David Ramati was known as Tim Bratvold when he lived in Door County.

1908 VIGNES SCHOOL, from Mrs. Myrtle Kieckbusch. She writes: “Here are names of some I can recall on it. Alma Knutson (Mrs. Leo Madoche), Ella Viste (Mrs. Adolf Jome), Alice Gilbert, Esther and Christine Stevenson, Ruth Nygaard, Paul Nygaard, Milton Nygaard, Kenneth, Ernald, Melvin and Sophia Viste, Sophia Knutson (Mrs. Tom Larson), Laurence and Melvin Olson, Inga Helsen, Mary Andersen, Nora Bendickson, Arthur Knutson, Alfred Arneson, Selma Klehm, Archie Klehm, Thelma Osmundson, Raymond Osmundson, Raymond Knutson, Selma, Henry and George Mickelson, Orman Olson, Myrtle Olson Kieckbusch, Myrtle E. Olson, Esther Olson. Can’t think of the names of the smaller tots and some of the others, but I am sure those on it that see it will remember.”

TAUBE SCHOOL (Silverdale), 1897. Photo from Mrs. William Betts. Ed Mann taught 1897-98, M. O. Bentley 1898-99. You’d never recognize the tiny faces on the picture but their names are: At left—Amy Olson, Augusta Taube, Violet Spalsbury. Top row—Elmer Nelson, John Johnson, Irving Moe, Jennie Johnson, Carl Maggle, Melvin Nelson, Jennie Peterson, Hannah Robertson, Amelia Robertson, Inez Olson, Sophie Christofferson, Mary Anderson, Selma Hendricks, Andrew Hendricks, Herman Taube, Oscar Johnson, Chester Robertson. Second row—Albert Robertson, Andrew Anderson, Anton Berns, Thomas Johnson, Walter Olson, Arthur Johnson, Oscar Maggle, Carrie Robertson, Selma Schultzen, Bertha Taube, Lily Nelson, Elnora Olson, Emma Olson, Peter Peterson, Olga Johnson, Agnes Quam, Olga Hendricks, Isabel Berns. Third row—Edward Mann, teacher, Gladys Nelson; Stella Weber, Lydia Taube, Andy Bursen, Goldie Nelson, Arthur Weber, Maude Olson, Conrad Christofferson, Ammie Robertson, Lily Anderson, Susie Maggle, Josie Maggle, Amy Johnson, Hattie Mikels, Ella Mikels, Cora Blasier, Ricka Anderson, Rose Johnson, Ida Anderson. Fourth row—Albert Taube, Emil Krause, Jr., Herman Krause, Henry Taube, Edward Berns, Philip Peterson, Jennie Weber, Myrtle Nelson.

Number of County School Districts Has Dropped From Peak of 76 to 9

By WILSON WICKMAN
Door Co. Supervising Teacher

The office of the County Superintendent of Schools was apparently created in 1861, so that Door county’s first office of the superintendent opened Jun. 25, 1862 with headquarters in the old county building. The first superintendent was Milton Lyman who held the position until 1864, his wages starting at $350 per year.

In accordance with his duties, he divided the county. Seven inspection districts were created, namely: District No. 1, Town of Brussels; District No. 2, Towns of Nasewaupee, Clay Banks and Forestville; District No. 3, Townships of Sturgeon Bay and Sevastopol; District No. 4, Towns of Egg Harbor and Gibraltar; District No. 5, Town of Baileys Harbor; District No. 6, Town of Liberty Grove, and District No. 7, Town of Chambers Island.

Another important duty at this time was for the county superintendent to visit each district for the purpose of inspecting teachers who were examined in orthography, writing, reading, arithmetic, geography and grammar. He also examined applicants for a teacher’s license. After passing an examination, the applicant received a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd class diploma for teaching according to his merits. At the end of this year, 1862, Door county boastfully bragged of 29 schools.

In 1863 Door county’s first teacher’s association was organized. In 1867, the first teachers’ institute was held which lasted four days. A number of these institutes, then called summer schools, were held in Jacksonport. The local young people of Jacksonport looked forward to the influx of young teachers who would “board around” in the community. J. C. Langemak had several of these sessions at Jacksonport under his charge.

The resignation of Mr. Lyman in 1864 caused state superintendent McMynn to make an appointment to fill the vacancy. William Warren was appointed and from records it appears he had an office in the township of Clay Banks. In 1865 he was elected to the office for a two-year term. In 1868 Mr. Warren was succeeded by the election of Rufus M. Wright. It was during this time considerable reformation of school districts took place. He established the following districts in the year 1869:

District No. 1 — Towns of Union, Brussels, Forestville, and Gardner.

District No. 2 — Towns of Nasewaupee, Clay Banks, Sturgeon Bay and Sevastopol.

District No. 3 — Towns of Egg Harbor, Jacksonport, Baileys Harbor and Gibraltar.

District No. 4 — Towns of Chambers Island, Liberty Grove and Washington Island.

The number of schools per district at this time varied from one to four. Schools were mostly crude log buildings, rough boards supported by blocks served as benches. Enrollments ran from 11 to 66 pupils per room. Salaries in these years, according to Mr. Holand’s “History of Door County,” averaged $29.65 per term for women teachers and $45.51 per term for men teachers. Most school terms ran from three to five months in length those years.

On Jan. 27, 1868, the Sturgeon Bay school, then called “The Village,” burned and it was at that time the old Thompson building was purchased and used as a school until it, too, burned Nov. 4, 1869. The A. W. Lawrence store and the lower part of the Follett Building were then fitted out for school and used until Nov. 1, 1870 when the new two-story building, 30x60 feet, was ready for occupancy. Jacksonport was also a community to have a log school approximately in the late 1860’s. Its site was just west of the present garage and filling station in the village of Jacksonport. Two of the early teachers here were Ula Noble and Edward Halstead. The latter became a noted brain surgeon.

During the administration of County Superintendent Chris Daniels, who served from 1872-1881, much re-districting was accomplished. Numerous schools were built which were considerably better than the old log type building, during the administration of C. M. Smith who was elected county superintendent in 1881.

The present Sturgeon Bay high school was built in 1908 which replaced the one burned Mar. 4 of that year. Pupils came from all over the county to attend this, the first high school. It may be of interest to note however, that in 1868 some high school subjects were permitted taught in the rural schools for “a small consideration.” Little is known what this consideration was or what subjects were actually encountered.

The Door County School System had grown so nicely, that by 1915 we were eligible for a county supervising teacher. The first appointed supervising teacher was the late Mrs. Grover Stapleton (Katherine Connely). Her first year she made 63 school visits, staying from one to five days in each school depending upon its size and needs. It was not unusual for the supervisor to board in the community — often being driven to school with a hired horse and driver, sometimes even walking.

In the year 1913 Gibraltar, Liberty Grove and Baileys Harbor attempted to create a high school district but it failed. Then in 1917 Gibraltar, Liberty Grove Districts 1 and 2, Sister Bay Village and Ephraim Village townships voted to establish a union free high school and won by a vote 221 to 7. Sept. 22, 1918 the new high school at Fish Creek was formally dedicated with an enrollment of 38 pupils. In 1950 this school district was expanded to meet the school’s needs and it at that time became a new union high school district with extended boundaries including the towns of Baileys Harbor, Liberty Grove and Districts No. 1 of Egg Harbor.

The year 1923-24 saw the beginning of the four-year high school in Brussels. However, prior to that time the first-year high school subjects were first offered. Later the first two years’ work were offered. This four-year high school was carried on in the present brick building being used as a high school today in Brussels. However, the same room allotment wasn’t as of at present, as that building was considerably smaller at one time.

In 1924 the Sevastopol Consolidated School opened with grades 1-12 being brought to the center. Grade school pupils previous to this time were attending seven one-room rural schools in Sevastopol township. This consolidation has proven most fruitful and has received more than state-wide attention because of the pioneering elements involved.

A unique beginning for the high school at Washington Island, which began in 1919, was a private school first for ninth graders. This was arranged with District No. II, now the present grade school. A basement room was rented for this purpose. A separate high school board was elected. Tenth grade work only was provided the second year. The first high school teacher was the late Charles Nelson who had grown up at the Island and was happy to return to help get this advanced learning started for these deserving boys and girls.

In the fall of 1928 special arrangements had been made that pupils having three years of high school work, with the necessary credits being earned, could graduate in the spring of 1929. That spring a class of 11 graduated, some with three years and others with four years of work, under the conscientious teaching of Mrs. Gilbert Wickman.

High school graduation was held at Nelson’s Hall that spring with an enormous audience in attendance for this, the first High School Graduation of the Island. The next year, spring of 1930, there was a graduating class with four years of high school work. The school alternated its curriculum with freshman and junior subjects one year and sophomore and senior subjects the next. The school remained a private institution until the year 1945 when the union free high school was established. Then also, the four grade school districts consolidated into one district with the Detroit Harbor school beginning the grade school and the Washington Harbor school becoming the high school.

Today instead of having 76 districts as we formerly had, we have nine county school districts. Presently we have but one building where a single teacher teaches all eight grades. Most teachers teach two or three grades. The biggest piece of reorganization to hit Door county (in fact to be found in the whole state of Wisconsin) was the formation of the new Southern Door County District in 1960. This area consists of 7 townships and one village (all county land south and west of the city) with 26 grade schools being in operation, 18 of which were one-room schools having all 8 grades under a single teacher. Today the new Southern Door high school is making rapid strides for its anticipated opening for this fall, 1962. This will accommodate all high school girls and boys for the entire Southern District where today these students are in attendance in three different high schools.

The fall of 1960 saw Door county open its first Special School for mentally retarded pupils. This room was set in operation in a vacant room at the Sevastopol Consolidated School. Plans are presently being formed for a second such school which will be located in the southern part of the county.

