Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-10-24

by another finger point 81 miles We
take the short line. At the "Hardscrab-
ble" farm we pass roadscraper in &C.
tion; three teams, three drivers, one
holding the lever that worked the scrap
or that has rusted by the roadside for
MANY years, Four men, three span of
horses and grader working on twenty
rods of GOOD road leading south from
DR.. Porter's, the best highway in the
county The temple of the vestals is
roofisss the grader breaks from rust
and exposure, The writer saw, not long
ago, two men and sight span of horses
doing road work with a road machine
We queried why the road overseer, DIR
Porter, permitted four men and three
teams to labor on the best highway and
leave bad places to increase in badness
We pass through 'hoilars" untitled. over
hills uncut and near Monument Rock
James Honaker has we'll culti-
waited farm and Is prosperous Mrs
Honaker has gi''en much study to the
honey bees work and is authority on
the wonderful honey maker She ships
honey to siA different states, principally
Virginia and h ntuckY Mrs Honsker
is an enthusiast on their wonderful or.
der of housekeeping and systematic col.
oniZation, undoubtedly the most system
attic OF animal life.
Here in an early dav good citizens Da-
Wis, Henderson and Keir built homes
The children and grandchildren OF Hen.
derson and Keir live where pioneer Faith.
ers labored hard, built homes, and when
venerable in years passed away. We are
enroute to little Erin, the boundary is
soon reached. We pass Fred Zitzner' 8
comfortable brick house Zitzner has
the largest farm holding in the county
snd for forty years. aided by his wife,
has done more work than forty-five en-.
gines could do. When steam is on for
work Fred has an hundred horsepower
dynamo working To see Zlfzaer in ac-
tion is like cyclone running into tor
nado. Sheayes of oats fill the air, straw
flies as in whiTlwind; with but little
help be works Fix hundred acres.
The morning star lights his going to the
field work and many times the evening
star sets before he yields to darkness.
Threshers, engines, mowers, haY rakes,
leaders, sulky piows, discs, harrows,
seeders, binders, tedders, tobacco
planters, cream separators, wagons,
buggies, bobs, horses cattle, swine,
poultry are evidence of the strenuous
captain on watch The harvest has been
good, the yield abundant and profitable
We go up grade to the heights and
halt to view one of the most beautiful
landscapes of Vernon The air is clear,
the autumn tints visible in ali the mag
nificence of oxidZation In different
stages of coloring Far away to the
north is seen the ViroqUa stand pipe,
May ridge visible TO the L9wrie farmi
to The east the Kickapoo hills, beautiful
ia autumnal heze the south vision
reaches 10 the meeting of the sky aud
hills; west to the Mississippi bluffs
How beautiful the panorama, land
| scape enchanting and pleasing 10 view
Farms, hou es, barns, sheds are Lamer.
Gus; stacks of grain well shaped and
stock we'll fed; clutches are Sc, u On ht
| hills and spires reaching up from the
| owlands; school houses are visible and
| not far away is the Dublin college;
| telephone lines are stretched along the
| highway, while every neighborhood has
phune. We behold the "buena vista
with delight We are entering little
Erin 1t Is autumn aud we no longer
| hear the call of tn wild for the feath.
| cred Wis tors from the forests of the guilt
states, which came to their nestings,
| had Matched their young broods, taught
| them to fly and with the signs of cold
| weather, led them back to the woods Ia
the southland, more genial cline. We
| see shesves passing to straw piles, well
| filled sheds of tobacco curing, plows
| turning the stubble fields for another
crop; the reward for the farmer seems
abundant.
We turn back the dial for half cen.
| tury and more and witness the coming
| to these hills and valleys of grub land .
people that lett the old homes, found as.
socIations SO dear to the people of Ire
| land; men, women and children fleeing
from famine and poverty. They had
steut hearts but little money. | see the
old homes of logs where the MulcSones
halted and outspaned their oxen TO COM
| mence anew. Tony Mulcrone still lives,
others are at the Sun. Patrick Mui.
crone living alone, was missed from his
work; his neighbors found him in his
house almost eaten by rats, grewsome
sight. Not far away Murphy struggled
with poverty for years the end came
and they buried him at the Sun. We
pass the home Of Patrick Lynn who has
labored all these years, aided by a will.
| ing companion, and their reward is q
substantial home and plenty. From
their door yard they see a better country
| than ruled by any potentate in Europe
| Over the hills to the east we note the
| abode of late Patrick Bowe who built a
home, then his spirit went away and
| they buried him in the sanctified
grounds at the Sun. Just down the
| hill on 6 cross road, Lshe toiled fol
many years, then his spirit left and his
| body rep0ses at the Sun A short walk
from Lahe's | see the farm home of A
| q. Taintor, undoubtedly the only living
person of the Prairie du CHEN colony OF
| 1884; in 1S47 commenced the making OF
farm at the head Of Taintor creek,
where he lived till few years ago he
| moved farther down the valley; and
| now leaning on his staff, bas seen eigh.
| tV five summers pass to g,a rear, yet
vigorous, In former dsyF Taintor sang
/ in the Bad Ak Congregational orches
ira, prayed for sinners at the revivals
and from his granary, -four bin and porb
barrel gave abundsntIy to the preachers
Taintors life has been on the troubIsd
seas, now when near the harbor of life.
Journey he is going into port serenely
still captain and pilot of the Taintol
craft.
Down by the spring that flows int
| Taintor branch, John Desmond rolled
| mp log dwelling, lived the allotted
days and then they buried him at tn,
Sun. Across the valley is the home o.
| the late Feeny. FsenY lived TO q rip,
age and fell by the way side. His wa,
the first death Of the settlers who hat
| been born on Erins green sod, and hi