Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-09-17
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
| Arranged in Condensed Form

the result of a collision between their
automobiles and an interurban car.
William Jensen and Miss Myrtle
Heroux, both of Menasha, have been
awarded the fox trotting champion
ship of the state in a contest conduct
ed by a north shore resort. The prize
was a silver loving cup.
The Rhinelander city schools open
ed with 1,214 students enrolled, the
largest in the history. of the schools.
A staff of fifty instructors met and
arranged the schedule for the year
Mayor James E. Harris and family
of Prairie du Chen, have gone to Cali
fornia to spend the winter, making the
trip by automobile. During Mr.. Har-
ris' absence the president of the cOun-
Gil, Charles HonZel, will act as mayor.
Y. Malice, Detroit was chosen presi-
dent of the National Catholic Sokol
organization at the conclusion of its
fifth annual convention at Omoha. La
Crosse, Wis., was chosen as the next
city for the national convention.
The plant of the Reedsburg Can
ming Co. is running overtime to care
for the large crop of sweet corn that
growers are harvesting. At present
between So 900 and 10000 cans are be
ing put up daily. This average will
be maintained The company has an
acreage of more than $50 TO draw
from this year. The crop is excep-
tionally heavy and the quality is good
The League of Wisconsin NUM-
cipalities will hold its twenty-secOnd
annual convention at La Crosse on
Oct. IL, 13 and IA. The meeting this
year will be one of the most impor-
tant in the history of the Organiza-
ton as the general charter law will
come up for Endorsement or amend
ment. It is also proposed to hold
school for city officials in connection
with the meeting.
Prof. B. D. Leith, superintendent of
University Hill farm at Marinette, as
ISOLATED agronomist of the college OF
agriculture, University of Wisconsin,
who selected the cold-resistant corn
that is being grown as an experiment
in Marinette county, inspected the
fields and finds the corn will ripen If
planted about the first week in May
and that its lsilage tonnage is likely
to exceed that of many other varieties
of corn grown in upper Wisconsin.
A shipment of % head of Holstein
farmers in the vicinity of Albany,
Green county, were sent to FLICK &
HOesly of New Glarus. Due to lack
Of properly ventilated stock cars the
cattle were put in an ordinary box car
and the doors closed tight. When the
train arrived at New Glarus and the
door opened, IL were dead from suffo-
cation and three have since died from
the effects.
Eugene Conner and L. K. Pomeroy,
both of Madison, returned to their
homes after a trip around the world
in the study of forestry methods Of
different countries. The men visited
Japan, China, the Philippine islands,
Siberia, Egypt, Italy, France and Eng
land. Conner and PomerOy formerly
were employed at the ferest products
laboratory They started their jour-
ney last October and collected many
curios at the points visited.
An old-fashioned book case, con-
tanning 35 of the so volumes that con-
stituted the complete collection of the
Wisconsin state historical library in
1854, as it is now exhibited in the So
ciety's museum at Madison, suggests
in a striking way the enormous ex-
pansion in the last sc years of the
number of reference books available
to the people of the state through the
society. That little shelf of SO books
has been multiplied to 435, 1872 books,
pamphlets and newspapers now in
the library stacks.
High schools and all the better pay
ing positions in Wisconsin have been
taken care of but there probably will
be a shortage of about 600 teachers
in the rural districts of Wisconsin
this fall, according to c. P. Cary, state
Superintendent. To meet the situa-
ton, Mr.. Cary says it probably will
be necessary to issue about that num-
Der of special licenses for teachers
who have not received the necessary
period of training. 1t also may be
necessary in some cases to transport
children to schools outside of their
district.
The 1895 accident cases which
were settled under the workmen's
compensation act in 1919, involved a
total loss of 2,875,S75 working days,
as shown by table upon the causes
of industrial accidents in 1919, issued
by the industrial commission. AS
compared with 159 deaths from indus
trial accidents in 1918, there were 226
in 1918, and there were Il cases of
permanent total disability as com
pared with IL in the preceding year.
Circular saws were again the most
dangerous of all machines. There were
4S5 accidents on circular saws in 1918.
Increases in street railway fares and
in gas rates were granted by the rail
road commission in six rulings, affect
ing La Crosse, Eau Claire, Chippewa
Falls, Fond du Lac, GAINESVILLE and Be
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