Rusk Eighth in State Potato Show Meeting Set January Fifteenth
Rusk county exhibited at the State Potato Show earning eighth place among eighteen counties. Oconto won with a record 93.1 score as visitors from Canada Maine and California attended the event. A meeting of the State Certified Seed Growers was adjourned to January 15 at Ladysmith to discuss selling improvements and future stock distribution.
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Rusk County
Oconto
Canada
Maine
California
Wisconsin
Albert Miller Co
Chicago
Ladysmith
News Budget Ad Restores Lost $20
A man named Brewer advertised a lost twenty dollars in the News Budget. The finder James Irost left the money at Bon Ton store for Brewer, who retrieved it and praised the honesty shown, though he left a small fire as thanks.
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Brewer
Bon Ton
James Irost
Frost
Spurgeon Stringer Heads to Houston for Health
Spurgeon Stringer veteran eye specialist of this section leaves for Houston Texas on Wednesday to spend the rest of winter in southern Texas for his health. He expects to return in April. Stringer has fitted glasses in the area for twenty two years and is known as an expert optometrist. He will practice in Texas while there.
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Spurgeon Stringer
Houston
Texas
Stringer
University Students Return Home for Christmas
A group of 7000 University of Wisconsin students are home for Christmas after special trains from Madison to Oshkosh and the Velvet Special to Ladysmith. Hector Powell and others among the Ladysmith scholars travel home, while Mr and Mrs B E French and son Manley depart for a winter tour visiting Grey Bull Wyoming Spokane Seattle Portland San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Phoenix Kansas City Lincoln and Omaha before returning.
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Hector Powell
Deane Cardinal
Leo Portman
Mildred Sinclair
Doris Mather
Inez Richards
University of Wisconsin
Ladysmith
Madison
Oshkosh
B. E. French and Son
Manley
West Coast
Grey Bull
Wyoming
Jorhe Manley
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. reports growth at annual meeting
The annual meeting of Farmers Mutual Town Fire Insurance Co. heard the countywide turnout. Total insurance in force reached 501000, up 125000 from last year, with assessments of 38144 mills the lowest yet. Four new directors were elected F W Calkins Lom Tos land W S Sergeant and J R Hamilton. K B Brainerd and J W Carew were re elected president and secretary.
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Farmers’ Mutual Town Fire Insurance Co
Court House
F. W. Calkins
Rusk
Lom Tosland
Big Bend
Sergeant
Marshall
J. Rr.hamilton
Dewey
K. B. Brainerd
J. W. Carew
Foot Crush Injury At Crane Camp In Wisconsin
Christ Nelson of Chippewa Falls working in Erick Murman's Fountain Campbell Lumber Co camp northeast of Crane had his right foot badly crushed while skidding logs on Monday. He was treated at St Mary's Hospital the next day with surgery. No permanent injury expected.
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Christ Nelson
Chippewa Falls
Erick Murman
Fountain-Campbell Lumber Co
Crane
St. Mary's Hospital
Public School Notes Elects Cook County Team
The basketball squad met Tuesday and elected Cecil Barnes manager for the coming season. Bernard Schwartz, star forward last year, was named captain. The Highs open Friday night against the strong alumni team as practice shows good form. The schedule includes Alumni Hawkins Stanley Bloomer Barron and Rice Lake.
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Cecil Barnes
Bernard Schwartz
Hawkins
Stanley
Bloomer
Barron
Rice ‘Lake
January 1920s Mothers Club to Organize New Tuesday
The Monday club for mothers will not meet again until January 5. On Tuesday January 6 a new club will be organized. A cordial invitation is extended to all housewives to join and learn proper selection and preparation of foods for the family at the kitchen of the luncheon building at 8:00 PM.
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Hienchlal
Of Interest To All Housewives Menu Making
A guide on meal planning covering balanced nutrition with carbohydrates fats proteins minerals and vitamins. It emphasizes variety across meals avoiding repetition of the same foods in a day and suggests breakfast components including fruit cereal meat or eggs milk bread and butter and appropriate fruit preparations for children under seven.
Train Service Restored After Coal Strike Effects
Train service through Ladysmith resumed at 12:01 a m after disruptions from the coal strike. The Duluth-Chicago Velvet Special trains 17 and 18 operated to Chicago via Owen during restrictions. The strike briefly affected mail, express and freight, though most local facilities used wood for fuel and the Menasha Paper Co. stayed limited to print paper. Northern Wisconsin faced fewer calamities during the strike and appears better off without coal mining for a year.
