Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-02-11

ever. He spoke of the financial re-
sources of the city, giving authentic
| figures. Half of the deposits in our
banks are time and savings deposits,
showing a thrifty class of citizens.
The pay rolls of our mills amount to
| $20, 600 per month, and the receipts of
the railroa Is at this station amount
to $25, 600 per month. Our merchants
are all prosperous and progressive.
Outside capital is now looking for in
vestment here, whereas few years
ago it could not be had
Harry Hall was introduced by the
toast-master as the Man of Mirth'
and made good his reputation by recit-
ing some of his dialect stories AS a
prelude he stated that as boy he
drove tote team twenty five-years
ago through the pine stumps where
now stands the city of Ladysmith
r. S. Johnson, superintendent of the
Menasha Wooden Ware Co., spoke of
the water powers of this section. He
cited the industrial development of his
native health in New England, and all
the great manufacturing center of the
middle west where the water powers
have been developed, as proof of the
great future in store for Ladysmith.
The growth of the cities of Wisconsin
along the Fox river and other streams
during the past thirty years has been
phenominal. Superior has grown from
1922 to 0,000 in population during that
period. The Chippewa river, 22O miles
in length, with its tributaries have a
vast number of undeveloped water
powers. Within radius of twenty
miles of Ladysmith there are twelve
possible hydraulic powers aggregating
$50 horse power that of
Niagara. Legislation is needed to pro-
mote the development of these powers
instead of retarding it.
j. w. McGiveran of Superior and Mr..
Gravelle of Duluth each spoke from the
standpoint of booster.
Col. w. r. Gillis, the engineer who
made the first survey for this line of
the Wisconsin Central, said that coming
TO Ladysmith was to him like coming
home. His faith in the future of Sup
erior and Ladysmith is unbounded. He
mas studied them both. In proportion
tO DcpJ1loti tho toppano Of rho S1p
eriOr port is seventy-fve times that of
London and fourteen times that of
Liverpool. He told how near Lady
smith came to losing the Wisconsin
Central, the most practicable survey
crossing the 500 five miles east of here.
1t was the water powers in this vicin-
ity that attracted it to this city.
Archie Barrett of Bruce, ex-presi-
dent of the Rusk County Fair Assn,
spoke as one of the pioneers of the
county, although young in years. He
said that when Ladysmith won the
county seat he could see that the bunch
of boosters located here were bound to
make a city, and it is only question of
time when Bruce and the other towns
of the county will be proud to be con-
sidered suburbs of Ladysmith. 1t is to
the interest of the whole county to
boost Ladysmith. AS an impartial
guest on both occasions, he testified
that Ladysmith had outdone Superior
in her reception of the visitors on this
occasion.
DR.. L. P. L. Gaillardet of Ingram,
our coroner, made the local hit of the
evening by referring in a tactful man
ner to our petty chickering's, and said
that we should put jealousy aside and
pull together for the good of all. He
has proved himself booster by erect
ing fine hospital at Ingram.
Edward L. Hanton, for twenty years
a resident of Superior, has seen her
ups and downs" He said knockers
should never be elected to office; it re-
quires ''broad guage," public spirited
leaders to make a success of any organ
ization.
W. S. Manning introduced a peril
nent subject which should be of interest
to boosters, in the matter of the pres
ent move at Madison for the abolishing
of the immigration bureau, which has
done such good work for North Wis
consin during the two years since it
was established.
G. E. Newman closed the program
of speech-making with most elo-
quent appeal for the rising genera
tion to ''go back to the farm" He
said we would labor in vain to build up
our cities if the adjacent farming coun-
try was not developed as well. He
quoted statistics showing the large
number of failures among business men,
and corresponding few among farmers.
The man with 100 acres of improv ed
North Wisconsin land is a king. The
dairy cow yoked with the energetic far
mer boy will soon make the pine stumps
disappear. Mr.. Newman opened his
remarks by making the assertion that
it was he who secured the Wisconsin
Central road for Ladysmith.
The assemblage dispersed at about
II o'clock, after more songs by the
glee club, accompanying series of
stories by the "Man of Mirth. :"
One of the most catchy of the SONGS