Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-11-04


at Tomahawk amounting to an aver
age OF II per cent in the general rates,
the maximum being 20 per cent re-
duction on the primary basic lighting
| rate.
! Unusually large f1ocks of seagulls
resting ON the surface of the lakes
and rivers near Neenah are puzzling
hunters and residents. Gulls in such
great numbers at this time of year
is something unheard of, it is said.
Struck by street car, Daniel Ter
willerger, 80, Civil war veteran and
a resident of Rock county since 1S43,
died at GAINESVILLE hospital an hour
later. Coroner Whaley exOnerated
the motorman, James King, from all
blame
Milwaukee's fire losses during the
last year ran well over 100000
making the losses the greatest of any
year since the Third war fire in 1893,
This was brought out in the address
of James B. Leedorn, retiring presi-
dent of the Milwaukee board of fire
underwriters, at the annual meeting.
A state commission on employment
to organize each county for employ
ment as a matter of local pride to
reduce the number of those out of
work to minimum this winter is
suggested by Senator w. A. Titus,
Fond du Lac in letter to Gov Blaine.
He asks that the governor consider
creation of such commission.
Blackmail threats made against DR..
A. S. Pfeiffer, of Racine, demanding
$4,000, were cleared up with the con-
fession of Edward Ontko, q, to Asst.
Dist. Atty. Allen Simpson. Ontko ad-
mitted that he wrote a letter received
Oct. Is by Dr. Pfc. Ter threatening to
blow up the Pfeiffer home if $4,000
were not deposited in the garage. The
youth was employed for odd jobs
about the Pfeiffer home, and admitted
that he faxed a story that he was
held by four men while driving the
doctors car and threatened unless he
delivered $4,000 to them.
The seventy-ffth anniversary of its
establishment, together with the
golden jubilee of a pastor who served
it thirty years, was the cause for
three-day celebration recently at the
Luther Valley Norwegian Lutheran
church, Rock county, which today has
a membership of LOO, record equal
ed by few rural churches in Wiscon-
sin. The Rev. J. A. Bergh, now OF
Elliott, Mimi, is the pastor who cele-
brated his golden jubilee Jointly with
church. He was pastor of the church
from 1882 until 1912. During that
time the membership doubled, new
parsonage was built and many i'm
provements were made.
Claim was made by John DietZ, be-
fore Gov. Blaine and the state board
of control that Oscar Harp, the dep
uty sheriff he was convicted of killing
on Oct. 8, 1910, was alive and that
he had not met death during the fight
the defender of Cameron dam" made
against arrest at his home in Sawyer
county. Dietz is asking for $4,000
compensation from the state under
statute authorizing grant Of maxi
mum of $4,000 for alleged false i'm
prisonment. Dietz declared there was
no record of the death of Harp, that
no bill had been presented by an un-
dertaker for handling the body and
that there was no record that the
body had ever been shipped from the
town of Winter, where it was said
to have been taken after the killing.
Wisconsin produces no less than
649 per cent of all the cheese made
in the United States. according to fig
ures which have been compiled by
the crop reporting service of the state.
Wisconsin consumes only 5 per cent
of all the cheese made in the state.
The production is approximately 311,-
100000 pounds annually, or about 100
pounds a year for every man, woman
and child in the state. 1t is estimated
that the annual consumption of cheese
in the state is about six pounds per
person Wisconsin is preeminently
the home of American cheese, this
making up about two-thirds of the
states output. The latest figures are
American, 236,00O,000 pounds; brick,
Al, 100000 pounds; Swiss, 21,000,000
pounds; limburger, 100000 pounds;
cottage and other kinds, 100000
pounds.
The production of sugar from beets
is Just about back to normal this year
after the boom it had last year, due
to the stimulation of high prices. 1t
is estimated by Joseph A. Becker,
Madison, statisticlan of the state crop
reporting department, that $4,000 tons
of sugar will be made from Wiscon-
sin beets this year, as compared with
some $4,000 tons in 1920. Wisconsin
beets are grown largely along the
shore of Lake Michigan between Ke-
nosha and Marinette, but there is also
rather scattered area which is
served by the refinery at Chippewa