Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-09-23

The annual meeting of Boy Scout
executives of Wisconsin and northern
| Illinois will be held in Neenah Octo-
Der % and 20, following an invitation
extended the executives by the Nee
nah Civic association.
The greatest fair Marquette county
| has ever seen closed after three rec
undertaking days. approximately g.
900 persons attended the fair the first
day, in town whose population is
858.
After lapse of seven years, during
which time the family believed her
dead, letter was received by Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Bieberitz, ManitO-
woe, from their daughter, Clara, who
disappeared in 1914. The daughter,
now married, is the mother of six
year-old boy and resides at MuskegOn,
Mich.
What is thought to be the largest
fish ever caught in Hancock lake.
Waushara county, and the largest
ever taken from there by woman,
was hooked and pulled into boat
by Mrs. Nels Nelson. The fish, 20
pound pickerel, measured Al inches in
length and it's back teeth were nearly
an inch long Mr.. Nelson, who is
blind, assisted his wife in pulling the
fish into the boat.
No more tuition pupils will be &C.
copied in the public schools OF the
city of Neenah That was the decl-
sion reached by the board of educa-
ton in special session at the high
school offices following a cOnsidera-
ton of public school capacity for en-
rollment. Tuition students now en-
rolled will be allowed to remain in
school, but no more can be accepted,
the board held
The Superior city commission mas
asked the state railroad commission
to return the scent carfare in Supe
rior until the traction company builds
a new line, ordered by the commits
to 6 cents. A week after the COM
pany raised the fares, Herbert War
rem, vice president and general man
ager of the company, declared he
hadn't read the order relating to the
new line and, consequently, did not
know when it would be built.
A falling off of about rs per cent in
the receipts of the 1921 State fair, as
compared with those of last years
fair, is shown by official figures given
out by Oliver E. Remey, secretary
The receipts this year were $685.
721.36, and in 1920. $223,879.75. The
attendance this year was 237, OLA,
while a year ago it was 327,943. The
operating cost of the 1921 fair was
$226,2O4.64, of which $94,953.36 was
spent for premiums. The operating
cost of last years fair was 1926, 321.42
The state board of health is notify
ing all physicians and health officers
in the state to comply strictly with
state rules for prevention and control
of diphtheria. Increase in the death
rate from the disease is attributed to
neglect of precautions prescribed by
the state. The rules require the quar-
antine of diphtheria patients or car
riers until two negative cultures, Ia
ken not less than "a hours apart, have
been obtained from the nose and
throat. and quarantine of all exposed
persons until one negative culture has
been obtained
Caroline Arnold, 15-year-old daugh-
ter of August Arnold, a farmer living
one mile west of ShebOygan Falls,
had both feet mangled in a grain cut
ter and died less than an hour later
from loss of blood and shock. The
cutter was being used to fill silO
Arnold was about to put on top
laver of marsh grass. The silo had
been filled and the girl believing the
work ended ran up the travelling belt
of the cutter to the silo. When the
engine was started, to cut the marsh
grass, she was drawn back into the
knives of the cutter.
Another heavy fire loss was added
Ito the total in Manitowoc county when
the big modern barn on the Louis
Delsman farm, five miles northwest
of Manitowoc, was destroyed, the loss
tincluding ESQ chickens, four pigs, II
ishoates, one pure bred bull calf and
a large quantity of grain and machin-
/ cry. The home and nearby sheds
were saved. The fire is believed to
have been due to spontaneous COM
bustion in clover hay which was
stored in the barn. This is the ninth
loss in the county in three weeks.
The grand total now reaches $4,000,
the Delsman loss being well up over
the $4,000 mark.
Edward L. LuckOw, prominent Wis
consin democrat, who was appointed
auditor of the navy department dur
ing the Wilson administration, former
mayor of Baraboo and for many years
editor and publisher of the Sank
County Democrat, died following an
| oneration in a hospital at Battle