Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-11-12
ROUNDUP DAY
BIG CELEBRATION
Over 1900 People Come To Lady
smith and Are Entertained
i'm Various Ways

the first epoch in the Book of Land
Clearing" for Rusk county. 1t was
truly Il day Of celebration for by the
land clearing program carried out in
Rusk County's Million Dollar Land
Clearing Contest, the equivalent of one
new township has been added to the
value of the county besides the in
crease in crops which will come from
| the 7,1G0 acres cleared this year. Over
1900 residents from al parts of RuSk
county were in Ladysmith showing their
interest and appreciation of the re-
suits their county had accomplished
this year.
The days celebration began at II 80
when A. J. McAdams of the DUPONT
| Powder Co. pressed the lever that
raised fifty stumps i'll the air on the
Peter Barton farm south Of the city.
Approximately 400 people were pres
ent at this demonstration.
Immediately following the big blast,
the celebrators went to the highschoOl
i gymnasium where the War Mothers of
| Ladysmth supplied the hungry crowd
With an up-tO-date cafeteria dinner
| Through the untiring efforts OF these
| ladies over 1000 people were served in
| cafeteria style.
At , 80 Dean II. L. Russell of the
Wisconsin College of Agriculture gave
an interesting talk on the advantageous
| location which our own Badger state
enjoys. Wisconsin is ideally located
with regard to markets and marketing
facilities having direct connection with
the twin cities. Milwaukee and Chi
cage and if the proposed canal connect
ing the Great Lakes with the Allan
tic ocean materialiZeS, we will have
Ut least five more SO-called ocean ports
in Duluth. Superior, Ashland, Mani
towoc and Milwaukee. Another adj
vantage which Wisconsin enjoys is the
ideal climatic conditions. In our nor
tholm section we have neither the eX-
tremes of heat and cold nor wet and
dry. But perhaps our greatest advan-
tage lies in the fact that plant ana
animal diseases are very rare. This
is due in part to the climatic condition
and in part to the virgin soil. Dean
Russell entered a strong plea to the
farmers of RuSll county to keep plant
and animal diseases off their farms by
carefully watching their products and
using the simple treatments designed
for each disease. Mr.. Russell stated
that losses by disease in live stock ana
crops meant more to farmers i'll dol |
lars and cents then losses by climatic |
and soil conditions.
Following Dean Russell, f. G. !
Quamme. President of the Farm Fed |
nral Loan bank st. Paul, gave an in
tcreSting address on long and short |
reditS personal credits and money |
conditions in general over the United |
States. MI Quanime gave the audi |
apcp thrill when he stated that the |
next four years were going to be four |
good years but at the same time hard
wears. The period Of feadjuStment |
will commence at the beginning of the |
new administration and this will neces- |
state at least one hard year after |
which decline III prices will take place |
and living will once more return to the |
normal plane. This is indeed a word |
of good cheer and we are i'll hopes MI |
Ouammp has the right light on the |
subject.
c. L. Norgord. Commissioner Of Ag- |
viculture then awarded the county |
sweepstakes prize of forty acres OF |
land donated by the National Land |
Colonizing Company, to Vincent Was |
of Conrath. and second prize to John |
Boss. of Tony. This part of tie days
program is covered in another article |
appearing elsewhere Ill this issue.
The committee in charge of the cele- |
brati0n very wisely arranged an after |
noon program for the women and chill |
dren and those not interested iii the
addresses i'll the form Of movies" and
special sale bargains in the local
stores. NJ G. Martin, proprietor of the |
UNIQUE theater, run a continuous show |
all afternoon.
In the evening a smoker and infor- |
NAL meeting concluded the days pro- |
gram at the Army and Navy club
Iuell's orchestra furnished excellent |
music and instilled the pep into the |
smokers. w. A. Blackburn acted as |
chairman OF the evening. Ilc plc
vailed upon the following men for five |
minute talks which proved to be very |
interesting and instructive: Senator
E. H. Everett Racine; III. H. Funston
and f. w. Curtis. Minneapolis; +. S |
NcCabe, st. Paul; j. G. Packer and {. |
| p. Norgord and Dean II. L. Russell |
Madison r. NJ. Andrews, MenOminee |
Mich: John Swenehart, Bayfield,; A. |
MathewsOn, Wausaukee Fred Kasl. ii. |
NJ. Jones and J. E. Lee Stewart, Lady |
smith.
| During the course of the evenings |
discourse, Mr. Stewart posted a large
sign showing the amount OF dynamite
used in the county this season. to- |
| tal aggregate of 35S.000 pounds were
| fused in the county this season at an