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Ladysmith
Owen
Chicago
Rusk County
Wisconsin
Upper
Real Estate License Required for Wisconsin Brokers and Salesmen
Wisconsin requires all real estate brokers and salesmen to obtain licenses and register with the Real Estate Brokers Board. After January 1 1920 no one may practice without a license. broker licenses cost 10 dollars and salesman licenses 5 dollars, with applications via the Madison board.
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Wisconsin
Madison
Sell For Cash Only Local Merchant Ad Caption
Advertises cash only policy to beat mail order houses. Urges merchants to demand cash, offer 10 ore cash for cash delivery, and avoid extending credit to increase local sales and profits. Encourages aggressive cash discipline to boost Ladysmith business volume.
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Ladysmith
Aet
Business Men Form Ice Company in Ladysmith
A Monday night meeting by Ladysmith business men led to incorporation of an ice company and construction of a new ice house. J A Hewitt heads the list with twelve others subscribing for 1 stock at 50 per share. As shares sell, stock will rise and the plant location will be upriver to cut ice and deliver directly to the ice house, cutting hauling costs.
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Ladysmith
J. A. Hewitt
Municipal skating rink and toboggan slide planned
City officials plan a winter amusements project flood a river section north of the Gerard hotel to form a skating pond and erect a toboggan slide on the hill east of the power house Clarence Preuty street commissioner leads the slide and Andrew Bovee runs the rink a four foot ice ledge along the banks slows work but warmer days could finish it.
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Gerard Hotel
Power House
Clarence Preuty
Andrew Bovee
Navy Recruit Visits City for Aviation Service Enlistment
Frank Grubich of the U S Navy will visit weekly from Rhinelander recruiting office to secure men for aviation service and other branches. He offers Victory buttons to discharged sailors. reserve releases handled at Great Lakes. Enlistees may contact Postmaster Manning or Grubich for information.
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Frank Grubich
U. S. Navy
Rhinelander
Navy
Oval
Great Lakes
Manning
Grubich
Reservoir Proposal On Chippewa River Investigated
During wartime cooperation between the USGS and the Fuel Administration engineers studied coal conservation options. They explored saving coal by interconnecting power systems, substituting hydroelectric power, building storage reservoirs, and retiring duplicative plants where one facility could meet demand.
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United States Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
United States Fuel Administration
United States
Fuel Administration
Geological Survey
Small Pox Case Forces Closure of Model School
The model school at the Rusk county normal is closed until after holidays after teacher Miss Louise Wegner was exposed to small pox. Her sister Miss Doris Wegner, visiting from Weyerhaeuser village, contracted the disease but is not dangerously ill. The teachers' school also closes this afternoon for a two week vacation.
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Rusk County Normal
Louise Wegner
Doris Wegner
Weyerhaeuser
Christmas Program at the M. E. Church
The Methodist Sunday school and choir present the White Gift Christmas program on Tuesday evening December 28 at 7:30 in the church auditorium. The event centers on The Legend of Cathay with offerings to charity or valued articles for distribution. The service opens with carols and hymns, and a Christmas party for the primary department follows Monday afternoon.
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The
Methodist Church
Cathay
Women’s Relief Corps Elects Officers
The W. H. C. elected officers Tuesday with Agnes Goodrich as President Anna Sherrin as Senior Vice President Anna Cole as Junior Vice President Clara Shafer as Treasurer Margaret Huxtable as Conductor Delegate Margaret Huxtable Helen Love as Chaplain Minnie Diederich as Guard.
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W. Hck. C
Agnes Goodrich
Anna Sherrin
Anna Cole
Clara Shafer
Margaret Huxtable
Minnie Diederich
Helen Love
Pet wolf kills thirteen chickens at chicken house
William Austin kept a young pet wolf chained to a chicken house. One night the wolf opened the door and killed thirteen chickens, the entire flock. The incident highlights the danger posed by keeping wild animals near domesticated stock.
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William Austin
Meeting Postponed for Banker-Farmer Exchange
Dent Otis of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture failed to arrive and address the banker farmer exchange meeting planned for December 17 at the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The meeting will be held later.
