Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-04-25


whic seriously threatens the prog.
ress of the city. Thirty-seyen appli-
cations for houses to rent were re-
ceived in one day and none could be
supplied.
Work has been started on the con-
struction of the new $4,000 ware
house of the Wisconsin Cheese Pro
ducers' federation in the city of Plym-
outh. The old warehouse was de-
stroyed recently by fire.
Raymond Bauer, La Crosse, %,
charged with shooting George Smith,
railroad engineer, when caught bur
slariZing the latter's home, was sen
fenced TO eighteen years at Waupun
by Judge Higbee Smith is recover
ing.
Acting under instructions from the
conservation commission, Warden
Grey Of Ashland is trapping beaver to
destroy d colony which has been
causing trouble. Ten have been
caught, the largest weighing seventy
one pounds
l5y an almost unanimous vote, Ash
land Local Elks voted to keep liquor
out OF the clubhouse, even when the
city goes wet The ElkS recently fig
ured in the famous ten barrel liquor
case, one barrel having been sized in
the club rooms.
More than forty bags Of garments
have been shipped by the Green Bay
Brown county chapter of the Ameri-
can Red Cross to the war sufferers OF
Europe. The donations from that
chapter even exceeded the allotment
asked from the Green Bay district and
this chapter was among the first in the
state to fill the quota.
The sight OF flock OF 500 wild
swans, who evidently nave set up
housekeeping in the marshes along
the west shores OF Lake WinnebagO,
is attracting many motorists and
sportsmen. who express the hope that
the colony will find the surroundings
pleasant and attractive enough to re-
main for the summer.
There bAs been d serious outbreak
OF influenza in Casco, Kewaunee coun-
ty. and help has been asked from
Green Bay. Several doctors have
been sent 10 render medical assist.
auce. out Of population of 500 peo-
pie il is estimated that more than
100 of them have been sick with the
flu" during the last three weeks.
A scarcity of women for domestic
| employment in Green Bay is shown by
I he report OF the q. S. employment
| bufeau for The month ending April A.
Requests were filed for 286 women
workers and only 1911 were available
Men are more plentiful than jobs;
ASP male workers sought positions, but
there were openings for only 261.
Mrs. IS. l.. Smith, Neenah, received
a message from the government ask
ing what disposition should be made
of the personal effects of Capt e. L.
Smith, who died fighting in France
The captain himself, who has been at
his home in Neenah for a month now,
"a back that he hoped the depart
ment would forward his belongings.
Thirteen has proven a ink in the
extreme for Judge John Murat of
Portage county. For twelve consecu-
tive terms he has served as county
judge, but in his thirteenth campai gn,
the one of this spring, he was defeat
ed for that office by w F. owen.
Judge Murat has been an official in
that county for over forty years, hav-
ing served in many capacities during
that time.
The Agricultural Experiment asso-
citation tested COW belonging to w.
| Il. Bussewitz, Juneau. In seven days
she provided 625 pounds of milk, max
ing 300 pounds of butter. Her aver
| age amount Of milk per day, was SO
pounds and her highest day was SO
pounds. Last year Mr.. Bussewitz hal
| cow tested that produced ga pounds
of milk and 80 pounds Of butter III
seven days.
The Boys and Girls club movement
is making great strides for Jefferson
county under J. M. COyner, county
| club leader. Fifteen boys of the Fort
Atkinson Boys Corn club gave dem
onstratiOn before a farmers institute
They spoke on the advantages of
Kindred, purebred seed corn. A
Palmyra boy told of the processes by
which he hoped to raise a hundred
bushels on his one acre the coming
season.
A million dollars year is eaten up
in damage to farm machinery left out
in the weather thru the winter by
farmers of Wisconsin, according to a
bulletin of the College of Agriculture
| of the university. At least 10 per cent
of the states $100,000,0O worth Of
machinery is aXnnSad to cnn1u n nd