Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-30
VERNON COUNTY CENSOR
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1899.

The latest designs in wall paper at
Towner's.
Captain Conner is spending a season
in Chicago.
For paints, oils, and varnishes go to
Towers.
Get your floor paints of Towner, the
best in the market.
Will TOllefsOn, of La Crosse, is
visiting friends in town.
If you want a macintosh Michael
sohn sell the cheapest and best.
The county medical society will
meet at Chaseburg, on Thursday.
Ten new high schools have been in
stituted in the state within the past few
months.
Frank A. Chase has purchased the
Riley Davick farm, of 80 acres, three
miles west of this city.
-Dinsdale & Brown have been arrang-
ing a large ice pond three miles east of
town nea one of the fine springs.
Mrs. N. II. Burger of Viola, and Mrs.
L. G. McCollum, of Muscoda, were guests
fMrs. Munson the last part of the week.
There will be an ice cream sociable
at Frank Edwards, Brookville, Saturday
evening, Sept. 2, for benefit of Pastor
Peckham.
Copper in paying quantities has
been discovered near BoscObel, and a
company composed of business men has
been organized to prosecute mining OPP
erations.
"A good deal Of threshing has already
been done, enough to demonstrate that
the yield of small grain in our vicinity
Is good in quality and satisfactory in
quantity.
There will be an ice cream sociable
at the Salem church, town of Webster,
Friday evening, September LIST pro
cee0s to go on pastors salary. All are
cordially invited.
School teachers will thoroughly en-
10y q pair of new box calf TaxedO
boots. Just the thing for walking, for
standing, or for wet weather, a comfort
all through their lives.
VIROQUA SHOE STORE.
Everything in the shirt line, from
the cheapest everyday to the finest silk
and silk striped, with or without collars,
laundried or unlaundried, at Michael
sOhn's. Also the latest bicycle and
driving caps, soft and Derby hats.
The first essential for enduring hot
spells is to get plenty of sleep. There
is eminent medical authority for the
statement that heat prostratiOns are due
much more to the exhaustion incident
to insufficient sleep OF successive hot
nights than to the actual intensity OF tbt
daily heat.
Fred Stolls farm team made a live
ly chase from the Park hotel corner tC
his home a mile north of town. The
driver, a farm hand, did vigorous worl
in his efforts to stop them, but in vain.
He was thrown ont of the buggy an(
the vehicle was detached with larg'
d~islocations, near the residence of Nell
Allen.
The Rev. w. B. Costley, of Stock
bridge, Ga, while attending to his past
oral duties Mt Fleetwood, that state, wa
attacked by cholera morbus. He says
BY chance l happened to get hold of
bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Choler;
and Diarrhoea Remedy, and / think i
was the mans of saving my life. 1t re
lieved me at once For sale by A. J
johnson 81 CO., druggists.
Ed. White returned from the ives
on Wednesday. He was accepted in thu
volunteer service, but his parents wef
unwilling to give their assent to his am
billions to go out of the country. Gar
field and Willard Pencil enlisted and
Went Immediately to their regiment
the saith. at Fit. Logan, Montana. Thi
regiment will soon leave for San Fran
cisco and be sent to the Philippines b.
early transports.
Dealers from this portion of the stat,
who have visited Vernon county sine,
the storm last week are of the opiniol
that fully one-ifth of the acreage in tn,
county was injured w the storm, mucl
of it so badly that ii will not be har
vested. -Edgerton Tobacco Reporter
Guess the fellows who gave such a re
port either did not visit the injured
streak or have not informed themselve
of the extent of our acreage.
Twenty carloads of gravel hav
been or are to be brought to this city b,
the st. Paul company to improve tn
streets and grounds about the new de
pot. 1t is splendid material for tn
purpose. Flower beds, grass plats, etc.
have been laid out there and it will be
beauty spot when nature responds +
che designs of the artificer. A crew o
painters wera here last Friday givin,
the roof of the new depot q wearing o
the green.
1t appears from government report
inst published that there were cigar
enough manufactured in this country i
the fiscal year, 1S9S-99 - allow each mar
woman and child counting the populs
ton IS, 900, 000) 60 of cigarettes, "a, ant
of smoking and chewing tobacco, 4 lbs
Anyone reading this statement will b
able to figure out wheather they hav
had their share or not. The habit o
chewing tobacco is evidently on the il
crease, it is stated.
A telegram from Columbus, OhiC
states a case that approaches the Virt
qua asylum knife swallowing case.
ii dated August Is, and is as follow
Eliza Day. a colored patient at tt
Columbus state hospital, died Wedne
day of peritonitis. An autopsy yeste
day revealed in her stomach the handl,
of five silver spoons, 80 cambria needle
and nearly SO other needles, About
year ago the woman told an attendal
that she had swallowed several spoon
but the story was regarded az a yagal
of her disordered mind She never a
peared to suffer any pain, or have al
trouble with her stomach"