Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-09-04
WAR NOTES

Rev. Martin Finstad vas in town with his
son Martin on Saturday. The young has
volunteered in the service and within few
days viii take up the military course pre-
scri5ed By the ~ar department in St.Olaf's
college. Martin is between eighteen and nine
teen years old Til g practically the same
work taken up By most Of the colleges, uni
Ycrsltes ard other educational institutions.
Stout Manual Training school. the LaCrosse
Normal and ether Hormals Of Wisconsin age
doing she same thing. The course includes
training Of officers. engiveera. doctors. chem
sts, and adm nistrators of every kind. The
government desires 10 prevent the premature
could by extending tire period Of their train
ing multiply their usefulness to their country.
Mrs. Fred Groves Of Lake Ridge, received
message from The war department conveying
the distressing message that her son, Melvin
Anderson. had been seriously wounded in &C
ton in the trenches in France. Melvin left
here with the soldier contingencies that went
early last fall He has been over for some
months.
Judge Alvin b. Peterson Of Soldiers Grove
has abandoned his law practice and Joined
Uncle Sans boys in the service. He went TO
training school. His brother, DIR. Fred Peter
son, also joins the cOlors as an army surgeon.
He is at FOrr Riley. Kansas.
LaFarge Enterprise says Walter l. shird
arrived home from Fit. Bliss Texas. for
weeks visit with home folks He belongs to
Troop b. Military Police and has been in the
service about year and a half. being one of
the first TO enlist from here when was de-
clared.
Miss winifred Dolan, reports the Cashton
Record. left to take up her duties in the u
S. service. She will be located at Camp Gus
ter, Michigan, as laboratory technieian in the
u. S. base hospital.
b. F. Purdy of Houston. Texas, in letter
to VirOdua friends. and speaking of the war,
says: Our family is doing everything pos
sible. Our Don is in the army, Mrs. Pur-
dy helping knit and sew and Everett and Ella
deyOting all of their time TO the work. Ella
is head of the Red Cross where she is and
Everette, when the drives are on goes around
working and making speeches. Ii takes a
month and sometimes longer TO get a letter
from Don and don't get all of them. The
last was dated July s, Somewhere in Ger
many" Received a letter from his uncle
Henry, stating he had a letter from him and
he said he was in one place where it
pretty not and expected soon to be right in it.
He Is in the engineers corps and they have
TO put across bridges build roads. wire
tanglements and such and their work is very
dangerous. He enlisted a year ago last June.
Carter Purdy, Is the 9th of July, has Joined
the Navy and left here Wednesday for San
Francisco. He is koss' grandson. Ella Chinn
has two boys in the army and another one
has gone TO SanAntonio to enlist. Her oldest
boy IN the army and discharged
account of his eyes. One woman in Houston
mas seven sons in the army"
Harry W. Mckinney of Soldiers Grove was
killed in action the battle front in France,
July IS. Harry was fine fellow and had
scores Of friends among his acquaintance.
He member of the Marines, 5th Regulars
and the 18th Co. Before enIistiug he was
rural mail carrier out Of Soldiers Grove
From Oakland. California, Mrs. Addie NJ
Bellows writes: 81 work tmske button holes
mostly for the Red Cross. We work Tues
days and Wednesdays, all day, at church
parlors."
Amy Ruggles Gott has her passport and i
fully equipped for her ''OyeT seas work. She
writes a friend here, Il am not allowed to
tell my sailing time my boat: but, probably
I'll be gone when you receive this Miss
GOtt has been helping in Y. NJ. c. A. work in
New York ali summer.