Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-04-22
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

residents of Oneida county, died at
his home in the town of Pine Lake.
Mr. Gauthier was IS years of age and
of the Civil war and the remains were
buried with military honors.
Ice is gone from all of the inland
lakes of Douglas county, according to
information received in Superior This
is the earliest that ice has gone out
OF the lakes for some years, and indi-
Gates an early opening of the resort
season. In some parts of the country
districts, the frost is out of the ground.
Students of the Sixth and Seventh
grades of the Fourth ward school in
Eau Claire have issued the first num-
Der of their school newspaper, "The
Fourth Ward Sentinel" 1t contains
school news, editorials, personals, q
spring poets corner and feature ar
ticles.
In re-electing W. T. Darling as SUI
perintendent of schools in Eau Claire
for another year the school board gave
him salary boost of $1,000 a year
His salary now is $4,000 f. M. Bray,
reappOinted as principal of the high
school, was given a salary of $4,000 a
year, an increase of $500.
At meeting of the directors of the
Minocqua Cooperative Creamery COM
pany it was voted to engage in the
manufacture of ice cream in connec-
ton with the production of butter. A
complete ice cream plant will be in
stalled in the companys creamery and
will be ready for operation May Is.
A decided decrease in rural and
small town Jail population under pro-
hibitiOn is reported by the board of
temperance, prohibition and public
morals of the Methodist Episcopal
church following a countrywide study
of statistics. Eleven Wisconsin cities
chosen at random show a falling off
Of Jail population of IL per cent from
July l, 1918, to July l, 1919, and of 26
per cent from July /, 1919, to July /,
1920.
Claiming that the rejection by the
voters of a proposal to bond the city
for $350,000 for the erection of a new
Junior High school building, two mem
bers of the board of education of Chip
peWa Falls handed in their resigna-
tons with the request that they be
acted upon promptly The resigna-
tons were offered by L. ~ Newman
and Henry Lebeis, Jr. 1t is rumOred
other members of the board will take
similar action
So that farmers in the western part
of the state may realize some profit
on their last year potato crops, Off
Gals of the Rice Lake Starch factory
have started their plant to manufac-
ture starch Some 5000 bushels per
day are being made into starch at that
plant To stimulate business also, the
railway companies are offering special
rates on "spuds'' to the plant. Unless
made into starch, the potato crop of
that section would be almost unmar-
ketable
Master painters and decorators of
Racine, a score in number, announced
that they would conduct open shops,
offering employment to all journey
men, union or nonunion. The action
came as a result of the union journey
mems refusal to accept the new wage
scale of 80 cents an hour, reduction
of 10 cents from the 1920 scale. The
master painters have now joined issue
with master carpenters, maSOns,
plumbers and electricians in declar-
ing for open shops in all building
craft.
The largest shipment of brook trout
fry ever shipped arrived in Stevens
Point and was planted in streams of
Portage county Thirty-two cans We're
received in all, each containing sever
al thousand fish. The contents of Is
cans which were unlOaded were plant
ed in the Little PlOver river one of
the drainage bitches and the Wolf
loaded at Amherst Junction were
taken to the Tomorrow river. The fry
came from the state hatchery at ST.
CroiX Falls and were received through
efforts of members of the Portage
County Fish and Game Protective AS
ISOLATION.
An increased supply of farnhands is
evidenced in a report of the industrial
commission, which shows that during
March 1924 men were placed at work
on farms as against Ats men in 1920.
The figures were compiled by the II
free employment agencies. The largest
number of farm placements was made
last month by the La Crosse, Madison,
Milwaukee, Oshkosh and Wausau of
fees. The total number of men called
for was 100 more than the number of
men referred to farmers. This short
age occurred principally at the offices
in Green Bay, Madison and Sheboygan.
The men placed this year by the en-
ployment offices are of much higher
grade than in former years. Practical
ly all of the men sent out are expert
enced farm hands, many of whom
drifted to the cities during the last
few years.
Frank Ender, sc years old, promi-
nent farmer of Nelson, Buffalo cOun-