Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09

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ed the examination.
Gus Saunders, alias Watts, of Chi
| cago. was sentenced to thirty years
in the state prison at Waupun, in
district court in Eau Claire, when he
pleaded guilty to robbing the Augusta
| State bank of Augusta, of $4,000 on
May IL.
f. The convention of county superin.
tendents of school, to be held in Mad
fson, announced for Dec. TO 9, has
| been postponed by John G. Callahan.
superintendent of public instruction,
until the week of Jan. 10 To 20. The
with American education week, Dec.
4 to TO-
Establishment OF second Zion
headquarters in Madison is planned
by Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer OF
Zion City, ILL., A temporary building
lis to be erected in which regular
meetings will be neld. 1t is the an
nounced plan OF Voliva TO spread his
teachings in Wisconsin and he is del
egating number of his so-called
apostles" TO conduct services.
Edward Therien, Angelica, Brown
county, cheesemaker, purchased the
cheese factory at Mills Center and
planned to run both plants. After
three months he deemed it best to
unite the factories. Instead OF tear
ing down the plant at Mills Center,
house moving crew was employed
and the factory was placed on rollers
and hauled the seven miles to the
Angelica factory in five days. A
steam engine did the hauling
The machinery for meeting the un-
employment situation in Wisconsin
this winter was put in motion by r.
G. Knutson, Madison, member OF the
industrial commission, with letter
to mayors OF all cities urging that
they create committees to deal with
the local labor situations Following
suggestion of Governor Blaine, the
commission has prepared TO cooper
ate with communities in registering
unemployed and in placing them at
work. Organization plans and provi'
sion for jobs through creation OF
work, is left to the cities.
/; Although Wisconsin farms have
less timber than ten years ago, the
state still ranks eighth in the nation
in the value of forest products on the
farm, the census bureau at Washing
ton has announced. There are now
108,549 Wisconsin farms having for
est products as compared with 49,
SAB ten years ago, or, expressed in
percentage, 57.3 of all Wisconsin
farms have forest products compared
with 63.6 ten years ago. The total
value of forest products sold from
Wisconsin farms in 1919 was $16,.
P87,974, as compared with $9,559,428
In 1909. North Carolina leads in val.
lie of forest products with $32, 735, 1858
/ Fire in the chemistry room of the
Superior state normal school destroy
ed a table valued at $500, and was
put out by water from q pipe melted
by the flames. Nothing in the room
except the table was harmed A
plumber working in the room is be.
lieved to have spilled some acids on
the table which started the blaze.
TRANSMISSION of blood, operations for
failed to save the life of the Rev.
Carl +. Ludwig. brother of Ernst II.
ludwig, Manitowoc, at his home in
Hustisford. Twice f. Fl. Ludwig gave
more than a pint of his blood in an
effort TO save his brother and for a
time it appeared that the minister
would live. Death was due to per-
nicious anemia.
Though the apple crop this year is
only half that of the previous season,
apple growers who have fruit suitable
for market are receiving nearly the
same return. For the 100000 bush.
els estimated by the division of mar.
kets to have been produced, the cur.
rent price is 81 to $3.50 per barrel,
as against $S.75 to 81 per barrel re.
ceived for 3,650,000 bushels last year.
In many sections the scant crop has
simplified the marketing problem
The product of many localities has
been sold by the roadside, as the APP
pies were gathered from the trees.
This has effected a saving in grading
and transportation. Spring frosts
are blamed for the setback to the
apple crop.
The 1921 hunting season in Wis.
cOnsin was nearly as deadly for the
hunters as it was for the dere and
ducks. Reports from various parts of
the state and upper Michigan disclose
a death list of twenty-three. In ad.
dition it was unofficially estimated
that fully 100 hunters were wounded,
some of them very seriously. Reports
OF lost eyes, legs and arms were com.
mon during the season. Deer hunt
ing was exceptionally hazardous this
year because of the great number of
hunters in the woods. In the terri
tory within thirty mile radius OF
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