Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-09-03
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


along the right bank of the Wolf river
has been opened up for automobiles:
The steamer Edward Buckley, of
the Republic Cedar company OF Mari
nette, lost her entire deckload of
cedar and tamarack ties, off Saginaw
bay, while fighting with the heavy
northeaster which swept Lake Huron
The city of Racine has received a
permit from the government to erect
a new bridge at cost of 100000
over the river at State st. Plans for
the structure have been approved and
work will begin as soon as a contract
is awarded
One thousand, two hundred and
twelve bushels of oats off of twelve
acres is the record established for
Kenosha county on the farm of Carl
Larsen west of Kenosha. Larsen be-
lieves his crop may be the best in
the state.
The first still to be discovered in
Barron county was taken by L. 7.
Hazelberg, state prohibition COM
missioner, and assistants. The still
was on the farm of Joseph Dardin.
Dardin was not to be found when the
raid was made.
Barron county census returns are
now in, and show that the county has
now population of 34,281. In 1900
we had 23,677, and in 1910, 29,114.
Rice Lake is leading city, having
4,457, Barron is second with 1923, fol-
lowed by Cumberland, 1928, Chetek,
1854, Turtle Lake, 679. Cameron, 572,
Haugen, 426, Dallas, 425, and Prairie
Farm, 229 In 1900 Rice Lake had
5000, and in 1910, 1868.
Louis Harley, farmer near Boyce-
vile, Dunn county, while out picking
plums with his two sons, told the boys
that he was tired and sat down on a
log to rest. The boys continued their
picking until they heard a shot. They
went back and found their father
dead with a wound below the heart.
His revolver was grasped in his right
hand. Harley had been worried for
many weeks on account of ill health.
AS a part of the program of educa-
ton in the development of better
roads throughout the state the Wis
consin highway commission has been
making a tour of the northern part of
the state. The commissioners have
with them a motion picture outfit and
operator and have been taking pic
lures of the beauty spots and interest
ing scenes of special attractiveness in
Bayfield, county. The pictures will be
exhibited throughout the country.
Kenosha comes to the front with
the largest percentage increase in
population announced for a Wiscon-
sin city, official announcement of the
census bureau at Washington gives
that city a population of 40,742, an in
crease of 19.101. or 1914 per cent. The
next largest increase made by Wis
consin city is that of Racine, which,
with population of 1888, made an
increase of 54.2 per cent. Madison,
with 3S,378, an increase of so per cent,
stands third in the list of increases.
Threshermen report oats yielding
more heavily in Jefferson county than
for years before, several cases having
been reported of yields ranging from
80 to 100 bushels to the acre, machine
weight. The average yield of oats per
acre for that vicinity for a number of
years is quoted at about go bushels
and threshermen say this average is
being exceeded almost everywhere
this year. Barley is reported as
yielding from 80 to 40 bushels to the
acre in some vicinities and also is re-
ported as being of the very best
quality.
Capt G.. A. Petibone, Waupun, aged
70 years, is holding down two jobs at
the same time. He is city clerk and
also official interpreter at the Wiscon-
sin state penitentiary. AS city clerk
of Waupun he does clerical work with
pen and typewriter that ordinarily
constitutes full time job for much
younger man. He is said to be the
oldest city clerk in Wisconsin. But.
his appointment to the city office to
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him to resign from his other position,
that of interpreter at the state prison.
He reads all incoming and outgoing
mail written in French, Italian, Ger
man and Spanish.
Burglars entered the Northwestern
depot at Neenah and stole two sacks
OF registered mail Included in the
loot is believed to have been pack
age containing $4,000 in currency,
sent by the First Wisconsin National
bank, Milwaukee, to the National
Manufacturers bank of Neenah. The
total value of the loot secured by the
burglars is not known. The two mail
sacks, which had been ripped open
and the contents taken, were found
several hours after the robbery, one
in Neenah, the other in Menasha. Au-
thorities are inclined to scout the
theory that the job was done by out
side talent" They believe it to have
been an inside job.
Mrs. Gunnel of Merrill, aged 40
years, is paralyzed from her waist
down as the result of an accident
which occurred four miles west Of
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