Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-22

der the Weeks act has set aside @zo,-
600 for forest fire protection for Wis
consin's 100000 acres Of timber
lands.
Two raids by Sheriff Budzak on the
Sachapple farm, near Florence, result
ed in the seizure of 13 barrels and 20
cases of home brew, 9 cases OF malt,
| barrel of hops and 1 bottling ma
chine. The proprietor was placed un-
der arrest.
Three members of the state board
of vocational education, j. M. Nc
Quad, Milwaukee; Lieut.. Gov. George
+. Comings, Eau Claire, and Robert S.
Cooper, penosha, were reappointed
by Gov. Blaine. The term is for six
years with small per diem salary.
Seven more Wisconsin high schools
have been added to the list of high
schools whose work is accredited by
the University of Wisconsin. They
are: Mission House academy, Plym-
outh, and the high schools of Fish
Creek, Holcombe, Michicot, New Aub-
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For the second time this year hand
bills of violently revolutionary ma
ture have been circulated on the
streets of Sheboygan. The latest ones
circulated use the recent riOting in
Tulsa as a foundation, and call for
whites to combine with the cOlored
race for the overthrow of the govern
ment
Sixmen were arrested in Eau Claire
in June for intoxication, as compared
with two a year ago. Since the new
prohibition measure which permits of
arrests by local police instead of fed
eral men, many have been brought
into court. July seven were ar
raigned for being drunk or having
liquor in their possession.
Settlement of the strike at the
Green Paper and Fiber mill of Green
Bay was made when the strikers at
mass meeting accepted the company's
proposal. The settlement was made
thru a committee of the strikers,
the officials of the mill refusing to
deal with union officials. The men ac-
copied 9-hour day and a wage cut
of 121a per cent.
According to a census taken by the
Winnebago county highway commits
sion, 4,051 vehicles of all descriptions
passed given point on the Oshkosh
Fond du Lac state highway, at the
southern limits of Oshkosh, July 4,
5 a. m. to 9 p. m. Of that number
2,529 were Wisconsin pleasure auto
mobiles, IS were trucks, 1873 motor
cycles, 200 motor cars from outside
the state carrying touring parties,
and nine were horse-drawn vehicles.
Judge Frank Simmons of the Ke-
nosha probate court was arraigned be-
fore Judge Burgess in municipal
court, Racine, charged with having
passed to the left of a street car with
his automobile. He was adjudged
He explained to the police, it is said,
that such a practice is common in
Kenosha and is considered no of
fenSe
lower in Wisconsin than in any other
middle western state, the census bu-
reau report of 1920 shows. This state
is shown to have 27,258 rented farms,
or IA per cent of the total number
being cultivated, an increase from
1910 Of 1904 and of five tenths of
per cent in proportion to the total
number. The average tenantry rate
for the country is 1871 per cent, an
incsease of IL per cent since 1910, and
almost three times the Wisconsin
rate
If recommendation to the city
council is adopted, municipal owner
ship at Manitowoc will be extended
to include filling station where gas
oline and oil may be purchased AT
a recent council meeting it was
brought out that the various depart
ments of the city used much gas and
oil, for which the city is obliged to
pay the market price, and that large
annual saving would be the result of
buying the gasoline direct. The city
clerk was instructed to secure infor-
nation from other cities.
The entire village of Hershberg i'll
the town of Herman near Juneau was
wiped out by flames. The fire started
in the residence of Adolph Mengel and
rapidly spread, consuming several
more homes, the Wollmer cheese fac
tory, Blans' store and the Hershberg
hotel. Because of lack of equipment
it was necessary to form a bucket
brigade. The dry spell made the
wooden buildings ready prey for the
flames. The loss is estimated in ex-
cess of 100000. Hershberg is in the
center of the Dodge county dairy re-
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