Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-12-26

sdre Tor the men. heretofore the SOL
Tiers have been sent to government
hospitals.
John Bubanovich, "a, Russian, was
instantly killed at the Nash Motors
20. plant, Kenosha, when his hand
was caught in belt In the coal
cracking room and his body was
lrawn into the fly wheel. His skull
was fractured.
The ice industry of Kenosha county
went glimmering when Chicago COM
oarlies announced that they would Hill
only few OF the many large Ice
aouses OF the eounty this winter. They
declare that artificial ice Is cheaper
oecause Of the high price of labor.
Dischargihg five foremen, who, he
alleged had ali themselves with
stockholders, seeking to gain control
Of the business, Fred Opitz, superin
tendent of the Perfex Radiator com
pany, Racine, caused a walkout Of
nearly every employee of the company
causing complete close down of the
plant
Mrs Johanna Reed, blind and iv
ing alone, was burned TO death in her
found in the dining room where it is
supposed her clothing caught fire at
The stove. No one saw the accident
She was about 20 years old. She had
sister at Chicago and brother i'll
Montana.
Because of an insistent demand from
teachers and school board members,
the Outagamie County School News,
first rural school newspaper in Wis
consin, has been forced to resume
publication after suspension of sew
eral months caused by the print paper
shortage. The paper is published
monthly by the county superintendent
of schools.
Deposits in state banks increased
100000 in the period of Nov ]
1918. to Nov II, 1919, when the call
was issued, according to an abstract
IF conditions made public by State
Banking Commissioner Marshall
Cousins Loans and discounts in
creased $67,OO0,00O in the same pc
Rod The total resources of the state
banks is placed at s469,338, 927S6.
A transaction has been completed
At Burlington whereby four condenso-
lies of the Wisconsin Milk company
of this city will become the property
of the Nestles' Food company of New
York. The condensories. located at
Burlington and Valders. Wis, and
Irays Lake and PrentOnicee, ILL.,. will
De operated by the Nestles' Food com
1any after Jan. 2, 1920. The concern
cow owns twelve factories in Wiscon
sin
Development of an extensive mari
bed discovered under a marsh near
3loomer for lining farm lands in the
)lder sections in that vicinity, where
clover and peas are raised is being
started Tests are being made Prof
A. R. Whitson, soils department, Uni
Fersity of Wisconsin, has found that
he mari bed runs very high in lime
which many farmers are
having shipped from long distances at
expense
In collision between the Omro-
3erlin-Oshkosh automobile bus and a
500 train seven persons were in
iured, three seriously, including Her
bert Exner, Berlin, hand and back
sprained; Miss Mary Williams, Der
in, head cut; Mrs. Herman Wilkie of
Oshkosh, head bruised 1t is said the
gates were down AS the freight ap-
but that the bus driver be
ieved he had time to cross and, ap-
)arently, went under the gate
Men, feet inches in height, weigh
ng l16 pounds, may now enlist in the
rational guard This is one inch
shorter than the minimum prior to
he war but three inches higher than
he draft minimum These are the
regulations just received by
he adjutant general from Washing
on Unlike the days before the war.
he young man between IS and q
years of age does not have to have the
of his parents to enlist, but
lnder no circumstances is boy under
Is years to be taken in
Mrs Adam OgodZki member of
he Catholic church congregation al
Independence, was awarded damages
% $4,000, by jury in Circuit court at
Whitehall. In her suit against the
Rev. A. w. Cara. pastor Of the church,
who was charged with forcibIy ejecting
ler. Mrs OgodZki claimed severe in
juries and illness as result of having
3een put out of the church. She is the
wife of the organist Charles Marso.
eek, independence postmaster, and
Simon Skiuch members of the choir,
are joint defendants in the suit.
At elections of Dec. Is. three coun-
ties voted down coed roads bond is.
sues, and one, Fond du Lac, voted ap-
prevail. Dane county voted down
$1O.000,0O0 issue, Grant one
of $5,00O,000 and Iowa county disap-
proved its proposed bond issue of $4,-
5000 The bond issue approved in
Fond du Lac county calls for the ex-