Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-23


erect plant at Eagle River for the.
manufacture of wood products. Plans
are for a factory which will employ
about forty people and to be operated
by electricity.
Enrolment in the La Crosse eve
ming vocational schools has reached
1,037 persons. Classes have been or
ganized in large variety of subjects,
and hundreds of adults are learnig use
full trades.
| A. J. Stronger, who lives on the
banks of the lower lake, near Nee
nah, narrowly escaped drowning when
he fell through an air hole while cross
ing the ice. Members of an ice cutting
crew saw his predicament and came
| to the rescue.
| In drilling q well in De Soto village,
Willis Hustin, Victory well driller, at
a depth of ia encountered an OBJ
struction of wood, presumably a log
which has lain there for countless
centuries. Pieces of the log were
brought to the surface but they were
in too advanced stage Of disintegra-
ton for one to determine the nature
of the original tree.
| Under the Wisconsin statutes, nom
| ination papers for president, vice-presi-
dent and delegates to national politi-
cal conventions may now be circula-
| ted in this state The same law pro
vides for the filing of the papers with
the secretary of state on Tuesday,
Feb "a, being the last day this year
on which they may be filed to get OH
the election tickets, for the primary in
the spring
| Appleton home builders are facing
another increase in the cost of build
| ing now that the maSOns, brlcklayerS
and plaSterers have presented de-
mand for $125 an hour, effective on
March /. They are now receiving 81
| and $110 an hour. Carpenters and
/ plumbers will soon present q demand
| for 81 an hour. They are now being
| paid at the rate of IS cents an hour for
eight hours work.
Confronted with insistent public de-
mand for cheaper food, Badger farm
| ers will meet at Madison, Feb 3 to II,
| for statewide conference on How to
Meet the High Cost Of Farming"
| Production costs in farming are
mounting at an alarming rate and
Wisconsin farmers are calling in some
| of the best authorities of the country
| to aid them in planning their years
production program.
Some Kenoshans will probably have
| their might cap" drink, even after the
national prohibition becomes legally
effective. An entire carload of real
whisky reached there and was unload
ed and spirited away" to homes in
KenOsha In less than an hour persons
waiting for the consignment had the
fOrty-seven barrels and fifty-one cases
out of the car and the car back on the
siding. 1t was valued at S127, 900.
Many applications for notifications
of the state building code have been
filed with the State Industrial Com
mission, in the last few months. In
these applications builders and build
ing owners have sought to secure per-
mission to make use of somewhat
cheaper construction than lis required
by the state building code for assem-
bly, halls, hotels and apartment houses
and other public or quasi-public
buildings
Ptomaine poisoning resulting from
the eating of canned corn in a down
la
element in the establishment OF the
Zahn Dry Goods company, Racine,
when ten of the lady clerks became
violently ill in quick succession. Ply
sicians, nurriedly called, succeeded in
neutralizing the result of the poison
ing, although it was found necessary
to send several of the cases to hos
pital for treatment
The first real logging camp seen in
| this section in fifty years or more will
be getting under way four miles south
of Eau Claire this week, when William
! Wolfe, who recently retired as Chippe-
wa county highway commissioner, and
crew will begin cutting down tract
| of Norway and white pine belonging
| to C. R. Donnellan of Eau Claire, com
prising 10000 feet of timber. The
cut will, it is estimated, be completed
within month or six weeks. The logs
will be hauled to the Kaiser Lumber
company's mill, Eau Claire, to be
sawed up into lumber.
| DR.. John r. Freudenberg, Markesan,
arrested on a charge of having caused
| the death of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Nettie Duties, was released on cash
bail of $50 700, put up by his wife. The
| amount of bail was set by Judge Ches-
ter N. Fowler at Fond du Lac. DR..
| Freudenberg is alleged to have caused
| the death of his mother-in-law thru
the injection of mustard gas. Mrs.
| Duties is the fifth member OF the fam
lily. one of the wealthiest in that sec
ton of the state, who died under cir
cumstances considered unusual. Dis
trict Attorney Paul, in charge OF the
prosecution, will urge speedy trial.
| IT NAV he assigned to the June term