Range History, Geography, Geology Club to meet Monday

By TOM STANKARD

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HURLEY— The next Range History, Geography and Geology Club meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 11, beginning at 6 p.m. at Sharon’s Coffee Company in Hurley.

Paul Sturgul, club organizer, said Bret Deutscher, of Hurley, will give a keynote presentation about William Vilas.

Sturgul said Vilas was a prominent Wisconsin member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1897.

Deutscher said Vilas acquired two sections of land on the ore body by Upson and was instrumental in developing the vil...