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Barron was for a short time the home of three papers. The Republican was the third paper to be started in Barron by J. H. Williams & Son, in 1888. J. H. Williams retired from the paper in 1890, when J. J. Smith became associated with Jay Williams as publishers. Burrage & Hudson bought the Republican in 1897 and a few months later W. A. Coe bought the interest of Mr. Hudson, and in six months more took over the interest of Mr. Burrage. Between 1901 and 1903 Jay Williams appears again and moved the paper to Dallas, and in 1904 sold out to Harvey Erickson.
The Chetek Alert was started by Walter Speed on Friday, Sept. 15, 1882. Mr. Speed, who is now living at Summit, Ore., was an experienced newspaper man, having been previously connected with the Shield at Barron. He made the Alert a six-column folio and conducted it as a Republican paper. In his
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salutatory notice he predicted the future importance of the village, promised to carry on the paper in the interests of truth and justice, and to make no war on individuals except such as deserved public censure. He conducted the Alert along those lines until Feb. 15, 1901, when he sold it to George C. Elwood. The latter presided over its destinies until February, 1904, when it was bought by L. P. Charles and J. W. Bell, the present proprietors, of whom Mr. Charles is the editor and active manager, and also the owner of the building. They have improved the plant, having installed a large two-revolution press and linotype machine. Besides carrying on the paper in accordance with its original policy, they operate a job printing office. In February, 1915, the concern was incor- porated as the Alert Publishing Co. The officers are: J. W. Bell, president; Mrs. Lillie A. Calhoun, vice-president; and L. P. Charles, secretary and treas- urer. The foreman, Lyle Speed, is a nephew of Walter Speed, the founder of the paper. The associate editor is Merton Martenson. Lyle Speed and Mr. Martenson are stockholders in the concern.
Wtihin six or seven years after the arrival of the first settlers in Cumber- land, the village was able to boast of a weekly newspaper. This was the Cum- berland Herald, established May 22, 1881, by C. H. Clark, with M. P. Morris as editor. On Sept. 21, 1881, C. A. Lamoreux purchased Mr. Clark's interest in the property, and the firm became Morris & Lamoreux. This partnership was dis- solved Dec. 6, 1883, Mr. Lamoreux retiring and Mr. Morris continuing the busi- ness. The latter disposed of it March 19, 1884, to L. L. Gunderson, who con- tinued the publication of the paper as editor and proprietor. On July 3, 1884, A. F. Wright became associated with Mr. Gunderson as one of the publishers and the firm name became Gunderson & Wright, and so remained until Nov. 6, 1886, when Mr. Wright severed his connection with the paper, the publication of which was continued for a short time longer by Mr. Gunderson. The next proprietor was S. H. Hull, who changed the name of the paper to the Cumber- land Advocate. After Mr. Hull had conducted it for a year or more, it was purchased by a company which had been formed under the style of the Cum- berland Printing Co., and by which it was continued until 1886. Then it was sold to H. S. Comstock and D. A. Russell, who, under the firm name of Com- stock & Russell, continued its publication. In the fall of 1887, Mr. Comstock bought Mr. Russell's interest and conducted the paper alone for about a year, when, in 1888, he sold out to T. F. Ball. The latter, after a while, associated himself with F. F. Morgan, of La Crosse, who, a year later, bought Mr. Ball's interest and was the sole proprietor until 1900. He then sold to Tom O. Mason, who published the paper until October, 1906. In that month, H. S. Comstock again took hold of it, buying out Mr. Mason. Subsequently he organized the Cumberland Advocate Co., selling a part of the stock to G. Gunderson. In January, 1915, Mr. Gunderson's stock was purchased by R. B. Hart, Judge Com- stock retaining a controlling interest until the following September, when his interest was purchased by Mr. Gunderson. In June, 1920, the latter again sold out to R. B. Hart, who has been editor of the paper since 1915. A one-third interest in the concern is owned by Mrs. Hart. The Advocate is an eight-page, six-column weekly, with a good list of subscribers.
