Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-04-01
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

judge of La Crosse county. He was
first lieutenant in the first independent
battery that went to war from La
Crosse in 1851 He left La Crosse in
1890 to live - the west.
The public ~nomy'' wave which
struck Superior q few weeks ago
reached new high me, X when Mayor
Fred Baxter. introduced > resolution
placing nearly all Of the clerks in the
city hall on half time and half pay.
abOliShing three more city jobs, ana
cutting the salary of the city comp
troller to $1,700.
A tri-county picnic for the members
of the Guernsey Breeders association
in the counties of Fond du Lac, Green
Lake and Winnebago, will be held at
the Lone Tree farm at Green Lake,
Thursday, June 2. The picnic is to
precede the annual joint two-day sale
OF GuemseyS, which is held by the
Winnebago and Fond du Lac breeders.
The sale is set for June and A.
The suit Of Rollo Rambo formerly
a society leader Of Kenosha, against
Warren Peck, Los Angeles millionaire,
for 100000 on a charge of alienation
of the affections Of his wife, Mrs.
Eulalie RambO, was settled for $12.-
500. according to dispatches received
in KenOsha. MI. and Mrs. RambO be-
came reconciled and are to live in
Spokane
proposal to relieve unemployment
Of La Crosse men by modifying all the
odd jobs in the city for them to do was
announced by r. F. H. Schulz, super
intendent of the state employment bu-
reau. The plan has been worked out
by Mr.. Schultz in an effort to make
sure that La Crosse men shall have
first call on the jobs available, and
that those who need them worst will
set them first.
A divorce was granted to Mrs.
Pauline Raasch, Fond du Lac, who has
been married for over twenty-five
years, in an uncontested action before
Judge Richter. The husband, Chris
Raasch, was found guilty OF cruel and
inhuman treatment and of using
abusive and threatening language. Set
Element was made for $4,000. Mrs.
Raasch will also receive the household
furniture
About twenty Sawyer county settlers
south of Lexington near COuderay
have formed farmres telephone COM
pany and will erect ten mile farm
erS' telephone line at once. The line
viii run from Lexington south into the
Meteor settlement and be a great help
to those people. Settlers have moved
in rapidly the last couple of years in
that section The line will connect
with the long distance Of Lexington.
To aid needy students in earning
their way through college, 207 loans,
totaling $11,141, were made last year
by the regents OF the University OF
Wisconsin from loan and trust funds.
The loans averaged $50 a person. The
university has 20 loan funds for this
purpose Fifteen of them totalins
$4,000. may be loaned out entirely
and then reioaned as the money is re-
paid by the recipients. Five of the
loan funds, totaling 20,454, are trust
funds whose income only may be
loaned out.
After failing to effect reconcilia-
ion with his wife, who, it is said, was
on the point of suing for divorce,
and having also failed to end his life
by drinking carbOlic acid, Thomas
Chester Buck, AZ years old, armed him
self with two bottles of poison, a razor
and a gun, made an attack on the
home of his mother-in-law, Wisconsin
Rapids. where his wife had taken
refuge. opened fire .on the family, prob
ably fatally wounded his wife, Olive,
"A years old, and then placed a gun
to his mouth and killed himself
Miss Marie Davies, % years old,
whom police believe to be Miss Marie
Dodal, formerly of Mount Pleasant Ia,
was found strangled to death in her
candy shop in an outlying district of
Superior Police believe robbery was
the motive for the crime. The cash
register and the girls purse had been
looted The body of the young woman
vas bruised, Her ClOlulHS IOlH, anu
other evidences of struggle were APP
parent in the shop. A handkerchief
was bound tightly about her neck.
Another handkerchief had been used
for gag.
The prospect of an early spring is
bringing many calls for help from
farmers to the II free employment
Off Is conducted by the industrial
commission In the first two weeks of
March 1896 calls were received for
farm hands and 347 men were sent to
farm positions, of whom $40 were re-
ported back by the farmers as having
been hired The largest number of
farm placements were made by the
employment officers at La Crosse,
Madison, Milwaukee, Oshkosh and
Wausau, and there was a brisk de-
mand for farm help also at the offices
at Green Bay and Sheboygan.
Farmers in the vicinity of Fifield
have organized a cooperative cheese
company. A committee of five has
been appointed to sign articles of in
carnoro tion an6 flo thpm with tho coo-