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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

and demanded that they be friends, no
matter which was selected TO be her
husband. They agreed. Miss Marion,
as girls sometimes do, followed the in.
clinations of her heart, and selected
Stone, whose salary was meager, in
preference TO O'Neill and his wealth.
Then came the draft.
Stone was summoned before the
draft board and passed. He was
placed in class and filed no claim for
exemption O'Neill was examined and
rejected. In February Stone was or
dered to report. By this time an inter-
esting event was presaged in the Stone
home, and he asked for more time.
The draft board was powerless. and
his wife became seriously III because
of worry. C'Neill was watching. He
visited a noted surgeon in Denver and
asked for an operation. He was told
that his chances for recovery would
be two in five, but he elected the OPP
Grafton.
O'NelII Became a Substitute.
Three weeks after the operation
O'Neill returned TO Fort Collins, sound
and whole, and demanded new ex'
animation. He passed as qualified for
military service" Then he asked that
he be substituted for Stone. The draft
board was unable ia make such sub
stitution, but because of the urgent
appeal Of O'Neill they finally sum-
moned Stone for denomination and
gave him a deferred classification be-
cause Of nervous breakdown. 0'Neill
won his fight. Then he went further.
He called Stone from his bank job
and placed him in charge Of the O'Neill
ranches. which yield $4,000 a year.
O'Nenl stipulated that Stone manage
the ranches on 'JO-50' basis. And
O'Neill went to war.
Marion Stone is now well and happy,
following the arrival of new MEN,
Der in the Stone family, a boy. who
has been named Joseph Emmett
Stone. Now the father, who has re-
gained his former health. is asking
that he. too. be allowed TO go to the
army. and. if possible, be assigned to
duty with O'Neill.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
GIVE CHILDREN PLENTY OF
PURE, WHOLESOME MILK
We Must Be Fit.
DR.. DOROTHY REED MENDEN HALL.

or eggs and easier to digest. II is the
hest form of animal protein as well as
the cheapest. 1t is not. however, the
cheapest form of food-cereais are
cheaper II has an abundance of min
eral--everything but iron. Iron must
he added in other foods. MIX has
enough of the two so far as deter
mined substances called vitamines TO
produce normal health. growth and de-
velopment. This makes It most I'M
usual food. as we do not as n rule find
enough Of the two In any single food
stuff. That is It's most important quail
ity. 1t Is due to these vifamines that
milk promotes growth and causes
tissues TO heal more quickly, MIX has
nothing ordinarily poisonous. Few
people cannot take milk. II is pleas
Ing and appetizing and we are all
used to Il. II is the food that all ami
mails, practically. have been nuTtured
on II is not always easy to turn to
new food. and we are all accustomed
TO milk
In any statement from the food id
ministration that we should cut down
on our food children are excepted. We
do not think a child should cut down
on butter. milk. eggs or green vege-
tables and cereals. Those are the five
foodstuffs children should have In
abundance. and some meat and sugar.
The first mentioned foodstuffs children
should have There are No substitutes
for milk fat, which we get either as
milk, cream or butter; also eggs for
children.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

Every nation Is now met with the
problem of feeding and growing its
child population. Especially is this so
IN Europe since the opening of the
war. The greatest difficulty has come
10 supplying milk. which is our chief
infant food and even one of the most
important foods for adults.
Where formerly we exported prac-
ncally nothing, we are now exporting
about two billion pounds a year OF
milk and milk products and the
amount is going up We are called
upon to furnish not only our soldiers
but the allies and children Of the
allies with milk.
Milk is essential for infancy. Mr..
Hoover points out that we cannot
bring up our young without milk. II
is much easier to replace loss Of acre
age than of herds, so we must not
allow our herds 10 be depleted at this
time because of the harm TO our dairy
industry.
We believe that milk is an abso-
AftRlN tNNtNAAdt ithA lRA FbtAttA ma
dren, nursing mothers and for conva-
Iescents. In the literature abroad we
have many instances Of the fact that
wounds will not heal rapidly unless
there Is milk 10 the diet.
Doctor McCollum has said that no
family Of five. consisting Of parents
and three children. should buy any
meat unless they have three quarts of
milk daily. One and one-half pints a
dav is absolutely necessary In a child's
diet. preferably up 10 sixteen years
of age. II may be in the form of sorp,
cream. sauces, desserts. etc. This Is a
safe amount for child and may In
clude butter, etc.
MIX IS the cheapest form OF animal
protein we have-cheaper than meat
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

