Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-03-18

iect undertaken by the Wolf river
drainage district which was organized
at meeting in Appleton of land
owners representing 286,098 acres in
! Outagamie, Shawano and Waupaca
counties, forming OnA of the largest
drainage districts in tie United States
The project will represent an expen
diture of more than $1,200,000 when
it is completed. The land to be
drained includes practically all of the
northeastern part of Outagamie coun
IT, six or seven towns in Waupaca
Comfy and two towns in Shawano
county. Practically all of the land to
be reclaimed by the project is tillable
1t is now worthless except for marsh
grass. The land, when it is drained
will be worth ten or twelve times the
cost of the project.
Manager j. H. Berger, of the Jersey
Crest farms near Oconto Falls, an
nounces an outright gift of a full
blooded Jersey bull calf to the George
H. Eick post of the local American LIE
gion No strings are attached to the
gift and the local Legion will dispose
of the animal at their homecoming and
Fourth of July celebration on July g
and 4.
Members of the Norwegian Luth-
Gran church, Barron, in token OF the
appreciation for their pastor, the Rev
J. w. Swenson, presented him with a
check of $255. Mr.. Swenson mas been
at Barron one year.
Jacobsen brothers of De Pere, win
ners Of the 1920 corn growing contest,
are receiving orders for seed from all
over the world. The last order, a large
one, came from Canada.
Hardware men of Merrill are offer
ing dynamite at cost to farmers. I'm
loaded from the cars, the price of 40
per cent dynamite is 20h cents per
pound; 80 per cent dynamite, 1914
cents, and 20 per cent dynamite, 1872
cents.
Agreement between the railroad
commission and the Oshkosh Gas
Light Co. will result in an order re-
ducing the gas rates at Oshkosh To
cents per 1000 feet. A hearing was
held at Oshkosh Electric light rates
are not affected by the agreement.
Sheboygan has the second lowest
valuation of city property for tax pur-
poses in any of the twenty first, sec
ond and third class Wisconsin cities
so far this year. 1t is 1880 per cent
and the tax rate in mills is 1868 per
cent
When Max Lafave, Hurley police
man, took knife away from a Finnish
woodsman he had arrested, he closed
the blade of the knife and was shot
in the left hand. 1t was found that it
was a combination knife and revolver
of % caliber that the woodsman car
ried.
The beauty spot" has been ordered
off the rosy cheeks of the La Crosse
High school girls. The first edict came
from Miss Anna Collins, shorthand
teacher, who ordered five girls to wash
off the decoration. Other high school
teachers decided to take similar ac-
ton.
The annual cattle sale conducted by
the Fox River Valley Guernsey Breed
ers' association is scheduled for May
at Appleton, according to the an
nouncement made by George Lucia,
Brown county member of the board
of directors. 1t is planned to put about
so head of pure-bred Guernseys on the
auction block
At the special meeting of the Bay
field county board held in Washburn
Jake Yderstad, of the town of Lincoln,
was elected county clerk to serve for
the two-year balance of the present
term. Mr.. Yderstad succeeds N. M.
Oscar, who resigned after serving as
county clerk continuously for eighteen
years.
The Knights of Columbus contem-
plate the construction of SITS, 1000
clubhouse at Green Bay, according to
plans given out by the building COM
mittee. Stock in the realty corpora
ton to finance the building deal is be-
ing sold to members. A suitable loca-
ton, close to the business district, has
been chosen.
Under the leadership of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Hobbs, the Fond du Lac
Poultry and Pet Stock association will
attempt to organize number of poul-
try clubs among farmers of Fond du
Lac county. The purpose of the clubs
will be to assist farmers in getting
rid of scrubs and procuring more pure
bred flocks.
Fourth degree councils, Knights of
Columbus, in the principal cities of the
Fox river valley are planning to or
ganiZe and collect historical data with
view to erecting tablets to mark GER
tain spots of historical significance.
The cities interested are Oshkosh,
Neenah, Menasha, Appleton, Kau-
kama he pere Fond din Lac and