Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-08
WEST MARSHALL
special Correspondence

| special Correspondence
Bert French was Ladysmith caller
| last week.
! Ray Stutz is visiting at the Frank
| Conrath home.
Most of Dan Cox's corn is tasseling
and is hip high.
| Quite few farmers have begun
haying last week.
Jim Patterson is erecting a new
barn and hay shed.
| Dolph Shepherd began shingling his
| barn last Tuesday.
Louis Stassel was Ladysmith Wis
itor last Thursday.
o. G. Cox, Sheldon depot agent, is
| driving a new Ford.
John Shepherd made trip to Chip
pewa Falls last week.
| Emmett Chalfant is planting q sec
ond crop Of garden truck.
Joe Janoszek is breaking up a large
strip of new land on his farm,
Pete Kf0n took in the Elks doings
at Chippewa Falls last Tuesday.
Leo Elkow and sons Cornell and
| Steve. mOtOred to Ladysmith last Tues
day.
Miss Anna Oster. who has been EN-
ployed at Kenosha, came home last
week
Fred Lamp was in Ladysmith last
Tuesday to have some dental work
done.
The Marshall Dairymen's cheese fac
tory ships about two tons Of cheese
weekly.
Louis Horn drove to Ladysmith
Saturday afternoon to hear the results
of the Dempsey Carpenter fight.
John Gorla. the COnrath cheese
maker has resigned his position at the
Conrath factory and will work on his
farm.
While driving through the country
last week we noticed quite few fields
of nice corn. 1t seems to grow by leaps
and bounds
The Conrath garage man is digging
a new we'll so the Yiddish Packard driv-
ers can water their tin kettles more
conveniently.
Herman Liebers is learning new
trade When he Is not busy doing
anything else he practices with a mon
key wrench on WOodward's car.
The potato crop through the coun-
try doesn't look as we'll as it ought
to- Most Of them have been attacked
by bugs and in many places there is
nothing left but bare stems.
Ray Groves has one of his silos filled
with clover. He says that he gets as
good results from clover as from corn
silage His second crop of clover is
the incest that we have seen for many
miles,
While at COnrath one day last week
we heard the hum of motor which
sounded as il it was going at a terrific
speed. We looked up in the air but
could see no aerOplane there SO we
waited awhile and 10 and behold, we
saw n FL. SpoOner coming at speed of
about 04 miles per hour with his yid=
dish Packard loaded full Of 2X4's piled
crOssways.
Most of the farmers for miles around
dropped their farm work for another
day so they could take in the Fourth
of July doings at COnrath. The COM
mittee in charge Of the program had
it we'll arranged and the races and
other stunts were good In the skinny
mems races Emil Fisher and Fred
Lamp won the sweepstakes. In the
fat mems race Louis Horn, the Mar
shall Dairymen's cheesemaker, ran off
with the prizes. In the little fellows
race. Teddy Wojtowicz won out over
the other fellows.
The Conrath baseball team did some
good work on the ball grounds at Con-
rath last Monday when they trimmed
the Tony team with score of 10 to 49,
Both teams made mistakes, but in spite
of that they did some good playing.
The Tony team took defeat in a good
natured manner and some of the play
ers participated in other events OF the
day. Grant Shepherd pitched the
whole game for the Conrath team and
kept the Tony payers guessing. A
gent. named Sawyer, displayed some
skill in catching for the COnrath team.
George Malk did some fancy work on
first base and Lucian Izdepski was
there with the goods on third base.
Fred Lamp. Ernest Green, Charles
Trotter and the other boys did very
we'll for the short time they have