Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-10-21
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Madison Cultivated crops in Wis
consin made a substantial gain in
September, with an increase of $500
600 bushels in the prospective corn
yield, 100000 bushels in the potato
yield, and 4,700,000 pounds in tobacco
Cabbage, however, declined 10000
tons from the August estimate, and
onions $4,000 bushels. Corn estab-
lished new Wiscon record. The esti-
mated production Oct l was set at
89,338 ,O0O bushels compared to $685.
900 estimated Sept /, 86,044 900 pro-
duced in 1920 and q five-year average
of 82,863 900 bushels. Entire Freedom
from frosts in September is said to
have insured ripening of the crop to
the northern limits of the state.
Elkhorn-Bank robbers, believed to
have been the ones who recently
robbed the Eagle State bank, robbed
the Farmers State bank at Darien
near Elkhorn and made their escape
with bonds and securities estimated
at not more than $4,000. The methods
employed in the robbery were almost
identical to those in the Eagle bank
affair Before attempting to blow the
safe, the robbers cut all telephone and
telegraph connections in the city. L..
c. Pieper, cashier of the bank, stated
the yeggs broke through the front
door, got into the safet-deposit vault
and rifed the boxes.
Milwaukee Contract has been es-
tablished with 2,703 veterans in Wis
consin as a result of the cleanup cam
paign, the veterans bureau at Wash
ingtOn has announced Most OF these
qeterans would have been unable to
get their claims before the bureau for
immediate adjudication, but for the
cleanup campaign, it was said The
veterans with whom contract has al
the cleanup campaign were divided as
follows: Green Bay, 1000; Superior,
1913; La Crosse, 1853; Oshkosh, 100;
and Fond du Lac, 800.
Green Bay-A fistic encounter be-
tween Alvin SchmitZ, II, a student
at the Green Bay Vocational school,
and Principal Harvey Stewart and In
structor Leon Ewald, resulted in a
warrant being sworn out by the stu
dent against Stewart and Ewald on
an assault and battery charge. Ac-
cOrding to the principals story,
Schmitz became unruly and created
a disturbance in a class room. A
scuffle followed during which both
Ewald and Stewart attempt to sub
due Schmitz.
Contracts for insurance
under the wOrkmen's compensation
act are to be construed without eX-
ception to grant full coverage for &C
cident o. death, despite any other
agreement between parties, the indus
trial commission says in circular ex-
planning changes in the law made by
the last legislature. The commission
may be written order give it's consent
10 partial insurance~of a risk, how
ever The purpose of this amend
ment is said to be to eliminate dis
putes between insurance carriers.
Beloit-Miss Lauretta Knapp, II
year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Knapp, of Beloit, is recovering
from bullet wound through her right
arm and side which was accidentally
inflicted by Richard White, year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Geoge White. The
child, unnoticed by his parents, climb
cd 10 high shelf while Miss Knapp
was visiting at his home, got his
fathers SO caliber revolver and pulled
the trigger.
Stevens POint-Mrs William Hop
ing-PlOver Paper company plant near
Stevens Point, is dangerously i'll with
a strange malady known as purpuria,
which medical science knows little
about and which is seldom cured.
The case is the first of it's kind here
and probably in central Wisconsin.
The disease appears in the form of
internal hemorrhages which leave
black and blue spots on the body,
arms and legs.
Racine-Indorsing the work of
James E. Stone, federal prohibition
agent for Wisconsin, and of all Off
Gals seeking to enforce the eighteenth
amendment, the Wisconsin synod
Presbyterian church. at it's convention
in RACINE, agreed to support the nom
ination and election of state, county
and city officials who would enforce
the laws. The 1922 convention will
be held at Superior.
La Crosse-According to survey OF