Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-12-09
VISIONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Tmportant News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


the country According to E. L. Orms-
by, Chief Clerk of the Railway Mail
Service at Milwaukee, energetic prep
arations are being made in Wisconsin
to meet this situation. He states, how
ever, that the Christmas mail prob
lem is largely one of sorting and rout-
ing, at which very little extra help
can be used to advantage. The bulk
of the holiday mail will have to be
sorted by the regular all year around
force, as only highly skilled and expe-
rienced men can do this work. Mr..
Ormsby states that holiday cards and
parcels should be mailed early, before
December 18th, to give the sorters
enough time to handle them.
Monroe-Miss Veva Divan is Wis
consin's champion girl pork raiser.
Not only did she walk away with blue
ribbons at the state fair this year,
but she copied total of seventy-six
ribbons and more than $521.50 in cash
prizes for showing her six little pigs"
at five fairs. Veva lives on farm
ACdl DlONAIOWht III CCh COdliIJ Z.
She is II years old. She won cham
pionship honors this year in competi-
ton with more than LOO other pig
club boys and girls all over the state.
She has been proclaimed by T. L..
Bewick, state boys and girls club
leader, and by several prominent live
stock officials, as the greatest pig club
Of oil in, in
Madison-Until boy has reached
the age of II, he cannot be sent to
the state reformatory at Green Bay
no matter how vicious his tendencies,
]. E. Messerschmidt, assistant attOr-
ney general, advised the state board
of control. The board of control re-
ported that 16-year-old boy in the
state industrial school at Waukesha
was of such a vicious character that
his presence is detrimental to the
other inmates, and it is asked that it
be permitted to remove the youthful
prisoner to the state reformatory.
Fond du Lac-Pabst Creator Arbi-
traitor, one of the best cows bred by
the Pabst farms in Oconomowoc has
been purchased by the Fond du Lac
poor farm for $1,000. The cow is near
ing the end of a years milk test dur
ing which she has already produced
$4,000 pounds of milk, an average of
better than one hundred pounds a
day. The county poor farm now has
one of the best herds of pure bred
Holsteins in the eastern section of the
state. The herd is headed by ia
nous Pabst bull.
Wisconsin Rapids-Action of the
state highway engineer and the county
road and bridge committee in provid-
ing for the storage of %, 900 barrels
of cement early last spring, combined
with the establishment of two rock
crushing plants in the country, saved
the taxpayers of Wood county at least
$4,000 in the construction of con-
crete highways this year, Edward Nor
ris, county highway commissioner,
told the county board in his annual
report.
Kenosha - Kenosha county board
after a three-days' debate gave it's in
dorsement to the state highway COM
mission plan for raising money for
highway Improvement. The only seri-
Gus division of the board was on the
provision to tax gasoline 2 cents a
gallon. This provision was finally
adopted by a large majority vote.
Burlington-A third pair of twins
was born on Nov. IL to Mr. and Mrs.
Thos. Ferguson, who live near Bur-
lington in Walworth county. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ferguson were married Gu JAN
l, 1902, and have nine children, six of
whom are twins and all in good
health. Walter, the oldest child is Is
years old.
Monroe-One of the largest hogs
ever brought to Monroe to be shipped
to market was brought in by Peter
Gerber, Green county farmer. The
animal weighed $50 pounds. AS a
rule hogs weigh from $50 to $50
pounds, but they seldom tip the scales
at 500.
Manitowoc-Fourteen cows, three
calves and four horses were burned
to death when fire destroyed two large
barns on the farm of William Engel-
land, causing loss of $4,000. only
partly covered by insurance The farm
is i've miles north of Two Rivers.
Madison-While riding toward Madi
son the engine of the automobile driv
en- by Emil Borchers and Henry Hin
derlinder of Darwin station. blew uI
at Windsor. burning the two men
The explosion occurred suddenly and
set the machine on fire.
Marinette-A dual tragedy, the firsi
of the skating season in Marinette. oc
Cured when two brothers, Emil, Il
years old, and Axel. 10 years old, sons