Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-02-05

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The officers were installed at so
ciaI function at Castle hall, Van Blu
rem and Biddle streets. The Milwau'
kee Lyric club gave program.
| Spelling Bee for State Fair.
| An old-fashioned spelling school
may be feature of the next stats
| fair. The state board of agriculture
is considering the advisability of ar
ranging for such contest at the next
| big agricultural show. II such con
| test is decided upon 1t is probable
that preliminary county spelling con-
tests will be held and the winners In
the various contests invited to partici-
uate in the state meet at Milwaukee
| Suitable prizes will be offered IL the
contest is finally arranged.
| A farm boys school on the fair
| grounds may also be arranged for the
| benefit Of similar winners OF county
championship honors.
| Boys and girls of Wisconsin have
been given special consideration by
the state board Of agriculture In the
making up of the premium list for the
next state fair. In the educational
premium list a number of new fea-
| lures have been added with special
reference to the rural schools. Here
| tofore the premiums for county school
children have been largely confined
to corn grown under the direction OF
teachers. This year grain and gar
| den products have been added and
the classification otherwise enlarged
A total of 1900 in premiums in the
| educational department, nearly all OF
which will go to children in rural
village or city schools. Superintend-
ents are showing interest and stimu-
| lating teachers to encourage the chill
dren to enter the competition. Prizes
will be offered the school children of
| the state in a great many lines be-
sides agricultural experiments, such
as in drawings, maps, woodwork, col
lection of weeds, homework, sewing
poems, stones, designs, best sheafs
Of grain, alfalfa. etc.
Then there will be premiums on
the best paper on the best balanced
rations for a COW of 1000 pounds" on
the care of milk, on silos, hog houses,
seed corn. wild flowers, etc.
| These contests are expected to slim
ulate great interest in both the state
| fair and agriculture generally and to
rebound ultimately to the great bene-
| fit of the state. Such papers will be
of educational value to the contest
ants not only in the discipline they
will require in preparation, but in
| pointing out to the various contest
ants wherein others had better ideas
Heads the Home Finding Society.
! DR.. Warren B. Hill was elected
| president of the Wisconsin Home
| Finding society at It's annual
meeting in Milwaukee. Other officers
elected were. Vice-president, s. s.
| Newton; secretary, George w. Adams;
treasurer, L. NJ. Alexander; directors,
| w. II. Cheever, Dr. Warren B. Hill,
Gen. August G. Weissert, w. M. Post,
s. S. Newton, Rev Perry Millar, Rev.
Frederick Ingley. Kenosha, to sue
coed Rev. D. w Hubert; w. w. Per
ry, to succeed L. c. Wheeler.
Seventy-one adoption papers were
made out, according to the annual re-
port, and ffty-nine children reached
majority Since the organization OF
the society 2,724 children have been
received January /, 1912, there were
| twenty-five children on hand and 13u
were received during the year. Nine
| ty-seven were placed for the hrst
time, forty-three replaced and one
| child committed to an institution.
Fifteen were returned to parents or
| relatives. while fourteen died while
boarding with families with which
they had been placed. leaving twenty
seven on hand January 1, 1913.
The annual report of the Big Broth
ers and Big Sisters, department OF
| the society. showed that 5S4 boys and
lat girls were helped. while employ
ment was found for 431 and hospital
and medical aid secured for eighteen.
Permanent homes were found for
thirty-three. while two runaway boys
were returned home. Two hundred
| and sixty-four we're helped by advice.
| State interpretations.
Articles of incorporation were hle1
In the Office of the secretary OF state
as follows: The Iversen Art Gal.
leries, Milwaukee; to manufacture,
buy and sell pictures: capital, $12,.
900. incorporators, John c. Iversen.
Harry l.. Morawetz and L. P. Peter
son. The Schwoegler Candy company,
Madison; capital. $4,000; incorpora-
tors. A. j. Schwoegler. c. E. Marks
and C. r. Welton. The Superior Min
eral Milling company, Superior; cap.
ital. $4,000; incorporators. William
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