Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-10

l0.-o IL. Fargo gives $4,000 for
the founding of public Ii
brary at Lake Mills.
20.-The First Presbyterian
church of Beloit celebrates
its semi-centennial anniver-
Apr. 13-17.-Seventh international con
vention of the X. w. G. A.,
held at Milwaukee.
12.-Fire Mt Oshkosh in the
Choate Hollister furniture
factory and surrounding
buildings. Loss, 100000.
l3.-Jefferson club banquet in
Milwaukee,; Colonel ~. j.
Bryan speaker.
May Legislature adjourns.
SIS. NJ. Stephenson gives $685.
900 to MenCmonie for a new
library.
20.-Five dams on the Pike river
broke by flood. Loss, $50, 600.
June 1S-22.-Commencement exercises
at the State university.
Destruction of New Richmond.
IA cyclone totally destroys
New Richmond and does
much damage in the NORTH
western part OF the state.
Large loss of life and prop
erty.
27-30.-Milwaukee Carnival.
July 19.-Hotel Grace at Milwaukee
burns; forty firemen injured
and one killed by a falling
roof.
29.-La Crosse Carriage works
burned. Loss, 100000.
Sept. 5-7.-F'ield meeting of the State
IIfcforiooI caoiatxy at n .ao,.
Bay and De Pere.
Oct. 16-17.-Pres. Mckinley speaks in
various Wisconsin cities.
2J26.-Meeting of the State Fed
Grafton of Woman's clubs at
Eau Claire.
Nov. 13.-Celebration OF the fiftieth
anniversary Of the founding
of Lawrence university.
Some Noted Dead of 1899.
Among the noted dead or noteworthy
ones, are Frank Challoner, the Osh-
kosh university regent; Julius Wiscou-
sin Bacon, who died in Montana, was
born in kenosha county in 1886.
George w. Pratt of Oshkosh, who built
a 100000 railroad to transport logs
on the Wolf river; mayor and senator.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's father, one OF
Colman, lawyer OF Fond du Lac. Rev.
Myron W. Reed died Jan. 80 in Den
yer. He was Congrega tional pastor
in Milwaukee for four years and helped
Emma Abbott, the actress, to get a
start. Darwin Clark, who came to
Madison in 1887. III. Stone Richard
son, Methodist pastor in Oshkosh.
Judge s. u. Pinney of the supreme
bench. Judge John Il. Mann, county
judge OF Milwaukee since 1874. Jo-
seph Il. Irish, Methodist chaplain and
ex-consul to France. John II. Potter,
ex-congressman of Walworth county,
who offered to fight duel with bowie
knives with a southern congressman.
Ex-Governor Harrison Reed of Flor
ida, editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel,
GO years old. Judge i. II. Bennett of
GAINESVILLE, aged 20. Elisha ID. Smith,
the Menasha philanthropist. Judge j..
NJ. Morrow of Sparta. General Rufus
X. Dawes in 0hio-an Iron Brigade
hero. C.. Nj. Cott..lll, president of the
Milwaukee chamber of commerce.
Judge G. e. Sutherland of the Milwau-
kee superior court. George Smith in
London, the man who brought Alex
ander Mitchell to Milwaukee. Captain
fainter of Menomonie. Mrs. Roseline
Peck in Baraboo the first white wom-
an in Madison. Judge Small of OcOn-
omowoc Judge Mallory, for twenty
nine years of the Milwaukee municipal
court. Colonel Napoleon Boardman of
Fond du Lac, father of the adjutant
general. Ex-Consressman Michael
Griffin of Eau Claire head Of the tax
commission.
Drnmmers and Holiness.
was sitting in the writing room of
the Park hotel week ago Sunday
night. There was the usual number
of men posted here and there, with
that quiet. subdued air that even a
travelling man wears when it is about
time to go to bed on Sunday evening
IT is the one time in the week when
this craft runs down. They are home
sick and weary of their roaming life.
and it is the quiet hour in the week
for the gay and dissipated ones--for
there are yet sports in the craft,
though modern, stern business require
ments are lessening the number. Even
the .'bloods" are forced to think Seri-
Gus thoughts on stormy Sunday
night in an inn far from home. es-
pecially if it be New Years eve.
Kind of Bibles They Use.
Suddenly heard one man say:
II ran across a testament that
pleased me the-otfrer- ofay-=st neat octf-
yo in morocco, with the words OF
Christ in red ink"
Strange talk in a hotel among tray-
cling men, thought l. looked icn1l
: to see If the speaker was droll joker
He had been talking in natural,
clear. voice, readily heard by the dozen
others seated by. He was handsome.
black-whiskered man of 40. He was
seated in the middle of the rJon1, paral-
lei with an older man4Sboth were
smoking and looking into space with
that comfortable, restful air OF trav-
cling man when he does run down.
Il still cling to my old Bagster," re-
plied the older man casually, stout,
ruddy and looking as if he enjoyed life.
Have carried it for forty years"
Both men sat thinking and watching
the clouds of smoke curl away. They
had been speaking as Cf-haId as ii
noting changes in the stock market.
II see Watson's life of the Master
has Begun in McClure's" finally con.
tinued the older man. lime thing
the first installment."
More silence, until some one re-
marked: well. this is d--n strange
talk to hear in hotel. How does II
happen they don't muifie their voices
When they talk religion or go some
where and lock the door, Ike Other
folks"
Carrying Grips and Banner of the Gross
They're Gideons,' explained anoth
er.
"sgicholson--Old Nick--of James
vile, everybody knows him, Flip. fy
and full of sand--has organized tray
cling men into Gideop's Band, The