Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-06-10
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

sey Breeders club. The organization
will foster the raising of pure bred
Jersey cattle. Officers elected are:
l.. E. Walker, president; Mrs. Alice
Pease, secretary-treasurer.
The Rev. John B. Petite, popular
pastor of ST. Demands Catholic church
of Watertown, received notice OF his
promotion by appointment of st.
Roses church of Racine, which is one
of the largest and best parishes in the
archdiocese.
The Oneida county board passed
resolution appropriating $4,000 for
new buildings and other improvements
at the fair grounds in Rhinelander.
The buildings are to be completed and
ready for use before the opening OF
the 26th annual Oneida county fair
next September.
At meeting of the Wisconsin Val
ley Improvement association it was
voted to proceed with the completion
of the reservoir on the Spirit river
near Tomahawk, and acquire such adj
ditional land as would be necessary to
provide the proper amount OF f1owage.
When completed the reservoir will
represent an investment of 100000.
Hans P. Fuley of Hayward, former
sheriff of Sawyer county, took othce
as deputy United States marshal, with
headquarters at Hayward. This is the
first time a deputy in the western Wis
cOnsin district has been stationed out
side of Madison and Superior, accord
ing to w. T. Hugh, who was reappoint-
ed deputy at Superior and began MS
22d year in the service.
Mrs. Ella S. Washburn, Sc years old,
one of the most prominent women in
Eastern Star circles of the country,
died at her home in Racine. She was
the founder of the Racine Eastern
Star, was worthy grand matrOn of Wis
consin for some years and for three
years worthy grand matron OF the
general grand chapter of the Eastern
Star of the United States.
Because they claim rates are not in
proportion to prices they are obtaining
for their products and that they can
not afford it, farmer patrons of the
Beloit Farmers Telephone company
have served notice that they do not
want service any longer. Nearly one
hundred have already had their phones
removed The telephone was recently
raised to 1925 from $3.50 month.
About SO World war veterans went
to Shawano from Amigo to attend the
funeral of Joe Aft, later in the day
attending the funeral of Thomas Bal
lard at Bryant Both soldiers, who
were members of the 10th Trench
Mortar battery, were killed in France
by the premature explosion of a NOR
tar. Their bodies were brought here
for burial
Forty persons received impromptu
lake baths at Ashland when the COM
mercial pier and a small frame build
ing upon it, crowded with people dur
ing the Memorial day celebration coll
lapsed and slipped into Chequamegon
bay. No injuries were reported. A
solitary piling projecting from the
water stopped the frame building as
it was sliding into the cavity, saving
the struggling mass of people who
were confined by broken planks in the
water in space 20 feet square.
Rattlesnake hunting in Sank county
is becoming a fad during the closed
season for other game. 1t is nothing
unusual for a hunter, who knows the
haunts of the reptiles and have the
necessary equipment, to bag from
twenty to thirty snakes in few hours.
At this time of the year the rattlers
are coming out of the crevices of the
rocks, where they lay dormant all
winter, to sun themselves and are not
as lively and dangerous as later in the
season. .
The Rhinelander Fish and Gun club
is staging a campaign for larger mem:
bership to the end that more fish-fry
may be secured and planted. Officers
of the club have made an estimate
showing that the actual amount of
money brought into this territory dur
ing last year by tourists and sports
men was not less than a quarter of a
million of dollars and that the total
amount of such income in the tourist
territory of upper Wisconsin was not
less than three-fourths of million
dollars.
On June 8, the Rev. Father William
De Kelver, pastor of the Florence
Catholic church, celebrated the f1ftieth
anniversary of his priesthood. He
graduated from ST. Francis seminary,
Milwaukee, June 3, 1871, and was or
dained a priest at Green Bay by
Bishop Melcher, the first bishop of the
Green Bay diocese. Father De Kelver
is rs years old and veteran of the
Civil war, having served with Co. A,
9th Wisconsin Volunteers. His par
ents were natives Of Belgium, but he
was born in America. In point of con-
tinuous service he is one of the oldest
priests in the northwest
Henry Johnson, who pleaded guilty
to burglarizing the soft drink bar of
Andrew Kaplanek at Deerbrook, was
coutorood NV Tudop A r. GOOdrick Of