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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-20
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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09
Lester Riley Built Fine, New Barn

| Lester Riley Built Fine. New Barn
| Lester Riley came to Rusk county
| as young man. II dozen years ago and
| lives on his 10J-acre farm a cooplo Of
miles west Of Glen Flora He has over
| twenty acres under the pillow and thlr-
| ty acres more brushed and seeded. The
| balance Of his land is in pasture with
some timber on it. He has il good
house and has just built a new barn
| that is now enclosed. This furnishes
an eight foot stone basement, 34X6O,
This barn has balloon roof" Which
is out of the ordinary in this section
of the state.
| Mr.. Riley raised Il couple of acres
of peas last summer that did fairly
we'll He raises thirty to forty tons
I of hay per year which is his best pay
| ing crop. About thirty head Of cattle
ana a good team are kept ON this farm
One Of Ruslx CO,mty's Fine Farms
Henry Hanson is farming his faith
ers 1O0-acre farm. two miles west Of
Glen Flora. His father, Olaf Hanson,
moved to Glen Flora and bought lit
tic home and left his son on the farm.
The land is nearly all cleared ana
around sixty acres have been plOWed.
There is Il barn 34x100. and a good
house on this farm.
4 good. big bunch Of cattle are kept
and three horses do the farm work.
There are numerous other good build
EingS. such as machine shed. granary,
and hog house
This is one Of the best farms in Rusk
county.
Oldest Settler Has Good Farm
Carl Swanson is the oldest settler
in the territory. two miles northwest
of Glen Flora. having landed i'll Rusk
county twenty-five years ago. He OWas
eighty acres Of land about 0nc-third OF
which has been plowed and the bal
ance is in pasture. He has a good, big
house and his barn is about 30X30. He
milkS ten 10 a dozen COWS and keeps
his best young heifers.
Lost Out In Iowa; Made Good Here
Hill Johnson has lived on his 30
Iacrc farm near Glen Flora for the past
: twenty years He lost out in Iowa dur
ing the Cleveland hard times and came
here to cast his lot i'll Il now country
that was then Il wilderness.
He had TO hew out his farm from
1.-THE forest, and he had TO work hard
land plan carefully to make both ends
Inject His land is all improved except
Item acres which is left for a wood lot
land il in pasture The balance Of the
farm is ploWed and in meadow. He
keeps eight COWS and some young
stock Three horses are also Kept on
this farm.
Wairath Farmers Have Been Busy
Building
Fmmannel Borntragcr, one Of the
king bees i'll the OmiSh settlement at
Walrath told the farm editor last week
that the colony there had been busy
clearing garden patches and putting
IMP their buildings during the past SUM
mer and fall. Now that this work is
done they intend 10 clear their land
on the Rusk county plan and get it
seeded to grass for pasture and hay.
They will also break some Of the land
for potatoes and other crops as Mr.,
BOrntrager says they believe i'll rails
ing little Of everything. Gardens
were generally good in that neighbour
hood this year and these people are
good gardeners so most of them have
plenty Of vegetables and spnds for the
| winter
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09
DAIRY FARMERS
KEEP US GOING

The prosperity Of central Wisconsin,
as compared with conditions elsewhere.
is apparently an object of greater won
der TO people outside Of this section
than to the inhabitants Of il. observes
the Owen Enterprise 1t is also more
striking perhaps than we who live
here realize In an article in The
billboard, the theatrical digest and 70
view of the show world writer calls
attention to the strong financial con-
dition OF this section of the state. He
says:
While on Il trip through Wisconsin
Il few weeks ago this situation was
brought out wildly Ny first stop was
at Neillsville. Il city Of 1000 population
and being Interested in theatrical con-
ditiOllS / attended presentation Of
bringing Up Father by an exceeding
ly mediocre company, Including a half
dozen scrawny untalented chorus mis-
fits The opera house which seats ap-
prOXimately 900 was damned 10 the
doors, the top seats selling at %1.l0.
In talking the following day with Sc1
, eral who attended the show. ] was
surprised to learn that not one had Il
kick to offer. each considering the bill
as excellent and well worth the price.
Three days later (0n Sunday in
! this same town Il ball game between
| two nearby towns was staged. More
than 1000 automobiles passed through
the gates ut the fair grounds where
| the game was played. Motor parties
! from II radius of fifty miles were
there with money-dairy money, the
kind of money they spend and spend
| freely.
| IN the midst of this Il moving pic
turc theatcr is playing TO good bust
ness and Il new photoplay house is
nearing completion.
| SO this is hard times. On asking
one Of the residents there that ques
| ton he laughed and said: Say. W.
don't know there is any business:
slump But It's the dairy farms
around here that keep us going"
Then he pointed to half dozen con
struction projects under way as fur
! Their evidence that there was no seri
ouS depression in the community;
| commercial life
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09
BRUSH WHOLE FORTIES
ON RUSK COUNTY PLAN

