Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-11
--Tirza Dinsdale spent last week i,

pass several weeks at the old home.
s Will hoard four girls, cheap. during
review school Inquire of Mrs. f, o
: Larsen
e. A. Alden and wife came ovei
from Hillsboro for a short visit Will
relatives
{ lightning killed COW in the hero
: of G. T. Smith in the town of Viroqua
a week since.
Jacob Appleman and sons, Mordecai
and Sim of Webster We're in the city
on Tuesday.
Two ladies' bicvcles for sale one at
S., the other at $l2. Inquire at the
Telephone office
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Henry will
celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary on the 18th.
The Misses Birdie and Winnie Nixon
of LaFarge. are visiting their many
friends in the city.
E. r. Petherick, member of the
state board of control. paid ti;e county
institutions an official visit Oa Tuesday,
Prof Jdlius Stackmaa. late of
Ontario has gone to Chautauqua Lake,
New York, to spend the assembly season.
The convention of the democrats Of
! the third district to nominate can
| didate for congress will be held in the
city of Madison on August 81.
DIR. Baldwin viii attend a meeting
/ of the state dental society at La Crosse
next week, and his Office will be CLOSED
on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday
-Cashton and New Lis lon base ball
teams will play game, Sunday next at
| Cashton. This will be hotly contested
| game as neither team has lost this season.
Mr.. F ]. Coleman, representative
| of Sufter Brothers, wholesale tobacco
dealers, is in this section looking over
! tobacco fields. He reports the crop
rather backward throughout the state.
Mn and Mrs. J. A. Eeadle, who
have been at the eIichols home for some
weeks, left fer Canada. on Tuesday,
where they VIII spend some time before
returning to aheir Wyoming home
John DeI4acy, late principal of the
Sprin' .iiie schools, is attending the
univo--.ty review school at Madisou.
We understand that he will enter che
law school with the ensuing school year.
A Springville correspondent says
that lightning struck the farm house of
Tennis Stoleson during Fridays storm
and at last report Mrs. Stoleson was
Frustrated from the effects of the snoch.
DIR. Suttle has received a commission
! as assistant surgeon for the state in the
uniformed rank Patriarch Militant or
hi her order of Odd Fellowship The
appointment carries with il the rank of
captain.
"A party of Masons consisting of S.
r. Pollard, A. J. Beat S. A. Farr Ed.
Minshall, James McCaull and Edgar
Curry, went TO Viola, Tuesday night to
assist in comforting third degree work on
| the latter's brother Guy.
The Sumner Qowa) Gazette, sent us
| By some party, records the death at that
/ place. of CLANCY Tibbitts, suddenly of
/ heart failure. on June Goth Mr.. Tib-
belts was one of the early settlers of
| Franklin, where his wife died in 1863.
Numerous relatives still reside in this
| county.
Prof Pearson's normal review
school viii open in Viroqua next Mon
| day The attendance is liable to be
| large if expressions are to be taken as
an indication The school will without
| doubt be complete success. Mr. Pear
son has a corps of able educators to
assist him.
Attorney c. J. Smith is receiving
a visit from his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
| Mrs. f. L. Adams of Nebraska. They
| have been in Grant county and go from
| here to Buffalo county. Mr.. Adams
says it is very doubtful indeed whether
Bryan carries Nebraska. and that his
opinion il that he will.not be able to do
| SO.
There has been another change in
the ownership of the city electric light
I ing plant, James Treseder having dis
| posed of his one-third interest to John
NJ. White of this city. Mr.. White took
\ immediate possession. We hope this
/ does not mean that Mr.. Treseder and
family contemplate a removal from vi
roqua.
During the heavy storm of last Fri
day hail fell in many sections about us,
! but with little damaging effect. Henry
/ Hopp's wind mill WAS blown down and
partially destroyed, Anthony Mulcrone's 8
] tobacco shed was levelel4 to the ground,
| mashing a carriage in the rains, John
1 NJ. Vances tobacco house was damaged
| Others experienced similar loss.
Rev Thos. J. Snodgrass arrived in
| the city on last Saturday and went di-
1 rectly to Yuba. Richland county, 20
1 attend the funeral of his sister, Susan
4 Beck. wife of the latu Mitchell Beck,
4 who died the day previous. Mrs. Beck
| was the daughter of Joseph Snodgrass,
/ one of the early settlers of this section.
1 She was the mother of eleven children.
A lively fraternai gathering was
held in this city on Monday night by
Viroqua Odd Fellows Encampment,
| when eight candidates for the mysteries
| of the order were introduced and con
| Quoted in the various dark paths to tn {
closing scenes of the entire degrees,
| consuming very much of the night to
| complete the work. A fine banquet was
served about midnight with forty pre-
| sent participating. Those present from
| abroad to have degrees conferred upon
| them were Homer A. Lombard, Charlie
De Jear, John Marshall, DR.. Gaines,
| John Galloway, all of Ia Fargo. A w.
| DeJean was also present, from the same
/ place The gentlemen are enthusiastic
/ in the belief that an encampment will
/ ere long be instituted at La Fargo.
There is some talk of organizing a
band association here similar to the one
20 successfully operated III Hillsboro,
I In towns where the band members are
not professional musicians and have
other methods Of wolE for livelihood.
! using the band only as a means of enter.
tainment for the public and recreation
| for themselves this association plan
seems TO meet with the best results in
I keeDing the band in good condition. II