Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-02-28
Bill Would Raise Salary to $45
Per Month.
MANY AUTOMOBILE MEASURES
effort to Regulate This Glass of Traf-
fic--5ill to compei Telephone
Companies to Give Public
Good Service.

| the 1913 legislature The assembly COM
mittee on education has recommended
for passage bill which fixes the mini
mum at S45. The original assembly
bill on this subject called for mini
mum salary of $50, but an investiga-
| ton by the committee on education in
Dictated that the average wage for
teachers In the state was about $40.
Many receive more than this amount
and many less and II was decided "
| the committee TO fix the minimum at
S45 and this bin will be before the
assembly this week.
Aut3 Bills a Plenty.
Upwards of twenty bills have been
| il troduced I'm the legislature for the
regulation of automobiles. 1t is prob
| able that all of these measures will be
given a hearing at one time. A bill by
senator Albers imposes a possible 5000
fine with six months in Jail on persons
who remove or deface manufactur-
er's serial number or other distin-
; guished mark on an auto To conceal
the identity of the vehicle. The pen
atty applies to persons who knowingly
have in their possession vehicles from
which the distinguishing mark has
| been removed.
There are a couple of bills relating
to the dimming of lights. Assembly
man Kandutsch of Price county has a
bill requiring operators of motor We
| hicles with electric headlights to dim
| the lights to four candle power or less,
when approaching another vehicle at
not less than 200 feet distant. Senator
A. r. Potts of Waupaca has a bill on
| the same subject, which requires that
| lights be dlmmed when autos are left
| standing on the streets.
| Assemblyman w. A. Can pbell Of
/ Milwaukee has a bill covering auto
/ thefts. 1t fixes the maximum pen
| atty at Is years in the states prison.
| Another bill by Campbell affords Jail
| sentence from one month to year for
| persons who hunt wild birds by shoot
ing from autos. This measure is aimed
| at the hunters who use headlights to
! decoy the game.
/ The intoxicated auto driver may
/ also be made the subject Of legislation.
| Senator J. Henry Bennett of Vernon
| county has a bill which would subject
drunken auto drivers to a penalty of
| $1,000 instead of 500 as at present,
ana they may even be sent to prison
| for one year.
| After Telephone Companies.
Senator Timothy Burke of Green
| Bay has a bill to bring telephone com
panIes to time with the furnishing Of
| service. It makes 1t the duty of every
| telephone company operating an ex-
| change or rural line in any community
/ upon written demand of the proposed
patrons that they will pay such sums
| for rental as will render a reasonable
| return upon the investment TO make
extensions In case of disagreement
| the matter Is left to the railroad COM
! mission.
The bin provides further that the
/ law prohibiting the duplication of tele-
| phone lines and requiring a certificate
of public convenience and necessity
shall not apply In cases provided for
in the measure.
Assemblyman Carl Hansen has a
/ bill which gives the municipality a lien
| On the real estate and property of an
| Individual who fails TO pay for public
| utility service furnished by city. The
measure is broad in that 1t applies to
| power. heat and other public util-
| tiles"
! State TO Operate Coal Mines.
The high price of coal has rlled the
/ ire of the members of the Socialist
| party and a resolution has been Of
| fered in the lower house by Assembly
man Frank +. Metcalfe memorializing
congress 70 take such steps immediate
| ~ as are necessary to insure the own
ership and operation Of all coal mines
| In the United States.
! Assemblyman Carl Hansen has bill
that viii affect the policy of every city
in the state. 1t provides that the COM
mon council Of any city. however In
corporated. may by a two-thirds af-
| firmative vote of the members elected
provide that all expenses which have
heretofore been paid by the taxation
Of the property in the wards of the
city shall be paid by the taxation of
the city at large"
The present rule regarding bubbiing
| fountains has been rescinded by the
state board of health and the following
| substitutes "All hotels and restau-
rants equipped with sewerage and run
! ming water must by July |. 1918, be
provided with bubbling drinking foun-
| tainS.'
The old rule regarding the size OF
| bed sheets, which did not apply TO
| both sheets alike, is superseded by
one recurring that the top and under
sheets be Of sufficient size to cover
the mattresses completely and fold I'M
der on both the sides and the bottom
OF the bed
Additional rules governing the san
itary conduct of hotels and restaurants
have recently been promulgated
hy the state board of health and have
the force of law. The use OF
the common roller towel in hotels is
hereafter prohibited. This means
that only Individual towels may be
used
Finishing less than Ave points ahead
OF their nearest competitors. the WOOD
County Agricultural school Of Grand
! Rapids nosed out in the lead in the
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