Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-22
THE EAST END AND PROPERTY.
Hillsboro Fair a Saceess-NOteS on Eas-
tern County Progression.

The editor of the CENSOR spent day
at the Hillsboro fair and drove across
country to the county seat, last week.
A few notes on the fair and improved
conditions Of the country are not out IF
place here.
Hillsboro, for an inland town, is the
jewel of Vernon county. No town or
people are more progressive and enter.
prising. On every hand there is evi.
delee of prosperity, building improve.
ments in business and residence portions
of the town going forward in moder.
ate way. People generally appear TO be
entirely satisfied with their surround.
ings, and well they may be-
The fair, as always, was a suecess.
weather contributing much &c that end
Although too early for much of a dis.
play of agricultural growth the exhibit
In live stock, domestic stores and other.
wise, was highly creditable And It
may be well to observe that the Hills.
boro fair has contributed in great meas.
ure TO improvement in stock growing
and dairying in that section the coun-
ty. But Hiilsboro fair excels in race
meetings. There were entered in last
weeks programme nearly or quite one
hundred horses, and good portion of
them were animals with fast records
There were three full days of racing,
some of the classes having dozen to
fifteen horses start. The best time made
in any race was 2:16 There were nu.
merous accidents during the race pro-
gram, with no very serious results.
At La Fargo the writer spent a two
hours to rest man and best and replen-
ish the inner man. La Fargo, too, is
getting to be ''it Metropolitan airs
are evidenced on every hand Street
improvements are of the best we have
witnessed in any country village There
is in cop1se of construction on six busi.
ness blocks cement walks and curbs that
are of the finest. On either side of one
block the concrete is being laid twelve
feet wide, an unusual thing even for a
city A system of waterworks and sew.
erage is in course of construction that
will overshadow any of the sister mu.
inequalities. The reservoirs are to be
located on one of the high hills east of
village, affording a pressure of 1870
pounds. 1t Is designed TO elevate the
water from artesian wells by hydraulic
pressure. The sewerage system, from
a sanitary point, is one of the advan-
tages every town must sooner or later
embrace. The arm and pin factory, the
large hardwood purchases and creamery
are three of the enterprises that MAKE
for La Fargo great advantage The
village is having reasonable growth
the present season, but no boom People
generally are happy and prosperous
In no section OF Vernon county Is
there greater evidence of prosperous
and satisfied peasantrY than along the
public highway from Hillsboro to La
Fargo. It is really wonderful the i'm.
provement that has been made within q
dozen years, in clearing up lands, con-
struction of dwellings, barns and ont.
buildings. erection of windmills, re-
moYal of underbrush and building of
fences. The Bohemian population es-
pecially, are proverbial for neatness and
thrift about their homes The entire
distance the country looks beautiful
and crops are phenomenal Tobacco
harvest had commenced in a small way,
but the real work is at least ten days or
two weeks distant. AS whole the
crop is very uneven, in fact the most
so we have witnessed for years