Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-01-21
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS


| gone into effect. Seyenty-seven were
| given lodgings at the police station
during the year closed.
Grandpa" George Fenton, the old.
est man in the western part of the
state died at his home in Glenwood
City. He lacked only five days of
reaching his one hundred and first
birthday anniversary. He came TO
Wisconsin from New York in 1855.
The Watertown post-office receipts
for 1920 showed an increase of S.
1857 over any previous year, accord
ing to Postmaster j. w. Moore. In
1919 the receipts were $40,023 IT. while
in 1920 they climbed to a total of $4S,-
1857.
At mass meeting in Racine of I'M
employed a resolution was adopted
urging the common council to extend
the tax paying period for 100 days
from Feb. l, setting forth the inability
of many property owners to pay taxes
because of lack of employment The
council had agreed to extend the tax
of people are out Of employment in
Racine
Coal continues to be the largest
commodity received through the She
boygan port, according to the report
OF George Heller, deputy collector of
customs, for the year 1920. A total of
295,905 tons of soft coal and 170,896
tons of hard coal were delivered. Dur
ing the year there were Ill steamer
and IL schooner arrivals. Package
freighter traffic will be renewed this
year.
Eight proposed constitutional amend
ments, approved by the 1919 legisla-
ture, will be referred to the 1921 SEES
sion. Changes if adopted would af-
feet the articles effecting trial by jury,
the election of sheriffs. Governors
and lieutenant governors salary and
expenses, state financing of highway
| construction, the amount of city in
debtedness, and state aid in helping
land settlers.
State institutions have made re-
quests to the legislature for $780,,
1872, TO meet their requirements during
the next two years, according to the
report of the state board of public af
fairs. To meet these requirements the
state will have receipts of approx
mately 56,000,000 which will necessi
tate either a reduction of the request
ed amounts, or new sources of revenue
to make up the necessary $15,000,000
the department states.
Saloon property is cheap in Hurley
just at the present time. Some of the
saloonmen who were arrested in the.
recent raid conducted by federal
agents, are now endeavoring to get out
of the business and are offering their
places for sale at ridiculously low fig
ures. With a damper on the traffic
in liquor, conducting bar is not a
paying enterprise. Lumberjacks, who
make Hurley their headquarters, do
not take kindly to red pop and near
beer.
The Wisconsin highway commission
announces the tenth annual road
school to be held in Music hall on the
University campus at Madison from
Jan. 81 to Feb. inclusive, ito make
this school better and more helpful
| than ever before" Among the sub
jects upon which papers will be read
and discussion held are Patrol Main
| tenance, Administration, Construction,
| Contractural Relations, County Or
ganization, Current Problems, Annual
| Legislation.
A jury in the Jefferson circuit court
after being out ten hours, brought
| in verdict of not guilty in the case
of Matthew Lynaugh, Madison police
man, charged with first degree MUIR
| der for the shooting of Carl JandOrf,
University of Wisconsin student, last
May The trial of Lynaugh was held
in Jefferson county circuit court be-
| fore Judge. George Grimm and lasted
ten days On account of the peculiar
circumstances surrounding the shoot
| ing, attracted wide interest. More
| than a hundred witnesses were called
to Jefferson the majority being stu
dents of the state university, who
either witnessed the shooting or
events leading up to or following the
death of Jandorf
There are six Indian reservations in
| Wisconsin with a total of COS, 477.5O
acres, according to figures compiled
for the 1921 issue of the Blue book.
These reservations are located in nine
counties as follows: Lac Court
D'Oreilles Bands of Chippewas), 81
O9728 acres in Sawyer county; Stock
bridge and Brothertown Indians, &c.,
12O acres in Calumet county; Lac do
Flambeau Indians, 54,380.97 acres in
Villas county and 12,10050 acres in
Iron county; Menomonie Indians, 49,
621.1O acres in Shawano county and
69,26664 acres in Oconto county; La
Point Dad Indians), 129, 490.99 acres
in Ashland county, and Oneida In
dams, IS, 400 acres in Brown and Outa-
gamie counties.
The minister of agriculture of the
province of Quebec, Canada, has re-
Gently notified the Wisconsin College
of Agriculture that they have issued
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