Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-11-13
DR.. PORTER AWAY DOWN EAST.
he Writes OF Many Things Historic. Buffalo ExpOsi
ton. Personals, Etc.

month since left the fertile county OF
Vernon TO visit this rocky, sterile New
England, which is so dear 20 every one
who WAS horn here, Arthur Rogers snd
were one day at the Pan-American to-
gether api / went one day more. Like
Frank Tate, felt that / did not want
to see more. To thnse of us who were
at She Chicago exposition the Buffalo
show has less interest than to others.
It has cost thousands of Buffalonians
lparly, for besides the millions paid for
stock, thousands OF the poor and we'll
| to-do rented houses at high figures and
fitted them up for roomers only to be
disappointed. 1t was interesting to see
| the hundreds Of mer and women solicit.
| ing at the depot for ioomers The wo-
| men soliciting were all real ladies and
| many of them from the best part of the
| city and stylishly dressed.
AT Buffalo we met Frank Dickson of
Viroqua, a musician in the Indian band,
who was dressed in hunting costume
| and walked with the red men over the
high path in front of the Indian village.
We called to him and he came down and
talked to us. He goes to Charleston
with the Indian exhibit this winter.
Arriving in L ,ston after five days in
Buffalo, met at the great South station
young man, Aiken, who went west
with me four years ago and stayed with
Richard Collins and A Tullock for a
time called on Mary Miller day o.
two later at the Emerson College of
Oratory. This bright young woman
had seen only one Viroqua resident since
coming here She Is counting the wee is
when she will see home again. One of
her neighbors is Mrs. Moody, formerly
Miss Robinson, a teacher in Vlroqua.
There are $40 students in this college
and 1t is said to be the best of its kind
Most Of the students are young ladies
and they are q healthy, happy, active
lot of girls. DIR. Emerson, the founder
of the school, has instilled bis ideas on
ply, ical culture into these stude-5s
which is one reason why they endure
the hard work so we'll Besides oratory
they study anatomy mental philosophy
literature, etc The college is on Hun
tington Avenue, in aristocratic Boston
where thirty-eight years ago saw only
day out of aesthetic Boston down to
Faneuil Hall and OUR cy Markets across
to east Boston, where they are tunnell-
ing under the harbor to Boston, and
around through Chelsea, where we pass
ed the residence and church where Miss
Stone (present prisoner in the hands of
! Bulgarians) attended. We returned
through Charlestown, walked through
Judea, the Hebrew settlement in the
north end. This north end was the
home of Paul Revere and other Yankees.
The Irish drove them out and 40
years ago it was all Irish. The Jews
drove ont the Irish aud now the Italians
are driving out the Jews. One hears
only foreign tongue spoken and sees
Hebrew signs over business places. II
| is simply an instance of the survival OF
| the fittest" to quote Darwin's words.
Going to Portland attended the Ma.
tional Congregational convention one
forenoon and looked in vain for Mr.
Stemen. The Lewiston Journal In ar
editorial speaks Of the movement o.
| Congregationalism toward Unitarianisn
and rationalism as evinced in the gen
eral current Of debate at, the Nationa
Congregational council. - Massachu
setts is the hotbed of Unitarisnism and
one cannot help admiring the worh
that is being done by the wealthy Uni
tarians here.
Yesterday Mrs. Cummings drove me
| to Fair. Haven to see the fine city hall
library and high school buildings that
have been erected by Mr.. Rogers the
Standard oil magnate. He isnow build
ing fine large stone Unitarian church
| and chapel there. 1t is something of Q
Quaker community and the Qua'-ers =.
| Unitarian.
| Up at Rumford Falls, Maine, al large
paper mills where one sees the spruce
| logs enter one end of the mill and
watches the process until great rolf ol
| paper come out of the other end.
new mill has contract to furnish ma
| terial for car load Of postal cards daily
and government will send printers ther,
| to print the cards.
How neatly all the New England vii
lagos are kept There is no rubbish Il
be seen anywhere. Rob. Wilkins, WHIT
is up In Vermont, tells Lne tney havt
village improvement societies which
create sentiment In favor order ant
neatness.
| heard DIR. Lorrimer in fremont Tenn
Pile and attended his mammoth praye
meeting. There was a terrible GROVE
to hear his farewell sermon He bap
tised or 10 at the close of the meeting
by immersion; the ladies were dresset
in white and black.
Tomorrow I go to Providence to SO
my aunt and cousins. My uncle, J
Flint Porter, who with his father in-law
Crowell, built the Bay sFte house a
DeSoto, in 1855, died in Providence re
Gently.
w. J. Poets and wife and Arthu
Rogers have been visiting in city ant
town, and hear Of them frequently.
go by trolley to providence and b,
boat to New York, ail for two dollars
incl-d state room.
| Last Sunday Mr.. Cummings and
drove dozen miles TO his farm at Hors
Neck beach where's dozen Of his clerk
had gone for an outing. From tina
farm during the Revolution Erltisl
sailors captured its owner who was re
taken by his neighbors. C.v.P.