Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-04-25
-Delightful weather.

on 1nursuay, on business.
Miss Alice Baldwin spent Sunda
with La Crosse friends
The Times says Westby is movin
In the direction of street paving
Miss Mae Deyillers of Cashton wa
visitor in this city on Saturday.
Mr.. Peter Hague of Westby, is th
guest of his sister Mrs Carlos Buchanan
Mr.. E. G. Officer is back from Mi
waukee, visiting at the old Springvill
home.
/ Mrs. Jane Clements of Nebraska, j
visiting her daughter, Mrs. f. Love il
this city.
Miss Charlotte Tiege attended tn
Jefson- Ballsrud wedding at Westby las
Wednesday.
Miss Anderson, an erIploye at tbs
Republican office, leaves this week fol-
her old home at Oregon, this state
IS. W. Moore and wife are visiting
with Viroqua friends for few days
before taking their departure for the fai
west
Miss Grace Balentine who spent a
month in the city with Marjorie Cham
bers, returned to her Bloomington home
on Monday
Mrs. VIM. McC.aine of Irondale,
Ohio, is visiting with her parents Mr..
and Mrs. T. FL. Brown. She is accom-
panied by her daughter, Constance
"A total eclipse of the sun is billed
for May 28th This is the first total
eclipse Of ''Old Sol" in twenty years and
will be visible in this section Of the
country.
IT. G. Conklin will give a phono-
graph concert and entertainment at
Bishop Branch church, next Saturday
evening to assist in liquidating the
church Indebtedness.
- The Cashton Sun has been discon-
tinued. Mr.. Briggs of the Record,
merSes the two subscription lists into
one. No town of the size of Cashton
can maintain two papers
A correspondent of Farmers Voice"
says that two or three camphOr balls
placed in the nest of a setting hen will
not 1nJure eggs or young chicks and will
effectually rid the hen and chicks of lice.
William Acheson, of Evansville at
tempted to commit suicide Saturday by
swallowing large dose of aconite.
Prompt medical attention saved HE life.
He has relatives living near Viroqua.
His late comrades of Company M.
will learn that Sargent Fred. Mitchell is
seriously i'll with typhoid fever in
Chicago hospital Mr.. Mitchell is stud
ent in one of the Chicago medical col
leges.
-Grandmaster Silbaugh delivers the
annual anniversary address for Oshkosh
Odd Fellows, ON Tuesday. He will re-
turn In season to perform like service
at Viola on Thursday. Many from this
city will go to Viola for the celebration.
People are learning that by the use
of Galvanic soap; the drudgery of the
laundry is turned into a pleasure; that
woolens can be washed ithout shrink
ing. Carpets can be cleaned on the floor
and woodwork cleaned with half the
labor.
We see by Viroqua papers that
Frank Minshall has added new piece
of music to his selections for his phono-
graph, entitled THE Texas Canary
Bird" or Jack the Songster We
understand it takes well with Viroqua
people. Cashton Record.
"A special train over the Burlington
road, passed through De Soto Friday
afternoon bearing the members of Co
G. Seventh United States Infantry. The
soldiers are on their way from Columbus
Ohio, to Seattle, Washington. They
expect TO be assigned to duty on the
Philippine Islands.
"A single acre of Washington timber
recently measured by the division of
forestry, contained 21S, 800 feet B. NJ. of
red fir. IL. 900 feet of hemlock, and 5000
feet of cedar, making total stand of
236, 800 feet. The smallest fir on the
acre was feet in diameter and the
largest feet The height of the forest
approximated 300 feet.
Officials were here for the purpose
of laying out two new rural mail routes
The one taking in the country west of
the city, which was established about
year ago, has proved a great success,
and the two new routes will take in the
country north, south and east of the
city. Another route will soon be estab
lished from Leon. Sparta Democrat.
"A Maine exchange, having in view
a recent ecclesiastico journalistic fiasco
in Kansas rises to remark: Next week
we will begin running this paper as
@, plain Kidd would have run it. De
hnquent subscribers may expect call
from us with their accounts stuck in the
muzzle of six-shooter Otherwise this
paper will soon be running as a sheriff
would run it.
We never enter the library at Viro-
qua without thinking of what boon it
is to our young people. How snch an
opportunity would have been priced by
Abraham Lincolnl How many Of our
young people looking for amusement tc
kill time could find here something better
than amusement, something more enter
tanning and at the same time enriching
their minds.
Diagrams prepared by an expert for
one of the large life insurance companies
to illustrate the comparative longevity
of clergymen, farmers, lawyers and
doctors shows that AZ out of every 10
ministers of the gospel reach the age OF
20. The farmers come next, their pro
portie n for 20 years of age being 40 ont
40. Next comes the teachers with a.
the lawyers show 25, and the doctors
are last, with only "a out of 170.
DIR. Brewer has built up an excellent
reputation in this portion of the state,
and has a constantly increasing practice.
tbs is as It should be. for he is an
honorable and thoroughly educated
physician and has had many years Of
experience in the treatment If chronic
diseases, to which he devotes his whole
time and attention. Invalids who are
seeking for health. should see DR.. Brewer
at the Yiroqua hotel in this city on Wed.
nesday. May End
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