Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-05-28
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


in pay and Saturday afternoons of
with pay.
Seventy-two Holsteins were sold fol-
total of $23,439 at the new sales pa
vilion on the fair grounds at Chippe
wa Falls. The highest price paid was
o, the average 1926.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
erection of a conservatory at Sheridan
park was authorized by Adolph Ep
stein, president of the Kenosha park
board, at a meeting The movement
has the approval of the board.
Practically IS per cent of the lum-
Der industry in Wisconsin, Michigan
and Minnesota is tied up by the strike
of timber workers, according to C. o.
Young, organizer for the American
Federation of Labor, in charge of the
strike.
The Hackley-Phelps-B onnell Lumber
company will Immediately begin the
construction of a large number of
modern homes in Phelps for the oc-
cupancy of their employees. These
houses will be fitted with every con-
Venience and will be leased at nominal
rentals
William w. Dillon, 60, of the firm of
Dillon Bros. owners of the Muscoda
garage, fell into an auto pit in a dark
corner of the garage and was SO seri-
Cusly injured that he was taken to q
Madison hospital for treatment. The
mans lower jaw was fractured, sew
egal teeth knocked out and his neck
sprained.
The late Peter r. Thorn, formerly
superintendent of the KimberlyClark
Paper Co. of Appleton, who died sew
eTal weeks ago in Hollywood, Calf,
left an estate valued at more than
100000, according to his last will adj
mitted to probate in county court at
Appleton. The entire estate was left
to the family.
Shooting craps" had such q fascina
ton for Achilles A. Bleck that he took
blank checks from printing office at
Oshkosh and forged them to provide
up in court on the charge of forging
checks Of the Bergstrom Paper Co.,
Neenah, a plea was entered that the
lad be placed on probation.
Henry Hudson, colored junk dealer
who was shot to death at Eau Claire
by Detective John Sather, left an es
tate estimated at more than $4,000.
Attorney J. G. GilbertsOn appeared in
probate court for the wife and two
daughters, who reside in YaZoo, Miss.
Hudson came to Eau Claire over 20
years ago and nothing was known of
his former life.
When Mrs Fred Pieritz of Ft. At
kinson telephoned for a doctor to come
and visit her son Orion, the boy went
up to the sleeping porch, took his faith
er's revolver, and shot himself. He
died before the doctor reached the
home. The boy, who is only 16 years
old, had had difficulty with his high
= DOL studies recently and had wor-
RE until he became sick.
Harry Arthur Mechling, 20 years
DID, lifelong invalid of Spring Lake
township, was found sitting in his
wheel chair, dead, with bullet in his
head and a rifle leaning against the
chair. The loaded rifle had been
standing in the corner of the room
against some books and it is thought
the young man accidently knocked it
over while reaching for a book.
Mrs. NJ w. Bowman of Durand was
elected president of the Tenth District
Federation of WOmen'S clubs at the
closing session at Chippewa Falls.
Other officers named We're: Mrs. ]. Fl.
Anderson, Barron, vice-president; Mrs.
]. D. Steven, Eau Claire, recording
secretary; Mrs. Z. Phillips, Hudson,
treasurer; Miss Evelyn Goodrich, Du-
rand, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
E. B. Mahle, Chippewa Falls, auditor.
Johannes Van Leischot, So, assistant
millwright for the Kimberly-Clark
Paper Co, at Appleton, was instantly
killed at the Kimberly mill when he
was struck by travelling crane while
making repairs on the crane track.
The operator on the crane had been
warne,l that repairs were being made
on the track, but forgot his instruc-
tons and sent the big machine along
the runway. Van Leischot was pinned
against heavy beam.
There is on exhibition at the office
of c.. p. West, Oneida county agricul-
tural representative, a hens egg which
for size would win the blue ribbon any
where. 1t is So inches in circumfer-
ence from one end around to the other,
6b inches around the CENTER and
weighs a quarter of a pound. This re-
markable specimen of hen fruit was
laid by Plymouth Rock biddie owned
by Mrs. Robert Murphy, who resides
on farm near Rhinelander. Mrs.
Murphy says that this particular hen
has been producing exceptionally
large eggs for several weeks past.
Official word from Washington places
the population of Rhinelander at
1884, a gain of LOTT, or 1870 per cent.
Rhinelander is the county seat of
Oneida county and one of the most
northerly on the Wisconsin river. 1t