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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
AUG. HUMANE THOUGHT

The slaughter Of our food animals
I is matter of deep concern TO every
humane worker. II should be a mat
I ter of vital interest to every citizen
| There is much cruelty practlced IN
Strengthening. Generally it IS found
in the methods used. Inexperienced
men, undertaking to kill often strike
az animal repeatedly and otherwise
commit the grossest kinds OF cruelty
/ before the animal is rendered uncon-
scious. And even experienced butch
ers hardened to the task, have been
found to utterly disregard humane
sentiment.
| Often animals are retained in places
where other animals have been
slaughtered before them. The floor
| is covered with blood and the odor IS
nearly unbearable To drive an ami
I NAL into such a place or TO contlne IT
there is cruel. An animal Is sensitive
TO the smell Of blood and it fears
death. A slaughter house should be
/ kept reasonably clean. from humane
as well as sanitary viewpoint.
I Sometimes animals are bied to death
( without being STONED. There IS no
more cruel method of slaughter. 70
thrust knife into the heart of an ami
NAL or to cut its throat while it is
conscious is a relic of barbarism.
There is also much suffering endur-
ed by the animals previous to slaugh-
/ ter. They are crowded into crates and
stock-cars and suffer terribly from
lack of sufficient feed, water and shell
ter. Besides, they are frightened and
often beaten and injured. Even cru
e death brings the sufferig creatures
welcome relief
Let every good citizen demand that
Iall animals, when put to death, be
spared as much pain as possible To
make the way easier for the weak is
the duty of the strong.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
CO. EDUCATIONAL NOTES

Patrons of the Cherry Grove school
authorized their school board, at a re-
cent adjourned meeting, TO put a full
basement for furnace, fuel and play
room under the building, install a fur
mace, arrange the lighting according to
modern scientific ideas, and either
reside or Kellastone the building
With these improvements, the Cherry
Grove school building will step from
one OF the poorest to one of the best
IN the county. This speaks well of the
value the people of this district place
upon the building in which to house
tnelr children during their impression
able years. Some districts still think
that buildings which were good enough
Tor school houses several decades ago,
are good enough today. Such is not
the case; the automobile, truck and
tractor are taking the place Of the OK
team and horse team. "The World do
move"
Miss Thelnla Thompson, Vernon
County Training School graduate of
1871 mas been r-engaged for the COM
ing year at 500 per month. The
board has shown wisdom in retaining
their teacher, rather than hiring new
teacher, who would lose the greater
with the pupils and their abilities
Cherry Grove schol is stepping into
the hme-light
Seas Branch school house is also TO
profit by wise foresight on the part of
its board and the patrons
A part basement is being excavated,
to provide furnace and fuel room
J. G. johnson of West Salem, a man
rich in experience of teaching rural
schools, has been engaged for tie
coming year at S125.00 per month.
The Clockmaker two-room school is
to have full basement with furnace,
fuel and playroom We are sorry to
learn that it was decided to have but
eight months school in this district the
coming year, as that rues them out of
the state graded school state aid.
The annual midsummer teachers
institute will be held at the County
Normal at Viroqua, August 18th to
31st with Prof. o. w. Neale of Stew
ems Point, Prin. C. L. Hill and Supt.
L. w. Fulton of Viroqua in charge.
They will be aided by several others
in various days. Every teacher who
is engaged in any of the schools of the
county should attend this four-day in
stitute. Start out the year by begin
ming right.
Notices have been sent out for the
school board conventions as follows:
Viroqua Court house August 31st; La
Fargo, High school, September LIST;
Hillsboro, High School, Saturday, Sep
TENDER End.
The supervising teachers and county
superintendent will attend the Super
vising Teachers Cnventin at Madison,
August 23-26th.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET

