Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-05-16
VISION SIN
HAPPENINGS
Observation-Disclosures
News of the Badger State Arranged
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stock of $4,000.
The Rev. B. r. Robson, pastor Of
The First Baptist, Darlington, resigned
to take effect June Is. He has accept
ed call to Greenville, Mich.
Peter Glueson, SO, farm laborer, was
goreq to death by bull he was at
tempting to lead on the Geo. Chris
Hanson farm a mile north of Plain
view, La Crosse county.
The central division American Red
Cross, has asked the home service Sec
ton of Oshkosh chapter to act as host
of regional conference Of home serv-
ice workers of fifty chapters May %.
Homecoming at the university will
be celebrated with a baseball game be.
tween Wisconsin and Chicago June "a,
Plans are under way to bring back
number of diamond stars to represent
Wisconsin.
Instead of wasting fertilizer from
stock yards by dumping it where it
cannot be used, the Milwaukee Rail
road Co., is Offering the fertilizer to
La Crosse gardeners and farmers who
care to come to the cars to get it.
Two hundred determined La Crosse
citizens, representing every walk OF
life and practically every industry in
the city, are in campaign to get
500 members for the Chamber of Com
merce to sign three-year contracts.
The biggest picnic Of farmers Of
WinnebagO county ever held will be
the effort when the WinnebagO County
Holstein Breeders association gathers
on June Is on the farm of Geo. Plum
mer on the Oshkosh WinnecOnne road.
1t was planned to have about 1000
discharged service men Of La Crosse
county march on Memorial day at La
Crosse. This will include United
States soldiers, sailors and marines
and others who have served in the Ca
madam forces.
Contract has been let for new post
office building at Rhinelander to w.
D. Lowell, Minneapolis, his bid being
$4,000, exclusive of the heating sys
tenn Final cost of the building will
probably run between 100000 and
100000. The contract calls for COM
pletion within year.
Plans for royal reception at La
Crosse for Cos. B. and M, old Third
regiment, w. N. c., in France, known
as the One Hundred Twenty eighth in
fantry and One Hundred Twenty-frst
Machine Gun battalion, were outlined
at a meeting of former guardsmen
The celebration will be the biggest
event there since the boys came home
from the Spanish war.
Thirty tractors took part in the first
big demonstration ever held in Wis
cOnsin The exhibit was held at the
Tilden farm at Delavan, WalwOrth
county. More than 1000 persons at
tended. Each tractor plowed three
acres of land Fuel consumption, speed
and mechanical efficiency are to be
considered in making the awards. L.
L. Oldham, of Elkhorn, was in charge
of the demonstration.
A third major has been detailed as
a member of the staff of the military
department Of the University of Wis
consin. The student regiment and R.
O. T. G.. now has the largest staff OF
high ranking officers ever maintained
by the government at the university.
Mai. John S. Wood is commandment,
and his two assistants are Maj. John
Keliher and Maj. II. V. DeHority, who
has Just been detailed.
An advanced step in religious in
struction for the youth of La Crosse
was taken when the leaders Of down
town church schools adopted plans for
religious day school to begin at the
close of the public school season and
continue for two weeks with sessions
each morning except Saturdays and
Sundays. There is to be no tuition
charge on sectarian discrimination.
Teachers will be employed On salary.
The traffic club of the Association
Of Commerce is seeking better car
service for Green Bay. An application
has been filed with the Wisconsin Pub
lie Service Co., asking that the trolley
schedule De changed from ultecH
to twelve minute basis, that owl cars
be run from the railroad stations, and
that extra service be furnished during
the rush hours The company has
promised to give the matter consid-
GRAFTON.
1t is expected that SIS acres of oats
and barley in Waupaca county will be
free from smut this year as a result
Of treating work being done by County
Agent Paul Nyhus. Farmers request
ing that their seed grain be treated
are being served by the county agent,
who visits them with a treating ma
chine in a motor car. With a conserY-
alive estimate of per cent loss due
to smut, the treatment will bring to
the farmers a saving Of about 1000
bushels of grain, representing a say
ing of $500 at soc per bushel
Twenty Missouri farmers from Cape
Girardeau, Mo-, are in Fond du Lac
county buying cattle for shipment TO
that state. This is their second excur-