Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-26
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS.

letter mailed at San Francisco, Aug. 5
with the edges burned A note on the
bottom explained that the missive was
mutilated in mail plane fire at Elko
New, Aug. 6.
Licensing of outside contractors
who come into Sheboygan to do work
compulsory employment of local labor
by all contracting firms, and the pro
lection of labor in skilled lines, have
been asked by the common council by
the Building Trades council of She
boygan.
Judge Martin L. Lueck of the Thir-
teenth judicial circuit has personally
The resignation is effective Sept. Is
Judge Lueck's term expires in April
1928, and Gov Blaine is expected to
name a successor at once. A number
of prominent attorneys, among them
Charles A. Kading of Watertown and
c. M. Davidson of Beaver Dam.
An Equity Dairy mass meeting OF
farmers will be held at Merrill Sept 3
at which speaker from the National
Milk Producers federation will urge
farmers to unite in obtaining a fair
price for milk and milk products. The
average price this year in Wisconsin,
received by farmers, is said to be Ia
cents a pound, as compared to 3.5
cents a pound received during the pre-
ceding four years.
Saloon keepers of Manitowoc city
and county We1e pronounced the most
lawabiding of any visited by prOhibi-
ttOn enforcement officers, who have
inspected every thirst parlOr in this
section. Not one arrest was made.
Officers Hewitt and Love, in charge OF
the prohibition squad, stated that the
provisions of the new SeVersOn law
were being observed satisfactorily.
E. T. Hill, Hayward, farmer, charged
with the murder of his mother five
years ago, was exOnerated when ar
raigned in municipal court The
charges were dropped at the request OF
District Attorney j. p Davis, who ad
mitted insufficient evidence. Mrs. Hill
mysteriOusly disappeared following an
alleged visit to her sons home.
Searchers found her hat, grip, and q
few other garments. She left Will
representing an estate of $4,000.
Green Bay-Brown county has the
lowest per capita taxation of any cOun
ty i'll Wisconsin with a population c.
$4,000, and spends les money Oh
schools than any other county, witt.
one exception, according to figure,
given out by Income Assessor J. COlig
non, Green Bay. The individual tax
is $50. Dane county shows the highesl
school expenditure with $1,27O,000 for
the year. Brown countys total for the
year is $556,OO0.
Louis Hartnig, Stevens Point, home
from two months visit in Germany
says conditions in that country are ex
Celbent Factories are running full,
blast" Mr. IIartnig said, land crops
are good. In Rottenburg, where
spent practically all of the two months
| was in Germany, there was but ont
difficulty Because of lack Of rain
there is shortage Of water there
IIydrants are dry and all water must
come from small wells" Mr.. Hartnig
came TO the United States thirty-one
years ago.
Before learning that his small
daughter was in the burning barn on
his iai1n, II miles south of Marshfield,
hheinold J. Hendricks ran into the
barn md rcuaIo1 tbpaa
calves. The child persisted, Mr.. Hen
dlic.ls' children Were playing in the
automobile in the barn, when the
structure was discovered to be in
flames An older bother tried in vain
to rescue his sister. When the parents
learned of the child's fate it was with
diff ulty that neighbJrS prevented
them from dash;ng to certain death III
the barn.
w hat is probably the last chapter in
the 50-year Old INul over the location
or the public school in District No. b
Town Cf tlcvCCI.i, near Appleton, was
WrArLIn When iesldcnt5 Of the north
Cla Ut the district succeeded in their
fght to have the school moved to the
center OI the Ils. rict. 1t now is To-
Gated about a half Lille from the south
butIla.y and moro tan three miles
from Tie n-F;h lire. The decision 10
lAoye the school was made at special
sC1o0l clection 1t was also decided to
ada $500 TO the school tax levy next
y.ar to defray the cost of moving.
r. L. Casiaa, Superior. who was held
i'll Jail f., month in connection with
the Marie Davis murder i'll Superior
IN March &c, has b. Ell ordered depOrt-
al Gy The department Of labor and has
applied fur a writ of habeas corpus
t.,-l1 Federal Judge Page Morris of
Duluth, according To his attorney. Ca
a. owned TIE candy store in which
llsrie Davis was Str&ngled to death.
lie il SO Yeas CID and has been in
The United S ates since he was II
years OF ac,e Ills father did not take
Cut hatm aliZlti.n papers until after
H. became q years Of age, however SO
lie is oiti1,n Of Italy.
The Park Falls pant of the Park
tails LuIabeI Co will soon close for