davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
HOTEL MEN PLAN
ANNUAL MEETING
Summer Gathering Win be Held
in Madison.
FINE PROGRAM PROMISED
Banquet viii De rendered the Visl.
tors at Opening Session on Sept.
-Miiwaukee Delegates Have
Chartered Special Car.

Madison.-As guests of the Madi.
son hotel men. the Wisconsin State
Hotel Mems association this year Will
hold it's annual summer feregathering
in the capital, September 4 and 8
The h sadquarters Of the meeting will
be in the New Park hotel, owned
by the Kletzsch brothers of Milwau-
kee.
The business session of the meet
ing will take place on the afternoon
of September 4, and the annual ban
quet will be rendered the visitors in
the New Park in the evening. Next
day will be devoted to sightseeing
by the visitors as the guests of the
Madison proprietors.
All of the Milwaukee hotel proprie-
tors and managers have expressed
their desire to attend this years sum
mer session of the association. A
special car has been chartered for the
trip TO and returning from Madison. A
delightful entertainment program has
been prepared for the visitors by the
Madison people.
Herman o. Kletzsch, secretary and
treasurer Of the Republican house
management, is the secretary of the
state hotel association, an office he
has filed with credit for several years.
Sig. Bloomfield, manager of the
Schwartz hotel, Elkhart lake, is the
president and, W. E. Butterfield, man
ager of the Hotel Butterfeld, Amigo,
the vice-president.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
Badger Farmers Rich.

The income tax to be collected in
Dane county this year, according to
tabulations completed by Assessor II.
" Cowles. is si09,697OS. OF that
amount s65,064.27 is assessed against
corporations and $44,632.S1 against
individuals. The offsets Of individuals
will amount to s7,955.57 The offsets
of corporations have not yet been CON-
puted Members OF the faculty of the
University of Wisconsin, viii have to
pay 16 per cent. of the taxes assessed
against individuals, or S5,045. "a.
There are ISIS persons in the county
who have taxable incomes. but SIS OF
them will be able to escape by reason
of having offsets sufficient TO cover
their taxes In the city of Madison
2,265 persons, or eight per cent. of the
population, have taxable incomes, but
277 have enough offsets to cover their
taxes. Seventeen residents Of the
cities and 6s farmers have taxable in.
comes of over $4,000 Only seven IA.
borers have taxable incomes, and they
will pay 1871
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
State Gets Many Islands.

State Forester Griffith has an
nounced that a movement which was
started three years ago TO induce con
gress TO cede to Wisconsin all the is,
lands IN the inland lakes of the state
mas been successful. The bill max
ing the cession has passed both houses
Of congress and has been signed by
the president. All that nov remains
Rto be done 10 for the national gov
eminent to issue patents o. these
islands TO the stare.
1t is expected that the islands to
which the state will gain title in this
way numbered about $50. These
islands vary in size from a balf-acre
TO forty acres and more Many Of
them are located in the state forest
reserve in Villas, Oneida and sur
rounding counties.
The islands which congress has
ceded TO the state viii become part d
the state forest slsserve. Under the
terms of the cession, they cannot be
sold by the state to private parNes;
shouid this De ATTEMPTED. the is.nds
would revert 10 the national govern
ment
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04

force and weight and momentum OF
the Republican party II is ste5f ny
step and not by leaps and bounds
that mighty nation moves forward
1t is by building firmly from the foun,
dalton stones of sound and tried prin.
ciples that the enduring structure OF
national prosperity is to be erected,
and not by discarding the experience
end principles of the past and enter,
ing upon an era OF patch work and
experimentation. The principles
which have enabled tSh Republican
party to meet all the gree. oriSes Of
the past half century with wise legis
lation and judicious administrative
are Just as sound now as they ever
were and just as capable of meeting
the problems of the future as they
have proved to be satisfactory in solv.
ing the questions of the past.
Colonel Roosevelt did not change
the nature of the Republican party
nor put stop to the advancement of
the nation along sane and reasonable
lines when he refused to permit the
Chicago convention to nominate a
candidate who would have been salts.
factly to all elements; he merely
wrote himself down as more eager
to promote his personal ambition than
to safeguard party unity or advance
the interest of the principles he pro.
fesses to have at heart
IL is no wonder that, with the full
knowledge of what might have hap.
pened In the Chicago convention and
of the reason it did not happen, such
men as Governor Hagley. Senator
Cummins, Senator Bofah, Senator
Gronna. Senator La Toilette and 9th.
ers like them should have declined to
follow further the leadership of Colo
mel Roosevelt, but have declared their
intention to give their support to
President Taft and the Republican,
party.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04

