Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-01-27
WISCONSIN news
important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

mission. The cut amounts to approx
mately 10 per cent.
Births nearly tripled the number
Of deaths in Neenah during the year
1921. There were 268 Of the former
and but ninety-two OF the latter. Cupid
trails in the vital statistics column
with a record of but fifty-one mar
riages.
Col s. P. Schadel, rs, and his wife.
II, were married 55 years ago Sat
urday, Jan. a. Many friends helped
them celebrate the anniversary. The
whole SIS years, except the time occu'
pied by the honeymoon, has seen them
residents of Monroe Mr.. Schadel
started out as carpenter, clerked in
a store, owned a store of his own,
and got his military title in the
Spanish American war.
Nearly $2,00O,000 was expended in
La Crosse for improvements during
the year 1921 A record breaking
number of new residences were con-
own and in some banks increased;
three new schools were built or start
ed, to cost 100000; 13 miles OF old
macadam streets were surfaced, and
only four business failures were
recorded in the city during the year.
The population at the state reform
Do SC RI a
slight drop from the record number
reached last month. However, accord
ing to Supt. Oscar Lee, enough men
have been committed in the last few
days to bring the population above
that figure. 1t was only in the last
year that the number of inmates pass
ed the 800 mark. The new south wing
which will be ready about July ! is
expected to accommodate 300
Andrew Kalenbach who was re-
appointed recently as postmaster at
Potosi, is the son of Celestine Kalen-
bach, who was named postmaster of
Potosi by President Martin Van
Buren,. The father Of the present in
cumbent held office for nearly fifty
years. PotOsi was first known to the
early settlers of southwest Wisconsin
as Snake Hollow. When the elder
Kalenbach died the office passed on to
his son who has been postmaster for
thirty years, so that all told the office
has been in the Kalenbach family for
eighty years.
The membership Of Eagle post, G. A.
r., Eau Claire, is fast fading, accord
ing to post records. OF the original
membership of 438, only As remain.
Two hundred and twenty have died
as members of the post, while 40
others either have been transferred
or have dropped their memberships.
It is known that a considerable num-
Der of these also are dead. During
1921 - members died. Eagle post
was named after the famous eagle
company from Eau Claire, which
carried the war eagle, Old Abe
The famous Lang murder trial is
to be reopened, according to Attorney
a. E. Buckmaster, counsel for Frank
Lang, who was found guilty of the
murder of Charles Pacini, motion
picture king of Kenosha. Lang, at
his trial, repudiated a confession
which he alleged had been forced
from him by the Kenosha police. The
state supreme court has returned the
700-page history of the case, directing
that it be cut to 100 pages and init
mating that the appeal for a new trial
would then be given immediate con
sideration.
The year 1921 was record-breakel
for the stone quarries at Lannon
Waukesha county. Twenty-Five hun
dred carloads of crushed stone were
shipped and several hundred carload;
were hauled away on trucks, making
a total of 5000 cars. With an aver
age of 40 cubic yards to the car, tht
total is 100000 cubic yards In ad
dition to the crushed stone, more thar
1000 carloads of curbing were shipped
to Wisconsin cities, besides severa
hundred carloads of building stone
Hundreds of men were employed il
the quarries during the summer.
Farmers on the Oneida Indian res
ervation met at Green Bay and I'm
animously Endorsed the plan OF Brown
County Agent Kavanaugh TO plan
only certified potatoes. 1t is estimated
that the Oneida acreage will yiel'
about $500 bushels. This is MI
Kavanaugh's second move in the bel
ter potato campaign. Last year tn
Suamico town growers switched owe
to AL seed and their crop brough
about 40 per cent larger return. Thi
fact was put before the Indians an
fastened their plan to get away fror
the scrub variety. The reservatio
land is fertile potato soil, accordin
to agriculturists and practically a
the Indian farmers are going to pu
their best land in potatoes.
The La Crosse county board of 81
pervisors voted to cease paying boul
ties on foxes killed in that count.
on the ground that foxes are not til