John f. Curtis. of Ingram, broke
four acres Of new land this year and
pl0wed up % acres more for the first
crop. Besides he has broken five acres
for Henry Ross and three acres for
Phillip Kaiser on their farms near In
gram
Mr. Curtis says that the Rus!z
County Plan is being adopted by set
tiers in his community and tells 4"
new settlers who have built Il shacl;
and brushed nearly all of their tort Y
during the past season. He thinks this
is big improvement over the process
Of finishing the acres as they go as the
whole forty will be producing gra IS
fur pasture next year if seeded early
in the spring. and the logging, Level
ling and burning dead srumpS can fol-
low next year after which the few Sc
naming stumps can be bowed out and
complished by breaking when the land
will be ready for the operation.
Garner and Meyers are working to-
gcther and each own a forty near IN
two farms are nearly all brushed as
the first seasons work. This land Will
make good pasture next year and
should be fenced and seeded early.
Jerry Kipp built shack and start
ed brushing on his forty. two miles
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09

north of Ingram last spring. He hired
two men for Il month and with his own
work has his forty nearly brushed
Logging. burning dead stumps. and
levelling will be the next operation
hut grass seed should be sowed on ali
of this land carly in the spring.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09
BIG LAND OWNER
IMPROVING LAND
W. A. Liebhardt, Who Owns a
Large Tract of Land in the
Eastern Part of Rusk County,
IL Building and Clearing

W. i. Liebhardt has sixteen head or
cattle on his 3GO-acre farm, four miles
northwest of Hawkins. Alfred q.
Donald is running the place and is do
ing well.
4 new house, 22x3O, with full base
ment, will he built on this farm next
year.
This land was logged off years ago
and q heavy fire was run over 1t a
dozen years ago, after which it was
seeded. The land belonged TO the lare
&. K. Ellington, who believed in burn
ing the land over after logging and
when his camps broke up in the spring
he gave the men work seeding land
that had been fired. In spite of this,
this land grew new crop OF brush
which the cattle arc now thinning our,
and as the sunlight is let in the clover
is coming again, fine and thick. TflS
is conclusive evidence that Rusk cOun-
Nv Is a wonderful clover country, and
that clover seldom kills out on our cut
over land that is not entirely cleared
and where it is once sOwed 1t will take
possession Of the land as soon as given
Il chance.
There are thirty acres OF land plOwed
on this farm and twenty acres more
are ready to plow or level for grass
Mr.. Liebhardt also owns 96O acres
Of land, three miles southwest Of Hawk
ms on which he has chopped off fort!
acres during the two years he has
owned ii. He has log house, 20X:U
which has five comfortable living
rooms in it, There is another small
log house and a fine new frame house.
OH this land.
Mr.. Liebhardt intends TO brush oil
lot more land next year and seed il
TO grass for pasture. As he is IN oil;
>tockman he will run cattle on this
land as soon as he gets il ready s.
that he can make profit from the
venture.
Clarence EAlingsOn says that he ley
elled some new land on his farm nea,
Hawkins and seeded it as per the
Rusk county plan, and he believes tha
10 be a good system. Mr.. EllingsOn hl,
fine farm and owns one of the bes
lunches Of farm horses in the county
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09

