Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-02-24
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS


katherine Martini, s years old
daughter of Joseph Martini, Beloit
died from burns she sustained when
her clothing caught fire while she was
putting some papers in stove.
The Globe Metal Products company
plant, and equipment, at Sheboygan
was sold under the sheriff's hammer
to Harry Bolens. head of the ellison
Manufacturing company of Port Wash
ington, for S65, ZOO.
Frank Kennedy, Fish Creek is Ell.
joying some thrilling sport on the ice
of Green bay with an aero-motor sleigh
which he recently completed. A gaso
line motor and airplane propeller
drive the sled over the ice at a speed
of 60 miles an hour
Flocks Of prairie chicken in Wis.
consin about TO be deprived OF food
as result of removal of corn shocks
by farmers in many parts of the state
will be fed by the conservation COM
mission in order to prevent theil
starvation.
Pleading guilty to a charge OF hav
ing moonshine in his possession, Nels
Simenson elderly Vernon county farm
ar, selected to take two months III
The county jail instead OF paying q
fine of $3.50 An hour in the jail in
duced him to pay the fine.
A warrant of seizure was sworn oul
in United States district court al
Madison, against the Prairie du Sac
Brewing Co, Of Prairie du Sac, Fed
eral authorities charge the company
has been manufacturing Intoxicating
liquor on permit TO make non-in
toxicating beverages.
The bodies of Harold Churchill, sc
Green Bay, and his infant daughter
viii be buried in the same grave. The
father died after short illness two
hours before the child was born. The
parents were confined i'll adjoining
rooms at local hospital The mother
and wife is conyalescing, but she has
not been told of her husbands death
Six other children. the oldest II, sur
Viye.
The drop in the number Of death.
from tuberculosis in 1921, recently
announced as the lowest mortality on
record in Wisconsin, is notable, The
state board Of health said, as mark
ing The first time since accurate rec
ords have been available that this
mortality has been less than 1000 III
year. The rate for each 100000
population is 1873. In 1920 the rate
was Sac The usual yearly drop is
only one or two points.
The first northern grown tobacco
shipment ever sold 10 southern Unite4
States tobacco companies was solo
several days ago by Barron county
tobacco growers. The shipment wa
consigned TO Tampa, Fla. The Barron
county tobacco crops have been rec
ognized as exceptionally good ones
and the demand for tobacco raised
in the county has been large. The
Wisconsin crop of tobacco this year
has not been in very great demand
and as a result much Of the crop re-
mains unsold and growers predict that
the acreage in 1922 will be reduced
The creation of service bureau
For county anF1 ctafa fairs in WiScnua
sin 10 gather and distribute informal
ton and plans which will assist their
development was recommended by
Oliver e Remey, secretary OF the
Wisconsin State Fair, before the an
nuai convention OF the Wisconsin
association OF fairs meeting at Fond
du Lac. Mr.. Remey said that there
were S5 fairs in Wisconsin during
The past year, attended by 1887 ,156
persons Their total cost was 1884
ga. while receipts were $1,595,83S,
showing a deficit of nearly 100000
Premiums al these SO fairs amounted
to 1854 1893, while gate receipts We're
$5s3,2G7, or Slap less than paid out
in premiums, The state paid $179,231
in aid to district and county fairs.
There has been an unprecedented
activity in tuberculosis eradication
work among Wisconsin cattle, daring
The last quarter, the department Of
agriculture announced During that
period 75.067 head Of cattle We're test
ed. with 4,29S reactors. Out of the
total number OF herds tested 1856
showed no reactors and in $50 infecs
lions were found. The period also
showed ] / $50 head Of dairy and breed
ing cattle shipped out of the state 10
points throughout the United States
and TO Mexico, Bermuda islands, IN
dia, South America and Canada. This
is said to have bsen the heaviest call
y for cattle which Gas been recorded
J during any previous three months,
md is said to be due to the promi-
nenct given tuberculosis eradication
work in the state. Wisconsin is said
10 be the leading state in it's export
of cattle.