Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-10-07
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

spilled. The tot was taken to Theda
Clark hospital.
One block of $15O,OOO worth of
Brown county highway bonds will be
advertised for sale early in October.
These bonds will mature in 1910 It
is the plan of the finance committee
of the board of supervisors to put var
ious blocks on sale at monthly inter
walls during the winter.
More than 1900 students are en-
rolled in the Green Bay night school
which will open Oct. 300. This is
about Is per cent above attendance
figures of past seasons. Night school
students will have the choice Of 80
classes. Additional courses, which
had been planned by Principal Stew
art, have been passed up owing to
inability to secure additional quarters
for students.
Waupaca county, long noted as one
or the greatest pOtato-producing
counties in United States, probably
will be forced to surrender it's laurels
TO neighbOr counties this year. The
crop in Waupaca county will be al
most total failure, while in Outa-
game county, never regarded highly
as q potato producer, the production
Will probably lead all counties.
Children in Wisconsin who have
stopped school at the age of II, and
have not yet attained the age of IS,
ROT 70 hot. oI0 49,, l.
new state part time compulsory edu-
cation law, E. Brossard, assistant at
torney general, holds in an opinion
given George J. Leicht, district at
torney at Wausau. The case in ques-
ton concerned boy, working in a
trade, who had left school when be
became IL.
Farmers and dairymen of the state
are warned by Prof. F. HI. Harrington
OF the college of agriculture, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, against the pur-
chase of a sO-called Babcock test sub
stitute that is being sold for the test
ing of milk. Agents for this testing
spindle are charging from So to $12
and Boosting the Endorsement of eX-
perimental stations. Investigations at
the university have proven that this
Improvement" is inaccurate and
fake.
Frank Lang, Kenosha man, who sew
eral months ago was sentenced to
serve twenty years in the state prison
ha oF o1lo Do -
not SO much worried over his appeal
to the Supreme court, which is to be
heard soon in Madison, as over the
price Of a new set of teeth. The
= prison physicians, according to let
!. ter received in Kenosha, ordered his
molars out and since there is no APP
preparation to buy prisoners new
teeth, he has appealed to friends in
Kenosha for funds.
Salad served at a public dinner in
Eau Claire in August is blamed by
G. NJ. Baker, state sanitary engineer,
for several typhoid fever cases which
broke out in various sections of the
city at that time. That the city wa
ter supply or milk supply might have
been the source was the supposition
for a time, but tests and analyses
showed both free from germs. Mr..
Baker had been working for a week
investigating the mystery and found
that all those taken i'll had eaten
salad at the dinner. No deaths have
resulted.
Any community in the state has a
right to require license for sale of
drinks and ice cream containing no
degree of alcohol, if authority is
found in the city charter and if the
licensing is reasonable and passed
for the protection of the health of it's
citizens, j. E. Messerschmidt, assistant
attorney general, told Henry Johnson,
state treasurer, in an opinion. The
treasurer had wanted to know whether
cities were limited in their licensing,
to places selling so-called non-intoxi-
icating drinks, or those which have
alcohol in some degree less than one
half of one per cent. State law re-
quires the regulation of such parlors.
This year is said to be the hardest
in year for student to work his way
through the University of Wisconsin,
and this situation is apparently keep
in many out of school. This is due
to the general industrial depression
throughout the country, according to
officials in charge of students en-
ployment. During recent year it has
been comparatively easy for students,
both men and women, to obtain part
time work to help pay expenses, but
the plentitude of jobs is gone, temper
arily at least. The University Y. NJ.
c. A., which has always acted as 60
between to help employer and student
meet, has been forced to turn away
large numbers of young men. In a
great percentage of these cases, lack
of work necessitates leaving school.
Stables and sheds to house horses
and guns of Battery A. Amigo, will be
built at once, according to word re-
ceived by Capt. Otto Berner from
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