first ten days in June are best for
planting beans.
Beans should be drilled In rows from
"a to so inches apart. Drop the beans
about four inches apart in the rows
using about half bushel Of seed to the
acre. If grain drill is used close some
of the holes so that you plant the rows
at the proper distance. Some farmers
plant beans with corn planter or
garden drill If possible run the rows
north and south to let in sunlight.
Watch the depth of planting. In
light sandy soils you can put them
down as deep as three inches; on
heavy soils an inch or Two Is right.
Beans Arc Shallow Rooted.
II you did a good job of narrowing
and the weeds are well killed. you can
wait until the beans are nicely above
ground before attempting to cultivate.
Cultivate shallow as the bean roots
are near the surface of the ground.
The best cultivation for beans is be
fore they are planted.
Here's "tip" about cultivating
Wait until the moisture is off the
leaves before starting in. Dirt scat
tered in the leaves viii usually cause
the leaves to rot. reducing the leaf
surface. The dirt won't stick IL the
leaves are dry. Cultivation while wet
also distributes the anthraenose and
blight diseases.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
GROW BEANS; UNCLE
SAM NEEDS THEM
BY r. A. MOORE.
COLLEGE of AnricuItl re.

Beans Will be needed this year to
supply Uncle Sans army. A big crop
will help meet the threatened food
shortage of the entire country. Beans.
wen titled, win undoubtedly bring a
good profit to the farmers who plant
them.
Michigan grows on her sandy soils
more than 100000 acres of beans while
on equally available soil Wisconsin
only grows $4,000 acres.
Best Soils for Beans.
The sandy and loan soils are best
adapted for this crop. While beans
will grow well on good soils, the acre
age of food crops this year can be
proiitably increased by adding TO nor
mai bean acreage. Ten to twelve coun-
ties In the central part of the state
and the lighter soils northwest and
northeast Of this central area are espe-
cially adapted to this crop.
Here's How of Bean Growing.
The navy bean is the variety most
generally grown In Wisconsin. though
the kidney beans-black, brown. and
white-are grown 10 some extent But
In times like these it's we'll to stick
to the navy bean-we know II best
Prepare the ground thoroughly. If
II was plowed In the fall. early spring
disking followed by a fine tooth har-
row viii help make a good dust mulch.
Spring blowing is best on sandy soils.
This narrowing also kills many of the
weeds making cultivation easier.
Then. too. the mulch aids In warming
up the soil, narrowing weekly until
the beams are planted viii sprout many
of the weed seeds and. of course, II is
always best to get the weeds early in
the season.
Beans do best grown in rotation.
Let beans, If possible. follow clover in
the rotation. They can be grown, 10
good advantage following corn. peas.
or potatoes, but should not be grown
on the same land for several years.
Early June Bean Planting Time.
Bean planting follows corn planting.
Be sure TO wait until the danger of
| late frosts Is past. In Wisconsin the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

