Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-03-02
March.
The first month of eprlng.

For glass and putty go to Towner''
Ed. Perham spent Sunday at Spartl
For lamps and fixtures go
Towner's.
House to rent. Inquire Of d. {
Mahoney.
Burger & Hoffman will put in {
portable stave mill at Readstown.
DIR. S. A. Mellen and J. NJ. Hill, @
Retreat, were registered in the city, Sat
urday.
Mrs. III. A. Oxen, who has been ii
for three or four months, is improving
rapidly.
Frank Minshall has added ne'
oil wagon to his general collection o
vehicles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Chase enter
tanned the Kavenieh whist club, Frida,
evening.
-Ansnias Smith is b1ilding new
tenement house on the site of the ont
recently burned.
Hon. Allen Rusk, who was tsker
ago, is convalescing.
Mrs I'll. 9. Costing, who has beer
i'll for several months, is reported a.
making decided improvement.
William Morrison and Sylvester
Solverson took turns, Friday evening, IL
riding the Woodman goat.
Fred P. Bean, of Retreat, was ir
Monday night and "walked the plank
at Odd Fellows Encampment.
Mrs. s. J. Robinson, aged 80 years
a resident Of Viroqus town, fell ans
broke an arm few days since.
AT Edgerton they are unable to So
cure sufficient sorters to work the tobacco
warehouses at their full capacity.
Butcher shop in city to rent. Fully
equipped with tools and fixtures. 10
quire of L. W. Switzer, Viroqua.
The Herald says the question of
license will be voted on in the town of
Kickspoo at the spring election.
DIR. Suttle, w H. Pulver and Ell,
E. Rogers, last week, atten d ed Grand
0 Id Fellows Encampment at Beaver
Dam.
Mr.. Herbert Giertson and wife, &C
companisd by the latter's brother, Victor
Lind, made a short visit to La Crosse,
last week.
1t begins to look as if the ground
hog prediction would be verified. We
have had three weeks of real winter
since he came out of his burrow.
-L;ncoln's anniversary was appropri-
ately observed by the Womsn's Relief
Corps and g. A. r. Post at De Soto. A
patriotic program was carried throu gh.
Manager Nordal Neprud tells the
CENSOR that they are arranging for q
complete renovation of their Coon Valley
mills and the addition of the latest and
most perfect Touring apparatus.
The CENSOR fully endorses the citi-
zens move in petitioning the city council
to make tax levy of one mill on the
dollar to establish and put the city Ii
brary in good condition. 1t is a move
in the right direction.
In Squire McMichael's court, on
Monday, Osullivan Larson and Will
Nevil we're bound over to circuit court
on charge of assaulting Mat Kane, near
Rising Sun, few weeks since. Each
furnished $500 bail bond.
Fully fourty Viroqua citizens and
students paid Westby a neighborly call
last Friday night and the high school
Debating club entertained the Westby-
ties with a repetition of debate given
some time since. The attendance was
very large.
A town of Coon young man, son of
Hans Davidson, recently invented a
hair curling device for which he received
$1,000 in cash and transportion on one
of the leading lines of railway. The
patent was sold to Indianapolis manu-
facturers.
The home talent will give minstrel
show March II, the proceeds to go to
ward purchasing piano for the high
school The best talent has been select
cd from business men aud students,
which will insure the entertainment be-
ing most pleasing to patrons and
IT the man who wrote poem once
about "The Beautiful Snow" lived at this
age and had 20 hustle out early in thu
morn and break his back shoveling of
sidewalks, he might be able to speak
about realities rather than sentiment
There are other things just as beautiful
as snow when it lies in ten-fOot drifts
across your right of way.
The B B society of the Church o
Christ gave their anniversary social Oh
last Friday evening The report of las
years work showed the neat little sun
of $435 earned by the ladies, and which
hps been applied to various church pur
poses The officers elected for ensuing
year we're: President, Mrs Geo. Stokes
secretary, Mrs. J. Z. Parker; treasurer
Miss Eva Morrison.
During the entertainment given b.
the Lyric ladies at Opera house, Sstur
day evening, number of the youns
ladies in the audience expressed thei
solicitude for those in the rear by remov
ing their hats. Several expressions o
gratitude we're made manifest by man,
in few complimentary remarks. VIII,
not Viroqua ladies make this the rul
for public entertainments?
Rabbits are spreading diphtheris
the doctors say, throughout the centrs
part OF Iowa. Some time ago it wa
noticed that hundreds of the bunnie
were dying of disease which the doctor
pronounced almost identical with dlph
liberia in the human family. Soon afte
the epidemic commenced among the fan
lilies 10 the locality The conclusion wa
reached that the germs were conveye
by the Iowa animals.
John E. Gosling left for Sslid'
Colorado, Monday, to take a positio
with the master mechanic of the Denve
& Rio Grande railway. John leave
many friends in Viroqua, who wish hir
all kinds of good luck in his new depart
ure. -Sinee the above was written "
learn that John will take to the ives
with him life partner. The lady
Miss Jennie Vaughan of Bangor,
Young lady well-kuown here. The cers
mony occurred in Chicago, yesterda,
at the home of and by the bride
brother
The CENSOR man paid Westby
call between trains last Thursday. This