Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-12-10

At a special meeting of the stock
holders of the International bank of
Amherst, the capital stock was raised
from $4,000 to $4,000. The new is
sue has already been oversubscribed.
According to figures sent out by the
United States census bureau, Sheboy-
gan ranks eighth in the state in the
number of inhabitants and 239th in the
United States.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed with the register of deeds in She
boygan by the Farmers and Laborers'
Publishing company, which has taken
steps for the purchase of the Sheboy-
gan Telegram. The company is cap
italized for $4,000
The Ripon debating team will meet
Dartmouth college, Hanover, n. H.,
and BOwdOin college, Brunswick, Me-,
ON an extended eastern trip next quar-
ter of the school year. In addition to
debates scheduled with state colleges,
debates will be held with colleges in
Ohio, Vermont, New York, Pennsyl-
Vania and other eastern states.
Farmers are taking advantage OF
lateness of winter to continue their
fall blowing. According to Brown
County Agent KaVanaugh, more acres
have been turned over this fall than
ever before in the history of the coun-
ty. Farmers claim that the more plow-
ing done in the fall, the better the
crops the following year.
julius Thielman, who has been in
the meat business in Merrill for 80
years, says that the present price of
fered for calfskins, 10 cents per pound,
is the lowest they have been even dur
ing the panics of 1873 to 1877, 1892 to
1896, and the financial panic of 1907.
The price year ago was Is cents.
Hides which sold year ago at 30
cents are now selling for to 6 cents.
Believed to be the first move of its
kind attempted in Wisconsin, the
GAINESVILLE Chamber of Commerce is
preparing to open an agricultural de-
!partment. 1t will be handled entirely
by a committee of farmers of Rock
county. One of it's objects will be to
establish a service through which the
farmers may sell their products and
purchase their materials and supplies.
Payment of $23O,OOO for $4,000 tons
of sugar beets was made by the Rock
County Sugar company. These beets
were delivered during October at the
contract price of $40 ton. After de-
Quoting seed charges, money advanced
during the season to growers, and mis-
cellaneous items, $4,000 remains to
be distributed to the farmers of south
ern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
John .Smeester, q, Amberg, died in
Green Bay hospital from bullet
wounds While cleaning his gun,
preparatory to a hunting trip, he ac-
cidentally pulled the trigger and shot
himself through the stomach. It was
the third gun accident he had suf-
fered His arm had been crippled for
two years as result of being shot
and he also carried around gunshot in
his leg from a previous accident.
By action of the county board Mani
toWoc county, beginning next year,
will have a county nurse, the super
visOrs having appropriated $4,000 for
that expense in 1921. The nurse will
be member of the county health COM
mittee, together with the judge of the
juvenile court, the deputy state health
officers of the county, the chairman of
the county board and the county SUI
perintendent of schools.
The Monroe county board voted to
employ a county agricultural agent,
which proposal was twice defeated at
previous sessions; made an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the Tomah fair; in
creased the bounty on mature wolves
from $40 to $780, voted 81 500 for the
expenses of a county agent; voted for
increasing the term of office of super
dered the employment of a county
health instructor at $4,000.
Brown county farmers let 5000 tons
Of cabbage rot on the ground this fall.
About 1000 tons were raised this year
but when the price dropped to Sc
ton the farmers refused to sell. Last
year cabbage brought $40 ton and
$500 tons were raised. AS a result
the farmers planted much more this
summer They were figuring on a
good profit. They figured that it cost
them Sc ton to raise the cabbage
this year And then the market price
dropped to the cost of production.
An entire family of five persons,
two of them small children were found
dead in their beds in their gas filled
home in Monroe. The dead were
Henry Butts, % years old, his wife,
two boys, aged 3 years and eighteen
months, and Otto Pohl, brother of
Mrs Butts. The family had just
moved to Monroe from a farm near
the Illinois line. Discovery of the
tragedy came when nephew of Mrs.
Butts called at the home. Entering
the rear door, which was unlocked, he
found the entire family dead in an
upper room A fire started in the fur
mace, probably within short time
after the family moved into the house,
is believed to have caused the deaths.
Coal gas filled the rooms when the