Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-03-28
DIR. PORFFR'S VIEWS

H4DilOR AE4NSOh- OIbu&H YOUR COL
umns | wish to thank Mr.. Fries for
his very courteous reply to my refer
ence to the sale of the $500 HolStein
cow in my letter. He and are unin-
tentiOnally advertising his valuable
cattle of that noble breed A COW
that will supply whole county farm
family of forty souls with milk and
cream is surely worth having and I'M
less she is a voraCiOus eater, SUCH a
cow is surely worth a dozen ordinary
ones. Ia testing our herd y years
ago, | found one COW who gave more
clear profit than fifteen other cows
gave together.
w. w. Powell resents being called
a sucker. so | suppose it is in order to
ask pardon of him and the others | Of
Tended. But like a lot of others,
cannot understand Mr.. Powell's math-
ematical tables. Col. Butt, whom the
county board dropped from the Board
of Trustees because of old age, YIELDS
the most treEChant pen of any of US
who have written on this exciting sub
! ject One trustee, in the Westby pa
per, used the adverb 'hence" in the
past tense, and his letter. would make
excellent material for criticism in
false syntax TO be used by ffth grade
pupils. Think of a. II. Dahl, Van S.
Bennett, Howard Williams, TT Bent
son, Col. Butt, Jens Davidson and all
the other grand men who have held
that Office writing in that style,
The HillsborO paper says Mr.. Tul-
loch was elected for just such a pur-
pose" as to discharge Buffers, and if
the trustees are wrong in doing so
"the whole county board is wrong aC-
cording to several members of the
board that paper interviewed, There,
is a queer look about this transaction.
Two trustees of the asylum asked Mr..
Buffers to resign: said he4could do it
quietly: give as excuse that his wife's
health was poor. He replied that that
was untrue anG that he would not lie
| for any body The CENSOR published
an article Mr.. Munson was called to
Lacrosse and asked to not print any
thing about the matter. He replied
that for nearly forty years his columns
/ had been open for discussion of public
matters if done courteousiy and that
| thev still would be open. He told
them an article of mine was already
| intype Then a trustee asked friend
of mine to write ME to not publish nv
article. When before in that asyl-
um's history did trustees ever try to
paddock the press; Buffers is not a
drinking man. He Is 10 temperance
fanatic But / doubt If any year he
/ has met with the county board day
after day and spent twenty or thirty
dollars worth of County time in at
/ tendance on the board meetings; nor
I do believe he mer with the beer
! drinking contingent of the board night
after night.
The strength Of Samson lay in his
| hair. The strength OF an asylum SUI
perintendant may lie in his camara-
derie, his good fellowship: the amount
of beer he furnishes, and the good
time he sets up for some of the mem
bers. Buffers is a good mixer.
went with him to hundred gated
Thebesn and everywhere he was the
same whole-souled fellow he aiwaysis
| I found him one stormy night in mid
Atlantic on deck, watching the great
waves, Roman CathOlic on his right,
| a Mohammedan on his left. Greek
Catholic before him in earnest discus
sion about the Holy Land
/ In 1911 Mr.. Wilkins died and the
| trustees spread upon the records this
| eulogium: I'm the death of Freder-
lick Wilkins the Vernon County Asy-
lum for Insane loses an eminently cap
able, solicitous, painstaking superin-
| tendent, the community an active,
public spirited citizen, his friends a
gentle, genial, companiouable asSOci-
| ate, and the world an elegant gentle
man" Buffers has done more good
| than poor Wilkins; the Board of Con-
troll says our asylum is one of the very
| best in Wisconsin; the farm has pro
duced we'll, and the only criticism
| have heard is that Buffers bought his
coal from Boyle and his flour aud feed
| from Williams, and his clothing from
Stoll & Groves. The only eulogium
| that Buffers gets is the praise and
gratitude and love of enc hundred and
twenty poor unfortunates he and his
good wife have kindly cared for. An
election i soon To be nel3. | hope
voters will demand of candidates for
supervisor that they do the work in 6
days instead of II; that they attend
both feasts in one day. and I hope
only sober men, teetotlers win be
elected. for Beer rules in a myster-
ious way its wonders TO perform"
G. '. PORTER.