Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-07-23
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS


supervision of the board of health.
Owing to inability to secure kitchen
and dining room help the Galloway
hotel, Eau Claire's present leading hos.
telry, has been forced to suspend its
dining room facilities and is no long
er serving meals.
st. James English Lutheran church
! Of Marinette, a new congregation, has
completed plans for the erection of a
new edifice to cost 100000. Work will
start in the fall The new church will
/ be of the English Gothic type.
The Evangelical church association
of Seymour celebrated its fiftieth ami
Versary. Four former pastors and
three former members of the congre-
cation, who are now ministers, were
guests of honor Thirty clergymen
| took part.
Thomas A. Delaney, federal prohibi-
ton officer for Wisconsin, announced
that he would not be candidate for re-
| election to the assembly for the Green
Bay district. He says that chasing of
violators of the eighteenth amendment
will take all his time
The carpenters strike, which threat
ened to tie up building conditions at
/ KenOsha, came to an end when the car
penters defied the business agent of
| the building trades council and went
back to work. The strike was started
L.
borers.
Cider and fruit juices, nonintoXicat-
ing in fact and not necessarily one
| half of l per cent, can be made in your
own home, the federal prohibition COM
| missioner for Wisconsin announced.
| No definite mention is made as to
what extent of alcohol is permissible
| in the cider and fruit juices, excepting
| that it must be Misunderstanding in fact,
and not necessarily one-half of l per
! cent.
A committee, consisting of Roger G.
| Cunningham, city attorney Of James
vile; D. E. Mowry, manager of the
Madison Chamber of Commerce, and
| J. G.. Swift, city clerk of Darlington,
was appointed at a meeting of repre-
sentatives of the cities of southern
| Wisconsin to petition the Northwest
ern and Milwaukee roads for better
passenger train service to and from
| Milwaukee
Five keepers OF Marinette saloons,
who were refused a license to sell bev-
| oT holf Of 1
cent alcoholic content, paid fines of
$50 and costs for opening their places
without the necessary permit They
were Mike Snyder, Axel Johnson, AL
bert Behrendent, John J. Levy and W.
j. Frederickson. Three of them con-
duct hotels Twenty dealers were
| granted permits to sell malt beVer-
ages.
Indications point to an immense crop
of blueberries in the north woods this
season. The absence of damaging
frosts early in the spring, when the
plants were in blossom, gave promise
Of big yield and later growth bears
out the assumption that there will be
plenty of the wild berries. Last years
crop was the largest in years. Thou
sands of quarts were picked by home
people and many parties from down
state made special trips to the berry
| fields to gather the fruit.
II. T. Pyburn, Washburn, was re-
elected president of the Wisconsin
Rural Letter Carriers association, at
it's annual convention held at Merrill
Henry Gollenbeck, Beaver Dam, was
elected vice president; W. G. Arle,
Sturgeon Bay, secretary, and Chester
Granger, Sheboygan Falls, treasurer.
A. C. Powerweltz, Merrill, and Harry
Garland, Beloit, were elected delegates
to the national convention, which will
be held at Dallas, Tex. The next state
convention will be held at Sheboygan.
After over three months, of dissen-
sion and negotiations, the building
trades strike in La Crosse has ended.
Five hundred men have gone back to
work. While no announcement was
made concerning the new agreement,
it is understood the carpenters receive
an advance from 721a to so cents an
hour. the hod carriers and common
laborers are granted small increase,
with a nine hour day and Saturday
afternoons off, and other unions go
back to work under the old wage
scales. Lines will not be drawn SO
closely by the union men on the ques-
ton of working with non-union men,
according to the new agreement.
Four COWS belonging to Mike Car
tier, farmer near Epson, were cleo
trocuted during an electrical storm
Five of Carriers cows took refuge
against a wire fence during the storm
Four were instantly killed when light
ming struck the fence some distance
away
Albert Porter, SO years old, Was IN
jured at Beloit, probably fatally, When
he was pinned in the running gear Of
a light wagon, in which ne was seated
and dragged 800 feet before his team
of frightened ponies was halted in
Runaway. His hip was fractured ant
he was nearly disemboweled.
Tony Mask made movie rescue
when the 2-yearold son of Grit