Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-30
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

tpal court has ruled that persons con-
victed of driving automobiles while
Intoxicated will be given jail terms
Emil Setter, farmer living at May
vile, near Neenah, lost all of his
front teeth when his automobile
struck two calves and he was hurled
against the steering gear. The calves
were killed and the auto wrecked.
A jury in circuit court at Amigo
found Tom Quesenberry guilty OF MUIR
der in the second degree for shooting
Frank Virgins and Matt Brooks. The
shooting occurred at Lily April g.
Quesenberry contended he shot in
self-defense. He was sentenced to
serve Is years in Waupun prison.
The Sheboygan common council
passed a 100000 bond ordinance to
assist in constructing the second unit
of the new high school. The total
bonded Indebtedness of the city is
now $1,248,000 of which $65O,O0O is
for the construction of the new high
school.
A $250,000 addition to st. Mary's
hospital, Madison, has been announ-
ced Campaign for the funds will be
started Immediately. 1t is planned
that the addition shall house IS add1-
tional beds as a maternity hospltal
and the fund will provide for nurses
training school.
The house of correction, Milwau-
kee, will be the new home OF Racine
prisoners in the future, according to
arrangements made between the dis
trict attorneys of Racine and Milwau1
kee counties. A fee of $3.50 week
will be paid for each prisoner. The
Racine jails are filed to overfowing.
Sixty-eight years of debt, a mill
stone about the necks of the mem
bers of the Sheboygan Gymnastic So
ciety and the turn vere1n, as 1t was
formerly known, were formally cast
aside when a jubilee was held in COM
memoration of the burning Of the So
ciety's last mortgage on its building
and grounds.
twenty-five of the As inmates OF
the Green Bay reformatory whose
petitions for parole were considered
by the state board of control won
their freedom. This is the largest
number paroled at one time in many
years. Employment must be found
for the inmates before they are al
lowed to leave. The population at the
reformatory is ST., compared with 399
in January.
Recommendations for an increased
endowment new quarters for the col
lege boarding Club, and a new womens
dormitory to take the place of his
toric Goodrich hall, are included in
the annual report of Acting President
A. E. Whitford of Milton college. The
present endowment of $257,000 is far
too low, declares President Whitford,
and should be increased to at least
100000 within five years.
In an attempt to wipe out the fric-
ton that has existed in the Green Bay
fire department since Chief Sweeney
was forced to retire last fall, the fire
and police commission has appointed
Capt. Henry Falkner of engine house
No. / as fire chief. He will replace
Charles Kornowsky, who has been
filling in at the post for the past nine
months Kornowsky will again take
his place as assistant to the chief.
The already famous damage suit of
Dennis Fitzgerald, trustee of st.
Roses Catholic church, Racine,
against the Rev. John B. Petite, pas
tor of the parish, will probably be,
carried into court again, probably at
the September term of circuit COURT
Judge E. B. Belden has reduced the.
jury's award of $4,000 damages to:
$4,000, giving Father Petite the alter.
native of a new trial If he does not!
wish to pay the reduced damages. !.
Wages paid to hired farm hands are
approximately Is per cent lower than.
a year ago, the state crop service re-
ports. Average wages with board are
s34.1O a month, compared with $4,000.
as compared with s58 last year. The,
number of hired hands increased 49,
per cent during the month. The re-
port shows that ths number of work
ers is greater than at any time during
the last three years.
Jacob Marty, Rock county farmer,
in June, 1918, shipped carload Of
hay to a Chicago commission mer-
chant with instructions to sell at the
best market price. Accordingly the
hay was sold for $101.61. The firm
then presented Marty with bill for
s176.38, this being the total of freight
rates, commission charges and haul
ing. The commission merchants kept
the $1O161 and recently secured a
Judgment for the balance, STA and in
terest. The farmer is out 1872 for his
business enterprise, to say nothing of
the load of hay.
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