The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-25
HISTORIC GREEN BAY.
A Three Days Meet in Which to
Recall the Centuries Gone.
THEY USE A LOT OF PAPER.


Rally in West Superior Sept. 12-14-X.
MI. C. A. Financiering No Fakirisin at
the State Fair.
Madison Wis, Aug. 22.-The State
Historical society will hold a meet
| ing in Green Bay, the oldest cOmmun-
| ity in the state, during the first week
in September Other conventions at
other points in the state will follow, in
which Secretary r. G. Thwaites and
others are much interested. The at
tendance will probably not be large,
but it will be made up Of thoughtful
and studiOus people.
They Have Heard Tell.
It is always surprising in the midst
| of invaluable and romantic historical
sittings to learn how few citizens have
definite knowledge of past events and
an interest in them. Usually there are
g. few traditions which every resident
has heard, but often they are not &C
! curate. Happily there is often one or
| more of the older residents who know
and love the historic places and sto-
| ries.
| At Green Bay old settlers will meet
| socially to exchange "reminiscences. A
| feature will be visit to the site Of the
old Jesuit missions at De Pere rapids
! where a memorial tablet will be erect
ed by the citizens of Depere. From
the early years of the seventeenth GEN.
fury Fox river was a highway to the
great Mississippi valley, a thorough
fare for explorer, priest and coureurs
! de bOis.
The first historical meet of the sort
was that in Madison Feb. 1928 last.
The Green Bay programme includes
an address of welcome by E. H. Ellis
of that city, to which Vice President
Wight of Milwaukee will respond, and
that night (Tuesday, Sept. s. the
! Womans club give a reception to Wis
itors. Among the twenty-minute pa
pers the next day "wednesday will be
''The Fox River Valley in the Days of
the Fur Trade" by Miss Deborah Beau
mont Martin; ''The Military History
of Green Bay" Days in the Life of
a Protestant Missionary (Rev. Cut
ting Marsh)," by Miss Florence Eliza
beth Baker; Talk on Places of Inter-
est To Be Seen on Trip to Depere," by
Arthur G.. Neville
Among the papers on Thursday will
| be "The Citizenship Of an Old Settler"
by A. J. Turner of Portage; "The Com
ing of the New York Indians to Wis
consin:' ''The Story of the FOX-Wis-
consin River Improvement" 'The In
tellectual Life of the Fox River VAL
ley" by Mrs. Ella Hoes Neville. Ten
minute talks upon the historical sig
| nificance of the respective cities of the
Fox river valley by representatives
thereof.
twenty-five Acres Two Days Paper.
Wisconsin stands nearly up to the
head in the matter of converting tim
Der into paper on which to print news
papers. 1t is wonderful spectacle
to see in some Of the joint pulp and
paper mills segments of the trunks Of
trees being thrown into watts at one
end of o long building and to follow
the process until white paper, miles
of it, emanate at the other end.
A cord of Spruce wood is equal to
615 feet board measure, and this guam
tity of raw material will make half a
ton of sulphite pulp, or one ton of
ground wood pulp.
Newspaper stock is made up with 20
per cent. Of sulphite pulp and 80 per
! cent. of ground wood pulp. The best
known spruce land, virgin growth,
possesses a stand Of about 1000 feet to
the acre. Taking the best as a basis,
twenty-five acres Of this best spruce
land will therefore contain 154, 900 feet
Of timber. An average gang of log
gers will cut this in about eight days.
This entire quantity of wood turned in
at any one Of the large mills will be
converted III single day into about
250 tons of such pulp as goes to make
up newspaper stock This pulp will
make about an equal weight of paper,
which will supply single large metro
pOlitan newspaper just two days.
Why Don't Men Go to Church.
/ The COngregationalists of the state
hold their annual convention in West
Superior Sept. 12-14. For sixty years,
; lacking one, this roundup has &C.
Cured. This year the denomination is
somewhat thoughtful over an annual
report which as far as figures go do not
indicate much progress. Other states,
however, report even less encourage
ment Many of the denominations are
troubled by the standstill, if not fall
ing off in figures. The Methodist
church papers make grieyOus COM
plants The absence OF men from
: service is the chief problem Rev. S.
G. Smith of st. Paul will speak Of so
cia1 Problems and the Church" ''The
Contributions of Science 10 Religion:
Physical, Biological, Psychological" by
Rev. Judson Ellsworth, Milwaukee;
and "The Transient and the Perma
nent in Religion Thought and Activ
ity," by Rev. E. G. Updike, Madison,
are two of the most notable papers.
Rev. Henry Ravitte OF LaCrossep preach
es the convention sermon and Rev. E.
H. Smith CT Oshkosh, a chaplain in the
Spanish war. will speak Of Our Coun-
try: In War; Arbitration and Peace"
Another y. NJ. c. a. Hard-Up.
The Y. M. G.. A. in Marinette has sus-
pended, at least temporarily. The in
stitutiOn in that city owns fine build
ing and has one Of the best equipped
gymnasiums and bath rooms in the
state.
There is no better work Of the in
spring kind done by any city church
than is done by a properly organized
III q 4 and thprn iC no work m ore