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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Salaries of members of the
fire and police departments, excepting
the head of the two departments,
were increased 10 per cent at a meet
ing of the common council No in.
crease was granted heads of the two
departments because they are now re-
ceiving higher salaries than paid sim
liar department heads by other cities
of the state.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Waupun - A 10 per cent increase
in wages has been given employees of
the state prison The increases were
uecessitated by the large number of
employees who left the institution seek
INN more lucrative jobs,
Pittsville-The strawberry crop this
year IS estimated in this section to be
about a third its normal. The Bah
cock district claims better than this,
but of all other sections the crop is ex-
tremely light
Waupun-Waupun has established a
municipal market for the sale of veg.
etables. poultry. eggs and other farm
products.
Sparta 49, Stenograpbers are wanted
At Camp Robinson. but no girls need
apply Only boys can be taken. The
Three Hundred and Thirty-frst field
artillery is especially in need of them
Those who enlist will start work i'm.
DleQidIely.
Hazel Green - Hazel Green, Grant
county. has voted to extend the boun-
Diary of the village a mile square. The
two saloons which were in the outside
territory are now inside Of the village.
and the village being dry territory the
saloons had to go out Of business.
Monroe - Seven head of Holstein
cattle belonging to Mrs. Kate Crotty,
OF Adams township, Green county.
were killed by lightning. The cattle
were standing under a large tree in the
pasture and were struck by a single
bolt
Sheboygan-S heboygan county man
ufacturers viii shortly be asked TO
make complete inventory reports to
fr1 W. TrdrvsF-faa hoa I'd ae tho Get
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

La Crosse-At a banquet attended
by leading La Crosse business mer
Gov. E. L. Phillip denounced profit
GERS. saying large war profits should
be made impossible by law and that
no one should think of amassing a
great fortune in war time Referring
to the shortage of labor on farms. the
governor said every one must be ready
to do farm work if necessary. He also
said the state is doing all in its power
to obtain a sufficient supply of hard
coal to meet demands, but that many
people may have to use soft coal this
winter. He declared the state will
have $4,000 men in service by Aug. l..
This number includes the July draft
figures. He predicted that Wisconsin
will furnish 100000 men without in
creasing or diminishing the military
ages.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Sheboygan-What is said to be one
of the largest and most beautiful club
houses in Wisconsin, was dedicated
recently in the village of Kohler, She
boygan County 1t is the American
Club" erected by the Kohler Improve.
ment company to provide a home for
the employees of the large Konler com
pany plant.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Madison-Under instructions from
Herbert Hoover, federal food admins.
TRAITOR, he Wisconsin food administra-
ton ordered 917,314 pounds( more
than ass tons) of sugar taken from the
Jiffy Jell company and White Rock
Mineral Springs company of Wauke-
sha, and distributed to relieve the
threatened sugar famine in the state.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Beloit - Sammy Schmidt Of Oxford.
vile, who lost his parents in the cy.
clone in November, 1911, has been
billed in action in France. He went
into the service with Co. VI from
GAINESVILLE, and was transferred to a
regiment Of regulars.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Beloit-Tbe name of Corporal Geo.
johnson is the first soldier from Be
lott to appear in the overseas casualty
list. His mother was advised that he
was seriously injured in action on
June Il. He is one Of three brothers
in service and he ran away to enlist.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

GAINESVILLE Nearly 200 German
aliens registered in this city during
the registration period Two hundred
and seventeen men registered during
the peiod for registering of male
alien enemies.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Marinette-The noteworthy record
of never having been absent nor tardy
during her twelve years of grade and
high school work and year in train
ing school belongs to Miss Pearl
Aagaard of this city who was gradual
ed recently from the Marinette Train
ing school.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Appleton--Appleton is not as hard
hit as during the civil war in 1867, one
year after the war was declared, this
county had furnished 5S7 men or about
per cent of the population. Today
only 8 per cent of the population, or
1850 men, are in the service. Nearly
so per cent of the men are drafted,
while in the first year of the civil war
only So per cent of the men were
drafted.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Superior - Superior's sixty saloons,
two wholesale liquor houses and six
brewery agencies closed their doors
Saturday night. June 20, voted out at
the spring election by a margin Of
thin tyfour votes.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Madison has been select
ed as the next meeting place of the
Inter-association of Governmental
Labor Ofiicials next spring, according
to Chairman George 2. Hambrecht OF
the industrial commission.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Oshkosh--At a meeting of farmers
at the high school at Omro. the Win
nebago County Cow Testing associa.
ton was reorganized with w. =.
Bussey of the town OF Omro as chair
man. Louis Jannusch. Nepeuskun. as
vice chairman and w G. Caswell, Ne
peuskun, as secretary.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Waupun-Waupun has established a
municipal market for the sale of veg.
etables. poultry. eggs and other farm
products
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Antigo-Mrs. John Daskam, aged 81,
has knit two sweaters, four pairs of
socks and nineteen pairs of wristlets
for soldiers.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10

