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

PRODUCERS or milk IN Wisconsin
during the last year received $500
cent sout of every dollar for their
product, a report of the state depart.
ment of markets shows. Out of this
amount the farmer had to pay haul.
ing charges in addition to his costs
of production
Claiming that the suppression of
the liquor traffic is becoming more
difficult because OF fast automobiles
used by bOotleggers, Sheriff Edward
Miller asked the La Crosse county
board of supervisors to appropriate
$4,000 to hire two special deputy
sherifrs and buy Two automobiles.
Pleading guilty to forgery in con-
nection with the placing OF false sig
natures on II Liberty bonds totaling
$500 which he put up as bail for his
appearance in court, Perry G. Brum-
ley, 32 years Old, of Eau Claire, was
sentenced to Is years in Waupun by
Judge James Wickham.
The Iron county board of supervis.
ors voted $500 to build snow fences
on highway n from Hurley to Mellen.
That salaries of some county officers
will be recommended for reduction is
the belief of supervisors, who left
the task TO the salary committee to
report at the next meeting, Dec. %.
The village of Schleisingerville, To-
Gated five miles east of Hartford, will
not be known by that name hereafter,
as resolution was passed by the
county board at West Bend, officially
changing the name to Singer, which
has been its abbreviated name for
some time.
+. c. Pommerening, Oshkosh, was
reelected president Of the Wisconsin
union American Society of Equity,
at the convention in Eau Claire Mr..
Pommerening received 446 votes on
the final ballot. against 1923 for G. A.
Nelson of Polk county, TO whose sup
port opponents Of the Pommerening
regime rallied,
A total Of 7,434 students are en-.
rolled in the University of Wisconsin,
according to the tables in the annual
student directory which has just been
issued. This number is about per
cent larger than the total enrolment
of 7,004 at the same time last year
The new total includes 1890 men
students, as compared with 1884 last
year. The present number of women
students is 2,544, as compared with
2.410 last year.
Damages of $500 were awarded
Mrs. Helen Smithers in circuit court
at Fond du Lac in suit for $4,000
against Henry Brunkhorst, saloon
keeper. for alleged injury last spring
10 her husband resulting from pur-
chase of intoxicating liquor. The
suit, which was brought under a
clause of the Vostead law permitting
punitive damages when liquor has
been Illegally sold, is the first of it's
kind tried in the state The jury
was out five hours
County boards cannot legally en-
ploy a member of the state road and
bridge committee 10 act as superin-
tendent of maintenance taking away
duties from the county highway com
missioner, r. E. Brossard assistant
attorney general. holds in an opinion
10 H. J. Bohn. district attorney Of
Sank county. 1t was the intention of
The county board TO employ Il mem
her Of the road and bridge committee
on q regular salary to take over the
work Of highway maintenance He
would work independently of the
county highway commissioner
County provision for highway con-
structiOn during 1922 will be ON as
broad Il scale as during the last year.
Judging from reports given to the
highway commission by county
boards A. Il. Hirst, highway engineer,
states Bond issues totalling nearly
$10,000,000 have been authorized by
the counties of the state for road
construction. This money, coupled
with that made available through
state and federal aid, will bring the
total highway expenditure for, the
coming year to approximately SIS,
900. 900 This last year $24.000,000
was spent ON roads, $6,0O0,000 of the
amount being held over appropria-
lions
The Superior city council has fixed
$3.50, 900 as the tax levy for city pur-
poses making a total levy on city
property of $1,175,O00 and a tax rate
Of $2687 per $1,000 Of assessed val.
uatiOn, as compared with a rate of
$4,000 per $1,000 last year. Two hun.
dred thousand dollars was cut from
the levies for schools and 100000
from The levy for city purposes, as
compared with last year The county
levy was cut slightly, and the state
levy increased The city will pay
twice as much for county upkeep as
it will for city upkeep this year. The
city pays rs per cent of the county
taxes, most of which is spent on roads
and road bonds.
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