Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-08-27
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

and stole 800 pounds of butter valued
at $165
The Rotary club drive at Rhine
lander for Boy Scout funds ended with
$4,000 raised. Arrangements will be
made for a salaried scoutmaster to
take charge of the work during the
coming year.
Rustic Resort at Pine lake has beer
purchased by Stein and Adams oil
Clintonville who will replat the ground
and improve the lots and make the
place most attractive and interesting
camping ground.
Mayor S. G. Perinier City Clerk
Thomas Wight, Aldermen Joslin and
StoltZ will represent Rhinelander al
the convention of the Wisconsin
League of Municipalities which will be
held in La Crosse in September.
C. B. Lester and H. A. Whippler OF
Madison are being considered for ap.
pointment as secretary of the Wiscon'
sin free library commission to sue
coed M. S. Dudgeon, new public Ii
brarian for Milwaukee.
Herman Martin, 29, met death by
electrocutiOn at the Booth Campbell
retail lumber yard warehouse at
Marshfield, where he was employed
Martin attempted to change the loca.
ton of an electric light wire. His
death was almost instantaneous.
Nf
Monroe county, is hunter of proves
and accuracy of aim. He shot and
killed a large fox which had, during
the season, killed more than 100 young
chickens from his fathers cOOps. The
youthful hunter not only saved the
family flock of chickens, but has re-
ceived the state bounty Of $40.
The Holstein and Guernsey Breeders
association of Waupaca county will
have publication of their own with
which to promote the interests of pure
bred cattle. The first issue will ap.
pear in September and will be six.
teen page publication. The new
magazine will be issued under the
editorship of James H. Dance, county
agricultural agent of the county.
Harry Zimmerman, machinist in
the Omaha shops at Altoona, Eau
Claire county, remembers POnZi, the
coupon financier, when he was a
prisoner in the federal prison at At
lanta where Zimmerman was then a
guard Ponzi went by another name,
oQTrY1o u n
said, but he recognized his picture at
once and recalled him as being
"shrewd but crooked"
The Rev. Oscar Montan, Ironwood,
was elected president of the Ogema
district of the Luther league at the
business session held at Merrill. John
Burman, Bessemer, was elected vice
president; Miss Eva Swedberg, Rhine
lander, secretary; Miss Esther John
son, Wausau, treasurer, and Miss
| Emma Worland, Wisconsin Rapids,
| clerk, to prepare and file the sta
tistical report.
According to the American Con
| tractors resume of building statistics
| from large cities for July, compared
| with the same month for the previous
| year, Sheboygan took first place in the
state in the gain in building construc-
| ton and is second only to Milwaukee
| in the total amount of construction
work authorized The total amount is
$50O,S24 against $71,819 for July, 1919,
or a gain of 60.4 per cent.
John Stevens, pioneer flour manu-
| facturer of Neenah, whose death oc-
Cured in that city Aug. 5, was man
| of considerable wealth, according to a
| petition filed in the probate court at
| Oshkosh. The decedent was the pos
SCISSOR of personal property of the es-
timated value of $485,000 and real es-
| tate from which there is an annual
| revenue of $1,000. The petitioner,
| John Stevens, Jr., of Appleton, asked
that he be appointed executor of the
| estate.
Charging that he was without cause
| or provocation, taken to the common
| Jail in the city hall and held incom-
| municado for nearly forty-eiglht hours,
| despite his requests for counsel or the
use of the telephone, HI. L. Brown, a
railroad employee. has brought suit for
| $4,000 against Patrolman Blain Thomp-
| son and Night Desk Sergt. John T.
| Vending, La Crosse, alleging false
Imprisonment. Brown was arrested
| as a "peeper" suspect, according to
| the police.
At it's regular meeting the Sheboy-
| gan city council by adopting COM
mittee report, placed the matter OF
bonding the city for 100000 for new
| bridge on North Eighth street in the
| hands of the voters of the city, who
| will decide the matter at the Novem'
| Der elections.
f. M. Smith of Oshkosh, was elected
| president of the Wisconsin Assoc1a-
| ticn of Commercial Secretaries at the
| final session of that body at Madison
| Other officers elected were: M. L.
| jacobs, Beloit, vice-president; Lee l.
| Yorkson, Waupaca, treasurer and Don
f. Mowry, Madison. secretary
Toots, pure-bred Scotch collie, be-
longing to r. e. Kurke of Green Bay,
died while protecting his masters
T. i n.