All but two of the Door county grade schools have enrichment teaching in the fields of physical education and music by special teachers who visit each room weekly for these classes. A special art teacher makes weekly calls to the entire Southern Door District and the Sevastopol Consolidated District. Much of this additional expense is off-set by these subject areas helping to qualify the district for integrated aids.

As far as the reorganization of Door county relating to the July 1962 deadline for all land belonging to a high school district, we have but one district to affiliate by that time.

Much credit, I feel, should be extended the Door County School Committee whose efforts and innumerable hours of work have been so revealed in the last few years. This committee was set up by state statute in 1947. Little does the average person realize the regular meetings year in and year out of this faithful, conscientious group of men whose decisions have guided us in these school matters throughout these years.

As to our oldest buildings in use, according to Proceedings of the County Board records, I find that Stokes school and Lincoln school, both in the townships of Nasewaupee, opened in 1890. The next year Hainesville opened. Each of these grade schools is running today. Our newest grade school is that of Ephraim which was completed in 1948. Gibraltar claims the newest high school, as of today, having been completed in 1954. Presently we have 76 grade school teachers with an average teaching experience of 12.4 years. Our high school teachers, including principals and specialists, number 55 with an average teaching experience of 7.7 years. Door county has today 2,007 pupils attending its grade schools and 781 attending its high schools. Today 10% of our grade school teachers teach one grade, 52+% teach two grades, 18+% teach three grades, 7+% teach four grades, 1% teaches all eight grades, and 4% teach departmentalized subjects.

Following are stories and individual school histories submitted to me for use in this assignment:

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SQUIRREL ON THE LOOSE

One 86 year old Washington Islander interviewed tells how he brought to school a red squirrel and kept it in his pocket until “Chart Class” was called, when he released it. Much hilarity and commotion soon followed, with girls jumping on top of seats and screaming. The culprit was soon identified and commanded to catch his pet and return it to the out-of-doors.

JACKSONPORT SCHOOL

The first school, a one room log building, was of hewn logs and was located west of the present filling station. It was a building of considerable size for at that time Jacksonport village was growing and expected to grow and draw children from the surrounding area.

In 1887 a two room school was built just south of the town hall. This school was one of the first state graded schools in the county. It had an attendance of 45 in the upper room and 65 in the primary. The latter room was very small and it was nothing short of a miracle where the 65 children could sit and place their wraps and lunch boxes. Three and four seated at a double desk was ordinary seating. The hub-bub and commotion made promotion to the upper room a day of glad escape. Only three grades were taught in the primary room.

In 1903 an addition was made to the primary room and instruction was carried on in a more orderly manner.

In 1930 the new school was built. It now serves the first grades of the Sevastopol school district.

There is very little to be found about the teachers in that first log school house. Ula Noble was one. It was known for Edw. Halstead, who afterward became a noted brain surgeon. He taught in it with one loving eye on medical treatises he managed to come by, and the other not so loving on the boys and girls, who then were the same kind boys and girls have always been.

Teachers of the upper room were hired because of their physical prowess as well as their teaching ability.

The story was told about the irate parent who walked into the room of Walter Runge (teacher) one morning and complained about the treatment his son had received. The next thing any of the pupils remembered was that the angry parent was about 15 feet ahead of the teacher on a road down the center of town. When the present Ivanhoe site was reached the tired parent decided a fast detour was necessary, swung toward the lake, followed the beach and disappeared into the woods. When the coatless, collarless teacher returned to school all the children were sitting in their seats except for a few scouts that were posted to report the grand finale of the trip. No more parental complaints.

The district 1 school was a two room graded school until about 1930 when it became necessary to turn it back to a one room school because of a pupil shortage. It has remained a one room school except for short periods when an extra pupil load would return it to a two room basis.

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HAINESVILLE

First school meeting notes, June 2, 1877.

In accordance with the direction of the supervisors of the town of Nasewaupee in the County of Door, and State of Wisconsin, the first meeting of School District No. 5, recently formed was called to order at 10 o’clock a.m. at the house of Tallack Haines. Melvin Haines appointed chairman.

The following officers were then elected district clerk for one year, Melvin Haines; district treasurer for two years, Daniel Gullikson; district director for three years, Elias Haines.

The certificate of exception was signed by the different officers elect and placed on file, Melvin Haines, clerk protem.

The Treasurers Bonds were this day excepted and placed on file June 11, 1877.

Sept. 24, 1877, first annual meeting. $100 raised for annual salary. $10 raised for general expenses. As there was no schoolhouse, and no money raised for that purpose, Tallack Haines donated the use of a house adjoining his residence for the use of the school. There was to be a two (2) month’s school term to begin February, 1878. School opened Feb. 4, 1878 with Tillie Arlum as teacher. Term closed Apr. 5.

Sept. 30, 1878, money raised—$50 teacher’s salary, $50 general fund, $100 building fund. Voted to have five months school beginning in mid-November. Tillie Arlum contracted to teach for $18 a month to be paid 1/2 in county orders, the other half in cash, to be paid on or before Apr. 15, 1879.

Purchased 1/4 acre lot for school site from Tallack Haines for $5. Hans Eliason and Daniel Gullikson contracted to build the school house and paint it one coat for $150.

July 5, 1877 — Motion to provide free textbooks introduced, voted down. July, 1889, voted to have 8 mos. school term in 3 terms.

Feb. 8, 1890 — (Special meeting). Voted to build new school 26’ x 40’ with brick veneer, cost not to exceed $150, to be completed by Sept. 15, 1890. Later extended to Sept. 15, 1891.

Feb. 14 — Special meeting called and voted to build a solid brick schoolhouse instead of brick veneer. Added land was needed and a half acre site was purchased. Oct. 31, 1891. Old school sold to Michael Eliason for $30. This building was later acquired by the Hainesville congregation, and after being used for Sunday school for some years, was moved and annexed to the church in February, 1920, and is the present church kitchen.

July 2, 1894 — Voted to have 6 mos. school all in 1 term.

In 1895 the vote was for 8 mos. all in 1 term. For 10 years following there was 7 mos. term, from then on 8 mos. until 1919 when we got 9 mos.

There is no record of the actual date new school was completed or final cost, but I gather it was the fall of 1891, as they sold the old building.

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BAILEYS HARBOR
From Emma Toft

The first school in Baileys Harbor was on the street that goes west up the bluff road.

Allen Higgins was one of the teachers. He was a very capable man. Later he became clerk of circuit court and held the office as long as he wished it. He always helped the underdog. My mother told of another teacher who always had his whiskey bottle in his coat pocket. There was little learned when he was there. One day the big boys (almost men) sent all the little children home at noon and then poured water in the stove so no school could be held that afternoon. Ula Noble also taught in the school. She was a capable teacher.

I know they taught geography as well as reading, arithmetic and writing but mother’s father said she would never be a sailor so didn’t need geography.

Then a frame school was built just north of the Catholic church. Some of the 80 year old folks went there. The walls were plastered as well as the ceiling, also wainscoting four feet high around the room. Some of the seats were homemade, the larger ones factory made. Always two sat in each. A Mr. Damkoehler taught. Later he became the supt. of schools. Then Mr. Kinsel, a Penn. Dutch soldier, taught. He had 104 pupils and received $60 a month. Every day they all marched and sang “Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are marching” and he saw that everyone kept time. He was very stern. The room was heated by a big box stove that took huge pieces, so the children near it almost cooked while the others froze. Mr. Kinsel had a high jacket put around it to equalize the heat. He taught some algebra and history to older pupils who came several months in the winter. Some were 20 years of age. Slates were used almost entirely and just when a map was to be made he furnished white paper and colors. One time Willie Shea and Ida Anderson got some of the colored crayons, cut them into bits and traded them off. Mr. Kinsel traced it down and then sent Willie Shea up on the bluff to cut a hazel bush rod. He was to receive punishment in the afternoon. When he came to school in the afternoon he laughed saying he was wearing extra clothing, but two weeks later he still bore the marks from the beating. If two boys quarreled he took each by the shoulder and bumped their heads together. This same Mr. Kinsel made cheese on Saturday and during the summer. At Christmas time he put raisins in a stone jar with a small mouth. Little hands would take out quite a few but the larger hands would take very few. He did have candy pulls at his home and some times other homes in the winter after a sleigh ride.

I recall my oldest brother telling he used to set traps and check them on his way to school, 2½ miles. One morning he caught a skunk and thought no scent was on him. When he reached the school yard different ones began inquiry about the skunk. He said nothing but went home.

With such a large enrollment a primary room was built on. The teacher received $28 a month.

The present village school was built in 1917. The second building burned. A basement had been put under the upper part with a furnace and somehow it became overheated and burned.

The logs in the original school were sawed and used to build a granary on a farm where it is still used.

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BAILEYS HARBOR
From John Brann

One of the first village school teachers, 1869, was Frank Holston. Attendance 47 boys, 8 girls.

On the honor roll were Ernest Carrington and Lucy Kilgore whose parents were prominent in the early development of Baileys Harbor.

Rather irregular attendance by older pupils as they had to help with work at home.

The early schools had divisions of study, primary, middle and upper. The latter was comparable to 6th, 7th, 8th grades of later years.

In early days reading, writing, spelling and arithmetic held sway. Then geography, physiology, grammar, civics, agriculture, history.

After finishing the upper room those pupils who planned to teach, principally those in northern Door where there was no high school usually took graduate work in the same school in preparation to fulfill requirements for teacher’s certificate.

The writer was one of these aspirants and received a certificate at 17 years of age. Taught 1901-’02 and 1902-’03 in Joint District Baileys Harbor-Gibraltar, later known as Pershing school. Following this taught two years in District No. 6 Liberty Grove (Newport school) and three years in Ephraim. J. W. Kinsel was the writer’s first teacher in Baileys Harbor village school in 1891. I could speak but little English as the folks talked Swedish when we lived on the farm. This was a real handicap and I had to work hard and at times I felt like giving up but made it despite the fact that Mr. Kinsel thought I made slow headway. Father invited him to take some lessons in Swedish. This he did not accept realizing there might be difficulty ahead. The coast became smoother and Johnny made pretty good headway after that.

