Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-12-16

land area Of Wisconsin is said in the
report to be 1864 900 acres. OF this
amount 22,148.0O0 acres. or SIS per
cent of the entire land area of the
state is in farms
+ Madison-The gross income from
Wisconsin farms was $3.50, 600, 600 less
In 1921 than in 1920, the annual report
OF Wisconsin's crop reporter shows.
A value Of 1916. 100000 was placed on
the 1921 produce from farms of the
state, compared to $3.50, S09 900 In
1920; value Of 1851, 19l 900 in 1919
and Of S499 405. 900 In 1918. Wiscon-
sins 1921 crops were worth 1885, &c.,
600. according to the report. S140,293.-
900 less than the crop for 1920. The
+ total value Of livestock products in
Wisconsin was s250.742. 600 compared
with 1898. 100000 in 1920
Luck-Polk county Is recognized as
one Of the leading creamery butter
manufacturing districts in America
II was the first county to successfully
ship its butter to the Eastern markets
/ in carload shipments With every
creamery in the county cooperative
and all the cooperative creameries
organized into unit No of the Wis
consin Cooperative Creameries asso-
citation, Polk county is also recognized
as the leading county in cooperation,
+ Baraboo-W. l.. Cash manager of
+ the Baraboo telephone Office, was Sc
yerely burned about the face and aims
and his 12-year-old son received burns
about the head and hands in a gaso-
/ line explosion at the Cash home. Mr..
Cash threw the contents OF can he
believed filled with oil into the fur.
mace, but the can contained gasoline
and an explosion followed.
Gordon-Four acres Of land, com
prisiug a peninsula which jutted out
into Big Eau Claire lake, Douglas
county have dropped into the lake.
leaving a sharp abuttment about thirty
feet high The phenomenon was dis
covered by boys who have made the
peninsula playground. d. A. Merrill,
/ professor Of geology at the Eau Claire
Normal school. is unable to explain It,
Superior Herbert Yestin. 26, and
Alvin Olson, is. brothersinlaw, died
as the result of an explosion in a well
in which Vestin was digging at the
George lie Hugude farm at Dresser
junction. Polk county. Olson died
from the effects OF gas when he de
scended into the shaft to rescue Yes
tin, who was digging the well.
Janesville--Percy banks Evansville
high school pupil. won first place in
the junior corn contest for the second
region at the International Livestock
exposition and grain and hay show
at Chicago banks and Brayton Ho
gan Clinton. who placed fifth in the
contest are members of the ROCK
county Acre OF Corn club
Portage 49, Mrs. Alice Herschler
Green Bay, is held at Portage under
$500 bonds on a charge of collecting
funds for the Salvation Army without
authority She was attired in lassi,
uniform when arrested in the down
town district. Officers say she hai
operated extensively in Minnesota ant
Wisconsin towns
Madison-Another six months ses
sion of the Wisconsin legislature II
in sight as Legislators prepare to as.
semble in Madison Jan 10 for the
opening of the ffty.sixth session.
Little hope for a short session is being
held out by veteran members who pre-
dict a repetition of the extended SEES
sions common in recent years.
Fond du Lac George Nelson OF Polk
county was elected president Of the
Wisconsin union of the American So
eiety OF Equity at a convention in
Fond du Lac. lie defeated ] T. vii
grub Of Monroe county by vote OF
279 to 27S.
Pleading guilty 10
statutory charge involving 14.year.
old GAINESVILLE gil, Allen Pufahl. 90
OF GAINESVILLE, was sentenced to three
years in the state reformatory at
Green Bay by judge George Grimm.
La Crosse Malcolm Jameson and
Vern Green shot at a rabbit which
spang up between them in the woods
near la Crosse at the same time
Green missed the rabbit and shot his
friend in the knee.
Watertown-Jero PROVEN was
gored to death by a bull which cor,
nered him in barn on his farm.
three miles east Of Palmyra. in the
community known as Zion. His widow
and children survive.