Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-02


their lives in the World war.
Fully 5000 members of Lutheran
churches throughout the Fox river val
ley are expected at Neenah on Sun
day, June IS, to attend the annual
saengerfest of the Fox River Valley
Saengerbund in Riverside park.
Twelve blocks of pavement will be
laid in Amigo this summer. Plans
and specifications have been prepared
and bids will be received June 6 on
four different types of paving-reln-
forced concrete, vitrolithic, bithultic
and vitrified brick with asphalt filler
A freight train crew on the Milwau-
kee road rescued family from
burning home close to the tracks at
Avalon, village Is miles from James
vile. John Kus, a cripple. his wife
and two children were sleeping sound
ly, with the building so far gone as
to fall in a heap few minutes after
the family was taken out.
Henry Kennedy, a pioneer resident
of Plainfield, who was recently mar
ried at the soldiers home at Wau-
paca, has come back to reside in his
old home town. Mr.. Kennedy is 90
years old and his bride is 83. During
negotiations with his friend, Hick Por-
ter, over the renting of a house, Mr..
Kennedy insisted that he be given a
f1ve-year lease and won his point.
L. M. Heule and W. S. Manning
captured eight wolf pups in den
south of Bruce. The parent wolf was
absent at the time of the capture, but
had provided well for her family, there
having been parts of chicken, part
ridge and woodchuck in the den when
the pups were captured. For some
time the farmers in that vicinity have
been losing chickens from their coops.
After working for year, writing
many letters, and studying the citys
archives, Miss Myra MacCourt, secre-
tary to Mayor Wiesner, has received
the last photograph needed to COM
plete the gallery of all mayors OF
Green Bay. The last picture needed
to complete the collection was that OF
C. E. Thomas, who took office in 1854.
Many of the pictures are engagements
of tintypes.
Brown county, which ranked second
| last season, will easily lead the state
| in the amount of acreage planted to
sugar beets this year, according. to
Charles Fl. Hine, manager OF the
Green Bay Sugar Co. He said the
big refinery in Green Bay would be
taxed to capacity in handling the 1922
crop. 1t is expected that the crop of
beets will enable the factory to run
three months on a double shift.
Sawyer county officials have an
nounced the largest delinquent tax list
In the history of the county. The list
is large due to the fact that hundreds
of property owners are unable to Sc
| cure work and in this way secure
money to pay their taxes. Many other
! northern Wisconsin counties have pub
! lished exceptionally long delinquent
tax lists. 1t has been estimated that
about one-third of the taxes in Barron
county are delinquent.
twenty-five head Of choice register
ed Sank county Guernseys were ship
! ped to be sold at the western Wash
! ington Guernsey sale at Chehalis
Wash, June 7, the first Guernsey con
signment from Wisconsin to any sal
on the Pacific coast. The stock is il
charge of r. F. Klemm, of Baraboo
one of the leading breeders of tn
country, who with several other breed
ers, made up the consignment, whlc.
includes young breeding stock, mostl
heifers
The last month has been one of il
creased employment throughout Wis
consin, with the few decreases in tbs
number of workmen largely in sea
sonal industries, the industrial com
mission reported in it's monthly sur
yey of labor conditions. Compare
with the report of the previous month
the commission summary showed tina
the number of employees in agriculture
Increased 1877 per cent; manufactur
ing, 10 per cent; building construc
ton, 1922 per cent; highway construc
ton, S99 per cent; wholesale trade
81 per cent; and retail trade, 3.5 per
cent. In manufacturing the metal in
1ustries showed the greatest pickup
especially automobile manufacturing.
Justice R. D. Marshall, for % years
member of the Wisconsin supreme
court, died at the Methodist hosp1ta
at Madison He was taken Ill si1
weeks ago, but after entering the hos
pital his condition improved until he
suffered a relapse a few days ago
Justice Marshall was rs and had lived
In Madison since his appointment tt
the supreme bench in 1895. Since his
retirement from the bench after the
1917 election, in which he was sue
ceeded by Atty. Gen. Walter c. Owen
Justice Marshall had devoted his time