Wisconsin oats are 10 Per cent.
above the average quality of last
year. according to statistics lust
gathered by the United States de-
partment Of agriculture. The oats this
year are two per cent. above the ten
year average for the month of August.
Wisconsin has six per cent. OF the total
oat acreage in this country this year
and ranks eighth in quality between
July and August 1.
Wisconsin's corn crop this month is
still four per cent behind the 1911
crop in quality. Il has a quality OF
eighty-one per cent. which is four per
cent. above the record for July 1
! and one per cent behind the
ten-year average. The state has
1.5 per cent. Of the corn crop
In the United States. The Wisconsin
corn crop this year is two per cent
larger than in 1911. There are 1882
600 acres in plants at the present time.
Thus far the 1912 quality is nineteen
per cent. less in quality than in 1911
and is seven per cent. under the ten
year average.
There is more corn land in the
United States than any other crop, &C
cording to the latest statistics Of the
government There are 10S,110,000
acres of land bearing corn his year.
which is an increase of % per cent.
over 1911. Wheat is second in acreage
with 44.945,000 acres. This is a de
crease of 9.3 per cent. over 1911. Oats
rank third in number of acres planted
with 1884, 900. Winter wheat is
fourth with 25,744.000. Spring wheat
is fifth with 19,201, 900 acres. Barley
ranks sixth with 1874, 900 acres to its
credit. White potatoes are next with
3,6s9,000 acres and fax follows with
100000 acres. Tobacco is credited
with 1884, 200 acres in this country.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
s4,4fe for County Roads.

Dane county will receive $4,416.66
as its apportionment Of the state mo-
tor vehicle tax, according to statistics
compiled by Filing Clerk A. ]. Cob
ban of the secretary of states office
and made public. Under the provi-
sions of chapter 600, laws of 1911, the
money thus turned back to the county
by the state will be used for high
way Improvements outside the city
of Madison The secretary of states
report shows that residents of Dane
county paid s6.935 in taxes on automo-
5iles, motor cyc4es and other motor
vehicles during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1912. OF this amount, 10
cents out of every dollar was expended
by the state in administering the law;
81 cents out of every dollar went to
the state highway commission and So
cents was apportioned back 10 the
county.
Milwaukee and Rock are the only
counties which lead Dane in the
amount of license fees paid on motor
vehicles and the amount turned back
by the state In the county treasury
for highway improvement. Owners of
motor vehicles in Milwaukee county
contributed s27.354 in motor vehicles
license fees during the year which
ended on June 80, 1912, and Milwau-
kee county received back from the
state the sum of $17,420.s2. The total
amount Of license fees collected by
the secretary of state during the year
amounted to $124,3OS. OF this amount
s7S,164.25 was refunded to the various
counties. The cost of administering
the law amounted to $1S,750,67, while
the state highway fund received $685.
3SS0S.
Rock county was second in the state
with total license fee of $4,000, of
which $3,120.64 went back to the
county other leaders in license fees
are Jefferson, $2,S23; Walworth, 49,
6S4; Sank. $2.167; Green. s1.7s2; La
Fayette, S1.052.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
SOFT GINGER COOKIES
Old RECIPE WORTH RETAINING
IN THE MEMORY.
cleveland Claims 1t as It's Own, but
Rightly 1t Should Belong to
All the World, Sc
Here u Is.

