Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-01-28
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS


cheese factories. 1852 butter factories
&c condenserics, 348 receiving stations
1876 canning factories, 945 bakeries
SIS confectioneries, 239 bOttling estab
hshments, AZ cold storage warehouses
and approximately 1900 grocery
stores and meat markets and other
similar places where foods are manu-
factured, prepared or offered for sale
The Negro benefit society of Amer
lea has taken a hand in the case OF
Olin Caver, Green Bay, sentenced to
Is years in prison for improper rela
lions with Elsie Tanck, a ID year old
white girl. Agents of the society have
made Investigations and it is claimed
that they plan to appeal the long tern
imprisonment, claiming that newly I'M
covered evidence has lifted part Of
Caver's guilt
At a special session of the board of
supervisors of Lafayette county, a pc
tition, numerOusly signed, was pre-
senter stating that it was their belief
that large number of graves of Union
soldiers in different cemeteries
throughout the county were unmarked
and pra wing that the number and loca-
ton of such graves be aScertained and
a suitable marker therefor be erected
at the expense of the county The
prayer was unanimously granted.
During the year 1920 nearly 100000
tons of coal were received at Mantle
woe. according to the annual report of
Il. ]. Kelner, customs collector. Coal
represented the largest incoming ship
meuts. The total tonnage received
was 929,432. Lumber shipments to
tailed $4,000 feet Shipments out OF
Manitowoc totaled 492,593 tons, mer-
chandise leading with 306,908 tons.
Grain shipments totaled 2,314,50O
bushels.
More pulpwOod is being received by
paper mills in the Fox river valley
than ever before. Railroad men say
from rs to 100 carloads are unloaded
in Appleton every day and about that
many more are side-tracked i'll kau-
kauna. Kimberly. Neenah and Me-
nasha. The wood has been coming i'll
immense quantities for several weeks.
Yards are nearly filled, but thousands
of cords are still expected. Most OF
the wood is coming from northern
Minnesota and northern Wisconsin.
The wood is about evenly divided be-
tween hemlock and spruce.
The annual report of the Farmers
Cooperative Butter Association OF
Tomah shows that the creamery did
the biggest business during the year
1920, OF any year in it's history. Total
receipts were $400,379.01. The num-
her of pounds Of cream received were
2.307 ,319 and the number of pounds of
butter made were 681 ,514.
The Association of Commerce has
undertaken drive to revive a cam
paign for an auditorium in Green Bay.
President Burial has appointed a com
mittee of business men 70 take lmme-
diate action on the project and report
on the proper method of financing.
Mrs Theodore Witt, wife of ;
farmer living near Clintonville, while
on It visit to the home of her fathe
in Kewaskum, died suddenly of acute
nephrytis She is survived by a hus
band and four children.
The American Society Of Equity ha
launched campaign in Portage coun
ty to enlist / 500 members. A house
10 house canvas will be made. 1t i
probable that organizations will be III
stituted in Almond, Bancroft, Nelson
Vile and Rosholt, as well as in Steven!
Point
Benson Dawson, Green Bay, Is
bridge foreman for the Green Bay an'
Western railroad, has decided to taxi
rest after so years OF contlnuou
service Several times in the past few
years, he has refused to be placed OF
the pension list and the railroad Off
Gals were somewhat amazed when h
appeared at headquarters and aske'
for a two-month absence leave.
Fire losses totaling 1851, 1882 Of
buildings and $2,479,007 on content
were suffered in Sheboygan during
1920. according to Fire Chief William
Il. Trottcr The biggest loss occurred
at the fire which destroyed the Badge
State Tanning company in January
the aggregate loss exceeding $4,000
600 The total losses are the larses
in the history Of the city.
Fifty years in the government serV
ice. tWenty-Seven of which have beel
spent in Green Bay. is the record o
f. w. Conrad, meterologist of tn
Green Bay weather bureau. He is on
! If the oldest forecasters in the cour
try. lie entered the government serV
ice in 1871, when it was under tn
Jurisdiction of the signal corps brancl
of the army.
Individual visiting days for Fond a.
Lac school teachers are to be abo
ished. Heretofore if an instructO
wished to visit one OF the other school
a substitute was supplied. Under tn
new plan whole buildings will be dis
missed for day and all of the teach
ers will visit other schools. In thl
manner the cost of the substitutes
which amounts to $500 year. will b
saved