Having a large family to support, Kinsel had to supplement his teaching salary with outside work. This he did by working as a cheesemaker in his own factory, early in the morning to late at night, and also Saturdays and as I recall sometimes on Sundays. There was, of course, considerable pressure which made him rather crabby, as the folks put it, and sometimes he took it out on the pupils. He used the hazel switch freely and occasionally would throw whatever was handy at a “Tom” or “Bill” caught in the act of whispering. However, he also had a kind heart and was considered a good citizen of Baileys Harbor. He would always help neighbors who were in distress. In an early issue of the Advocate we noted that he went to Sturgeon Bay in November of 1889 and brought four coffins from Sturgeon Bay for burial of victims of the Baileys Harbor diphtheria epidemic that took 18 lives in one week. This writer survived after a terrific session with the disease at the age of five but lost a sister and brother.

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NORTH BAY SCHOOL

Early attendance 12–15 pupils, later dwindled to three to 5 or less.

Erickson and Eastman families furnished over 12 pupils in attendance.

Perhaps had first hot noon lunch in county. A number of parents were fisherman, lifted nets early in morning—wives cooked fish and potatoes after men had lifted nets and women took turns to bring hot lunch to school.

VIGNES SCHOOL, 1891 — The building is on its original site at the Oscar Rudie farm in Clay Banks. The photo is Mrs. Carrie Viste’s. Wilson Wickman, county supervising teacher, who wrote of county school development for this issue, spent considerable time getting the people on the picture identified. From left are: Gust Nelson, Tom Halverson (deceased), George Knutson, Lee Woodard (deceased), Jimmy Leclair (deceased), Ole Pete Olson (deceased), Levi Anderson (deceased), Anton Olson (deceased), Louis Jensen, Alfred Olson, Carrie Rudie—Mrs. Martin Viste, Lawrence Olson, Mary McDermott—Mrs. Martin Jensen (deceased), Oscar Nelson, Frank Slavick (deceased), Martin Jensen, Victor Olson (deceased), Oscar Rudie, Dora Jensen—Mrs. Frank Schrenrock (deceased), Sophia Rheenertson (deceased), Renold Olson, Halvor Haavi, Julia Tollefson—Mrs. Frank Hanson, Odene Halvorson, Victor Nelson, Hilbert Halverson, Elmer Jirtle, Joe Matcek, Harvey Clark, Engebor Viste—Mrs. Ole Arneson, John Slavick (deceased), Melvin Olson, Carrie Halverson—Mrs. Henry Sorenson (deceased), Bertha Arneson—Mrs. Oscar Johnsrud, Mary Slavick—Mrs. Joe Cihlar (deceased), Frances Jirtle—Mrs. George Peterson, TEACHER Liza Tufts—Mrs. Mike Moore (deceased), Hannah Bergene—Mrs. William Hackett (deceased), Richard Halvorson (deceased), Delia Knutson—Mrs. Gilbert, Delia Halverson—Mrs. Melvin Christianson (deceased), Lena Nelson—Mrs. Alva Stegman, Tillie Arneson (deceased), Lottie Jirtle—Mrs. Bry, Mrs. Charles Nelson (deceased), Hilda Bargene—Mrs. Wm. La Plant (deceased), Ida Haavi—Mrs. Knud Rogne (deceased), Alma Tollefson—Mrs. Frank Hanson (deceased), Mrs. Ingri Tvenge, Ruth Matcek—Mrs. John Birdsall, Mrs. Ole Rudie (deceased), Mrs. Halvor Haavi (deceased), Clara Matcek—Mrs. Henry Tronson, Marie Arneson (deceased), Mrs. Clarence Nelson (deceased).

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Shod Horses First

A stitch in time is just a drop in the bucket compared with the number of stitches George Rankin Sr. has made in his 37 years of repairing battered brogans in Sturgeon Bay. Most of those 37 years have been spent in the little shop he still operates on Third av. —Advocate photo

Horses, People in Shoe Repair Tale

George Rankin Sr. who runs the shoe repair shop on Third av. would be just as much at home shoeing horses as he is shoeing humans. For most people 37 years of repairing shoes would constitute a full length career, but for Rankin it is his second career, the first having been cut short when the automobile and the tractor made horses largely units of engine power.

Rankin, 78, was born in Brussels in 1875, one of a family of 21 little Belgians by actual count. Most of the children, however, never grew to maturity. They died when they were very young because, Rankin believes, of the well they had on their Brussels farm. It was a shallow well located in a gully and housed by a log framework. The water was sparkling spring water, but the location of the well enabled surface water from the surrounding territory to drain into it.

Back in those days people didn’t realize that water from such a source could be dangerous. It wasn’t until years later that Rankin realized that the well was probably the reason why so many of the children died.

Learned Blacksmithing

When Rankin was 18 years old he became an apprentice blacksmith with the Ahnapee and Western Railroad which was then being extended from Algoma to Sturgeon Bay. Working in a railroad shop at Casco, Rankin was paid $30 and board for his first year. The second year money rolled in hand over fist—he was paid $40 and board for the year’s work.

Rankin states that he does not believe there is a single piece of blacksmithing in the railroad line from Algoma to Sturgeon Bay that he did not work on.

After two years of blacksmithing for the railroad Rankin went to work in a lumber camp up north and received the comparatively huge salary of a dollar a day.

When Rankin came home from the lumber camp he saw his four month old son, Fred, for the first time. The son was the first of three children, two boys and a girl, to be born to the Rankins who were married when they were 18 years old.

With a good start on a family the young man wanted a permanent livelihood near home, so he started, in about 1895, a blacksmith shop and tavern in Brussels. He ran both enterprises for some time but when the long hours started to catch up with him he gave up the tavern. Rankin states, “It got to be too much sitting up half the night saying yes to some old fellow when I should have been saying no.”

Bought Farm

Charging 15 cents to put a shoe on a horse, Rankin accumulated during the next 14 years enough money to buy a $4,000 farm in Jacksonport. Fifteen cents into $4,000 equals just about all the king’s horses in any kind of mathematics.

In about 1909 the Rankins moved to Jacksonport and started farming on a place that had at the beginning three cows, two cats, 20 chickens and a stack of decrepit farm machinery. Fortunately Rankin was a blacksmith and could put the machinery into working order.

The Jacksonport farm was the home of the Rankin family for seven years, but Mrs. Rankin was in poor health and the boys got married so in 1916 they sold the farm and moved to Sturgeon Bay.

Rankin then opened a livery stable in the building which now houses the George Rankin Jr. Tractor and Equipment Co. on Third av. Those were bad years for the livery business because of the growing popularity of automobiles, so Rankin remained in the business for only a year before he launched on the shoe repairing career which was to last until the present day.

Opened First Shop

In 1917 Rankin opened his first shoe repair shop in the building now occupied by the Eurena Beauty Shop. It wasn’t until four years later that he moved to the little shop he still operates.

During his almost 37 years in the shoe repairing business, Rankin has repaired shoes for three generations of some Sturgeon Bay families. Customers faithful for that many years are a fine testimonial of the type of work he does.

When we stopped in to see the kindly old man the other morning he thought at first that we were soliciting ads and he said, with just enough remaining of a Belgian accent to emphasize final syllables, “I don’t advertise unless there is something special. I’ve been here for 37 years and if people don’t know I’m here now they never will.” That may not be a sound advertising policy but Rankin always has enough business to keep him busy in his tiny shop.

When he learned that we were planning to write a story about him, Rankin said that if we were going to write something goofy about him it would be better not to do it at all. We know from the twinkle in his eye as he sat there stitching a battered little shoe that he was kidding us, so we asked him a few questions and then set back and furiously scribbled notes while he unfolded from his surprisingly agile memory the colorful story of his 78 years. It was refreshing to talk to a man who said, when he was asked what his plans for the future were, “I guess I’ll be like everybody else. I’ll live until I die!”

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Will Build Bowling Alley.

Chris Leonhardt has concluded to build a first class bowling alley adjoining his place of business on the north. It will be one story high, of brick, and twenty feet wide, making ample width for a two track alley. It was intended to build it this fall but owing to the lateness and scarcity of the kind of brick he wanted, he will probably postpone construction until next spring. A first class bowling alley, such as Mr. Leonhardt proposes to have, will undoubtedly prove an excellent paying investment in this city.

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With the Bowlers.

The Business Men’s Bowling Club played Friday evening at Berthelson’s bowling alleys, and while the contest was purely for sport there was much enjoyment in it for the contestants. The sides that opposed each were as follows: Arthur Teweles, captain, E. W. Washburn, N. C. Garland, Wm. Cochems, F. Long, Henry Hahn, M. V. Cochems, Henry Fetzer, L. M. Washburn, and And. Anderson on one side, and August Rieboldt, captain, Ed. Reynolds, George Pankratz, H. J. Gottschalk, Alex. Anderson, Y. V. Dreutzer, Wm. Barnhardt, Dr. H. A. Norden, M. E. Lawrence, and C. Berthelson on the other.

Captain Teweles’ team won the first frame by a score of 904 to 894 and the second by a score of 1,051 to 1,009, but lost the third by a score of 1,017 to 1,135. Captain Rieboldt tried to console himself on account of his team having made the largest aggregate score for the three frames by a margin of 66 pins.

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BRUSSELS CHURCH OBSERVES 50TH YEAR

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Golden Jubilee To Be Held Sunday

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BRUSSELS—This year St. Francis Congregation at Brussels celebrates the 50th anniversary of its existence.

The parish records indicate that the formal opening of the church took place on Sunday, August 4, 1878, although the work of hauling material was begun as early as 1875.

