Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-12

try in Wisconsin.
Forty men have been recalled to
work in the Chicago & Northwestern
railway shops at Kaukauna, compris-
ing IS per cent of the number laid off
last spring. 1t is believed that the
entire crew will be recalled soon.
Frank Zohezski of Laona is in the
Forest county Jail, Crandon, following
complaints made to authorities by his
three daughters, aged A. 16 and Is.
Zohezski's wife is dead. The girls told
police, it is said, that the offenses
have extended over three years.
DR.. A. E. Frefrick, of Tomah, state
humane officer, has been commits
stoned by Gov. Blaine colonel in the
Wisconsin National guard and has
been assigned to the staff as aide de
camp to the governor. He was ordered
by the adjutant general to report at
Camp Douglas.
H. L. Riordan of Port Washington
has received the appointment OF pro-
fessOr in the department of business
and administration in the Imperial uni
.versity at Toxic and will leave Aug. 70
to assume his new duties. Mr.. Riordan
is at present attending the summer
school of the University of Wisconsin.
Holding that a funeral parlor, con-
Quoted in the heart of the best resi-
,dence district of the city, is NUS
,ance, Judge James Wickham, Eau
Claire, in a decision at La Crosse, en-
joined A. J. Miller and wife from OPP
Grating undertaking rooms in re-
Gently acquired handsome residence.
Barron county is the first county
and the largest area in the world to
have all the cattle in the county freed
from bovine tuberculosis. Over g.
900 head Of cattle were tested and
only six-tenths of one per cent reacted.
The affected cattle were slaughtered:
No cattle may be admitted to Barron
county which have not been tested for
tuberculosis.
Ex-service men of Wisconsin will
get 60-day priority consideration on
600 acres of the North Platte irriga-
ton project are opened Sept. ., &C
cording to word received by the state
headquarters of the American Legion
at Sheboygan from the department of
the interior. Only veterans OF the
World war will receive this considera-
ton, it was announced.
Infantile paralysis, dread disease of
children, has prevailed in Wisconsin
to a considerable extent during the
month of July. Up to July 23,1S6 cases
had been reported from % scattered
localities. So far there has been no
marked grouping of cases except in
the vicinity of Mosinee. Here num-
Der of cases have been discovered and
action is being taken to limit the
spread of the malady.
Mrs. Jennie Sharpless, field secre-
tary Of the Worlds Purity league,
spoke to between 400 and 500 people
in the heart of the saloon district at
Hurley. Although annoyed from the
beginning by boys with tin pans and
automobiles passing through the
crowd blowing their horns, Mrs.
Sharpless managed to outlast efforts
of the hecklers and spoke for nearly
two hours on vice.
The flock of brown leghorn chick
ems belonging to L. C. Meulmans,
Wrightstown farmer, continues in sec
ond place in the egg laying contest
being conducted by Prof. J, B. Hayes
of the University Of Wisconsin.
Meulman's chickens averaged 1896
eggs for each hen during June, accord
ing to statistics. They are led by only
one flock, that of George G. Huser Of
Wood county, whose hens had an aver
age of 2Q.78.
. Two new farm cooperative cream
cries and cheese factories have been
built in the Chequemegan bay terri
tory at Barksdale and Beloit, near
Ashland. The Beloit factory building
is practically complete and represents
an outlay of over $4,000. The upper
portion of the two story brick build
ing will be used as a hall for farmers
meetings. The Barksdale farmers
have united as the Farm and Labor
Cooperative association.
Mrs. Anna K. Weinstock, SO years
old, a resident of Eau Claire since
1852, died at her home there. She
was not only one of the earliest pio-
neers, but it is believed her marriage
to the late Christian Weinstock of
Bracket in 1856 was the first maria
age of which Eau Claire county has a
record Her maiden name was Anna
X. Adams and she was born in Ger
many. The Weinstock farm in Brac
kett is one of the earliest farms OPP
'ened in this section.
A municipal work project was put
into operation at Racine when 300
iobless men reported to the various
department heads, who will keep them
employed on street, cemetery and
park improvements as long as the
$4,000 bond issue, created by the
city for that purpose, holds out. A
widespread interest is being taken in
Racines plan to help many unem-