Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-06-24
Mrs. Adeline S. Tongue, who has

l0f OauSnIor-1n-ldW, MISS AHHlS
Tongue, Hillsboro, with a large num-
Der of relatives present.
1t was not a bank robbery this time,
aor regular holdup. Bandits stole
$500 pounds of dynamite when they
entered the powder magazine OF the
Hayward Hardware Co., near Hay
ward. The dynamite was hauled away
in truck or heavy wagon.
A bee keeper near Platteville had
his sWarms 'decimated by poisoning.
Workers were busy in "a nearby
orchard spraying the blossoms and
newly-seed fruit and bees were busy
gathering honey at the same time.
The bee raiser lost his entire 80 hives.
Three junior high schools and vo-
cational school, to cost $1,35O,O0O, are
being added to Racine's educational
system, and 100000 is being expend-
ed in the erection of an isolation hos
pital Plans have also been prepared
for a new high school to cost in eX-
cess of 100000.
Farmers from all over the north
western part of Oneida county gath
cred at Minocqua in attendance at the
first annual dairymen's picnic OF the
Minocqua Cooperative Creamery COM
pany. c. P. West, county agricultural
expert, delivered the chief address, his
subject being How to Make Dairy1ng
Profitable and Pleasant"
Settlement of the strike at the John
Hoberg Co. paper mill, Green Bay, was
affected when President Frank IL.
Hoberg signed an agreement with a
strikers committee putting into effect
the 16 2/3 per cent wage reduction or
dered by the mill May !. The agree
ment settles strike in progress at the
mill since May /, when more than 800
employees walked out.
About 1000 senior students of the
University of Wisconsin will leave
their books and start out to battle with
the world on June % when the 1921
class graduates. Practically every
state in the union and many foreign
countries are represented among the
present graduates, whose class history
started in the war year OF 1917 and
is replete with incidents which tie it's
members together in common bond.
The Wisconsin hay crop prospect
declined over 100000 tons during May,
Joseph A. Becker, of the Wisconsin CO.
operative crop reporting service says
in his June crop report. Total produc-
ton is forecast at 4,793, 900 tons, COM
pared to the 5,036, 900 forecast on May
l, the 5,273,000 produced in 1920, and
the five-year average of 4,854,O00 tons.
A meeting of school district clerks
will be held in Appleton in the near
| future to discuss a revision of salaries
paid to teachers in Outagamie county
rural schools. The present minimum
salary is $50 a month, with no maxi
mum, and it is proposed to reduce the
minimum to SIS and fix 500 as the
maximum pay per month. Several
teachers now are receiving as much as
$3.50 a month.
Records of Eagle post c. A. r.. of
Eau Claire, showing the total member
ship list and the present membership,
give a graphic illustration of the rapid
| ity with which the boys of 1866 are
answering the last call of taps" The
maximum membership of Eagle post,
named after the famous war eagle,
"Old Abe" carried by the old Eagle
company of Eau Claire, according to
the records was 1876; while the pres
;o oh
of 1888.
Jone Ackley, the Oldest resident in
the village of Brandon and one OF the
oldest in the state, celebrated his one
| hundredth and second birthday June s.
He is physically in good health. Mr..
Ackley was born in 1919 in New York
state, where he resided until 1850,
when he came west, settling in Fair,
water, Fond du Lac county. He has
been a resident of the village OF
Brandon and of Fond du Lac county
twenty-nine years, having been en-
gagged as a farmer His wife died in
1904 at the age of 78.
A number of cadets of the state uni
versity reserve officers training corps
will take examinations for first lieu
tenant or second lieutenant in the
United States army on Aug. %. There
are 5000 vacancies in the commits
stoned personnel of the Infantry,
cavalry, field artillery, coast artillery,
engineers, air service. chemical war
fare service, and Philippine scouts.
National guardsmen, men who have
had two years service in the regular
army, and graduates of accredited
technical schools are also eligible to
take the. examinations.
Rust has appeared on wheat and
barley in the state, report OF the
crop service says. Fields are said to
be spotted in many places. Potato
beetles are causing average damage,
while grub worms and cut worms are
sporting" some fields of corn, the re-
port said. Winter wheat is already
beginning to head, and rye is well
headed in some fields. Late potato
Dlanting is said to be progressing rap