Public Schools Close This Afternoon for Holiday Break
The public schools will close this afternoon for the standard two weeks of holiday vacation. Students and staff will resume after the break as scheduled, with school offices operating on limited hours during the closure.
Reservoir plans on Chippewa would flood river headwaters
A 1918 report by W G Hoyt describes a proposed Pa Kwa Wang reservoir in Sawyer county Wisconsin with 26 square miles surface area and 12 billion cubic feet capacity. The study details probable flows and power at 11 sites and notes the 438 page report may not be printed but blueprint copies are available via the Geological Survey and Railroad Commission of Wisconsin.
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Chippewa River
Wisconsin
W. G. Hoyt
Geological Survey
N. R
Sawyer County
Wis
Railroad Commission of Wisconsin
Madison
United States Geological Survey
Interior Department
Washington, D. C
Survey
Campaign to complete Troop K in Ladysmith
A revival effort to enlist Ladysmith business leaders and guardsmen to form a cavalry troop of seventy with horses, aiming for $15,000 annual impact and a new armory. The plan calls for weekly drills, officer selection from WWI veterans, and a Monday meeting at the Army & Navy Club to nominate leaders led by Neil James, a WWI veteran.
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Ladysmith
New Orleans
Madison
Army & Navy Club
Neil James
James
General Pershing
Mounted Service
Fort Riley
Kansas
Fort Sill
Houston
Texas
Officers’ Reserve Corps
Wisconsin National Guard
Troop K
Ladyentien
Troop IK
Limited narrowly escapes wreck near Tony after rail break
West bound limited No 7 ran a mile on loose rails before stopping after a rail broke. Only rear sleeper truck left tracks and caused minor track damage. Reminds old 1905 No 7 wreck at same spot that killed five. No passengers seriously harmed this time.
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No. 7
Tony
Amery
Royal Neighbors Elect 1920 Officers in Meeting
The Royal Neighbors elected officers for 1920 at their last meeting. Oracle Mrs Essie Hand Vice Oracle Mary Diamond Chanter Elizabeth Davis Recorder Anna Wenner Receiver Emma Robelin Marshal Katie Miller Inner S Harriet Moore Outer S Minnie Moore Past O Jeanine Hampton Manager 1 year Martha Thompson Manager 2 years Katehl Spiegelberg. Mary Woodhouse Ree
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Royal Neighbors
Oracle
Essie Hand
Mary Diamond
Chan
Elizabeth Davis
Anna Wenner
Emma_ Robelin
Katie Miller
Inner S
Harriet Moore
Outer S
Minnie Moore
Jeanine Hampton
Martha Thompson
Kethel Spiegelberg
Premium checks ready for last Rusk County Fair
Checks for premiums from the recent Rusk County Fair are now at the Rusk County Bank ready for distribution to winners and participants.
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Rusk
Rusk County Bank
Paper cost pressure eyed in mold battle between labs
Dr. Otto Kress at the Forest Products Laboratory Madison leads experiments to spray and kill fungi that ruin wood pulp. Federal funding may follow mill financing as Canada and Alaska wood supplies offer relief to a stagnant U S paper industry with imports rising and few mills built in nine years.
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Otto Kress
Forest Products Laboratory
Madison
Congress
Kress
Canada
Alaska
Panama Canal
New York
United States
Packing House Planned for Ladysmith Area
Since the last issue discussions with J A Hewitt, a small packing house will likely be built to serve this territory. Hewitt says quarters are too small, but local hogs can be processed locally next fall, saving freight and commissions.
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Ladysmith
J. A. Hewitt
Carload of Titan Tractors Arrives for Local Use
A carload of Titan tractors was unloaded this week at Ladysmith Implement Co. J M Rathsack of Glen Flora drove one home Monday. Menasha Paper Co also received a Titan tractor used to haul logs down the hill at the sulphite mill, replacing six teams.
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Ladysmith [Implement ~ Co
Titan
J. M. Rathsack
Glen Flora
Menasha Paper Co
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Oconto County
Spud
Tex
Farmers’ Mutual Fire Ins. CO
Public
Home Economics Department
ICE
Propose Reservoir
M. E. Church
Women’s Relief Corps
R.N. A. Officers
Mary Woodhouseh, Ree
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