church parade we put all our time on
dress rehearsal, and 1t went fine.
l made four or five large signs an
nouncing that our company would open
up that evening at tire King George the
Fifth theater, on the corner of Ammo
street and Sandbag terrace. General
admission was one-Ialf franc. First
| ten rows in orchestra one franc. and
boxes two francs. BY this time our
printed programs had returned from
London, and l further anDounced that
on the night of the first performance
program would be given free of
charge to men holding tickets costing a
franc or over.
| We had an orchestra of seven men
and seven different instruments. This
orchestra IVES excellent, while they
were not playing.
The performance was scheduled to
start at 6 p. m.
/ At rs there was q mob in front of
our one entrance and it looked like a
/ big night We had two boxes each ac-
commodating four people, and these
we Immediately sold out. Then a
| brilliant idea came to key Cohenstein.
/ Why not use the rafters overhead, call
them boxes. and charge two francs for
seat on them? The only difficulty
was how were the men to reach these
boxes but to key this was mere de-
tail.
He got long ropes and tied one end
around each rafter and then tied a lot
of knots in the ropes. These ropes
would take the place of stairways.
We figured out that the rafters
would seat about forty men and sold
that number of tickets accordingly.
When the ticketholders for the boxes
got u glimpse of the rafters and were
! informed that they had TO use the rope
i stairway, there was howl of indigna-
! ton, but we had their money and told
them that if they did not like it they
could write to the management later
and their money would be refunded
/ but under these conditions they would
not be allowed to witness the perform
ance that night.
!
the situation with the promise that If
/ the show was rotten they certainly
would let us know about it during the
performance.
Everything went lovely and it was a
bowling success, until Alkali Ike APP
peared on the scene with his revolver
loaded with blank cartridges. Behind
the bar on a shelf was a long line of
bottles. Alkali Ike was supposed to
start on the left of this line and break
six of the bottles by firing at them with
| his revolver. Behind these bottles, a
piece of painted canvas was supposed
to represent the back of the bar, at
each shot from Alkali's pistol a man
behind the scenes would hit one of the
bottles with his entrenchng tool
handle and smash it, to give the inn
! preston that Alkali was good shot.
Alkali Ike started in and aimed at
the right of the line of bottles instead
of the left, and the poor boob behind
the scenes started breaking the bottles
/ on the left, and then the boxholders
, turned loose; but outside of this little
fiasco the performance was huge sue
cess. and we decided to run it for a
week.
New troops were constantly coming
| through, and for six performances we
had the IS. r. o." sign suspended out
side.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
Case where TRUE
LOVE STOOD TEST
Rich Ranch Owner Becomes
Substitute" for His Boyhood
Chum.
IS NOW IN FRANCE
Draftee, Rejected, Faces Death at Sur
ueon's Hands to Spare Man
Who Married Girl He Him
self Loved.

Fort Collins, Colo.-Joseph Emmett
O'Ncill, wealthy ranch owner IN Col
orado, rejected for military service I'M
der the draft, is with the United States
army in France, taking the place of
Walter Howard Stone, boyhoOd chum.
who married the girl that O'Neill
loved. The romance is one of re
nunciation akin TO that of Sidney Car
ton in Dickens famous ''Tale of Two
Cities" and calls to mind the passage
of Scripture recorded in ST. John 10 :13
Greater love hath no man than this
that a man lay down his life for his
friends"
Eonance Began In Youth.
Joseph Emmett O'Neill and Walter
Howard Stone were born In Fort Col.
Inns, college town in Colorado. The
former was of wealthy family, which
owned great ranches that reached
across the plains into the Rocky noun
tains. The parents of Stone were pi-
oneers in the community and in mod
est circumstances. The girl in the ro-
nance was Marion Palmer whose ia
ther was one of the founders of the
college and prominent in Colorado's
financial and social life. The three
families lived In the same block in
Fort Collins, and when school days
were over and Marion becc ne Miss
Palmer, both young men became suit
ors for her hand.
Walter Stone became a bank clerk
and was ambitious to rise in his pro-
fession. O'Neill, whose father had
died, came into possession Of the fam
fly fortune and the mana cement of the
ranches. The race was neck-and-neck
for Miss Palmers hand.
Of course. In the nature of things,
thai state of affairs could not go on.
Finally Miss Palmer's heart began TO
affect her neutrality. Then she sum-
moned the two young men before her
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

pound my husband wanted me to try il.
/ took it for week and felt little bet
ter. kept itup for three months, and
/ feel fine and can eat anything now
without distress or nervousness. Mrs.
J. WoRTHLINE, 2S42 North Taylor ST.,
Philadelphia Pa.
The majority Of mothers nowadays
overdo, there are so many demands
upon their time and strength; the result
is invariably a weakened, rundown,
nervous condition with headaches, back
ache, irritability and depression - and
soon more serious ailments develop.
1t is at such periods in life that Lydia E.
Pinkham's Negotiable Compound will
restore a normal healthy condition, as
e did to Mrs. Worthline.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
Dent Be Like Her.

