Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-02

Free-for-aH trot or pace. ..... SOU
Mrs. W. A. Heron returned from
South Dakota
Mrs. Harold Proctor returned from
her visit to Phillips.
Miss Mabel Vaughan of Bangor. is
visiting at w. f. Fishers.
Miss Hazel Smith is entertaining
her friend, Miss Hilda Doa, of Bangor,
Prof. Pearson and family returned
from Lancaster, where they spent sum-
mer vacation.
Miss Ethel Atwood is in Mime
apolis visiting and making selections of
fall millinery.
Boot and shoe repairing promptly
done by Swain Olson. Location in Fer
guson's harness shop.
Griffin Brothers are having $50 ton
galvanized iron silo constructed on their
farm north OF this city.
The special offer for Saturday Even
ing Post holds good for Aug. % or 20.
Order now of Master Lee Rayner.
New stock of fall and winter swea.
ers, the nobbiest to be seen in the city
BLUE FRONT STORE
IF you are going to paint anything
secure your paint of Towner. and you
win not regret it.
viii r. McIsain has accepted posi-
tion with the St Paul Dispatch. solicit.
ing subscriptions He left for the West
Salem fair to-day.
Venerable d. A. Barnard writes the
CENSOR from Missouri; My health is
poor. Weather fine; crops good; plenty
of rain. Republican stock in Missouri
at par with government bonds.
Tailor Anderson is in receipt of the
largest and best selected stock of fall
city. Fine patterns for nobby suit can
be seen at his shop over Williams 81 Co.'S
store.
The Battle Island Assembly has
again been postponed 1t was TO have
been held this week but owing to the
wet condition of the grounds and bad
roads is put off until the 9th, eontinu-
| ing for four or five days
Alex. Anderson, one of the promi-
| nent citizens and farmers of West
| Prairie, met with severe accident on
Thursday. While in his barn harness
| ing peir of broncos he was kicked by
one of the animals, resulting in broken
leg.
The Alabama Minstrels, q company
of real ''colored folks, who held forth
at the Opera house on Friday night,
drew only a half-house becaa.e of bad
weather. While not the most talented
company we have had with rs, they
| pleased good per cent of their hearers.
Unfortunately the Viola and Rich
land Center fairs fall on the same week
this year. Viola claims that the neigh
boring town appropriated for her use
| the period used during her entire life as
an organization. The dates are two
weeks later than our fair, September
| Goth to October 1st
The Tomah. Darlington and other
county and district fairs in the state
met with disastrous results LAST week.
Almost universally the meetings were
| declared off This is great disappoint-
| ment to fair officers and exhibitors, ex'
pensive to both sides. George Griffin
had his herd of Red Polled stock at To
| nah.
| Andrew MelIsm, one of the late en-
| terprising proprietors of the Boston
Clothing House, will take to the road
as travelling salesman for a Milwaukes
wholesale clothing house. His territory
will be western Wisconsin and eastern
iowa. 1t will be pleasure to his Viro-
| qua friends TO learn that Mr.. Mellem
makes great success in his new field
of operation.
| Many huating licenses are now be
| ing issued and If game is as plentiful AZ
| reports indicate there will be good sport
| after this day. The licenses this year
| are somewhat different from the
old ones. The license is printed on
white foldable paper, four inches wide
and fourteen inches long. 1t consists il
all of seven coupons, one for the county
clerks record, one for the game warden
two shipping tags, two tags for the
railroad company and the license proper
On the back is found synopsis of the
game laws.
The pedestrian tour of DIR. Hohlfeld
and Prof. Goodnight had rather an in
glorions ending They made La Fsrg'
on schedule time, where they spent th'
night, reaching Valley via Rockton 3
noon on Wednesday. AT 30 .. m i
began 10 rain but they decided to trans
on TO Hillsboro, arriving at 7.30, thor
oughly soaked and somewhat disgusted
The excellent hotel fed and put them Il
bed, while their clothes were dried au'
no questions asked They were good q
new next morning and felt no III effect
from their drenching. but the rain wa
still falling. They boarded the trail
for Madison. They enjoyed part o
their 40-mile trap p and greatly regret
ted that rain and weather would not al
low them 10 cover the whole distance Of
fo.of