Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-23
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

Walter J. Kohler. of Kohler, was re-
elected president of the University of
Wisconsin board of regents. Ben F.
Faust, Eau Claire, was reelected vice
president, and M. e. McCaffery, sec
rotary. s~s
A fish bone, which lodged in his
throat several weeks ago, caused the
death of James Dougherty, jr., wide
ly known resident of Amherst Mr..
Dougherty died at st. Mary's hospital,
Oshkosh.
A number of buyers from Mime
sofa and Iowa last week purchased
three carloads Of Barron county
Guernseys, the business being
handled through the county associ-
alton.
More than 5000 Master Masons rep
resenting 200 lodges in Wisconsin at
tending the seventy-eighth annual
conclave, were present at Scottish
Rite cathedral, Milwaukee, when the
third degree was exemplifed by Wis
consin lodge Is.
With hog cholera breaking out
among the farmers stock in the vicin-
ity of Edgerton and Fulton, immedi-
ate steps have been taken to check
the spread of the disease. Imported
infected hogs are believed to have
started the disease in Rock county.
Mrs Joshua Hodgins. prominent in
club and social circles of Marinette
and state, has been named a trustee
Of Lawrence college, Appleton. Her
father, the late United States Senator
Isaac Stephenson, was generous
benefactor of the college.
An American Legion post whose
membership will include the entiTe
Fox River valley from Fond du Lac
to Green Bay, and whose activities in
behalf Of former service men will be
as broad in their scope as its MEM
bership is being planned by legion-
naires In Fond du Lac, Oshkosh and
Neenah. =.
The Irvine plant at the state prison
at Waupun is putting in overtime this
month to manufacture Irvine for what
Is now promising to be Wisconsin's
largest crop in years. The plant is
running until p. m. each day and
means, with a short time out fof sup
per. over two hSurs over time daily.
About 100000 lbs, will be the years
output and It is all sold and more.
Fifty-five bachelor degrees and five
special degrees of Doctors of Law and
Doctors of Divinity were granted to
students of the graduating class Of
Lawrence college by the president Of
the college, DR.. Samuel Plantz, at
the final exercises of commencement
| in combination with the 18th birthday
anniversary celebration of Lawrence
! college.
Cyril Alters, 10, living at PEBBLES,
near Fond du Lac, during storm,
strapped his radiophone headpiece on
and waited for concert waves. A bolt
of lightning struck the antena which
topped Cyril's home. 1t travelled down
the copper wire and knocked Cyril
unconscious. When he regained con-
seriousness he found he was uninjured
with the exception that the filings
were knocked from his teeth.
There is a loss for Wisconsin
school of over 5000 teachers yearly,
according to officials of the Wisconsin
Teachers association, who must be
replaced by new recruits. About 800
more teachers are needed each year to
take care of the increased number of
school children, it was said. Accord
ing to the association, it was con-
servative estimate to say that at least
1850 Of these new teachers are needed
for the country schools. >.
Jasper Cross, Indian farmer on the
Couderay reservation near Couderay,
Is the first one in this locality to In
stall radio telephone receiving set
Mr.. Cross has charge of the Chippewa
Indians on the reservation, acting un-
der Supt Craige of the Indian school
| at Hayward. The radio is a mystery
TO the Chippewa Indians who marvel
| at the music and speeches coming
out of the air. They just shake their
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