RusL county is represented In The
dairy course at the University of Wis
consin by Arthur r. Steubs. Of Lady
smith Forty-nine other Wisconsin
counties have representatives in the
enrolment
MantowOc heads the list in mum
Der Of representatives, being followed
closely by Lincoln, Langlade, Chip
pcwa. Clark, and Bayfield,. Seven 9th
or states and three foreign countries
are represented by students: Illinois
with four. Indiana and Pennsylvania
with two each, idaho, Iowa, Ohio and
Virginia with one each. Japan, Italy
and Switzerland afe the foreign coun-
tries represented.
The present enrolment of more than
100 surpasscs that of any previous
year in the dairy course.
OF unusEal interest is the enroll
ment of one young lady Her father
is the owner Of a cheese factory, but
being deaf could not attend the meet
ingS himself, and so sent his daughter
ia learn the latest methods in dairy
ing.
Wisconsin conducted the first dairy
course ever held in America The in-
stitution has since served as q model
for many other states.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09
CONTEST LETTERS
On General Farm Subjects


We are all more or less drcamerS
whether we hit the pipe or not.
My dream is of the coZy, small farm
home so modern that the term. farm
drudgery, will be Il thing of the past.
Let's dream of the little farm we'll
titled, the little wife well willcd and
great riches.
The little bungalow with nice, wide
porches. comfortable porch furniture,
and nice lawn, these things are just
as good and help 10 make a home pref
ty on farm as we'll as in town
\ furnace will warm the farm home.
making every one comfortable and we
the long winter evenings when neigh
Dor Jones and family drop in and We
are all enjoying ourselves eating pop
corn. 'lasses candy and those delicious,
home grown apples.
And now that the country is dry e.
eryOnc has taken TO drinkingso lets
have some pure, Wisconsin water
forced into the house Don't let your
wife carry it in. she may not like farm
ing if you do.
Our farm is small so each acre must
be productive \ few acres Of cabbage
will make a nice cash crop and if the
family is large a few acres of sugar
beetS will keep everyone employed.
\ small herd of registered Guernsey
COWS will furnish cash crop of cream
each month. while the flock Of full
| blood Plymouth Rock hens will keep the
table supplied with fresh eggs and a
weekly supply for our city cousins
My. hut you would he surprised what
an appetite those city folks have fOl
| homegrown eggs gathered With dew
ON. They will also part with real cash
| for carly green corn, nice red ripe 10
matoes, the big Juicy watermelons
and golden muSkmclons. | believe most
of them are fond of the delicious straw
berry especially when made into !
short-cake (sO long, Smothered witt
Guernsey cream whipped TO n FRAGILE
The time is now The placc-RuSf
county. Opportunity knocks once Fl
every mans door Are you going t.
wait for yours to be kicked III?
The alarm clock is ringing-mA
dream is at an end hut when we go I
farming my dreams Will All come true
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09
TO CONSOLIDATE OR
NOT TO CONSOLIDATE

Big Falls and northwest Dewey plan
TO transport their children to Dairy
Center, where they will attend school
as soon as the basement OF the school
house can be fixed up and the ncces-
sary fixtures installed and teacher
hired School will probably start right
after the first Of the year for the new
scholars.
Big Falls has golden opportunity
to establish consolidated school IL
Dairy Center that would be a dandy,
and starting now they would save the
vast expense of building a one-r0Om
schoolhouse on every two-mile corner
that will be absolutely necessary in a
very few years.
We believe q consolidated school at
Dairy Center which is now the center
Of the population the town OF Big
Falls would attract very desirable
lot of settlers as the better class 81
farmers want good schools for THEN
children and many come from Indiana
and other states where consolidated
schools have taken the place of the one
room school
1t is a known fact that land values
are higher and farm homes are better
where good, big consolidated schools
are established and the taxes are about
| the same. 1t would be well for the
people Of Big Falls to give this matter
every consideration while the project
is wide open and before expenses
start
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09
BUY YOUR HARNESS
IN RUSK COUNTY