There are any number of pitfalls
waiting the girl who is always setting
her mother right, and who bemoans
the fact that her parents are so old
fashioned" And there is no better
safeguard against the worlds evils
than confidence IN a girls heart that
mother knows best.-Exchange
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
WAR GARDENS DID 1T

ut Is no exaggeration to say
that the war gardens In Europe
have In the case of Germany.
for Instance. pulled her through
two summers and that she would
probably not have been able to
pull through II it had not been
for her war gardens. In the
largest cities of Germany, as
much as - or 80 per cent of
the food consumption Of those
people during those months was
fresh vegetables, largely rellev-
ing the cereal situation"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
CHAPTER XIX.
On His Own.

OF course Tommy cannot always be
producing plays under fire but while
in rest billets he has numerous other
ways of amusing himself. He is a
great gambler, but never plays for
large stakes. Generally, in each com
pany, you will find regular Garfield.
This man banks nearly all the games
of chance and is an undisputed author
ity on the rules of gambling. When
ever there is an argument among the
Tommies about some uncertain point
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

George Washlnston's Speech to Com.
mittee, 1878.
UNLESS ample provisions are laid up
in the course of this winter and the APP
preaching spring. nothing favorable is
TO be looked for from the operations
in the next campaign; but our arms,
enfeebled by the embarrassment of Ir-
regular and fiuctuating supplies of
provisions, will reap no other fruits
than disgrace and disappointment"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
EMPEY WRITES AND STAGES A PLAY BEHIND THE LINES
WITH GREAT SUCCESS.

the Lutana with the Of
American living Jersey City,
the British After
officer London, he
the sound of big and
brief period training
while bullets whiz
that death turks always the trenches
himself wounded under hot
in No listening detail
Empey picked for duty in No
Mans Land nd death
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

st. Louis. Mo.--While Felix Pawles-
ki. slept, his wife shook his trousers
out Of the window. to air. She shook
800 ont Of the pockets. When the
discovery was made later. the money
was gone.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
Rut she Made zine Fudge.

Hobbe--I see we are now restricted
to two-Ounce bread ration. How
much is that?
Dobbs-Of my wife's bread piece
about two inches square.-BOston
Transcript.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
sumnathetlc Hluhwavmen.

Lebanon. a.-HIghwaymen who
held up Abraham Kurtz, assistant
Pennsylvania station agent and teIe-
grapher, returned him his seventy cents
when he told them that was all the
money he had.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

SlCht AtlOoS Va NkaW
time. i went to .
doctor and be seid
/ had nervous indi-
gestion, which adj
ded to my weak
condition kept me
worrying most OF
the time and he
said if / could not
stop that, / could
not get well. I
heard somuchabout
Lydia E. Pinkham's
U,--%.I1o 49,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

President Wilson's Speech to the
Farmers 1918.
TT has turned out that the forces
that fight for freedom, the freedom
for all men all over the world as well
as our own. depend upon us in ar. ex-
traordinary and unexpected degree
for sustenance by which men are to
live and to fight We are fighting as
truly for the liberty and self-govern-
ment of the United States as If the war
of our own revolution had to be fought
over agaia,"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
FARM NOTES

one Of the silver Innings Of the war
cIond IL that the health Of the Ameri-
can people Will benefit both from gar
denlng WORK and gardening results.
Vegetables are an unmixed blessing
when you grow them yourself.
Until every person who is physically
allie Is holding down a garden Job this
summer the garden army Of the re-
public hasn't really gone over the
top"
A little hoeing is a dangerous thing
The purpose of hoeing is to leave the
surface fine, loose and level. Cutting
the surface into small hills and holiows
saves no moisture and falls to keep the
soil moist.
"a man Of words and not Of deeds
Il like a garden full Of weeds and
the chances are that he1l have gar
den full Of weeds.
Don't forget that "a hoe in the back
yard Is mighty good backing for the
Gag on the front porch"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

Some 9eople are disagreeable be
cause they are unable 10 attract at
tention any other way.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
lime of Fruitinn Varies.

