Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-12-06
is OPEN WINTER so FAR
With Bare Ground, Balmy
Weather, North Wisconsin
Due to Have Mild One.

NOEAutin w ASNoAoln CERTAINTY
is enjoying what the classy poet
would call "salubrious" weather
no snow and the days and
nights just set for outdoor en-
joyment; Thanksgiving is past;
wood in the basement and the
larder filled with prime venison;
Christmas and its emoluments
(bills and more bills) in the of
fng-Boyl oh, Boy; amt it a
pippin' in these piping days of
the big hurrah?
During the week of November
18th a fall of three inches of
snow came. and remained until a
downpour of rain cleaned up the
snow, and a slight freeze has
placed the county roads in splen-
did condition. While il is a hard
proposition on the man who in
tended logging and had a crew
hired, still there is good coming
from most anything bad. Like
when the boss of this sheet
beats il" to the tall uncut and
places his editorial pen in the
hands of a dominic for a couple
weeks. Can't see that anybody
Is harmed more than anybody
else.
Ii is noticeable that lack of
snow and not too cool days, is
proving a banner time for the
farmer. He is rushing out the
stumps and brushing out more
land for the pillow next season.
work he would have passed up
had there been snow. With more
land under cultivation it means
more forage. more stock, and a
larger cream check 10 apply TO
his loss in the potato game this
year. With spuds at twenty-five
cents n bushel, the farmer has
had a heavy loss to contend with
on this years crop. Give him
good croppage another year and
prices where he can break even
upon his commodity and Villas
county home-makers will top with
any in the state.
Not alone is this snowless and
zeroless state of affairs good for
the farmer and detrimental TO the
logger. To the hundreds of people
from the cities who are up in the
woods on a late vacation, it means
increased enjoyment to them; es-
pecially when they are able to
hike for miles and miles, jump
deer occasionally-one that the
hunter missed-and put to tree
cartridges galore. Speaking of
partridgeS, one but needs tramp
in any section of the wooded reg
ion, along old roads or in the
dense timber and he will flush
hundreds Of these game birds in
a days tramp. Out in the opens
he will flush big cOveys of prairie
chicken. Thsi brings out another
phase Of the situation. Through
an error the last legislature made
an open season upon prairie
chicken in Villas county. Every
hunter understood the fact that
If he took advantage of the five
days on these birds, the depletion
in this county would be a calam-
ity. With the exception of a
handful Of game hunters, sports
men throughout this county kept
their guns encased and refused
TO kill prairie chicken, and in this
they are 10 be commended by ev-
cry sport in the Big Woods lake
region. An effort will be made
TO have it closed this coming
season. II should be.
Anyhow, as Bill Buford of
Lighthouse Lodge near Clearwat-
er lake, said when he would drop
a line along his route from here
10 Sarasota, Florida, the past
couple weeks, Il know darn well
I'll come back TO Wisconsin where
everything is bully and bright.
Bully for Bill, the writer is of the
same opinion. Nothing like Nor
thern Wisconsin in the world,
winter OF summer. Let's go.
tNOTE-Just six hours and
eleven minutes after getting all
the above publicity for Northern
Wisconsin in type, the dadbinged
weather man kicked over the tar
bucket and slammed a nice bunch
Of snow and almost" zero wealth
er at US. While it now spoils the
perfectness of the sermon we
preached. still the reader can take
his own version of what was" a
few days ago. What it is right
this minute is not to be spoken
Of in cold type. Take our word