Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-10-27

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Beloit's Sunday war entered new
phase when the city council received
petitions from large number of civic
organizations and women's clubs de-
handing an ordinance to prohibit Sun
day dancing.
Reports are current that Manitowoc
may become division point on the
North Western railroad The change
would mean that train crews would
be started from this station and the
city would be the terminal for trains.
The industrial commission appointed
Miss Margaret Ritsher as field child
labor deputy in order to establish
closer contact between the Madison
office and 200 child labor permit offic-
ers throughout the state.
Geraldine Gloe, years old, who
was badly burned while playing with
matches at the home of her grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fricke,
north of Two Rivers, died after twen-
ty-four hours of agony.
w. d. Goodwin, for number OF
years examiner of inheritances for the
Indian department and stationed at
Hayward and Ashland, has been trans
ferred to the internal revenue depart.
ment as revenue Inspector in the state
tax division. His office is in Detroit.
Twenty years after her husband was
run down and killed by horse-drawn
FIRE truck, Mrs. Rachel Robinson, 60,
suffered closely similar fate when
she was knocked down by an auto
mobile driven by Attorney M. O..
Mouat, GAINESVILLE, on the concrete
road north of Beloit She died while
being conveyed to hospital.
Niles Ritter wished to economize, so
borrowed auto license plates. from his
neighbors, when he drove to Rice
Lake. He was taken before Judge
Fred Kinsley of the first municipal
court and fined $40 and costs, while
an accommodating neighbor, F. Fl. Bur-
dick, who lent him his license plates,
was given the same sentence.
The shortage of properly qualified
rural grade school teachers is thing
of the past in Wisconsin, John Gala
han, superintendent of public instruc
ton said, announcing that no longer
would special permits be granted rural
school instructors unless they could
fill the minimum statutory qualifica-
tions.
The board of regents of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin announced that here
after the junior prom will be held in
the armory on the campus instead of
the scene of previous social affairs.
This action resulted from the effort of
the faculty to bring the affair back to
plane of democratic simplicity.
The 1922 State fair was run at a
100000 loss, an audit being made by
the state department of agriculture
shows. This excess Of expenditures
over receipts is annually anticipated
by the legislature which appropriates
funds for operation of the state show.
For that purpose $4,000 was pro
vided by the last session. Receipts
of the fair totaled approximately $780,
900, with disbursements somewhat
over $4,000. The loss this year is
less than in 1921 when a small at
tendance cut down the receipts.
G.. F. Koehler, Merrill, has shipped
one hundred seventy-six pounds of
golden seal roots and for these re-
ceived 1915 per pound. He also
shipped sixty-six pounds of golden seal
leaves for which he received 40 cents
per pound This harvest was from
a four year old plot of twenty-one beds
and will be used for medicinal pur-
poses. Mr. Koehler uses the same
arbor for golden seal as he used for
ginseng, which drug he was obliged
to discontinue growing owing to
bacteria growth which affected the
roots and caused them to decay.
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the ruling of the Dane county circuit
court holding that employees on sum
mer estates in wisconsin, if engaged
in an occupation governed by the
compensation insurance act, are eligi-
BILE to compensation. The court
turned down the appeal of Henry Clay
Pierce, oil magnate, who had contested
an industrial commission order requir-
ing him to pay compensation to w. J.
Barker, an employee on his estate, who
was injured while operating small
sawmill.
Rock county, which eradicated $500
barberry bushes and sprouts during
September, leads the state in the field
against this noxious weed according
to William A. Walker, agricultural ex-
pert in charge of the governments
anti-barberry campaign in Wisconsin
Federal statistics show that black
stem rust, which Is caused by the bar
berry, cost the farmers of Wisconsin
and six neighboring states approx
,natolv 5000 600 900 in the three-year