Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-09-16
Mayor Huentze. of Fond du Lac, has


lights which regulate traffic. 1t is
painted white SO that it can be seen
in the daytime as well as at night,
when the arc lights shine on it.
w. E. Barber, conservation commits
sioner, states that from 10000 to 15,-
900 additional hunting licenses, most
ly domestic at 81 each, will be issued
this year, as compared to last year,
# the commissions expectations are
realized This will bring the total up
to about 100000.
Wisconsin road building records
went smash near here when con-
struction company laying concrete on
highway No. 26 completed 902 feet in
10 hours. The previous record was
1856 feet in the same period of time.
A new mark was also set for laying
so feet. which was accomplished in
| 50 minutes.
An eleven-year man hunt for the
slayer of Mrs. Eva Spaulding, who
was murdered on lonesome logging
road in Bayfield, county in 1910, ended
when Undersheriff James Long, Wash
burn, arrived in Superior with Art
Dodge, a prisoner in handouts, from
Mohawn, n d. Dodge, arrested in
the little North Dakota town, has con-
! fessed the murder.
The cost of instruction in the city
schools of Wisconsin last year was
| $6,072, 1874, of which $5,449,242 was ex-
pended in teachers salaries, report Of
the superintendent of public instruc-
ton shows. Total expenditure on city
schools was $10,512,752 with operation
costing $1,253,043 and s2,093,S93 for
general outlay in addition to instruc-
j ton expense.
H. w. Schield, Merrill, who has
been parochial school teacher for
Peace Lutheran church at Amigo, has
increased the enrolment in the par
! ish school during the last week from
/ 40 to 70 students. He also organized
mixed choir of 30 voices and a dou-
BILE male quartet. The success met
with has caused the congregation to
ask for an assistant teacher.
Alfred Mathewson, state demonstra-
tor in the use of dynamite, gave q
! demonstration in the digging of
bitches with the use OF the explosive
on the farm of George Lemiroude in
the town Of Brozeau. Oconto county
A ditch $50 feet long, seven feet wide
and four feet deep was made along
the roadside with five shots of dyna-
mite, using IS charges to shot, at
an expense Of SIS.
From 1000 to 5000 young men and
women will start pouring into Madi-
son the second and third weeks of
! September from every state in the
union and from foreign countries to
enter or re-enter the University of
| Wisconsin. The enrolment last year
of 1901 will be greatly increased, it
is expected, and the city is putting
on the finishing touches to receive the
guests.
Paul Schweinburg, organizer of the
| Wisconsin union OF the American So
ciety of Equity, is asking every farm
er in Lincoln county to paint a sign
on his barn calling attention to the
Lincoln county area test for bovine
! tuberculosis. He believes that every
tourist to northern Wisconsin and
every visitor to Lincoln county should
know that the county has been area
tested and retested for the disease.
After an investigation of the ty.
phoid epidemic which prevails in the
village of Mishicott, Manitowoc coun-
ty, DR.. G. E. Boyd of the state board
of health declares he thinks the sick
ness due to the milk supply. The
bottles used for distribution of milk
are said to have been washed in con-
taminated water. DR.. Boyd, accompa-
MED by Miss Viola Nohr, county
health nurse, visited the villagc
where eleven cases have been report
ed and one death has occurred.
Increased electric rates for the vii
lage of Mcmillan were authorized by
the railroad commission In another
order the Two Rivers Telephone Co.
was given an increase in rates to
$50 a year for business service and
PG1 III 1C0iOChCO 0CI WIG. TIC COUl-
mission ordered the Burkhardt Mill
ing and Electric Co. to extend it's heat
ing service to business houses on the
principal street of Hudson, which con-
tended that they were Disseminated
against. The extension must be made
within 80 days.
Administration of county govern
ment was the most expensive of any
Wisconsin governmental unit, report
of the state tax commission shows.
The cost was $2,98O,270 last year, COM
pared to $1,092,490 for the state, ST.
906, 463 for cities, and $1,361,O62 for
towns and villages. Local units
throughout are shown to be more ex-
pensive than the state, except for pro-
lection of persons and property for
which the state expended $1,642,747,
while counties expended $67O0S8,
cities $4,76S,1O6 and towns and viii
lagos $1,361 ,062. Cities paid by far
the most on debts which cost them
$7,286,438 last year. The state debt
cost s171 900. counties $1,32O,272 and
q nry1