Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-04-21
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Park Falls.-Randolph. five-year-old
son of Pr lip Oesterrich. a farmer
here, VIZ .ly killed when the
wheel 4 fs-- Implement passed
over his Jad
Neenah.-F1fty p cheers will meet
here April 10, IA ano 10. for the spring
gathering of the Presbytery Of WIN
nebago county. Rev. John Timothy
Stone of Chicago viii speak
Edgerton-In a debate between
girl speakers from the Edgerton and
GAINESVILLE high schools on the ques-
ton of the adoption of federal prohibi-
ton. the Edgerton girls won.
Black River Falls.-Adam Relyea, a
veteran of the Civil war and a promi-
nent figure in Jackson county affairs
for half a century, is dead at his home
here. He was nearly eighty years old.
Neenah.-H. R. Patch of Oshkosh.
who was defeated by one vote
by Reginald E. Saunders of this
city for superintendent of schools of
Winnebago county, will not contest
the vote. The salary is $500.
Antigo-Robbers broke into the
saloons of Lawrence Walk and
Vanooyen Bros. and stole SIG in
change from the cash registers. They
failed to open the safe containing
$500
Madison-"The Dean of Women
by Mrs. Lois K Mathews, dean
of women at the University of
Wisconsin, is the first book in its
field 1t opens with a foreword by
President C. r. Van Hise.
Janesville.-Under auspices of the
Evansville Commercial club. town
meetings are being held at which
the good roads problems are being dis
cussed. The club has offered prize
for the best kept strip of roadway,
and numerous entries have been made.
Oshkosh.-The Wisconsin district,
Evangelical synod, will hold a con-
ference here on May &c to 81.
Rev. H. Meier, president, Milwaukee,
will have charge. Rev Theodore
Irion, st. Paul Evangelical church,
this city, has a large committee at
work making arrangements.
Beloit. - A union movement of
churches will nave evangelistic
meetings in this city in October,
conducted by Rev. James Rayburny
who carried on meetings in Stevens
Point, Waukesha and other Wiscon-
sin cities recently.
Kenosha-The jitney business was
given a setback here when two
cars met in a headon collision on
the Ashland avenue road, mile south
of the city. Nine passengers in one
of the buses had a narrow escape
but none of them was injured. Both
cars were wrecked.
Bayfield.-Three men we're drowned
and two escaped when a United
States mail boat was crushed be-
tween ice foes on Chequamagon
bay. The dead are: Nels Cizen, ST.,
Clarence Wright and Charles Russell,
all of Lapointe. Russell Angus and
W S. Johnson were rescued by two
men in an open boat.
New Richmond. - A prairie fire
started from rubbish fire set by
a 500 line section crew swept over
a considerable area of open country
northwest of the city. Albert Buett-
ners fine farm buildings were threat
ened and were only saved through eff
forts of those who went out from the
city in automobiles and fought off the
flames.
La Crosse.--A safe in the saloon of
Adalbert Delamater al Onalaska,
three miles from here, was car
ried to the rear of the place and
dynamited. The yeggmen carried
away 500 in cash. No arrests have
been made. The police are looking
for a tall man with small black grip
who was in the place. He has dis
appeared.
Wausau.-Frank Martell of Man
vile was held for trial at the
next term of the Marathon county
circuit court on a charge of murder
He was not admitted to bail 1t is
charged Martell killed his son-in-law,
Charles Schroeder. following a family
quarrel. Schroeder is said to have
visited the house seeking an interview
with .his wife, from whom he was
separated, when the alteration took
place. The case will come up on
April 20.
Beaver Dam.-At the annual con-
vention of the North Central AGA
demic association held at Chicago,
the following officers were elected:
President, Edwin p Brown, Wayland
academy, Beaver Dam, Wis; vice
president, Maj. H. G. Glascock. Culver
Military academy, Culver. Ind; sec
rotary, Grover C. Good, Howe school,
Lima, Ind; treasurer, A NJ. Hitch,
Kemper Military school, Boonville,
Mo-. directors, H. d. Abells, Morgan
Park academy. Morgan Park, H.; VIII
bur Helm, Evanston academy, Evans
ton, H., and Col R. P Davidson,
Northwestern Military and Naval
academy, Lake Geneva, Wis.
Complete returns from the Seven
teenth judicial circuit give the cleo
ton TO Judge James o'Neill of Neills-
vile. With thirteen precincts to be
heard from E. V. Werner appears to
have been elected in the Tenth cir
cult Ivy a large plurality. The vote
was complete from Outagamie coun-
ty only.
Milwaukee. - Christopher Paulus,