Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-05-19
Wisconsin NeWs
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this vicinity reported considerable
damage to their plants through frost
oconomowoc.-A conference of Luz
theran teachers of Oconomowoc, Wa
tertown and vicinity viii be held at
Oconomowoc. About twenty are ex-
pected to be present.
Madison--Deputy Game Warden
Frank Russell of Park Falls has re-
signed TO take effect on Nay 10. He
contracted with o. C. Doering, SUI
perintendent of Sears, Roebuck &
Co.. to manage his large summer resi-
dence on Pike lake. Price county.
Oshkosh.-The former ST. Johns
English Lutheran church building
was destroyed by ere The esti-
mated loss is $4,000. The building
was sold recently and was being re-
constructed into fats. The fire WAS
caused by a blow torch
Madison. - William C. Calendar,
recently private secretary to Sec
rotary of Agriculture Houston. has
come to Madison to represent the bu-
reau of crop estimates. He will have
headquarters at the forest products
laboratory He once resided in Mil
waukee.
Racine.-Myron Sutherland, thirty
three years old, a painter whose
wife secured a divorce last De-
cember, committed suicide by drink
ing carbolic acid. His body was found
by his mother-in-law. He left a note
in which he said he could not live
without his wife and two children.
Eau Claire-Miss Elizabeth Foley,
teacher Of the Sixth ward school
here, received word from her home
in Trenton, N. J., that her IA
Their, Arthur Foley, was one of the
victims of the Lusitania He was en-
gagged in the rubber business and was
on his annual trip to Europe.
Neenah.-The girls of the 1915 grad
uating class Of the Kimberly high
school Viii wear gowns of simple de-
sign. A reunion of the members of
the 1910 class will be held All mem
bers of the 1910 class pledged them
selves to be present at a reunion in
1915.
Oconomowoc.-St. Pauls Lutheran
congregation at Oconomowoc has
voted to erect a $4,000 church
building this summer on the property
recently purchased on Lake and Pleas
ant streets. ]. F. Dreger of Oshkosh
is the architect The new church will
be of brick, with terra Gotta finish,
and will seat 700 parsons
Grand Rapids.-Mrs Johanna Her
man of Auburndale was instant
ly killed in a runaway accident. She
was in companv with her husband,
en- route to the creamery near Marsh
field, when the horse they we're driv-
ing took fright and became unman-
ageable and Mrs. Herman was thrown
out, receiving fatal injuries.
Wausau.-Ida Manning, nine years
old, was accidentally shot and
killed on train at Mositee when
her fourteen-year-old brother George
tripped and fell, causing rife which
he was carrying to discharge. The
bullet pierced her forehead over the
left eye and entered her brain. The
girl was accompanying her brother to
kill sparrows.
Superior.-After leaving the Lusi-
tania with load of survivors
one of the lifeboats capsized. accord
ing to a cable which relatives here
have received from o. II. Hammond
of New York. Mr.. and Mrs. Ham
mond were together in the lifeboat.
When it capsized they became sep
arated. Mr.. Hammond was picked
up but his wife was lost, and the last
message says there is no hope that
she is among the survivors. The Mrs.
Hammond" in the list of rescued is
probably Mrs. Fred Hammond of Tor
onto.
MISUNDERSTANDING Norton, who
last week was on trial, charged
with the murder of his wife, is
now a free man. Fifteen minutes
after the jury retired, it returned a
verdict of not guilty. Norton's wife
died early in February and two weeks
later he was arrested on the state
ment of Roy Fitch, roomer at the
Norton home in Rice Lake Fitch de-
clared he saw Norton bending over
his wife. choking her. A young wom-
an who had been employed at the
Norton home gave testimony which
contradicted that of Fitch.
Racine.-The evangelistic cam
paign conducted in Racine for the
last six weeks under auspices of the
Protestant churches, came to close
with a meeting attended by 5000 per-
sons. The estimated attendance dur
ing the campaign was 10000 and the
number of conversions 2,154. Hart
and Magann, who conducted the re-
vival, will open similar campaign
in Green Bay after a weeks rest.
Something over $4,000 was realized
by the evangelists as their share of
the offerings during the six weeks.
The cost to the local churches exclu-
sive of the money paid to the evan
gelists was about s2,S00
Evansville-The district meeting
of the physicians of Rock, Green.
Dane, Sank and Columbia coun-
ties was held in this city. Forty.ffve
physicians were present DIR. Allan
B. Kanaval of Chicago gave a stereop-
ticon lecture on Brain Tumors, dag