Years ago Cleveland had WON
ans exchange" where the good cooks
of the city brought doughnuts and
bread and baked beans and other
good things that they excelled In
making. The ginger cookies they
sold have left a fragrant, lasting mem
ory behind them; no one ever speaks
Of the Repository" as It was called,
without saying do you remember the
ginger cookies we used to buy there?
A Euclid avenue store still sells gin
little cakes that are moist and soft
and dark with spice and syrup and
rich with butter, but sells them at a
price that is prohibitive to even Eu.
cid avenue residents.
A stroke of good luck has sent the
original recipe to me. and now We can
all have a feast of Clevelands ginger
cakes:
Two cups OF dark New Orleans mo-
lasses, one cup OF white sugar, one
half cup Of melted butter or butter
and dripping melted together (The
dripping is superior to butter in gin
ger cakes, most persons think) One
cup of sour milk or buttermilk. two
eggs. two level teaspoons OF sods. one
level teaspoonful Of salt, one rounded
teaspoon OF ginger and one Of CHINA.
mon.
Beat the shortening with the sugar.
add the spices and the molasses,
he he, T,tfR he Do IN
the sour milk and add 1t with enough
sifted flour to make a cake batter.
Bake In gem pans or In muffin tins
in moderate oven about fifteen min.
utes. As these are very rich they
must be baked as carefully as layer
or pound cake.
Beside the ginger cakes there used
to be ginger snaps that really snap
ped and melted in ones mouth in.
stead of tasting like a bill-sticker's
paste" says my informant, and she
kindly includes directions for making
them.
Boil pint of good New orleans
molasses, one cup of light brown
sugar. two-thirds OF cup OF lard or
drippings and one tablespoon Of DARK
ground ginger into a deep granite
saucepan and boil until the mixture
thcikens considerably. Remove from
the stove and cool slightly. then add
q heaping teaspoon of soda dissolved
in half cup of tepid water. Cover
until cool, then mix in enough sifted
-four to make a soft dough. Roll
very thin, cut and bake in mod.
crate oven"
Bakers OF ginger cakes and cookies
VIII find that there is a great differ.
ence in molasses; It used to be that
one could send for BLACK" molasses,
Or New Orleans syrup and use what
the grocer sent with best results: now
It is difficult to buy good cooking
syrup. 1t is either thin and light and
without favor or Il is really black,
strong and heavy. The proper syrup
for use in ginger bread and with 9th.
er concoctions containing soda is
dark brown IN color but bright and
clear and thick. II is difficult to buy
molasses in bulk in Cleveland, as II
is packed In cans under dealers Ia.
bells, and It is impossible to always
find the same uniform quality under
the same label as the product nuct.
yates with each seasons crop OF cane
Cleveland Leader
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
Addresses Ginseng Men.

Prof w H. Wetzel OF Cornell univer.
sity, expert on agronomy, was the
chief speaker before the second annual
state convention OF the Wisconsin Gin
seng Growers association which as
sembled at Shawano Explanation of
recent research work for the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington and
the Chinese government was the fea-
ture of Prof. Wetzels address. Off
GERS elected were: President, DR.. f. F.
Burns, Stanley; first vice-president,
john Curtis. Wausau; second vice
president, DR.. Card, Stevens Point;
third Vice-president. j. Kohler. Wau-
sau; secretary and treasurer, II. j.
Steeph, Rice Lake. Prof. Waelzel of
Cornell university also addressed the
convention
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
Ekern Says Law is Liberal.

Commissioner of Insurance Herman
L. Ekern has issued a statement show
ing that the laws Of Wisconsin are
more liberal to fraternal societies than
in any other state; that no law of this
state required a rerating by the Mod
ern Woodmen; that SO far as Wiscon-
sin is concerned the action of the so
ciety was voluntary and no objection
to it has been made before the insur-
ance department, and no question
raised as to it in Wisconsin; that a
change can now only be made through
the head camp according to the laws
an rules of the society, or by a vote
of the members snder the laws of
Illinois, or by having the action de-
clared Illegal; that laws will not pay
death claims, and that the members
must know the facts to decide the
best interests of the society. He urges
that the membersstudy what has been
done and what should be done, and
says that misstatements resulting from
misunderstanding of the law and situa-
ton in Wisconsin demand immediate
correction.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
RULED BY AMBITION
ROOSEVELT WOULD NOT ALLOW
REPUBLICANS TO NAME CON-
PROMISE CANDIDATE.
STATEMENT OF GOV. HADLEY
Colonel Showed That He Was More
Eager to Promote His Personal
Aims Than to Safeguard Party
Unity and Help ProgresslVism.

