Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-02
The animal show of the Sheboygan
Poultry and Pet Stock association will
be held JAM to il. One Of the best
exhibits in years is expected.

exhibits in years is expected.
Excellent sleighing and zero weather
made work in the woods for the Ocon-
to mills and among the logging job
bers better than for number of years
past. The cut this year will be much
larger than in 3 dozen years.
T. M. E. R. & L. Co. got back to the
use of the horse and bob sleigh on
their freight service between Durling
ton, Lake Geneva, Elkhorn and Della
van. The heavy snow made it impos-
sible to get through with the motor
trucks.
The old tannery which has been an
eyesere in .Medford for y years was
sold by George Harder, Rib Lake, to
Harry Hurd, Merrill. The deal in
cludes 25 acres of land and large
concrete building. The new owner
will start box factory.
Joseph B. Treat, former. state. .sena-
tor and leading figure in Wisconsin re
publican circles, died at his home at
Monroe, aged. 81 years. He was. the
father of Brig. Gen. G. G. Treat. Mr.
Treat was chairman of the republican
state committee in 1895.
Capt. L. E. Kelly, Blair, who served
in France in the medical corps, re-
ceived notification that he had been
commissioned by the war department
a major in the medical section of the
Of ft,n Init nd
army. He is a dentist.
Glasses in craftsmanship and home
nursing will be organized in the Eau
Claire night school, A registered Red
Cross nurse will give instruction in
preventive medicine and nursing. The
craftsmanship course will be in response
to requests from clerks.
Cheesemakers of Manitowoc will
bring suit against the state to test
the law standardizing use Of milk in
cheesemaking and prohibiting use of
SKINNED milk The decision came
with the arrest of a cheesemaker for
alleged violation Of the law.
In the poultry show at Watertown
many Fort Atkinson fanciers carried
off prizes. Earl Roberts was a judge.
Mr.. Roberts, born in 1862, began keep
ing poultry when he was II. His farm
probably carries more varieties of high
class quality than any in the world.
When Peter Rliska was arrested at
Stevens Point OF a charge of drunken
ness on his person was found quaa-
tity of homemade whisky consisting
of denatured alcohol diluted in coffee.
He entered plea of guilty in munic
ipal court and paid a fine and costs
OF $50 He was picked up by the
police many blocks from home. He
had consumed one-third pint of home
brew.
julius Bogwilo, on trial in the Cir
cult court at KenOsha for ten days
on a charge of numbering his wife,
Mary Bogwilo, on May 5, was found
not guilty because the jury enter
tanned reasonable doubt as to his
sanitay at the time of the commission
OF the offense. Judge William 0.
Quinlan, who was on the bench,
promptly committed Bogwilo to the
state hospital for the criminal insane
at Waupun..
The first case of it's kind was placed
on record at Menasha when John
Hanson, town of Neenah farmer, re
ceived a check for $185 to cover the
value of a horse which met its death
due to fright from an aeroplane last
summer. Mr. Hanson filed claim
against the United States Aeroplane
Advertising Co., by whom G. R. Pork
land, pilot of the plane was employed
Settlement was made through the
Travellers Insurance Co.
The newest wrinkle in whisky steal
ing was uncovered at GAINESVILLE by
police when three boys, employed by
the city to read water meters, cor
fessed to the theft of seven quarts of
"Old Taylor" and "Pebbleford" wills
ky. They had made three separate
trips to one home claiming a mistake
had been made in meter readings and
each time carrying out part Of the for
Dl0Qcn SUN uuu6T tlnSII UFSECOdLs
All are between Is and Is years old.
After surviving the wreck of the
Tuscania, serving TIL the end of th&
war with motor corps in France, c. J
Vannedam, %, Eau Claire, returned to
his peace-time job as brakeman and
lies between life and death in the Rail
way hospital at st. Paul. One leg has
two fractures, the other, one; his jaw
is broken and his head badly cut. In
The gray of early morning he fell from
the bridge across the st. Croix river
at Hudson, thirty feet to the ice. His
parents live at Marshfield.
julius j. GoetZ, Milwaukee, trustee
of the Perfex Radiator Co., Racine, in
an affidavit, denies every allegation OF
inefficiency and neg
1ect of business, and submits a finan
cial statement showing that under his
management the company was sue
cessfully operated up to Dec. 10, when
there was dissension among employees.
Mr.. Goetz declares that he refused to
accept the trusteeship after being dis