Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-10-16

Russia is contained in a letter from
Sergt. Harry B. Desnoyers of Com
pany b, Three Hundred Tenth engi-
neers, unit of the Eighty-ffth, or
Custer division, which trained in
Camp Custer. Sergt Desnoyers wrote
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
B. Desnoyers, that the engineers had
arrived on Russian soil THE Custer
division went overseas ovtr Two
months ago and conta:ned Wisconsin
and Michigan men chiefly.
Madison - Prof. William G. Mar
quette, associate professor of botany
at Columbia university. who had been
professor of botany at the University
of Wisconsin from 1905 to 1910. was
sentenced to serve one day In the GUS
tody of the United States marshal for
refusing to register When arraigned
in federal court in New York, Judge
Clayton, after hearing. gave him one
days time TO change his mind.
Racine-A former Racine woman who
shows her patriotism, notwithstanding
her advanced age, is Mrs. J. N. Pills.
bury, of Los Angeles. Cal. Although
Mrs. Pillsbury is n years OF age, up
to short time ago she had knitted
ESQ pairs of stockings. She can knit a
pair of stockings day. II is doubtful
II this record has been exceeded by
any woman in the United States.
Green Bay - Door county added
three more gold stars to its service
flag, and increased the total to twenty.
four. Besides the twenty-four who
have made the supreme sacrifice, there
are twenty-seven Door county soldiers
who have been wounded in action.
Nearly all of the casualties occurred
among members of Company F, Fourth
infantry
Acknowledgment Frank f. Goff
of Barron had two close calls during
the American advances on the west
ern front. He writes from France
that during one attack a bullet went
through his coat pocket and in another
encounter, his gun was shot out of
his hands. He went over the top four
times in six days without getting a
scratch.
Green Bay-Lieut. Clarence G. No
BILE of Green Bay, died of wounds on
Aug. 5, two days after sustaining in
juries in the counter offensive of the
Americans in France. his parents
learned from the war department.
Lieut.. Noble was in Company G., One
Hundred Twenty-eighth infantry, in
the Thirty-second division.
Wausau-The name of G. d. Jones
of Wausau has been submitted to Gov.
f. l.. Philip by the Wausau Chamber
of Commerce as its choice of that in
stitution for membership on a Wis
consin committee of fifteen TO cooper
ate with Franklin r. Lane, secretary
of the interior, in his duty of land set
Element by returning soldiers.
Appleton - Onions measuring from
ten TO eleven inches in circumference
were raised by Herbert Rainbow, 10
years old, in his war garden in the
town of Center. The youthful gar
dener recently presented an onion
measuring 11A inches in circumfer.
ence to +. o. Let's. rural mail carrier
on route No T.
Oshkosh-Accord ding to an estimate
by County Agricultural Agent Sell the
loss by stripe ir barley in Winnebago
county this year was about 5 per cent,
of $4,000 bushels That is considera-
bly, less than in many other counties
of the state. Sc Of which lost as
high as from 10 TO Is per cent
Racine--Percy Ludine, a Racine
high school graduate but is years old,
entered Ripon cailege recently, where
he was recommended for the S. A. T.
c. at Fort Sheridan He received his
commission as lieutenant and report.
ed for duty at the Rahe Auto school,
Kansas City.
Neenah - Capt Frank J. Schneider
of the One Hundred and Twenty
infantry. writes home that the ma
jority of German prisoners are glad
they were captured and that some
Germans come over TO the American
lines and surrender voluntarily.
Wa Isau--The assessed valuation on
real estate in Marathon county is $751;
1901. compared with $54.279.6 27
year ago Personal property is s16.-
263, O59. A year ago II was $l3,e50,.-
727.
Fond du Lac-Charles J. Scribner,
well known Wisconsin travelling sales
man and prominent in u. c. T. and
r. p. A. circles. died here. following
an attack of heart trouble.
Fond du Lac-Capt S. E. Gavin. well
known Fond du Lac surgeon in charge
of the base hospital at Camp Colt. Get
tysburg. Pa, has been advanced to the
rank Of major.
Green Bay-The Green Bay COmmu-
nifty Music association has been in
corporated Community singing viii
be introduced in eleven factories and
an orchestra organized.
Madison-Dean H. l.. Russell, Of the
College of Agriculture. University OF
Wisconsin who has been on leave OF