Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-09-03

The Seventy-fOurth annual conVen-
ton of the Wisconsin Methodist
church will convene at Green Bay on
Sept for six days.
Louis Grill, who died in England
while a member of the Three Hundred
Forty-third infantry, was buried in
Rhinelander with full military honors
by the Twenty-fifth Separate National
guard company.
Several hundred farmers were in at
tendance at the first annual picnic of
the Oneida County Potato Growers as
ISOLATION at Swaips resort near Rhine
lander. The program was exceedingly
interesting and many potato experts
of Wisconsin and other states were
present.
Arrangements for the Oconto Coun-
ty Fair to be held at Oconto on Sept.
Z, 8, 9 and 10, are all completed and
as the crop outlook for 1920, is the
best in years, the exhibit of fruit and
vegetables promises to eclipse any
thing of previous years.
The Beaver Dam Delphian chapter
was organized at the Williams Free
library, Aug. 10, with 16 charter mem
bers. The society starts on six
months course of study to continue
during the public school season with
leaders and teachers to enable the
busy women to keep abreast of the
times.
Mrs. j. j. Kellogg, a full blooded
American Oneida Indian woman, of
the famous Oneida tribe, informed a
newspaper representative that she was
prepared to issue the first publication
of "The American Woman" semi
monthly newspaper in the interest OF
the women of Wisconsin.
M. M. Haney, Tomah, county super
intendent of schools, reports that there
will be a shortage of Some thirty-five
teachers in the schools of Monroe
county this year. About 235 are re-
quired. To make up the deficiency,
permits will be granted to some who
lack all the qualifications required for
certificates to teach, under the emer-
gency provisions of the new school
law.
The Rev. H. G. Magelssen decided
several months ago that he would re-
sign the pastorate of Our Savior's
Evangelical Lutheran church, the
largest Norwegian Lutheran church in
La Crosse, but members of the parish
ID l., oh hi n
the forty-ninth birthday of the Rev.
MI Magelssen, the congregation pre-
sented him with purse of 1912.
Manitowoc will have another Cath
Ollie church before the end of the year,
articles of incorporation for a new
church organization having been filed.
The new edifice will be known as ST.
Paul's The Rev. Martin Jaekles will
be pastor. Bishop Paul Rhode has
sanctioned the new organization,
which has acquired several lots in the
west side of town. The church will be
erected in the section of the city
known as Riverview.
Albert Wickesberg, aged 40, a farm
er residing in the town of Herman,
Sheboygan county, escaped being
gored to death by bull, which, with
out any warning charged on Wickes-
berg while he was walking through a
pasture The second onslaught came
with such force as to roll Wickesberg
under a fence to safety. Mr.. Wickes-
berg suffered fractured skull, one
broken rib and severely bruised body.
Physicians say he will recover.
r. Larson, of the Pinehurst Farm
company, Sheboygan Falls, has pur-
chased at GAINESVILLE a six months old
Duroc boar, for $1,000. This is said
to be the highest priced spring boar
sold in the state, and the young pig
and three others of the litter sold for
a total of 1920. Sired by Leader of
Fashion, this boar sold last year to
the Underwood farm, Minneapolis, for
$4,000. His dam was also purchased
by the Pinehurst company.
The Fond du Lac school population
win reach the total of $3.50, an in
crease of 592 over last years figures.
This increase is reflected in the high
school enrolment, which has reached
816 at the present time, whereas the
highest number reached during the
last term was 776 These figures will
receive additions that will bring the
total attendance at the high school
past the 900 mark before the close of
the term.
At a meeting of stockholders of the
State bank of Bruce, Rusk county, it
was voted to increase the capital stock
$4,000. This will give the bank a
capital of $4,000 and surplus of
$500 Some new stockholders will
probably be taken in, but the greater
part of the issue will be taken up by
present stockholders. This is the sec
ond time in four years that the capital
of the bank has been increased.
Because of the tendency of the gen.
eral public to regard whooping cough
as trivial ailment this disease con-
tinues to exact it's toll in prolonged
suffering and unnecessary deaths.
This Indifference to most serious
disease has resulted in an alarming
condition of affairs. According to the
records of the state board of health
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