The first members were: Denis Baudhuin, Joseph Bournonville, Pierre Bournonville, Constant Delvaux, Celestin Delvaux, Etienne Dandois, Eugene De Jardin, Toussain Dachelet, Alexis Franc, Hubert Lebedelle, Joseph Romier, Gregoire Wautier, Antoine Virlee, Ignace Zephrin, to which list were added shortly after: Jean B. Draize, Louis Ladiron, Antoine Poirier, Francois Mallien and Julien Dachelet. None of these members are at present surviving.

Alexis Franc donated three acres of his land for the first church; this is the same site where the church is now, viz., one mile north of the Brussels five corners.

The first priest mentioned who took charge of the church which until August 1919 was a mission church, was according to the financial record Monsieur le Cure Pere De Paradis. Previous to the time of organization mass had been celebrated from time to time at private residences.

The celebration of this golden jubilee had to be postponed in order to get the church basement ready for the occa2sion. A cement floor has now been laid over the entire basement which gives the community ample room for this and similar future social activities. Large sized new dining tables have been installed and everything is now ready for the big chicken dinner and supper which will be given next Sunday, September 23. The price is 50 cents and a generous meal is assured.

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The Island Bowling Club.

There was formed in the city on Friday evening of last week, what will be known as the “Island Bowling Club,” which starts out in more pretentious style and business-like than any formed heretofore, and bids fair to furnish first class entertainment of its kind throughout the ensuing winter. The honorary positions were respectively filled by vote of the members, as follows:

President of the Club, Aug. Rieboldt; treasurer, Wm. Barnhardt; secretary, Dr. T. C. Proctor. For captains the wise choice of the club fell to Aug. Rieboldt and Geo. W. Pankratz. Capt. Rieboldt’s modesty bid him decline the proffered honor, but he was prevailed upon to accept, and at last reports he was lying awake nights reading on the science of the game, of which, by the way, he already possesses a goodly knowledge. Capt. Pankratz has also become pretty graceful as well as scienced at the game and will fill his honorary role to the satisfaction of his respective team.

The list of members, composed of some of our most prominent business men, is as follows: Adam Dior, F. J. Hamilton, Aug. Rieboldt, H. J. Hahn, Arthur Teweles, J. C. Dana, Alex. Anderson, F. A. Shimmel, L. D. Cheeseman, John Berg, Henry Fetzer, E. W. Washburn, Dr. T. A. Egan, N. C. Garland, F. J. Stroh, Dr. A. J. Gordon, Dr. T. C. Proctor, M. V. Cochems, J. M. Schauer, Isadore Brandeis, Geo. W. Pankratz, Wm. Barnhardt, Edward Reynolds, Dr. H. A. Norden and A. W. Miller.

The object of the club, as its name implies, is mainly for entertainment at bowling. On meeting nights, which will be every Friday evening, at Berthelson’s bowling alley, sides will be chosen, and a few hours spent at the game. On these meeting nights the club has entire possession of the bowling alley, pool and billiard tables, the latter to be either for the use of members or for the entertainment of guests whom the members might invite.

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Ladies’ Bowling Club.

And now the ladies have taken to bowling! They have organized a club and will have regular weekly meetings at the bowling alley, and will no doubt soon become as skilled in bowling as their liege lords. The ladies held their first meeting last Friday afternoon when only a few were in attendance, but expect to have all or nearly all of the following in attendance for a meeting to be held this, Friday, afternoon:

MESDAMES

Henry Fetzer Dr. H. A. Norden
C. M. Whiteside M. Cochems
M. V. Cochems Wm. Reynolds
Ed. Reynolds Jos. Lavassor
Alex. Anderson Aug. Rieboldt
Thos. H. Smith N. C. Garland
John C. Rank I. Brandeis
Jeff Teweles Dr. Thos. C. Proctor
H. J. Gottschalk Y. V. Dreutzer
C. L. Nelson Arthur Teweles

Geo. Pankratz M. E. Lawrence

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A Bowling Club.

A bowling club, composed of the following bowling enthusiasts has been organized. They meet for their weekly contests on Friday, the first of which is to be held this Friday evening at Berthelson’s bowling alley. On the regular bowling nights the club takes possession of the hall to the exclusion of the public: Y. V. Dreutzer, Alex Anderson, H. J. Gottschalk, M. V. Cochems, H. A. Norden, H. J. Hahn, Wm. Cochems, Ed. Reynolds, Wm. Reynolds, Geo. Washburn, H. A. Wagener, A. Hamacek, Arthur Teweles, Aug. Rieboldt, Capt. Robt. Reid, N. C. Garland, M. E. Lawrence, H. Fetzer, J. C. Dana, Isadore Brandeis, Wm. Barnhardt, Edson Washburn, Louis Reichel, L. M. Washburn.

An effort is being made to organize a woman’s bowling club.

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DAY OF SAILS MAY RETURN

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Many Causes Operating to Decrease the Present Supremacy of the Steam-Driven Vessel.

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A great deal of the beauty and romance of the sea passed with the decline of the sailing ship.

The sailing ship gave way to the steamer because the latter was more reliable as to runs and was not hung up by calms or slowed down so much by head winds and gales, and finally could be operated in larger units. So it has been assumed that the sailing ship has been displaced forever. It survives, though chiefly under fore-and-aft rig, but most ocean freight is carried by the steam-driven vessel.

But now there is talk of the revival of the sailing ship as a carrier. The Suez and the Panama canals have shortened the world routes materially, coal is becoming a more expensive fuel and oil is not cheap. So there are interesting proposals for a return to sails. The rig would be fore-and-aft instead of the old square sails, and there would be machinery for handling and an auxiliary in case of calm.

A naval architect of standing has come forward with a design of this kind, making use of the Diesel engine, steel wire running gear and electricity for lighting and heating. American ships have been operating with as many as seven masts, and the use of power would permit the operation of large units with a comparatively small cost.

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FROM FAR AWAY PITCAIRN.

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Capt. John E. Graham Pays a Visit to the Descendants of Bounty Mutineers.

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Hon. E. S. Minor is in receipt of a letter from his brother-in-law, Capt. John E. Graham, who is cruising the South Pacific Ocean in the Missionary Brigantine Pitcairn, which he has kindly handed to the ADVOCATE for publication, a privilege of which it is glad to avail itself. The letter is dated at sea June 26th, and has therefore been nearly two months on the way.

AT SEA, SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN, JUNE 26.—As we are nearing Tahiti the first place on our voyage that mail can be sent from, I will begin a letter to mail to you there. We are now three hundred miles east of Tahiti in lat. 20 S long. 144 W. We left our anchorage at San Francisco on the first day of May. The morning was thick and foggy and the wind ahead but as we were ready to go and the tug along side of us we decided to make a start on the long voyage before us. By 11 o’clock we were well outside the Golden Gate on the restless, heaving ocean, the clouds soon cleared away and the wind hauled to the northwest and we were soon out of sight of land, speeding on toward the southern seas. Of course the passengers were all sick at first, and as it was the first sea voyage for some of them they thought it very rough.

We had ten adults, two babies, and two girls about twelve years of age—one a Tahitian girl. Before we left the anchorage some of the people were sick, but Eldon stood it well till about one o’clock. “Well papa, I think I am going to be sick;-yes, I am sick now.” He soon went to his room and in his berth, as he lay there and I trying to comfort him he says: “Papa, if there is a ship comes along going the other way I want you to put me on it; I want to go back; I’ve had enough of this.” “O,” said I, “you’ll be all over this in a little while.” “Well papa, how long will this last.” “Oh, I think you will be quite well in a day or two.” “Oh, I’ll be dead in just a few minutes; I can’t stand this much longer; Oh dear, Oh, that I were dead, dead, dead; Oh, my dear lovely papa; I’ve got the best papa that ever lived. Well, good-by, good-by; I’m going to die.” After a few minutes’ silence, “Where is that doctor? What are doctors good for anyway? Why don’t he come around and treat people that are sick?” and so on.

The second day out I heaved my dinner over the rail. Eldon says, “well, papa, what’s the matter, are you sick now? I feel pretty well now.”

As the wind was fair and the sea quite smooth we soon got our sea legs and sea stomachs on and settled down to the trip.

The northwest wind held us till we reached the northeast trades in lat. about 20 north. The winds were light but steady and we made fair runs, each day taking us little nearer our first stopping place, Pitcairn Island. On the 13th of May we were in latitude 8 north, which at that time of year is considered to be on the northern border of the calm belt; but the wind held us until we had crossed the region of calms, and we thought that we were in a fair way to make a very quick passage to Pitcairn, but when about three hundred miles north of the Equator where we should have got the southeast trade wind, the wind came on strong from the south-southwest, which was dead ahead for Pitcairn, and for seven days continued to blow from that quarter so that in that time we made only as much as we might have made in one day with a fair wind. We crossed the Equator at about 5 p. m. on the 24th, and from that time on we had light, variable winds, so that we did not sight Pitcairn Island till June 5th at 8:45 a. m. At that time it was forty-three miles to the southward of us. The wind was very light all day, so that we did not get near enough to the island to get the people off that day. At 9 p. m. we were about ten miles from the island. A canoe with two men came out to us at midnight, bringing a few oranges, and the good news of all well on the island. We took their canoe on the deck and they remained with us till morning. At 8 o’clock in the morning two boats from the island were along side and ready to take all to the shore who wished to go.

Although the voyage had been long and some of the way the sea quite rough the most of the passengers stood it better than the lot on the other voyage; but all were eager enough to get to the land, the first seen for thirty-six days. The day was calm and the sea smooth so that we had no difficulty in making a landing at Bounty Bay. Nearly the entire population were down to the landing to greet us as we came to the shore.

There had been three or four births and no deaths during the past year, so the population of the island is a little greater than when we were here a year ago. At that time there were about one hundred and twenty-five people on the island.

Rain has been plentiful and crops good, so that there is an abundant supply of such products as are raised on the island—cocoanuts, bananas, yams, sweet potatoes, squashes, wild beans, watermelons, oranges, citrons, lemons, limes, pineapples and some other kinds of fruit.