Chris Thompson. Ladysmith's VET
eran harness maker told us Saturday
shat an Iowa man bought pair OF
brides from him to take home with
him.
This man, who will move here next
spring. said that the Iowa dealer told
him to buy his harness before moving
10 Rusk county as he would surely Ee
held up if he didn't.
He compared prices with the result
that ne saved $500 on the pair of bri-
dies he bought from Mr.. Thompson.
Complete harnesses are much cheaper
here than in Iowa and one might 10
we'll 10 sell the old ones there and
buy new ones here that are made for
this country. after he gets here.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09
INSTALLING WATER SYSTEM

Nate Hand is installing Il water SyS
TEN and putting in DePicr drinking
cups i'm his barn on his farm a mile
northeast of Ladysmith.
This farm contains 40 acres and i
practically all cleared The barn i!
3Gx40 with il full stone basement. The
house is 1SX24 with Il lcan-to. 12X11
There is a woven wire fence aroun'
the whole forty.
Seven purc-bred HOlstcinS and sever
pure-bred Yorkshire hogs are ON the
farm. This is one of the best LITTLE
farms in RuSk county.
Joe Siblcy is the tenant and tho
farm is rented on fifty-fifty basis
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09

Many men dig their graves with
their teeth. Constipation is terrific
curse. Stagnant decayed matter in the
stomach and bowels may cause Scri-
Gus trouble Take HOLLfSTER )
GOLDEN NUGGET TABLETS for con-
stipation before it is too late Results
guarantecd.-G riffin's drug store.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09

More than GO per cent of the men
students earn at least part OF their
expenses at the University Of Wiscon-
sin.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09
GLEN FLORA FARMERS
HAVE fine FARM HOMES

The Few Farmers Mentioned
Below From the Glen Flora
Territory Are a Good Illustra-
ton of the Kind of Farmers
That Live in that Community
and the Progress they are
Making
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-09
PRAISES CORRESPONDENT

Frank Helm says that Ladysmitl
people are missing something if they
fail 10 read the West Marshall CORE
spondcnce that appears each week il
the News-Budget. Frank says he does
not believe there are many farmer
subscribers that do not read it,
Cornell Elkow is the man behind the
pen in this case and his items are very
interesting and well written.
The Washington times., 1921-12-10
FRIENDLY PLANETS
WHY NOT LEARN MORE ABOUT THEM.

zodiac which extends eight degrees
on each side of the line or plane
of the ecliptic. Every planet Is
always to be found somewhere
within the boundaries Of the zodiac,
and consequently In one or another
of the twelve consultations that
mark out the course of the zodiac
like a band Of star pictures.
There are two very interesting
circumstances which add a little
complexity to the movements Of the
planets, Notwithstanding their fun
damental simplicity. These circum-
stances are: First, that owing to
the eccentricity of their orbits all
of the planets travel with varying
speed, 80 that sometimes a planet
Is ahead of and at other times be-
hind the place that It would occupy
in it's orbit II it's motion were PEI
fectly uniform at all times. and, Sec
ond, that because the earth Is also
in motion around the sun, going the
same way that the others 90, but
with a speed differing from that CT
any Of thems the relatively principle
comes into play. and the apparent
motions and apparent positions of
the planets do not always accord
with the real motions and positions.
II our point of observation were
the sun instead of the earth, this
effect would not occur. and we
should then see the planets continu-
ally advancing from West to East,
their speeds varying only with their
regularity varying distances from
the sun.
But because our point of observa-
ton Is continually advancing
through space, and that with vari-
able speed, since the earth's orbit,
too. is elliptical in shape, we per-
ceive some remarkable effects upon
the motions of the other planets,
somewhat as when we look from
one moving railroad train at an
other travelling in the same direc-
ton with different speed. we may
see the other train apparently NOV
ing backward, though in reality 1t
10 going the same way we are. 30
at certain times some of the planets
appear to move backward. or west
ward. In the sky, simply because
the earth IL travelling eastward
faster than they are.
These apparent backward motions
of the planets. which caused the
ancient astronomers much per-
plexity, as I have explained in a
preceding article, render 1t neces-
sary to correct the calculations Of a
planets place in the sky for any
particular date in such a way as to
allow for the effects Of the COM
bination of the earth's motion with
that Of the planet.
The Washington times., 1921-12-10
A STIRRING ROMANCE
BY Arthur Stringer.

