Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-09-07
= Attend the fair.
Money to loan on real estate.
JACKSON SILBAUGH.
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) this county.
Work Of LAYING the new water mains
commenced, Saturday morning on South
} Main street.
Mrs. Martin Morrison is receiving
visit from an Indiana sister. Mrs.
Morrison is still very ill.
- For SALE, first class second hand
engine; To- horse power, cheap. Address
lock box 63, Viroqua, Wis.
Mics Jessie Joyce departed Tues.
day evening for Belt, Mont ana, for an
exteu ded visit with relatives.
Up at Stevens Point shippers are
reported as paying 20 and % cents for
potatoes. The crop is said to be good
John Galloway and wife of La
Fargo, have been in the city for week
Nc. Galloway is receiving treatment
hsre.
Some people live by their wits, but
he mai 1rlty Of mankind 1--we by taking
Rocky Mountain tea. 35 cents.-E. Ii.
Craig & Co.
Regular meeting of the Eastern
Star viii be held Tuesday, Sept Is All
officers and members are requested to be
present.
Miss Helen Swepson, OF Lacrosse,
returned to her clerical duties in Der,
ron's store, La Crosse, after her visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Lind.
Veterans John Wilkinson, Jesse
| ETers, M. A. Andrews and lady. of
Readstown, were among Sundays ex
cursionists to the Dells and Camp Doug
las, on Sunday.
1t makes no difference how many
medicines have failed to cure you
While there's life there's hope, and
r ocky Mountain tea will make you we'll
e. III. Craig Il Co.
Joseph Hutchison, of Denver, Col
orado, nephew of Register Hutchinson,
was guest of his uncle the first of the
week. Joseph is interested in the manu-
facture Of bicycles in the Queen City.
Mr. Carpenter, of the Troy laundry
machinery comran of Chicago, is sup
erintending the work of placing the new
machinery in the Vernon county asylum
laundry building.
Mrs. Florence Cary, nee Robinson,
of fremont, Illinois, AID cousin of Mrs
M d Chase, is guest at the Chase
home Mes. Chase gave reception for
her Friday evening.
Oscar b. Spellum went to Waukon,
lowe, on Monday, to purchase apples
for J. l. Lamb, the La Crosse fruit man.
When the work is fioished there, he will
go to Michigan for the same purpose.
- hIeesrs. Z r. Petherlck, member of
the state board of control, and S. S
Land superintendent of the state school
for deper lent children, spent Friday in
this c ty and community on official busi-
ness.
Jacob Green llccsd on exhibition |
1T the CENSOR Office sample of wheat |
grown on his farm this year of the Red |
Cross variety. From one and a half
aces Of land he threshed fifty bushels
of large plump grain.
"A big Sunday school picnic is to be
held on the camp ground az Battle
Island, Saturday, S. tember II. It is
expe that the Sunday schools Of
Victory, De OTTO, New Albin and Gen.
trial will participate in the picnic.
Three months free tuition is the |
very liberal offer Of the Wisconsin Busl-
ness University TO all students who go
ter first week of fall term, Sept. 5. Nine
out of every ten graduates secure posi-
fAr ol u
IA Crosse.
S w. Moore, of Harmony, had his
Insurance. adjusted through the Dawson
oeurepce sgency. Loss on building
vas $500; insurance 500 Loss on
contents $28 Mr.. Moore lost 210
chickens, just ready for market, and
700 pounds of honey.
Mr. Chas. L Ady, wife and son
Merrill, OF Chicago, visited relatives and
friends here last week. Mr.. ADV, who
was a school teacher in this county dur
ing the SOS, is now general mant ger
for a prominent eastern insurance com
pany for the state Of Nebraska.
-Poslmaster Robb and son, of Gays
Mills, we're in the city on Friday.
PHYSICIANS removed from the nostrils of
the little bow pieces OF bark which he
had crowded there three months ago
The parents believed him to be suff4r-
ing from a severe case uf catgrr1.
Mrs E. III Craig, national counselor
of the W. r c., left for Cincinnati, OHIO,
on Sunday evenings train, in the iuter
est of the society. From Cincinnati
Mrs. Craig will go to Madisoo, Ohio, to
be present at the meeting of the home
board, hich 3ouvenes in that city this
week
Mr.. Z W. Scott, of Boston, an ex.
tenslve tobacco dealer, was in the comfy
last week looking over the great waving
f-lds Of tobacco. He said to the Gen
soR toat he did not see poor crop 10
his travels. He says the conditions are
m st favorable if our farmers do not
ctowd their sheds too much. Mr.. Scott
said there is no reason why prices should
not be mp to those of last season
'Thars is never Surplus of good to-
bscco" said he.
For the first time in history the
state of Wisconsin has taken possession
of dead mans estate and turned it
into 6 school fund as provided by law
James Mason, of Marinette, has been
dead twelve years, and efforts to find
heirs have been unsuccessful. There
are several other CAGES of similar char
acter 10 the courts. It will be surpris-
ing il publicity given the Mason matter
does not turn up swarm of people Of
that name, all closely connected and
eager to inherit.
A Victory writer says Charley
Stearus holds the record for catching
the biggest fish ever pulled out of the
Mississippi river in this secti m of coun-
try. 1t is called by local fisherman a
mud catfish and was captured in Lost
Channel, little below Victory. 1t is
alleged there was good sized young
pig inside this monster cat when cap
sured When dressed the fish weighed
40 pounds, and Bowman, the Viroqua
fish peddler, says the residents of the
Kickapoo country bought it eagerly and
pronounced it mighty good eating,
The special train ard sleeper took
out good delegation from this station
Sunday night bound for the Grand Army