Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-08-01


next Sunday. The attendance viii un
dountediy be large.
Mrs J. T. Ady and family, wh'
I spent the spring and summer in Mime
! sofa, have arrived home.
/ Mrs. A L. Russell and Miss Victors
! Stab,in are spending few DAYS visiting
! at the formers home in Melvina
The official call for the democratic
1 county convention is published in thi,
! paper today 1t will be held on August II
! Mr.. and Mrs. Wigginton of Cashton
visited friends in the city last Friday
| Mr. Wigginton is the creamery man oi
that place.
Isaac Soiberg has just purchased a
new emery wheel for his machine shop
This is the only emery wheel in the city
and is Of the finest make
Mr. E. c. Officer came home from
Milwaukee on Tuesday. He viii make
trip to Minnesota and the Dakotas to
see the country and visit relatives
Beat and Dahl are placing brick ON
the ground to be used in the front of
their new block. They are dark pressed
brick and shipped here from Illinois
An ice cream social will be given on
the lawn of General Rogers, Friday
evening by the Womans Relief Corps
Everybody is invited.
For sale, on my farm 81 miles west of
Viroqua, choice blackberries. Send orders
and have them fresh. ELIAS HARRIS,
Free Delivery Route No l.
--Messrs Severson and Natwick of
Soldiers Grove, have just returned from
visit 30 the mother country of Nor
way. Tney also took in the Paris Exposi-
tion.
Its an even bet with some insurance
but you run no risk in placing your
business with the John Dawson & Co.
genera, insurance and real estate agency
Viroqua Wis.
W. T Goodman of Newton, was in
the city Friday and brought few sam
plea IF apples which he distributed over
town. Mr.. Goodman has a large orch
ard ana raises some very fine apples
--Robt J. Kalhar, the Newton mer-
chant, was in the city on Tuesday. He
was accompanied by his father Michael
Kalhar Of Omaha, who was one of the
early settlers at De Soto, leaving there
a few years since.
Homer Lombard of LaFarge, and
Frank Mains of Clinton candidates for
the republican nomination for clerk of
the ctult, were in the city on Tuesday.
As general proposition there is not the
usual hustling for places on the county
ticket. and candidates are making
dignifed and friendly contest. This is
as it should be.
The finest crop of tobacco we have
seen in this county is on the farm of
Martin Robinson near Manning He
has three and a half acres that is large
and even Mr.. Robinson topped the
same July 23d He expects to commence
cutting and putting in the shed August
1cth, less than sixty days from date of
81 ing the plants,
The Manning purity of campers from
this city broke MP last Friday evening,
and ali returned home refreshed for
business. The gentlemen composing
the party were surpris ad by the appear
ance upon the scene of action of their
wives last Thursday. who spent the day
in camp The ladies had opportunity
to test the quality of square meals hash
ed up by the excellent male cooks of the
narty.
--Boscobels city council has done a
wise service for ths town III passing an
ordinance prohibiting the posting of no
tices on telegraph and electric light
poles, and to force the removal of dead
advertising matter from bill boards and
buildings II there is anything that
gives town dilapidated appearance it
is the indiscriminate u7e of all available
space for tacking up all sorts of adver
tising matter
-Westby citizens have arranged for
lecture and entertainment course for
the coming winter with the Mutual
Lyceum Bureau The course will in
clude three numbers Imperial Lgdies'
Quartette, Chicago; Prof. Van Lieu,
illustrated lecture, New York Fred.
High, humorist and impersonator. This
is one of the most commendable moves
the people of our neighboripg town
could have made. Viroqua citizens are
moving in the same direction
Following relatives from distance
were here to attend the funeral of N. G.
Hazen: J. A. Logan and wife, Muscoda;
Grant Chandler and wife Richland Cen
ter; Mrs Burnside Illinois; N. J. Thayer
and wife, Ontario; Frank Steele and
wife, Portage; John Jenness and family,
Cashton; Mrs Emily Goode and daugh-
tel' Madison; Mrs EverSon and Earl,
Iowa; Mark Hanson and wife, La Fargo,
CAL Peterson and wife, Soldiers Grove
Peler Larson, Eastman; Carl Coe Cash
ton
While the Rev Ira R. Hicks fails
once in great while in his predictions
of the weather. there are many more
times that he calls the turn
to dot. For August the Rev. Mr.
| Hicks says that the early part of the
month will be fraught with much mug
/ or,posS mn IN ahout tha 9th and from
| then to the 18th reactionary storm
period occurs. Following these storms
! cvclonic storms will come, but will be
| felt more forceful in tla southern part
| of the United States. During the re-
mainder of the month Storms will par
take autumnal equinoctial perturbation
| the local manifestations will be only
parts of general and far-reaching dis
/ turbances, and hence, the government
service should be able to issue timely
and effective instructions and warnings
to every part of the country.
Alta meeting Of the city council the
clerk reported that S., 125 "a had been
expended by the city since the new
council was inaugurated in May. The
items are as follows For establishing
stone crusher S143. IS, streets S164 "a,
extension of water mains 81. 500 96, on
we'll Sjf2 54, electric light company
1921 40, salaries 1915 25. interest on bonds
$500 general fund $201. 25. street cross
ings 1896 A. Al electric light wa:
ordered placed near the residence of J.
NJ Nuzum in the Third ward. Contrac,
was given Arba Morrison TO paint the
stand pipe for $50. The council has
leased for five years. at a rental of S10t
L. 81. e u