Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-06-17
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.


and former member of the Wisconsin
legislature, died at hospital in Mad
1son. He leaves a wife and two sons.
August Albert of the town of Schley,
Lincoln county, is exhibiting two
chickens Matched from a single egg.
Both chickens are as normal as any
others in the Albert flock.
approximately 10 per cent of the
ersOns examined at the series of
rant county free chest clinics, held
y the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis
ssOciation in cooperation with the
rant County Red Cross chapter. were
'und to have tuberculosis.
Letters received indicate that hun
eds of old settlers are coming to
eenah for the fourth of July home
ming and celebration in response to
VitatiOn. Mrs Tom Grimes, 99-year-
d Winnebago county resident, has re-
led that she will be on deck for the
JmecOming.
Jailer David Roberts, Waukesha,
ipped Jail delivery when he dis
oyered hole in the f1ue pipe leading
ON the basement to the roof. Three
risOners granted the use of the cor
doris had laid all plans for getaway
ne opening was made with an IRON
II.
Andrew Jackson Lewis, the Oldest
asident of Racine county, died at the
)me of his son, Henry Lewis, super
ltendent of the Racine county insane
yum. Andrew Lewis was born in
eW York state, coming to Wisconsin
1850, and for over half a century
)erated large farms in southeastern
EScOnsin.
The loss of several head of cattle
rear Kenosha have set the police on
he trail of a gang of cattle butchers,
Who slaughter the cattle in the pas
.ures. Numerous complaints have
0een received stating that number
of farmers have missed stock only to-
ind evidence of the' slaughter in their
pastures.
A majority of the residents of La
Crosse went back to standard time
after conducting their affairs for five
days under daylight saving schedule.
because of the conflict with the time
If the surrounding country, merchants,
manufacturers and jobbvrs signed an
agreement to set their clocks back one
lour. City departments continue to-
operate under daylight saving
schedule
Washington, Door county's beautiful
sland township, often referred to as
the Pearl of Lake Michigan" can
BOAST that every one of it's 1000 in.
habitants is a citizen of the United
States Residents of that township,
numbering many pioneers who have
sided there for half century, jour
eyed to Sturgeon Bay on a special ex-
cursiOn party, and appeared before the
tion for citizenship.
Louis Kruger, one of four Clark
county brothers charged with evading
the draft during the war, was released
from Jail in La Crosse ON bond after
being detained seven months awaiting
trial in United States court. The bail
bond of $4,000 was signed3by residents
of Withee, near which village the
Kruger farm is located. After evad-
ing arrest for two years, Louis Krue
ger was taken into custody in north
ern Wisconsin last October and
brought to La Crosse for trial.
Judge Belden of the Circuit court
dismissed the action of the City of RAJ
cine against Sophus Hoyer, local
saloon keeper, charged with violating
a city ordinance in that he had in
toxicating liquors on his premises.
The court would not permit sheriff and
deputies who had confiscated liquor at
Hoyer's place to testify because they
had acted under search warrant
which the court held void. All liquor
found at Hoyer's place was ordered re-
turned to him.
1t costs cents a pound to sell wool
by means of state and national wool
pools, according to information from
the Wisconsin Farm Bureau federation
office, Madison. Wisconsin shepherds,
having disposed of nearly all of last
years clip, are again entering into an
agreement to pool the present clip, the
federation says. The actual cost of
pooling is less than one-Quarter cent
pound, the balance of the cost being
taken up by insurance and storing ex-
penses. Most of the clip remains IN
storage for about five months.
The Rev. James Schwebach, "a,
bishop of the La Crosse diocese of the
Catholic church, died at his home in
La Crosse. He celebrated his golden
jubilee as member of the clergy last
June and had been bishop since 1892,
when appointed to succeed Killian G.
Flasch. Bishop Schwebach had been
i'll two years, although able to attend
to his church until few months ago.
He was born in Luxembourg in 1847 and
was graduated from st. Francis semi
nary, Milwaukee, in 1870, coming to
La Crosse to take his first pastorate at
st. Mary's church.
It is predicted that the 1921 blue
berry crop in Oneida, Villas, Forest and
other counties in that part OF the state