Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-11-17

James X. Harris has paid bounty IN
1850 .woodchucks killed in Chippewa
county during 1928. For each snfslal
killed a bounty of % cents was paid
totaling $740 Levi Beutow of the
town OF Goetz is the father of the
woodchuck law. Woodchucks do con
siderable damage to land, burrowine
beneath the surface and spelling con.
siderable areas. it is said.
Observation-Disclosures Clancy, II.
Of Chicago. was found dead in a duck
boat He was hunting on Ross Allen
lake, Lac Du Flambeau, near Rhine
lander. The youth had gone out early
after ducks. Soon after his sister
heard shot, quickly followed by an.
other. As the hey did not return fot
dinner, search was made and he was
found dead with a gun shot just below
his neck.
MISUNDERSTANDING of the 1928
sugar beet crop at Luxembourg Is e..
pected to be completed within a very
short time. More than twice the mum.
Der of cars of teets have been shipped
to the Green Bay Sugar Co. from the
Luxembourg station as were shipped
from this station last year. At pres
ent, several cars of beets remain on
the ground to be loaded in cars.
Fond du Lac-Martin w. Hurlbut.
81, Civil war veteran and a resident OF
Wisconsin rs years, died at his home
in Fond du Lac after an illness Of
four years. Mr.. Hurlbut was a lieu.
tenant in the Fourteenth Wisconsin
infantry during the Civil war. He was
shot in the hip at the battle of Shiloh
and carried the bullet in his leg the
remainder of his life.
arshf1eld-Leopold Zoellner, 81,
was killed on his farm near Sherry
when he was thrown from a manure
spreader he was operating in the field
1t is believed that the horses were
frightened and ran away. Mr.. Zoell-
ner lived only Is minutes after the
accident happened An examination
showed that his neck tad been broken
in the fau.
Rhinelander-Fir of unknown orig.
in destroyed two mercantile ware.
houses at Three Lakes owned by Fred
Dobbs, well known Oneida county mer-
chant. Four automobiles and a large
quantity of hay ard lumber stored in
buildings were burned. For a time
the business section of the village
was threatened. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Madison - Legislation against the
manufacture and sale of substitutes
for dairy products was advocated by
the National Association of Creamery
Buttermakers in resolutions adopted
at the annual convention recently held
at Madison. Such products were de-
clared to be detrimental to the public
health and harmful to the dairy in
dustry.
Fond du Lac-The worlds thriftiest
school is the record obtained at Fond
du Lac recently by the Jefferson
school. This reputation is based upon
a 100 per cent savings record for all
the pupils in the school. No other
school in the world is said TO have
eQualled 1t for saving record among
high school banks.
Chippewa Falls-Joseph Knoll,
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Knoll, of the town of Tilden near
Chippewa Falls was taken to ST.
Joseph's hospital, having pierced the
iris of his right rye with knife when
he slipped while whiting on stick
of wood. 1t is expected that his sight
can be saved.
Chippewa Falls-The Stanley-Cadott
Cow Testing association was formed
at meeting in Stanley of group of
farmers who assembled at the call OF
j. NJ Bolon, instructor Of agriculture
in the Stanley high school. Twenty
six members, owning nearly 400 cows,
were enrolled at the first meeting.
Fond du Lac-Russen Ray, 6-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. F Ray, Fond
du Lac, was probably fatally injured
when he was struck by a motor truck
while playing in an alley. The boy
ran from behind a building into the
path of the automobile. His chance Of
recovery is slight.
A carload Of pure bred Holsteins
and milking Shorthorns was shipped
out of Rock county recently bound for
Guatemala, Central America. The
stock was selected by B. Johnson, a
former Wisconsin resident now pur-
chasing cattle for the Central states.
Burlington-After being in the fam
ilv since 1884, when it was entered as
government land by his grandfather
4dolyh paifbro0k Henry A Runkel