Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-28
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

GtrOyeQ the large 0arn OF waiter
Reichsteiuer on his farm east Of
Monticello. The loss was about So, 900.
Judge George Grimm at Jefferson
granted a divorce to Mrs Mabel Cui-
bertson, Ripon, from Henry Coe Gull
bertson, former president of Ripon
college. whose present address is un-
known.
! William D. Kendley, 81, ended his
life at the home OF his brother, near
Green Bay, by taking poison. 1t is
said he was respondent over damage
he caused in runaway on his
brothers farm.
!. Mrs G. r. Davidson. Peshtigo. was
probably fatally injured when her car
became stalled ON railroad crossing
passenger train. Both Of her arms
and both legs were fractured.
! Coal prices jumped from so cents
to $1.26 per ton in one day in Superior
as a result Of threatened shortage.
The increase brought soft coal prices
up to 1925 per ton, while buckwheat
coal scared to $40.
Adulterated whiskey and colored al
-cohol is being sold as liquor Of me-
dicinal benefit to hundreds of sick
persons In Wisconsin, according to
statements by federal prohibition en-
forcement officers.
The 1922 Wisconsin commercial po-
tato movement is expected to be TO-
800 cars, the Wisconsin crop reporting
service estimates. This estimate is
based on July l conditions. The 1921
commercial crop totaled 1880 cars,
compared to 1880 cars of the 1920
crop.
Three new school buildings will be
erected in Langlade county this year.
They include a high school building
at White Lake to cost from 100000 to
$4,000 and district school buildings
In the towns of Villas and Upham. All
will be of advanced type of construc-
ton.
| At the meeting of the League of
Wisconsin Postmasters in Wausau, the
following officers were reelected:
President, Frank Poll, Almond; vice
president, w. H. Froelich, Jackson;
secretary and treasurer, w. A. Koch,
Brillion At the convention it was
urged that salaries of postmasters and
rural carriers be increased.
Two men entered the home of Harry
Kistner, six miles from Menomonie,
forcing him at the point of revolvers
hands and feet together behind his
/ back They then ransacked his house,
taking $3.50 in cash, and after threat
/ ening to burn the house down if he
made an outcry within an hour, they
escaped in an auto.
Frank Lang, who served Is months
Of a 20-year term on charge of STAY
! ing Charles Pacini, wealthy Kenosha
theater owner is free man. Lang's
attorneys contended he could not be
held for second trial since the state
supreme court had held that his con-
fession was incompetent testimony.
District Attorney Symonds admitted
that without the confession there was
no evidence sufficient to hold Lang.
Compounds of skim milk and cocoa
nut oil were outlawed in Wisconsin
when the state supreme court upheld
the constitutionality of the filled milk
/ law enacted by the 1921 legislature.
! The decision was in a suit brought
by the Carnation Milk Products COM
pany to restrain J. @. Emery, state
food commissioner, from enforcing the
law. 1t is said that several conden-
series have threatened to dismantle
their Wisconsin plants If the law were
upheld.
Action which will determine, the
validity of the 1eclamatory relief
statute and the STANDARDIZATION and
inspection provisions of the Wisconsin
marketing law has been begun by
Alvin G. Refs, counsel for the depart
ment of markets. Mr.. Refs filed &C
ton to have the Dane county circuit
court declare he is not liable to crimi-
nal prosecution for false Imprisonment
for causing the arrest of persons who
pack Wisconsin cheese without in
| spection and later ship 1t out Of the
state.
An order confirming the report of
the commissioners of the Pensaukee
drainage district and directing those.
In charge to proceed with the project
with all convenient speed has been
signed by Judge GRASS, following a
hearing In Green Bay circuit court
The Pensaukee drainage district con-.
tains $4,000 acres of land in Brown,
Oconto and Shawano counties, of
which approximately $4,000 acres are.
in need of better drainage. The rec
ommendation calls for the expenditure,
of $4,000 in open bitches and water
gateways, the biggest drainage inn
provement ever attempted in north