Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-07-16

small. In case a new high school dis
trict is created, the present kigh
school building will be used by the
grades and a new building will be
erected. Pupils from the rural dis
tricts now pay tuition to attend the
Seymour school, but will be entitled
TO attend free of charge in the pro
posed union school.
Sheboygan-George Schiller, so, was
arrested and is in Jail awaiting trial,
on charge of stealing milk from two
farms. For almost year Schiller had
been observed by the police leaving
his home in the middle of the night,
riding a bicycle and carrying a sack.
He was watched and arrested. At the
police station it was found that the
sack contained two gallons of milk in
a pail. He admitted that he had been
going two ana three times each week,
the police say.
La Winnebago Indians be-
tween La Crosse and Black River
Falls held a meeting at Hatfield to
consider engaging an attorney in an
effort to get a bill through congress
authorizing the Wisconsin members of
the tribe to bring suit in the court of
claims for their share of the tribal
funds. They also propose sending a
delegation Of Indians 10 appear before
the congressional committees when
the bill comes on for hearing.
Superior-Ole Halberg, longshore-
man, is dead, and thirty persons are
in serious condition as result of what
physicians believe is poisoning from
meat. Whether it was spoiled or poi
son had been placed in the sausages
of which all those affected partook
has not been determined. The pur-
chases were traced to one shop, where
several hundred pounds of the sus-
pected food was seized and samples
sent for analysis.
Milwaukee - The headquarters of
the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis asso-
citation in this city have been changed
to the former Ethical building, 5SS
Jefferson street, which is hereafter to
be known as the Health Service build
ing. This new name for the building
was chosen to typify the general
health activity of the association con-
Quoted in connection with its cam
paign against tuberculosis.
Hraap pav I1dgasN MOuahap
sentenced Steve Beniac, an Austrian,
to fifteen years in state prison for an
assault with intent on Andrew Matt
son, Northwestern railroad foreman.
Mattson ordered the man away when
the latter came to work intoxicated.
The Iaborer struck the foreman on the
head with spade. Beniac has wife
and children in Austria.
Green Bay-When the government
agency and schoo! located on the
Oneida Reservation was discontinued
July /, farmers of Brown, Oconto,
Outagamie, Waupaca and other coun-
ties started a movement to have the
Dulluings converted into an inter
county agricultural school and expert
ment station.
Neillsville-A. e. Dudley has been
ar .--.--~,. oaOtlls postmaster OF Nells-
vile and is in charge of the office. Mr.
Dudley was postmaster under Presi-
dent Taft and is a prominent Repub
lican. William Huntley, Sr., who had
been postmaster for several years,
died three weeks ago.
Neenah-Miss Bess Hardness, for
mer head of the history department
in the Neenah public schools, is now
teaching disabled doughboys CONNER
cial forms in the general hospital at
Fort Sheridan, H. Miss Hardness en-
tered war work soon after America
got into action.
Manitowoc-Th school census re-
Gently completed shows that this city
has $3.50 children of school age which
is a gain of 209 over the 1917-191S
figures. According to the usual esu-
mates this would give the city an in
crease in population figures of about
700.
La Crosse-Prominent members and
officers of the Wisconsin and Mime
sofa State Bar associations tentatively
agreed, at the close of the first joint
convention held here, to repeat the
event at st. Paul next July.
Rhinelander-Frank Edwards. who
escaped from the Oneida county jail
one year ago, was apprehended in
Woodruff by Sheriff d. t. Matteson.
He was bound over to Circuit Court
with bonds fixed at $4,000.
Observation-Disclosures S. Fisher, an
Oneida County soldier, who recently
returned from overseas, has received
a high citation over the signature of
Gen. Pershing. The citation is for ex-
ceptionally meritorious and conspicu-
Gus services on the Meuse-Argonne
offensive.
Madison - Gov. Philip appointed
Henry c. Smith, Green Bay. and f. B.,
Lang. Racine, as members of the
board of trustees of the Wisconsin
Veterans Home at Wau2aea. Their
terms will expire in 1922.
Marinette sergt. Roland C. St,