Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-01-14

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Monohan in municipal court at Green
Bay.
Mr.. and Mrs Oscar Linrud, residing
two miles from Chaseburg, Vernon
county, are the parents of triplets-
three five pound boys. Triplets were
La Crosse in November.
A freak calf is attracting attention
on the farm of Frank Sladky of
Stangelville, Brown county. The calf
is black and white, but otherwise looks
almost like lamb It's wool is soft
and curly
A state conference on special work
for the counties of Iowa, Lafayette and
Grant will be held in Platteville, Jan.
! 20. Prominent social and educational
workers of the country will address
the meeting. The department of pub
lie instruction, state conference of So
cial work. state board of health, Wis
consiR Anti-Tuberculosis association
and Red Cross will work together
Col. Robert B. Mccoy of Sparta has
been promoted to the rank of brigadier
general in the Wisconsin National
guard. Gen. Mccoy has been connect
ed with the state guard for nearly
] twenty-five years and is said to be the
first to receive this promotion in time
Of peace. He is president of the
Thirty-second Division Veterans asso-
citation.
George Heller, ST., on New Years
day rounded out fifty years of service
with the Security National bank OF
| Sheboygan. He was elected assistant
cashier in 1873 and in 1889, cashier.
Since 1912 he has been vice-president.
For twenty-nine years he served as
school commissioners From 1893 to
1896 he was member of the board of
regents of the University of Wis
cOnSin.
Apportionment of the common
school fund of the state was sent by
State Supt. C. p. Cary to Secretary of
State Hull. The atotal amount in the
fund for distribution was s., 1874 ,961.25.
This fund was made up of balance
If $2O0,06S77, of 100000 in corporate
taxes, of $136,403.4 as interest on
school and special loans and $685. S9,
from the seven-tenths mill tax for the
support of the common schools
Three pioneers of Ripon died within
the last few days. They were John
Bazeley, C. S. Cook and Chris Yonks,
whose combined ages total nearly ESQ
years. John Bazeley passed away at
his home after short illness He was
| 78 years of age. C. S. Cook, aged 81
years, died at the home of his sister,
Mrs. c.. S. Stickles. Chris Yonks was
SO years of age and had been resi-
dent of Ripon for many years.
| The industrial outlook for the Win
ter in Manitowoc was frightened by
an announcement of the ManltoWoc
| Shipbuilding corporation that it had
| been awarded contract for construc-
ton of large sand freighter for the
American Sand and Gravel company,
! Chicago, and that there are enough re-
pair Jobs on steamers in winter quar-
| ters to keep 1900 to $500 men busy
until spring.
| Farm development in Douglas coun-
| ty last year has been doubled over
any other previous year, John M. Walz,
county agricultural agent, said. More
than five thousand acres was cleared,
consuming 100000 pounds of explo-
sives. One hundred twenty-five new
families, from southern states, have
come to Douglas county during the
| year There are now 1857 developed
| farms in the county an increase of 50
per cent in ten years.
Congress will take favorable action
| on the bill to appropriate $l3O,OOO Tor
charging the postoffice in Appleton,
| before March 4, in spite of declarations
by prominent republican leaders that
postoffice bills will be sidetracked I'M
til after March A. according to word
rom David G.. Classon, congressman
| from the Ninth district Mr.. ClassOn
said the bill has been approved by the
treasury department and congressional
leaders have promised to send it
through.
Rock county only paid out $50 dur
| ing the last year Tor WOlI DOunIleS,
| County Treasurer Arthur M. Church's
figures show While there has been
less effort on the part of the farmers
to run down, shoot or trap the few
struggling wolves in the three or four
parts of the county which have been
| infested by the lobo, the county has
paid out considerable money for dam
age against dogs, the tabulation re-
veals. Under the new dog license
measure, the county pays 80 per cent
of damage to stock known to have
been killed by dogs.
TINE amount of state insured prop
srty has reached $60,055,1 the an
lual report of the commissioner of in
surance reveals. The total amount
pf premiums and interest received by
The insurance fund since it's inception
in April, 1908, to April 1, 1920, was
b943,119, while the losses have been
| 1896, 401, with a net balance after de-
auction of all expense amounting to
s28S,449 Under operation of the in
Surance law all state property is in
| surod aoainSt fire and tornado The