Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-16
| BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

Executive officers of the state asso-
citation of Moose have fixed the dates
of Aug. 4, 5 and for the next state
Moose convention to be held in Mon
roe. Probably 5000 visitors will at
tend
| At the twenty-frst annual conven-
ton of the Wisconsin Knights OF Co
{ lumbus, held in Superior, A. III. Schu-
bert Of La Crosse was elected state
deputy of the order. Other officers
chosen were: E. j. Carrigan, Milwau-
kee, state secretary; J. ]. Jameson,
Shullsburg, state treasurer; M. H.
Clune, Marshfeld, warden; Edward
Mooney, Madison, advocate.
Upwards of 1000 members of the
Wisconsin Order of Eagles in full re-
gala marched around the capitol
square in a spectacular parade mark
ing the close of the state convention
in Madison. Charles A. Dittman, La
Crosse, was elected president of the
state aerie. The next Wisconsin leg
islature will be appealed to by the
Eagles for support of an old-age pen
sion plan sponsored by the order.
John Holden, Rice Lake milkman,
was found to be transporting moon
shine as well as milk. Holden was
obtaining the liquor from men in
Rusk county, and disposing of it to
two bootleggers at Rice Lake. He
paid fine of 5000, after pleading
guilty to the charge of transporting
liquor The two bootleggers were ar
rested and are now spending time in
the county Jail.
The district attorney and sheriff
of Vernon county are investigating
the rushing of the village jail at Stod-
dard by gang of men who broke
down the door and liberated four men
who had been arrested on the charge
of indulging in drunken party at a
dance. Several arrests are expected
as a result of the attack on the Jail,
which was made after officers in
charge Of the prisoners had retired
for the night.
Efforts of Gov. Blaine to obtain a
rehearing of the case Of Hans Rodd,
Oneida county sheriff, whose removal
from office was held void in April by
| the state supreme court, proved un-
successful when that tribunal denied
the motion for reargument. Denial
Of the motion to reopen litigation
which grew out of Sheriff Rodd's re.
moval for refusing to obey an execu-
tive pardon order freeing Peter
Christ, Rhinelander strike leader,
, gives final settlement to the case.
| Twenty units of the Wisconsin Ma
tional guard will go into training at
Camp Douglas in two groups from
July Is to Aug IA, while three units of
artillery will take Up their summer
training at Camp Custer, July 70 to
) Aug. 26, according to announcement
of Orlando Holway, adjutant general.
Apportionment of the units to the diff
ferent camps shows that more than
5000 Wisconsin troops will be in the
field during July and August, the larg-
est enca1nbfnent ever held.
) After July 1, all cheese coming into
Wisconsin from other States must be
marked to show that it is not Wiscon.
sin made, according to an order is
sued by the Wisconsin department of
markets. The purpose of the order
is to identify out of the state cheese,
inasmuch as all Badger cheese is re-
quired to bear the states official
statement of grade, whereas cheese
not made in Wisconsin is not entitled
to the Wisconsin certifcation of quail
| ity.
The use of trading stamps given by
merchants to customers on the basis
of the amount of their purchases is
being unlawfully practiced by bust
ness men in some parts Of Wisconsin,
according to J. @. Emery, dairy and
food commissioner. Legislative en-
actment has made unlawful the use
of trading stamps except when such
stamps bear upon their face a stated
cash value and be redeemable only in
cash for the amount stated, upon
] presentation in amounts aggregating
Is cents or over.
Four deaths by drowning married the
picnic held on the Wisconsin river
near Wausau by the graduating class
of the Marathon County Training
school. The dead are: Ethel Genrich,
Wausau; Margaret Bradley, STRAIT
ford; Dorothy Hawks, Abbotsford. and
Martin Hannemann of Wausau The
three girls who lost their lives decid-
ed to go bathing, being the only ones
who cared to venture into the chilly
water. They walked out farther into
the river, hand in hand and suddenly
came to stepoff, and were plunged
into deep water. Martin Hannemann
attempted to rescue them but was
caught by one of the struggling girls
/ and the two went down together The
other two girls also sank, after in
effective STRUGGLES to regain shallow