Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-11-04
| BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

driving herd of cows from field
into the barn when the bull suddenly
attacked him from behind.
Archbishop S. G. Messmer, Milwau-
kee, was in La Crosse recently look
ing after affairs of the diocese and
business pertaining to the estate of
the late Bishop James Schwebach.
Appointment of a bishop to fill the
vacancy in the La Crosse diocese is
expected soon
The heaviest sentence ever imposed
under the Severson act in Racine
county was melted out to John Mel
son, saloon keeper, to Chris Bloom,
his bartender, arrested with nine Gus
toners in a raid on the saloon. Judge
f. r. Burgess in municipal court i'm
posed a fine of $1,000 and a sentence
of six months in the county Jail on
Nelson and a fine of $500 and three
months in Jail on Bloom.
The wild animal menace is increas
ing in Wisconsin, according to reports
from the northern part of the state.
Farmers in many sections are suffer.
ing heavy loss to live stock as re-
suit of the depredatiOnS of wolves and
in some cases bears. Every day brings
fresh accounts of raids by hungry
wolves which attack sheep and cattle.
In Douglas county, it is reported, a
pack Of wolves destroyed nearly all
Of one farmers large herd of sheep.
The schools of Wisconsin, through
vocational training and part-time edu-
cation laws, are reaching out to near
Iy $4,000 children who otherwise
would lose educational contact as la
borers, according to George P. Ham
brecht, director of vocational educa.
ton Recent legislation opens the
way to even fuller educational oppor-
tunity, placing this state at the head
OF the nation in caring for the needs
of its children, Mr. Hambrecht says.
A raid by the Manitowoc police at
the home of Charles Augustine re-
suited in what the district attorney
believes to be the disclosure of the
biggest moonshine source in Manito-
woo county. The still was pronounced
the most completely equipped ever
confiscated. Augustine pleaded guilty
and was fined $500 and costs or six
months in Jail. He Immediately be-
gan the jail sentence. Augustine is
carpenter. He told the court that
he was the father of II children and
was obliged to manufacture the
moon" on account of being out of
work for months.
Ten persons were killed by boiler
explosions in Wisconsin during the
past two years, and a much larger
number injured, the industrial com.
mission says in statement explain
ing that owners should be assured
that their boilers are inspected and
in good condition before entering the
winter In six of the seven explo
sions which resulted in deaths. the
accidents occurred with uninspected
boilers, the commission says Not one
Of the furnaces would have passed in.
6pection had the owners had the in
dustrial commission or an insurance
company look them over.
Sixty head of pure bred Holsteins,
the pick of some of Washington coun
tvs best herds, have been shipped to
Burr farms, Los Angeles, Calf George
n. Brown owner of the farms, had
charge of the buying, being assisted
by County Agricultural Agent Milton
III. Burton The shipment was madv
in two carloads. The cattle brought
were all heifers ranging in age from
two months to two years. The two
carloads brought the farmers of the
county $9,9225O, or an average of
$165.38 per head, and is considered a
good average of one year old stock
This shipment makes p carloads ship.
ped from Washington county within
one year.
Complete lplans will be finished on
Nov Is for the new $1,200,000 state
general hospital which is to be erect
ed in Madison on the university
grounds. 1t is planned to begin the
erection of the building during the
winter, but it will be impossible to
complete the structure within two
years The hospital is built out of
excess funds raised by the state UNI
der the soldier bonus law 1t was
authorized at special session of the
Legislature in 1920. The hospital will
be six stories and will be of 800 bed
capacity and complete in medical and
surgical appliances. This hospital will
be opened to all the people of the
state. Persons who have some dis
ease which does not yield to treat
1nent under local supervision can be
brought to the hospital. Moreover the
defective children at the different
state institutions will be brought to
this hospital for special treatment.
John Meehan, one of Beloit's oldest
and best known retired merchants,
died at his home in that city. He
was member of the public library
board and leader in knights of Co.