Madison Boys livestock judging
contests will be held this fall at at
least "a of Wisconsin's county
fairs. Officials of the Wisconsin Live
stock Breeders association were mott
fed by the fair secretaries that this
judging event has been added to the
list of special features and have ap-
piled for a gold medal which the state
association is offering to encourage
greater interest in livestock breeding.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07

Is 1t any wonder that this famous letter is still hanging on tho walls
Of Brusenose college, Oxford university, England, as a model of pure and
exquisite English and as a compelling expression of a great heart and
mind3
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
o N LOVED BY LINCOLN
Loss Of One Of Them In Early Youth
Cast q Lifelong Shadow Across
His Heart.

There was a wild rose slip Of a girl
In 4 blue sunbonnet. with whom he
walked the lanes Of his homespun
days. There was q clever, cultured
woman, whose brilliant intellect
lighted his ascending way In the lli-
;nois legislature. And there was the
belle Of the gay social set at Spring
field, who fiuttered acros his pathway
as It led to Washington. One he
loved, and one he tried to, and one
he married. These were the women
that he courted. They loved Lincoln.
To them the greatest American was
far nearer than a lofty figure on q
high pedestal. They heard his heart
beat!
These were the women that loved
Lincoln. One Of them today lies near
the banks of the Sangamon where he
loved her. To the last there was with
him the long, long sorrow of her loss
that cast it's shadow r his heart
In youth. As late as 1884 he pushed
aside state papers in the executive
mansion at Washington to talk Of her
late in the night to a friend who had
come from back home. One rests
peacefully in a little cemetery at
Pleasant Ridge, Ill. The mother Of
five children, her tombstone reads:
"Mary Owens Vineyard" One lies
at his side in the great mausoleum In
Springfield, where the state keeps her
bier and his heaped with fresh, fra
grant flowers. When an assassin's bull
let took his life, the American peo-
pie mourned a great president. She
mourned a great Observation-Disclosures.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
FASTENED TO INFORM WIFE
"mary, We Arc Elected" Was Lin
coins Form Of Telling HeIpmeet
the Good News,

Perhaps one of the most character.
istic Of the Lincoln anecdotes may be
revived with timeliness. On the night
Of his 6rst election the little frame"
home OF the Lincolns In Springfield,
ILL.,, was thronged with eager neigh
bors and friends. Reports for q while
came In early and favorably. Then
they we're less promising. The crowd
dwindled. Then came the news that
Lincoln had carried the country. The
rest Of the story will better be told
by that great man himself. when
there was no longer any doubt. or
reason for doubt" he related after
ward, II went up to my bedroom and
found my wife asleep. I gently touch
ed her shoulder and said, Nary She
made no answer. Z spoke again a lit
tie louder, saying, Mary! Maryl We
are. elected"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
PAGE SEVEN
Gettysburg Speech !
Called Marvel Of
Poetic Splendor

