Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-17

censin FISH and game laws. Charles
Burts and Herman Babbitz OF Aienasha
were convicted of fishing with gin nets
and Nelson Drenks Of GreenvilIe
4 pleaded guilty to a charge of shoot
ing ducks in the closed season. The
defendants paid a fine of SIS and the
costs in each case. The arrests were
made by Deputy Game Ware ens Al
brecht of Menasha and Follett of
Oshkosh.
Neenah.-At meeting Of the
| Business Mems association a strong
sentiment was expressed in IA
vor of securing the big interstate
fair and sale of the Fox River Valley
Holstein Breeders association. which
was recently organized. II was de-
/ cided to hold conference with the
members OF the breeders association
TO ascertain just what is wanted in the
matter of providing a place for the
fair and other incidental features.
Madison-A. C. A. Harper.
secretary of the state board of health,
stated that the scarlet fever epidemic
in Monroe. Kenosha and Chippewa
Falls are under complete control and
there is no further danger of the
| spread of the disease. Beside the thir
ty-fve cases under quarantine at
Kenosha, eleven at Monroe and nine
at Chippewa Falls. no new cases have
been reported and no fatalities have
occurred.
Green William Kramer was
Rrraigned before a United States
court commissioner on the charge
of forging a postal money or.
Ter intended for another man by the
same name. He entered plea of not
guilty. and the case was adjourned
me week. Kramer is In Jail in de-
'ault of $1,000 bonds
Manitowoc.--A search extending
through three counties. Manito-
voc, Calumet and Brown, is now on
'or Edward Williamson. aged is. son
Of John Williamson, a Wrightstown
farmer. who with Deputy Sheriff Frank
| Ehnert is securing the country for the
missing youth. The lad disappeared
.wo weeks ago.
Marinette.-Thirty-tw hours after
a heavy wind had set them afloat
on an ice foe in Green Bay,
George and Frank Drew were blown
ashore at Chambers island, more dead
than alive. The men. who are light
house keepers on Chambers island,
started for shore over the ice Sat
lrday.
Fond du Lac.-The congregation Of
the Presbyterian church of Fond du
Lac has decided on the erection of a
new church.
Fond du lac.-George Fitzgerald,
aged twenty son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Michael Fitzgerald, wealthy farmers
residing in the town of Osceola. Fond
au Lac county, mysteriously disap-
peared from his home on the morning
of March in his working clothes with
little or no money and the genera.
belief now is that he has met with
foul play. A thorough search of the
Fitzgerald farm and also of the sur
rounding country has failed to reveal
any traces of the missing young man.
Fitzgerald's parents, who are reputed
% be possessed of fortune. are al
most crazed with grief but refuse to
give him up for lost
River Falls.-Under the direction
riculture department of the state
normal school has finished testing
twenty-one lots of seed corn from
The farms within fifteen miles of the
school, Three lots tested $29S and 100
per cent The other lots show from
per cent to 10 per cent termination.
with the greater part below so per
cent.
New Richmond. 1t is predicted
by experts that the 1912 acreage
of corn in ST. Croix and other west
ern and northwestern counties OF Wis
cousin will not exceed so per cent. OF
that of 1911. Worthless seed is given
as the cause of the falling off, and the
supply of good, reliable tested seed
has been exhausted. One hundred in
| quiries sent out to as many raisers OF
pedigreed corn in Wisconsin develops
the fact that their stocks of seed have
all been sold out and there is not
enough left in many instances for the
home demand The farmers of Dako-
ia and Minnesota have bought the
Wisconsin seed corn this season.
Spooner.-The city of Spooner is
In the midst of a house fam
Inc. Six families are living with
friends, being unable to get house
to move into. The superintendent
and train dispatchers office coming
here soon will make the condition
worse. aud many train and engine
men wish TO move here from ST. Paul
but cannot find house to live in.
Madison.-Kim Tong Ho. a Chi
nese student at the University OF
Wisconsin from Hawaii. who was re-
fused the right of registration BY he
election officials of Me iison on the
ground that he was not an American
citizen, was finally allowed to cast
/ his ballot when President Charles X.
Van Hise and Prof. w J. Meek OF the
university, as freeholders, vouched
for him. Mr.. Ho claims citizenship
| because he was born in Hawaii Amer