While the Advocate, either under its present name, or under its former one of the Herald, has pursued its course for forty years o'er calm or stormy seas, and under different captains, and is still proudly sailing the journalistic main, several other barks have been launched from Cumberland on that same ocean and started gaily on their voyage, only to meet with speedy shipwreck or to find timely refuge in some other port.
One of these was the Free Press, captained by G. Gunderson, which kept off the rocks and braved the weather for a few years, when it was finally pur- chased by H. S. Comstock, by whom it was put out of commission.
At another time, G. Gunderson, then proprietor of a small job printing office, began the issue of a little hand sheet which he called The Eye, and which contained items of local news. It had, however, but a brief existence.
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From 1910 to 1915, R. B. Hart and George B. Cook, conducted a newspaper in Cumberland called the Journal, the subscription list of which was sold to the Advocate, when Mr. Hart became associated with Judge Comstock in the owner- ship of that paper.
In April, 1908, John J. Wearne, now proprietor of a meat market in Cum- berland, started a paper at Almena, called the Cloverland Star. After conduct- ing it there for a year, he moved it in April, 1909, including his plant, to Cum- berland, in order to finish advertising contracts. On August 1, the same year, he sold the subscription list to H. S. Comstock, who also took over the adver- tising contracts, Mr. Wearne then moving his plant to Minong, Wis., where he continued the paper for two years as the Minong Star.
The Prairie Farm Breeze was established Nov. 23, 1909, by G. W. Van Vuren, who continued as editor and publisher until May 1, 1918, when he sold the paper to Roy Holman. Mr. Holman continued the publication until Nov. 1, 1920, when the subscription list was sold to the Barron County News-Shield and the Breeze was discontinued.
The first newspaper published in Dallas was the Republican, when that paper was moved from Barron to Dallas in 1903. Jay Williams was the editor. In 1904 the paper was sold to Harvey Erickson, and on Aug. 31, 1905, L. E. Joppa became the owner of the paper. He sold to N. S. Gordon, who owned and published the paper for one year. Mr. Joppa became the owner of the paper again Sept. 13, 1907. The paper was discontinued March 31, 1911, and estab- lished again October 30, under the name of the Dallas Index. The Index was sold to N. S. Gordon April 1, 1917, and eight months later was consolidated with the Barron County News. No paper has been published at Dallas since then.
The Cloverland Star, published by J. J. Wearne, served Almena and com- munity from April, 1908, to April, 1909, when it was moved to Cumberland and a few months later, as noted, consolidated with the Cumberland Advocate.
The first newspaper was established in Turtle Lake in 1898, in the early spring, by Amos Babcock, and was called the Turtle Lake Advance. He pub- lished the paper for a little more than a year, selling to M. A. Frissell in 1899, who changed the name of the paper to the Turtle Lake Bugle. William C. Lyons was installed as editor and manager and he acted in this capacity until Feb. 26, 1903, though for a short time the name of A. I. Averill & Son appeared at the head of the Bugle's editorial columns as publishers. It is thought they may have been conducting it for Mr. Frissell. On Sept. 11, 1902, William C. Lyons announced that he had bought it from Mr. Frissell. On March 5, 1903, A. H. Nuesse became the proprietor and editor of the paper and so continued for ten years, except for two brief periods during which he rented it out, first to Fred W. Haislet, in the latter part of 1911, who conducted it for a few months until the spring of 1912, and later for a short time to W. C. McCormack. On Oct. 6, 1913, Mr. Nuesse sold out to A. G. Huhn, the present editor and proprietor, who changed the name of the paper to the Turtle Lake Times, and who is now con- ducting it as a six-column, eight-page paper, and also operating a job printing office in connection with it. Mr. Huhn came here from St. Paul, Minn., in which city he had experience in the job printing trade.
