Burnham Marcus03

Waupaca Republican

April 16, 1908

HOME AGAIN

Marcus Burnham has returned from his western trip and is at home at Stanley, Wis. He is reported to have enjoyed the trip very much and be in the best of health.

He spent seven months along the Pacific coast from Vancouver to Old Mexico. When going west he spent a week in the Yellowstone National Park. On his return he stopped at Salt Lake City. He is emphatic in advising young men who are making a start in life to stay east of the mountains till they have made their fortune. He visited the famous Hood River country, Oregon, last fall where the “best apples on earth” are raised.

Apples from this world renowned section being as high as $3.50 per bushel. He saw apples being packed that were claimed to be ordered for direct shipment to the Czar of Russia. He visited many points of interest and several families who were former residents of Waupaca county. Among these were John, Andrew and Burnham Dufur, Lot Moore, Late Churchill, Henry Constance, Fred and Grant Sherwin. At Portland he met Justice Burnham who has for twenty-five years has been principal of one school in that city. Many old time residents of Waupaca county will recall the time when Justice Burnham was county superintendent, and later principal of schools at Weyauwega, New London and Waupaca. He left Waupaca nearly thirty years ago for LaCrosse where he taught for three or four years. He still has a vivid recollection of the boys and girls who were in the Waupaca school when he was their teacher and was keenly interested to hear where they are and how they are doing. He and his son own a large sheep farm in Vancouver and he insisted on having his old friend go out with him during the Christmas vacation to visit his son’s family and enjoy an outing.