Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-09-08
LATE NEWS CONDENSED.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY,


The Michigan Elm Hoop company
viii soon build a stove plant at Mar
inette.
The Amigo Confectionery company
has decided u increase the size OF its
plant.
Work viii soon be started on the
Sl50,0O0 mill OF the Menasha Paper
company at Ashland.
The contractors wlo a~4 building
the new paper mills at Wausau, are
experiencing difficulty in obtaining
sufficient help.
La Crosse City Railway company
applied to the city council for permits
sion to lay double tracks on all main
downtown lines not already double
tracked.
Wilson island. of the Apostle group
in Lake Superior, known for the
beauty Of its scenery, has been sold
to Minneapolis men, and win be con
yerted into a summer resort
Il is rumored that eastern capital
lists are contemplating building an
electric car line from Rhinelander to
Three Lakes, using the Robbins log
ging roadbed part of the distance.
The committee on new industries OF
the Green Bay Business Mems asso-
citation is working to secure the Eagle
Aluminium Manufacturing company oil
Eagle River to locate in that city.
Plans and specifications for the
construction of a new Dunn county
jail at Menomone, have been placed
with the city clerks in Eau Claire,
st, Paul, Mimi, and Madison, Wis,
for the benefit Of contractors.
= contract has been signed by
which the Chippewa Valley Railway,
Light and Power company is to fur
nish 1000 horsepower for lighting
and manufacturing purposes to capt.
talists in Red Wing, Mimi. The cur.
rent will be conveyed forty miles
from the dam.
The Woodenware company at Two
Rivers, has started. on the manufac-
ture Of special candv pail. on the
cover of which Henri Mann has Sc
cured a patent. Last week the com
pany received an order from one con.
Germ for twenty-seyen car loads OF
the pals.
The canning of corn has been begun
at the Lange Canning company plant
at Eau Claire. At present the corn
is beirg obtained from the Surround
ing farmers, but in short time the
product will be coming from the com.
panys own farm, when the daily out
put will be larger.
The Menomonie II ydraulic Pressed
Brick company, operating the largest
Of several brick yards at Menomonie,
has completed the installation OF
electrical machinery to take the place
OF steam, the current being derived
from the plant of the Chippewa Valley
Railway, Light and Power company.
Part of the crew of men, ten in
number. employed by Greiling Bros
company on the concrete work OF the
Walnut bridge, at Green Bay, walked
out, demanding 81 day pay. The
men were paid off and others will re.
place them and the work win meet
with no delay.
A movement is on foot for the es.
Enlistment of a large cooperative
store in La Crosse by the La Crosse
labor unions and the American So
eiety of Equity. Negotiations which
have been in progress several months
between members of the trades and
labor council and representatives oil
the farmers organization are expected
to come to head this month.
Sheepraising in northern Wiscon
sin has become one of the important
Industries of Buffalo county. Catlin
brothers, who have fine sheep ranch
at Deilwood expect to have 1000
there by fall, Mr.. Wilson, brother oil
Secretary of Agriculture James vii
son, has a large stock farm near
White river, where he keeps many
sheep