Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-09-02

throughout the state.
Industries in every section of the
Fox River Valley will be represented
at the big industrial exhibit which
Neenah is planning for late fall. Huge
tents are to be erected to house the
exposition.
Improvement in the Twin city in
dustrial situation is noted. The Men
asha Woodenware company, which has
been running at about SO per cent OF
normal capacity for the last few
months, has added 100 more hands.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Remer of Fifield
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary at their home. All children
and several grandchildren of the cou-
pie were present. They were presented
with so 81 gold pieces.
Wisconsin National guard is report
ed as leading that of all other states
in the number of officers and enlisted
personnel in comparison to population.
There now are 329 officers and 1914
enlisted men, with the states quota
under the national guard set at 10000.
Helen L. Blythe, deputy clerk of the
circuit court Of Racine county and
president of the Racine Business and
Professional Women's club, was elect
ed president of the Wisconsin Circuit
Court Clerks association at the an
nual convention in Waupaca.
Ten thousand persons attended the
picnic given at New Holstein by the
American Legion and the New Hol-
stein Juvenile band The picnic was
preceded by a parade in which six
bands and a mile of floats and persons
took part. The funds go for the bene-
fit of the Legion and the band. Veter-
ans of Co. H, Thirty division,
gave an exhibition drill.
Chalmers Yeager, Green Bay, captured
at Chippewa Falls with Lawrence Les
perance for alleged completely in the
Wabeno bank robbery, was freed from
suspicion of any connection with the
robbery of the Outagamie State bank,
when IL persons who saw the bandit
who committed the robbery, failed to
identify him. Lesperance was never
suspected of connection with the APP
pletOn job.
Leaf hoppers have appeared in
Brown county and are damaging the
potato crop. The big Suamico spud
zone is the hardest hit and SO per cent
of the tuber plants have been ruined
by the pests. An emergency squad OF
sprayers directed by potato experts is
toiling in the fields from morn until
night in an attempt to save the crop.
1t is estimated that the county's pota-
to production will be less than SO per
cent normal.
Preliminary estimates based on re-
turns from 800 smaller communities of
the 1000 municipalities in the state,
indicate that the assessed valuation of
general property will again be in
creased over the $4,000, 100000 OF last
year. The increase is not expected to
exceed $10O,000,000. Valuation of
utility property will probably be some
what lower in the opinion of the tax
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lower return from railroad and tele-
phone and telegraph taxes.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Paul P. Rhode
of the Green Bay Catholic diocese, has
returned from an extended tour of sew
aral European countries, including
Italy, where he spent some time max
ing his biennial reports on diocesan af-
fairs to Pope Benedict. After leaving
Rome, Bishop Rhode spent several
weeks in Poland, the country OF his
nativity. The bishop has been abroad
since May.
Oconto county Holsteins have been
awarded four different prizes for milk
production during the last year in
competition with all the Holstein cows
in the United States and Canada. One
of these COWS, Dirkje Countess, owned
by the Quality Farms at Oconto Falls,
made 34.2 pounds of butter from 745.6
pounds of milk in seven days last
March. Another cow from the same
farms that won a prize was the heifer,
Maplewood Colantha Segis, who made
S474 pounds of butter from l7,131.5
pounds of milk.
Due to the lack of oxygen in the
water, millions of fish in lakes through
out Wisconsin have died this summer,
Brayton O. Webster, conservation COM
missioner reports. Hot weather and
lack of winds are given as the cause
River fish in the vicinity of Brentwood
have gone through the heat
wave without suffering, Mr.. Webster
said. On the lakes, however, the STILL
hot weather largely cut off the supply
of oxygen for the water and resulted
in a general killing of fish. This same
condition exists in winter when the
smaller lakes are frozen over.
Following an expression of consid-
cradle public sentiment against the or
dinances, the Neenah city council in
City Attorney George Kelly
to delay prosecution on three ordinan-
ces licensing and regulating bus lines
running into this city from Appleton,
Oshkosh and Fond du Lac. The ordi-
nances, characterized by the bus line