Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-06-25
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

| leased to the General Motors COM
pany The plant is valued at
| 100000.
Pleading guilty to illegal use of a
drug, Dewey Wilcox, % years old,
Alma Center, Wis, youth, was SEN
fenced to the Green Bay reformatory
for three years by Judge Jenkins Of
Chippewa Falls.
The Dodge County Duroc Jersey
Swine Breeders association has been
organized with J. C. Boeger, Water
loo, president; D. c. Thomas, Ran
dolph, vice-president, and Percy Good
rich, Burnett, secretary-treasurer.
The severe wind and rain storm
which swept the northern section of
the state played great havoc with toll
lines of the Bell Telephone company.
Every line going out of Ashland, eX-
cept the one leading to Superior, was
out of order.
Walter L. Dexter former state rep
resentative and for two terms sheriff
of Kcnosha county, died at his home
in the town Of DeXter's Corners, near
Kenosha, aged II years He was
leader of the democratic party in Ke-
nosha county.
e. r. Ellian, principal of the Mani
towOc Junior high school for the past
eight years, has been elected principal
of the Ashland high for the ensuing
in Mo nf ar,1
retires to become sales manager for
an automobile concern.
The North Wisconsin Hay crop will
rank from 80 to 100 per cent, based
on the condition of the crop in Ash
land county, and in the vicinity of
Ashland. Winter wheat was killed to
a small extent in some places, but it
will be 80 per cent yield, as it now
looks. Spring rye looks good
Work has been started on the build
western Excelsior Mills company in
Prentice. The big structure will be
of concrete and will be a modern plant
in every detail This factory will
prove an important addition to the in
dustrial activities of Prentice and will
give employment to a large number Of
men.
The council of Catholic women's or
CARNATIONS of Wisconsin, in conven-
ton at La Crosse, voted to join the
national Catholic Women's council.
Wisconsin is the third state to join
IL. ,iun
ton will go to Green Bay Mrs. 10
seph F. Murray, Green Bay, was elect
ed president and Mrs. Joseph Mueller,
Green Bay, secretary and treasurer.
The harvest Of Wisconsin's straw
berry crop is on, and prospects point
to one of the biggest crops ever grown.
Growers are obliged to pay pickers 21a
cents per quart, and fear they cannot
secure enough at that price to harvest
the crop. 1t is probable that a higher
price will be paid to pickers before
the close of the season. One and one
half cents quart is the highest price
previously.
Paul Taylor, Y, an active Boy Scout
of Tomah, holds the big fish record
in Monroe county to date this season.
While in camp with the Boy Scouts
of Tomah under Scoutmaster G. M.
Willett at Waterwill, the youthful
fisherman landed a pickerel 40 inches
long, weighing 13 pounds. On the aft
ernoon of the same day, he caught
second pickerel which measured 81
inches and weighed II pounds.
J. J. Jameson, Shullsburg, was
elected president of the Wisconsin
Bankers association at the twenty
sixth annual convention held at North
Lake. Other officers elected are: Bur
ton M. Smith, North Lake, vice-presi-
dent; T. T. Hennig, Oshkosh, treas
urer; Milo Hagen, Madison; William
Dresser, Waupaca, r. d. Banny, Kill
bourn, and H. N. Bacon, Racine, mem
bers of the executive council.
For the first time in the history Of
st. Matthew's Episcopal church of
Kcnosha faith healing service was
held there. 1t was attended by more
than 400 kenoshans, who watched the
Rev. Norman Hutton and the Rev.
Frederick G. Budlong, rectors OF st.
Chrysostoms' and ST. Peters Epis-
copal churches, Chicago, respectively,
lay hands on the score Of cripples and
invalided who passed by the altar.
Guy M. Dulin of the National Sol
diers' home, Milwaukee, was elected
commander of the Wisconsin United
Spanish War veterans at the conven-
ton held at Fond du Lac. G. A. I'll
lisch of Camp No. 10, Madison, was
named senior vice commander; Mar
tin C. Kenney of the Nelson A. Miles
camp of Oshkosh, junior vice COM
mander. Delegates to the national
convention are Daniel G. HerZog, Mil
waukee; Thomas Kingston, Madison;
C. Hollister, of the National home,
Milwaukee, and f. Kubatski, Milwau-
kee. The next meeting of the organi-
cation will be held at Baraboo.
Mrs. Peter keenan,, of Marinette, 70,
was severely injured when she fell
through a trap door in the meat mar
ket of F. Shellpfeffer, falling dis
lance of six feet. She was uncon-
SciOuS when picked up. fractured