Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-06-25
Badger State
Happenings


not sufficient to properly clothe, feed
and house women workers In Apple
| ton, according to evidence at a hear
| ing before the advisory board of the
| Wisconsin industrial commission.
Miss Inez Gurnee, secretary of Apple
| ton Girls club, and Mrs. Katherine
Sullivan, secretary of the Civic league,
testified that their Investigations
showed that $11.63 was the minimum
wage on which Appleton girls can live
properly They said the minimum
wage should be higher in Appleton
than in Oshkosh or Green Bay because
rentals are higher.
Sturgeon Bay = With indications
pointing toward good cherry crop
the Fruit Growers Canning Co. is pre-
pairing for a twenty-four-day run of
10000 cases a day to be preserved
The output will probably fall short of
the original estimate, although the
manufacturers feel that they will be
able to take care of all the fruit that
is sent in Many pickers are being
engaged from the counties of Mari
nette, Menominee and Door. Many
Indians engage in this work. Tents
and hotels are provided for pickerS.
Entertainment is furnished after each
days work Music, games and other
pastimeS are had at the pavilions.
Stevens Point = Fewer normal
oh in n hIIt
higher salaries for those whose serv-
ices are retained, is the policy of the
normal board of regents, according to
it's president, George B. Nelson, this
city. At recent meeting, the regents
favored a REIMBURSEMENT policy so that
the board can use the $4,000 added
appropriation granted by the legisla-
ture for increasing salaries of the fac
ulty members in each of the ten Wis
consin schools.
acknowledgements county farm
ers are puzzled by the killing of more
than score of sheep. Helmer Paul
son found six of his animals dead in
the fields one morning with hole the
size of 10-cent piece below the ear
in the jugular vein. They had bled to
death Two of his neighbors lost four
teen sheep It is believed some ami
NAL is committing the depredations
The carcasses are not torn or eaten
by the killer.
Sturgeon Bay-Vernon Plattner, of
ae n t,io
will represent Door county at the
state fair next fall having been de-
clared the winner in oral and written
spelling and other examinations. The
young man has just completed his
work in the graded schools and car
ries to the high school the highest
recommendations of all the instructors
under whom he studied.
Sturgeon Bay-Practically the en-
tire debt of the Moravian church was
cleared off at brick sale. A large
pile of imitation paper bricks were
piled in the church parlors and each
member bought one, meaning that he
would subscribe that amount for the
church The largest brick, placed in
the center of the pile, netted more
than 5000. The city Ladies Aid So
ciety purchased it.
Rice Lake = Prof j. w. Stephen,
state conservation commission, is in
charge OF work of fighting white pine
blister rust This disease goes from
10 nj,
trees, much the same as grain smut
goes from barberry to wheat and oats.
Half a million feet Of timber in this
vicinity has been cut since February
to eradicate the disease.
Ladysmith-Lieut. G. M. Household
er, formerly agricultural agent for
Rusk county, who was recently mus
tered out of army service, has been
appointed assistant state supervisor of
agricultural agents, and will have SUI
pervision of the agents in Rusk, Saw
yer, Price, Douglas, Bayfield,, Burnett,
Ashland, Oneida, Langlade and Forest
counties.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DoAIz' o, SUI vi
John Bentz, farmer, near Pound, was
accidentally shot and killed by his
brother. The boys had been hunting.
The older brother tried to take the
cartridge from the rifle. The weapon
Was discharged and the bullet struck
the younger boy in the head.
Stevens Point-After fighting in the
battle of Chateau-Thierry and escap-
ing uninjured, Walter R. Wineck, this
city, and comrede met death in
France May II, when struck by a
French locomotive while engaged in
guarding trains. He was buried with
military honors in France.