Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-06-28

River Falls; Cheever Milwaukee:
Hardy, Plattville; Hewitt, Oshkosh;
Hutton, Whitewater; Livingston, Stev-
ems Point; Walker, West Superior
These receive $11 a day plus expenses
Then there are about ninety others
teachers in normal schools, high school
principals and others whose pay is pro
rata to their salary. Thus principal
who receives 81 900 year is allowed
~ day for institute teaching, and 50
on down. The present department of
education is doing much to improve the
quality of work done at these insti-
tutes. Assistant Superintendent w. N.
Parker with assistance will inspect
them. The work has been unified.
The old confusion and Inconsistencies
of method and results when each in
st'tute went it's own way has been cor
rected AS a result of the instruction
and association with others, these
teachers (nany of whom are mere boys
and girls of II and IS. go back to their
desks better equipped for work
Rainy Days and Fair Profits.
The state fair occurs this year from
September IL to Sept. Is. 1t will be on
the Milwaukee grounds, which the
state owns. Assemblyman True of Bar
aboo, who is secretary of the state
board of agriculture, tells me it will
be good one. Last year the fair met
rainy week. That's the thing man
agements of fairs dread above all else.
You can see that even one rainy day.
when LOCO people come instead o. 20
600 at so cents apiece, knocks the finan-
elal calculations in the head. Never
theless there was a small profit, and not
a loss in the fair last year. 1t was the
hrst fair under the newly constituted
board appointed by the governor. The
fair was then taken from the gamblers
and fakirs.
The races will continue. however. to
re strong feature. These beyond any
thing else attract crowds. Some S16.-
900 will be hung up in purses and no
races will be trotted that do not carry
$1,000.
Horse That Races Alone,
There will be some features, though
there will be no retrogression to mid
way fakery. Three "guideless" won
ders are on the list. These are horses
that race without carrying a harness
on them n dragging a vehicle. 1t
is really wonderful to see a beautiful
horse go at full speed round the track
without even a companion horse to
urge him on There is no fake"
about it. The audience is usually asked
to refrain from applause as the unat-
tended animal comes tearing down the
track after miles flight at record
time. When "guideless wonder
hears applause he thinks the race is
over and stops. Unlike a horseless car
riage a carriageless horse has sense.
An Elk Dives from a Height.
Theh. too, there will be an elk that
can race and dive-a sensational jump
from a platform high above the Leads
of the audience. I never could see any
thing remarkable in these animals that
dive" when they once get up to the
dizzy height. They can't do anything
else. If they would turn round and
come down the ladder-like affair which
they went up, ones awe might be in
cited.
The president of the state board is a
Beaver Dam merchant-T. L. Newton.
He was secretary about 1928, a very
energetic and enthusiastic man about
such matters. George McKerron is
VIC the ldIHiSES
man whom everybody esteems and
trusts. The head of the all-important
speed department is c. G. Wilcox of
De Pere, department he has had for
years The board has a number of
horse experts.
Buying Psrcherons in France.
H. A. Briggs of Elkhorn is now in
France looking up high class Percher=
ons for his private stock. George @.
Cox of Mineral Point has charge of the
department of horses at the fair. The
other heads of departments are: S. D,
Hubbard grounds, Mondoyi; D. Wedge
wood, gates, Little Suamico; John LIE
Feber trains, N. Greenfield Charles
Linse, cattle, La Crosse; FL. A. Briggs
sheep, Elkhorn; George WyIie, swine,
Leeds George McKerrow, poultry, Sus-
sex; F. A. Huebner. agriculture, Mani
towoc; l.. G. Kellogg, horticulture,
Ripon; j. w. Thomas. dairy, Anson
]. E. Seaver, machinery. Darien; C. T.
Fisher, manufactures, Wauwatosa; G,
II. Everett, fine arts and woinan's
work, 3eloit; L. A. Jansen, pigeons and
ornamental fowls, Milwaukee; z. w.
Chaplin, marshal, Waukesha.
AsduscE
In Wisconsin among the Chippewas in
the northern part of the state there are
only Catholic missions. There were
formerly Presbyterian missions. but
they have been abandoned. The Chip
pewas number about 5000, and about
two-thirds are nominally Catholic and
the remainder are pagans. There are
about 1900 Menomonies near Shewano
OF these about three-feurths are Cath
olics and the rest pagan. There are
1900 Oneidas near Green Bay OF these
all are Christian-about one-half Meth
odists and the remainder Episcopalians.
These are the most advanced Indians
in the United States, living by farming
and without annuities, and really show
ing in many ways what an Indian may
do when civilized OF the Stockbridge
Indians there are 800. There are no pa
gans among them. They are farmers
and live in fairly good houses and speak
nothing but English. These were Pres
byterians. but the mission work is prac-
tically abandont I, and they are simply
frreligious.
Near Fond du Lac. on the east shore
Of Lake Wiunebago. there are about
500 Brothertowns. These are the rem
nants of the Pequo6s and Narrasansetts
Of the New England states. They speak
nothing but English. and are all &etn-
odists Scattered throughout tie cen
trail part of the state are about LOCO
Winnebagoes. All are practically
tramps. These figures show that we
have about I000f Indians In Wisconsin,
and about half Of these are pagan and
a large number are tramps. Sine the