Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-06-27

The state county agricultural
agents will hold their annual conven-
ton in Sturgeon Bay, July % and %.
| About sixty county agents are expect
ed.
William Cordes, residing near
Honey Creek, La Crosse county, suf-
fered the loss of forearm and several
fingers on the other hand while cut
| ting wood on his farm with a circular
| saw
Mrs. Jeanette Schunk, Madison, is
seeking a divorce from Godfrey
Schunk, alleging that in the two years
she has been married to him, he has
never taken bath, nor washed his
feet. She also accused him of cruelty
and inhuman treatment.
Principalship of the Outagamie
| county training school at Appleton,
was rejected by Arthur G. Menting,
county superintendent of schools,
when the position was offered him by
| the training school board. A dozen
applications for the position made
| VdCduC ny LI0 USdtu VI JO1lIl I1tS4C
have been filed with the board.
| Waupun public schools made an en-
viable record in sale of Thrift and
War Savings stamps, and may hold
| the record for the state. Supt l.. e..
Smith of the public schools said ST.
21O.S5 has been reached at the end Of
| the school year. That sum represents
nearly $40 per pupil from kindergar-
ten through high school.
| Nellie Kruger, Oconto, asks $4,000
damages from DR.. G.. R. Hickey, Green
Bay dentist. The plaintiff alleges that
a piece of filling from one tooth was
swallowed by her while under an ana
esthetic. The filling went into her
lung causing an abcess and tubercu-
losis, she alleges. Expert medical
testimony has been taken in the case.
The Ashland Home Telephone Co.
property was sold at sheriff's sale to
10. G. Roehling, Chicago, as follows:
Ashland plant, $4,000; Mellen ex-
change, $500; toll line between Ash
land and Mellen, $3.50. The sale did
not include the switchboard and other
equipment of the Home Telephone
Co. in Ashland, as they are held by a
chattel mortgage for $685..
Due to increased cost of conducting
mission work, the Lutheran Brethren
church convention, held at Superior,
decided against adding to the number
| of missionaries in the field next year.
| Construction of one or two buildings
at the church's Bible school in Grand
| Forks, n. D., was authorized and it
was decided to start a fund for the
needy within the denomination.
| Dissemination of farmers to expert
ment with flax raising is responsible
| for abandonment of the plan to estab-
lish a flax ginning factory in Appleton.
DR.. j. B. Grove, Chicago inventor Of a
flax gin, who was endeayoring to pro
mote the factory, has gone to Oregon,
where he has been promised support.
He offered to erect factory, financed
by local people, if farmers would agree
to raise 1000 acres of fiaxseed each
year.
| Kenosha teachers have announced
that they are about to form a chapter
of the proposed Wisconsin state
teachers organization which will be a
part of the American Federation Of
Labor After long fight for higher
wages, the teachers managed to get
a raise from the school board and now
the educators consider organizing that
the next time an emergency presents
itself they will be able to cope with
the board.
| More than 100 acres of vacant lots
within the city limits are being farm
cd by La Crosse residents. The use
of lots was given freely by owners.
More than 200 people from Portage
and adjoining counties attended the
picnic Of the Central Wisconsin Jer-
sey Breeders association at the farm
OF G. c. Springer near Keene. The
best Jerseys ever exhibited in the
county were on display. A stock
judging contest featured the program.
According to Postmaster Gustave
Keller, Appleton, who attended the an
nual convention of the Wisconsin
Postmasters association in Milwaukee,
the amount of thrift and war savings
stamps cashed in Wisconsin up to
June l was only 16 per cent of the
amount sold and the amount cashed
i'll Outagamie county was only 61a per
cent of the sales. The maturity value
of the stamps sold in Outagamie
county during the year 1918 was STA
$50.
Maj. George d. Whiteside, Plover,
near Stevens Point, fromer assembly
man, has been awarded the medal OF
honor by the French government, for
distinguished service in hospital work
in France. He is still on active duty in
France. After twenty months in
France as an ambulance driver for the
French government. Charles Nc
Creey, Stevens Point, has returned
decorated with the French croiX de
guerre. He is one of three brothers
who were in the world war;
The industrial school board of An