Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-12-30
Badger News
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city Official
| Waupaca.- Waupaca potato ware
houses have a total capacity Of 325
carloads. The number of carloads
shipped from here last year aggregat-
ed 1,270, or enough to make up a
freight train nine miles long.
Superior.-An experiment in NUM-
cipal humanity is TO be tried In
superior court through plans devised
by Mayor Konkel Men who seek
lodgings at the city Jail win hereafter
be provided with a cup of hot coffee
and sandwich for breakfast the next
day
Eau Claire.-The strike of I'll high
school students was declared prac-
| tically closed when IA of the 2I
students expelled as ringleaders in the
affair returned to school. The $50
strikers had all previously returned
OF the seven remaining out, three will
attend school elsewhere and four are
under ban lasting three months
Oshkosh.-The students of the Osh-
! kosh normal school are busy max
ing up the furniture for the mems
rest room in the Wisconsin building
at the Panama-Pacific exposition. The
furniture is being made By the stu
| dents in the industrial department and
consists of newspaper racks, reading
tables and chairs, rockers. and daven-
ports.
Chippewa Falls.-The BelSi>n relief
committee in this CITY finished
raising a fund of $72S50, which
will purchase a carload of -four, 1855
barrels, to be shipped to the starving
Belgians. The money was forwarded
to the Washburn-Crosby company at
Minneapolis, which, in conjunction
with other northwest millers, is max
ing up shipment of $4,000 barrels.
Oshkosh. Announcement of the
death of DR.. ]. w. Carhart, eighty
one, San Antonio, Tex, was re-
ceived here. Doctor Carhart was
known in Wisconsin as the father of
the automobile, having been credited
with inventing the first machine of
that kind. His first automobile was
crude affair, but it was from this ma
chine that the present-day automobile
is said to have been perfected.
Green Bay.-George Baldwin, who
says his home is in Milwaukee.
was sentenced to three years in
the reforma;ory near Green Bay. fol-
lowing a verdict by the jury which
found him guilty of stealing from
rooms in the Beaumont hotel Bald
win also is believed to be the man
wanted for several other petty rob
berries, as he had in his possession
property secured from places which
recently had been robbed.
| Oshkosh.-William Unmuth was SEN
fenced to two years in the state
| reformatory for his attempt at Jail
delivery by passing into the coun-
ty Jail certain tools and instruments
to aid Louis Unmuth. a brother, who
was held in the county Jail on a charge
of burglary Unmuth attempted this
on December 5. Louis Unmuth and
James Turner were sentenced on
! Wednesday to the same institution for
burglarizing the H. C. Roenitz estab.
lishment.
Chippewa Falls.-The Northern Wis
! consin State fair for 1915 is now
fully organized, with John Hori-
gan of Eau Claire as president, F. E.
| Andrews of Bloomer. vice-president;
C. E. johnson of Chippewa Falls, sec
rotary, and Jerry Palmer, Chippewa
Falls. treasurer. The executive com
| re
pointed and it's first meeting was held.
The fair will be held September 20, 81,
| %. % and "a. Twelve thousand dollars
will be offered in premiums, with 81
600 for races.
Madison.-The average value of
land in Wisconsin has Increased from
| $3.50 per acre in 1904 to S5225 in
1914. The average in 1909 was $4125.
| In 1914 the estimated average value
| in II counties is less than $25 per
| acre; in q counties between $25 and
| $50; in ten counties between $50 and
| SIS; in six counties between SIS and
| S1C0, and in II counties 800 or more.
! Milwaukee county leads with an av-
erage value of $3.50 per acre. Then
comes Walworth, with S12975; Calu-
met, S127.5O, and Waukesha, $125.5O.
Madison.-Alfalfa was king at the
meeting here of the alfalfa order
of the Wisconsin Experiment as
| ISOLATION. Secretary L. F. GRADER de
clared in his report that where alfalfa
can be grown successfully it exceeds
all other crops in yield an acre. feed
ing value. drought resistance and soil
enrichment The convention listened
| to an address on Alfalfa Farming"
by Joseph E. Wing, Ohio, agricultural
editor and alfalfa expert. President
James NJ. Cheesman, Racine, also re
! ported. The experiment association
listened to an entertainment by the
long and short course students at the
university. and to addresses by Dean
H. L. Russell of the agricultural col
lege and Mr. Wing.
Beloit.-Cornelius c. Cunningham,
a senior of New York city. won first
| place and Oscar A Ahlgren. a senior
of Whiting. Ind. second place il the
| Belou college home oratorical contest,
and win represent the school in the
| state contest MIR. Cunningham was
one of Belolts speakers at the state
| contest last year.
Chippewa Fa1ls.-George Schneider.
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