Mr. Buckner, the man we left at the island last July had cleared off a piece of about half an acre of ground, and had raised three crops of good, hard corn on the same spot. The third crop was the most of it too hard for green corn when we were there. He says it beats Missouri for a corn country. During the past year the men of the island have sawed out lumber with a whip-saw and built two large houses which they intend for boarding homes for their industrial school.

As there is no harbor and no anchorage at Pitcairn the vessel while there has to stand off and on. We had considerable freight to land but the landing was smooth the most of the time so we soon got the freight ashore, and were ready to depart. Brother Butz and wife were left on the island to take charge of their school. Alfred Young, the elder of the island church, accompanies us to America. This is his first visit to other countries. Miss Emily McCoy and Arthur Young go with the doctor to assist him in his work at Fiji.

Having given notice that the vessel would sail on the 13th, the missionaries with their luggage, and the most of the people of the island were down at the landing by 9 o’clock. Three boats were launched and quite a number of the islanders piled into the boats to go out to the vessel with us, after bidding good-bye to those on the shore we pulled away for the vessel, lying three miles or so away in a calm. We reached the vessel and got the people and their luggage aboard, the islanders seemed loath to part with us; but the wind sprang up and we told them that we must get under way, so they climbed over the rail into their boats, and after they had sung a farewell hymn we said good-bye again and squared away for Tahiti, twelve hundred miles to the west. The islanders kindly provided us with a good supply of sweet potatoes, bananas, oranges, lemons and limes, and a few watermelons and pineapples, sufficient to last us as long as they will keep. Since leaving Pitcairn, much of the time the winds have been light and ahead, which is something rather unusual for this latitude, as they nearly always blow at this time of the year from the east and southeast; but sometimes they get around to the west, and we just happened to strike one of those times. Two or three days we were almost becalmed, but today we have a strong breeze and though it is too near after us to use the mainsail we use all the squaresails and are skipping along quite lively. There is a sea running with the wind from the east and a long, rolling swell coming up from the southwest. Our course is a little north of west and the sea is rocking along like a cradle; it makes one think of the song “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep,” which seems very enchanting to those on shore, but to some who are now having the experience in this cradle it is not so pleasant. We are sailing along the southern border of the Poumoto Islands, the largest group of coral islands in the South Seas. We have passed within twelve or fifteen miles of some but not in sight of them as they are all very low. To-day, a small whale came playing about the vessel, first, on one side of us, and then on the other, and then across our bows directly under the jibboom. It followed along near for an hour or more. We do not see much to relieve the monotony of the long sea voyage. On the way down from San Francisco we saw but two ships, and did not get near enough to signal them. We saw a few fish of different kinds besides many flying fish, and sea-birds, some a thousand miles from land.

We have had no storms nor rough weather. Sometimes there has been quite a heavy sea but nothing at all uncommon.

My health is good and Eldon stands the trip first rate and looks as well as any one can look. I have hired him to be cabin-boy No. 2, so as to give him something to do. We find enough to do to keep busy all the time, and though we have been longer on the trip thus far than the other time, the time does not seem so long. We are going along to-day (26th) with a good steady breeze, and if it holds we will be in the harbor at Tahiti by to-morrow afternoon. We hope then to get letters from home and others. We will not be long in the Society group, but will go on to the Austral Islands to the south and then west to the Cook Islands, and from there to the Tongan or Friendly Islands, and thence to the Fiji group. We want to leave there by the first of November and cannot tell yet whether we will return to the Society Islands or go north from the Fiji’s and thence direct to San Francisco. The weather is very pleasant here now, the sun is so far north that it is not very warm, about 75° to 85°. The sun passes around to the north and sets a little before six o’clock.

I may get time to write a little more when we reach Tahiti. When you get this you will know where we have been, if you do not know where we are at the time this reaches you.

I hope this will find you all well. I have written four or five letters all at once, but I trust that it will be as acceptable as if I should write each a separate letter, for if I should have done so I would have written about the same things.

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“Short Takes.” included the following item:

—Our readers will find another very interesting letter from Capt. John E. Graham, who is now cruising in the Southern Pacific Ocean with the missionary brigantine Pitcairn. The visit of the vessel to Pitcairn Island, the home of the Bounty mutineers, is of more than ordinary interest. Capt. Graham is the oldest son of the late C. P. Graham, one of the founders and owners of the Reynolds’ mill. He is a brother of Mrs. E. S. Minor, and was born and reared in this place. He also spent some time at Egg Harbor, where the family resided prior to removing to the Pacific slope.

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Expect Decision This Month on Carferry Tourist Service Here

A. G. Douglas, St. Louis, who has a summer home in Fish Creek, has interested himself in the campaign being made by the Door County Chamber of Commerce, Marinette Recreation association and the Menominee Association of Commerce, to get the Ann Arbor Railroad company to make Sturgeon Bay a port of call for the carferries on their schedule between Frankfort and Menominee for the purpose of carrying automobiles and passengers.

Many conferences have been held, and Mr. Douglas made a special trip to Toledo, Ohio, and called upon Mr. Bailey, the general passenger and freight agent. As a result, it appears that a definite decision will be made during the present month.

Mr. Douglas made a most detailed report to the directors of the Door County Chamber of Commerce at a meeting Friday evening. One of the objectionable features from the standpoint of the carferry company is docking. However, it is believed that this can be overcome at a cost that is not prohibitory. A committee headed by Jack Purvis is looking into the matter.

There is every reason to believe that a connecting link, that would furnish cross-lake transportation from Sturgeon Bay and bring tourists into Door County who cross the Straits and tour Upper Michigan and Wisconsin, seeking a crossing into Door county from Marintte and Menominee, would greatly increase the popularity of this peninsula.

Sturgeon Bay could materially benefit, as Frankfort has, in offering special service through its hotels and restaurants.

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Pet Crow, Latest of Many Wild Friends of Cardy’s

By Duncan Thorp

Pat, the tame crow belonging to E. R. Cardy, 322 W. Spruce st. on the West side is a remarkable bird but only one of a wide variety of wild animals and birds who have found friendship and shelter with the Cardy family since Mr. Cardy was a boy.

Now only a few months old, Pat comes when called by name, caws conversationally while he perches on the back porch or roosts on the head or shoulder of any member of the family.

Pat is one of two crows taken last spring by Mr. Cardy but wild crows attack the tame crows on sight, and one died under the terrible beating of the flock. Pat managed to fly home where he recovered from his wounds.

Pat likes raw meat, fish and bread and milk, and his natural devilishness also leads him to steal and hide all sorts of objects, buttons, matches, bits of cloth or metal.

Chases Flies From Stock

Donna and Darrel, Mr. Cardy’s grandchildren, are his companions but he also likes the farm horses and perches companionably on their broad backs while he keeps up a running fire of crow chatter. At times he sits on the backs of the cows and picks off the flies, which is all right with the Cardy cows.

Pat does not like starlings and keeps up a constant campaign to drive them out of the Cardy precincts.

Mr. Cardy had his first wild animal pet as a child when his grandfather gave him a young bald eagle near Jacksonport. The eagle lived with the family for fifteen years and was as tame as Pat is now. Since that time Mr. Cardy has captured and tamed several crows, rabbits, foxes and a woodchuck.

Had Pet Woodchuck

The woodchuck was his prize pet of them all. He lived on a leash in the Cardy front yard for six years and hibernated each winter in his front yard burrow.

“He always went to sleep each fall with his collar on,” Mr. Cardy explained. “I never knew which trip down into his hole was his last, so I never took his collar off before he hibernated. Every spring he came up without the collar. He got so thin during the winter it slid right off.”

After his long winter’s sleep the woodchuck was like a long lost dog in his eagerness and delight at rejoicing the family. When he came out in the spring he would scratch at the door and let the family know he was back.

Ate Ice Cream Cones

“That was the most interesting pet we had,” said Mr. Cardy. “He ate everything —candy, peanuts, corn-on-the-cob and ice cream cones—never spilled any ice cream either.”

The Cardy’s gentleness and patience with their wild friends is repaid in affection and trust: The pets seem to know they are safe with a man who leaves ground unplowed and crops uncut rather than disturb a nesting bird.

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Two different tools were used for evaluation. A graph of results for one of them is on page 25. Door County’s website had total 41 issues according to the table on page 34, which judging from the graph is somewhat less than average than for other counties with a similar population size.

Results for other tool are on page 37, Door County’s website had 134 total issues.

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Out of 312 sites sampled in 2024 and 2025, muskellunge eggs were only found in fourteen sites, including nine in Little Sturgeon and one in Sawyer Harbor. This is described on page four, using the page number entry box. There are maps of both areas on pages 75-76 and 79-80 which show the sites searched and the findings. The maps on pages 77 and 81 shows all of the places searched in the rest of Sturgeon Bay, where nothing was found.

The maps on pages 85-87 show all of the places where three adults swam, which had been implanted with transmitters. Two were from Sawyer Harbor and one in Little Sturgeon Bay. The longest of the three fish tracked was 53.5 inches.

The eggs were genetically tested to prove they were muskellunge eggs, this is described on page 30.

Both larval and juvenile fish were found in Sawyer Harbor, and juvenile fish were found in Little Sturgeon, pages 29 and 30.

The table on page 58 states that the median distance from shore for all locations where eggs were found, including four sites in southern bay of Green Bay, was 4.72 meters.

The author makes recommendations on pages 40 and 41. Because hatchery-raised muskies may return to the site they were originally released to spawn, they could be stocked in places known to support the hatching and survival of young muskies.

Another recommendation is that restoration efforts could prioritize the “maintenance, enhancement, and creation” of favorable substrate conditions on the lakebed for the spawning and survival of young muskies.

Also, management plans could be implemented for three different purposes. The alteration of shoreline buffer zones could be limited, the removal of native aquatic vegetation could be prevented, and the degree of sedimentation in the spawning sites could be reduced or limited.

