Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-29
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

J. e. Roberts, Fond du Lac, was
elected superintendent of schools OF
Stoughton, according to an announce
ment made at Madison. Roberts will
take the place of C. J. Anderson, who
was recently appointed assistant state
superintendent.
George Wolf, II, son of John Wolf
of Park Falls, died in hospital as
the result of gunshot wounds He and
his brother had been hunting. A bull
let from % rife, discharged at a
squirrel, glanced from a tree and
struck him in the abdomen.
Twenty four foreign countries
helped to swell the total of 10,848 stu
dents at the University of Wisconsin
during the last year and the 1920 sum
mer session by sending 173 of their
young men and women to Madison.
Of these China ranked first with 81
men, Norway and the Philippine Isl
ands, tied for second place with %
students each, and Canada third with
IA students, nine men and five women.
Frank E. Poll, Almond, was elected
president of the Wisconsin League of
POstmasters at the fourteenth annual
convention held at Eau Claire. The
postmasters adopted resolutions
pledging their loyalty to Postmaster
General Will Hays and asking for suf-
fcient allowances for third and fourth
class postoffices to operate them eff
GENTLY.
Racine county was compelled to
suffer loss of $25,275 in the sale of
1897, 900 highway improvement bonds,
that amount being the discount de-
manded by bond buyers. Because OF
the bonds drawing but per cent in
terest and a tightness in the money
market, the county was compelled to
accept the discount The money was
needed for road work already con-
structed.
E. L. Hill, farmer, is in jail at Hay
ward, charged with killing his moth
eF, four years ago and sinking her
body in Squaw bay. a part of Round
lake After the mother disappeared
relatives and neighbors BECAME sus-
picious. Many searching parties were
unable to find any clews and the at
fair was dropped. Last week, how
ever, Indians found bones in boat
sunk in Squaw bay which led to the
arrest.
Stanley Galley of Pittsburg, Pa,
was held up and robbed of $50 IN
broad daylight, he told Chief of Police
Robert C. Flood Sheboygan. He said
that he went to he factory district
with two strangers to search for work
and that as they approached the lum-
Der yards they stopped him, aimed
revolver at him and took the money
from his pockets. They then told him
to beat it" and disappeared in the
lumber yards.
The German language will again be
taught in the Madison high school
starting this fall, if enough pupils
register for the course. The teaching
of German was discontinued during
the war. At meeting of the board
Of education a petition signed by is
people requested that German be re-
turned to the curriculum. The board
voted to instruct Principal Volney G.
Barnes and Assistant Supt. r. B.
Dudgeon to offer the course this fall
and to furnish German instructors II
there is a sufficient enrolment,
The department Of agriculture re-
ports that there were 229 herds con-
tanning 5,795 cattle tuberculin tested
during June. Of this number $50 re-
acted and were slaughtered. Wiscon-
sin now has 2,454 herds, containing
62,417 cattle, under supervision OF the
state and federal departments of agri-
culture. Of these, 1905 herds, con-
tanning 30,892 cattle, have passed one
test toward being accredited, while
7S7 herds, containing 20,507 cattle,
have received certificates as being ac-
credited.
A property loss of 100000 and dam
age to crops aggregating probably
twice as much was caused by mini
allure tornado in the northern part OF
Outagamie and the southern part OF
Shawano counties. Not less than Az
silos. three barns and half dozen
machine sheds were blown over. Corn
and grains were fiattened and ruined
The storm cut swath about six
miles wide through the towns of Sey-
mour, Outagamie county, and Pitts
field. Shawano county. Other towns
reported high winds. There were no
injuries reported.
An increase of more than 500 per
cent in the wat rates Will be
charged in Hurley, it is believed, as a
result of action of the board OF water
commissioners of Ironwood. Mich, in
recommending that the city council
contract to furnish water at the rate
of 20 cents for each 1000 gallons dur
ing the next year, The rate being
paid in Hurley is 8 3/4 cents for each
1000 gallons. The water is purchased
by the Hurley Water Co., controlled
by the Ironwood and Bessemer Rail
way and Light Co., which in turn sells
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