Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-12

COLUMBUS at Pra1rle Qu Cnlen. Roy +.
Wilcox, Eau Claire. was one of the
principal speakers.
Brother and sister, Herbert and
Lillian Fischer, senior and junior class
members, respectively, In the Neenah
high school, won first honors in the
annual oratorical and declamatory
contests held at the school,
Contracts sent out to teachers of
the Wisconsin Rapids public schools
for the coming school year offer no in
creases in salaries except in a few
cases. There will be no general in
creases in salaries, Superintendent
Doudna announced
Increased electric rates were au
thorized by the railroad commission
for the municipal light system Of
Stoughton The raise brings the
charges to 10 cents for the first 80 kilo-
watt hours, 6 cents for the next 80
hours and 21a cents for all above so
hours. A minimum bill of 81 was set.
A nationwide movement to stamp
out the use of butter substitutes has
been launched in Outagamie county
by the county union of the American
Society of Equity and Cattle Breeders
association. An intensive advertising
and educational campaign will be
started. Other farm organizations will
be asked to assist.
Thomas Price, SO, pioneer resident
of Chippewa Falls 70 years and Civil
war veteran, died at his home in that
city. Mr.. Price served in the famous
Iron brigade and participated in II of
the most important battles during the
Civil war; Military funeral services
were held under the auspices of James
Comerford post, G. A. r.
The practice of some Wisconsin
banks to issue certificates of deposit
for the purpose of borrowing money,
paying higher than the published rates
of interest paid on regular deposits,
was held to be in violation of law by
Attorney General William J. Morgan,
in recent opinion. Marshall Cousins,
banking commissioner, informed the
attorney general that the practice of
issuing deposit certificates running
for specified times, was increasing in
the state.
John A. (Dogskin) Johnson, recent.
ly pardoned by Gov. J. J. Blaine after
serving ten years of life sentence
for the murder of 7.year-old Annie
Lemberger, Madison, in 1911, is not
entitled to compensation for false i'm
prisonment, Atty. Gen. Morgan held.
Johnson had asked $4,000 from the
state. The attorney general advised
Gov. Blaine that Johnson had "by his
plea Of guilty contributed to bring
about his conviction and imprison-
ment.
The Wisconsin highway commission
has received 731 automobiles and auto
trucks from the government war
salvage" report of the engineering
department states. This number is
81 more than was first allotted to this
state, Wisconsin's quick response to
the highway aid offer was the reason
for Uncle Sans extra generosity.
Trucks ranging from three-fourths
ton to six tons make up COL of the
vehicles, and the other 100 are light
passenger automobiles.
One of the cows, Milan's Light
Beauty, of the Jersey Crest farms,
owned by J. Fl. Berger and sons
Oconto Falls, has broken the Wiscon
sin state record in butter-fat produc
lion. This Jersey cow which is an
Oconto product, and only five years
old, produced 1904 pounds of mill
and 791.07 pounds of butter-fat in ONT
years test. During this period she
was MIXED three times a day and
averaged SO pounds of milk daily. She
has a previous record, when only three
years old. of 1912 pounds of mill
and 658.24 pounds of butter-fat in
year. !.
The 100000 Northern hotel at Chip
pewa Falls, given away by the Elks
at lottery July 4, 1921, remains the
property of the Chippewa Falls Hotel
Go. Peter Layman, who held the
lucky number Is out hotel, and the
forfeiture feature of the state lottery
law Is held unconstitutional, under
decision of Judge James Wickham, III
the suit of the state against the hotel
company and Layman to require for
seiture of the property. Judge Wick
ham held that the forfeiture section OF
the lottery statute does not afford
equal protection of the laws and as a
consequence is unconstitutional. He
held that the lottery law was valid in
all other respects.
Parents of children living more than
4 two miles from school, who are al
lowed by law to collect compensation
for transportation to and from school,
but who in former years failed to col
lect, may collect the sums due them
from former years, J. E. Messer-
schmidt, assistant attorney general,
declared in an opinion to State Super
intendent of Schools John Callahan.