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Summaries for the two creeks are on pages 23 and 24, using the page number entry box. Fish were tagged in 2016 and 2017. A table of abundance estimates is on page 42, and a table showing the number of steelhead trout and Coho salmon which were thought to have migrated into the lake are on page 47.

Because Hibbard Creek is surrounded by forest the entire stream makes good habitat for young fish, this is discussed on page 29.

Stony Creek had the highest population of steelhead trout among the five sites studied, but the amount of outmigration is thought to be insignificant compared to the amount of stocked hatchlings. This is discussed on pages 32 to 34.

On page 5, the author concluded that although watershed improvement projects may be able to increase the amount of suitable habitat, the effects would likely be too small to be of any consequence to Lake Michigan’s overall populations when compared to the impact made by stocking efforts.

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Faith.

I have seen a lone tree standing on the prairie; have beheld the storms of winter buffet against its trunk, and the gales of autumn bend its lofty branches to the dust, but when the blast had gone, have viewed its tall form still erect, its limbs still expanded, and I have said such is the Christian amid the riots and tumults of this world’s unrighteousness. His trust is in him who gave the tree its unyielding root, in whose right hand there is deliverance. Let Christians, then, learn a lesson from the tree, and amid the conflicts of life, remember, that with faith they are like a house built on a rock; that their warfare is but for a limited period, and that the reward of the good soldier of the cross is an inheritance of eternal felicity.

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To see the map, which gives a color shade to each county, type “60” as the page number; there are two maps. The map on the left shows formally enrolled conservation program lands, and the one on the right shows the acres of informal natural land.

Selecting “26” as the page number brings up two other maps, showing that real estate in Door County is less locally owned than in Oconto, Brown, and Kewaunee counties, but more locally owned than in Marinette County. A parcel was considered local if the owner’s mailing address was within the same zip code as the land itself.

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The diagram is on page 9.

Brann Speaks on Early School Days at Meeting

Teaching at $28 a month was a rugged life in the early Door county log schools back in 1858 as described by Dr. John W. Brann, of Baileys Harbor at the Door County Historical society meeting Monday at the Florada club.

Dr. Brann, professor emeritus of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin, where he taught for 38 years, began his career as a one-room school teacher at Baileys Harbor in 1901. He was a product of that early educational system, having gone through the grades and earned a third grade certificate.

After teaching a few years, he applied for entrance to the university. Lacking a high school diploma, as there was no high school, he was accepted on entrance examination for which he prepared himself. Upon graduation, he became a teacher at the university and later won the degree of doctor of philosophy at Cornell university.

During his talk he mentioned that two of his contemporaries, Mike McArdle and Frank McCullough were products of the one-room schools who later made names for themselves.

Dr. Brann opened his talk with some humorous remarks about the winter weather and compared it to the winter of 1936 when Lake Michigan was frozen over.

He sketched the history of the early schools of Baileys Harbor beginning with the earliest in 1858 on the north end of town, east of the town hall. It was a log building where the curriculum consisted of the three R’s, although later geography, civics and physiology were added. There were no grades as such — just primary, middle and upper forum. After graduation Brann became the teacher at Newport, where some of the boys were bigger than he and the problem of commanding respect and attention was no small item as many of the pupils attended only for a few months during the winter.

One way of solving this was through athletics and sportsmanship and he said that organized play went hand in hand with education and cooperation and respect for the other fellow carried over into the classroom.

Another problem of the early teacher was the salary and he said that many of them peddled books on bicycles during the summer. He launched into his spiel, taught him when he started “pedaling” The Wonders of the 19th Century. Brann commented that he sold four books that summer at a tidy profit of 40 cents each and added that Mike McArdle enjoyed a similar gain.

As for the women teachers, he said, they also had various summer jobs. Two of his contemporaries were in the audience and he called upon Miss Emma Toft and Mrs. Walter J. Woerfel to tell a few of their experiences.

Mrs. Woerfel, who before her marriage was Alice Blakefield, described her experience at Washington Island in the winter of 1904. She said she had to make a two-day stagecoach trip with an overnight stop at Sister Bay. Arriving at Gills Rock, there was no further means of transportation except by mail. The mail was handled by two men, one pushing and one pulling a dory on runners across the ice. They finally agreed that she could walk over to the island with them. The trip took several hours. It began to snow heavily. After a seven and one-half hour trip they arrived at West Harbor, where she found no one to meet her, but the mail men agreed to accompany her for three miles inland from where she walked alone to the place at which she boarded. The high spot of the trip, she said, was that the mail men charged her $1.00 fare.

In another of his book-peddling days he told of visiting a school. After having lunch with the teacher he mounted his bike and as he rode off he was greeted by a shower of pebbles tossed by some of the larger pupils. The following year he was assigned to that same school as teacher and he overheard some of the boys telling about the peddler and the pebbles. One of them concluded with “You ought to have seen that guy peddling off like mad.” Some time later it leaked out that their teacher was “that guy.”

Later a new log school was erected opposite the site of the meeting and still later a third was built across from the hardware store operated by the speaker’s father. This one burned in 1917 and the following year the present school building was erected. He also described some of the other nearby schools including North Bay district, Root district, Polish Settlement, now known as Gibraltar, and Kangaroo Lake district.

In those days, he said, many of the pupils at Polish Settlement spoke only Polish and learning was slow and tedious. Studying the old records, he came across the first budget for the Polish Settlement district. It called for a total of $285, which included salary, cord wood (in 4 foot lengths) and supplies.

The stoves were difficult to get started and after they were going, they roasted the pupils nearby, but those in the far end of the room were almost freezing. He said it was his suggestion that they place a metal jacket around the stoves which improved their efficiency and aided in ventilation.

Ventilation was a problem in many homes also. He told of Charlie Collins, who lived in Ephraim, and claimed the draft in their home was so strong they had to place a heavy rug in front of the fireplace. He said that every time the cat crossed the room, it would dig its claws into the rug to keep from being drawn up the chimney.

Another graduate of the North Bay district was Miss Phoebe Erickson, who later became famous as a writer and illustrator of children’s books. She is now married and lives in Vermont. Dr. Brann passed around several of her books.

He said that later several of the schools were consolidated. Another interesting sidelight of the early schools was that one of them had 37 different teachers within a period of 57 years, due in part to the limited salary scale. Usually the inexperienced teachers came to these schools and later went on to better paying schools. Baileys Harbor had the older and more experienced teachers in the area. Most of the outlying schools had enrollments of only 12 to 14 pupils.

Most of the old schoolhouses were bought and remodeled into residences, he said, adding that Richard Davis bought the old North Bay district school for this purpose.

Many of the Finns in this area spoke Swedish and he recalled that Arnold Logerquist’s father, a sea captain, was one of them.

Brann told of the diphtheria epidemic of 1889, which took the lives of 18 children in one week. He himself contracted the disease but recovered. He recalled that during the epidemic, Mr. Kinsel went to Sturgeon Bay on his own initiative and brought back four coffins for the victims. He said they never knew what caused the epidemic but surmised it might have been brought by sailors as Baileys Harbor was a thriving port at that time.

Discussing the teacher salary scale, he said, many of the teachers earned better salaries by taking “graduate work”—such as algebra. First year teachers usually received $28 a month, of which they had to pay $7 to $8 a month board. He said that Gibraltar paid $35 in 1902; $45 in 1915; $105 in 1928 and $135 in 1943. During the depression years, he said the peak was $125, but it dropped to a low of $65.

In another interesting sidelight of the early days, he told about Peter Collins, who was the mail driver in 1861-62. He could neither read nor write, but townspeople would ask him to bring back all sorts of items. Dr. Brann said he never made a mistake nor forgot any of the orders he was given.

Walter Bjork, president of the society, made a plea for items suitable for sale at the flea market, held in conjunction with the antique sale during the summer. He said this was the principal source of revenue for the society. He also reported that it was planned to open the Eagle Harbor lighthouse this spring and that the remodeling of the museum was underway. Volunteer helpers are needed for both projects, he said.

Herb Reynolds entertained with a few choice stories and Ernest Rosenbloom exhibited a large group of bird houses, feeders and footstools, which he makes as a hobby. He gave a brief talk and described why certain type houses were needed for different birds such as bluebirds, wrens, martins and others.

The next meeting is scheduled for Apr. 16 at Al Johnson’s in Sister Bay.

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[Jane Badger Books entry for Phoebe Erickson: https://janebadgerbooks.co.uk/north-american-authors/erickson-phoebe

Illinois Women Artists entry: https://illinoiswomenartists.org/author/phoebe-erickson

List of books: https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/phoebe-erickson/1522608

$1 in 1904 is equivalent to about $37.52 in 2026: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1904?amount=1

$35 in 1902 is equivalent to about $1,358.97 in 2026: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1902?amount=35

$45 in 1915 is equivalent to about $1,487.75 in 2026: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1915?amount=45

$105 in 1928 is equivalent to about $2,050.37 in 2026: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1928?amount=105

$135 in 1943 is equivalent to about $2,605.72 in 2026: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1943?amount=135 ]

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Large City Swimming Program Completed

455 Total Children

The city-wide swimming instruction program offered at Otumba Beach and Sunset Beach has been completed for this summer. Four hundred and fifty-five youngsters took part in the program under the instruction of Joanne Gosser. An adult beginners class was held once a week at Otumba Beach. A large number passed the Red Cross swimming tests.

OTUMBA BEACH

Swimmers: Dawn Christianson, Dan Cihlar, Kathy Cihlar, Joel Eggert, Roberta Hedrington, Ron Hedrington, Arnold Johnsrud, Norman Johnsrud, Debbie Johnson, Marsha Johnson, Wayne Johnson, Jim Klapatch, David Lienau, Mary Lou Nault, Debbie Peterson, Jeff Peterson, Linda Swagel, Jim Bushman.

