Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-30

sentence at the T6IOflldlOTy, lnpOSSu
for burglary at Neenah in January,
1921.
William Fields, New Diggings farm
er, La Fayette county, exhibited an
ear of corn, grown on his farm, in
which IS red kernels form a perfect
cross on the background of yellow
Fines aggregating $3.50 with the
alternative of Jail sentences of from
two to five months were imposed up
on IL saloon keepers and bartenders
by Judge Reid in municipal court at
Rhinelander when all pleaded guilty
| to violating the prohibition law.
| What is probably the oldest pair of
boots in Sheboygan is being displayed
in the window of shoe store in that
city They were made by Herman
,Brauer before his death early in 1871.
The cost at that time was estimated
| at $25.
Floyd Purdy, poultryman OF To
NAH, had 25 entries out of 21S in the
| buff leghorn class at the recent Coli
scum show of Chicago. The Tomahite
| pulled down four first prizes in the
regular classes besides several in spe-
cial classes. Ribbons in regulars in
Guided first prize on old pen. first and
second on old pen, first and third on
pullets, fifth on cock, fourth and sew
enth on cockerels.
Superiority of southern Wisconsin
cattle is shown in the sale by Tray.
nor brothers of Koshkonong, Wal
worth county, of Queenstone Belle,
| 5-year-old milking shorthorn and win
ner of the grand championship in the
sweepstakes at the international live
stock exposition, TO a buyer in Pitts
burgh Traynor brothers bought the
COW a year ago for a few hundred
dollars. She sold for $4,000.
After purchasing carload OF
Dodge county pure-bred Holstein cat
tile through agencies in Watertown, c.
T.. Funk, rancher of Richmond, Utah,
predicted that in few years Wis.
consin dairymen would be given keen
|
cording to Funk, his state is building
condenseries and building up pure
bred herds with the object of becom-
ing the first dairy state in the coun-
try.
Next spring will mark the compile
ton of Clark county's new $1,000,000
insane asylum, an institution which
will serve as model for the entire
country. The new building win be
the most modern and costly of any
county asylum in the United States,
1t is claimed 1t incorporates the best
points of similar institutions in all
parts of the country and is the result
of an extensive study of asylum build
ings and equipment.
Wood county has placed an order
with the state highway commission
for 10000 barrels of cement for the
1922 concrete paving work in the
county The cement will be sufficient
for the paving of forty miles of con.
crete roadway. By purchasing through
the state, the counties saved consid-
cradle money and when the contract.
ors get the jobs the cement is deliv-
cred through local dealers to the con-
tractors and the contractor pays for
the cement.
The Algoma Panel Co., Brentwood,
one of the largest veneer and saw
mill companies in northern Wiscon-
sin, will not operate lumber camps
| this winter because of the unsettled
lumber outlook This is the first year
in the company's history that exten-
sive numbering operations have not
been made. The company not only
has last years cut of lumber, but the
cut of two years ago remains unsold
However, the lumber situation appar.
emily is improving.
| Thirteen county boards, at their
last meetings, adopted resolutions
either requesting Gov. Blaine to call
| special session of the legislature to
consider highway matters, or recon-
mending that the next legislature re-
move the general property tax and
state aid requirements for road build
ing. This information has been re-
ceived by Frank A. Cannon, Madison,
executive secretary Of the Good
Roads association of Wisconsin Re-
ports of bond issues authorized by the
counties show that the amount avail
able for expenditure will be approx
mately $10,009,0O0, or slightly more
than was expended the last year.
Mrs. Frieda Zimmerman, step-moth-
er Of Ruth and Elmer Zimmerman,
whose bodies were found in cistern
in the rear Of their home at Ocono.
mowoc, is being held by the authori-
ties pending an investigation. On be-
ing questioned Mrs. Zimmerman is al.
legged to have said she and the chill
dren were driving ducks when one Of
the ducks fell into the cistern. She
further alleges that in trying to res
cue the duck the children fell into
the cistern and were drowned Cor.
oner Lee charged that Mrs. thinner.
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