Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-05-21
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State /
| Arranged in Condensed Form

GIeon bay feIOfmaIOfy, mas D0eH re
turned to that institution. He is al
legged to have shot and wounded &
member of his family.
The first meeting of the committee
of striking building trades workers
and employers, in an effort to settle
the strike of 700 men at La Crosse, re
suited in a deadlock. Employers in
sist they will conduct open shops.
Harold Nix, 16, ViroQua, is in La
Crosse hospital with fractured skull
and both jaws and arms broken as q
result of fall from an electric light
pole. The boy was employed as line
man by the Wisconsin, Minnesota
Light and Power Co.
Miss Lille Summers, a nurse, was
arrested in Milwaukee and returned
to Green Bay and assessed fines and
costs amounting to $51.77 for locking
three young children in the home
where she was employed, and running
away, leaving a fire burning in the
house
Gideon Bibles will be placed in
every hotel room in Wisconsin be
fore Jan. l, 1921, it was decided at
the annual convention of the WiscOn-
sin Gideons at Appleton. More than
5000 Bibles have already been distrib-
uted. Funds to place $50 Testaments
in Appleton hotels were raised anG
the presentation was made.
Farmers should exercise special
are in the purchase of oil meal or
inseed meal at the present time, &C
:ording to w. H. Strowd of the Wis
cOnsin state department of agricul
ure, because an adulterated product
branded as pure meal has be 80!
shipped into the state under the name
Of "AmcO Old Process Linseed Meal"
Four members of the Racine COM
mon council were brought to the city
hall in the police patrol and under po-
lice guard to attend a meeting of the
common council. There was no quo
rum when the meeting was called, and
as important matters were to be trans
acted, Mayor Armstrong ordered the
police department to hail the absent
The concrete factory building for
the Menommee Motor Truck Co.
which is to move to ClintOnYille from
MenOminee, Mich, as soon as TIE
building is completed, is rapidly pro
crossing and will be ready for occu-
pancy by August Clintonville sub
scribed $250,0 for stock in the re
organized company. The new factory
will have a capacity of fifty trucks a
day.
st. Patrick's Roman Catholic church
of Eau Claire is going into the mo
ton picture business. A picture ma
chine has been purchased to give
shows in the auditorium of st. Pat
rick's school. Films that have passed
a strict censorship and educational
features will be exhibited at frequent
intervals. To provide clean and whole
some pictures is the idea behind the
move.
About seVenty-fiVe Indians attended
the Indian Farmers meeting in Laona.
which was the first gathering of the
Kind ever held in Forest county. The
Meeting was promoted by the United
'tates Indian department, Wisconsin
JOllege of Agriculture, and A. w.
'chmutZer, county agent The In
ians displayed deep interest in all the
discussions and requested that the
Meeting be made an annual event
Frank Harrington, Il, is near death
tho bOCnital a Chippouya E1allo
he result of a fracture of his skull.
cidentally inflicted by boy chum
rank was driving a cow home to his
theirs farm. The COW was balky and
ranks chum picked up a chunk of
Oal and threw it at the COW to speed
Ell up. The COW had started to run,
rank followed, and the chunk of coal
it him sQuarely between the eyes.
Robert l.. Joiner, member of the
tate senate. of Wisconsin from 1889
1891, and earlier member of the
Ssembly, known throughout the state
father OF the local option bill of
.isconsin, died at his home in Dodge
lie after suffering for less than a
eek with pleurO-pneumonia. He was
years old and had been a resident
Iowa county since 1916, when he
lme to Wisconsin with his parents
ON Indiana.
Jack Green, negro, who shot and
lied George Duncan, automobile me-
lanic, last November, was freed by a
hite jury when tried on a charge OF
urder at Lancaster. The negro and
s two daughters, Deena, IA, and May
were the only witnesses called
geen did not deny the killing, but
eaded justifiable homicide. He stat
that Duncan, who is a married man
d father of two children, haG
onged his young daughter and thai
en- after he (Green) had warned
mean to stay away from the girl
mean kept up his relations with the
Id.
partnership has recently beer
med to establish a nursery bust
S at Ladysmith, under the name o
Dahlberg Nursery company. E. M
tlberg, who has been teacher o
l.: ~I,