EdgertOn, Wis, Aug. IL, 1922.
Showers the first of the week cover
ing large portions of the state served
to improve the stand of tobacco. The
fields were not suffering from insult
ficient moisture, but the ample down
pour served to give the stand the nee
essary push required just now.
The sales of tobacco reported last
week are confirmed, except the Viro-
qua cooperative stock The total num-
Der of cases sold will reach pretty close
to 4500 or better. This makes a big
dent in the cased cigar leaf in the state
sold in the open market. The larger
holdings of 1920 and 1921 leaf were
bought direct by the manufacturers
through their representatives in Wis
consin packing centers.
Field buying of the 1922 northern to-
baeco continued through the pastwee
Bekkedal & Son of Westby were the
first and heaviest buyers, but anumber
of firms operating both in the north
ern and southern sections were in the
field and wrote contracts for the new
crop The ridge crops went on the
contract books at figures around the
20 cent evel, valley fields about five
cents higher. The high mark report
ed is 26 cents. The best fields are the
ones selected, of course. Most of the
crops sold were owned by growers
who had not Joined the pool, but it is
reported that a few who had signed
the five year pooling contract havesold
with the understanding that the buyer
assumes the responsibility for any
penalty involved in the growers rela-
ton TO the pool.
OF the progress of the pool towards
the completion of the IS per cent acre
age needed to make it ready to do bust
ness, no definite information has been
given to the public. The time for
coming in is again extended, this time
to August 10.
The wildfire problem is theoretically
handled by the marketing department
and hte agricultural experiment sta
ton. A committee of growers is
working together with the representa-
tives of the state in an endeavo rto
check the spread and eradicate the
pest A set of rules advising growers
what to do has ben sent out. Where
the damage exceeds so per cent. the
field is to be destroyed, otherwise the
grower must go through the field and
pick off all diseased leaves and burn
them. The department has sent out
gangs to do this work recently Any
thing and anybody may carry the in
lection from a sick field to well one.
The situation does rot look serious as
yet and proper measures conscien-
tiously carried out may save the day.
Under all circumstances it viii pay the
grower to be on the look out. Eternal
vigilance is the price not only of lib
erty, but of sound crop Of tobacco
Edgerton Tobacco Reporter.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
A New Theory

Cuthbert had been listening for half
an hour to lecture from his father on
the evils of late nights and late Tisings
in the morning.
"You will never amount to any
thing" said the father. unless you
turn over a new leaf. Remember it's
the early bird that catches the worm. Z"
"Ha, ha," laughed Cuthbert, 'How
about the worm What did he get
for turning out so earlyf"
MY son, replied the father, shat
worm hadn't been to bed all night; he
was on his way home. Pittsburgh
Christian Advocate.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
Tle Personal Attitude

Have you ever Tled 70 snow That
nervous constituent that, so far as all
important prospects are concerned, the
country is perfectly safe? "
"No," replied Senator Sorghum,
''He is one of those people who don't
believe the country can possibly be
safe unless ] get him a government
job. Washington Post.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
BACK BAD TODAY?

Baekache is usually kidney-eche and
makes you dull, nervous and tired
Use Doan's Kidney Pills for weak kid.
neys-the remedy recommended by
your friends and neighbors. Ask your
neighbr!
E. J. Older, city clerk, 334 Western
Ave-, Viroqua, says: Il can give
Doan's Kidney Pills a good recommen-
dation for they gave me relief from a
lame, aching back and kidney trouble
would not ask for anything better"
RELIES ON DOAN'S
Four years later, Mr. Older said
Il am just as firm in my praise OF
Doan's Kidney Pills now as when
endorsed them some years ago. When.
ever | have had attacks of backacht
or have been bothered with kidney
trouble, | have always used Doan':
and they soon rid me of the attack"
Price 60c, at all dealers Don't sim
ply ask for kidney remedk-get
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
Gone

Mamma-Don't be so selfish. Let
your baby brother play with your
marbles a little while.
Tommy he means to keep them
always
Mamma--0h, guess not.
TOMMY guess yes, cause he's
swallered 'em!
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
Woman. and Her Man

A printer in small town set up a
poster to advertise an address by a
militant suffragette who was to speak
on the following subject:
Woman: Without her, man would
be savage.
The printer, however, set it up like
this:
Woman: Without her man, would
be a savage.--La Crosse Normal Rae
quet.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
A. I'll EINZ
Attorney ut Law
VIROQUA, WIS.
Once In First National Eank
BuilAtns.
First Publication August 2-3 times.
PROBATE NOTICE
STATE OF WISCONSIN, VERNON COUNTY
COIlRT m pPOpATF