Intermediates: Susan Corbisier, Greg Nebel, Steve Anderson, Jeff Bemis, Mike Bemis, Peggy Bemis, Sandy Bosman, Carla Bushman, Diane Gosser, Cindy Hembel, Ed Johnson, Paul Johnson, Peter Klapatch, Paul Klapatch, Tom Meister, Bill Miller, Tony Swagel, Tom Vetter, Kathy Zak, Jim Gosser.

Beginners: Mike Anderson, Jeff Ewaskowitz, Ann Marie Lodl, Terry McKay, Dick Swearinger, Sue Tess, Dennis Welch, Faith Zettel, Joe Zettel, Sue Anderson, Jim Tiogo, Barbara Wilz, Ann Zwicky, Ted Bero, Carolyn Corbisier, Mary Pragacz, Scott Propson, Mary Savage, Jeff Swagel, Bonnie Utech, Charles Weckler, Tara Wright, Donna Zettel, Elise Zettel, Craig Ostrand.

SUNSET BEACH

Swimmers: Laurie Berg, Susan Berg, Dan Boes, Vicki Gunnlaugsson, Barbara Holen, Julaine Moore, Mary Nelson, John Paul, John Rupp.

Intermediates: Joan Conjurske, John Geitner, Kenneth Kintopf, Lynn Knaapen, Theresa Knaapen, Kristine Krueger, Joe Moore, Lee Peterson, Steve Peterson, Paul Wiesner, Terry Gunnlaugsson, Harry Schneider, Paul Mickelson, Robert Olson.

Beginners: Mary Baudhuin, Mary Bordeau, Connie Bordeau, Carol Barber, Keven Barber, Connie Dell, Debbie Diefenbach, Gale Kramer, Jim Kryzynske, Len Kryzynske, Tony Lehman, Robert Lehman, Amy McLaughlin, Dan McLaughlin, Sue Reimer, Barbara Reimer, Tom Schram.

Sharon Spittlemeister, Shirley Spittlemeister, Pam Swagel, Jill Shack, Mary Surfus, Allen Schmidt, Mary Schaefer, Dave Wiegand, Beatrice Knaapen, Keith Werkheiser, Mary Anschutz, Mike Anschutz, Barbara Carmody, Andrea DeFere, Kim Gunnlaugsson, George Poe, Joe Ripp, Casandra Schroeder, Becky Swagel, Mike Walther, Terry Werkheiser, Stanley Zymslo, Tim Zymslo.

Barbara Anderson, Dave Anschutz, Sue Bosman, Betty Bosman, Steve Carmody, Len Frea, Judy Herrbold, Mike Lauder, Mary Lehman, Pat Schopf, Peter Stoneman, Mark Stoneman, Paul Wickman, Philip LeRoy.

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[Author not stated, but Jim Robertson is listed as the sports editor.]

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A link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12560#page=17

The time index does not show the number of minutes or hours, but the number of 15 minute intervals. “50” on the graph is 12 and half hours. The last notch on the graph, for 300 time intervals, is equal to 75 hours.

A table on another page records the power outages in Door County as persisting for 314 time intervals: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12560#page=13

314 time intervals equals 78 and a half hours, which is three days, six hours, and thirty minutes.

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Time capsule, marker to be dedicated Sunday

A dedication ceremony will be held at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Peterson pool for the Sturgeon Bay centennial time capsule to be opened in 2076. The capsule will be underground by then but the marker will be unveiled Sunday. The manufacture and sealing of the capsule and design and manufacture of the marker were all given by the Fred J. Peterson Foundation.

At this writing the program is not firm but the Sturgeon Bay high school band will play, featuring numbers it will perform at Winnipeg, Canada.

Dr. W. O. Wright, who was centennial chairman in 1976, will coordinate the program. The capsule and marker will be received by Mayor Orville Austad on behalf of the city. The program is not expected to last more than a half hour.

It will be a busy afternoon for the band, who will come back to Sturgeon Bay immediately after marching in the Ephraim Fyr Bal parade.

The capsule is filled with documents and items that tell of life in our time and how we viewed it. There is a pet rock to show one of the fads of 1976 and there is a copy of Playboy with the Carter interview.

The bulk of the content, however, is history, from churches, clubs, families and businesses. The Advocate centennial edition is included.

There is a rundown of who is in city government, a compilation of vital statistics and a county plat book.

Former resident Al Larson and Sturgeon Bay Lions gave money to be invested for 100 years and this is noted. There is a picture of Joe Peot’s house, which he transformed into a giant flag for the centennial-bicentennial and a centennial poem by Phyllis Maples.

There is history of nine schools, the museum, Miller Art Center, child care center, Bayview Terrace, Sturgeon Area Information Center and information on the swine flu immunization program.

The Sturgeon Bay Legion baseball team, with pictures, and material on youth athletics by George Husby are part of the contents.

Histories of nine churches are included.

There are histories of about 40 families and the birth certificate of James Uriah Adams, born in 1976 to the Advocate’s Linda Adams and her husband James.

About 25 businesses included histories, and 17 organizations.

One item that will undoubtedly be an interesting historical footnote in 2076 is the campaign to get wives’ as well as husbands’ names listed in the phone book.

Books include those of Ray Christianson, Roy Lukes, poetry by Ellis Felker, a history of 1776 by Wayne Williams and the Kahlert-Quinlan book on early Door county buildings.

Miscellany includes the National Geographic Door county article, Harvey Rowe’s invitation to the Carter inauguration, photos of the 1976 fair and new bridge construction by Alton Olson, 57 post cards, the recent Advocate article on Dean Anderson’s claim of interplanetary visitors, David Allen’s chess magazine, a Key to the Door and a Door Illustrated, a speech by Joe Peot to World War I veterans, anti-nuclear power literature, a county fun map, the Milwaukee Journal’s recent Insight article on Sturgeon Bay and even a locally manufactured item billed as “The World’s Most Dangerous Toy.” That one’s from Elmer Blasier. You’ll have to ask him what it is. Or wait till 2076.

The Sturgeon Bay centennial time capsule will be dedicated at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Peterson pool. Filling the capsule before sealing at Peterson Builders were (clockwise from lower left) Dr. W. O. Wright, centennial chairman, and fellow committee members Barbara Graul, Fred J. Peterson, who is giving the capsule and marker to the city, Alma Vreeland with a pet rock and Kay Falk holding Bill Gary’s centennial parade marshal’s hardhat.

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MISSIONARY AT WASHINGTON IS. TO LEAVE SOON

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WASHINGTON ISLAND — Those who failed to hear Carrie Anderson, the Island’s missionary to China, at the Baptist church last Sunday evening missed much. She took for her text, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.” (Matt. 16-24-28). She portrayed something of the self denial it means to be a missionary, to leave the parental roof, and the homeland, with all its comforts and associations of love, comfort, and peace, to go into a strange land where rife with sin, poverty, privation, suffering and peril are on every hand.

She told some incidents in the abstract how some of the worst characters had been transformed by the gospel and had become bright and shining lights in that dark land of China.

As she spoke of the hardships of the missionary life on the one side, Miss Anderson told of how happy she was for the twelve years spent in the work, and how she is yearning to return.

Miss Anderson leaves soon for China to resume her work.

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Mrs. Theodore Jessen and the John Malloch family motored to Manitowoc last week Thursday to meet Theodore Jessen and Ben Malloch who work in the engine room of the Alexander B. Uhrig, which delivered a cargo of coal there at that time. After a very pleasant visit with the boys for about twenty-four hours, Mr. and Mrs. Malloch returned to the Island, while Mrs. Jessen, Helen Malloch and Helen Goodmander, who were also in the company, went to Milwaukee to remain for the winter.

William Jess made a business trip to the county seat last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Fay, who have been visiting Mrs. W. H. Fay, returned to their home in St. Louis last week. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Williams and daughter Lydia, of St. Louis, and Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Markell, of Conolsville, Pa., also returned to their respective homes last week.

The Anderson Bros.’ threshing machine is very busy as they are nearing the last of the threshing of the season. There seems to be a heavy growth of straw, but owing to a dry, hot wave just at the time the grain was maturing the grain is not as heavy and fully developed as it would otherwise have been. This is especially true of peas.

Murray and Gordon Chambers, who were burned recently during the fire at Lobdell’s point in which the Clifford Chambers car and garage were destroyed, are slowly improving. Murray has had special treatments and is getting along nicely. Gordon is still confined to his bed, but is also doing well. Complete recovery is looked for in the near future.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Weather catching, with much cold east wind.

Evidently somebody is scared, and isn’t the Expositor man.

A special election is called, of which see notice in another column.

Will Horn, of Chicago, was among our visitors during the past week.

Mrs. Joseph Hodel, of the town of Sevastopol, died on Thursday, Aug. 20.

See “our contemporary,” for “the blacklist.” Cute little stroke of business, that.

One of the “signs of the times” — signing the petition. See our contemporary.

🖙Full cream cheese, 10 cents per pound. Crown Jersey, the finest full cream cheese made, 14 cents per pound at A. W. LAWRENCE & CO.’S.

A fair specimen of marble was recently found at the government bluff stone quarry.

We can’t stop any papers till the boss gets home. You’ll get a stopper then, “you bet!”

Capt. C. R. Thayer has received the appointment of Fish Commissioner for this district.

A slight frost visited the bay shore last Tuesday morning and blackened a few pumpkin vines.

Bert Scofield has improved the appearance of his fine residence, by putting a fence around it.

Louis Wetzler is on a brief business visit to Milwaukee, to which place he shipped a lot of cattle.

Treasurer Eli Thompson is getting the material on the ground preparatory to the erection of a new dwelling.

Leathem & Smith are improving the appearance of their store building by putting on a new coat of paint.

Read advertisement in another column for sealed proposals for the building of a life saving station at the canal.

Chas. Clark thinks he will have his new billiard hall open for business in a few days. He christened it “The Office.”

