Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-05-13

mits of the first three months OF the
year combined.
Door county fruit orchards includ-
ing thousands of acres of cherries,
apples, plums, strawberries and Other
small fruits, passed through the last
few weeks unchanged by storms and
frosts and growers are predicting
bumper crops.
A .time-hOnored joke went into the
discard in La Crosse when Clarence
Koblitz, a telegraph messenger boy,
was fined by Justice C. w. Hunt in
police court for speeding. Koblitz
used motorcycle to deliver his mes
SageS.
Peter 0. Thiesen of the town of
Montana Trempealeau county, is the
owner of Red Poll cow years old,
which is the mother of nine calves.
She just gave birth to triples-two
bull calves and one heifer They weigh
Il, As and Sc pounds and are healthy
and fully developed.
Attorney General Morgan having
ruled that relatives can take no action
against the city, plans for the erection
of the new $4,000 grade school build
ings in Monroe will be pushed, the
site being an old cemetery where
graves have not been dug in the last
fifty years.
William Brice, one of Green Bays
F., leading fishermen, has patented a new
kind of spinner and, according to
anglers who have tried it out, it is
effective. The slightest current will
cause the spinner to revolve due to
water resistance. It will be manufac-
tured in Green Bay and put on the
market by a wholesale hardware
house.
Greater gains in church membership
and more intense interest in church
affairs are reported by Superior pas
tors for the first four months of this
year than in a whole year during the
past decade. One church, the Ham
mOnd Presbyterian, has gained $50
members. The Rev. Reed Taft Bayne
state moderator of the congregational
churches, says the gains are general
throughout Wisconsin.
Failure to bury infected carcasses
has caused the spread of cattle dis
eases, the state department OF agrl-
culture states in notice warning OF
tenders of this practice that they are
in immediate danger of paying line
of between $25 and 800. During the
months of April to November dead
animals must be buried within TWEEN
ty-four hours of their death, the law
provides, and during the other months
two days are allowed for buriel.
When the tourist season opens this
summer. Marshfied will be ready to
offer to her visitors the privileges of
a new Tourists Camp Site" located
at the Fair grounds on the edge OF
the city. In addition to arhple space
for camping, water, toilet room facll-
tiles, wood and shelter from storms
will be provided. The site is less than
a mile from the business district, and
only three blocks off the Yellowstone
trail.
Mrs. Olive Buck died at Wisconsin
Rapids from the effects OF bullet
wounds in her body, inflicted March
%, by her husband, Thomas Chester
Buck. The shooting occurred at the
home of Mrs Bucks mother Mrs j. A.
Gotchey. Her husband came into the
home in the evening. He sent four
bullets into the body of his wife and
then killed himself. 1t was believed
that he was instigated to the crime
by an intense feeling Of jealousy and
fancied wrong.
Fines totaling 81 500 were collected
in Rhinelander from three men, two of
whom were charged with manufacture
ing moonshine Peter Little and
Amey Mics, Minocqua saloon keepers,
were each fined $500 and costs and
sentenced to 60 days in Jail. Mike
O'Malley, proprietor of the 500 hotel,
was fined $500 and costs and sentenced
to so days for trafficking in illicit
LIQUOR. Oscar Shape, member of the
Minoqua town board of supervisors,
was arrested for having a moonshine
still in his bathroom.
Exactly II ,949 men and 4,908 women
have received degrees from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, according to the
new alumni directory. This total does
not include SO who have received diplo-
mas as graduate music supervisors or
145 graduates of the two year course
in agriculture. The alumni army will
be increased by more than 1000 next
June. OF the 1857 degrees granted,
1899 are first degrees, 2,418 higher
degrees, and 100 honorary degrees.
Women have received 4,338 first de-
grees, 568 higher degrees, and two
honorary degrees.
Automobile drivers using Outagamie
county highways on the patrol system
have been asked by A. G. Brusewitz,
county highway commissioner, to as
sist him in keeping an eye" on road
patrolmen. Posts containing two
boxes have been erected along all the
principal roads in the county, one box
containing small cards and the other