The Rice Lake Chronotype is the oldest paper in Barron County, being the successor of the Barron County Gazette, founded June, 1874, at Barron, by C. W. Carpenter and W. L. Abbott. It was moved to Rice Lake soon after and continued by Mr. Carpenter until June, 1875. It was then sold to Rice Lake Village Company and was edited for one year by A. Dewey. It was about this time that the name was changed to the Rice Lake Chronotype, which name it still bears. Since then the editors of the paper have been Charles Nunn, till May, 1877; Fred Peachman, for six months; Charles F. Bone, November, 1877, to 1885; P. H. Swift, 1885 to 1894; H. M. Hilliker, November, 1894, to 1896; E. N. Bowers, December, 1896, to September, 1905. In 1905, E. C. McClelland became editor of the Chronotype, and in 1909 the Leader, published by R. C. Peck, was consolidated with the Chronotype, retaining the name of the Rice
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Lake Chronotype. Mr. McClelland and Mr. Peck. are the owners and publishers of the paper at this time.
Rice Lake now has but one other newspaper, the Rice Lake Times, pub- lished by E. E. Campbell. This paper was established in 1887 by C. F. Bone. In 1907 Harry L. Bone became associated with his father in the publication of the paper and continued it after the death of his father in 1907 till he sold the paper to E. E. Campbell in 1909.
Several other papers have at different times been published in Rice Lake. The Leader was founded in July, 1896, and published by Ward L. Swift and Harry W. McCourt till January, 1898; W. L. and P. H. Swift, from January, 1898, to February, 1899; P. H. Swift, from February, 1899, to April, 1903; the Leader Publishing Company, Cass U. Jenkins, manager, for a few weeks, and then by the Swifts till August 17, 1904, when George C. Elwood bought the plant and conducted the paper alone until May, 1905, then with R. C. Peck until May, 1906. In 1906, E. E. Campbell bought Mr. Elwood's interest and Peck and Campbell continued the paper until March, 1909, when it was consolidated with the Rice Lake Chronotype, Mr. Peck going to the Chronotype and Mr. Campbell buying the Rice Lake Times.
T. C. Surdson moved the Cameron Review to Rice Lake in 1906 and the paper was published by him for one year under the name of Journal and Re- view, when it was destroyed by fire in February, 1917, when the Odd Fellow Block was burned.
Fred W. Haislet published the Call in 1917 for about a year, when the name of the paper was changed to the Union Herald and continued for some months after Mr. Haislet left Rice Lake, by Walter F. Erickson.
The first paper published in Cameron was the Independent, established in 1887, S. S. Hull, editor. A year later the paper was moved to Barron and C. B. Dodge was the editor. In 1897 Amos Babcock established the Cameron Review and a year later sold it to H. H. Dunn. In 1901 the name of W. C. Lyons appears as publisher of the Review. Mr. Lyons went to Turtle Lake in 1902. E. V. Nevins became the editor of the paper in 1904, and 1907, M. C. Martin was editor of the Review. Then came Harvey Erickson and Walter Erickson with the name of H. C. Sweatland as publisher. The property was virtually owned by the Bank of Cameron and to keep it alive, Cashier Ingvald Egstad became a printers' devil and got the paper out for several weeks. In November, 1911, the plant was sold to T. C. Surdson, who continued to publish the Review until April, 1916, when he moved the plant to Rice Lake and the paper was continued as the Journal and Review until February, 1917, when the plant was destroyed by fire when the Odd Fellows' building, in which it was located, was burned. The subscription list was then sold to the Chrono- type. During the summer of 1917, George C. Elwood launched the Cameron Record, but after a few months the plant and subscription list was sold to the Barron County Shield. Since then no paper has been published in Cameron.
CHAPTER XVI.
MODERN AGRICULTURE.
Modern agriculture and dairying in Barron County dates back only about two decades, and it is in fact only in the last decade that the county has reached its present pre-eminence along these lines. Dairying, and the raising of fodder and seed clover incident to it, is the leading industry. Potato grow- ing is also reaching large proportions. The Kringle strain of Rural New York potatoes, originated here, has a national reputation, there are many prominent certified seed potato growers, and in addition to this general potato growing
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for the market is so important that every railroad has its potato warehouses, varying in number from one to ten. Pea growing to supply the canning fac- tories is also a profitable enterprise. Swine raising, which until recently, has been merely an adjunct to dairying, is now becoming a specialty with many farmers, and some fine droves are to be found. Poultry raising flourishes, and Barron County poultry has won prizes at many an important exhibition. Here and there throughout the county there are sheep herds which, since the eighties, have supplied the extensive woolen mills at Barron with wool, and provided a little surplus to be shipped out. There are a few stands of ginseng. General farming is also carried on in all its branches. The principal crops, in addition to potatoes, hay, clover and rutabagas, are corn, oats, rye and barley. Tobacco and sugar beets are raised and honey produced. At one time, herds of steers were shipped in for grazing about Cumberland, and a little stock grazing is still done about Canton.