Almost any variety Of apples or 9TH
or fruits VIII vary In the time Of con
ing into fruiting, according to the con
ditions under which II is grown.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

Weeds do not live in vain. Young
dandellon plants. pigweed. lambs
quarters. purslane and young brown
dock may he used for greens. Milk
weed sprouts may be cooked Ike as
paragus
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

If man really loves grass widow
It's because she wants him to.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
THIS WEAK,
NERVOUS MOTHER
Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Health.

Philadelphia, Pat was veryweak,
always tired, my back ached, and / felt
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

well-made cottage cheese isn't slip
perry mess. You can make II fine
grained. but not Dasty, by mashing It
with fork. putting it through a sieve
or running it through tocd chopper
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

Isn't Il better to give away your
skim milk than 70 put It in pan In
the back yard for the chickens to Peck
at and the dogs TO tip over? Sell t II
you can. feed It where it viii do the
most good, but don't waste IL.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12
Do Without Bananas.

Bananas are a fruit that must be
transported to this country. Every
bunch of bananas takes MP shipping
space. Don't insist upon bananas.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

Cottage cheese isn't just something
extra that you happened to think Of at
the last minute. A pound of cottage
cheese has the same food value as a
pound of meat.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-12

A little soda mixed with milk and
added 10 cottage cheese neutrallzes
the acid taste TO which some people
object.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-09-06
Automatic Soldier Made
Of Steel Shoots 400 Shots
In Any Desired Direction

can automatic soldier" is one of the
latest developments in weapons of war.
A Danish engineer has recently taken
out a patent for an apparatus to which
he has given this name. 1t consists of
a steel cylinder normally within larg-
er cylinder, the whole being sunk into
the ground vertically. By means of a
mechanism operated by wireless, the
inner cylinder rises to a height of IS
inches from the ground and simultane-
Ously an automatic rifle mounted on the
inner cylinders fires 400 shots in any
given direction.
The automatic soldiers" can be con-
trolied from a central position some
four or five miles behind the line of
defense, according to the inventor.
They may be seen by the enemy only
when they rise from the ground.
From trials already made it has been
shown, so 1t is reported, that a few hun
dreds of these steel soldiers can easily
defend a position against infantry at
tacks, however numerous the opposing
force may be. They blaze away their
400 shots without flinching, and never
retreat. In order to overcome the "au-
tomatoes" they must be destroyed one
by one.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-09-06
Finds Million Are Constructive
National tuberculosis Association Asks for Plan. for
Cheaper Hospital Buildings

Need for of hospital facilities ubercuou
persons said to number than million the United States
asserted issued the National tuberculosis
The statement part:
81" recently reported that the capital committee would
probably anything the
structures The association feared might the holding for the
duration the increase hospital accommodations
Something than million persons suffering from this
disease the United States and the shortage accommodations
has been rendered acute by the problem of providing proper
for rejected in the draft
1--WE have gone into the question with the capital issues committee
and find that the attitude It's members opnmndedne The
committee does not building projects which do not require the
bond those which be
exceeding 100000 Permanent approved
cost too large.
Pns and estimates the economical types
buildings and of practicable temporary requested
to submit to the capital issues committee. :
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-09-06
Enemy Son of British Princess.

Claremont, the fine old mansion and
property at Esher, in England, where
the greatly lamented and once ire
mendously popular Princess Charlotte.
daughter Of George ", spent her mar
ried life, has been turned into girls
school under the pressure Of war. The
duchess of Albany owns 1T now, whose
son, the duke OF Saxe-COburg Gotha,
is married to "a niece Of the German
emperor, and is in the war against US
There is a pretty strong feeling in
England against permitting him to in
herit the beautiful property at his
mothers death.