Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-26
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naba, Michigan.
Ontario cornet band has been reju
vinated and is making progress.
-Rosin has no washing properties
Maple City Soap contains no rosin.
travelling Salesman Clyde Niles il
spending the week with his family in
this city.
Jury Commissioners Bean, Neprud
and OConnell held a session in this city
on Friday.
The average man can hear the ring OF
a silver dollar farther than that of q
church bell.
Bert Dunlap is home from Eau
Claire to spend Christmas with his
parents.
Misses Anna Campbell and r ma
Roesler of Cashton, were viroqua visit
ors on Monday.
DIR. Baldwin, dentist office opposite
postoffice In second story of the Dahl.
Beat new block.
Miss Esther Butt, teacher in the
state school for the blind at GAINESVILLE,
came home on Saturday.
County Clerk Sherman and wife
passed Christmas with the latter's pa
rents in the town of Hillsboro.
j. W. Groves is one of the Madison
committee of arrangements for inaugur-
alton day at the capital city.
Harold Proctor and Roy Williams.
law students at the Ann Arbor univer-
sity, are at home for the holiday vacation.
Miss Jennie Miles of Leon, recently
attempted suicide by taking laudanum.
Prompt medical assistance saved her
life.
Found, on the street last Saturday,
a lady's pocketbook. 1t can be reclaimed
at the CENSOR office by paying for this
notice.
The first teachers association for
the winter series will be held by Super
lntendent Gardner at Blocmingdale on
January 10.
DIR. McElwee, the well know n special
ist, will be at the Viroqua Hotel on Tues
day. January /. The doctor charges
nothing for examination.
Ten young men in the United States
were killed this year playing foot ball.
Is it not vicious gamer Is not the
sacrifice of ten lives per annum enough
to condemn the game?
Andrew Beatty, a brother of John
Beatty, late of Viroqua, was instantly
killed at Spokeville, Clark county, De-
cember 18th, by falling tree. The
body was taken to Richland county for
burial.
Asa e. Groves, who has been o
horny handed granger the past season,
with a large rice growing plantation
near Beaumont Texas, is among Wiscon-
f..s0 z4as j.. .,s,x A.x1
$500 barrels of rice from 300 acres under
cultivation.
Thomas Witt of St. Louis, has ex-
pressed to his great grand nephew,
Thomas Witt Groves, infant son of
Isaac N. and Minnie B. Groves. 9 beau
tiful sterling silver milk and bread set,
having his name engraved on the same.
Mr.. Witt is a brother of the late Harriet
N. Groves and is a wealthy jeweler of
ST. Louis.
Another of Mr.. Layne's bright, read
able California communications is given
CENSOR readers today. Few writers
can put more into limited space than
Friend Layne His letters are always
read with interest. The CENSOR invites
all of those who have wandered from
good old Vernon TO speak to home friends
through the medium of the paper.
The OK is going the way of the stage
coach steam boat and other modes of
locomotion of the previous century.
But few years ago oxen were consider
ed indispensable in the woods. but this
week the last yoke of the Knap Stout
company's went to Chicago for beet.
The company has adopted horses instead
the latter proving more satisfactory
The editor and his wife. says an ex-
change, disagree very materially. She
sess things to rights and he writes things
to set She reads what others write
and he writes what others read. She
keeps the devil out of the house as much
as possible and he retains him and could
not go to press without him. She knows
more things than she writes and he
writes more things than he knows.
The J. 7. Case Threshing machine
Co, the largest employer of men in Ra-
cine, and one of the Oldest manufactur-
ing institutions in the state announces
that it will remove from that city. 1t
is believed that it will seek location in
Milwaukee or its suburbs The reasons
assigned for moving are that it cannot
expand its plant in its present location
and that the shipping facilities will be
better in Milwaukee,. The establish
ment probably supports 9 900 people and
twill be serious blow to Racine to
ose it.
A well informed exchange remarks
that smallpox is apparently having as
great run of the country as it had In
1SS1. People should be on guard. Vac
cination should be attended to. Where
the disease exists there should be proper
isolation. The patient himself should
do his own Quarantining There is often
great difficulty in determining whether
the illness is smallpox or not. 1t can't
be told to certainty until the breaking
out One feels some days before the
breaking out as if he had terrible at
tack of ''dum ague." If he understands
this he can tell better than any physi-
clan whether he has the smallpox. Then
he should confne himself to a single
room and not let others catch 1t from
him.
The recent cure of Mr.. Merrill of
the rheumatism ana stomach trouble
from which he had suffered 40 long, has
astonished everybody who has been ac-
0uainted with the facts. Mr.. Merrill
had been failing in health for year or
more. aud at last he got SO he could
hardly walk; he was weak because he
couldn't eat any food without suffering
terrible pain in his stomach, and then
his rheumatism was getting &c bad that
he could hardly walk on account OF it,
and at night he couldn sleep on account
of rheumatic pains. He had to give up
all work and none of mis- friends thought
H. oo,,1S s;1-a +brouuh the winter. btIt