Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-26
VERNON COUNTY CENSOR
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20. 1898.
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For glass and putty go TO Towners
Harold Proctor is home from Madi.
son.
John N. Hall was Clinton caller
Friday.
Robbie Rice has been quite i'll with
pneumonia.
Mrs. L. r. Arlington is visiting al
La Crosse.
John Michelet was in the city last
Wednesday.
DIR. Cory arrived in the city Tues
day from Iowa.
VIM. Dowell of the first ward, has
been seriously i'll.
Miss Sarah Stewart of Viola, visited
at Wilfred Tongues.
DR.. Fox's Dyspepsia Tablets are
for sale by all druggists.
"A. d. Helgeeon received full car
load of fine carriages on Thursday.
&C. FL. Carter of Readstowp, was
registered at the fremont, Saturday.
Peter Stevenson, of franklin, who
is quite old, is reported as seriously ill.
-yiroqua Epworth League will give
Washington entertainment on Feb. %.
-Dyspepsia can be cured by using
DR.. Fox's Tablets, 35 and so cents per
box.
Superintendent Johnson, of the
the Rchlano county insane asylum, was
over Friday.
William Atchison of GAINESVILLE, is
visiting with his uncle in this city and
at Liberty Pole.
An oyster supper will be given at
the residence of H. f Swain, near Brook
VILE, Friday evening.
l.. r Arlington is improving his
gallery both in convenience and looks
by remodeling the interior.
The date of DR.. McElwee's next visit
to Viroqua is Tuesday, Feb l, at the
Viroqua hotel. Consultation free.
Coon Valley will soon have Wood
man Camp. The order is growing very
rapidly in Vernon county, as elsewhere.
William henry Harrison Cash, the
builder of the Viroq ia branch railroad,
was over from New Lisbon on Wednes-
day.
w r. Dixon, son of Rev. Dixon,
VINO has been attending theological
seminary OF Chicago, is at home with
his parents.
Register Hutchinson and wife re-
turned from Readstown the latter part
of the week, where they made a pro-
tracted visit.
The first of series of four dances
will be given at Opera house, Monday
night next. Fisk & Weldon's orchestra
will furnish music.
Swain Olson, now employed in B.
f. Ferguson's harness shop, is the in
venLor of stitching horse. 1t is especi-
ally adapted for stitching tugs.
-EIroy council has audited detective
bills to the amount of $500 outsiders
brought there to ferret out illegal
liquor sellers. No convictions We're
made.
"A Rsadstown correspon dent says
that another general store is soon to be
opened there, on the west side in the
old Blse stand, by Albert Morkri, of
Folsom.
John and Horation Goode, who
accompanied their fathers remains from
Denver, Col, left Viroqua, Monday, for
their respective homes in Colorad and
Minnesota.
Me-. Fred Kehr of La Crosse, was
in the CITY on Friday and favored the
CENSOR with a brief call. He came to
Purdy g. to see his father-in. law, Mr..
Jenson, who is i'll.
AT Smith Brothers hardware store
will be given an exhibition of the Orient
al tea and coffee pot on Jan. % and 20.
Everybody is invited to call and sample
a cup of good tea or coffee, made in the
Oriental tea or coffee pot.
-Runsways are becomi ng frequent
in this city. Saturday the team of Will
Mills OF Franklin, ran from near Yale's
lumber yard to G 9 Browns corner,
where they were abruptly stopped by
collision with an electric light pole.
"A new enterprise has been estab-
lished at Stoddard, manufactury for
raft "plugs." Messrs. Blashell & Haines-
worth are proprietors, and they have
orders for plugs which will keep their
mill in full operation for three months.
The new hardware firm of G. Kueh
Ter & Co, are in possession of j. Ct
Strawp's store. The family of one of
the gentlemen occupy the living rooms
above. Mr.. Strawn aud femily occupy
portion of Mrs. vsnWsgner's house.
Lily, the young wife of Frank
Crook, died at Brookville, on the 18th,
after a months illness Revs. Peckham
and Nuzum officiated Mt the funeral the
day following. The lady was q years
of age, and leaves an infant babe and
another child.
We learn of the death, without
particulars, of William Marshall, who re-
sides near Dell. He was found dead in
the highway Sunday, and is supposed to
have been stricken by appoplexy and
fallen from his wagon. Rockton Ma.
sonic lodge conducted the burial Tues
day afternoon.
Miss Charity Coe was court reporter
at the late special term held at Mauston
for trial of the Babcock lumber case,
wherein Mrs. Potter sued the Necedah
Lumber Company for $4,000, which she
alleged the company wronged her when
it purchased her stock in the concern.
The trial occupied nearly two weeks,
and resulted in verdict for defendant
company of which, Congressman Babcock
is secretary.
An attempt WAS made to rob the
safe of Hull Bros meat market, at
Viola, Thursday night. The burglars
drilled hole into the safe door, and
had their charge of dynamite ready to
touch off when they were frightened
away and left their job unfinished. The
operators are supposed to be local par
ties, and the work would indicate that
they were the samecrowd who blew open
the safes of Van S. Bennett and the
La Fargo Mercantile Company two or
three years since.
Ia the use of ths telephone many
speak too fast and tooindistinctly as well
making it almost impossible to under
stand many of their words. The tele-
phone voice should bs deliberate and
every word we'll rounded at both ends SO
that they will not sound like the buzzing