Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-08
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events OF the Week
Around the Badger state.

oshkosh-The entire 1914 budget
| for Winnebago county, amounting to
over $4,000 could be paid thirteen
/ times by the amount OF money. in
normal times, represented in stamps
received on letter by Ernst Benz Of
Oshkosh from a relative in Germany
/ la all, 10000 GOO marks were required
| to send the letter TO America In
normal times, before the war when a
mark was worth nearly "a cents, that
amount of marks was equivalent TO
nearly $500 GOO in American money
Kenosha-Just outside the southern
city limits Of Kenosha is to rise a new
residential suburb to be known as
Shorthand. This was the reason for
/ the purchase Of more than 1890 acres
4 of lake shore land in that city sever
! al months ago by a large Chicago
/ syndicate, according to the statement
/ made in Chicago. The tract is now
I being plated as a second Lake For
+ est with high residential restrictions
on the lots.
De Pere-The Blake road. leading
southeast out of De Pere into some
of the richest farming districts of
Brown county, now has a sixteen foot
concrete roadbed for q distance of ten
and a half miles. At one point on
the road. about four miles from De
Pere. Automobiles can start from the
top of "the ledge" and coast more
than two miles The view from the
ledge is one Of the most beautiful in
the state.
Washburn- Theodore Phillips. a
| farmer living about four miles north
of the village of Herbster. in the town
of Clover. lost two valuable horses,
which were killed by careless hunt
| ers during the deer hunting season
/ The horses were shot during the night
while hunters were engaged in illegal
/ hunting, one of the animals being
shot through the head and the other
/ through the neck. Both horses were
/ pets.
brentwood of the largest tim
Der deals negotiated in northern Wis
consin in the last several years was
that of the sale of the Starck Lumber
companys interests to the Wachsmuth
1 Lumber company of Brentwood The
! Wachsmuth Lumber company viii use
/ the timber purchased to supply its
Bayfield, mill. Two hundred men are
employed by the company to get out
an immense supply of timber
Green Bay-More than $50 in silver
with paper money bringing the total
to $l18. thirteen fountain pens, $4,000
/ in German marks and half dozen
I KEYS to railway station parcel lockers
/ constituted part of the strange as
sortment of property found on Fred
Burns. alias Taylor, taken into GUS
tody by the sheriffs office at Green
Bay. after attempting to shoot up
/ a roadhouse at Preble, Wis.
Madison - The Smith family is
ahead of the equally well known John
son family in the race for first honors
in the University of Wisconsin stu
dent directory. There are seventy-slx
/ Smiths. while the Johnsons are TWEEN
ty behind. Up to two years ago, the
Johnsons held the lead Other lead
ers are; Nelson's, 28; Hansons, u;
schmidts 20, Olsons. -; Taylors' IL
Browns, 16.
Potosi-John Palmer, fruit grow
er of Potosi. harvested 5000 bushels
Of apples from his farm this year.
Potosi. the Rhineland of Wisconsin,
was at one time famous for its vine
wards Since prohibition was enacted
the vineyards have been replaced by
fruit trees and experts declare
peaches and pears can be raised III
that section Of Grant county success
4 fully.
superior-The first fox bounty ever
paid in Douglas county was granted
/ Carl Fosberg who presented a pelt
to w. ]. Leader, county clerk, last
week. Mr.. Leader explained that up
10 July. 1928. it had been optional
with the counties whether they would
nav fox bounties. AT that time the
state bounty went into effect,
Madison-Three groups Of plants
are now grown in the pharmaceutical
garden Of the University Of Wiscon-
sin. and during the last several years
more than 175 species Of plants have
been propagated, according to PROT.
w. O. Rfchtmann, Of the pharmaceu-
/ teal experiment station.
Bloomington - Other communities
have their traffic problems, ana