Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-08-11
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

The $4,000 waterworks bonds Is
sued by tie village were sold to
the Kleinhardt bank at premium of
$3.50 netting 4.35 per cent.
Supt. Joseph Roehl. Jr., of the Mar
athon county insane asylum, nas insti.
tuted a plan whereby farmers of that
county are supplied with full-blooded
stock and grains adapted to this eli
mate at market prices.
William Peterson. Neenah grocer
has been arrested for alleged viola
ton of the pure food law II found
guilty, he will seek redress from the
company which sold him the alleged
impure lemon extract
w. II. II. Cash Of New Lisbon Is in.
vestigating the practicability Of
building railroad from Bloomington
through Patch Grove and Mount Hope
to connect with the Northwestern
road at F'enniriore.
Several people who have had ce.
ment walks built by them are look
ing for William and Charles Crop,
who have apparently left Oshkosh. II
is reported that bills for supplies are
being rendered against properties on
which such improvements were made.
The Goldfeld Consolidated Mines
company has announced the absorp-
ton of the subsidiary companies. the
Mohawk, Laguna, Red Top, Jumbo
and GoIdfleld mining companies. The
fnsy tn h. ls
$19.500,700.
The annual state bill OF the Mara.
thon county asylum for chronic in
sane shows total of PA patients. the
board and clothing for whom during
the year amounted to $2s.4S4.35. II
is estimated that $4,000 has been
cleared for the year, ending June 80
A water power famine confronts
the Fox river valley. Lake Winnie
bago and Fox river are low and heavy
rains are needed to bring the water to
at least a normal level. In two weeks
there has been a so per cent cut of
water power and another cut Is ex-
pected in a few days.
ne 0pttllA SASH ltuoi
has secured the contract to build the
new storehouse at the government
range. The building will be 40x10e
feet, wood construction covered with
sheet iron. 1t will be used for storing
foodstuffs and what paraphernalia
may be left at the range when the
troops leave this fall
C. j. Crilley of Milwaukee, who had
under construct ton what is known as
the Gustavus Flohr drainage ditch in
Jefferson county. has finished his
contract and tho machinery is being
knocked down for shipment to Mil
waukee The contract was let In
April. 1908. The ditch is four and
one-half miles long and on an average
five feet deep and fourteen feet wide
and will drain about COO acres of
land.
City improvements are a noticeable
feature of the advancement of Neenah
and Menasha this summer. Five
streets are being paved with concrete
and one with tar macadam. A brick
SHtOhe SidNh tlldN required iouf nNdt
loads of bricks and towering to a
height OF 900 feet. the tallest in the
Fox river valley. has been finished a,
the Nesnah Paper company's plant
| The company is To double its capsc.
ity.
Equipment of the Wisconsin Can,
/ ners company plant with the Ham.
! chek viner a machine invented BY
Frank Ftamacheck OF Kewaanee. is
planned during the present season.
Tests have heen satisfactory 1t is
said the Hamachek machine was a
saving Of ST to $3.50 on every load
of peas by saving peas which may net
have been taken from the vines which
run through the viner The machine
! Is in use in factories at Sturgeon
Bay, Kewaunee and other cities OF
this section.