Dean W. A. Henry, of the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, was early convinced that there were wonderful agricultural possibilities in Northern Wisconsin, including Barron County. In "A Handbook for the Home- seeker," prepared by him and published in 1896, he states and reiterates his faith in this region. In his introduction we find him expressing the mental attitude of a great majority of people in other states and in the Southern half of our own state at the time he wrote it. "The possibility that Northern Wis- consin may some day become an agricultural region of excellence and promi- nence is little realized and less recognized anywhere, even by the people of our own state," and then in the closing paragraph he voices some of the faith that is in him: "With farms supplanting the forest, Northern Wisconsin will not revert to a wilderness with the passing of the lumber industry, but will be occupied by a thrifty class of farmers whose well directed, intelligent efforts bring substantial satisfactory returns from fields, flocks and herds."
Regarding the successful growing of field crops, such as clover, oats, peas, barley, fodder corn and potatoes, Prof. Henry is very sanguine, but it is when he comes to the consideration of the dairy industry that he expresses himself most strongly. Note the following: "After careful study of all the conditions prevailing in Northern Wisconsin, the writer of this article is firmly impressed with the belief that this will some day become one of the great dairy regions of America, if only the people will bend their energies in the right direction and concentrate their efforts upon the production of high grade dairy prod- ucts." Regarding the cheese industry he says: "The writer makes the predic- tion that some day Northern Wisconsin will rank as the foremost cheese district in America, if not in the world." And in closing his discussion of dairying we have this statement: "With the passing away of the vast forests and the disap- pearance of the lumber industry, which has brought its hundreds of millions to our country, let there come to Northern Wisconsin advanced methods of farming with dairying as the leading factor, and the prosperity of this region is assured beyond all question."
There were others, less widely known than Professor Henry, who, having traveled widely in the state and being of an observing disposition, foresaw a great agricultural future for Northern Wisconsin and Barron County especially. Some of these have lived to see this great promise realized in a large measure.
About 1886 or 1887 three pure blooded Holstein bulls were brought into the county from Lake City, Minn. Two were bought by the Van Valkenburgs, on Sioux Creek, in the Northeast part of Dallas. The other, an aged bull, was bought by Woodbury S. Grover, also of Dallas Township. This bull, which weighed 3,200 pounds, one of the largest ever brought into the county, was purchased for $200. Some of the descendants of these three sires are still to be found in the county.
Charles S. Taylor started the impetus toward modern dairying in 1895 when he started bringing in Jersey bulls from the famous "Brown Bessie" strain owned by a relative, H. C. Taylor, of Orfordville, Wis. One of these
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"Choirmaster", he kept, one went to the Silas Speed farm east of Barron. Many bull calves were given away or sold, and the strain became pronounced in many Barron County herds. A. Fred Hanson, of Arland Township, long had Jerseys of this strain. Nick Heintz of Rice Lake was also an early Jersey breeder and he and Mr. Taylor co-operated in many ways.
A few creameries and cheese factories were started here and there in the county in the early nineties. The farmers brought the milk to the creameries where the cream was separated and made into butter. Some are still in exis- tence. Some ran for only a few years. Some were reorganized. It was not however until the dawn of the present century that any of the butter and cheese factories or their product began to attract more than casual attention.
The assessment of 1901 showed within the county: 17,760 neat cattle; 14,685 sheep and lambs; 6,332 horses; 3,012 swine, and 73 mules and asses.
