Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-09-24
FAIRVIEW
SPECIAL correspondence.

Special
Miss Gladys Delhi was home over
Sunday.
Chris Unger went to Bruce on
business trip Thursday.
Will Coleman and wife were Lady
smith business callers Thursday
Mrs Annie Delhi is having the
dwelling house on her farm painted.
Mrs Joe Gordon has been on the
sick list for the past two weeks, but
is better at this writing.
W. S. Grange is doing great deal
of clearing and stumping on his farm.
He soon will be able to realize profit
able investment from his farm.
| Quite number of farmers have be-
gun fall blowing Since the rain Sat
urday night there is sufficient moisture
in the ground to make blowing easy.
Glenn Gordon writes that he will
soon be home with his bride from South
Dakota. He has been out there thresh-
| ing small grain and the job is about
| finished now.
| Quite few folks from this vicinity
were Ladysmith business callers on
Wednesday. Among them were Mrs.
Mitchell Short, Mrs. Ed Turcott, Mrs.
JOS Holdread. John Moore, ST., and
George Grassl
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Burket have
| found a way to reduce the high cost
of meat. They have raised about 30
young Belgian hares this summer and
claim they are much better meat than
the wild rabbits.
| Wallace Grange is attending high
school in Ladysmith. He likes going
to school fine. Wallace being a home
10y. feels the Inconvenience of being
away from home. He most always
| comes home over Sunday.
Short Bros. have just completed
harvesting their onion crop. They
have about fifteen bushels. They
4 weighed twelve of the large ones and
they weighed eight pounds. These
onions were raised from homegrown
seed and were grown on an eighth of
an acre of ground.
w. f. Stone, road boss for Hubbard
township. and several men in the com
! munity have enlarged the ditch that
! drains the swamps west of the village
of Crane. This ditch being enlarged
VIII be an Improvement to this part OF
the road. The ditch was formerly too
small to carry away the water, es-
pccially in the spring when there was
heavy rainfall.
A. r. Shudlick purchased a large
wagon load of oats Saturday from Har-
old Delhi. Harold raised and threShed
several hundred bushels Of oats Of a
good quality on the home farm this
summer. George GrasSl and John
kObS also raised several hundred
bushels of good quality oats on their
farms this summer The hot, dry
weather did not do a great deal OF
damage to their oats.
Grant st. John has purchased a
good grade Guernsey COW from VIM
Abraham for the small sum of $4,000
He says the cow gives eight quarts OF
rich milk per day and he has only dry
feed for her now, and will not be able
to tell her true worth until she is on
green pasture in the spring. Mr. st.
John thinks there is nothing like milk
and butter on the farm TO help reduce
the high cost of living.
The farmers in this community are
friends of the partridge and they have
free range on the farms. They are
never mOlested in any way by farmers.
There was cOvey hatch raised within
ore hundred yards of w. s. Oranges
house and the other evening just before
dark men in an auto stopped in front
| Of his place and fired three shot into
the covey and so frightened the birds
that they flew and lit in his door yard.
1t would have been pretty tough for
those fellows if Mr.. Grange could have
found out who they were.