Lincoln's undying Gettysburg address
has been put into the new poetic style
by Dr.. Marion Mills Miller. Who finds
that 1.-The speech Is Is perfect q poem
as ever was written. and even In the
minor qualities Of artistic language
rhythm and cadence. phonetic euphony.
rhetorical symbolism and that subtle
"reminiscences Of . great literary and
spiritual inheritance. the Bible. which
stands to W as Homer did TO the
a~ncients-it excels the finest gem to be
Iound In poetic cabinets from the Greek
anthology downward" Dr.. Miller's In
terestins poetic" presentation Of the
address follows:
Fourscore and seven years ago
Our fathers brought forth IN this ooutiusnt
4 new nation.
Conceived In liberty,
And dedicated to the psopositon
That al men are created equal.
Now VI arc engaged In . great civil war,
Testing whether that nation.
Or any nation 90 conceived and 70 dedicated,
Can long endure.
We are met on q great battlefield Of that war.
We have come TO dedicate . portion Of that
field
A. . final resung-plaoe
For those who here gave their lives
That that nation might live.
I ID altogether fitting and proper
That We should do this.
But, In 4 larger sense.
We can not dedicate ~
We can not consecrate-
We can not hallow-
This ground. .s.'
The brave men, living and dead.
Who struggled here
Have consecrated Il far above our pooe
power
To add or detract
The world will little note nor long remember
What We say here.
But It can never forget
What they did here.
1t Is for Us, the living, rather
To be dedicated here TO the unfinished work
Which they who fought here have 30 nobly
advanced.
II Is rather for W 70 be here dedicated
To the great task remaining before US
That from these honered dead
We take increased devotion 10 that Gauss
For which they gave the last full measure
Of devotion;
That We here highly resolve
That these dead shall not have died u valoS
That this nation. under God,
Shall have Q Now birth Of freedoms
And that government Of the psopls,
BY the people, and for the people
Shall not perish from he earth.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07

came for him to leave his mother he
was seized. with a foreboding that he
would not see her again. It Is ques-
tionable which suffered the more at
parting, mother or son.
Allan enlisted In time to take part
In one Of the last battles Of the wal.
He saw q dark line Of blue on the edge
Of . wood behind earthworks. With
the Confederate line Of battle he
moved toward 1t. Suddenly . storm
burst In his face. He felt himself
collapse and sank down on the ground.
His companions In arms went on,
but were soon driven back and over
him. leaving him there with a stream
Of blood flowing from his side.
Later he was picked up by q federal
ambulance corps and placed o. q
stretcher. He believed himself to be
dying, and, oh, how terrible not to
be able to bid his mother good-by!
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
~tthat Can | 20 for You, NY soy7'

Mother I" he cried. "Oh, mother I"
a tall, spare man In citizens APP
parel heard the wall and directed the
carrier to put down the stretcher and,
kneeling beside It, asked tenderly:
"What can I do for you, my boy7"
"You are Z Yankee. You will do
nothing for me. / wish to send q
message to my mother, but It will
never reach her"
seGive me your message, and / prom.
ise you that / will send It for YOU
The next morning Mrs. Fitz Hugh
heard of the battle and .knew-that her
som had been IA It. While she was
wondering what might have been his
fate 4 man rode up to her and gave
her Z message stating that 1t had
come BY nag Of truce. sss'ss
Starting for the front at once, the
anxious mother succeeded In bringing
her boy home. He lowered for some
time between life and death, then be-
gan slowly to recover. Not long after
this Richmond was evacuated BY the
Confederates, and President Lincoln
went down there from Washington.
When he was riding, through the street
Onhwhich the Mtse Hughs lived Allan
wks proppea up I'M Sasy chair on pfl.
lows, and his mother pointed ont M.
sIlncoln 10 nina u ID Il
.sOh mother. exclaimed the boy.
what u Il, Allahf
stsHe's the, man who cOmforted ~.
|sess NJ ssss'ss oT ss.s $4,000,
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
The way for a young man
to rise IS to improve himself
every way he can, never sus-
pecting that anybody wishes
to hinder him.-Ltnc0ln.
Election Incident.

Lincoln was a clever politician and
never hesitated when president to play
trumps in q crisis.
Colonel A. X. Mcclure said that he
told Lincoln he couldn't carry Pennsyl'
vania In 1854 on the home vote unless
he furioughed 10000 Pennsylvania sol
diers and sent them back here to vote
Lincoln hesitated only q moment and
then requested both, Meade and Sher
ldan to send 5000 troops into Pennsyl'
Sania for the election, which vas done
NcC1ure's prediction was evidently
correct, as Lincoln, even with the
10000 troops voting here, carried
Pennsylvania by only 6,712. To this
plurality was added some 1900 as thu
result Of Pennsylvania soldiers voting
III the deld.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
PATnos IN THIS DOCUMENT
Soldiers Leave Of Thirty Days.
Granted by Lincoln, Was Atoo
He Allotted Time.

