Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-04-29


and employees on April 30 The paper
has been published nearly 70 years.
Neenah merchants have adopted the
community day" sale plan More
than so business houses will select one
article from stock and seel it at very
low figure.
Roland Williams, 70 year old, was
injured at his home in Beaver Dam
when gasoline tank which he thought
empty exploded. The extent OF his in
juries are a fractured hip and internal
injuries.
Preparatory to the state convention
of Modern Woodmen OF America
which is to be held in OcontO on May
4, the order will show series of mo-
ton pictures at the Princess and Gem
theaters on who Is My Neighbor,"
and "The Value of Life" showing
the work being done at their tubercu-
losis camps
Fifty orphan boys at ST. Clara's or
phanage at Polinia, near Stevens
Point, including twenty-five who have
just arrived from Siberia, were given
free auto ride by Stevens Point
motorists, showered with fruit and
candy and taken to movie matinee.
1t was the first motion picture ever
seen by many of them.
Uniication of the two telephone sys-
TENS in Superior, with higher rates. is
proposed in petition circulated by
managers of the Peoples Telephone
Co. and the Wisconsin Telephone Co.
A 75-cent increase in rates for resi-
dence phones and increases of $2.25
and $3.50 in business phones are
asked
Clarence H. Dietz, Brentwood, son of
John F. Dietz, known as the de
fender of Cameron DAM" will appear
before Gov. J. j. Blaine, May 4, at
Madison, to ask a pardon for his ia
Their. The defender" is now serving
a twenty year sentence in Waupun
prison. He was sentenced to life i'm
prisOnment after shooting a deputy
sheriff. The sentence was later COM
muted
A million dollars a year for ten
years will be needed to carry on the
work of Graduating cattle tuberculosis
in Wisconsin, according to DR.. 0. H.
Eliason of the livestock sanitary board.
The work of testing cattle has pro-
crossed faster than the legislature has
provided funds, he said. The present
appropriation for the tuberculosis fund
of the department of agriculture is
$2250OO.
Louis Gettle, Madison, was appoint
ed a member Of the state railroad COM
mission for a six year term, to take
the place of John S. Allen, Lake
Geneva. The appointment was sent to
the senate for confirmation. The sal
airy is $4,000 a year Mr.. Gettle served
as secretary of the commission from
1912 to 1915. The other two members
of the commission are Carl D. Jack
son, Oshkosh, and Henry r. Trum-
bower, formerly of the university
faculty.
Senior high school girls of Brown
county are competing in contest con-
Quoted by the Red Cross in an effort
| to stir up interest in the recruiting of
student nurses why Should | Be a
Nurse" is the subject of the essay for
which $25 prize is awarded. A cam
paign is being carried on in that dis
trict to get many of the girl graduates
| lined up for nursing career. Hos
pitfalls in Green Bay are offering extra
inducements. 1t is estimated that
Brown county is shy at least Is grad
uate nurses.
The market division finds that the
recent snow storm did little damage
to fruit trees in Wisconsin. Reports
from different parts of the state indi-
cate that the cold weather did prac
tically no damage to fruit trees The
Sturgeon Bay section reports that none
of the tree fruits were damaged but
that strawberries were damaged
slightly. The prospects are for the
largest cherry crop the district has
ever had The Sparta district reports
no damage to small fruits. No dam
age to either the tree or small fruits
in the Oshkosh section was reported
County Highway Commissioner
Charles E. Moore is keeping Rock
county trunk road lines open and in
good condition by patrol system.
Five trucks equipped with heavy
scrapers and a lotion war tractor is
used with double scraper for level
ing and resurfacing the roads. Each
machine patrols about Is miles day
and covers the $50 miles of state trunk
lines at least once a week. The cOun-
ty is waiting for settled weather con-
ditions before starting to build the 6
mile concrete road extension toward
Edgerton.
Electors and taxpayers of Dallas
have petitioned the Barron county
board to make every possible en-
deavor to reduce expenses in each
branch of county government. Re-
quests have been made to reduce
wages of janitors, stenographers,