Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-12-03

Dr. Henry w. Abraham, 81 years
old, president of the Wisconsin State
Medical association and member OF
the state board OF medical examiners
Tor twelve years, died Of heart disease
at his home in Appleton.
Following an analysis Rhinelander
city water has been declared unsafe
for drinking purposes by DR.. Elliot,
city health commissioner. Notices
warning the public against using the
water have appeared in local news
papers.
The Eau Claire county board recon
sidered it's recent action in discon-
tinuing the office of county agricul-
tural agent, and voted a salary that
would assure the incumbent of $4,000
year. When George r. ingalls,, who
has been county agent for eight years,
refused to accept a salary offer of
$4,000, demanding $4,000 the board, Is
to IA, voted to discontinue the office.
Six thousand nine hundred twenty
one Wisconsin corporations will pay
an average of $1,067.83 corporation in
come tax for 1920, based on the in
come for 1919, according to tabulations
just completed by the state tax COM
mission. The taxable incomes of the
6,921 corporations is found to be $685.
| 191, 1896, on which they will pay to the
state 1890, 439.12.
The Manitowoc lodge of Elks will
do To five f7siN
| Armenian children for one year. This
humanitarian project was decided fol-
| lowing an address by the Rev. H. H.
| Jones, Oswego, n. Y, who spoke on
| Elkdom From the Standpoint of a
| Clergyman. The Rev. Jones devoted
portion of his talk to the sufferings
| in that country.
| Wages of lumberjacks in the woods
of northern Wisconsin will be lowered
from 10 to Is per cent, according to
| information available at Superior from
men who have come from the woods
and also from large lumber interests.
1t is not believed that the cut will
affect those who have been employed
by the large concerns during the sum-
mer and fall, but particularly will ap-
ply to new men now being employed
| for the big cut of the winter months.
| The largest number of hunters ever
to obtain licenses to hunt in the woods
of Wisconsin inaugurated the deer
hunting season in the northern coun-
ties. w. E. Barber, conservation COM
missioner, Madison, announced that
| 900 licenses had been issued to deer
hunters for the open season which eX-
tends to Nov. 80 from Sunday, Nov.
! 81, both dates inclusive, and that he
expects perhaps thousand more ap-
| plications during the next few days.
Last season $4,000 licenses were is
sued.
| The closed season on partridge
which has existed in Wisconsin for the
last two years has been productive OF
abundant results. Partridge are to be
seen on every country road leading
| from Rhinelander and are becoming
| SO plentiful that it is not unusual to
scare up a covey of from five to fiji
teen birds while driving along the
rural roads. The protection afforded
by the law has had a tendency to
make the partridge very tame and au-
thorities on wild fowl declare that
when the season is again opened the
slaughter will be enormous.
| Frank Lang, charged with the Stay
| ing of Charles Pacini, wealthy Keno
| sha Italian theater owner, on the
night of Aug IA, was found guilty OF
murder in the second degree by a
Jury in circuit court at Kenosha. Sec
ond degree murder calls for a SEN
tence of from fourteen to twenty-five
wears. Attorney A e. Buckmaster for
the defense Immediately entered
| motion for new trial on the grounds
that additional evidence had been I'M
covered and on expectation of finding
further evidence Judge Belden set
Nov. 20 as the date on which this mo-
| ton will be heard.
Upwards of s15,OOO,Oo0 is asked by
the University of Wisconsin for the
next biennium in its budget, which