STATE OF WISCONSIN, VERNON COUNTY
COURT, IN PROBATE
Notice of Application for Final Settlement.
In the matter the Estate of John B. Paine
Deceased.
On reading and filing the application of v.
A. Stoddard, Administrator of the Estate of
John B. Paine. deceased. representing among
other things that he has fully administered the
said estate, and praying that time and place
be fixed for examining and allowing his ac-
count OF his administration. and that the res
idue of the said estate be assigned to such per-
sons by law entitled to the same;
It is ordered, that said application be heard
before this court, at special term thereof 70
be held at the probate Office. in the city of VII
roqua. on the 29th day of August, 1922. at 10
o'clock a. m.
And it is further ordered that notice of the
time and place of examining and allowing
said account, and of assigning the residue OF
said estate, be given to all persons by publ
cation of a copy of this order for three sue
cessive weeks, in the Vernon County Censor.
a newspaper published in said county. before
the day fixed for said hearing.
Dated this LIST day of August. 1922
By the Court, ID. o. Mahoney, County Judge
Smith & Moen, Attorneys.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
Notice of Application for Final Settlement
STATE OF WISCONSIN. COUNTY COURT.
VERNON COUNTY-In Probate.


VERNON COUNTY-In Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate Of Jacob Mollant
Deceased.
on reading and filing the application Of The.
olena Mollaud, administrators of the estate Of
Jacob holland. deceased, representing amons
other things that she has fully administered
the said estate. and praying that time anc
place be fixed for examining and allowing tia
account Of her administration. and that ths
residue of the said estate be assigned 30 such
persons as are by law entitled TO the same;
Il is ordered. that said application be heard
before this court. at a regular term thereof Y
be held at the probate Office, in the City Of VI
roaua. on the sixth day Of September, 1922. si
10 100 o'clock, A. NJ.
And il is further ordered, that notice Of thu
time and place of examining and allowing ssit
account, and Of assigning the residue Of sAit
estate, be given to all persons interested. b.
publication of a copy OF this order, for thre'
successive weeks in the Vernon County Censor
a newspaper published In said county. befor,
the day fixed for said hearing.
Dated this 9th day of August. 1929.
By the Court. D.O.MAHONEY, County Judge
l > T. u
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
A Rare One

/ once knew
A girl
Who was so modest
That she wouldn't
Even do
Improper fractions
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16

II have some black dirt for sale
just the thing for filing up that sunk
en- lawn Of yours. Apply at o. l.. Blu
cbanan's Lumber yard.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16

Doan's Kidney Pills-the same thai
Mr.. Older had. Foster-Milburn Co.
Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-16
FoR COUNTY CLERK

10 the voters Of Vernon County.
At the request Of friends. / hereby announce
myself as a candidate for the office Of County
Slerk Of Vernon County subject 70 your viii
~ the primary election 70 be held September
township the last two years and before tnss
my father. John II. V1neel held the ofHee
snd a. be wss helpless for more than thres
yea1. ! had the whole responsibility Of the
and will greatly appreciate your vc4e and
support MINNIE N. VANCE
Judsonia weekly advance., 1922-02-09

the field of private enterprise They
were too fine and too patriotic to leave
their posts.
Under the compelling force Of pa
triotism they made willing sacrifices
during the war, but with the return of
peace the government cannot expect
to retain these employees indefinitely,
becaus" in justice to themselves and
their families they will sooner or later
accept the larger opportunities that are
open to them in the world of business
and industry unless the government
proposes to pay them salaries that at
least reasonably approach the value of
their services.
"Only prompt action by the congress
to build up permanent and dignified
civil service which will include men
of great ability and high attachments
cam prevent mistakes and failures in
the transaction of the public business,
the consequences of which may be
calamitouS"
EX-Representative Good, who was
chairman of the appropriations COM
mittee of the house, is equally frank:
To-day duplication in the govern
ment service abounds on every hand.
For example, eight different DEPART
ments of the government with large
overhead organizations, are engaged
in engineering work, in navigation. ir-
rigation and drainage; eleven different
bureaus are engaged in engineering
research; twelve different organiza-
tons are engaged in road con-
! Struction, while twelve, with large
overhead organizations, are engaged
in hydraulic construction and sixteen
are engaged in surveying and map
ping. Sixteen different bureaus exer-
else Jurisdiction over water-power de-
velopment. Nine different organiza-
tions are collecting information on the
consumption of coal Forty-two differ
ent organizations, with overhead ex-
penses, are dealing with the question
of public health.
The Treasury department, the War
department, the Interior department
and the Labor department each has q
bureau dealing with the question of
general education. These departments
operate independently instances of CO.
operation between them are excep-
tional. Each of these departments is
manned at all times with an organiza-
ton prepared to carry the peak of the
load and maintains an expensive
ready-to-serve personnel. A lack Of
4.
cooperation in the executive depart
ments necessarily leads to gross ex.
travagance. The system is wrong. and
J congress alone can change the system
Judsonia weekly advance., 1922-02-09
VII.
WHY GOOD MEN DODGE

