Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-07-09

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Young America TO gather Wisconsin,
cherry crop is on. Nearly every train
entering here brings "Y" boys who ar.
to earn school money" by picking
cherries here this summer. The boys
are expected 20 earn from $3.50 l6
$3.50 per day. A camp, to be under
" supervision, is being constructed
Six hundred boys are expected. Early
prospects point TO a record cherry
crop. The season viii begin about
July Is.
Fond du Lac = The new seminary
and college being erected at Marathon
City by the Capuchin Fathers of Mt
Calvary, win be dedicated Aug. Is
The seminary will be devoted 10 the
teaching of philosophy and theology
Students will enter the seminary after
finishing tier novitiate at Detroit
The Rev. Benno, assistant pastor OF
st. Francis church, Milwaukee, will
head the faculty, while the Rev. Igna
thus, Appleton, win be head of the mon
astery.
La Crosse-A petition has been for
warded to Congressman John ]. Esch
and the war department to have the
Black river made nayigable a mile
and half above Onalaska or si1
miles from its mouth at La Crosse
The request specifies a three-foot
channel thirty feet wide in low water
sufficient for motor boat navigation
Granting of the petition would open VI
for summer cottages miles of shore
frontage which cannot be reached BY
road.
La Crosse-The taking of testimony
in the case of the state against Louis
Ruehl, detective for the Milwaukee
railroad, charged with the killing OF
two soldiers on the right of way OF
March is, was finished in circuit
court. Ruehl told the story of his life
and said that the men be shot, Fred
Bunker and j. B. Schomers, attacked
him with two others and that he shot
in self-defense.
Oconto - A jury at Green Bay
awarded Miss Nellie Kruger $4,000
She charged Doctor Hickey with NAL.
practice and sued for $4,000. Evi-
dence showed that while the plaintiff
was under anaesthetic, having a tooth
extracted, filing from another tooth
was Jared loose and went into the
windpipe, and the lung where an alb
scess formed, resulting in tuberculosis.
La Crosse-Col. King Stanley, old.
time plainsman and chief of scouts
with Buffalo Bill ia the old days on
The border, was taken i'll here on his
way across the continent in an auto
mobile. An abscess in an ear drove
the veteran to the hospital. He left
Los Angeles in March, drove to New
York and is now on his way back to
California.
Portage-Frank Weinke, William p.
Meikle and Edward Burkhardt, farm
ers owning land in Caledonia, near the
Wisconsin River were awarded $3.50,
$4,000 and 800 respectively, for dam
ages done their land. The erection
of dam of the Wisconsin River Pow
er Company at Prairie du Sac made
their lands soft, soggy and untillabie,
La Crosse-Records of men who en-
listed from Wisconsin to escape prose.
cutions are being prepared, and ar
rests and trials will follow according
to Albert c. Wolfe, United States dis
trict attorney for the western district.
Wherever the record of service is
good, he said, leniency will be shown.
GAINESVILLE - Charles F. Hill, super
intendent of the vocational school here
for the past six years and previous to
that time head of industrial school
work in Whitewater for twelve years,
died suddenly of heart failure at his
home here. He leaves a wife and one
son, Boyd, a musical composer.
WATERFOWL - Members OF the Ger
man Methodist Episcopal Camp
meeting association are to convene in
this city July IL. The call was issued
by Secretary A. w. Wieting, Milwau.
kee district. A feature win be con.
sideration of an amendment to the ar
ticles of incorporation.
Stevens Point E. B. Northrup
founder of The Stevens Point Journal
died at Minneapolis, according to a
telegram received by Emmons Burr.
his cousin. Mr.. Northrup came to this
city in 1869 and established The Jour.
nal, a weekly paper. A widow and
three children survive.
Manitowoc-An all night and all day
search for 11-year-old Alfred Aarlus,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Aarlus, Sr..
was brought to a close by the arrival
of a telegram from the lads uncle,
Rev. Dreng at st. Paul, telling of the
boys presence at his home in that
city.
Madison-L. j. Rusk, Chippewa
Falls. was appointed by the supreme