Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-08
Badger News
Briefly Told

OdiOI DtIOfe Ine election upon ming
an affidavit that he will not be in the
city on election day.
kenosha.-The police are seeking
L. T. Lewis, who claimed to belong
to the United States navy and who
Is wanted on charges of issuing
worthless checks on bank at Los
Angeles, Cal. Lewis. it is alleged, vic
timized several local merchants and
got cash and merchandise to the value
of $S5.
Madison.-The attorney general ad-
Vised District Attorney C. ]. Sum
ner of Delavan that the action of
the board of supervisors of Walworth
county appropriating $500 TO ]. II. Fin
dorff, as additional compensation for
erecting new county Jail, was illegal.
The attorney general advised that the
order for the money be not paid.
Madison.-"Farm Investments That
Bring Return" is the title of a bull
letin issued by the Wisconsin Bank
ers' association, which is being dis
trfbuted by local bankers In all sec
lions of the state 1t is written by D.
Fl. Otis of the college of agriculture.
who is manager of the Wisconsin
Farm Management contest
New Richmond.-The political
decks in St. Croix county have in
way been cleared for action by the
announcement of Assemblyman W. c.
Bradley, who represented St. Croix
county in the lower house of the Wis
consin legislature during the 1915 ses-
sion, that he will not be a candidate
to succeed himself.
Madison.-The annual convention
of the State Horticultural society
will be held in Madison January
5 to z. Governor Philip will speak at
the opening session. H. M. Dunlap of
Savoy. Ill, who owns 1900 acres of
apple orchards, will give talks on cul-
tivating, packing and marketing ap-
pies, illustrated with motion pictures.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1915 corn
crop is only 60 per cent of the
1914 crop. The 1914 yield was about
100000 bushels, while the 1915 crop
is about 100000 bushels. But the
shortage is not the only bad feature of
the crop. Breeders and stock owners
must be careful in feeding this years
crop.
Madison.-The state bank commits
sioner issued a charter to the Bar
ton State bank of Barton, Washing
ton county. The bank is capitalized
at $4,000. Frank Mueller is president
and Peter c. Wolf is cashier. The
commissioner also issued a charter to
the State bank of Fifield, Price county.
The bank is capitalized at $4,000. E.
E. Patterson is president and r. E.
Buchholz is cashier
Sheboygan.- northeast gale
drove the body of a man ashore
at Deland park. He was about forty.
blonde and had bald spot on his head
In his pockets were only an empty
purse, a broken knife and a brass
watch. He wore workman's clothes,
shirt, gray sweater and dark trousers,
and is believed to have been a sailor
Over his right eye was a cash, made
by blunt instrument.
Kenosha.-Two foreigners who quar-
relied over the war here started
a revolver duel. When the police
took a hand and between the princi-
pals in the duel and the police more
than twenty revolver shots were fired
withou one taking effect. The two
battlers escaped capture and the police
nf at oh Ia ~ in
their identity.
Beloit - Otto Enking, who for
twelve years has been slowly pet
rifying, died, aged thirty. Enking had
been the object of study by the ma
tons doctors and during the progress
of his disease shrank from six feet tall
to fous feet. Two years age he became
utterly helpless and for six months has
not moved a muscle, even the flesh
turning to bone. The direct cause of
death is given as rheumatism in the
doctors certificate.
Madison.-H ealth officials see prob
able cause and effect in a state
laboratory analysis of Bayield's wa
ter supply and the presence of an I'M
usual number of typhoid fever cases
at Bayfield, during the past two or
three weeks. For fear the typhoid
germs were drawn from the city mains
Bayfield, is now boiling all drinking wa
ter. Bayfield,, Ashland and Washburn
all derive their water supplies from
and discharge their sewage into the
Chequamegon bay.
Milwaukee, Dec. 2.-Members of
Wisconsin fraternal organizations
have started movement for nation
al holiday to be known as Fraternal
day Petitions are being circulated
through Wisconsin which, it is said,
are being widely signed. Representa-
tives of all Wisconsin fraternal bodies
are invited TO attend a general meet
ing on January 20 in Pabst park hall.
In Milwaukee there are about seventy
five fraternaI societies with active
memberships.
Oshkosh.-Great interest is being
shown in the Hart McGann tab
ernacle campaign, in which fourteen
churches Of Oshkosh and vicinity are
united. Ten Thousand people attend
ed the services on Sunday, and 122
were converted More than 500 thus
far have been converted.
Misunderstanding failed to prevent
the trial of George Zabajnik.
charged with the murder of Simon
Kasala, by pleading insanity. Attorney
r C. Baker sought indefinite postpone