Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-04-16


ninety when this number was mus
tered into the service at Beloit. Maj.
Colon H. Ball of the United States
army was in charge. More than half
of the men enlisted. saw army service
Corp. Benjamin H. Buck, Wausau
for many years a member of Company
G., Third regiment, Wisconsin Ma
tional guard, received notice that he
has been awarded a distinguished
service cross for heroism while in
service in France.
Ice packing the intake to the tur-
bine engines Of the Great Northern
Power Co., Superior, shut off the cur
rent to the city and left a street car
stranded on the crossing of the Omaha
railroad tracks. A truck pushed the
idle and electric lights were out OF
commission several hours.
Shareholders of the Washburn
| County Agricultural society and a
committee of the county board of SUI
pervisors met together, and it was
| tOl6u W Sell tl!C COuuIy IAN
stock to the county at par. The
grounds probably will be placed in the
hands of a committee of farmers and
the county will back an annual fair.
More than 100 Wisconsin herds of
cattle, totaling 1857 head, have passed
the first negative test for tuberculosis,
according to Dr. J. S. Healey, repre-
| sentative of the federal government in
| tuberculosis eradication in Wisconsin.
HOlstein herds lead the list with 49,
the Guernseys are second with AZ
herds, Jerseys have 8, and Short
horns, 8.
The public schools of Ashland will
cost the taxpayers about $4,000 more
| this year than last, owing largely to
| the increase in teachers wages which
was made The average raise is %
per cent, the minimum salary in the
grades being fixed at $1,000, and the
| maximum 1880 High school teach
ers will receive from $1,000 to $1,000,
and the superintendent salary was
fixed at $4,000
LII. JOStpH OClldICl, ACW ouPSi IL
| tendent of the Wisconsin State Histo-
| rical society, has arrived in Madison
| from Oregon to take over his new du-
| ties Dr. Schafer is the fourth super
| inten6ent of the society, his predeces-
sors being Lyman c. Draper, Ruben G.
| Thwaites and Milo Quaife. The So
ciety has made DR.. Quaife editor OF
the societys publications and DR..
| Schafer head of the administrative
end of the society.
| That the owner of land surrounded
| by property of others and to which
there is no road, cannot be arbitrarily
refused highway outlet by the town
| board upon application made accord
| ing to law, after he has exhausted all
efforts to purchase way in and out
of his land, was the decision of Judge
E. C. Higbee in circuit court at La
| Crosse The suit was brought by
| Oliver Bervik against the town board
of Hamilton, and the decision marks
| the termination of a controversy ex-
| tending over a period of two years.
To care for the dead as well as the
| living is the self-imposed obligation OF
| the Farmers Mercantile Supply Co.,
Elkhart Lake, cooperative, to its
customers and stockholders, the latter
nearly 200 in number. The furniture
store owned by the company has an
undertaking department and it's man
ager is a licensed embalmer and flu
| low ,nratC 11Ir11h
fuel, food, in fact everything its farm
er stockholders need except groceries
and dry goods are handled by the CO.
operative, which did a business OF
more than $150,000 last year. Through
| this agency the farmers also sell stock
and grain.
| During 1919, total of $1,653,624
was paid to injured wOrkmen in Wis
consin as compensation, according to
the industrial commission. Medical
| aid in these cases cost employers
| S491 ,O07 and total benefits were ST.
144.691. This does not include medical
aid paid in cases in which the disabil-
| ity was less than seven days and in
which, consequently, no compensation
was paid. Medical aid for these non
compensatable injuries amounted to
at least $15O,OoO more. During 1919
there was a decrease of 1874 per cent
in the number of compensate injuries
reported The total cases reported
were 17,207 and the total cases settled
1886
A new chapter opens in the interest
ing story of the Fairchild & North
western railroad, with the news that
The Jones brothers will pay the
freight In other words r. E. and r.
A. Jones, the largest buyers and ship
pers of farm produce along the west
end of the line, which has been closed
since the government returned the
roads to private ownership leased en-
gines, cars and the right of way from
Fairchild to Cleghorn and will operate
as individual owners and not as a
common carrier. Passengers will not
be carried nor freight other than
| +hair own The road temporarily be