Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-14

| IQIC0+ WlSCOuS1u. CLUES Ol Tie uISt
slass outside of Milwaukee will have
examinations for postmastership ap-
plicants July Is. They are Green Bay,
salary $4,000; Watertown, $4,000, and
Wausau, $4,000.
Lewis M. Smith, president of the
Jefferson County National bank, and
Dne of. the most prominent Jefferson
business men, has been nominated by
President Harding for the postmaster
ship of Jefferson to succeed Fred Self
ert, who has held the position eight
years.
Forty-six convictions in liquor cases
with sixteen cases pending is the en-
forcement record Dist. Atty. Roy
Twining of Watertown. The sum of
S7,345 has been paid into the county
treasury through fines. Jail sentences
totaling nineteen months were meted
out.
Washburn county farmers have
commenced the harvest of the greatest
hay crop in ten years. Indications
point to cheap hay next winter for
farmers who may find it necessary to
purchase. Last winter, Washburn
county farmers spent 100000 for hay
and grain. This year very little
money will be spent for hay, it is ex-
pected.>
Something new in silver wedding
gifts was presented to Mr.. and Mrs.
William Grotendorst, Green Bay, on
the twenty-ffth anniversary of their
marriage. A party was given at their
home and one of the guests gave them
wedding cake, trimmed with silver
ornaments, among them twenty-five
new dimes.
Only two cargoes of coal were re-
ceiyed at Ashland during the month of
June, with about $4,000 tons of soft
coal. The normal receipts for June
are about $4,000 tons. The receipts
so far this season are only $4,000 tons
of soft coal, and no hard coal. The
were $4,000 tons.
The decision of the railroad COM
mission on the request of the Com
monwealth Telephone company for
the right to increase Edgerton tele-
phone rates so per cent is being
waited with interest. Prices under the
proposed increase would be S33 year
for one party residence phones and
and $50.
For three weeks following the death
of her husband, Mrs. Bernard Zweifel
prayed earnestly to join the man with
whom she had passed sixty-two years
of married life, Friends declared that
her death at her home in New Glarus
was due to her earnestly expressed
desire to die. She was 50 years old
but was in good health. Her husband
was 90 years old.
Funds for the relief of tornado vic
Tins in northwestern Wisconsin come
in slowly, Henry Johnson, state treas
uref, says, with announcement that
two weeks had brought only $2,402 in
to the treasury for use in rebuilding
the devastated area. Further appeal is
being made to the state to give funds
for the aid of farmers who lost their
farm buildings.
The History of Barron County, a
hook of $50 illustrations and about
1900 pages of history of the county,
has been issued. The book was com
piled by N. s. Gordon. editor of The
Barron News-Shield, and DR.. Frank
lyn Curtiss-Wedge. The history has
been in the process Of compilation fol
the last two years. A complete record
Of all happenings in the county has
been made since the time of the early
explorers and traders.
Superior pool halls must close at Il
o'clock each night and fifty-six tables
now operated in that city must be dis
carded at once, the city council de-
cided upon the adoption of the much
mooted pool hall ordinance prepared
by Mayor Fred Baxter. Police Chief
A. e. Buchanan started to clean out
the pool tables over the quota of one
for each 500 residents. The action was
taken at the request of women's or
CARNATIONS.
Organization of a giant tobacco pool
to include the 10000 tobacco growers
of Wisconsin for the purpose of OBJ
tanning price that will enable the
grower to make profit and thus pre-
vent bankruptcy Of the tobacco grow
Ing industry in the state, is assured in
/ the counties of Rock, Dane, Columbia,
Jefferson and Green. The organiza-
lion, to be known as the Wisconsin
Cooperative Tobacco pool, is pat
termed after the Kentucky Burley To-
bacco pool, which has redeemed the
| Industry in that state.
One OF the most important road
! building jobs to be started this season
has just been announced by w. H.
Lange, federal engineer with the state
highway commission office at Green