Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-01-22
THE SNOW

donning her fluffy gown Of white. All
day long, Saturday, the snow-that
airy miracle of frozen fog and mist
that began Friday night-was watt
ed down. until Sunday morning the
whole landscape presented and in
distinguishable blur. A new earth,
in a sense, confronted the eye, the
old world of our frets and worries,
SCARED and stained with human toll
and crime, having been covered over
like a "foregiveness of nature
with one vast emblem of purity and
peace. And what fantastic artistry
there was to be seen.
"The old familiar sight of ours
Took marvellous shapes; strange
shapes and towers
Rose up where sly or cOrn-crlb stood,
Or garden wall, or belt of wood;
A smooth white mound the brush-pile
showed,
A fenceless drift where one was
road;
The well-curb had a Chinese roof;
And even the long sweep, high aloof,
In it's slant splendor seemed to tell
| Of Pisa's leaning miracle"
With the coming of the snow,
there seemed to run a thrill of life
through every artery of business as
we'll as pleasure. All kid-dom was
out, punctually, tumbling or being
tumbled about in the drifts, in
ecstacy of glee. Youths and maid
ems shuttled by with buoyant step,
their cheerier voices and ringing
laughter seeming to bespeak earnest
negotiations of sleigh-rides, coasting
and dancing parties, ct cetera.
| Three and one-half inches of snow
fell Friday and Az Saturday night.
1t is reported to be, in places, 112
feet deep, but no interference with
railroad traffic, by drifting, has been
heard of in this section.
It's arrival was like the oxygen
treatment" in the revival of trade
and teaming traffic. The streets
seemed at once to bristle with loads
of astonishing dimensions-of
wood, and from astonishing dis
tances.
Bolts, also, are appearing in much
larger quantities, and logs are eX-
Innctod tn foI1ow SION
The Wiergor lumber camp, which
has been pursuing policy of
watching and waiting" as regards
the snow, started up hauling logs
Monday, as it, like the smaller
camps, does not follow the practice
Of making a road for shedding, by
flooding it with water.
Two ladies came down town Sun
day with skis. Also, there were
about two score young folks enjoy
ing the pastime on Coleman's hill,
south of the city, the same day
A number of business men inter
viewed, state that the improved
roads have added stimulus to trade,
and for all the merchants, the sleigh
bells naturalization, that SO must
cally swells," has a golden sound, for
| there is no doubt that it is but a
matter of time until it's pulsation
will be felt in the circulation of the
whole business organism.
The Peoples let Co. had been
clearing away the snow but decided
Monday-on the principle that there
is nothing in making two bites of a
cherry" to wait until the storm
let up.
| The storm brought out one of the
smoothest pieces Of mechanism-the
design of e. H. Miller, of the Peder-
son Furniture Store-to be seen on
these, or any streets 1t is as yet
without a name, but if we were re-
quired to make a pass at christening,
it would be to the effect that it is
a cyclo-sled baby carriage; in 9th
er words, an inter-convertible means
of baby locomotion, with which, by
the mere working of a lever, the
wheeling, may be changed to the
sliding form of transportation, or
vice versa. And as to it's facility
and convenience, a polliwog changing
it's tail into pedal extremities
wouldn't seem to have anything on
the contrivance