Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-06-13
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visiting at DR.. Porter's.
Supt Wilkins spent Sunday with
his son Rob at the university.
Go to Towner's for the next tendays
and buy bicycles and baby carriages.
There are eight divorce cases ON the
court calendar for the present term.
Mrs. W. DeLap is in South Dakota
TO spend the summer with her daughter
-Laces, curtains and fine fabrics
should be washed only with Galvanic
Soap, the famous yeas washer
B c. Dinsdale and family have
moved TO their farm in the town of
Liberty, for the summer season.
Mr.. p N. Shumway, of Genoa has
been in the city for several days visiting
his daughter and old neighbors.
Frank Minshall, Master of La Belle
lodge, is in Milwaukee attending annual
session of the Masonic Grand lodge.
-Woodmen of Purdy are preparing
fora big time at that place on the Fourth.
De Soto and Ferryville will also celebrate
Theodore Tollefson, of Lawler, Iowa,
has been paying visit to his mother and
the old home. He is railroading in Iowa.
Chairman Stromstad and S. P. Lier
the latter candidate for the nomination
of county treasurer, We're in the city on
Tuesday.
The annual department encamp
ment, g. A. R., will be held at Superior
commencing next Tuesday and continu-
ing three days.
Machinery men generally report
sales slow this season More tobacco
planters have been sold, however, than
any one season before.
John Tower, the first settler and
founder of Towerville in 1855, spent a
few days in this city, with Mr. and Mrs.
V. E. Aiken. He resides en- Rush Creek
and is so years old.
Misses Ella and Sadie Higgins and
Cora Phillips of Franklin, and Grace
Alexander, OF Viroqua, left Monday, for
Wyoming, to accept positions in great
summer resort hotels.
And now the census enumerators de-
clare that there are more men who re-
fuse to tell their age than there are wo-
men who quibble on that point. This,
truly, is the age of women.
An ice-cream social at Pleasant
Ridge hall next Saturday evening COM
mencing at p m. Money raised to
buy hymn books and pay expense of
the church. All are invited.
Warren Dunlap is the latest to an
nounce his candidacy for county Office
subject to the renI.1iic an county conven-
tion He desires the position of coroner,
place he has filled many times in the
past
Home contractors secured the
building of the new Dahl-Beat block.
John w. Lake has secured the masonry
and s. C. jackson the woodwork Ex-
cavating for the building is now well
under way.
During the storm of Saturday night,
lightning struck and totally des troyed
by burning, st. James Catholic church
at La Crosse. The same flash set on
fire the large ice house connected with
Heileman's brewery, and burned that.
-Wes5by is making arrangements for
big celebration of the Fourth. 1t is
designed to have it one of the old time
demonstrations District Attorney Ben
nett and Prof Running of the state
university, are to be orators for the oc-
casion.
"A burglar broke into Vermont
minister's house the other night and
told him to be still while he hunted for
money in the house. The preacher told
the robber that he would like to help
him The house breaker then fed in
dismay.
Attention cf the travelling public is
called to the time card of the North
western railway. Service on that road
is excellent in ,all direction from Sparta,
and parties will find it to their int crest
to communicate with the agent at ) parta
who expect to make journey.
THfp p,.iy l.
mans Ridge. died June 1st of a compli-
cation of diseases, aged sixty De-
ceased came to this county in 1864 and
with her husband, the late John I.
Brinkman, they were the first settlers
at Brinkman Ridge. Four children
survive
Charley DeJean and Homer A. LON.
bard were over from LaFarge, Tuesday.
They were looking about our school
buildings in view OF the problem now
confronting thsir district, of replacing
the house recently burned there Mr..
Lombard also had in view his candidacy
for clerk of the court
DR. Kronsor. the eye specialist, will
be at the Park Hotel, in Yiroqua, Wed.
nesday and Thursday, June 18th and 18th.
If you are suffering from any trouble OF
the eye. need new glasses OF reftted
glasses, call at his rooms and consult
the professor. He plays no bunco game
on patrons. but comes here regularly
twice month
Two carloads of young western
horses were disposed of in this city on
Friday. Altogether they were the most
desirable bunch" of prairie-bred ami
mails ever unloaded here. Many of ou1
town and country neighbors made pur
chases. Howard and George Smith
bought eleven and Mr.. johnson oi
Christiana, took twenty one.
In Webster, last Saturday. the
dwelling house of Charles Jacobs was
destroyed by fire, involving total loss
of the same together with portion oi
the effects therein. Fire caught from
defective fiue. 1t was a frame struct
ure and above the average farm house
Mr.. Jacobs also lost sixty cords of maple
wood piled near the premises.
Mr.. Putnam White, one of the 81
pioneers of this vicinity, died at th'
home of his nephew John n White, n
the town of Viroqua, on Sunday morn
ing. AGED II yeas. He was stricken witt
paralysis the day previous and neye
recovered consciousness. For man,
years Mr.. White nad been totally blind
Fuperal occurred on Monday and tn
remains were inferred in the Tito
cemea cry east of this city
The Boscobel Dial says that ginsen
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