Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-25

Der OF the state board of agriculture
and superintendent of speed of the
state fair for several years.
Racine-F'rank Longanecker, super
/ intendent of public schools of Racine,
is entitled to $4,000 a year as his sal
4 airy. Judge E. B. Belden ruled. Judge
Belden held that the contract which
/ Longanecker entered into with the
board of education is valid, and he
is to receive pay at the rate of $500 a
month beginning Jan. /, 1921. Action
was brought by John Sieb, former
4 member of the council, to prevent
/ Longanecker from receiving $4,000
/ salary, which was an increase of
$3.50 over the old contract, which
still had two years to run. Sieb con-
4 tended that the action of the board OF
i education was illegal in that the body
/ had no right to abrogate the contract.
/ Brentwood Material has been
/ shipped here by the 500 line to be
used in building two bridges at the
/ Narrows and at the point where
/ Chetac lake and Birch lake unite.
! The bridges are part of the 500 line
/ cutoff between Reserve and Melien.
The 500 road may commence building
/ the cutoff this summer. The con-
I struction of this track will open up
millions of acres of land. The cutoff
/ will extend about forty miles and con-
vert this road into main line.
Stevens Point-Four bidders en-
gagged in the stiffest kind of competi-
/ ton for the job of repaving Stevens
/ Points macadam streets, and as a re-
/ suit saving of at least 100000 will
accrue to the city. An Oshkosh firm
submitted the lowest bid, $1.15 a
I square yard for asphalt concrete. APP
/ proximately $4,000 square yards of sur
4 facing is included in the job The ag-
gregate cost will be 100000. 1t is
i said that the bids were the lowest ever
received in Wisconsin under similar
conditions.
/ De Pere - The De Pere school
/ boards have voted in favor of the con-
solidation of the two school districts
/ of the city, and have asked the council
/ to ratify the action and pass an ordi-
4 nance looking to the issue of 100000
/ bonds for the building of central
/ high school on the west side. There
are two districts in this city, one be
ing under the county system and the
4 other under the city system. Two
/ high schools have been maintained
4 for many years.
Whitewater-H Henry Vessel, Ocono-
mowoc, was reelected president of the
! Wisconsin Firemen's Association at
/ the thirty-fourth annual state tourna-
ment which held a three day session
! here. Other officers reelected We're
Ernest Hansen, Fort Atkinson, first
vice president; W. Travis, Rice Lake,
second vice president; Benjamin Burr,
( jefferson, secretary; John West. Bar
ron, treasurer.
Green Bay-Black rust is making
/ its appearance in the wheat and bar
4 lev acreage in Brown county, accord
I ing to a report of County Agent kava-
naugh. The fields are said to be badly
/ spotted and it is feared that great
/ damage to crops will result. Potato
beetles are causing much trouble
/ while grub worms and cut worms are
/ heavier than usual in the corn. Crops
/ are said to be better than usual, de
spite bugs, BEETLES and rust.
Clenwood City-At a meeting here,
the st. Croix county highway commits
sion completed negotiations for the
purchase of one and half miles OF
right-of-way for state trunk highway
/ Ga in the township Of Forest. This IS
the last undeveloped stretch in st.
I Croix county of the new Minneapolis
to Marinette highway. Construction
will begin at once.
La Crosse - Sister Celicitas, 81
years old, a Franciscan sister, died
here following being struck by an au-
tomobile The accident occurred WINE
she was crossing the street in the
business district. She was born at
Delphos. o.. and had been stationed IN
La Crosse for more than fifty years as
a teacher in the parochial schools.
La Crosse-A strike of 800 tobacco
steamers at the sorting plant OF the
4 p. Lorillard Tobacco Co. in this city
was settled when the company made
slight concessions in wages to the
workers.
Fond du Lac-Richa-d Reed, Rhine
lander, was elected president OF the
i Fourteenth Wisconsin Volunteer IN
fantry at its annual reunion here
John D. Coon of this city was elected
vice. president. and r. A. Sphinx, Osh-
kosh. secretary-treasu rer.
Wate-town - Beginning ten Gays
earlier than in any previous year, the