Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-16
WISDOM SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
| Arranged in Condensed Form

Power Co, will be completed about
Feb. l.
The city of Racine will, after Jan.
16, make a refund of $240 to every per-
son who on July l was granted
license to sell liquor for the year 1919
1920 and for which each paid $500.
The majority of saloons will close on
Jan. 16.
The Madison municipal waterworks
system returned to the general fund
a profit of $4,000 in 1919, according to
the annual report of the superlntend-
ent, L. A Smith. Operating expenses
amounted to $4,000 and operating
revenues were 100000.
Through the efforts of the Rhine
lander Advancement association
large summer camp for boys will prob
ably be located on one of the lakes
near that city next spring. There are
two girls camps in Oneida county,
both close to Rhinelander.
The only bridge on the Northwest
ern railway between Manitowoc and
!
essary the making up of train at the
former city for Milwaukee to take
place of the one which leaves Two
Rivers each Sunday for the South.
A tract of 25,OOO,OOO feet of mer-
charitable timber in the Spirit Falls
district has been purchased by Frank
Theiler, Tomahawk He also recently
bought a part of the old Tomahawk,
Marinette & Western railroad and
will convert it into a logging railroad.
Phillip H Horst, for twenty years
actively engaged in the management
of the GAINESVILLE Electric company, III
the capacity of manager, has resigned.
Harold L. Geise, Chicago, for several
years member of the Wisconsin rail-
road commission will fill the vacancy.
DR.. A. S. Loevenhart, professor OF
pharmacology and toxicology at the
University of Wisconsin, was elected
president Of the national pharmaco-
logical society at the annual conven-
ton of federated American societies
for experimental biology, held in
Cleveland.
Two deaths occurred within few
minutes in the home of r. Pepper,
Grover farmer. Miss Anna Pepper,
his daughter, who had been ill with
tuberculosis, died unexpectedly. When
the mother, Mrs. Anna Pepper, was
notified. she swooned and passed
re
shock
There are several thousand barrels
of 2.75 per cent beer in the watts of La
Crosse breweries which will not be
dealcoholized at this time despite the
decision of the United States supreme
court with regard to that drink. Local
brewers will await the outcome OF an
other action to test the legality of the
VOlstead act.
The Wisconsin railroad commission
granted the petition of the Ontario and
Milton Telephone Co. of Monroe cOun-
ty to increase rates after Jan. l, 1920,
but refused to consider an increase of
salary for the nonresident manager as
necessary at this time. The commits
sion also suggested a less expensive
method in keeping the company's
books
A newly formed corporation, known
as the Flambeau River company, with
offices at Eau Claire, will have charge
of the building of a large dam near
Park Falls, at the injunction of the
Flambeau and Turtle Rivers, to be
built soon 1t is estimated that this
dam will cost over 100000 and the
reservoir will cover about 1900 acres
of land.
Postal authorities are investigating
the theft of $7771 in currency from
an insured and registered envelope
which was sent by the Bank of She
boygan to Henry J. StoOver, a mem
Der of Troop M, Eleventh U. S. cav
airy, Calexico, Calf The package
was returned to the Sheboygan Postal
authorities as unclaimed. The con-
tents had been pilfered.
IF deportation is a solution for the
unrest in this country, Judge Gary of
steel trust fame, the big five packers
and other trust magnates ought to be
the first to go" declared James
Thompson of La Crosse, in an address
there to the Citizens Corporation
league Thompson is beinG pushed as
a candidate for United States senator
at the next election. He ran against
Senator Lenroot in the last election.
George C. Hume, Chiffon, is a can
didate for judge of the Third Wiscon-
sin circuit court, opposing Judge Geo,
w. Burnell, the incumbent, and Daniel
Mcdonald, Oshkosh. The circuit COM
prises Calumet and Winnebago coun-
ties. Mr. Hume was formerly news
paper man. His father was long edi-
tor of The Chiffon Times. The candi-
date has been county judge and dis
trict attorney. The election occurs
April G..
Grand Rapids automobile dealers
have organized for the purpose of
staging an automobile show in Grand
Rapids next month. The dealers will
secure Co. X aTmory and intend to