That was an important statement
which Governor Hadley of Missouri
made in Cedar Rapids. Iowa, recent
ly, when he said in effect that the
proposition was made to Colonel
Roosevelt that both he and President
Taft should withdraw in favor of
some third man who might be salts
factory as a candidate to both wings
of the Republican party. Governor
Hadley himself was the man most
likely to be chosen In such event. and
it appears that Colonel Roosevelt was
so ar prehensive of this result that he
sent one of his Heutenants to the gov
ernor with the request that he put
N end to the discussion OF his name.
AS the story goes, Governor Hadley
went at once to the colonel to know
whether his lieutenant spoke by au-
thority He had no difficulty In find
ing out. Colonel Roosevelt told him
fatty that the people would not be
satisfied with anybody but himself as
the nominee and he could not give his
consent to the consideration Of any
other name.
1t was the knowledge of these facts
which led the editor of the Topeka,
tKan.) Capital, who was present in
Chicago during the convention, and
whose paper is even now strongly
supporting Roosevelt, to write an edi.
torial in which ne 'outlined substan-
italy the above statement and de-
clared pointedly and with emphasis
that Colonel Roosevelt was responsible
for the failure of the convention to
nominate a Progressive and therefore
for the split in the party which fol-
lowed.
This is only another way of saying
that Colonel Roosevelt was more con-
ccrred VIII the promotion of his own
personal ambition than he was with
the advancement Of progressive prin-
ciples or with the success and per
petuity Of the Republican party. No
one viii challenge the assertion that
the Republican party. with its long
and splendid history. its prestige and
its nationwide organization, would be
better instrument for the advance
ment of any set of principles to which
IT might be committed than a new
party even with Colonel Roosevelt as
it's leader. Nobody either can cbal-
lenge the right of such men as Gov.
ernor Hadley or Senator Cummins or
Senator Borah to be classified as
progressive Republicans.
II Colonel Roosevelt had been as
much interested in the advancement
OF progressive principles as he claim
20 be. If he would rather have been
right than to be president, he would
have stepped aside and one of these
men or someone in complete harmony
with them would have been nominal.
ed as the candidate Of the Republican
party and a platform would have been
written upon which the candidate
could stand, so that the cause of pro.
gressivism would have had the whole
force and weight and momentum OF
the great Republican party behind IT.
As a matter OF fact. the cause of
real progress does have behind Il the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
Vanilla PUDDING.

One and a haie heaping tablespoon.
fuls OF powdered gelatine, two cupfuls
of milk, half a cupful of sugar. one
cupful OF U',..Irrss: c-eam, three eggs
and one and a half teaspoonfuIs OF va.
nilla extract Put tia gelatine into
a saucepan. add the milk and sugar,
then dissolve.
Beat up the eggs. then add the milk,
stirring all the time, return to the pan,
and stir over a slow fire till IL thick.
ems. Strain into a basin, add the va
nilla extract, and when cool fold in
the whipped cream. Pour into a wet
mold, and when solid serve with any
kind of stewed fruit.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04

ETV HE new fashions are directoire.
4 says Paris, but directoire with
a difference. The directoire
styles we have all been used to
during the past seasons were femi-
nine directoire fashioEs-now the
masculine directolre modes are to
have their turn. And If ever modish-
ness was the mode for Insecurity, it
was, II the elegant directoire days
when every chap under his dotage
was a tandy-and some old fellows
in the dotage age, zoo. These gay
dogs, If you please. affected silk
stockings, and staiched sleeve and
neck frills. and perfumed coiffures.
They were as fastidious about their
cosmetics as any belle of today. and
at the same time they could handle a
sword and swallow a round of toasts
in way that proved them anything
but effeminate.
The directoire dandy wore an oddly
cut coat, which was somewhat like
the modern dress coat extremely ex-
aggerated. This coat had a sharply
GETAWAY effectin front and tremen-
dously long tails at the back, high,
turned-down collar. huge revers. and
long, snugly fitting sleeves. F1lmy
frills escaped from the sleeves and
foamed down the front of q lively
waistcoat between the big coat re.
vers. II is these dandified coats of
the late seventeen-hundreds that have
formed the inspiration for women's
tailored wear this season. The coat
tails, the cutaway fronts, the gay
vest, the frills, the fanciful revers are
all here, and coats are built In con-
trasting color and material to suggest
the directoire dandy's cloth coat and
satin breaches. Half OF the new tail
ored wear for fall--hailing from PaBis
shows the coat and skirt of contrast
ing fabrics, and the broadcloth coat
with velvet or satin skirt is seen as
frequently as the velvet coat with a
skirt of cleth or silk. Smooth finished
materials are in high favor. and
though rough cheviots, wide welted
serges and homespuns will undoubted-
ly be used, trotabout suits and coats,
the silky broadcloths. very soft, chif
fony velvets, faille silks and poplin
weaves will be favored for dressy cos.
tunes. A mixed weave of worsted
with mohair threads, called In Paris
a permo weave, is particularly well
liked because OF its lustrous, silky
texture, and this permo fabric comes
in all the subdued, hard .todescribe
colorings in which the French coutu-
riers delight. A taupe shade and a
deep mulberry shade are perhaps the
most distinctive.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
Organize to Boost Cross State Road.


