Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-08-04

Waupun soon.
September 81, % and % has been
chosen as the dates of the annual
Florence County fair.
Sheboygan County Holstein Breed
ers' association will send a carload Of
purebred Holsteins to the state fair
this year.
More than 500 persons took part in
a dramatization of the history of the
st. Croix valley at a pageant presented
in New Richmond.
In a premature dynamite explosion
in the Bale mine at Livingston, Tony
Smith, 35 years old, was killed and De-
mitroff was seriously injured.
1t is estimated that the First Congre-
gational church of Eau Claire will re-
ceive about $4,000 under the terms of
the will of Mrs. A. V. Mayhem.
The annual convention of the Wiscon-
sin association of house painters and
decorators, held in Eau Claire was at
tended by about 400 delegates.
A beautiful church to replace the
edifice destroyed by fire number of
years ago is being erected by st. Pat
rick's congregation of Minocqua
Between 500 and 600 delegates at
tended the annual convention of the
Wisconsin Funeral Directors and EN-
balmers' association held III Fond du
Lac.
Automobile traffic has become 80
heavy in Oshkosh that the commission
council is planning to put in force the
arterial stop system on some of the
principal streets.
Angered because she would not re-
turn home with him, Barlow futile of
Spooner shot and instantly killed his
wife and then sent bullet through
his brain, dying instantly.
The new three-story building of the
Wisconsin Retail Hardware associa-
ton in Stevens Point has been formal
ly dedicated. 1t is said to be the most
magnificent structure of its kind in the
state outside of Milwaukee.
Herman Rpjahn of Fond du Lac was
drowned in Lake Winnebago when he
attempted to rescue his aged uncle,
who was clinging to an overturned
skiff. The latter drifted about in the
lake for anqhour until he reached shall
low water and was able to struggle
ashore.
Highway No. Is from Fond du Lac
to Oshkosh is now solid stretch of
concrete and stretches near Lomira
and Theresa are soon to be completed
This will finish the great ribbon Of
concrete from the southern state line
at Kenosha to Green Bay, which is to
be dedicated this fall
Criminal action was begun against
three striking railroad employees in
Stevens Point following an attack on
two men filling strikers jobs in the
500 Line shops. The men were kid
mapped, taken to the outskirts of town
and bruta1ly beaten One of them was
given coat Of tar and feathers.
George O'Connor, motorcycle officer
of the Oshkosh police department, died
as result of injuries received when
he was run over and dragged by an au-
tomobile in a collision at street
corner George Tiffany, driver of the
automobile, which he had purchased
the previous day, was arrested.
An eleventh hour dash of candidates
to file their papers under the state
primary law made the office of the
secretary of state look like the objec-
tive of a bargain counter rush UP to
midnight of July Is, the closing day
for filing of papers. A. G. McHenry,
Oshkosh mayor, found it necessary to
speed by auto from Oshkosh to Madi-
son to file his papers as a candidate
for governor.
The curtailment of railroad service
in Wisconsin due to the rail and coal
strikes has been followed with numer-
Gus complaints to the state railroad
commission. One member of the COM
mission, in commenting upon requests
for action, stated that the commission
cannot order trains restored when the
roads have no coal with which to run
them. He said that continuance of the
coal strike could not fail to result in
most serious interference with travel
i'm Wisconsin, as there is scarcely any
coal on Wisconsin docks and but a
short supply remaining for use of the
railroads.
Miss Ellen Horrigan, aged "a, living
with her two brothers on farm in the
Kickapoo river valley Crawford
county, was badly beaten with a club
by robbers who ransacked the home
and stole hoard of gold estimated at
between $4,000 and $4,000. She suf-
fered a broken shoulder blade and
several deep gashes in her head. The
Horrigans, who are prosperous farm
ers, were known to have no trust in
banks and they were credited with
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