The government service must look
largely to the graduates from colleges
and universities in recruiting for its
! technical work. Replies to an inquiry
addressed to some forty of the leading
colleges and universities of the coun-
try to discover what class of men took
civil service examinations, whether
the number is decreasing and, if so,
the reasons, disclose wildly what the
! training schools of technical and scien-
tific men think about the government
as an employer. They warn their
graduates against government service,
and the graduates heed the warning
Carnegie Institute of Technology
at Pittsburgh, reports:
It is certainly true that the best of our
graduates are not interested in govern
ment employment because they feel that,
first of all, it does not pay adequate sal
aries, nor does it offer opportunity for
advancement that private enterprise does.
This spring | interviewed all the mem
bers Of the graduating class except the
women and none of them would consider
government employment, although there
were many positions open. There
Ill e llOW dbOul LOW hiatt graduates Ol lHt
institute, and l will venture to state that
not more than ten are employed by the
government.
Replies of similar tenor and import
were received from the University of
Chicago, Leland Stanford university,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton university, Indiana uniyer
sity, and the University of Wisconsin.
inequality of compensation is one
of the chief reasons that deter scien-
tifc men from going into the govern
ment service. Congress fixes the sal
ares of most of the government en-
ployees. | can give a concrete illus
tration of how it determines the sal
aries of scientific men.
DIR. Leland o. Howard and DIR. Ed
ward w. Nelson are two scientists in
the employ of the government who
have national regulations.
The appropriation bill for the De-
partment Of Agriculture was under
consideration in the house on January
Both, 1920. The secretary of agricul-
ture had been recommending for five
or six years that Doctor Towards
salary be increased from 81, 800 to $5,-
900. He proposed it again in that
years bill. When the item was reached
in the discussion on the floor, this col
loquy ensued:
Mr.. Stafford-Mister Chairman, 1 re-
serve point of order on the paragraph.
Is the entomologist whose salary you
propose to increase the same person rec
commended for an increase last year?
Mr.. lever-Yes he has been in the gov
eminent service many many years.
The Chairman-I make the point of or
der.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1922-02-09

Millions of people have not only
been relieved of the most obstinate
forms of dyspepsia and indigestion by
Tanlac after other remedies nave
failed, but large numbers of them
have reported a remarkable and rapid
increase in weight and a return to nor
NAL health and strength by its use.
In fact, so phenomenal have been
the gains in weight by thin, frail peo-
pie through the use of Tanla,c that
this remarkable preparation is now
being proclaimed everywhere as the
Worlds Greatest Tonic.
The food people eat does them alb
solutely no good unless they digest it
properly. When you suffer from in
digestion and other forms of stomach
trouble, the food does you harm in
stead of good, because food which is
not digested stays in the stomach and
ferments, causing pains, swelling, gas
on stomach, shortness of breath, bad
taste in the mouth, dizziness and
many other disagreeable symptoms.
If this condition is permitted to run
on for an indefinite period the entire
Judsonia weekly advance., 1922-02-09
SYSTEM is ALL WRONG

