Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-02-19

Nearly all of our exchange papers
report displays of German war troph-
les sent home from cover there"
DR.. and Mrs. Haggerty are home at
LaFarge after an absence of several
months during which the doctor was
stationed in South Carolina.
Chas. White is home at Hillsboro.
having received his discharge. He
was sent to France last September,
serving in the signal corps.
Camp Robinson, near Sparta is once
more taking on signs of life. Thirty
heavy duty trucks arrived from Camp
Grant, and there are now about 500
men there.
Clarence Tate is home at Gays Mills
He received severe wound in the
knee in the overseas fighting.
VIM. H. Waters, son of Carl Waters
of Melvina, was accidentally killed in
France while cleaning a rife.
Math Berens of Cashton has been
mustered out and returned home. He
saw service with an ammunition train
overseas. After six months service
with the army, Hdbert Klinken is also
home.
Jackie Frank Potts has received his
honorable discharge and is home from
Great Lakes Naval station.
The window of o. E. Davis drug
store has attracted much attention the
last few days. 1t contains helmets,
buckles, shoulder straps and other war
trophies sent by Capt c. f. Buffers
and Howard Fleming.
An exchange tells that when
schoolma'm asked her pupils what was
the most important city in France,
one bright girl promptly answered,
Somewhere A correct answer. For
proof we refer you to every letter pub
lished in the Censor from soldier bows
in France before the censorship was
lifted
Bernard Dowell returned home to
Viola from service in the army, ne
having received his honorable dis
charge from service.
Parents or nearest kin of the bows
who died in the war will be called up
on to make decision as to perman-
ent place of burial The government
however, will not begin to return the
bodies from overseas until 1920, and
in the meantime parents or nearest
relatives may make known to the war
department their choice of the fol-
lowing three alternatives: The body
may lie undisturbed where it is, may
be brought to the United States and
buried in one of the national cemeter-
les, expenses to be paid by the govern
ment, or may be delivered to the fam
lily all expenses paid by the govern
ment.
The twelve states showing the high
est number of casualties and their re-
spective casualties are as follows:
Connecticut 1859, Illinois 2734, India
ma 1884, Iowa 1884, Massachusetts
1926, Michigan 2119, New Jersey 1854,
New York 545S, Ohio 1878, Pennsyl-
vania 6752, Wisconsin POPS, Missouri
1112. IS
James Morrison, second son of A.
c. Morrison has spent ten days here
with relatives. He has been discharg-
ed and is on his way home to Seattle.
He has been in service thirteen
months going into the front line with
in thirty days of his induction into
service; going over the top seven
times. Then he was gassed. Out Of
200 boys who left Seattle together,
only nine are alive today-and he is
one of the nine.
Friday morning, Gas Hound" De-
Verne Slack came home from military
service in the motor transport corps.
He spent one year and two months
in the service. After closing up his
affairs at Madison he will return to
assist his father here.
Lee Smell is home from service in
Uncle Sans military forces.
Sergeant Lewis Budde and Edgar
Harmon are home at Ontario. They
have an honorable discharge. Lewis
Budde arrived in the United States
December % from overseas.
Earl Witcraft returns from service
with the spruce division of the army
in Washington.
Lieutenant M. A. Smith of Mar
shalltown, Iowa, was discharged at
Camp Grant and is spending a few
days with the DySons. he was with
the heavy artillery until gassed, and
saw most severe fighting.
T. B. Potts received a telegram
from his son Lou that he has arrived
safely at New York from France and
will be home soon.
Sergeant Richard Healy, overseas
soldier and former student of the Fl.
H. S..was visitor at school Thursday.
Mr.. Healy was requested to speak to
the school, upon which he responded
with a very interesting account OF his
travels to and from France. Mr..
Healy too modestly hesitated,. how
ever. in telling of his own experiences.
-Hillsboro Sentry.
Food Men Dismissed
Acting Federal Food Administrator
Melville notifies all county food ad-
illustrators that the work of that
department officially closed Saturday,
the 18th. The Federal Food Act of
August 10, 1917, however, provides
that until peace terms are actually
signed and ratified by Congress; food
control remains in effect and all per-
sons dealing in food stuffs are still
subject to the provision OF the Act
Exorbitant profits and unfair practices
- HHam