Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-30
HISTORIC GREEN BAY.
4 Three Days Meet in Which to
Recall the Centuries Gone.
TREY USE A LOT OF PAPER.

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Spruce Make Two Days Issue Only for
~ City Journal-State Congregational
Isally in West Superior Sept. A
NJ. {. A. Financiering No Fakirism 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 NOS be large.
but it will be made up of thoughtful
and studious people.
They Have Heard Tell.
1t 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
a few traditions which every resident
has heard, but often they are not ac-
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 Il 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 For 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. 81 the
woman 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 c. 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 Il wonderful spectacle
10 see in some of the joint pulp and
paper mills segments of the trunks of
trees being thrown into watts at one
end of a 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
Gl5 feet board measure, and this guam
THY 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 so 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 in a single day into about
$50 tons of such pulp as goes to make
up newspaper stock. This pulp will
make about ar equal weight of paper,
which will supply a 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 Weat
Superior Sept. 12-14. For sixty years,
lacking one, this roundup has oc-
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
ment. Many of the denominations are
troubled by the standstill, if not fall
ing off in figures. The Methodist
church papers make g~rievous COM
III 4 tC Ntb0NlIA ( vi Z lIOIll
service is the chief problem. Rev. S.
G.. Smith of st. Paul will speak of so
cial Problems and the Church" 1.-THE
Contributions of Science to 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 LaCrossepreach-
es the convention sermon and Rev. f.
il. Smith of Oshkosh, Il chaplain in the
Spanish war, will speak of Our Coun-
try; In War; Arbitration and Peace"
Another ". NJ. {. A. Tard-Up.
The Y. NJ. G. A. in Marinette has sus-
pended, at least temporarily. The in
stitution in that city owns a 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
spiriEg kiad done by any city church
than is done by Il properly organized
Y. NJ. C. A., and there is no work more
difficult to sustain financially. The
place is open all the time and offers
to young men what they want. Thus
it enlists their interest and even enthu-
siasm and provides opportunity for
spreading before them religious truth
and appeals to higher living. 1t is
an astounding thought to those thus
favored in their youth that a great
body of young men are today growing
up whose time is so exclusively de-
voted TO work by day and recreation
at other times that the concerted wis
dom of the ages as TO the deep things
are scarcely brought within their pur-
view. We recognize that Y, NJ. C. A.
laundering is hard-Sledding. 1t is
evidenced by the difficulties in which
the work chronically is. Such a phil
anthropy never can be comfortably
fixed in point of money. If it has
enough. the institution naturally wants
TO broaden its coasts. The chief trou-
bic is that the best business ability is
II o usually found in the ranks of the
humble workers who bear the heat n
toll of the responsibility of the associ-
alton.
Once in n while, as in Wausau. a live
business man of standing takes the
presidency and gives the building an
hour or two a day of his oversight and
figuring as he would a bank. That is
noble Christian service.
The state Fair sept. Ills.
Thc ctotc foi. ocn,rc in MfIuanEoa