Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1918 — The Champion Wood Chopper. [ARTICLE]

The Champion Wood Chopper.

A record in wood chopping Is claimed by L. J. Haugen, fifty, who lives near Clinton, la. Up to the opening of the present lumbering season he chopped 6,207 cords. He is a Norwegian. During the summer he works for farmers about the County, but as soon as the first touches of winter are apparent, he shoulders his ax and starts for the timber lands. He figures his chopping career from the time he was twenty, since which he has averaged two cords a day during the chopping season.