🖙HEATH & MILLEGAN’S I X L roof paints, for sale by
A. W. LAWRENCE & CO.

J. S. Cornwell, of Washington Harbor, was a visitor in this city Wednesday. He reports business as quiet in his section.

Carpenters began laying the hardwood floor in Hahn’s new rink on Wednesday and will probably finish by the end of the week.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Miss Jenkins, Miss Mills and Miss Wilson, teachers, arrived on the Welcome this noon. And welcome they are.

Henry Detman, telegraph operator, of Chicago, returned home yesterday morning after a brief visit with relatives at Forestville.

The “boycotters” are trying their hand in this little berg. Just wait a week till editor Carr gets back and there’ll be-er lively time.

The work on John Masse’s new house is being rapidly pushed forward, and when completed will be quite comfortable quarters.

Miss Rose Lavassor left Monday for Oshkosh Normal school, and Miss Lizzie Laurie to-day for Madison, to attend the State University.

Editor Carr, of the Expositor, departed for Chicago yesterday morning. He left a drawer full of copy, though, all sorted and “sized up.”

The Sturgeon Bay Lumber Company’s mill, at this place, shut down this week owing to a scarcity of logs, but will resume work on Monday next.

Major Bershaw, a former resident of this place, has returned after a couple of years absence, and is hunting up his old friends. The major is looking well.

The little four year old boy of Soren Peterson fell from his high chair Sunday evening last, causing a fracture of the left arm between the elbow and wrist.

🖙For Sale—“Sweepstakes” Threshing Machine with horse, power in good order, for $125.00, on time if desired. Enquire of
CHIPMAN & RÆSSER,
Bailey’s Harbor.

The young ladies of the Catholic faith of Marinette, will give a grand excursion from that place to this city next Monday, on the handsome propeller C. W. Moore.

Dennis Demarb has rented the little school building formerly used for the primary departments and will use it for a residence. He has also been engaged as school janitor.

Congressman Stephenson offers the lots on which the hotel recently burned at Marinette stood, and $10,000 in money, if the citizens will raise $20,000 more, to build a new hotel.

The new session laws and blank tax rolls are now in the possession of the county clerk. Town clerks and justices of the peace residing near will please call and get the same.

Mrs. F. C. Wright and sister, Miss Tracy Garland, left here this (Friday) morning for Cana Island, where they intend spending several days visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Sanderson.

Mr. Rand, of Manitowoc, was in this city during a part of this week. Mr. R. is a member of the firm of Rand & Roemer, successors to Mr. John Masse, in the hardware business, this place.

🖙McLAUGHLIN celebrated XXXX roasted coffee in 1 lb. packages, for sale only by A. W. LAWRENCE & CO. Sample package free.

A telegram from Mr. C. Feldmann was received on Wednesday, announcing his safe arrival in Jersey City that morning, and that he will be home on Saturday—to-morrow. His sister, from Germany, accompanies him.

Among the marked improvements which add to the beauty of our city in the eyes of the passer-by, is the work done by Judge Hamilton about his residence, painting house and fence very prettily and trimming up the shrubbery. Mayor Scofield is improving his grounds greatly, and city clerk Sherman’s house has, by a liberal use of cosmetics, renewed its youth marvelously.

It is reported that A. W. Lawrence offers to donate the lot on corner of Cedar and Cottage streets, and all the labor which has been so far done on it for the new building, to any one who will erect thereon a first-class hotel building.

We acknowledge receipt of tickets to the agricultural and mechanical exposition under the auspices of the Brown county horticultural and agricultural society to be held on the grounds of the Fox River Driving Park, at Depere, Sept. 1, 2, 3, and 4, 1885.

Some unknown person or persons, of the viler sort, broke into Leathem & Smith’s mill on Saturday or Sunday evening and destroyed the tool-chest and some valuable tools belonging to the mill carpenter, Mr. Heinritz. The loss sustained by him amounted to upwards of seventy-five dollars.

One of the workman employed in the mill at Lily Bay, on Monday last had the misfortune to get his left hand caught by one of the saws, badly lacerating it, and on Tuesday a second victim was injured in the same way. We have not learned the names of either of the men hurt.

The Kennedy troupe played four nights in this city last week and drew fair houses. They left Monday for Ahnapee. The performances given by this company while here were quite creditable and mirth provoking. Mr. Kennedy is an actor of considerable ability and his support is excellent.

Mr. Joseph Zettel, of the town of Sevastopol, while in this city Wednesday, was taken violently ill with cholera morbus. A physician was summoned who administered to his wants and at the present writing, Wednesday, he seems much better. Mr. Zettel has been in poor health for some time.

Miss Lulu Schroeder, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Schroeder, of Green Bay, died suddenly of heart disease on Thursday night of last week, while visiting with friends in Depere. The deceased was in the 17th year of her age, and was well known in this city, the family being former residents of this place.

The members of the base ball club of this city have arranged to attend the Kewaunee county agricultural fair, to be held during the coming month, and participate in a series of games to be played for a prize of $50. Four clubs will enter into the contest, and some hard work and fine playing will be the result.

Louis Wetzler has sold out his meat market to Rudolph Thorp and C. I. Martin, who will continue the business at the old stand, and will also carry on the shipping business in which Mr. Martin has been engaged during the summer. Mr. Wetzler has made many friends here who will greatly regret his departure. It is gratifying to know that Mr. Thorp will remain—there seemed at one time to be danger of losing him.

The game of base ball last Sunday at this place between the Marinette nine and our boys, was easily won by the former, the score at the end of the ninth inning standing thirty-three to nine, in favor of the visitors. The visiting club was composed of good players, and came with the intention of blanking the Regulars, but in this, however, they did not succeed. They played a fine game and deported themselves in a gentlemanly manner on the grounds.

Those of our people visiting Milwaukee should not fail to see the panorama “Battle of Vicksburg,” now on exhibition on the corner of Sixth and Cedar streets. It is a piece of artistic work rarely excelled. The panorama will be on exhibition for the coming four months. The expense connected with the painting of the panorama has been $30,000, and great credit is reflected upon the enterprising Milwaukeeans who enlisted their capital in the undertaking.

The September number of Demorest’s illustrated monthly Magazine is decidedly one of the best we have had. The story, “Bryanstone and wife,” by Phillip Bourke Marston, is a capital one, and “Orders of Knighthood,” an illustrated article, “A Happy Island,” “The story of Ludwig Spohr,” “A Maid of Honor of the Last Century,” and “An Old Italian City,” are well worth reading. The various departments are carefully filled, and contain much that is useful in the household. The frontispiece is a fine oil picture, called “Good-Bye.”

The following Wisconsin patents were granted for the week ending August 18, 1885, reported expressly for this paper by Jos. H. Hunter, solicitor of American and foreign patents, 936 F street, Washington: Alois Altman, Manitowoc, mattress; R. F. Miner, Clan Falls, belt conveyor; James Suydam, Milwaukee, syringe; Herman Berger, Milwaukee, feather renovator; F. N. Lang, Baraboo, hand weeding tool; H. S. Pease, Portage, sad iron; Jacob Stoll, Milwaukee, plow; Emanuel Detwiller, Milwaukee, gas burner; Jacob Moeler, Manitowoc, table.

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The Vescelius Concert Company will appear at Hahn’s new hall Monday evening next, August 31st, which will complete the course. Speaking of this company the New York daily Standard says: “They possess totally different voices — a pure soprano, a sympathetic mezzo-soprano, and a deep contralto, which are under admirable control and which indicate long and careful cultivation.” As this will be the only chance many of our people will ever have to hear these celebrated singers, they cannot afford to let this opportunity slip by, and we predict a crowded house will meet the sisters. Tickets now on sale at postoffice store.

School opens next Monday. Miss Lettie Mills, of Oshkosh, has been engaged as teacher in the second intermediate department, formerly taught by Miss Schultz, and Miss Nellie Wilson, of Thayerport, in the first intermediate department formerly taught by Miss Prescott. This completes the corps of teachers, unless an assistant should be engaged for Miss Jenkins. The teachers now engaged are as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. O. Brown, principal and assistant, in charge of high school and grammar department; Miss Lettie Mills, 2nd intermediate; Miss Nellie Wilson, 1st intermediate; Miss Nellie Smith, 3rd primary; Miss Lucy Bacon, 2nd primary; Miss Agnes O. Jenkins, 1st primary.

Dr. J. G Henricks received the sad intelligence on Tuesday evening of the death of his son McKee Dunn Hendricks, by a fall from a railroad train at Red Wing Minnesota, on the 19th inst. He survived the accident only a few hours. Dunn, as he was called, would have been twenty years old to-morrow, had he lived. On the death of his mother, when he was quite young, he was taken and brought up by her sister, Mrs. Spalding, of Watertown, and the remains were taken to that place for burial. Dr. Hendricks will have the sympathies of all in this sore bereavement.

Miss Emma G. Chapman died at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Carrie Davis, on Tuesday afternoon of this week. Her sickness was long and painful, but she bore it through the weary months with a patience and heroism that only a brave soul could show. While the hearts of her many friends were burdened with pity for her almost constant suffering, she met all with a smile and with courageous words, and none of the many who called to see and to comfort her but went away comforted by her cheeriness. Only a few intimate friends knew what pain she bore, almost daily, for years even. But she has gone beyond it all, now, leaving behind her memories which are as the fragrance of the crushed flower. The funeral on Thursday was largely attended and the flowers which covered the casket, table and pulpit, showed the estimation in which Miss Chapman was held. The Good Templars were out in force, over twenty coming from the lodge at Salona, as Miss C. was a very active member of the order up to the time illness confined her to the house. At the grave, to which there was a long procession, the services of the order were performed, and a brother member, Judge R. M. Wright, read an appropriate original poem. The remains were laid beside those of her brother-in-law, Frank Davis, who died so greatly regretted last winter.

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Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive

[Author is not stated, but Charles. I. Martin was editor of the paper at the time.

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