Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-17

brother, Boyd Potter, 10. who gradual
ed from the BaEaboo high school this
year, intends to enlist in some branch
of the service soon.
Monroe-At the annual school meet
ing the main question discussed was
that of maintaing German in tne cur
riculum. A majority of the people here
talk German at home and the two
main churches have German services.
| Upon motion to drop German, the
chairman called for a rising vote
| There was not single vote against
the motion. 1t was also voted to burn
all German books at a public bonfire
Thousands of people attended the
| burning.
MadtsoR-II,Tf;afif Il E. e Davidson must
not manage the candidates. off,. N
Tittemore and the others of the Title
more slate for state Office, Attorney
General Spencer Haven has ruled. No
committee or individual can manage
more than one candidates affairs with
out humping into the corrupt practices
act. Haven held, in an opinion to Soc
rotary of State Merlin Hull.
Appleton-A new paper mill is to Se
built at Stevens Point ON the Wiscon-
sin river by the Consolidated Water
Power & Paper Co., with which the In
terlake Pulp & Paper Co., Appleton, is
affiliated. G.. L. Giddings, formerly
sales manager of the futile Press Co,
will be in charge. This new CONVEX
sion will manufacture wrapping tissue
paper.
Madison-A cook in a lumber camp
near Hiles, Forest county, filing his
claim to the industrial commission for
compensation, writes that while pre-
pairing meal he was struck on the
back of the neck by the coffee kettle,
affecting the nerves and causing him
to lose the sight of one eye.
Madison-The war department in
telegram to President Van Hise, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, announced that
fourteen faculty members and 103 stu
dents are to be chosen from the uni
versity to go to a second military
training camp at Fort Sheridan, Ill.
from July Is to Sept. 16.
Madison There was $1,S76, 404, 0S6
worth of fire and marine insurance
written in the state of Wisconsin in
the past year according to the compil-
ations just completed at the insurance
department. For the year previous the
amount of insurance was $1,325,706,-
104.
Fond du Lac-Mrs. Minnie Warren
Campbell, former Waupun girl, has
completed training at San Francisco,
under direction of the National WOm
ems Service league, for army service.
She will drive a supply motor truck.
Madison-Prof. Carl Russell Fish of
the history department, University of
Wisconsin, is spending his summer va
cation making guns in the plant of the
Northwestern Ordnance company here.
Rice Lake-The most successful
dance held in Barron county, both in
attendance and from a social stand
point, netted s321.25, which was do
mated to the Red Cross.
De Pere-Rev. Fathers Exler and Nc
Keough, professors at St. Norbert's
college, have entered the army as
chapIains. st. Norberts honor roll
now numbers over 100.
Marshfield- School directors at the
annual meeting voted bond issue OF
100000 for the erection of building
to house the vocational and Junior
high school pupils.
Menasha--Ground glass in cookies
narrowly missed causing the death OF
several members of the Daniel Raleigh
family of this city. An investigation
is being made.
Sheboygan-Ma Edward J. Berrett
of Sheboygan has been named com
mander-in-ehief of the large base hos
pital at Staten Island, recently COM
pleted.
arshfield-Instruction in the Ger
man language has been banished from
the city schools here by unanimous
vote of the board of education.
Rbinelander-Wi every industrial
institution operating full blast, the
population of the city is growing so
rapidly that 200 new houses are need
ed to furnish homes for workmen and
their families.
Fond du Lac-Mr and Mrs. Thurs
ton Wilcox, Waupun. celebrated their
sixty-fifth wedding anniversary on
Thursday, July 4. They were married
in Fox Lake in 1853. Guests at the
anniversary celebration included sew
eral who danced at their wedding in
the Little Red taverns.
Marinette-The industrial commits
sion awarded Daniel Tewes, of Good
man. S2.OS5.77. to be paid in lump
sum by the Goodman Lumber company
of Goodman. The man as injured
while at work. necessitating the ampu-
ration of a limb in December, 1917.
Nadison-The railroad commission
has authorized the Wisconsin-Mi
sofa Light & Power Co, which was