Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-01

Hm0nB tue new <SS Branches sOf the
boys and girls work in Rock county
Tor the comir 4g year. The organiza-:
ton OF the club will be. made at the
suggestion OF T. L. Bewick, state d.
rector. rsefs:stss :.s-s.'. Yean =
Tne Ondossagon school at Banks.
aaie' near Ashland, has been closed
ON recount OF several cases Of small
pox which broke out in the school.
Precautionary measures were taken
to prevent the spread of the disease
and all of the children in the school
were vaccinated. IA sp5 ~ s.a'.-#
! Over $4,000 was the amount of loss
resulting from a fire which destroyed
the large barn on the farm of the
Wisconsin Sheep & Dairy: Cattle Co.,
near Phillips. The building contained
over three hundred tons of hay and
all the straw from fifteen acres of
peas. lass f<s.t ...-..s #st.s@
The Wisconsin Industrial commits
sion submitted its budget to the state
board of public affairs calling for ex-
penditures during the next two years
of $336,840 in 1923-24 and $33S,950 in
i924-25. These requests represent an
increase from $302,579 spent in 1921
% and $319,723 to be spent in 1929.
The Langlade Creamery company,
Amigo, will soon begin the manufac-
lure of cream curd cheese. The for
mer bottling house of the Amigo
Brewing company is being converted
INTO cheese factory and will be en-
:arged in the spring by the addition Of
4 second story. An output of a car
Dad week is contemplated.
The Marathon county board of SUI
2ervisors adopted a tax budget Of
1928, 503.68, which is $145,11S.91 less
Than year ago, and this in view of
the fact that the estimated revenues
IF county will be about $4,000 less
than last year. The lower budget was
made possible by reduction of $4,000
In state tax, elimination of $40,639
paid last year as county's share OF
state aid road projects.
A new pine crop is about to be de-
veloped in northern Wisconsin. Sew
oral million feet of logs at the bottom
Of the Wisconsin river and tributary
streams in Lincoln, Oneida and other
counties, are to be salvaged by the
Lower Michigan Log Salvaging Co.
The work will require several weeks.
Some of the "deadhead" logs have
been at the bottom Of the streams for
B5 years and are of the best white
logs obtainable at that early day.
The North Western railway bridge
at Mud Creek, washed out by the
floods of last June, is to be replaced
at once with a permanent structure.
At the annual church meeting of
the First Universal church, Wausau,
Judge A. H. Reid, Cyrus c. Yawkey
and former Senator. A. L. Kreutzer
were reelected trustees The church
was established fifty years ago and
plans are being made for an elaborate
semi-centennial celebration.
A $4,000 appropriation, to be known
as contingent fund of the district
attorneys office, proposed in reso-
luton introduced before the Wood
county board, was passed by a vote
of twenty-five to eighteen. While the
fund is appropriated for the purpose
of enforcing all laws of the state in
this county, it is especially designed
to bring about more rigid enforcement
Of the prohibition laws and to, check
the practice of mixing alcohol and
gasoline.
Only the timely arrival on the scene
of battle of Arthur Schlieve and Ralph
Hutchens, deer hunters of Chippewa
Falls, saved the life of a settler at
Ojibway from being trampled to death
by an Infatuated doe, whose fawn the
settler had shot. The hunter had
mistaken the fawn for buck and had
wounded 1t. He drew his knife and
bent over the animal, when he was at
tackled by the mother doe, who struck
out viciously with her sharp hOofs.
The settler was suffering from deep
gashes from the hoofs of the doe when
and drove off the attacking animal
A reflection of optimism in the dairy
industry was seen in Waukesha when,
at the annual sale, of the Waukesha
Holstein association, a record attend
ance of buyers was present, and the
average sale price for animals reached
1919, surprising increase over the
average In the last year or more. Sale
officials also stated that practically all
purchases were for cash, and the
notes which characterized sales Of
other years were conspicuously absent
Sixty-five pure bred animals were sold
and the total amount paid by buyers
was 1,180.
The time is coming around again
when all doctors and druggists will
have to obtain new permits from the
state prohibition commissioner before
dealing in intoxicants, w. Stanley