Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-04-15
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

has donated $71.95 to the Near East
Relief fund. The junior class donated
$3.50 and the freshmen girls, $2O.26.
The juniors have not yet announced
the amount of their donation.
At meeting of joint committee
Marinette it was decided to make ap-
plicatiOn for charter to organize a
building and loan association. 1t will
be known as the Marinette Building
& Loan Association to be capitalized
at 100000.
Pleading guilty to the theft Of over
coats from employees of the Fish Lum-
Der Co., Amigo, George Grant and
George Schmitz, who came from Hur-
ley, were sentenced to one year in the
states prison. The garments were
stolen from a boarding house. Two of
was hidden in haystack.
The Rev. A. G. Petrie, who for the
past three years has been pastor of
the Congregational church in Clinton
take effect May l. Rev. Petrie has
accepted a pulpit in Illinois. He is
one of the veterans among COngre-
gational clergymen and is Well known
in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin,
Half of the children in the rural dis
tricts of Rock county are physically
defective, according to results OBJ
tanned during the last few weeks, by
Miss Anna Luetscher, county nurse
OF SCI children inspected, PSI were
abnormal, her report shows. Of 524
weighed and measured, 70 were from
10 to 20 per cent underweight.
About four-fifths of the wool pooled
in Wisconsin has been sold, a market
most of the best grades remain in the
hands of the farmers. Prices received
for the pooled wool were between 70
and q cents pound, which is more
than most farmers received when they
sold their crops to local dealers, the
report says. Plans for handling the
1921 crop are under consideration.
The rapidly increasing number of
DRINKS in Stevens Point has spurred
Chief of Police John S. Hofsoos to &C
ton. He will appear before the next
meeting of the common council and
make an appeal for extra Jail facilities,
urging reopening of the local jail
which was closed shortly after prohlbl-
ton became effective. Drunk and dis
orderly cases for March totaled more
than half of the whole number for
1919, according to police department
statistics.
More than 1000 soldiers, voting resi-
dents of Wisconsin, who registered
outside the state, will receive the cash
bonus of $40 for each month in the
service as a result of the decision OF
the Wisconsin supreme court affirming
the lower court decision in the case of
Files II. Lindemuth, Superior, against
the service recognition board. Justice
Owen, declared that actual voting resi-
dence and not military residence was
the basis on which the claim for bonus
should be based
ORGANIZATION of Wisconsin tobacco
growers for the purpose OF pooling the
states tobacco crop is being pushed
under the direction of the farm bu
reau, according to an announcement
from the offices in Madison. The re-
cent slump in prices Gripping many
growers is behind the move, it was
said. The Wisconsin Tobacco Grow
ers' association will open offices in
Madison with the. bureau to further
the movement. Similar action is also
expected by the wool growers, who
have expressed their intention OF CO.
operating. Twentythree Wisconsin
counties are now organized under the
Farm Bureau federation.
James Thompson, prominent repub-
T1ican politician in Wisconsin and twice
candidate for United States senator
against Senator l. l.. Lenroot, died at
a hospital in La Crosse. He was
operated upon for appendicitis, but
doctors found his appendix had burst
and no hopes were held out for his
recovery. James Thompson was born
in Dane county, Wis, in 1875 lie
graduated from Stoughton academy
the University of Wisconsin and the
University of Michigan, finishing the
law course in the latter institution III
1901. He served two terms as district
attorney of La Crosse county and re
fused third term. An ardent sup
porter of Senator LaFollette, Mr.
Thompson became prominent in state
Dolitics in 1916, when he was elected
delegate at large to the national re
nublican convention. Again last veal
he was a delegate at large. He was
a candidate for United States senator
in 1918. being defeated by |. l.. Len
root of Superior. Last fall he agar
was a candidate against Senator Len
root. losing the nomination after
hard fight. Mr.. Thompson was mar
ried to Edna Gunnar Peterson, OF Chi
cago. May, 1918. Mr. Thompson wa
a member of the Masonic and Elk
lodges. He was director of thre'
banks and interested in several busl
ness enterprises in La Crosse.
The average value of farm land Il
Rock county is the highest in tn