Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-08-20

nave ALREADY Deen prepared.
Fire departments are not liable for
violation of traffic ordinances, accord
ing to an opinion by Attorney General
John J. Bluaine to the state fire mar
shall 50
Judge Martin Lueck as a candidate
for justice of the Wisconsin supreme
court, will be urged on Gov. Philip by
a committee which was named at a
picnic of the Waukesha county bar.
William F. Weichel, Eau Claire, 80
years old, was sentenced to thirty days
in Jail when he pleaded guilty to strik-
ing and knocking down his father, who
is 60 years old, during an argument.
Letters from three different families
in Pennsylvania have been received by
District Attorney Bohn, Baraboo,
claiming the young man who was
killed at North Freedom on July 22 as
their son.
A merger of the laundries at Water
town has been affected, the several
plants having been combined into the
Watertown Laundry Co., which con
Germ is installed in a new plant on
South Third ST.
Two changes in the routing OF state
highways were decided upon at
meeting of the state highway commits
sion at Madison. Highway No. 80, was
re-rOuted to take in Union Center. The
state trunk highway from Marshall to
Columbus was removed and the route
from Waterloo and Columbus substitu-
ted.
After travelling 100000 miles dur
ing forty-four years of service as rail
way mail clerk without missing train.
or being in a wreck, Charles Cooper OF
eau Claire, will retire on the newly in
stituted government pension, Aug. 20.
Cooper left the publication OF the Bad
ger State Banner at Black River Falls
in 1877 to accept an appointment as
railway mail clerk.
Mrs. Stella Dyba, IS, of Sobieski,
was found at Abrams, Is miles dis
tant. by Lester Whitcomb Her clothes
were in rags and her hair down, from
her two days wanderings in the
woods. Relatives were notified. She
began acting Queerly and was brought
to Oconto Upon examination she was
pronounced insane by County Judge
Jones and sent to the Lutheran hospl-
tai at Oshkosh.
The Eau Claire-C Chippewa Falls con-
crete highway was opened for the full
distance through the Eau Claire ap-
proach, including Birch st. The via
duct over the 500 tracks, and road
way to the Seymour road are still I'M
der construction. The work in pro-
cess will be finished by September.
The route is laid out to eliminate all
grade crossings and shortens the dis
lance between the two cities to 8.S
miles, instead of the accepted II.
Forged signatures on soldier bonus
checks have presented a new problem
to State Treasurer Henry Johnson. He
has received several complaints from
former service men that their checks
have not been delivered, while investi-
cation by the state reveals that they
had been endorsed and cashed K. j.
Loebe of Milwaukee is one of those
who has not received a bonus, al
though the cancelled check has been
received in the treasurer's Office at
Madison.
Three year old Maurietta Rooney
fell 20 feet from the iron railing of
East Grand av. bridge at Chippewa
J. Falls into the swift current OF Duncan
creek. Albert Norman, drayman,
saw her disappear and rescued the ap-
parently dead body from the East Cen
trail bridge block down stream. After
20 minutes efforts at resuscitatlon, the
workers were about to cease when
some one noticed warmth in the bloat-
ed and discOlored forehead and restor-
atives were reapplied with success.
No increase in prices except for hull
ing clover seed will be made by
threshermen of southern Wisconsin,
according to information issued after
meeting of Southern Wisconsin
Threshermens association at James
vile. The scale adopted follows: Rye
ana wheat, Genus per UuSucI, val Cy,
cents per bushel; oats, cents; mil.
let, 6 cents; timothy seed, 35 cents;
buckwheat, Is; speltz, cents, and
clover seed, cents per pound. The
maximum price charged for setting a
thYeshing outfit preparatory to thresh-
Game Warden c. S. Little of Chippe-
wa county, reports the destruction OF
sixteen beaver dams in the vicinity
of Holcombe. The dams were so sub
stantially built that it required more
than a week for the officer to accomp-
Iish their destruction with the use of
dynamite. This is the third time that
Little has been obliged to destroy
these dams this season and he pre-
diets that the beavers will rebuild
them again before the advent of win
ter. Much damage is done by flooding
of valuable lands where streams are
obstructed by the activities OF the
animals.
The booze selling charge against
Herman Wurtzel, Shawano road inn
keeper, was dismissed in Green aBy
municipal court. So far not dry law