Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-02-24

Money to loan on real estate. Cal
On G. 81. Minshall.
Schools had holiday on Monday,
| Washington's anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Close have been on q
visit TO northern Wisconsin
For bargains in real estate call on
or address the Western Wise onsin Land
& Loan Company.
Mr.. d. L. Cheney of Sparta, died in
Florida, where he was spending the win
ter with his family.
Frank Barney left for Minnea polls
TO complete course o. instruction in a
school of phot ography.
Miss Esther 1nt. improved the
Washington vacation from teaching du-
ties st La Crosse and visited at home.
Scarcely a house in Viroqua that
has not some member of the household
sick. Severe colds is the prevailing
trouble.
Friday night Viroqua ladies will
give return compl iment to the bach
lors in a leap year ball. 1t promises a
big affair
Mrs Armbruster, one of the old
residents of Hillsboro, died few days
since. She was an aunt of Mrs. o. B.
Wyman.
Chairman Hedge Larson of Coon,
writes that he has been confined 70 his
home by sickness during Elost of the
winter.
juneau county has secured from the
general government a large cannon to
be located in the court house grounds
at Mauston.
-Readstown has new hotel, recent
ly opened by Gladney Ewers in the large
and elegant residence constructed the
past season.
Matthias Hoveland and wife have
bee1 visiting with relatives and old
friends in this vicinity. They like their
new home near Sparta.
Postmaster Thos. Latimer was here
from Genoa, Saturday and Sunday, &C.
companied by his niece Miss Sparkling
of Ashton, South Dakota
The next ten days will find us doing
business for nothing and paying our
own expenses. This is your chance.
THE BLUE FRONT STORE.
of Julius and Lindahl Westby will be
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very successful in their Sparta store.
-Arba Morrison, q member of Sparta
military company, was fifth in recent
target comparative shoot of the com
pany, scoring SO in possible of 100.
The CENSOR neglected to note the
small barn fire on the premises of f. W.
Shepard, near the cemetery, on Satur-
day night the 18th. Loss was not large.
An auction sale of the farm effects
of the late Elk Anderson will be held
at the family home half-mile north of
West Prairie postoffice, on Thursday,
March 10.
"A correspondent reports that Mrs
Joshua Strait of Forest, had the mis-
fortune to lose her dwelling by fire
few days since. They saved part of the
household goods.
John Melvin and Sam Brown were
callers from Webster, Tuesday, They
report the death, near Avalanche, of
Charles Bergh, a young man twenty
four years of age.
The Racine county asylum burned
on Friday night last, turning nearly a
hundred and fifty patients from shelter
A dozen of the unfortunates are
TO our institution temporarily.
Don't be deceived into buying a
worthless mess of wheels advertised by
unknown and unreliable parties as
watches. When you buy watch you
want good one, the kind we keep.
Jos. BoEHRER, Jeweler.
ID. f. Jackson and Walter Favor
have enlisted as working deputies for
the Beaver fraternity insurance order,
and after an effect to increase Viroqua
Colony to full hundred members, will
go to other fields in the interest of the
order.
Thursday and Friday of next week,
March and 4, are the dates announced
by Supt. Gardner for holding examina-
tion for graduates from the common
schools throughout the county.
Those interested will find the superin-
tendent's announcement on another
page of the CENSOR.
The Ripley lumber interests at Vio-
la have been purchased by the Nuzum-
aunter Lumber Company, of which j.
E. Nuzum of this city is president, and
Mr.. Hunter manager. As soon as Mas
ter Clinton Nuzum completes his school
work in Viroqua he will be installed as
one of the proprietors and manager of
the Viola yard.
"A business change of interest will
take place in the city next Monday,
when NJ. D. Helgeson will transfer his
dray and bus line affairs TO John K.
Spellum. IL includes live stock, barn
and all equipment that is part of the
business. Mr. Baker will have manage
ment of affairs for Mr.. Spellum. Mr..
Helgeson has made a popular caterer
for the public during the three years he
has owned the line. We are pleased to
know that he will remain in Viroqua,
and take proprietary interest in the
furniture and undertaking business with
Otto Otteson.
Some genius has taken the time to
figure out that all legal holidays this
year occur on Monday. The first holi-
day of the year is Washington's birth
day. This comes Monday, February
22d Then comes Memorial Day, on
Monday, May 30th; July 4th follows
next and is on Monday; still later on
comes Labor Day, hich is always the
first Monday in September and will fall
this year on September 5th. OF course
THANKSGIVING will probably come on
Thursday; Christmas falls on Sunday,
December 25th, but the legal holiday
will fall on Monday, December 26th.
The daily stage service between vi
ro0ua and Rsadstown has been discon-
tinued. The mail was taken from this
route about year ago, but Mr.. Harris
continued the line TO accommodate
.raxaIors which was uro6tahle Of1r