Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-03-26
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Recently Inc city COUNCIL pdSSeu ats
ordinance which prohibits selling soft
drinks without license. The new IL
cense costs $50,
The first arrest under the new She
boygan dance hall ordinance prohibit
ing the presence of minors after 10 p.
M, was made when A. B. Sharp, pro-
prietOr of a roller skating rink, was
taken into custody.
Charles Rook, employed in his broth
ers sawmill near Van Dyne, was seri-
ously injured when caught in a saw.
One arm was almost completely sew
cred at the shoulder and one side was
gashed by the saw.
The new town of Rat River in Mari
nette county has been formed. It was
carved from the town Of Athelstane in
the southwestern part of the county.
This will give Marinette a county
board of nine members.
OZaukee county is going to spend
$4,000 in road maintenance this year.
Four miles of concrete highway also
will be constructed. Recently large
consignment of road machinery was
purchased by the county.
The West Wisconsin Telephone Co.,
serving Glenwood City, Cylon, Elmer
aid, Downing, Connersville, Forest and
Springfield, has asked the railroad
commission to increase its rates 25
cents per phone month.
Oscar A. Oleson, for several years
connected with the state insurance
commission, was appointed by Com
missioner Plat Whitman as chief
deputy commissioner, succeeding F.
w. Kubasta, who resigned recently.
The Rev. Hans Sagen, pastor of the
Norwegian Methodist church at Mon
dow, is dead at an Eau Claire hospital
following an operation for append
citis. The Rev. Sagan was one of the
best known clergymen in the Wiscon-
sin conference.
The city of Plymouth plans a big
paving program for 1920, regardless of
the prevailing sentiment against mu-
nicipal Improvement on account or
high prices. The program includes ten
streets which will be covered with
concrete for a total of several miles.
c. N. Maurer, graduate of the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, has been ap-
pointed motor engineer to the state
highway commission. He takes the
place of Walter Alexander, res gned,
who has gone to Milwaukee to become
manager of the Union Refrigerator
and Transit Co
Paving costing $145,000 will be laid
this year at Manitowoc The city
council voted a bond issue for that
amount to carry on its program of
street work for 1920. At the same
time, the aldermen approved a com
mittee report outlining about three
and a half miles of pavement to be
laid in 1921
The Sawyer residence, being moved
across the river from MenOmOnie to
Marinette, broke through the ice and
sank in five feet of water. About two
weeks ago the moving began, but run
ners, on which the house was being
moved, cut into the ice and We're
frozen in. All efforts to move it were
in vain. The house will be torn down
William Hardell, one of Rhineland
er's we'll known lumbermen, has dis
posed of his interests in the Rhine
lander Box and Lumber company to
w A Curtis of Chicago. Mr.. Hardeli
was one of the incorporatOrS CT the
company and served as secretary and
treasurer He will engage in the lan1
and logging business with offices in
Rhinelander
Maj Gen. Leonard Wood, candidate
for Republican nomination for presi-
dency will visit Appleton and the Fox
Il. river valley early next month, accord
ing to information received at Apple
ton by Fred Felix Wettengel, oandi-
date for election as Wood delegate
from the Ninth congressional d strict,
Mr.. Wettengel is now organizing Il
Wood club in Outagamie county
William O'Neil, son of Mayor O'Neil
Of Chippewa Falls, formerly a captain
in the American eXpeditionary forces.
was found not guilty of a charge OF
pointing and aiming revolver when
tried in municipal court by a jury o.
six business men, as en- Outgrowth OF
the fisticuffs between the mayor, and
Editor George E. Dee of the Chippewa
Falls Herald, in the latter's office.
Peter jacob and Joseph Schwerbel
of Watertown were awarded $3.50 dam
ages against the Rubicon Grain and
Mailing Co in the circuit court at Jul
neau The compliments charged that
the company accepted their grain and
did not sell 2D.il a loss had been &C.
casioned for the owners. owing to Il
drop in the market. They charged
negligence in handling the grain.
while the defendant company cited the
car shortage as the cause of the grain
not moving. 1T is expected an appeal
will be taken to the supreme court.
Boys, someone is trying to slip a
Bookkeeping stunt over on u.s." said
Postmaster d. F. Blewett, Fond du