Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-22
WEST MARSHALL
Special Correspondence

| this week,
! Art West helped j. G. Tate with
| his haying last week.
Mr. and Mrs Henry Schwerzel were
Ladysmith visitors Monday.
Pete Thomas was in L4adysmith on
Monday attending to business matters
John Gorla spent a few days in the
southern part of the state last week.
Eric Zill and Art Schmidt are
making hay in one of the marshes
east of Conrath.
Alex Nowak, who has been employed
at Chicago, came home to help his
parents with farm work.
Frank Gottier drove to Ladysmith
Saturday afternoon and took in the
dance at Conrath in the evening.
Ed and Teddy Watz, who have been
visiting at the Elkow home, left by
auto for Milwaukee Saturday mora
ing.
We saw Ben Mindykowski buying
roll of barb wire which he said he
will use as low speed gear in his
car.
Ray Stutz, who has been visiting
at the Frank Conrath home, left for
his home at Cleveland, Mimi, last
Sunday morning
The sheriff and the prohibition off,
GERS surely get after the moOnshiners
but still we manage to get plenty of
real moOnshine every night.
Misses Anna and AntOnena Mindy-
kOwslli left for South Bend, Ind, last
Saturday night, where they expect to
be employed during the remainder of
the summer.
n. 1t. Spooner took a truck load of
players to Flambeau last Sunday. As
the road was rough he took patience to
hit the toughest spots first so all of the
players were complaining about hav-
ing bad attack of lumbago.
The COnrath baseball team went to
Flambeau last Sunday to play game
of baseball there, The home boys
played a good game but the Flambeau
team seemed to be in better condition
for a game. The score was 6 to + IN
favor of Flambeau.
Raymond Matrson, the state farm
foreman, says that it is not too late
low to plant sunfowers for silage
purpose. He also says that the sun
lowers will withstand more cold and
'roSt and also make a pretty good
dairy feed.
20 hn' c,ic x.y1,i 10
III the route last week The disease
vas diagnosed to be fracture of the
yasheriteS in the differential u. Fl.
SpoOner took McCabe around the mail
route in his Pierce Arrow and gave
lin a ride IN real car.
While driving through the country
me day we saw a sign nailed on a
telephone post in a swamp which read
as follows: "This land has never seen
a drowth or a crop failure" Well say
it didn't. There was about two feet
of water in the swamp and it was full
of frogs.
1t took us three weeks to find out
where our systematic sawmill man
L
HAS moved his rig and crew into the
Thornapp1e district and reports a few
small jobs to be finished. Marion Day,
his chief engineer, took a few weeks
vacation so he could try his hand at
making a washing machine which
could be operated by a Ford and wash
the grease and dirt out of overaliS
without taking the black out of the
buttons. Ben. Mindykowski was pros
noted from slab carrier to engineer
and fireman combined.
The Conrath charivari orchestra met
at the Oster place last Thursday even
ing to celebrate the marriage of Miss
Anna Oster to Leonard Frederick, of
KenOSha AS Herman LieberS, our
regular bandmaster, has resigned on
account of poor pay we were obliged
to elect Nick Teschler as leader in
Herman's place Fred Lamp and Hen
nv Stranger were in charge of the drums
and dynamite, while Bert French and
Tony Conrath played the saw Gym
balls. The orchestra played until the
groom came out and gave them their
due compensation and dispatched
them to COnrath where all enjoyed a
good treat. The newly-weds left for
Kenosha Saturday evening, while all
| of the orchestra members bid them
| farewell and a world of happiness.