Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-08-31
Soon be frost,
Two weeks till fair.
Flies are awful sassy"

Files are awful "sassy."
Money to loan on real estate.
JACKSON SILBAUGH.
Money to loan on real estate. G
Ell. Minsball.
Buy hat! yes, but get the latest
at MichaeIsohn's.
County convention next Tuesday
Fair the week following.
County fair Sept - to Is Get
something ready to exhibit
The funniest and best play OF the
season at Opera house, next Tuesday.
Misses Martha Love and Adna De-
Witt have open ID dress making shop
over Dahl's drug store.
- For SALE, t-cass second hand
engine; 75-horse power, cheap. Address
lock box 63, Viroqua, Wis
-Professoc and Mrs. Williams have
taken rooms over the Strawn building
and will board at the Park hotel.
-Mrs. Abner Silbaugh was called to
Groton, South Dakota, on Saturday, by
the critical illness OF her mother.
Calvin Morley returned from the
northern part of the state, Saturday,
where he visited With his b. other Leon
ard.
Clarence Garter has his new house
we'll under construction in the First
ward. He will move here from Reads
town.
John M White and wife have t. XII
possession of their new residence in The
First ward 1t is little palace of a
home.
Song service will be held at the new
Lutheran union church at Harrison
IL blow. next Sunday, lat 10 o'clock. All
invited.
Stephen Egness has accepted a
a position with the Boston Clothing
House. He has been with f. NJ. Town
er for several years.
-Wyman L. Officer, of Chicago, has
been engaged as instructor of short
hand in the Peoples Business College,
at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Regular meeting of the Ladies' Aid
society of the Congregational church
will be held in the church parlor, Thurs
day, Sept. 1, at 3 p m.
Corporal Fred Har son of Company
M, has been accorded che distinction of
promotion to cy;or bearer in the Fourth
regiment HJ Camp Dougl las.
- Tue conditions could not b. better
for p lifting crops in shape for the larg
est aud best exhibit of farm products
ever shown at our county fair.
The evening of the bicycle races,
the L A W. members of our city gave
a dance in honor of the visiting man
bers. A good time was enj Dyed.
DR.. Porter goes to Milwaukee aid
Chicago to-day. Wni absent he will
Purchase a gasoline engine to run his
feed cutter, chu"ns, milk separator, etc.
-Repnbican farmers, every one Of
them, should drop their work long
enough next Saturday, to attend the
c4ucuses. Ia the long run it will be a
good Investment.
Republicans of Viroqua should bear
ia mind that ward caucuses for the
election of delegates to the county and
assembly conventions, will be open from
to s o'clock next Saturday.
William Doris, young married
man, fell 30 feet at the new library
building at Madison on Saturday morn
ing, striking on his head and breaking
his neck, and killing him instantly.
Thirty nine bushels of Golden Cross
wheat to the acre is what George Man
lev threshed off of five acres of land. 1t
is one OF the best yislds of wheat 10 this
section in many a day, says the Viola
Iutelligencer.
The contract for digging and refill
ing the trenches for water mains was let
to Charley Plimmer and George Morri-
son by the city council. The price is
80 cents a rod There will be between
$50 and 500 rods.
Three months free tuition is the
very liberal offer of the Wisconsin Busl-
ness University to all students who en-
ter first week of fall term, Sept. 8. Nine
out of every ten graduates secure posi-
tions. Send for catalogues. W. b. u
La Crosse.
Werner Frazier of Spriugville, who
won the honor of the appointment of
cadetship at West Point, has the dis
tinctiou OF being a room mate of the
brother of the celebrated and daring
Hobsol, who led the squad that sank
the Merrimac at S lntiago
With two $4,000 sp cislly guaran
teed purses the harness races at the
Wisconsin state fair, Milwaukee Sept
10 to "a, will attract the leading two
wheeled goers OF the Western states
Already the entries are Sufficient t
guarantee the best races ever seen IL
this state.
Miss Ksefe closed her work witt
the class in short hand on Saturday
and returned to La Crosse to open hel
business college on the 9Th of Septem
bar. Miss Ksefe is thorough master
of her profession and the young people
who were under her instruction ari
greatly pleased with their progress.
The Viroqus telephone system was
inaugurated just one year ago with &C
Instruments, about one half its number
of patrons to day. During the year
there was not a suspension of service fol
an hour at any one time During the
races last Thursday, the office, like
other business places, was closed for the
first time, for two hours. 1t was Their
that the indispensable chsracte r of the
system and service was felt. For Sc
short time people were lost and i'm
patient at the suspension.
The electric light plant will soor
have its Corliss engine in place, furnish
ed by the Viller Manufacturing com
PAW, of Milwaukee. 1t is of 100 hors'
power. with 14x36 inch cylinder. Thu
drive wheel is II feet in diameter Will
an Is inch face The Corliss engine
have reputation unequalled for thei
economy and power, and no doubt th
electric light company will be great
benefited by its acquisition. Charlie
Borgnes, representative of the Mil
waukee company, is experimenting it
erection.