Organizing for the purpose of nam
ing, marking and persistently boost
ing a cross state road that will be for
ever part of a transcontinental route
for travel by motor, is the essence of
the plan which is to eliminate in
mass convention of the autoists and
business men of the towns and vii
lagos from Milwaukee TO Prairie du
Chieh, at Dodgeville, early in the after
noon OF Monday, September 8.
Dodgeville has been chosen for the
reason that 1t is a central point be-
tween Madison and Prairie du Chen
on the ridge road, and can be made
easily in a few hours by the people
Of both places and of intermediate
communities.
There will not be less than so ma
chimes at Dodgeville at noon the ninth
and efforts are being made to have
four times that number. Dodgeville
will take care of them, and ten to
fifteen outside experts will be on hand
to assist the garage men at Dodgeville
in case there should be large amount
Of trouble. Garage men at Prairie du
Chen, Patch Grove, Fennimore. Mont
fort. Mt. Horeb and other places have
signified their intention of being pre-
hand for the meeting.
The North Iowa Pike, the matchless
dirt road, drained and dragged its
full length, is the extension to the
west of the Lake to River road to be
founded at Dodgeville, September 9.
The Iowa road has every third pole
marked in certain way, and 1t is
suggested that the same method of
distinctive designation be used across
Wisconsin.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04
crays In Favor.


Grays continue in the pronounced
favor accorded them this summer
and many of the women who wore
nothing but black and white combina.
lions last season are now taking up
their grays. II is a wise woman who
--electing to dress in gray for sea
son-selects one particular shade of
gray and keeps to It. There are
dozens of shades and gradations OF
shade in the grays; there are blue
grays. mauve.grays, pink-grays; taupe.
smoke and elephant grays, and one
gray can clash with another with as
grating an effect as pink and orange
or any other outrageous color com
bination
Two striking features of Paris fash
ions for fall are the prevalence OF
pleats and the full-Iength sleeve. The
elbow sleeve has passed with the high
waistline-which is now RELOCATED to
the limbo of passe fashions. All belts
are at the waistline normal; and
some of the coat effects even drop
below this point; and to make sure
that nobody shall mistake the fact
that normal waistline is now the
mode, fashion has decreed that all
waists shall be emphasized by CIR
die, belt or sash of one sort or an
other. This is again memory OF the
dlrectoire dandy, whose sash. II his
costume was military, was very or
namental part thereof
Sleeves are not only long, but they
ar snug. They cover the forearm
and even the wrist I'm all coats, frocks
and blouses intended for day-wear.
Elbow sleeves In the form Of loose,
lace draperies are noted on some OF
the new evening frocks, but the bare
forearm is not considered de rigeur
during the morning or afternoon-un
less with an informal at-home cos
tune. Many of the sleeves have a
most eccentric and fanciful cut, and
frills falling from the lower edge and
to their length Cuffs are enormously
modish and the fashionable cuff may
be a mere band, or q deep affair,
slashed, notched and garnished with
many buttons and buttonhole loops In
fact, buttons are the style fetish of
the fall season. No good luck can
come to costume which does not
boast buttons in some part of its
makeup. and one may pay as much
for ones buttons as for the material
Of ones gown. New buttons made OF
silk braid are very fashionable on
tailored coats and skirts of broad
cloth, and these braid buttons are
used also on silk and velvet costumes
with good effect
MaehIns Piait Everything.
Buttons and sleeves have rather
sidetracked the Scribe from the sub
:ects Of plaits--a most vitality signifi-
cant issue just now; for It is the plat
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-09-04

It is all in the political game to pin
Woodrow Wilson down to specific
opinions touching the certain bad eff
feet of tariff for revenue only, or
free trade, on the Industrial life Of
New Jersey. and the demand on him
Is just one and cannot be evaded.
Periodical conferer ces with labor lead
ers may lead to bargaining for indi-
vidual support, but the masses-the
wage earRers. the business men and
the manufactarers-wili not be sway
ed By soft soDhistries or a wide cir.