Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-13
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
DANCY.

The wet weather of the past week
was bad on grains ready to harvest,
but is keeping the potatoes, pastures,
ETC., in fine growing condition.
Quite a number of land sales are re-
ported throughout this locality and
very good prices are being realized.
Miss Hattie Heise, one of the facul-
ty of the Henshaw Conservatory of
Music, Chicago, and most talented
pianist and violinist, together with
Mr.. Russell, leading vocalist of Chi
cago. and Miss Evelyn L. Knoller of
this village, a recent graduate of Pia-
no course from Hinshaw Conservatory
will be heard in concert at Grand Rap
ids opera house, Wednesday evening,
the 2lst inst. They will also give
concert in Stevens Point during the
same week. Many from here will at
tend.
M. FL. Altenburg is getting material
on the ground for fine new barn,
36x60, which he will erect on his farm
at this village at once.
John w. Glennon, the genial assist
ant editor of the Stevens Point Ca
zette, with his wife and daughter,
visited couple of days recently with
A. E. Dafoe and family at their fine
farm home near this village and were
welcome callers among Dancy friends.
G. t. Knoller and wife, in company
with j. j. Hebron and wife, of Stevens
Point, in Mr.. Heffron's fine new Cadil-
lac touring car, made tour of Portage
county recently, reporting a most
pleasant trip. Going south from Ste
vens Point, they passed through the
towns of Plover, Buena Vista and
Belmont, and returned through the
towns of Lanark and Stockton-also
passed through the towns of Hull,
Linwood and Enterprise. Hay in
many parts of the county was fail
ure and oats, excepting in the Buena
Vista drainage district, did not look
good-but potatoes and corn are great.
Potatoes, especially, promises fine
crop. At Plover a party is expert
menting raising alfalfa, with fine sue
cess. The second crop had just been
harvested, and with fair fall weather,
he will harvest one more and proba-
bly, two crops yet this season. To
raise alfalfa successfully it is necessa-
.ry that the seed be inoculated with a
bacteria which can be purchased for
this purpoSe-Or can be gotten by TAX
ing some soil where the alfalfa had
been grown and scatter it through the
seed prior to sowing. 1t will not
thrive in marshy, damp soils being
just the opposite to timothy. The al
falfa field of which / have been speak
ing, was not sown with any grain or
nurse crop. In the town of Belmont
Hebron located the first Polish family
twenty years ago, lands at that time
being So per acre, which are now $35
and $50. With the advent of the first
family he built Catholic church,
small wooden structure, which is still
standing in its stead an elegant
new brick church is used to accommo-
date the 100 or more Polish families,
which Mr.. Hebron has since located
there, nearly all being originally Chi
cago people-and now are fast becom-
ing wealthy through the potato cul-
ture, as there is little dairying in that
part of the county. All one could see
on the entire trip was elegant farm
homes, barns and well cultivated
crops, that made one feel that the
people through that locality need have
little fear of the high cost of living
but with all, we saw nothing that
looked any better to US than right
here at home.