Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-03-18
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

The city council of Superior abol
ished the spring primary election to
have been held on March %. The city
will save virtually $4,000 officials de
clared. All candidates will be permit
ted to run on Independent tickets.
George Dempster of Merrill, is miss
ing. He left home a month ago, say
ing he was going out to get some to-
baccO. He failed to return and no
trace has been found of his where
abOuts.
w. J. Rush, who has been a prac-
ticing attorney in Clark county twenty
years, and in NeillSville ten years, has
entered the race for appointment as
United States district attorney for the
western district of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin is taking the lead in the
matter of freeing it's herd of cattle
from the ravages of tuberculosis,
states Wood county Agent r. A. Peter.
son. AS a state, it was also in the lead
in the matter of fighting tuberculosis
among it's people and has been SO sue
cessful in that, that at the present
time Wisconsin ranks third among all
the states of the nation in its freedom
from the disease, he said.
The farmers of Marathon county
are more hopeful for the agricultural
and dairy industries of that cOmmu-
nifty, according to the bankers of all
villages in the county in special meet
ing Of the Marathon County Bankers
association. The reports showed that
the farmers are doing a better and
increased business, the COWS are pro
ducing more milk and the milk checks
are larger.
Mrs. Mary Steuber and Mrs. Stephen
Vida Of Francis Creek, ManitOwoc
county, life long friends and neighbOrs
for many years, died within a few
hours of each other. A double funeral
was held from the Vida home. Mrs.
Steuber was ga years old, native of
this county. Mrs. Vida was native
of Bohemia. For years the two fam
flies had lived on adjoining farms.
Both women died from complication of
diseases.
Oshkosh voters will be called upon
to cast their ballots this spring on the
special question of whether they wish
TO have the city acquire and conduct
the gas and electric lighting plants
owned by the Oshkosh Gaslight COM
pany. The commission council at a
meeting voted to l to bring the mat
ter to a vote. Mayor A. G. McHenry
and Commissioner Charles T. Hart are
for municipal ownership and Commits
sioner H. f. Porath opposed it.
Asserting what is alleged to be a
dynamite trust" is discriminating
against farmers Of northern WiscOn-
sin by boosting prices of explosives to
a point where the individual farmer
is unable to undertake land clearing,
Superior, Douglas county and counties
OF the north have begun a movement
to combat the so-called trust" by i'm
porting stump blasting powder in lots
OF 100000 and 100000 pounds. A
federation, with this object in view,
was organized at a meeting of north
ern Wisconsin farmers at Spooner
Two Fond du Lac firms have been
Victimized by a young man, who it is
alleged offered worthless checks in
payment for merchandise directed to
fake addresses. The young man
stepped into coal and wood agency,
ordered a load of coal sent to certain
address, and offered a check for $34.50.
The coal cost $12. When an effort
was made to deliver. the coal, it was
found that no one at the address had
ordered it. The young man succeeded
in the same trick at local grocery
store.
The city council of Superior cut
their own salaries, reduced the num-
Der of city employees and abolished the
city park board. Mayor Fred Baxter
and City Commissioners Fred Tomlin-
son and A. D. S. Gilbert unanimously
passed the sweeping economy resolu-
ton. 1t provided that every officials
salary be reduced 10 per cent, if over
$4,000 a year. 1t further asked the
board of education to make a reduc-
ton of 100000 year in expenses,
and asked the county board to make
a saving of $4,000.
Dredging of three rivers and con-
struction of "a miles of drainage ditch
is contemplated in the drainage pro-