Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-07-11
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

tory.
Otto Wolgast, La Crosse, wht
claims to be cousin of AID Wolgast
prize fighter, was sentenced to thre,
/ years for robbing school houses.
May Comrady, 6, Racine, died few
hours after receiving burns said tc
have resulted when an unknown boy
playfully held lighted paper near hel
dress.
Tracey Merrill, 81, only legless
justice of the peace in Wisconsin, died
at a La Crosse hospital. He lost his
legs in railroad accident at Kansas
City several years ago.
The corn crop in Waushara county
is the best in many years. The old
saying, knee high by the Fourth of
July" comes true this season as corn
is taller than that now.
Fred Middleton, farmer near Hix-
son, Oneida county, killed black bear
that weighed nearly 800 pounds The
animal was known to have carried off
several of Middleton's pigs.
In order to promote the moral STAN
dard of the community, the Park Com
mission has decided to illuminate
Riverside Park, Neenah. Seven big
arc lights are to be installed.
One of the largest land transactions
in the annals of Lincoln County was
recorded at Merrill when the Wiscon-
sin Central Railway Company quit
claimed 22,400 acres to the Copper
River Land Company.
Because Otto J. Dorr was not taken
back as principal of the Fourth dis
trict school, Appleton, when he was
discharged from the army last Deem
Der fight is promised at the coming
annual school meeting
H Klug was fined $25 and costs at
ShebOygan for driving an automobile
while intoxicated and striking and de-
molishing milk wagon, resulting in
injuries to Matthew Van STEELE, occu-
pant OF the milk wagon.
w. f. Kerwin, Marinette agent for
the Ann Arbor Railway has resigned
to accept the position of traffic man
ager Of the Green Bay Association of
Commerce. A. B. Sell, Owosso, Mich,
has been named to succeed him.
Grant NJ Hyde, recently made asso-
ciate professor of journalism at the
University of Wisconsin, has been Of
fered prOfessorship at the University
of the PHILIPPINES, and asked to insti-
tute a school of journalism there.
Joseph Weigel, La Crosse fisherman,
claims the record of the season on the
upper Mississippi. In one day he
landed three mud catfish weighing 1876
pounds. The largest weighed GO
pounds; the others, 81 and 80 pounds.
Weigel sold his fish for 20 cents
pound.
Father and son are defendants in
divorce actions, at La Crosse. The
father G. Joseph Fyett, is being sued
by PhilOmina Fyett, whom he married
in Syria The son Joseph Fyett, was
married in Eau Claire in 1913 was tli,
vorced in 1915, and remarked at Wi
mona Dec 10, 1917. His wife charged
cruel and inhuman treatment
One hundred fifty Jewish people
from Wausau, Marshfield, Amigo,
Grand Rapids, RhinNlander and other
cities attended the annual B'nai Birth
day celebration at Stevens Point
Four candidates were initiated and a
social program was carried out in tile
sc he Jor
will go for European Jewish war suf
ferers.
Six new cars are on the way from
Cincinnati to Oshkosh for the lines
of the Eastern Wisconsin Electric Co.
Nine others will arrive as soon as fiat
cars can be obtained on which to ship
them The city recently relieved the
company from the expense of paving
between it's rails on city streets and
the company is carrying out it's part
of the bargain by replacing the old
cars, in service since 1897.
The entire edition of $500 copies
of the Liberty Badger, University OF
Wisconsin year book, has been sold.
Almost 500 orders remain untitled.
This marks a worlds record in sale
of college ANIMALS. The nearest ap-
proach to this mark was the 1910 edi-
ton Of the annual of the University
of Paris, which ran to $3.50 copies.
The former Wisconsin record was g.
275 copies, this being of the 1918 edi-
ton.
The Railroad Commission handed
down a decision denying the petition
of the city of Sheboygan to reduce
the six cent street car fare recently
ordered to five cents, and also deny
ing the application of the Eastern Wis
consin Electric Company to make the
rate which was ordered as an emer
gency, permanent. The commission
held that the conditions do not war
rant the re-establishment of the five
cent fare at this time
Failure to obey the law in the clos
ing days of June proved costly tC
Portage county saloon keepers. Three
were brought into county court ane
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