In 1905 when the state census was taken, the county was still at the dawn of the modern era. The population was 28,376, of whom 21,225 were native born and 7,151 foreign born. Of the native born, 15,732 were born in Wis- consin, and 5,493 in other states. Most of the 15,732 were children and young folks, the offspring of foreign parents. The Norwegians continued to show a preponderance, and about the same ratio in regard to nativity was main- tained as in previous years, although colonies from Italy, Bohemia, Austria, Poland and Switzerland had established themselves here. The 7,151 foreign born were divided as follows: Norway, 2,648; Germany, 1,226; Sweden, 911; Canada, 713; Italy, 308; Bohemia, 288; Denmark, 205; Austria, 142; Russia, 121; Hungary, 120; England, 91; Switzerland, 70; Finland, 67; Ireland, 67; Russian Poland, 44; Scotland, 41; German Poland, 24; France, 17; Holland, 14; Belgium, 9; Wales, 6; Greece, 1; Austrian Poland, 1; other countries, 17.
The county had 3,425 farms. The total acreage in farm lands was 351,732, of which 136,332 was improved, and 215,400 unimproved.
There were 37,740 cattle and calves, of which 17,767 were milch cows. During the year, 9,655 cattle and calves had been sold or consumed. There were 16,847 sheep and lambs, of which 7,696 had been sold or consumed during the year. The pounds of wool produced numbered 53,392. There were 8,318 swine, and 10,361 had been disposed of during the year. The horses and mules numbered 8,866. The fowls counted numbered 104,090 and the eggs produced amounted to 535,380 dozen.
The principal crops were: Hay, 53,808 acres, 80,930 tons; oats, 31,574 acres, 1,145,025 bushels; barley, 3,502 acres, 91,893 bushels; corn, 3,242 acres, 76,959 bushels; wheat, 3,073 acres, 51,542 bushels; rye, 1,245 acres, 22,706 bushels; buckwheat, 1,114 acres, 17,380 bushels; clover seed, 838 bushels; timo- thy seed, 565 bushels; flax seed, 1,170 bushels; potatoes, 5,962 acres, 614,336 bushels; root crops, 340 acres, 100,518 bushels; beans and peas, 322 acres, 5,603 bushels; sugar beets, 877 tons. The pounds of tobacco raised amounted to 34,940.
Sixty-one acres were in berries, producing 3,769 bushels. The apples raised amounted to 589 bushels, the grapes to 75 bushels. The amount of maple sugar produced was 1,655 pounds, of syrup 752 gallons. Honey produced amounted to 70,151 pounds. In Doyle Township one acre was planted to sorghum, yielding 30 gallons of syrup, valued at $15.
The milk produced was estimated at 1,185,883 gallons. The butter made on farms was estimated at 745,073 pounds, and the cheese made on farms at 1,830 pounds.
There were 16 creameries when the census of 1905 was taken. The cows owned by the patrons numbered 9,756. The amount of butter produced during the year was 1,413,414 pounds, valued at $278,366. A single creamery, that of the Barron Co-operative Creamery Co., has each year since 1917 made more pounds of butter than the entire output of all the sixteen creameries in 1905. The same year, 1905, there were seven cheese factories producing 343,- 691 pounds of cheese.
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By 1909, the creameries and cheese factories were already giving indica- tions of the wonderful success which was to be theirs in the next decade. The official report made to the Secretary of State on August 12, of that year, showed 15 creameries and 10 cheese factories.
The 15 creameries were as follows: Arland Creamery, Arland Township; Barron Co-operative Creamery, Barron City; Bear Lake Creamery, Oak Grove Township; Barronett Creamery, Barronett Village; Brill Creamery, Brill Vil- lage; Cameron Creamery, Cameron Village; Chetek Creamery, Chetek City; Comstock Co-operative Creamery, Comstock Village; Cumberland Creamery, Cumberland Township; Hillsdale Creamery, Maple Grove Township; Moose Ear Creamery, Chetek Township; Rice Lake Creamery, Rice Lake City; Spring Hill Creamery, Dovre Township; Turtle Lake Creamery, Turtle Lake Village; Almena Creamery, Almena Village.
