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


land area Of Wisconsin is said in the
report to be 1884, 900 acres. OF this
amount 22,14s000 acres, or 62.S per
cent Of the entire land area of the
state is in farms.
Madison-The gross income from
Wisconsin farms was $3.50, 900, 600 less
in 1921 than in 1920, the annual report
OF Wisconsin's crop reporter shows.
A value of S316.708,00O was placed on
the 1921 produce from farms of the
state. compared to $3.50 sos, 900 in
1920; a value of 1851, 191 900 in 1919
and of 1898 ,405. 900 In 1918. Wiscon-
sins 1921 crops were worth s1S9, 092,-
900, according to the report, $140,293,
900 less than the crop for 1920. The
total value of livestock products in
Wisconsin was $250,742.000 compared
with 1893 100, 900 in 1920.
Luck-Polk county is recognized as
one Of the leading creamery butter
manufacturing districts in America
1t 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. l 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 al ms
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
prising 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
peninsula playground. d. A. Merrill,
professor of geology at the Eau Claire
Normal school. is unable to explain 1t.
uperior-IIerbert Vestin. IS, and
Alvin Olson, IS, brothers-inlaw, died
as the result of an explosion in 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.
anesyilIe--Percy banks. EvansvilRs
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 ths
contest, are members of the Rock
county Acre of Corn club,
Portage -- Mrs. Alice Herschler
Green Bay, is held at Portage under
$500 bonds on a charge of collecting
funds for the Salvation Army withou,
authority She was attired in a lassie
uniform when arrested in the down
town district. Officers say she ha.
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 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
ciety OF Equity at a convention in
Fond du Lac. lie defeated ]. T. vii.
grub of Monroe county by vote OF
279 to 27S.
GAINESVILLE Pleading guilty 10
statutory charge involving a 14year.
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-Maicoim Jameson and
Vern Green shot a, a rabbit which
spraug up between them in the woods
near la Crosse at the same time.
Green missed the rabbit and shot his
friend in the knee.
observation-disclosures 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.
Janesville-Afd in getting A Sr79 NoO