Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-02-10
WISCONSIN news
important Events of the WeSS
II Around the Badger State.

Consin Funeral Directors ASSOCIATION
viii be held in Fond du Lac. July "a
to %. The convention is expected to
bring more than 500 undertakers to
the city.
George Ostrom, senior deputy sheriff
az Douglas county, was appointed
sheriff by Gov. Blaine TO succeed
Arthur f.. Buchanan. former sheriff,
who resigned to become chief oil police
at Superior.
Alfred Fleischfresser, after pleading
not guilty to the charge OF selling
1noonshine to Merrill high school boys
at 81 cents drink, changed his mind
and pleaded guilty. He was fined $500.
He is the first defendent 10 plead
guilty and be fined under the newly
enacted city dry law.
Consolidation of the largest paper
mills In the Fox River valley, the John
E1oberg company and the Green Bay
Paper and Fiber company, was an
neunced at Green Bay when the busl-
ness OF the two companies was taken
over by corporation to be known
as the Hoberg Paper and Fiber com
pauy. The consideration involved in
the transaction was about $3,00o,Oo0
Sixty gallons OF grain alcohol
which was seized recently in the Chip
pewa Falls express office by Chief OF
Police Flaherty has turned out to be
nine.tenths water Each Of the twelve
five gallon cans had partition near
the top with pipe down through the
center, and while this compartment
was filled with alcohol, the balance
Of the can contained water.
A. J. Reiss, town Of Mitchell, She
l3Uygan county, cheesemaker, was tined
SIS and costs in Justice Adam Tres
ter's court at Sheboygan, when he
pleaded guilty to a charge OF manufac-
turing cheese containing an excessive
amount of moisture. Complaint was
made by l.. R. Stewart, state dairy
and food inspector Reiss is the tenth
Sheboygan county cheesemaker that
has come into court for making adul-
tarated cheese.
The Equity society has not aban-
doned it's dairy marketing plan
through which it intends to organize
the entire industry into an Equity
Dairymen's league to handle co-opera-
lively all products of the Industry,
g. c. Pommerening. president of the
society, declared Announcement that
the proposed organization had been
modified and change made to an
other form of marketing federation,
was declared by Mr.. Pemmerening to
be without foundation.
Town treasurers in Wisconsin are
commanded by the statutes TO sell
personal property Of persons to meet
their real estate taxes il unpaid. f. E.
Brossard, assistant attorney general.
in an opinion to G. J. Strang, district
attorney of Burnett county advised
him that failure TO carry out this COM
mand OF the statutes would be a
breach OF official duty on the part OF
the treasurers. Mr.. Brossard pointed
cut that the Supreme court had up
held the statute, and that its COM
lnands must be carried out.
Drainage projects in the state, COM
pieted and under construction during
tke last year totaied $1,3l8,832, ac-
nSYding to a report of e. X. Jones,
Madison, state drainage engineer.
Acres to be drained with completion
OF the work total 151 $50. Eight APP
plications for new drainage projects
we're received during the last quarter
ending Dec. 81. with 81 for the pre-
ceaiag three.quarters. These eight
projects were estimated to cost $140,-
9TS, draining 1920 acres.
Grade crossing deaths during the
three months from October to Deem
Der numbered Is in Wisconsin, the
state engineer reports. The period
developed IS accidents in which Is
persons were killed and % injured.
According to the report, "a accidents
Ia dUlOIAIObliSS III NhhSiA * ~
sons were killed and % injured. Ac-
s)idents other than at grade crossings,
caused by railroads totaled 81, result
3ng III IL fatalities and Is injuries.
OF these casualties, the report said,
tsespassers were killed in nine cases
and injured in -Four.
A total of 1880 accidents in Wis
sssastn were reported to the industrial
commission during 1921, 4. A. keown
engineer for the commission, reported
ia the quarterly report OF The state
engineer During October, November
and December there were 1852 acct
dents compared with 4,488 for the
same period in 1920. There was a
reduction of IS per cent Ia the mum
Der OF accidents in 1921 under 1920
Deputies of the commission investi
sated 1906 of the accidents during
the year and reported violations oil
safety orders as the cause OF 26 pei
cent.
4 Law Enforcement association, the
arst of its kind to be organized IL