Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-22


of a turkey, broke as he was using
it, part of the bone flying backwards
and striking the eye.
Financing plans of the northern
Wisconsin tobacco pool. co-opera-
| tive marketing organization of Wis
cOnsin tobacco growers, was practi.
cally completed at meeting of bank
ers in Madison. Agreement was
reached which assures the pool of ade-
Quate funds to market the 1922 crop.
The Rusk county board voted TO
cut the salary of the county superin-
tendent Of rural schools from $2,400
to $4,000. The board voted also ma
to employ county agricultural agent,
although determined fight was made
on the part of several prominent mem
bers of the board for the employ
ment of the farm agent.
| Miss Edith Hughes has been elected
secretary. of the Amigo Association
of Commerce to succeed Mrs. L. L..
Dickinson, resigned. She will begin
her duties the first of the year. Mrs.
Dickinson was the only woman secre-
tary of an association of commerce
in the state That distinction passes
on to Miss Hughes.
Appealing her case to Circuit court
proved costly for Mrs. Johanna Fir
kus, of Stevens Point, who was found
guilty of selling liquor before Judge
Byron B. Park. A fine of 5000 and
costs of $63.22 were assessed by the
judge, the fine being $50 more than
that given the defendant in county
court before Judge w. F. owen.
Dominic Justo, II, an Italian, was
sentenced to five years in Waupun
prison by Judge A. C. Hoppmann,
Madison, after Justo had pleaded gull
ty to charges of completely In the
robbery of the Randall State bank of
Madison last March. Tony CORONA,
leader of the. bank robbers, was SEN
fenced in October to 25-year term.
A saving of 1000 child lives in
Wisconsin and a reduction by one
half of the maternal deaths will be
the result of child welfare and public
health nursing measures if continued
in effect during the next five years.
the state board Of health estimates.
1t is asking $4,000 for next year to
carry on this work
Farmers of Winnebago county
growing peas for canneries are organ
izing with the idea of securing more
favorable contracts for next years
crop and better grade of seed. They
claim many lost money on last sea-
sons crop and that the time of cut
ting, controlled by the canneries, in
terferred with the harvest of hay and
other crops.
Loggers report an Oversupply OF
men in the timber camps northeast
of. Rice Lake. Some time ago it was
feared that labor would be scarce and
hard to obtain, but at present many
men are being turned away daily.
More than 5000 men are employed
at camps in lower Sawyer county.
Present wages for woodsmen are $40
a month and maintenance. This is
an increase Of so per cent over year
ago.
The History of Langlade county,
compiled by Robert M. Dessureau, An
tigo, has just been published by the
firm of Berner Bros. This history
contains So chapters, beginning with
an epitome of state history, the In
dams, the life of Charlie de Langlade,
after whom the county was named,
pioneer life and conditions and in
county institutions and biographical
sketches.
Wisconsin has $500 miles of state
trunk highways, patrolled by 1000
men, and $4,000 miles Of county trunk
highways, of which $500 miles are
under patrol maintenance. Something
like $500 more miles are planned for
next year, the states share of the
general highway program being esti-
mated at approximately $4,000, 900.
The bond issue counties will do ST.
100000 worth of road work, as against
100000 this year.
Judge Silas Billiard, dean of the
Winnebago county bar, died at his
home in Menasha on his eighty-frst
birthday. Judge Billiard was presi-
dent of the First National bank of
Menasha, He served four years in the
state legislature and was appointed
county Judge by Gov. Davidson fol-
lowing the death of County Judge
Cleveland For six terms he was city
superintendent of schools. He was
knight Templar and was one of the
charter members of the Menasha club.
The power to appoint traffic police
men on state and county highways is
vested solely in the county boards of
the state, F. E. Bump, assistant at