you can buy So worth OF
candy, as often as you can plank
down the money.
| Carroll Herald: Not wishing Tom
Marshall any bad luck, 1t is to be
hoped that he will not be our next
president.
! Davenport Democrat: In a greater
sense than any other OF our holidays,
Armistice day will be day belong
ing to the soldiers of the great war
While it is not yet a legal holiday
! it will be about as impossible for the
American people not TO celebrate 1t
as it would have been year ago to
hold down their ebuilient spirits
when Germany raised the white flag.
I Algona Upper Des Moines-Republi-
can: It's up to congress right now TO
put a stop TO strikes If they would
save America
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-28
RURLEsoN EXPLAINS.

Marshalltown Times Republican,:
Mr.. Burleson is out with statement
that he and his policies are o. k. 1t
appears that the magazines have
caused all the trouble.
This puts a very different face on
the matter-if we accept Mr.. Burle-
sons statement. Just how the maya
zines managed to sidetrack letter
three or four days in transmission
between points three or four hours
apart isn't precisely clear. Maybe
they managed it. Perhaps they had
some occult means of doing all the
things that should not have been
done and preventing the thousand
and one things that should and
might have been done-but nobody
will believe it.
Burleson is a dead cock in the pit.
The sooner he goes or is sent back
TO Texas and his operations there,
which have been exploited not at all
to his credit or to the confidence of
the country, the better all will be
pleased without regard to partisan
ship. There is no explanation for
Burlesonism in the postal service.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-28

100000 tons, or more than quarter
of the whole worlds total sugar pro-
duction In 1915 this country con-
sumed only 100000 tons.
America has gorged herself with
sugar, yet there is world shortage
this year of nearly 100000 tons, and
all along France, Italy and Britain
have been living on short rations.
Under these circumstances, the sugar
equalization board moralizes:
"The American people want even
more sugar than they have received.
The question arises as to whether we
have the moral right to take away out
of the worlds sugar cake more than
we have already taken, even If more
sugar were available"
The answer will be made by. the
country in the temper with which it
now submits to rationing. Is America
glutton?