Here Is a photograph Of q memo.
randum signed by Abraham Lincoln.
It is dated March Is, 1895 lin his own
handwriting), and, likewise In his own
hand, says, "Allow this man thirty
days time"
The Endorsement is Of an applica-
ton by q soldier for thirty days leave.
But the most striking point about Il
is that it exactly named the time that,
as the event showed, was left for Mr.
Lincoln himself to remain on earth.
He was assassinated just thirty days
later.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
Ame,1cu'S
Marty,sd
President

1sO9-Born IN Hardin county, Ken
tscky. February re. he Vas do
scsnded from a Quaker family,
sohicA had snsigratsd from Vir-
g;n;a about 1850.
1816-Rsmovsd nth his family
from Kentucky to Indiana.
18SO1Removed to Illinois, where
during tho neat few gears he fol-
lowed posious occupations. includ-
ing those of a turm h6orer, a
merchant and a surveyor.
18S6-Admitted to the bar and BE-
gan the practice Of law in Spring
field.
1842-Served as a captain and aft
sru0rd as a private in the Black
HaWk Uar.
1844-E1ected to the Illinois legis-
ature as a Wing and servsd eight
years.
1847-Elected to congress on tho
Wing ticket.
1868-As Republican candidate for
tho United States senate he en-
gagged IN a series Of joint debates
throughout Illinois Nth the Dem
0cratic candidate. Stephen a.
Douglas.
186OAElected president Of the Unit
Cd States on the Republican ticket,
tie d;sunion Of the Democratic
party giping him an easy victory.
1861-On April Is, tho days after
ths fall Of Fort Sumter 10 issusd
a call for $4,000 voluntse,s, and
tho control Of svents passed from
the cabinet to the camp.
1861-April 10. proclaimed . block
ods Of Southern ports.
186e-Ssptsmbsr ZEE, Issued . proc
hmation smancipating al SLAVES
- states Or parts Of states, Uhich
should b IN rebellion On Janv-
oy I. 1858.
IS64-Rs-slsctsd president BY the
Rspsblicsn party, defeating Geo.
B. HoGlllan, ccsdidats Of the
DsmocsptA party.
1Se5-Entsrsd Richmond NTH the
Fsdsral army = Aprl !, tUo
days after that city had been
evacuated BIZ ths Contsdsrates.
1S66-6k0t ~ sJohas Wilkese Booth
o. April n, asd disd ~ folloy-
ing Day. buried at Springfield.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07

~ Story Of President Lincoln
Founded on Fact

When the great struggle between
the Northern and Southern states
came on Allan Fitz Hugh, twelve
years old, was at school in Virginia.
He was q boy Of delicate physique. but
was full Of fire, and, hearing that
Abraham Lincoln was coming south
ward at the head of an armed force,
was much troubled because he was too
young to shoulder a musket and re-
pei the invader. He found 1t difficult
during those exciting times to attend
to his studies, and had it not been for
the influence of his mother, whom
he dearly loved, he could not have
been kept at school at all.
In those days the passion attending
war ran high on both sides. The
songs, the gibes, the speeches and
what was written concerning the great
struggle were very bitter and usually
far from the truth. In the North It
was "Well hang JEFF Davis on a sour
apple tree" and in the South Presi-
dent Lincoln was called "the -baboon."
The Northern schoolboy conceived the
idea that President.Dav was an ogre,
not realizing that he was al educated
gentleman, had commanded a regiment
Of United States troops in the war
with Mexico, had been a United States
senator and secretary Of war. The
Southern schoolboy considered Presi-
dent Lincoln a wild man from the
Western woods who delighted in blood
shed. Children whose minds are not
developed must concentrate upon one
head In any movement in which they
are ~interesteds So Allan's thoughts
dweltt upon Mr.. Lincoln. embodying
the great president with his idea Of
the hated yankees"
When Allan was fifteen he begged
his mother to let him 60 to fight for
the Confederacy. Naturally she chung
TO her son, and the matter was conn
promised between them in this wise:
II the war was not e in another
year Allan was to enlist with his moth
er's consent. Many boys Of his age,
both In the North and In the South,
broke away from parental restraint
and enlisted without permission. Food
for powder was In demand. and the
recruiting officers often winked at the
fact that the recruits were under age.
But Allan was his mothers only child,
and. being Of an extremely affection
ate disposition, the bond between them
was doubly. strong.
MI Allan continued at his studies,
though NE read more about the battles
that were being fought than the sub
jects treated In his textbooks. He
lived IN Richmond, and at nj time
had listened to the roa Of the cannon
during the seven days battles that had
been fought between Lee and McClel-
Ian. His admiration for soldiers wore
sway some Of his bitterness against
the federal generals, but President
Lincoln was still the embodiment Of
his repugnance Tor the Northern peo-
pie. The two heads-Davis Of the
'Gonfsderacy ana Lincoln of the fed
lef6l Upicnnfoughout the wal CON
tinued to Represent the bitter antag.
|cniszn felt by either side.
"a TIE early wiring q 1885 Allanl
Eltx Hush came to ~ sixteen years
~ ~. ana nm mother reauctantly con
1snted r. M dolns AZ ~ Al "a -
6eH'hy
nilIl1l W -
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
llneoln,a Stories.

