Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-02-21

/ Low salaries are to blame Tor a
shortage of teachers in Green Bay
schools, according to Supt Burton.
Especially as there scarcity of men
teachers.
Miss Alva Groth, Hartford, county
superintendent of schools, has an
nounced her candidacy for reelection
next April. She was appointed to the
Office in 1917.
Superior members of the Loyal Or
der of Moose propose the construction
of home which will cost over $4,000.
The site is now being acquired and
work will be started in the fall There
are over 400 members of the order in
Superior.
George F. Werner, Appleton. gen
eral secretary of the Y M. C. A. since
the new building was erected about
four years ago, will leave within few
days for France where he will do army
Y. M. C. A. work Mr.. Werner will be
absent for six months.
The Sturgeon Bay Package company
has received an order for 100000
cheese boxes The company has 10O,.
900 feet of logs. $50 cords of bolts and
100 cords of maple wood short dis
lance from the city which will be
hauled to the plant soon.
The Woman's Relief corps of Amigo,
acting under permission of the Lang
lade Red Cross chapter, is meeting ali
trains through the city with refresh
ments for soldier boys. No soldier
passing through Amigo will want to
something to eat, they assert.
The Dodge County Bar Assn held
a memorial service for the late Con-
gresham M. e. Burke of Beaver Dam
at Juneau Former Congressman M.
e. Reilly of Fond du Lac and Thomas
Konop of the industrial commission
at Madison delivered addresses.
Sheboygan has launched an Ameri-
cation drive to interest the $500 aliens
to secure their naturalization papers.
Competition is on between factory
heads to secure 100 per cent American
force of employees. Committees have
been appointed in each ward and all
aliens will be paid personal visits by
citizens interested in the movement.
Because of influenza, a new high
death record was established in Wis.
consin in 1913 Deaths in 1918 we're
1869, a rate of 1876 per 1000, which
is more than 8 per 1000 higher than
any rate ever recorded in the state.
Influenza, took more than 1000 Wis
consin lives. OF influenza and pneu-
monia, 1O2,733 cases were reported
during the year.
Wa Ba Ko Sid, Wisconsin's oldest
Indian woman, died at Reserve, Saw
yer county, at 113. For many years
she suffered the infrmities of old age
being unable to walk and partially
blind and deaf She lived for the past
twenty years with her grandson, a
man now past 20. She is survived by
many relatives, including number of
great reat-grandchildren.
To supplement information gained
at the annual road school held by the
state highway commission, the uni
versity extension division, Madison, is
offering course in rural highway
work for roadmen and patrol men, as
well as for commissioners. inspectors
and foremen. G. F. Daggett, engineer
of survey and plans of the highway
commission, is the instructor.
The old dam of the Jackson Milling
company in Stevens Point, operated
continuously for more than sixty
years, has been destroyed. The his
toric structure, spanning the Wiscon-
sin river distance of 1000 feet, has
been blown out with two tons of dyna
mite. With the completion of the big
dam of the Consolidated Water Power
and Paper company the old dam was
no longer of practical use.
Three days in a shell hole without
food or water, not daring to leave for
fear of being riddled with machine
gun buleets from the enemy trenches,
and finally making desperate break
for freedom and with the sensation of
a bullet piercing his helmet, was the
experience of Private Mike Schultz,
Menasha, Co. "A. .311th infantry, who
writes home telling of the experience
and thanking the Lord that he is still
alive.
The Monroe county board, 16 to is,
defeated the proposition Of establish
ing an agricultural agent. Farmers
and business men raised $1,000 for
the salary of an agent and pledged a
similar amount for 1920, petitioning
the board to apply to the dean Of the
College of Agriculture for an appoint
ment. The board has been requested
to defend and discuss its reasons for,
checking the proposed advancement of
rural and farming interests.
According to the report made to the
board of education by Director of Agri-
culture Taylor Brown, Oshkosh, re-
garding last seasons work in the pub.
lie schools there were twenty-four
boys who produced one acre each of
pure-bred corn, yielding 1850, bushels,
a large amount of which has been
saved and will be used for seed next
year. According to careful records
kept by the boys the average cost an
acre was $3.50 and the net profit of
the twenty-four acres can be estimated
at $4,000.
With his latest figures totaling ST.
100, Father Halandyke, who has been