Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-10-21
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS
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VIII organize a uIdLCu VI AAC -NN~~~0
Collegiate Alumne association.
Superior.-Women clerks of Superb
or have formed a union and will anil
ate with ina Trade and Labor assem-
bly,.
Washburn.-ReY Christian Chris
Hansen, Norwegian Lutheran church.
has refused a call from Philadelphia
church.
MerTill.--The board of education has
set aside {. fund to assist in entertain
ment of teachers who VIII attend the
Central Wisconsin Teachers associa-
ton convention here October % and "a
Appleton.-The body of John Noes
of this city was found washed up on
the shore of an island In the Pacific
He was a passenger on the Inflated
Francis H. Leggett, which went down
September Is.
Stone Lake. - Irene, seventeen
year-old daughter of Andrew Goetzl,
farmer near here, died as the
result of wounds sustained by the &C
cidental discharge of shotgun. The
family formerly lived at Appleton.
Amigo. = Boys who attend the
short course in agriculture given
by County Representative Swoboda for
two years and perform the actual farm
work for one season will be given di-
plomas BY the university college of ag,
riculture.
ShebOy gan.-Every business house,
manufacturing plant and Office, to-
gether with the public schools were
closed in Plymouth during the funeral
of the late mayor Clifford w. Starrettp
and the fun eral cortege was the largest
ever seen n that city.
Madison. - Six men were SEN
fenced to terms in Waupun penitea-
tiary for burglary and larceny. Among
those sentenced was Edward c. John
son, son of "Dogskin" Johnson, now
serving a life sentence at Waupun for
the alleged murder of little girl.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS bankers
from this county, with but two or
three exceptions, attended the semi
annual meeting of the Waukesha
County Bankers Development associ-
alton here. Dinner was served by the
Baptist ladies'. after which the men
met at the Elks' club, where addresses
were given on subjects of interest to
bankers by S. A. Connell, Milwaukee;
A. ]. Frame. Waukesha; Joe Ellie, Pc
waukee; Frank Mckenzie, Mukwona-
go; H. w. Goodwin, Hartland, and
M. J. DAILY OF New Butler. The next
meeting will be in June at Oconomo-
voc.
Rice Lake-The Methodist Wom-
ems Foreign Mission society of the
Superior district will hold its first
annual session in the Methodist Epis.
copal church here on October 20-21.
The officers are: President, Mrs. c. J.
Dauer New Richmond; vice-president,
Mrs. V. E. Braman, Superior; second
vicepresident, Mrs. b. Dryden, SUI
perior; recording secretary. Mrs. M,
H. Morrill,, Superior; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Josephine 'Toal, New
Richmond; treasurer, Mrs. E. H. Har-
vey, Cumberland; superintendent of
young peoples work, Mrs. E. r. Ben
son, Superior; superintendent of chill
dren's work, Mrs. H. G. Goodsell, Ash
land.
Green Bay.-Word has been re-
ceived here that Mrs. D. Cooper
Ayres died at Portsmouth, r. l., recent
ly. She was the widow of Maj ID.
Cooper Ayres, surgeon of the Iron
brigade when it was commanded by
Can JObp KaIIoo0 pravious IN
that he was surgeon of the Seventh
During the war Mrs. Ayres and son
were with the major when the COM
mand was in winter quarters and often
visited the men in the hospitals and
wrote letters for them. During the
family's long residence in Green Bay
Mrs. Ayres was active in club work
and in benevolent lines. After leaving
here and making her home in Brook
Ign, N. Y, much of her time was given
in the same direction Mrs. Ayres
was a descendant of Rev. John Cot
ton, Boston's first minister, and a
daughter of DIR. Charles Cotton, sur
geon in the War of 1912
Chippewa Falls. = Four women
and a baby from Rhinelander.
touring in a big automobile, plunged
over 15-foot embankment at a dan
gerous curve in the road II miles east
of this city. Mrs. w. E. Ashton, aged
fifty-five, wife of the cashier of the
First National bank, was killed. She
was pinned under the car and survived
only few minutes. Mrs. Anna Wal
ker, aged Twenty-Five, widow of Judge
Walker, drove the car. Her ankle was
broken, her limbs badly bruised and
an arm hurt. Mrs. H. Hildermann,
aged fifty. owner of the car and mother
of Mrs. Walker, was seriously injured
about the spine. several ribs broken
and internal injuries inflicted She
may die. She is the wife of a retired
brewer. Mrs. E. H. Keith, aged thirty
seven. wife OF leading dentist, hurt
her left side and was bruised, Harriet
Walker, aged two. daughter of Mrs
Walker, was not hurt at all
Madison.-The University of Wis
consin sophomores slipped one
over" on the freshmen by kidnapping
500 of the f1rst-year men. running them
far out of the city in automobiles, di-
vesting them of their clothing and
leaving them nearly nude in the fields.
This trick robbed the freshmen class
of eonugh of its strength to make the
sophomore class victory easy in the