Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-08


carried on by the local members of
the child welfare department. These
counties are Price. Barron. Sank. La
Crosse and Bayfield,. In twenty other
counties the effort of the women to in
duce the county authorities to appro-
pirate funds for a nurse were without
success. Kewaunee and Richland
counties employed nurses in October
and Walworth county has money
on hand and will hire nurse as soon
as a suitable one is secured.
Horicon-The first military funeral
in this city took place when Gunner
Charles Dewitt Bouton, 10, was laid to
rest. The services, which were held at
the home of the gunner's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Bouton, were in charge
of Capt. Charles Hawks, mayor of
Horizon. The city band headed the
procession, followed by the home
guards. The active palibearers were
six sailors. Twenty-Five sailors and
soldiers acted as honorary pallbearers.
Milwaukee - AS a settlement in a
suit brought against the Milwaukee
Country Club by Joseph Cuppan, Jr..
for injuries received to his eye when
struck by golf ball. Cuppan will re-
ceive 5000. This amount was entered
and agreed to in Circuit court by
Judge E. T. Fairchild. He sued for
$4,000. while his father. Joseph Cup
pan, ST., asked similar amount. The
suit brought by his father was settled
some time ago for $500.
Madison = George Lubinski, Toma-
hawk, was sentenced to six months in
the House of Correction by Judge A.
L. Sanborn, in Federal court here. He
pleaded guilty of making disloyal re-
marks. Felix Marcoullier. Tomahawk
saloonkeeper, was fined 5000 when he
pleaded guilty to selling liquor to a
Chippewa Indian, Charlie Catfish.
Lynn Messmer, GAINESVILLE, pleaded
guilty to giving liquor to a soldier and
was fined 800.
Watertown-More honors for the
Thirty-second division - Wisconsin's
own troops. Members of this unit will
be permitted to wear as a special in
sigma an arrow outlined on their left
sleeves, wires Sergt. Lester T. Wilt
ans, Co. b, One Hundred Nineteenth
Machine Gun Battalion. The arrow
was adopted as a symbol, Sergt. Wilt
ans explains, because their division
always blazed the way in battle.
Manitowoc-Capt. D. M. Cochrane,
for nieteen years general superintend-
ent of the Goodrich Transit Co., has
announced his retirement from the
post, though he will remain with the
company at Chicago. He will be sue
ceeded by Capt Franklin, former cap
tain of the Goodrich steamer Indiana
and assistant to Capt. Cochrane. For
sixty years Capt. Cochrane has been
identified with the marine service.
Madison-Because as she says, her
husband called her a Dutch carp"
Mrs. Moni Hichcox, Spring Green, is
seeking a divorce from Tracy HIGH
cox. She was born in Germany. Be-
sides divorce Mrs. Hichcox wants
her husband to "get OUT, possessions
of the fouse food and clothing for the
children and herself, use of the garden
vegetables and three quarts of fresh
milk daily.
Fond du Lac--Louis b. Cone, one OF
the best known newspaper men in
Wisconsin, died here. He had held po-
sitions on Chicago. Milwaukee, Joliet,
Grand Rapids, Menominee, Oshkosh,
Sheboygan and Fond du Lac papers.
He was a direct descendant of two of
the signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence, and was a grand nephew of
James Fenimore Cooper, novelist.
La Crosse-The La Crosse Rubber
Mills company distributed $4,000
among it's 500 employees on Christmas
day. each worker drawing from 81 to
$50 as a bonus. The company fur
nished a large part of it's output of
rubber shoes to the government dur
ing the war.
Beloit - DR.. Hubert c. Townley, a
graduate of Carroll college and Gar
rett Biblical institute, who has done
graduate work at Yale and Wisconsin
has been given charge OF
the industrial section of the city
Young Mems Christian association.
La Crosse-L. S. Keith, a rural mail
carrier, took as a gift last June two
little pigs which a farmer said were
sick and would die. Recently he sold
them for $107.37, net profit of 500.
Fond du Lac-The Fond du Lac
society, which aims to
reduce the cost of living to its mem
bers, has purchased grocery for s10,-
600, payable in shares of the society.
Neenah-Corp Albert Kuehl has ar
rived in New York from service in
France. kuehl carries six wounds
which he sustained in battles in the
vicinity of Verdun.
Madison-An analysis of water TAX
en- from the well of Jacob B. Hosley,
Primrose farmer, by State Chemist |
Harry Kleuter shows a large fuantity
of paris green.
Reserve-Indians of the Lac Court |
Oreille reservation organized a reser- |
walton colonizing company to dispose