The ten cheese factories were as follows: Campia Butter & Cheese Co., Doyle Township; Crystal Cheese & Butter Association, Cedar Lake Township; Crescent Cheese Factory, Turtle Lake Township; Pioneer Cheese Factory, Tur- tle Lake Township; Maple Leaf Cheese Factory, Turtle Lake Township; Star Cheese Factory, Cumberland Township; Bestlerton Cheese Co., Cumberland Township; Fairdale Cheese Factory, Dovre Township; Good Hope Cheese Fac- tory, Bear Lake Township; Bear Lake Cheese Factory, Bear Lake Township.
In 1915, Barron County factories produced 1,078,621 pounds of cheese valued at $151,114.39. In 1919 they produced 5,321,323 pounds of cheese valued at $1,388,440.67. In 1915, Barron County creameries produced 4,798,096 pounds of butter valued at $1,324,603.32. In 1919 they produced 5,481,612 pounds of butter valued at $2,190,472.42. The total amount received for butter and cheese sold by the factories of Barron County in 1919 amounted to $3,578,913.09.
In 1920 there were 44 cheese factories in the county and 19 creameries.
The following is a list of cheese factories in Barron County on April 1, 1920; the name of the factory being given first, the mail address second, and the owner third. The initials indicate the style of cheese manufactured, A standing for American, B for Brick, S for Swiss and L for Limburger: Almena, Almena, B, Almena Cry .; Northwestern, B, Almena, Henry Bolliger; Midway, B, Almena, R. No. 1, Midway Co-op. Ch. Fcty .; Arland, A & B, Arland, H. S. Ben- nett, Clayton, R. No. 2; Angus, A, Angus, Angus Farm Prod. Ass'n; Clover- dale, A, Barron, R. No. 2, William Blazel; Cameron Ass'n, A, Cameron, C. A. Carlson Co., Chicago, Ill .; Canton, A, Canton, Fred M. Lepley; Moose Ear, A & B, Chetek, Herman J. Engelhardt; Ideal, A, Chetek, R. No. 4, Ideal Ch. & Dy. Fcty .; Oakland, B, Chetek, Walter Zbinden; Maple Leaf, B, Clayton, R. No. 2, Christ Bigler; Sunny Side, B, Clayton, Charles W. Pahlow; Crescent, B, Clay- ton, R. No. 2, Peter Thill; Weiss, A, Clayton, Fred Weiss, Jr., and Fred Weiss, Sr .; Advance, B, Clayton, John Weiss; Bestlerton, A, Cumberland, Bestlerton Co-op. Bt. & Ch. Co .; Cumberland, A, B, & L, Cumberland, Curt & Swingham- mer; Silver Lake, A, Cumberland, Silver Lake Ch. Co .; Stanfold, A & B, Cumber- land, Stanfold Ch. Co .; Star, A, Cumberland, Star Cheese Co .; Bear Lake, B, Haugen, Ernest G. Gross; Devil's Lake, B, Haugen, Ernest G. Gross; Hillsdale, A, Hillsdale, Hillsdale Ch. Co .; Poskin, A, Poskin, Poskin Dy. Prod. Co .; Herr- man, S & B, Prairie Farm, Robert Herrman, Dallas, Wis .; Independent, B, Prairie Farm, Emil Muehlhausen; Pine Grove, B, Prairie Farm, Jacob Rothen- buehler; Long Lake Road, A, B, S & L, Rice Lake, R. No. 3, Badertscher Bros .; Oak Grove, B, Rice Lake, R. No. 3, Badertscher Bros .; Dobie, S & B, Rice Lake, R. No. 3, John Badertscher; Red Cedar, A & B, Rice Lake, R. No. 3, Fred Baum- berger and J. J. Wampfler; Campia, B & A, Rice Lake, Campia Ch. Co .; Central, A, Rice Lake, R. No. 1, Central Ch. & B. Ass'n; Good Hope, A, Rice Lake, R. No. 2, Good Hope Ch. Co .; Lakeview, A, Rice Lake, John P. Klossner; Clover Leaf, B, Rice Lake, Jacob Mueller; Swiss Home and Lakeside, A & B, Rice Lake, R. No. 6, Jacob Mueller; Rice Lake, A & B, Rice Lake, R. No. 5, Fred Schneeberger; Tuscobia, S & B, Rice Lake, R. No. 6, Gottlieb Zulliger; Pioneer, B, Turtle Lake,
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