Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-04-15
Door county rural schools are among

rural ScnOOIS OIL the county.
Nadine Heiden, Z, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. Il. Heiden, is in the Fond
du Lac hospital as the result of severe
ourns suffered when her clothing
caught fire while she was playing near
bonfire. The child is expected to
recover.
Modern Woodmen of America will
1old their state convention in Oconto
IN May g. d. D. Hardesty, Indiana,
district deputy, is in Oconto making
arrangements. A large class OF candi-
dates from many Wisconsin cities will
De initiated during the state conVen
ion.
The childhood home of Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, ten miles from Madison, was
destroyed by fire. The structure,
frame building, with a lean-to in
which Ella Wheeler wrote her first
poem, was one of the oldest homes in
the state The fire started from
grass blaze in the yard.
The Wisconsin railroad commission
aas ordered the closing up OF four
street crossings in Mansion until ar
cangements can be made to properly
protect the public on the streets of
that city. A series of accidents, many
Of which were fatal, occurring in re-
cent years, caused the action taken by
he commission.
Manitowoc High school boasts OF
ha ta1
student in the entire country in the
person of Edwin Oestrich, Is years old,
who measures feet 81a inches in his
stocking feet Edwin probably is not
only the lengthiest high school stu
dent, but it is claimed that he is the
most elongated person of mis- age IN
the United States.
Harold Morgan of Merrill is the
youngest captain of a military unit in
Wisconsin. Although only rs years
old, he is in command of the artillery
battery in that city. His work in that
capacity was recently lauded by Maj
Mahlon A. Joyce of the regular army
who after tour Of the state pro-
nounced Capt Morgan's battery the
best of fifteen he had inspected.
The Neenah Aerie of Eagles is max
ing great preparations for taking con.
spicuous part in the state convention
Of Eagles. to be held in Menasha in
June. The Neenah aerie has ordered
new uniforms for the occasion and il
is expected that 800 local Eagles will
march in the big parade that Will De
the browning feature of the conVen-
ton.
Two carloads of mich cows, mostly
grade Holsteins, left WatertoWn for
points in Germany. Thirty-one head
were donated by farmers in the town
Of Lebanon and twenty head by farm
ars in the town of Ixonia. The cattle
were accompanied by Ernst Winters,
cashier of the Lebanon bank, and
Herbert Christian and Villas Behl, who
will care for the cattle en- route.
In a two hours drive the sum OF
$1,000 was obtained for the newly or
ganized Boys Community club in
Stevens Point. The movement was
sponsored by the local Rotary organi
zation which chose building to house
the club. The $1,000 will be used to
buy athletic and other equipment
When the renovation and furnishing
of the club is completed Stevens Point
will have one of the best Boys Com
munity clubs in that section OF the
state.
While walking along the river bank
near the end of First street Harold
Brown. Neenah high school senior, dis
covered an object which biologists de-
clared to be the vertebrae OF Green
land whale The yertebrae has a body
spread of A inches, is 10 inches thick,
and weighs in the neighborhood Of fifty
pounds. 1t is on exhibition at the high
school. Prof. Bagg of the geological
department of Lawrence college. who
examined the object, states that In his
opinion it was left there many years
ago by roaming Indian hunters.
Door county, famed summer play
ground Of the middle west, has again
been chosen as a site for large eX-
elusive girls summer camp. Repre-
sentatives of the st. Mary-of-the-Woods
college and academy, Terre Haute,
Ind, have selected a site in the
Peninsula State park for establishing
permanent summer camp for girls
! who are students of that finishing
school. The camp will be located near
Ephraim, and the plans for 1922 call
| for the erection of a clubhouse with
accommodations for more than 100
| girls.
| Twenty-Five boys, ranging in age
from to IL years, have reached Port
age county on the last lap OF trans
continental journey which began in
| Nicolajewsk, Siberia, more than
month ago. All are orphans, the sons
of Polish men and women who lost
their lives when driven from Poland
by the advancing German armies dur
ing the world war. These boys have
| hooy1 pwoxy;dod homo at ST Clara S