Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23

| PAOpCkb1 bctuEluS Tue idbUcF B cldlIu duu
to have In fact given him personal
property to the value of $780,
Monday was the first day of spring
This section has enjoyed week of
spring weather.
/ Miss Jessie Forsyth came home from
La Crosse on q visit.
DIR. r. w. Baldwin, dentist oppo-
site postoffice, Viroqua.
Send or bring your election print
ing to the CENSOR Office.
Fletcher Telford has been very i'll
for several weeks from influenza.
For sale and rent, several farms.
Inquire of William Webb, Viroqua.
For Fire and Tornado insurance call
on John Dawson q Co. Agency, Viroqua.
Uncle Josh Spruceby has one of the
finest orchestras carried by travelling
company.
/ -Everitt Richmond left for st. Paul
on Monday, where be expects to be
employed
Major O'Laughin with Uncle Josh
SprucebY, Is the greatest fun spinner
in the world.
For bargains in real estate call on
or address the Western Wisconsin Land
q Loan Company.
Mrs. Hannah Howarth returned to
her De Soto home after winters So
| journ in California.
Activity in the neighboring sugar
bushes There are but few sugar max
ers as compared with years past.
Mrs Wheelock of Neilsville, is in
the city to organize branch of the
Beaver association, composed of ladies.
While shoeing horse Henry Weber
sustained painful injury to his hand,
the animal stepping upon and cutting it
with shoe calk.
Ross Stricken and Bert Morrison de-
parted last week for the soutl west,
intending to look over the prospet is in
Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
Florence williams Richards aud
little daughter arrived from New Yolk
and will make a protracted visit here.
with the Williams and Richards fami-
lies
For sale, four registered Herefords
! bulls, yearlings and two-year-olds. Call
on or address John II. Mckee, Viola, s
miles east of Viroqua. Will sell cheap
| If taken soon.
The masquerade ball. given at the
| Opera house Friday night was very
pleasant and well conducted affair.
There were a number of nice maskers,
none of the vulgar variety.
For sale, good farm Of 40 acres,
near Purdy, on rural route. Good build
| ings; excellent water; near church and
school Enquire of
HALvoR GRANUM, Purdy, Wis.
/ O. A. L. 4. e..
business on Monday. The institution
citizens as stockholders and officers, and
ought to be and doubtless will be a
sound financial concern.
Chairman Chas. J. Mcclellan was
in the city from Bergen on Thursday.
He reports much benefit. derived to his
health during his two months sojourn
in the Black Hills territory, where he
roughed it on cattle ranch
Miss Laura, the thirteen-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stor-
er, former citizens of Viroqua, now liv-
ing at Linneus, Missouri, was the winner
of prize for the best essay on Mis-
souri," She contested with class of a
dozen.
-DeSoto young men, to the number
of fourteen, have organized a cornet
band A good band is an advertisement,
for town. The new band and De Soto
have the heartiest good wishes Of the
CENSOR and all other county seat neigh
bors.
New advertisements and changes in
this weeks issue of the CENSOR are;
The Big Store, Fl d. Williams & Co.,
Sam Ellefson, Calumet baking powder,
Baraboo Rug Co., Toland's Business
University, and shoe ad for The Big
Store.
Mr. John A. Huff of Hamburg
changed his name to 'Linrude" while
in the city on Thursday. He is son
in-law of the late Ole johnson Linrude,
Vernon county's longtime and much
respected treasurer. The young man
resides on the old homestead of Johnson
Linrude and adopts the name
The first public gathering of Viro-
qua Beavers was a largely attended and
pleasant social dance on Thursday ev
ening. The membership is constituted
| largely of young men of the city and
community, who, with their ladies, COM
posed happy gathering. The city or
| cbeetra furnished the splendid music.
An ''anti-spit" campaign hasbeen in
augurated in many towns and Is sough
| to be governed by ordinance? The
| habit of splitting on walks and IN bust.
ness places is thing that should be
abated. The man who insists on using
his God-giyen right to this extent should
be cast into the slums where he be-
longs Viroqua should inaugurate an
''anti-spit" campaign.
An industry which in the near
| future may become an important branch
of agriculture in the Kickapoo valley is
the raising of sugar beets. The soil Of
this locality is declared to be the very
, best for the growing of this vegetable
and there is large profits to the farmer
| in raising it. The establishment OF
/ sugar rsfineries at several new towns In
I the southern part Of the stst7 the
| coming season viii make 1t Poss' ~ 10
raise the beets and ship them at q
/ good profit -LaFarge Enterprise.
Frank A. Chase and D. F. Mains
| have made an exchange of properties by
/ which the former comes into possession
of the three city residence places, the
/ Winfz house in First ward, the Cory
and Theodore Brown places in the Third
i ward. MIR. Mains secures the VIII busi-
ness house and stock of furniture In
/ Cashton. For tho present he VIII Keep
Mr.. Olson in charge as manager, and
the stock will be enlarged and business
/ carried on in a vigorous way Under
1 taxing xvfll he carefully looked after.