Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-05-07

i OSHKOSH - III TAKING dCtIOA " IL
engage present teachers in the Osh-
kosh public schools for next year, the
board of education took into account
the high cost of living and provided
substantial increases in salaries all
along the line In the list are LAG OF
the present instructors, new ones,
and specials" There are about ~
teachers still to be secured. The new
salary list shows the following inter-
esting figures: Total amount OF IN
crease in all the schools, $18,125; ay-
erage amount of increase in all
schools, SIPS; average increase in sal
aries of all the teachers, 15 per cent.
Prairie du Chen Efforts of COM
mercial fishermen and sportsmen to
get fshway through the Keokuk dam
on the Mississippi river appear near
realization. The government, it is re-
ported, has approved plans for a
sluiceway in the dam and work is ex-
pected to start June 1. Recently
shortage of fish above the dam has
been reported and fishermen declared
this was caused by the absence OF a
fishway in the dam, the presence OF
which would have permitted the fish
which were carried over the dam to
return. Fish below the dam are re-
ported plentiful.
WATERFOWL - Statewide interest is
centering on the plans of the Trinity
English Lutheran society here to dedi-
cate the new chuI CHI edifice May IL,
The Rev. f. E. Stern is pastor. The
society was organized in 1915 with
thirteen members and now numbers
1876 A residence formerly owned by
the late Luther Cole occupying
whole block has been remodeled and
will be occupied by the society. Sew
eral out of town pastors will attend
the dedicatory exercises. DR.. F. +.
Schlueter is president of the society.
Madison = Wet weather and cold
seed bed are likely to result in high
percentage of barley stripe this sea-
son unless the seed grain is treated
for stripe, according to plant patholo-
gists of the Wisconsin college of agri-
culture. Soaking the grain for two
hours in formalin solution is described
in Circular 81, Fight Grain SHUTS and
Blights, which is sent free by the Wis,
consin experiment station.
! Grand Rapids-A 10 per cent raise.
| in salaries has been granted public
| school teachers for the coming year.
| Grade teachers will be paid from $40
bto $50 per month next year and high
school teachers will draw from $85 per
month to $500 per year. Grade
school salaries formerly ranged from
| $50 to $50 and the high school sala-
ries from SIS per month to $1,400 a
year.
Beloit-Beloit college is making ar
irangements for the grea test. reunion
of alumni and former students in it's
history, at commencement time in
June. An entire week has been set
aside for Victory commencement fes-
tivities. Hundreds of grads are ex
pected to return. All college men who
served during the war in the army or
navy will be honored guests.
Fond du Lac-Miss Alvis j. Moon
ey, graduate of Ripon college and
member of the faculty of that institu
tion, was elected dean of Grafton Hail.
the Episcopal school for young ladies
in this city. Miss Mooney will assume
her new duties at the end of the pres
ent school year. on Bishop Wellers'
return from Europe.
Oshkosh-Prices for the extra Ere
flnementS" in the barber shops here
will cost more now Advanced prices
for shampooes, massage, toilet water
and hair tonic were fixed at smoker
given by the journeymen BARRIERS to
the bosses. The journeymen will be
given Thursday nights each week.
Beloit After enjoying wartime
wages, more than twenty Greeks and
Italians of this city have within the
last few days left for their former
homes. They have amassed enough
llOHSy W 1--WE COIulofIduIy lot the rest
OF their lives back home, they say, and
are ready to retire.
Ashland = A petition recently pub
lished here with large number of
signers asking the repeal of the es-
pionage act, has been supplanted with
a contemplation signed by many
who assert that they did not read the
petition and were misinformed as to
its contents.
Nj 'rinette-The steamer La Vic
lette owned by Charles Larson, this
city, which sank in eighteen feet of
water off Green Bay harbor, has been
raised and is not seriously damaged.
Her cargo of. $4,000 worth of groceries