Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-08
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.


eight hour bill for public employees.
The county board of Chippewa
county has rejected the plan to build
a county agricultural training school
which called for $4,000 building
A. f. oyren, proprietor OF Slough
tons boat factory, may leave that city
and locate his factory at some otner
place Inability to engage capable
labor for the building of boats is the
cause OF Mr.. oyren's decision to leave
St0ugnton
The Rock County Sugar company
has brought in $50 Belgians to work
in the sugar beet fields in Rock coun-
ty. The company has 500 acres OF
beets under contract, which is some
thousand more acres than they have
ever before handled,
Kansas will need 10000 harvest
hands this year, according to state
ment made by Charles Harris, director
of the state free employment bureau
This is about 1000 more than were
needed last year Harvest will not
| begin before June 90
After conducting fairs for fifty-two
consecutive years at West Salem, the
La Crosse County Agricultural society
has disbanded and the property. com
prising twenty-three acres of ground
and numerous buildings, has been sold
to Cullman brothers of West Salem
for &C. 100
Entire verifcation was obtained of
the announcement that changes were
impending in the United states Steel
corporation The Carnegie boys"
are to go w, e. Corey and Charles
NJ. Schwab have ceased to be militant
powers in this great organization and
wit drop out along with others.
Labor unions degrade human char
| acter, according to Charles w. Eliot
of Harvard university, who spoke at
the annual public meeting of the
American Unitarian association. AT
the annual business session the Rev.
Samuel A. Elliott of Cambridge was
reelected president of the Unitarian
association.
Three hundred buyers from all
parts of the United States, Canada,
| Mexico and New Zealand attended
the sale of registered Holstein cattle
held at Watertown, Wis One COW
was sold for $3.50 ard her calf
brought $1,l50. The sale included
lit head, owned by Hustisford and
Milwaukee people.
After two days inspection of the
dairy farms of La Crosse county, Ivan
G. Weld of the dairy division of the
bureau Of animal husbandry of the
/ United States department OF agricul.
ture said that over onehalf of the
mill; supplied to the city of La Crosse
wGs fit only to be turned into the
sewers.
The city of Rice Lake. Wis, has
contracted with the Red Cedar Valley
Electric company for period of ten
years to furnish power and superin.
tend the municipal lighting system
At the same meeting the council con
tracted with the Rice Lake Lumber
company to furnish steam to operate
the water pumps.
Duncan James Mt kenzie, a repre-
sentative of the Atwood Lumber com.
pany OF Park Falls, states that a con.
tract involving l50,0O0.0OO feet of pulp.
wpod. TO he shipped on installments
of 100000 feet annually, has been
made with the Kimberly Clark compa.
ny, and portion of the wood is now
being received at the colnpanys min
at Kimberly.
The Aston Paper company, a whole.
sale paper house, is to be formed In
Green Bay. The permit viii be OBJ
tanned soon and it Ia expected that the
company will be in a position to start
business in thirty days. The incor-
porators are John c. Fogarty, Alvin e.
Hansen and liver ]. Terp. The capi.
tai stock Is $4,000, Mr.. Hansen will
have active charge of the business.