Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-23
Picnics are the order.

first.
Miss Meta Sholtz, of Sparta, is Wis
iting Name Miller.
New, nobby and neat are those new
style hats at Michaelsohn's.
Best quality o~veralls in the marke
for 80 cents at Michaelsohn's.
-Queal g. Company want You to con
and look yer their hardwood flooring
White goods, organizes, piques, lace
and embroideries, at Rogers & Williams
The latest designs and the fines
assortment of wall paper at Towner's
The best cement ard glue in tn,
world at Towner's, only 10c per bottle
Mrs. Fannie Stumble, of Richlant
Center, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Cas-
son.
Miss Elvira Dinsdale. of Soldiers
Grove, is visiting her cousin, Ida Dins
dale.
Misses Hattie Wells and Bess Bur
gor are visiting many young friends IN
the city.
-Granvill Trimmer of Lancaster,
Ohio, is visiting with his uncle, L. I'll.
Glenn.
The Misses Julia and Title Lysne
have been here from La Crosse visiting
friends.
Mrs. j. A. Cummings came from
Sparta TO spend Sunday with relatives
and to attend campmeeting.
Miss Edith Shanks. who has been
spending the past month in Hillsboro,
returned home OF Wednesday.
Hans Ammunson and family, OF
La Crosse, are making their annual
camp-meeting visit to Viroqua.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Dunlap are of
on q months visit with their sons al
West Superior and Rockford. Illinois.
Prof. BRONSON, the eye specialist
next visit will be at the Park hotel in
Viroqua, fair week-Sept. 10Th to 23d.
-Theo. Lokken of the Blue Front
| clothing store is taking a short vacation
and is putting it in on the farm at home
near LOvaas.
Miss Rebecca Nuzum will teach al
Onalaska the coming year. She is a
recent graduate of the Stevens Point
normal school,
-Thorval Stigen and Samuel Void OF
Clinton, purchased from Davis & Wise
a new Nichols & Shepard threshing
| separator.
The Field children. Eva, Johnnie,
Ruth and Luella, of Oklahoma, came
here to join their mother, who spent
| the summer here.
The first grist of new wheat was
ground at the Viroqua% Touring mills last
Friday. The new wheat is said to be OF
excellent quality.
-Richland Center defeated Hillsboro
at ball, Thursday, at the latter place.
Eleven innings were necessary to decide
the game. Score IS to Z.
Friday and Saturday were desper-
ately hot days. The storm Sunday
morning cleared the atmosphere and it
has since been clear and cool.
Five horses were driven across the
country to be entered in the Sparta ra-
ces-three of Frank Minshalls, G. G.
Browns a and A. J. Johnsons PAGER.
Elmer Smith leaves next Friday for
Platteville, where he will enter the nor
NAL school. Miss Allie Richards re-
news her studies at the same institu-
ton.
Mrs. F. K. Van Wagner has been
notified of her allowance of a widows
| pension of eight dollars per month. 1t
was procured through G. H. Minshall's
agency.
Mons Helgeson has returned from
two weeks harvesting at his old Craw-
ford county home. He has purchased
| an interest in Otto Otteson's furniture
business.
There is a base ball war on between
| La Fargo and Viola that threatens to
engage the two towns in rebellion.
| From a distance we cannot act as me-
| diator or umpire.
-Hillsboro fair officers are doing the
proper thing in securing private lodging
| places for visitors in case of the hotels
being overtaxed. Their fair falls on the
week previous to ours.
Miss Myra Hart, of Richland Cen
| ter, is the guest of her uncle and aunt,
| Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Gorsuch. She will
| enter Stevens Point normal with the
beginning of the term.
On Thursday, August 31st, at his
! farm five miles northeast of Viroqua,
| Jesse Garrett will sell a lot of personal
property at auction. Mr.. Garrett ex-
poets to remove to this city.
Members of the Chatting dish club,
with their husbands, spent Wednesday
in picnicking about Towervillc. A par
| ty of twenty ladies and gentlemen
ming on Friday.
Miss Emma Borgerson. who has been
a faithful and intelligent attache Of the
CENSOR office for the past six years, is
taking a much needed and well earned
rest, and will tomorrow go to Chicago
for a visit with her sister.
Every road leading from Viroqua
has been quite generally monopolized
for the past fortnight by farmers teams
ladened with lumber for tobacco sheds
and other farm buildings. Dealers
have realized a heavy trade.
Reports here are that Mrs. N. D.
Ward, of Wheaton, Ill, formerly OF
Viola, died Friday last, after a sickness
of some Duration. She was a longtime
and highly respected woman of Viola,
The family removed to Illinois about q
year ago.
Prof. r. E. Buckley connected with
the geological department of the state
university, spent Saturday and Sunday
in this section. He was making officia
inspection of the elays and building
stones of this community. He returned
to Madison by way of Soldiers Grove.
A mysterious death occurred in the
town of Jefferson on Mon1ay morning
An eight-year-old granddaughter o.
Eli og Dahle died suddenly. She wa
we'll as usual Sunday, arose MondaJ
morning and complained of not feeling
well and died within two or three hours
Mr.. j. NJ. Wagner, n of the young
farmers of Hillsboro, who graduated
from the short course in agriculture a
the state university, has been awarded
the Hoard gold medal of 800 for beins
the best expert judge of dairy cattle. l
is a great victory for Mr.. Wagner ant
Vernon county.
Judge John Nicholson, of Water
town, South Dakota, accompanied b.
his sister, were the guests of Rev. VIM
Haughton's family, Thursday and Fri
day. Mr.. Nicholson was a Viroqu;
school boy years ago. He studied law il
the office of Rusk & Vinjie and after
wards moved to South Dakota, where h
has prospered in his profession and beef
, prominent in politics.
Mr.. Chas. E. Ady, who taught coun
try schools in this section a few year
ago, and has many relatives here, ha
developed a great gift for life INSURANCE
work He has panrasautad the NatiOna