Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-16
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS.

hospital on university grounds. The
basement construction is complete.
The bids now advertised are for cree
ton of a six-story building. The hos
pital will have 300-bed capacity. A
roof garden will be one of the hos
pital features.
plentiful supply of game in north
ern Wisconsin for many years to come
is predicted by w. E. Barber, chair
man of the state conservation COM
mission According to Mr.. Barber,
who has been member OF the com
mission since its formation in 1919,
during the last ten years there has
been an increase in all kinds of game
except deer.
Tonnage in and out of Superior-Du-
luth harbOr this year was about 30
100000, divided into 100000 coal,
16,000000 iron ore, 100000 grain,
and the remainder miscellaneous. The
average for the preceding four years
was about 50,000000 tons, the de-
crease this year being due almost en-
tirely to the fall in movement of iron
ore.
The feeling that compulsory vacci-
nation constitutes an invasion OF the
sacred rights of the home has been
practically dispelled, according to
Health Commissioner Goggins Of
Green Bay For the last II months
that city had been the hotbed of an
characterization fight. For the first
time there is not a case OF smallpox
listed on the records of the health
department this winter.
Too proud to return home and face
disgrace and too proud to flee, Arthur
9. Bazlen, alleged defaulting vice
president of the State Bank of Lux
emburg, missing since Oct. 27, took
his life within four miles of his home.
The body was found in a stream near
Luxembourg. A bullet wound indica-
ted the manner of death. How the
body got into the water is not known.
Important farm meetings are being
scheduled in Rock county which pro-
ducers are urged to attend further
cooperative work and county promo
zion. An active association among
HOlstein breeders is being planned TO
push the county and district further
for the sale of livestock. The Hol-
stein breeders will meet in GAINESVILLE
Dec. 20.
There was an increase of 40 900 in
the number of automobiles licensed
in Wisconsin during the last year, ac-
cording to report of the secretary of
state. This represents a Is per cent
jump A total of $4,000 cars were Ii
cenSed, exclusive of $4,000 motorcy-
cles. Last year there were 284, 244.
An increase of Is per cent next year
VIII mean licensing 1884, motor We
nieles and in 1923 at the same rate
453,600
Six thousand dollars was the YER
dict Of jury in the Racine Circuit
court in the action brought by Andy
Lovestead of Antioch, H., against the
Milwaukee Electric Railway and
Light company, for $4,000 damages
TOR personal injury. Loyestead de-
clares the amount insufficient and
hat he will demand a new trial.
A4oveStead, on July Is, 1920, was a pas
5enger on an interurban car bound
from Racine to Kenosha. 1t collided
with freight train switching south
of Racine and Lovestead had the knee
cap of his left leg cut in two.
Dancing and dance halls are mat
Ter tor local regulation and not for the
state unless specific statutes are vio-
lated, Atty. Gen. Morgan advised AL
vim Il. Peterson, Prairie du CHEN, in
an opinion. The city council had pow
er TO enact ordinances governing the
conduct of all public places where
dancing is permitted he said Com
piaints had been made in Prairie du
Chen against dancing in ice cream
parlOTs. The city council took the
stand that regulation was a matter
OF state concern, not city. The time
when dancing must stop may also be
determined by city ordinance, Mr.
Morgan said
Complete elimination Of diphther-
ia from Wisconsin through applica-
tion of new discoveries, the Schick
test, in medical science, is antici-
pated by the state board of health in
Il recent statement 1t announces
its purpose of bringing before citi-
zens of the state full advantage of
the preventive processes, which it be-
lieyes will finally cause disappear
ance of the disease Through dep
uty state health officers and county
nurses, the department will com
mence TO obtain the immunization of
all Wisconsin school children. The
Schick test, from danger and inexpen-
siye, is said by the board to determine
positively whether an individual is
susceptible to the disease, and if So
injections of different serum com
pletely immunize the person for life.
Destruction of tie Opera House at
Fairchild by fire leaves the village
again without a high school Some
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