Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-01-28


be provided under it.
Watertown poultry fanciers car
ried off the bulk of the prizes offered
at the recent exhibition given by the
poultrymen of Fort Atkinson, winning
IA different class competitions.
Practically all Of the dail'ymen of
Door county are united in a campaign
to free the herds of that county of
tuberculosis and to give all the cows
of the county the tuberculin test.
County Agent e. G. Bailey is heading
the campaign To date herds aggre-
eating 1900 COWS have been signed up
for the state tests.
new use has been found for brew
cry watts, put out of commission when
prohibition went into effect. The John
Gund Brewing Co sold six 10000 gal
Ion steel watts to the county Of La
Crosse to be installed at distributing
points for storage of road oil The
watts were purchased for $500 each, or
one third of their value.
Eighteen new interpretations were
organized in Lincoln county during
1920, five more than in 1919. The total
increase in capital stock of incOrpora-
tons at the close CT 1920 was $6,013,-
800 over year before The increase
in capital stock during 1919 was $685.
600 as compared with last years rec
ord
The herd of Holsteln cattle belong
ing to G.. l.. Jacques, attorney and loan
agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life
insurance company, Neillsville, who
disappeared a month ago, was sold by
the sheriff, on an execution issued IN
favor of the First National bank.
Nothing is known of the whereabouts
of Mr.. jacques His affairs were found
to be in a mixed condition.
A canvass of retail establishments
shows that the cost of living in Eau
Claire is about 80 per cent lower than
year ago, although coal, eggs, to-
bacco, candies, beefsteak, shoes, hair
cuts and shaves are as high or higher
than a year ago. Clothing merchants
are beginning to slash prices and one
shoe firm announces taking our
loss" sale.
Under the direction of Miss Anna
M Thompson, county nurse, the
schools of Bayfield, county have enlist
ed in the modern health crusade,
which is conducted in the state by the
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis assocla-
ton Nearly 1900 pupils will scrub
their ears and the back of their necks
daily and carry out ten other health
chores, laid down by the health cru
SADIE. Titles of page, squire, knight
and knight banneret are awarded tor
perfect records during various periods
of the tournament.
Mayor j. n. Welsby, of Stevens
Point, has been called upon by the
chamber of commerce to compel
transient merchants to comply with
city ordinance requiring license OF
from S. to SIS a day and in case OF
any doubt as to the permanence of the
applicant, a bond of $500. Action was
requested by Stevens Point merchants
who became aroused after several
firms shipped goods there for unload
ing" and then left in a few weeks.
During the year 1920 Cupid shat
tered all previous records in Hurley,
according to records in the city clerks
office. During the year there were 40
licenses to wed issued to Hurley cou-
pies compared with 80 issued in 1918.
The city birth rate for the last year
shows a decrease compared with the
previous year In 1919 there were 81
birth certificates filed with the city
clerk. compared with 63 in 1920. In
1920 there were 43 deaths and 40 in
1919.
Thirty-seven Duroc Jersey hogs sold
at the first public sale of purebred
hogs in Outagamie county brought an
average price of $112.30, much better
than the average price in sales in this
state in the last few weeks. More
than two hundred farmers attended.
Prices ranged from $65 to $500. An
effort is being made to make Appleton
the livestock sales center of the Fox
river valley and huge sales pavilion
may be erected. Holstein and Guern-
sey sales are scheduled for spring and
another hog sale is planned.
Fifty-two graduates of Beloit college
are named in Who's Who in Amer
lea" of 1920 Twenty of the number
are educators, 13 clergymen, four, ply
sicians; three, lawyers; three, journal
lists, and two technical experts. Horace
Reynolds, go, Chicago, is oldest grad
uate named He is a journalist on the
staff of Chicago newspapers and The
Railway Age. Prof. Lew r. Sarett. IL,
lis the youngest, a writer and professor
of oratory at Northwestern university.
H'Ding' Darling, '9S, the cartoonist, is
among those listed.
The Dodge county board OF super
,visors killed the prospects OF q tuber'
;culosis sanatorium in conjunction with
Fond du Lac and Washington counties
when it voted to withdraw from the
tri-county plan. Fond du Lac and
washington counties decided upon the
site at Hamilton, Fond du Lac county
This selection was unsatisfactory to
| dodge county supervisors, who
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