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

Miss Florence Phiiipp, the governors dau<h-
ter, who recently was graduated from nurses
school has announced she viii enlist far
France.
drafted IndiaT cams back from the rrziz-
ing camp to the reservation and YVES asked how
| he liked it. mot very gDod; tho murfr sa-
lutte. not much shoot He then asked Tf
he knew what he was to fight for, and he re-
piled: YEAH Hre. know: me fight to make
! whole damned world Democratic party"
| Walter Month and Hixiz Gillette; two Genoa
| young men have enlisted with the. gDyernemnt-
going to the naval traHnang station at Crest
Lakes.
| In a recent loyalty raxeting held by lam
| sing Masonic lodge, in the course of adj
dress MIR. Thomas gave expression to the fol-
lowing true and solemn sentence: "No one
| who has not sent soma loved one-father.
| son. husband brother. the case. may be
Ito the service of the Oaantry at this critical
time has right to boast of service to conn
plain against hardships; personal sacrifice.
| Some of us think suffering in
sequence of this war. ard perhaps some of US
have been slightly iuconvenienced. but none
| OF US truly have a right to complain wheu
he contemplates with which those bear the
extreme sacrifice of losed ones who havu
marched away to the defense of democracy
We CLEAN from the DeSSats Argus.
| HiIlsbOro Sentry says. Rev Err. Czech re-
eeiyed letter frOma his nephaw. who is a
prisoner of war in Russia. The letter
written last Christmas day, thus il was In
the mails five months before. delivered.
Mrs. George H. Hauge paid a, visit to Camp
/ Grant. where her husband is a Lieutenant.
| She spent about week theIs. and. found much
/ of interest in the wonderful government sal
dier city.
! Glenn Blakely. AZ soldier of LaFarge Sec
| ton, was on bOardf the transport 'MOidavia".
| the liner toERedoed by the Germans
late in May. Happily he among. those
rescued.
| Under a agreement the army will
handle all mail for the expeditionary farees
Office department will deliver the mail to mil
| itary authorities, at the port of embarkati0n
in this country and receive il from them at
port in France for dispatch to the United
States. The domestic mOney-Order service to
| the troops will, for the present at least, con-
tinue under the direction of the post office de-
partment in France.
Dennis andf Hsssrt wsddeIl. sons. NJ Mr..
and Mrs. James Wadaell of Webster, went
to Madison to enlist in the navy. Dennis
was not accepted. but Hobart was, aad sent
to Great Lakas training station.
| LaFarge Enterprise reports that Mr. and
/ Mrs. Geo. Burnard received a letter from
| their son Fred who is in France stating that
he likes his new location fine. He says that
| he is getting even Better food than he got
| in the Gangs here and plenty of it, and that
| he is getting fat, gets hOnesck or
lonesome and II" perfectly contented.
At eyexy trainis9 camp in the country
plans of the Commission on Training Camp
| Activities have bean carried out to provide
athletic facilities for the men. Baseball heads
the list in popularity. and full equipment has
been placed in. the camps. More than 7O,p00
basebaAs and 5000 bats have been sent
Practically. every company in en9h camp d.
vision throughoaE the country has its team:
and there company, battalion, regimental
and snter-regincntal leagues
Frank o,Neil, the young nAIian. who work
| ed esK tive or three seasons On Round Prairie
writes his fOreTer employer. W. J. Norris, that
he arrived safely in France. Ii would seem
that he had quick tip over seas He en-
listed and left here late In March: was sent
from cantsnment to another.
This nation has now in France the largest
army it has ever organized that which
fought the civil II has an army there,
II if popular conception of It's numbers be cor
rect, larger than Napoleon commanded
at one time. II is nearly if not quite double
that which fought through the seven years of
Il the. reeslutien. large as that which was
formed for the second war with England.
double that gathered for the Spanish affair
This Raw force is ready. It Is even now, in
part at least, in ths battle front meeting the
enemy in bis new drive II : such a force as
was nat Thought. short tine age. as ne
cessary fo- this souptry. Yet i Is but
! fraction of the fsfes being organized on THIS
side of the ocean. and with that foree equ a.
the fatal federal ARMIES in service during the
n fsur years of ctsd Add to that the new
array now being considered by congress:
SOOO.O90 more. and the army Ol Out.eh
states will exceed in numbers all the armies
n Il has ever had in all its wars. These large
6xures are only nsrnsAl In these days ct big
| things. War in previous years has been
largely q matter of volunteers, part. as II
| we're Of the nations. has taken the re-
cent history of Europe TO show us nations
| making war a principal industry, organized
from, ton 20 bottem for war and calling every
man physically able. That has brought the
totals Of soldiers into the millions. ana this
nation AUST keep its pace or fail. 1t can
not fail.
Writing frem France on Mothers Day 70
Mrs Csllins, to whom he alludes rs the only
| mother he has left Otto Griffin Gays that he
, has been quite sick for some tise but Is now
improyinr He says that all the soldiers are
re9ussted to write on Mothers day. and the let
ters were all collected and sent on one ship IN
srder that they would reach the United States
. | sooner Like the rest of the boys he COM
> plains that mail comes not as often as ne
would like it.
, Hilmer AsbjOrnsOn writes to his mothet
| from France, that he has been Transferred 10
the eth engineers. known az "the lighting eth
? and ordered to the front.