Il seems probable that some Of Lin
.oln's stories, genuine though we may
believe them to be, wefe current before
his time; for instance, the M with
the Kentucky flavor referring to the
brand Of whisky which General
Grants enemies protested he used
with too much freedom. Lincoln dis.
claimed this story Ii my hearing.
seating that King George III. Of Eng.
lind was said to have remarked,
when 10 Vas told that General Wolfe,
then ID command of the Nnglish army
n Canada, was mad that 10 wished
W6lfet WohId blte sonesff Ais other
tneff6BGkAL1l4oo Ane1ln $3.50 Nsler
- & dpaasMf
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
LlNcoLN's GOOD OLD FRIEND
Perfect Courtesy o. Americas Crest
Son Shown In His Treatment 81
"Aunt Sally

After Lincoln's election to the presi-
dency an old woman, whom he called
"Aunt Sally" came from New Salem
to say good-by to "Ahe" before no
"went to Washington to be president"
The president-elect was standing IN
the room placed at his disposal IN the
old state capitol talking with two
men Of national renown whsn the old.
woman entered, shy and embarrassed.
He saw her at nee and walked across
the room to meet his old friend. TAX.
Ing both her hands In his. hs led her
to the seat Of honor and presented his
distinguished visitors to her, putting
her quite ct Ease by saying:
Gentlemen, this II . good old friend
Of mine. She can make the best Dap
Jacks you ever tasted, for she has
baked them for me many Z time
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07

when Abraham lincoln, - . boy, drst
came in contact with the institution Of
slavery, he remarked: III ! ever get .
s snd snocs En- Il f Esnd. : knock 'na' INNS
To one of station lowly
Ind far removed from fame
In early youth a holy
Prophetic vis;on came.
HI cherished UeI TIE vision
That nurssl tho germ Of truth
In spite Of mons derision;
In spite Of waning youth.
When sacrifice mas needed
10 gsvs, nor grudged tie g;tt;
And as the gears recedsd
III sav the darkness kjt.
The togs that cloudsd reason /,
Wers scattered By the light
And what before vas treason
Grsv sacred n mensss sight.
Hi memory, Uitho1t Equal.
Lss IN our harris snshyinSd;
For 10, 30 runs ths sequel.
Serves bsst, scho ss,vss mStIisd
&&#%#+%#&#aE ~ENHNAA&@x ES0~S%ES
- -
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
4 rev Fasss Absut Llnesln.

A Few FaSeo About Lincoln.
He knew the value Of : merry jest
and Z hearty laugh.
he was simple n manner, dress and
bearing, but was big Of heart and
brain.
He ri too great Z nature 70 care.
ono way or another about his ances-
~. The living generation Wa o. vltal
Importance 10 him.
he did not advocate war foe III ev1n
s~Iori6cation. but - libeFates hnmanl
(be11eD from slayery. An msnANere M
brothsss and ~ sqoals beelsss -
0esatoe.