Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-09-02
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS


cause of uneasiness on the part of
residents in the Billings park district
of Superior was shot to death by Ell
mer Ardel, who served in France as
a sharpshooter with the Thirty-second
division.
Judge G. z. Luse, in federal district
court at Superior paid a fine he had
imposed on Charles Lemieux, Indian,
Ashland, who pleaded guilty to illegal
possession of liquor Lemieux had
spent several months in the Ashland
county Jail awaiting trial. He was
fined 81 and told the judge he did not
have the money to pay. The judge
handed the clerk 81 and Lemieux left
the courtroom free man.
Small boys flying kite were re-
sponsible for large part of Green
Bay being without electric power for
about half day. The youngsters
blew their kite across three high-volt-
age wires and, disregarding advices to
cut the string to retrieve it, pulled it
until the electric cables were pinched
together. The short circuit which re-
suited burned all the wires. The
damage was estimated at $500.
A home building company, to be
organized in Racine, will raise fund
of 100000 for the purpose of assist
ing residents in building homes, and
to give employment to hundreds of
men in the construction of these
homes. Wealthy residents, civic and
fraternal societies, and labor organi-
cations viii be appealed to to subscribe
for stock in the building company,
which will be managed by men who
will serve without pay.
Automobile beggars have made their
appearance in Brown County. A short
distance west of Bellevue, near Green
Bay, car was stopped by the road,
and all passing machines were hailed,
with a request for cash donation.
The auto beggars claimed they were
on their way to Rhinelander, that they
had run into one bit of hard luck after
another, and that they could not com
plete their trip unless they raised
enough money to equip their car with
new tires.
Presentation of an ordinance re-
Quiring inspection for tuberculosis OF
all cattle from which milk is shipped
to city trade will be made within
short time, according to Mayor WenZel
Wiesner, Green Bay, who is fathering
Il Of
an ordinance was decided upon by the
city commissioners following their wit
Messing vivisection of an infected
cow a few weeks ago by DR.. F. A.
Wilson.
High schools are increasing in i'm
portance as educational agencies
throughout Wisconsin, the report of
the superintendent of public instruc-
ton shows. Enrolment rose in 1919
20 to 1882 from 81 1888 a jump Of 15.5
per cent during the biennium COM
pared to an increase of only 2.8 per
cent for the previous biennium. The
last decade has brought about an at
tendance 11.42 per cent higher than
y
OF increase greater than in the United
States as whole, the report declares.
Edward R. Allen, alias Joe James,
was sentenced to thirty years at hard
labor at Waupun, after he was found
guilty of assault with intent to kill
Police Captain George r. Wolf at Eau
Claire. The jury returned its verdict
in less than fifteen minutes. The
maximum sentence was given. Allen
took three shots. at Wolf after he had
arrested him as Jail breaker from
Everett, Wash, where he was being
held on a charge of safe blowing. One
of the shots tore up the length of the
captains arm.
Teachers for all graded schools are
plentiful in Wisconsin at the present
time, G. l. Anderson, assistant superin-
tendent of public instruction, an
ounced. ALI of the schools in the
state were able to secure suitable in
structors for the coming year, he says
Salaries are remaining at their former
scale from $50 to $3.50 a month, accord
ing to Mr.. Anderson, who says that
only in few localities is there a ten
dency to try for a lowering of the
wage. Hundreds of thousands of Wis
consin school children will start their
year September s, when practically
all Of the city schools open.
The feed and fertilizer division of
the state department of agriculture
sends out warning to the farmers
against a certain stock food now being
sold. 1t says, oat feed has no value
A large quantity of oat feed or oat
mill by-products has recently appeared
on the Wisconsin feed market 1t is
bought at a price which is attractive
to consumers unacquainted with it's
value. Accordingly the department is
advising buyers that the product has
low feed value and that it can not be
used as substitute for grain as
claimed by some sellers. The feed is
largely oat hulls and it is only legit-
innate of course as a lightener for
heavy feeds.
Hundreds of small pike and perch
fry were taken from Neenah water for