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

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| over those paid last year were granted
/ public school teachers of Green Bay.
! The advances average $3.50 a year for
principals and 500 year for teach
! ers. The teachers asked increases ag
gregating S45,850 including a bonus of
! 500 for this years work. The bonus
and another demand of the teachers
| for q five days sick leave allowance
with full pay were not considered by
| the board.
| Superior - A cooperative BUSH )
school will be opened in Superior DIR
ing the summer for a six weeks
| course in managing, bookkeeping and
| clerking in cooperative mercantile
establishments, according to deci-
| sion of the Cooperative Central Elk
| change. The idea is to produce uni
| form management and accounting in
all stores affiliated with the exchange,
! which has now purchasing power of
| $2,500,000 annually.
Eau Claire-Emil Swanson, shoe
| maker of Bayfield,, was found guilty by
| a jury in the United States district
court for violation OF the espionage
| law The Indictment charged him
! with utterances tending to discourage
| enlistments. The jury was out three
| hours. Swanson's two daughters testi
| fed in his defense that he encouraged
| them in their war activities.
Wausau-In 1880 the Wausau Driv-
| ing Park association secured a ninety
| nine year lease on the race track and
grounds of the Marathon County Agri
| cultural society. For many years the
| club has held no meetings and is prac
| tically out of existence, and now the
| fail society has started suit in Gil.
| cult court to have that contract de-
| clared void
Wausau Thomas Salisbury was
! found guilty on the charge OF assault
| with intent to kill and was sentenced
| to five years in Waupun. Salisbury,
| last December, went to the office OF
| former District Attorney John Rob
elts, at Grand Rapids, Wood county,
and shot him in the chest because he
| refused to bring prosecution he de-
| sired.
| KenOsha-If the Wilcox grade cross
| ing bill before the legislature passes,
| KenOsha will be saved $4,000. Plans
! have long been urged to elevate the
Northwestern tracks at several dan,
gerous points The bill would place
the enure expense on the railroad
Local officials and business men urge
| favorable action on the bill
| Lodi A band of auto bandits
descended upon this town, dynamited
| the safe in the Office of the w. w.
| Steeler Lumber Co. and escaped with
several thousand dollars, mostly in
Liberty bonds. Bloodhounds trapped
one of the band, evidently left behind
! as tip-off, on the edge of town. No
| loot Was recovered.
Madison-Harold L. Geisse, for six
years secretary of the railroad com
mission, has resigned. He has gone
| to Chicago, where he will be associa-
! ted with the insult interests, devot-
| ing most of his time. to the Central
| Illinois Utilities company and the Wis
consin Power, Light and Heat com.
pany.
Madison "A measure of great inter.
n WISCONSIN, n
duced in the senate by Senator David
| Jennings of Milwaukee, when he of.
| fered a bill which will permit the EN-.
| ployment of boys of IA as caddies dur
| ing the vacation period. by amending
! the child labor statutes
Neenah Neenah will support the
employment service bureau which up
| to recently has been maintained by
| the government The money for such
maintenance will be paid out of the
war chest fund, it was decided.
Hartford-A $4,000 hospital will be
erected in this city by Miss Helen
Lohr. manager Of the Hartford Gener
| III uOapltdl, anu utI dSSOCldLt, wi loS
Esther Weller. The building will be
ready for occupancy by fall.
| Sheboygan-R Rev. A. Minar Is the
| new rector of the SIS. Cyril and Meth
odius Catholic church, succeeding the
Rev. James Cherne, who recently took
charge of a parish in Milwaukee.
Kenosha = Boy Scouts received or
ders to be ready to assist in the Vic
tory loan drive April q to May 10.
The boys are ready to better their rec
ord of $750,000 in the last drive.
Rhinelander Fourteen cans Of
speckled trout fry have arrived here
and have been planted in the Bear
Skin river by the Oneida Fish and
Game Protective association.