Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-22
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are still unaccounted for, the records
of the Portage county historical
commission show
Mrs. Joe Bierzynski has received
word from officials at Grodno, Poland,
that her son, Laddie, who had not been
heard from for more than year, died
at Warsaw, Jan. 8, 1920. His death
was attributed to Bright's disease
following number of operations in
military hospital. He went to France
with Polish contingent and later
was transferred to the Polish front
The Rev. John T. OLeary, pastor
of st. Patrick's church, Green Bay,
will have to pay Mary Henderson ST.,
700 as a result Of a jury's verdict in
a personal injury case. The defend
ants motion for a new trial was de-
MED. The complainant charged that
she suffered a broken hip by jumping
out of the path of the pastors auto
mobile.
Three hundred and three thousand
automobiles are registered in the state
of Wisconsin to date. This is over
$4,000 more than were registered dur
ing the entire year of 1920. Last year
there were 1925 trucks licensed.
This year 19,439 already have taken
out licenses. There were 1,946 auto
mobile dealers in the state last year
This year there have been 2,O49 deal
ers' licenses taken out
Winnebago county is acquiring the
reputation Of speed trap accord
ing to A. L. King Neenah, head of
the county farm bureaus, who has is
sued a statement fiaying rigid enforce
ment of the automobile speed laws
The county Is becoming unpopular, he
points out, as the result of the activi
ties of the county motorcycle officer
Hundreds of tourists have been ar
rested for fracturing the law.
A decisive victory was won by the
J. F. Rappel Wholesale Grocery Co.
in it's damage suit against the city of
Manitowoc, when a jury In circuit
court awarded $11,S00 to the plain
tiff. The case was a result of flood
during the spring of 1920 when the
basement of the Rappel warehouse
filled with water because a city sewer
nearby was unable to take care of
the flow. Thousands of dollars of
stock were spoiled and the company's
building was damaged.
One notable change in the farm life
of Brown county is the passing of the
windmill, according to observations
throughout this part of the country.
Farmers no more think of building
windmills atop their barns, because
in time they rot at their moorings and
fall down. Wind as means of pumping
water is too uncertain, farmers claim,
although 1t costs nothing as source
of power. Gasoline engines are taking
the place of the picturesque revolving
fan wheel which could be seen above
the buildings of almost all farms.
The Rev. John Scheidhauer, chap
lain at the Holy Family hospital and
assistant to the Rev. Mr.. Luby of
Sacred Heart church, Manitowoc, cele-
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his ordination. twenty-five priests
. from various parts of the county took
part in the celebration, which consist
ed of high mass followed by a dinner.
Father Scheidhauer has been at the
hospital about twenty years. Previ-
Gus to coming to Manitowoc he had a
no rich ar Fond Din Tar
Prof. J. A. Merrill of the Superior
state normal school is preparing to go
as an expert geologist to the Peace
river country in northwestern Alberta,
Canada, to inspect some oil lands in
the big fields recently discovered
there Prof. Merrill expects to leave
Superior in the latter part of July,
and be absent at least three weeks.
Mrs. Jennie Sharpless, national Sec
rotary of the Worlds Purity fedora
ton, with headquarters at La Crosse,
has opened headquarters at Hurley
and will give series of talks that
will lead to an attempt to clean up
Hurley, it is believed.
The corn crop in Wisconsin this
year will approach the bumper yield
of 1919, according to Joseph A. Becker
of the cooperative crop reporting
service. Based upon a July 1 condi-
ton, production is estimated at 49,
$4,000 bushels, as compared with &c.
O44,OOO in 1920 and 86,715,OOO in 1919.
High temperatures of the last few
weeks, with continued dry weather,
have resulted in an enormous growth
of corn, placing the crop two weeks
in advance of normal, the report
brings out Conditions of the corn
crop July / was second highest on
record at 95 per cent, compared to 80
per cent in 1920, and SO per cent in
1919, and 10-year average of "a per
cent The acreage is reported as L.
100000, or / per cent larger than in
1920 The large increase in silos dur
ing the year has had much to do with
the increase.
The First Presbyterian, the First
Methodist and the ST. Paul's English
Lutheran churches of Neenah, have
received $500, bequeathed them by the