Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-04-30
Flying Special Will Come Here
as Part of the War on
Stumps
HALF TON DYNAMITE
FREE TO FARMERS
Landing of Air Craft Will BE On
Thomas Farm, Near Fair Grounds
Two People ON Plane

Stumps are the recognized enemy
OF mankind in upper Wisconsin. They
must go, and be replaced by cows, clio
YER, and prosperity. We cannot much
longer endure them. An aerial raid
on these old monuments To the wood
| mans axe is planned by the f. |. du
POnt de NemOurs Company in COOP
Grafton with the State Land Clearing
Department, and every upper Wiscon-
sin booster has been cOnScripted TO
mobolize an army for united attack
on our common enemy-the stumpS.
Pilot Lieutenant H. b. Overly. with
his observer. Miss Dorothy A. Young,
OF Amberg, Wisconsin, will make the
raid on May 9th in one of the L.
ID. Frint Aeronautical Company's big
war planes. Armed with printed
messages to every farmer in upper
Wisconsin, the plane will course from
Wausaukee, Wis. to RhineIander,
thence to I.adysmith and Barron. All
along the course of flight the obSer-
yer will drop messages to every far
mer. urging him to enlist in the army
and help subjugate the stumps in the
wild land province.
Plan of Attack
Business men, bankers, merchants,
commercial clubs, newspapers, and
other upper Wisconsin boosters are al
lies in this war. At Wausaukee. l.. f.
Livingston, secretary of the Marinette
Land Clearing Assn. will start the
plane on its flight. The Laun Hard
ware Company, Of Wausaukee, has fur
nished ammunition" in the form of
credit certificates which will be
dropped from the plane and entities the
finder to % pounds of 20 percent Red
Cross Extra dynamite with which an
immediate attack will be commenced
At Rhinelander the Board of Trade,
County Agricultural Agent G. p. West,
and the Il. G. Wood Hardware Com
pany will receive the plane on its first
lap Here the Il. c. Wood Hardware
Company will repleniSh the "ammuni-
tom in the form of more credit
certificates" for cases of 20 percent
Red Cross extra dynamite. These will
DC NIOppcu NY Tic ObSVINCl ONCl
Oneida county and will be the signal
for the attack to begin there.
From there the plane will course
to RuSk county, and make landing at
the H. NJ. Thomas pasture one-half mile
north of Ladysmith, Wednesday after
noon, May :. On it's course over the
county, the plane will follow the 500
Line, passing over Hawkins, Ingram,
Glen Flora, Tony, Bruce, Ap0llOnia,
WeyerhaeuSer and Strickland.
All along the course over Rusk coun-
ty the observer viii drop land clearing
messages and credit certificates" for
still more dynamite with which the
farmers of the county may begin wag-
ing war on our common enemy-the
stumps and start us toward the goal
of 5000 More Cleared Acres in 1920"
Dynamite Given Away
At Ladysmith the "war" plane will
again replenish her ammunition. The
Il. j. Coon Hardware Company will
furnish eight 25-pound boxes of Red
Cross Extra 20 per cent dynamite, and
the Rusk County Land Gearing Con-
test will furnish thirty-twO 25-p0und
boxes of 20 per cent ammonia dynamite.
Five thousand bills will be dropped all
along the course of the plane over
Rusk county. Each bill has ON it an EN-
listment blank i'm Rusk county's $1,000
100000 campaign against our common
enemy-the Stumps. On the back OF
this bill there are two numbers. Each
bill is numbered. The top half Of the
bill must be presented at the II. j.
Coon hardware for the number TO be
registered. There are eight lucky num-
bers that will draw 25-pound box of
dynamite if that number is registered
at the hardware store before four
o'clock of the afternoon Of May 10. If
the exact number is not registered, the
next higher number to ii will draw the
box of dynamite. These numbers must
be registered by man living on farm,
and he cannot register but one number.
The eight lucky numbers will be placed
i'm sealed envelope in trust of the Sec
retary of the Land Clearing Contest,
H. M. Jones.
The bottom half of the bill has the
same number. This is to be presented
or mailed TO the Land Clearing Contest
director, county agents Office not later
than four o'clock of the afternoon of
May 10. There are thirty-two lucky
numbers. Each lucky number or the
nearest higher number to it entities the
holder to % pounds of 20 per cent am
mOnia dynamite. If you are not
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