The great difficulty that stands in
the way of discussing Uncle Sam as
an employer is that there is no such
person. The men who stand in the
relation of employer to their subordi-
mates are nothing but employees them
selves, and temporary ones at that,
with very fleeing tenure of office.
Cabinet officers and members of con-
gress, to whom the rank and file of
employees look for guidance for
solution of their problems, are simply
fleeing figures that come and go, with
their own interests to serve. They
testify freely enough as to conditions
of government employment. Senator
Carter Glass, recently secretary of the
treasury, for example:
1.-THE largely multiplied business of
the government cannot be conducted
with efficiency and economy unless
there be attracted to and retained in
the public service group of highly
trained, well-paid and permanent Off
Gals of supervisory grades. Uncer-
tainty of tenure in some instances and
inadequacy of compensation have
closed the public service to many men
of the best type or forced them out of
government employ at the moment of
their greatest usefulness
1.-THE war has increased the public
debt more than twenty-five fold and
has augmented the functions and ac-
titrif Of
ways. The duties are greater and the
responsibilities are larger than those
OF other days, to the standards of
which it is not to be expected that
the government will ever return. The
conditions are such that failure to take
the necessary action to invite and
hold in the public service men of ex-
ceptional ability and of real distinc-
| ton in their fields can result only in
grave burdens to the taxpayers of the
country and in possible disaster.
ALREADY the transaction of the
business of the government is ham,
! pered by deficiencies of personnel due
] to the return to private life of many
men of large capacity who during the
! period of active warfare were willing
and glad to serve their country al
great personal sacrifice. / have come
TO learn that there are heroes in the
| civil establishments as well as in the
military services, self-sacrificing pa
triots who toll year In and year out foi
bare pittance when they could com
mand salaries double or treble the
| amounts they receive from the govern
ment, but who, for the love of theil
| country and for the love Of theil
work. have rejected allufing offers ir
Judsonia weekly advance., 1922-02-09
Western Newspaper Union
dr. Lever-I concede it.
By EDWARD G. LOWRY

Mr. Lever-I concede it.
Mr.. Mclaughlin of Mchigan-Wil the
gentleman reserve his point of orderF
Mr. Stafford-I will reserve 1t.
Mr.. McI.aughlin-The committee made
the recommends ton to increase the sal
airy $780, took testimony on 1t and con-
sidered 1t very carefully. In our Judg-
ment the increase in salary ought to be
made for an official who has been In the
department, as the chairman says, for a
| long time at the head of this bureau. He
! has performed able and faithful services.
The salary is less than that paid to the
heads of other bureaus We felt, after
| listening to all that was said, and with a
| knowledge of the work he has been doing
and has done, the salary proposed is not
too large.
Mr. Stafford-How long has he been
there?
Mr. Lever-He has been there forty-two
years.
Mr. Stafford-What is his age?
Mr. Lever-Over sixty, perhaps nearer
seventy, but he is still vigorous and able
to do good work. He is one of the
greatest entomologists in the world
The Charman-The point of order is
sustained.
Five minutes later the matter of
Doctor Nelson's salary was reached.
The secretary of agriculture recon-
Iaended an increase of his pay from
$500 to $4,000. This happened:
Mr. Stafford-Mister Chairman, I re-
serve the point of order on the para
graph. Will the chairman of the COM
mittee inform the house as to how long
this biologist has been in the service
of the government and how long he has
been receiving the present salary of $500,
on which you recommend an increase OF
$500?
Mr.. Lever-Mister Chairman, this gen.
tleman. whose name is Nelson, has been
in the service of the department since
November, 1890. He has served as chief
field naturalist from 1907 to 1912, and was
assistant in charge % the biological in
vestigation, from 1918 to 1914. On August
6, 1914, he was appointed assistant CHIEF
of the bureau, and on December /, 1916,
was made chief of the bureau. He took
the place of Doctor Henshaw.
Mr. Stafford-And the salary has been
SO, 500 since 1916?
Mr. LeVer-YeS.
Mr. Stafford-What is his age?
Mr.. Lever-I should think that Doctor
Nelson is round fifty years of age.
Mr.. Stafford-He is not superannuated.
Mr. Lever-Oh. no; he is very vigor-
Gus man.
Mr.. Stafford-Mister Chairman, I with
draw the point of order.
Doctor Howard was refused his in
crease of pay because he was too OLD,
lover sixty, perhaps nearer seventy"
Doctor Nelson was allowed his in
crease because he was not superan-
nuated but in his prime, "round fifty
years of age
Now, as a matter of fact, Doctor
Howard is more than two years young
er than Doctor Nelson. Is it any Won
der that scientific men of any attain
ments are reluctant to enter a service
where the measure of the value of
their services is set down in any such
haphaZard and casual way?