Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-11
Buy your dress goods at Tate's Big

Mrs. SeVereon entertained her Sun
day school class at the sheriff residenc
last Friday evening.
Mr.. Nick Krogan, foreman in tn
, American Tobacco Company's Ware
! house at Sparta, spent Saturday anC
Sunday with friends here
r.. o. GauQer has returned from
Hillsboro, North Dakota, where he ha.
been employed Dy a mercantile estab
lishment for some months past.
! Manager Wiley, of the Hillsborc
railroad has made his first report of the
business handled by the new road Its
first months earnings exclusive OF
freight, exceeded $1,000
The Soldiers Grove Advance says
that Ole 7. Torger is once more propri-
etor of the Headquarter Hotel, having
assumed the responsibility of landlord
last week. Chris Nelson is clerk
AS we go to press we received the
report that Chas. Marshall had the mis-.
fortune to lose his saw mill plant on
Buckeye Ridge by fire. We did not
learn the particulars. Ontario Obser-
yer.
w. F. McClain and Haughton Brown
made business trip through Viola, La
Fargo, Rockton and Ontario in the in
terest of the Badger Broom Co. They
report good success in selling their
brooms.
Advertised letters at the Viroqua
postofice: John Toland, Ole o. Strum,
| Ole Jens, Bert Erickson, Peter j. Hotter,
John F. Nundal, Misses May Arneson,
| Maude McCue, Lulu Matthews Bessie
Brown, Gertrude Browell.
The La Fargo Enterprise says that
Simeon Collins expects to go to Kansas
in the spring to build barn for cous-
in. He WI, buy the lumber for the
barn here and ship it out there as lum-
ber is very higl in Kansas.
| John Miller arrived in this city from
| Minneapolis on Tuesday, having been
called to that city by the serious illness
of his sister, Mrs. Kelley, who has been
under treatment in St Joseph's Hospi-
| tai there for some time. She was much
improved in health when he left.
Louis Spellum arrived Friday morn
ing last from Aberdeen, South Dakota,
ing firm, for a visit among friends and
relatives. Louis likes his position and
believes things are all right out there
generally.
The La Crosse district Woodmen
picnic association committee met on
Friday last to arrange for the annual
big gathering, which will be held at
Trempealeau late in May or early in
June. 1t is too far away and poor rail
road accommodations for Vernon county
| axmen-
-Thost Thompson died on Monday
last at his home four miles west of Vir-
oqua. The deceased had been i'll three
weeks with lung fever. He leaves a
wife and three children, besides three
brothers and an aged mother. He was
forty years of age The funeral SER
vices will be held at Purdy church on
Thursday tomorrow at o'clock. Iu-
terment at Purdy cemetery.
Fifty thousand dollars is the offer
Of Adams county as bonus to any rail
road company that will build line
north and south through the county
The proposition is subject to approval
by the people at special election, how
ever. The company must also agree
to establish seven stations within the
county. Adams is the only county in
the state without mile of railroad.
In the supreme court week ago, a
decision was handed down in the case
of John A Tolman against Col. Butt
and Fred Eckhardt, bondsman for r.
A. Russell, who defaulted and left the
country. The decision is that they are
liable to the whole amount of shortage,
which was about $1,2 together with
aggregate costs of 5000. Smith 81 Grif
fin and Silbaugh & Bennett were attor
neys for plaintiff Tolman, G. w. Graves
for defendants.
The many friends of the Misses Eva
and Carrie Ingersoll will be glad to
learn thai they are both occupying ex-
cellent positions in Pekin, III. Miss Eva
has just been given a position with the
Pekin & Peoria Terminal Railway Com
pany at salary of $40 per week and
promised increase as soon as proficient
in the work required. Miss Carrie has
resigned her position with the telephone
company and has taken Miss Evas for
mer position with prominent abstract
firm.
A letter received by relatives brings
the news of the appointment of Miss
Elsie O. Ewing to a position on the
teaching corps of the government
schools in the Philippine Islands. She
is now holding position in the Indian
schools at Rapid City, South Dakota.
When she wrote she was as yet unde-
termined whether to accept the new
place or not -Richland Democrat.
Miss Ewing was former teacher in the
Viroqua schools. She is cousin of At
torney l. s. Griffin.
Here's a mathematical program
that is making tce rounds: A woman
died recently and left an estate OF seven
teen cows To the eldest son she be-
queathed one-half to her second.son one
third and to the youngest son one-ninth
of the estate. The children sorely per-
picked as to how to divide the cows.
At last one suggested that they borrow
a COW from a neighbor. This was done
and the estate thus made eighteen cows.
The first son received one-half or nine;
the second son received one-third, or
six; the third son one-ninth, or two,
making seventeen COWS in all. The
neighbors COW was returned with
thanks.
w II. Schultz was lately IN vor OF
Tomah, and for several years has oper-
ated the Touring mill there he is also
well known among sportsmen as the
/ champion shot of Wisconsin. The last
indicates that he must have pretty
steady nerves, something he didn't po-
| sess some time ago when he was desper-
| ately sick that nobody thought he
| he had ulcer of the stomach: Others can
Ger. Anyway. he suffered terrible pain
and couldn't swallow mouthfui OF