Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-04-29
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS |

ola out Tor 50 years ne mas LOiIeu III
the Green Bay postoffice. Sarting in
as kid messenger wheH 13, he has
handled every job in the postoffice
with the exception of the postmasters.
People of Wisconsin are appealed to
by Gov. Blaine to set aside the week
of May / to as China Famine week,
peMod for special appeal in making
the relief fund campaign a success.
The governor asks that the people con-
tribute literally in order that Wiscon-
sin may do its share.
The Rev. Bishop Paul P. Rhode
diocese of Green Bay, sailed from New
York on the steamer La France for
Rome. He will be abroad three
months. Bishop Rhodes journey is in
the nature of pilgrimage to the
vatican to make a report on diocesan
matters.
A survey of the clover crop by
Marinette county agent shows that
the crop wintered well under condi-
tons that might have had a bad eff
feet, very light snowfall. The same
report is made on winter rye and
wheat. Farmers generally are plant
ing oats. Treatment of seed oats is
general. There will be at least 10000
bushels of seed potatoes treated in the
county this spring.
The Wisconsin State reformatory
population is on an increase, accord
ing to Superintendent B. NJ. Coles, who
announced that there are now 800 in
mates in the Green Bay reformatory
This is the largest number ever COZ
fined to the institution at one time.
The corridors of the cell house, ac
cOrding to refOrmatory officials are pc
quarters.
Members of the executive committee
of the Wisconsin Press association
met in Marshfield and completed ar
engagements for the summer outing Of
the members and their families.
Marshfield, because of it's central loca-
ton, was selected as the starting
place, with July q, the date. After
touring the northern and eastern part
of the state, the party will disband
four or five days later at Amigo.
Enlarged so as to include thirteen
counties instead of SIX the eighth divi
sion of the internal revenue depart
ment with headquarters in Green. Bay
has greatly broadened its scope of
activities. Brown, Door, Kewaunee,
M
cite, Oconto, Langlade, Forest, Oneida,
Price and Villas counties are now in
the Green Bay division. Six inspectors
will work out of this Office.
OF ESQ persons examined at the
chest clinic in Merrill, thirty-eight
have been pronounced showing evil
denceS of tubercular infection. OF the
200 persons examined at TOmahawk
an even larger number were found
with evidences of tuberculosis, so of
decayed teeth, five of skin troubles, 10
of pleurisy, two of marked spinal trou-
BILE and one of post pneumonia.
Application for the abandonment of
the sin-NOrthwestern railroad
operating between Taylor Rapids and
Girard junction in Marinette county,
was made before r. w. Clark, repre-
senting the Interstate commerce com
mission Supt. w. L. Hallenbeck of
the road testified that the road was not
q paying proposition. Settlers in the
vicinity oppose abandonment of the
road.
An attempt to lift chain from high
tension wires of the Wisconsin Mime
sofa Light and Power Co. caused the
death of Jorn Casey, 40, farmer near
New Richmond. Casey's children had
thrown the chain in play. The farmer
climbed on a step ladder and tried to
dislOdge the chain with a wet chunk
of wood, which served as conductor
and sent 10000 volts of electricity
through him, killing him instantly
Sale of milk and cream at retail in
GAINESVILLE will hereafter be regulated
through an ordinance requiring dealers
to take out licenses. After a wrangle
of four months between the board of
health and councilmen, the ordinance
was passed providing that all milk for
human consumption must either be
pasteurized or from tuberculin tested
herds. Enforcement rests with the
board of health.
Sadie Gerben Hengerveld De Kol,
the worlds greatest butter producing
cow. is dead after a brief illness. Nine.
Sadie, owned by the Wisconsin Live,
stock association, composed of Apple
ton men, did more than all the other
bovines in Outagamie county to put
Appleton and the county on the dairy.
map Sadie's greatest achievement
was the production of 40 pounds OF
butter in a registered seven-day test
about a year ago. She was the first
cow in the world to make this
record and it has not been approached
since Last year she was proclaimed
the champion COW of North America
at the National Dairy show in Phila-
delphia, where she competed with the
best bovines in the United States and
Canada.
The state department of agriculture
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