Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-08-07

commercially canned goods. The Wis
consin food administration states that
government requirements are expected
to take one-third of the output of can
ned tomatoes, twenty-five per cent of
the total output of canned peas, corn
and string beans, about sixty per cent
of the salmon, pack, and one-half the
production of canned cherries and
dried peaches.
Neenah-Although the engine, tend
er and mail car of 500 passenger train
NO. 4, bound from Minneapolis to Chi
cago were overturned, the track torn
up for distance of 300 feet and the
four box cars which had slid onto the
main track from siding badly demol-
ished, neither the engineer, fireman or
any of the passengers sustained as
much as scratch, in one of the lucki-
est wrecks in railroad annals. No. 4
was travelling at the rate of forty
miles an hour when the crash came.
Madison. c. Schroeder of Mani
towoc has been fined $500 by the Wis
consin food administration for not
using the full amount of substitutes
required by the food regulation for
bakers, and Dick Brothers, also of
Manitowoc, have been ordered to pay
5000 for exceeding their wheat allot
ment for other products than bread
and rolls and also for using less than
the required amounts of substitutes.
Eau Claire-At a meeting of about
fifty business men of this city, held to
devise plan for providing farmers of
the country with farm hands, it was
decided to send questionnaires to city
workmen and business men to find all
who would be available for farm work,
1t is further planned that each town
chairman in the county send in list
Of the labor requirements in his town.
Wausau-Mr. and Mrs. owen Sulli-
van have three sons in military serv-
ice and a daughter, Rozella, at Trinity
hospital, Milwaukee, training for serv-
ice as a Red Cross nurse. Joseph Sui
livan has been accepted for naval serv-
ice and George is at Camp Grant. Will
liam is in France with the One Hun
dred Twenty-first Heavy artillery.
Madison-Farmers in seven counties
will hold farm demonstration picnics
in August. According to the usual Gus
tom these will be given on the county
asylum farms Announcements have
already been made for picnics in Co
lumbia, Outagamie, Waupaca, Chippe-
wa, Richland. st. Croix and Sank
counties.
Marinette-M and Mrs. Matt Rau-
ner have FIVE sons in the service.
Charles is with the American Red
Cross at Winchester, England; Her
man, in France, Max, spruce division,
Hoquiam, Wash; Matt, Jr., at Macon,
Ga, and Ernest awaiting final exami-
nation, having enlisted recently.
Ashland-Rev. and Mrs A Almquist
and little daughter, and Rev and Mrs.
L. E. Ost and four children, formerly
of this city. have gone toe Seattle,
whence they leave with a detachment
of workers for the Alaskan coast
where they will care for Eskimos and
Indians.
Oshkosh John C. Thompson, promi-
nent attorney of Oshkosh, who is chair
man of the Winnebago County Council
of Defense, and chairman of the coun-
ty board of supervisors, will be can
didate for the Republican nomination
for state senator in the eighteenth sen
atorial district.
Eau Claire-When Leo Curtis Sischo
of Greenwood came here preparatory
to leaving for Milwaukee to take the
examination for the naval reserve he
saw trolley car for the first time in
his life Twenty years old, he had
never been outside of Greenwood in
his life.
Madison-The vocational schools for
war emergency training are to be con
tinued in the thirty-one cities of Wis
consin. During the past few months
1893 boys have been given training in
these night schools for war emer-
gency work.
Racine-Co-operatio between a Y.
NJ. c. A. industrial department and the
largest employers of labor in Racine
has resulted in the establishment of
an industrial hotel, which relieves an
acute housing situation.
Sheboygan-Ch Charles r. Smith, who
claims TO be a travelling representa-.
tive of the Railway Clerks association
of Chicago, was arrested here, charged
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
Stevens Point-A pearl, probably
valued at $500, has been found in a
clam shell in the Wisconsin river, nine
miles north of here, by George Plat.
Lake City, MINI.
Stevens Point-Dr. F. A. Walters,
for three terms mayor here, is candi-
date for the Republican nomination TO
congress in the Eighth district against