tration, oppressed by the feeling
some vast issue left clouded and in
consequential. And as he gulped
down glass of ice water and Torrie
on the other side of the room with
a parade of unconcern began to
make ready for bed. he wished with
all the strength Of his being for
time at least he might claim the
luxury of solitude. the consoling dig
nifty Of at least sleeping alone.
Before Storrow was quite aware
of It. in fact. Torrie was lying
asleep. or In a pretense of sleep.
And when, an hour later, he placed
himself YEARLY on the same bed
she neither stirred nor moved. Yet
when he Weakened several hours
later, with the high light Of noon
day flooding the studio. he found
himself with his right arm thrown
over her hot bare shoulder and
the soft curve OF her back lying in
its habitual nesting posture close
in against his body. He saw, too his
relief, that she was still sleeping
heavily.
So quietly and slowly and almost
with a sense Of shame, he withdrew
his arm from the slowly rising and
falling flesh on which II was cush-
Toned. Then inch by inch he moved
over to his own side of the bed.
The Washington times., 1921-12-10
THE COLD
BATH
BY Brice Belden M. d.

ONTRARY TO WHAT people
disposed to coddle themselves
~ frequently imagine, the cold
both protects against taking cold
by improving the circulation in
the skin and developing general
vital resistance. In particular, the
power Of the body to warm the skin
after IL has been chilled by exposure
to cold is increased.
Very cold water should not be
used, however, except by the
hardy. The temperature should
be somewhere between 10 and 80
degrees, according to the individ-
ual concerned, unless one Is robust
enough to stand lower temperatures.
In those whose vitality has been de-
pleted by maladies due to the reten-
ton within the body of waste pol
sons, a rather warm bath, lasting
about three minutes, may precede
the cold bath.
The cool bath offsets many of
the deteriorating, influences of our
artificial life. Sedentary persons
who suffer from nervous weak
nesses of various sorts, such as
neurasthenia are greatly benefited
by the tonic effects Of the cool bath.
A very cold bath should always
be short and the temperature of the
room In which the bath is taken
should be higher than that of the
bath. Hot baths taken frequently,
especially in winter, are depress-
ing and lower resistance to cold.
After the reaction sets in follow
ing cool bath there is a great
increase In the blood corpuscles in
the surface vessels. The Increase
ranges from 30 to per cent. Since
these corpuscles carry oxygen to the
tissues and remove carbonic acid,
there is a consequent increase in the
vital resistance of the skin.
1t is also to be remembered that
certain blood cells are germ de-
stroyers and scavengers, removing
deleterious substances from the
blood vessels and tissues of thu
body.
The Washington times., 1921-12-10
By Arthur Stringer,
Well Known Novelist and Author
of Countrywide Reputation.

Well-Known Novelist and Author
Of Countrywide Reputation.
TT was as startling as though he
had .beheld- her kissed on the
- bare flesh by the lips of Death.
He expected almost to hear the
rattle Of bones as he perceived that
antique, STOPPING frame shake
with it's seniie palsy accentuated
by some momentary emotion. But
IL was too odious even to contem-
plate.
For the second time Storrow let
his head sink into his hands, sub
mel ged with an immense new mis-
cry of betrayal. He was being
duped that night, he felt, for the
second time, irreparably. unfath-
omably duped. Yet 1t amazed him
to find that he was incapable of
action, that he could contemplate
a situation undermining the solid
est timbers of his happiness and
make no effort to combat 1t.
He sat without moving, no longer
conscious of even the throbbing
ache in his temples, absorbing to
the full a shock which could leave
him more stupefied than alcohol.
1t was not until Torrie closed
the studio door and crossed the
room that he made an effort to
get to his feet.
Storrow Confronts Her.
1T saw IT," he said as he con-
fronted her. -
"saw what7" she sharply de-