Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-01-27


town will be one mile north Of
Mountain
road has purchased the Waupaca-
Green Bay branch line for $4,000.
The purchase involves nine miles OF
track with siding, station at Wau-
paca and rolling stock. The line IS
between Waupaca and Scandinavia.
Art Johnson, alias Ben Sloan, was
arrested at Superior when he attempt
ed to pass 81 bill which had been
raised to $40, according to police, in
drug store. Johnson pasted
naught behind the 81 mark.
An effort to provide idle veterans
of the world war with jobs is to be
made by the American Legion pos
at Appleton, which has established an
employment bureau with a full time
director in charge.
An increase in the number of en-.
ployers' calls for men was noticed
last week when a total of AZ calls
were made at the Green Bay free en-
ployment bureau The woman's dlvi-
sion also noted an increase in the
number of calls, when 81 We're re-
ceived, 33 over the preceding week.
Within a few miles of the home
he had planned for himself and the
16-year-old bride he had found III
Lithuania, John Sadowski, 81, who
left Racine for Russia six months ago,
fell under the wheels of a train in
Chicago on the return journey and
died after his legs were severed.
Winnebago county will do no more
work this winter to keep the main
county highways open to traffic OF
automobiles, the road and bridge
committee of the county board OF
supervisors decided at special meet
ing. The cost of clearing away the
snowdrifts was unreasonable in pro-
portion to the general benefit, it was
decided.
jitney business is almost as great as
was the desire to get in is evidenced
by the number of carriers who with
drew from the motor bus transpor-
tation field during 1921. as shown by
the records of the railroad commits
sion. Approximately one-thiT of the
carriers who started in the business
during 1921 withdrew before the year
was over The majority of them say
that the high cost of operating
motor buses make the jitney business
Improbable.
How Appleton has changed from
solid closed shop city to an open shop
city was explained to the Master
Builders of Wisconsin in session at
La Crosse, by Henry Lauer, secretary
of the Appleton Builders association.
Mr.. Lauer advocated paying common
laborers good wages. He said build
ing tradesmen are plentiful at the
wages paid in Appleton. The open
shop policy in Beloit has been put
through so successfully, H. Morrill,
said, that the plumbers union has
only two members left.
Investigators of the state tax COM
mission the last year uncovered $410,-
900 in unreported tax returns, incfud.
ing about SIS 900 of soldier bonus
money, obtained through application
of a surtax on incomes. Gov. Blaine
has made $4,000 available to the
commission for prosecution of its in
vestigation. Hundreds of thousands
of dollars will be brought into the
state treasury and local treasures
that otherwise would have remained
uncollected, it is expected. The books
of large concerns in Wisconsin will
be gone over again by investigators
to check up reports to the commits
sion.
Mrs. Leona Sa.lstad Richardson,
bride of two weeks now, widow of
| Edward J. Sailstad, former president
of the defunct Multitone Manufacture
ing Co, who is said to have been
| burned 10 uSdIU Ill a Sumu1cL COIId6C
fire in 1920, will attempt to force pay.
ment of the $1,000 she believes due
her from four insurance companies
by filing suit in Eau Claire or in
Douglas county The companies re,
fuse payment upon the theory that
! Sailstad is still alive and the charred
/ bones, declared to have been his, were
planted" there by him. He eloped
with his secretary, Dorothy Anderson,
pretty Chicago stenographer. the
companies say.
The Milwaukee Federal prohibition
agents charged with manslaughter In
connection with the death of Julius
Wurzer in moonshine raid near
Elton voluntarily submitted to arrest.
They are represented by United
States Dist Atty. William Meilhan.
1 Preliminary hearing was set for Feb
i "a. Warrants were issued following a
decision by Dist. Atty. T. j. Reinert
Langlade county, to press the charge
to a finish. Precedence has been
given the case On the court calendar
to decide Immediately the question