Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-08-01
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the B edger State
| Arranged in Condensed Form

A machine that kills both the pota.
to bug and the leaf hopper in short
order has been invented by Shaw
anO man.
Mrs. Thomas Leaver, aged %, wife
of farmer near Beloit, died from
burns received starting a fire with
kerosene.
Eugene Taylor, Ashland, was -ap-
pointed to the newly created Office OF
superintendent of pulpwood sealing, by
Gov. Philip.
Miss Peluta DuMez, Cashton, left
the United States, enrOute for the Phil
ippine Islands. where she has two
years contract in the schools at Ma
nilla.
Charles Riser and Jacob Meinzer,
La Crosse fishermen, were arrested
fined $50 and costs. Their motorboat
and nets were confiscated at Caledo,
MIA, Mimi, for Illegal SEEMING.
Patrick Limerick, 40 years old, a
farmer living near La Crosse, was
gored to death by bull when he tried
to feed him salt. A dog spread alarm.
Limerick's chest was crushed.
By majority of 294 votes the cleo,
tors of Florence county voiced their
approval of the proposition to bond the
county for 100000 for the construc,
ton of new roads and repairing Of old
roads.
Gas rates effective at Appleton June
80, 1919, have been continued indef
nitely by the Wisconsin Railroad
Commission, on application of tho
Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat and
Power Company.
Maj. Gen. E. f. McGlachlin, Stevens
Point, decorated by the United Statea
government, was awarded the croix de
guerre with palm, by France. He
is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. McGlach,
lin of Stevens Point.
Many crates of raspberries arc
shipped from Marshall during the
small fruit season and the yield this
year Is a record breaker. Besides the
crop of tame berries, the surrounding
woods are filled with wild raspberries
The board of regents of Wisconsin
established an annual scholarship for
graduates of Saint Clara college, Sin
sinawa, Grant county, of 1925. The
faculty of the college is authorized ia
nominate each year one member OF
the senior class to the graduate school
of the university.
Oconto county will hold it's annual
fair Sept. %. "a, 25 and &C. Mayor ].
B. Chase, for many years secretary OF
the fair organization, refused the of,
fee, and William J. Hinker. member
of the county board and secretary OF
the American Society of Equity OF
Oconto county, was elected in his
place.
Interesting sidelights on the Wis.
cOnsin home OF Miss Frances e. Viii.
lard, noted temperance worker. and OF
her father, while the family occupied
farm near GAINESVILLE, are given in
the latest number of the Wisconsin
Magazine of History published quar-,
terly by the Wisconsin Historical so,
ciety.
Miss Constance Hayes, formerly su,
perintendent of the Willowbrook San.
atarium in Kenosha county, was re,
Gently cited by King Peter of Serbia
for her splendid work in organizing
the campaign in that war ridden
country against the spread of tubercu
losis, according to authentic word re-
ceived in Kenosha.
On the appeal of X. L: Hatch, state
director of extension work in behalf
of Montana, and Wyoming cattlemen,
Oconto county, thru its county agent,
placed $4,000 acres of land in the
northern part of the county as pasture
land to help save cattle dying from
starvation This is all cutover land
and much of it is seeded.
To show citizens of Green Bay how
some of the money subscribed to vari-
Gus Liberty loans has been used, a
Navy day" has been arranged for
Aug. 4. The captured German subma-
rine UC-97. several navy hydroplanes.
a navy baseball team, band and the
six-reel moving picture, The Making
og a Sailor, will be shown.
The city of Kenosha lost a. legal
fight when Judge Belden, in the Cir
cult court handed down a decision sus-
tanning the injunction of residences
along the Burlington road which re-
strained the city from longer using
the famous Burlington road dump.
Kenosha officials are now on a search
for some place to dump the refuse of
the city.
Portions of Brown and Manitowoc
counties are overrun by Canadian
thistles, and farmers report that fields
never before infected have been fairly
filled with the pest. The attention OF
county and state authorities has been
called to the situation and deter,
mined campaign will be made to eradi-
cate the weed before the seed has
been carried through the surrounding
country.