Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-03-11

at a hospital of burns received when
..ae used gasoline instead of kerosene
to aid in starting kitchen fire.
A special election in Park Falls to
determine the ACCESSIBILITY of floating
q $4,000 bond issue for financing an
extension to the waterwOrkS system,
resulted in 215 to % votes in favor Of
the project Fifty-siX women voted.
! Assemblyman F. II. Fowler of La
Crosse will be asked to introduce in
the legislature bill empowering cities
of the third class to engage a tax as
sessment expert to assist local asses
sors in determining the value of build
ings.
Robert Carr, 80 years old, veteran
pedestrian of Milton Junction, was
found dead at his home by neighbOrs.
He lived alone and had been missed
for two days. For thirty years he has
made an annual hike to GAINESVILLE
eight miles away on his birthday
Directors of the La Crosse chamber
OF commerce decided to take up with
the common council the ACCESSIBILITY of
establishing a daylight saving SEIZED
ule of working hours during the sum
mer months. The plan was defeated
last year.
Work has started on the old Allen
home, Green Bay, which will be made
into the Catholic Woman's club club
/ house. The cost of Improvements will
be $4,000. The building will have a
| spacious auditorium, sleeping rooms,
i, cafeteria, and space for a day nursery.
Following the filing of a petition
| with the required number of sigma
| lures, the Oshkosh commission coun-
| Gil took steps for holding a special
/ election to decide whether the citizens
| wish to change the form OF the board
| of education, cutting it down from its
present membership of II to Z.
c. P. Cary, state superintendent of
| schools, has appointed Miss Edith Nc
Eachrom, Darlington superintendent
| of schools for Racine county. The
| place has been vacant since the resig-
nation of Miss Isabel Swantz last fall.
| At a recent meeting of the county
| board of supervisors the salary was in
creased from $500 to $4,000.
| The suit of former Judge J. M.
| Becker Of Monroe against Green cOun-
| ty to collect more than $4,000 back
salary will be tried in Circuit court at
| GAINESVILLE during the spring term be-
| fore Judge George Grimm. Judge
: Becker was ousted from the bench be-
fore his term expired for alleged dis
loyal utterances during the war.
At meeting of the Dodge County
! Fair association it was voted to spend
| $4,000 for improving its grounds in
Beaver Dam. A new race track will
be built and two horse barns and a
new grand stand will be erected. The
purchase of 10 acres of land. All Of
the improvements will be made before
the fair is held Sept. 26 to 80.
DR.. J. H. Tibbets, Appleton, will sue
coed the Rev. w. C. Sainsbury as pas
tor of the st. Paul's Methodist church
! of Green Bay. The appointment was
announced by Bishop Mitchell. Dr..
! Tibbets. has been secretary of the
| Preachers Endowment fund four years
and previous to that time was Secre-
tary of the Appleton district of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Cities are told to interest them
selves in cleaning up violatOrs Of the
automobile license law before Apr.
l by Elmer S. Hall, secretary of state,
in a letter sent to each mayor. After
that date, state inspectors will go out
and all prosecutions will go through
state courts, with fines allotted to the
| state treasury. Police of cities who
see automobiles without 1921 licenses
may hale them into municipal court.
The force of state inspectors going out
this year is larger than formerly ac-
cOrding to the secretary of state.
Farmers received 329 men to work
on their farms during the first three
weeks of February through the eleven
free employment offices conducted by
the industrial commission, E. E. White,
secretary, announced This is a larger
number than has been placed during
February of any preceding year. Jince
Jan. /, a total of GIG men have been
! referred to farmers. In some cases
| farmers are extending train fare to the
agency, who checks the applicants
| baggage to the farmer. Wages through
out Wisconsin for farm hands run be-
| tween $35 and $50 a month. Some
farmers are offering as high as $50
| and $65, the commission said. Tramp
! labor is not wanted.
!, statement was issued by the in
| dustrial commission, Madison, warn
| ing merchants not to be misled by the
| statements made by wholesalers in
| fireworks, that fireworks can be used
next Fourth of July without restruc-
tons. The commission states that no
change has been made in it's fireworks
order Since 1918 an order of the COM
mission has prohibited the storage of
fireworks in place nearer than 200
| feet from neighboring building, ex-
| cept wholesale storage in original
| packages. 1t has also provided thai