Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-05-20
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

AnatOlia, sister superior of the Bene-
dictine sisters community OF ST. Pa
tricks on the fiftieth anniversary OF
her entry into the sisterhOOd, and
some thirty priests from all over the
diocese of La Crosse were present.
Attorney General William Morgan
has written an opinion to District At
torney D. K Allen of Winnebago coun-
ty to the effect that rural mail car
riers using automobiles in the distribu-
ton of mail must pay the state license
fee on their cars. The opinion of the
attorney general was sought when
John P. Heating, rural carrier OF the
Neenah postoffice, began test case.
At least five Oshkosh business
houses donated to a bold, smooth
stranger who bought small amounts OF
goods and then presented checks rang
ing from S12 to $2680, taking the bal
ance in cash. The paper most of it
on blank checks of local sash and door
plants, was found to be forged. The
man, about 25, decided to disappear
when a meat dealer got suspicious and
telephoned for the police.
The body of Henrietta Schneider,
16-year-Old Green Bay high school pu-
pill, who disappeared May 4, causing a
nationwide search, was found floating
III the Fox River, one and one-half
miles south of the point where she de
clared in a note that she would END
it ALL" Although, the body was badly
nd oil clnthinO
torn off, positive identification was
made by the girls father, Edward r.
Schneider.
Suit has been started by Amos
Payne of Marinette, against the Maple
Valley Fire Insurance company to re
cover 81 200 on his home which was
destroyed by fire short time ago.
The insurance company alleged that
Payne altered the building without
notifying them and that he also manu-
featured moOnshine, from which, the
company alleges, the house caught
fire. Payne denies these charges and
says that the fire was caused by bolt
Of lightning
Moonshining at home, even though
the product is not to be sold, lays the
owner of the still open to prosecution.
Atty. Gen. William Morgan holds in
an opinion to S. G. Dunwiddie, district
attorney at GAINESVILLE. The sheriff
had confscated still i'll private
home where the product had been used
for consumption within the home only.
Wisconsin law makes it Illegal TO
manufacture Intoxicating liquor of any
kind, the attorney general pointed out.
James Brown, who pleaded guilty to
an otfense against his 14-year-old sis
ter, was sentenced by Judge A. B.
Goodrich of Amigo, to thirty years in
states prison. Five years ago Brown
was convicted of manslaughter in the
third degree for killing his father He
was sentenced to four years in the
Green Bay TeformatOry, but served
only one year, being paroled by the
state board of control. 1t took three
men to overpower him recently when
he threatened to attack members of
the family with butcher-knife.
According TO census recently com
pleted, Barron county had 4,516 farms
ON Jan /, 1921, an increase of 17.2 per
cent The number operated by owners
increased 1862 per cent and those
operated by tenants increased 22.8 per
cent The value of land and buildings
in Barron county on Jan. 1, 1921 was
SAL 1878 ,876, representing an increase OF
1888 per cent in ten years. Barron
county with it's population of 34,281 is
tWenty-fourth among the II counties
Of Wisconsin. The population of the
state per square mile is 47.6 that OF
Barron county with an area of 885
square miles is 1871 being twenty
ninth in the state. Barron county has
but one city of more than $500 popu-
latiOn The urban population of the
county is 13 per cent of the whole
population.
John F. Dietz, the hero of Cameron
dam" was pardOned by Gov. j. J.
Blaine. after serving ten years of life
sentence for the shooting of deputy
sheriff at the famous dam. In his
statement accompanying the pardon,
the governor stated that there was d
doubt in his mind that the guilt for
the shooting rested entirely on the
shoulders of the prisoner. Dietz
troubles grew out of ten wear dis
pute between himself and the Chip
pewa Lumber and Boom company over
the right to float logs through the
Cameron dam. 1t resulted in Dietz
shutting off passage through the place.
When trouble arose over the situation
and deputies were sent to the scene,
Dietz barricaded himself and family
in his home and fought off the officials.
For many months this went on, and
finally when a posse was sent to ar
rest him, Oscar Harp, one of the depu-
ties, was killed. Dietz then ssurren-
dered and was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment. His sentence was later
committed to twenty years by Gov. F.
T. McGovern.
''Do you own baking" is the slogan
Of a campaign to be started among
women of La Crosse by the community
council accOrdino IN action taken AT