Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-18

CITY. he had confidence stuck TO his
desk and has won.
Our former Methodist brother, S p.
| Layne. pioneer boy of Brookville fifty
and more years ago, whom have known
J Tor more years than half century. is
} here well established in real estate work.
sam came here for his health, which
has been much improved, and rejoices
that climate has done so much for him.
His wife, daughter of the late D. A.
Barnard, after long sffliction her spirit
went away and left him alone with the
clay, to be laid at rest far away from the
resting place OF her parents { call, d 10
mind, back decades ago, st the Liberty
Pole college, where we stood in line
and spelled down" at the winter spell
ing school, when Mrs. Bennett. killed at
Atlanta, was president of the Liberty
| Pole college. Her sistsr, Mrs 9orsline,
after Years OF suffering, passed away.
She too was ia the clasa Of 90 when sid
ney Higgins held the floor on sli occas.
ions ,'f spelling down. Cal Morley
and henry 4osling were also in the class
of go, but they invariably went down
on the fret spell They were bad
| bows.
O1, former townsman, /. W. Blake
Ia here veil established in building
houses | have met him few times and
We reviewed the times long ago, before
the war, when he lived in De Soto, then
a grain market and steamboat landing
of Importance. Werode TO South Pasa-
dena and dined with an old-time ac.
quaintance, sir Gillette OF Tomah, and
his wife, Celestia Powers, whom knew
In DE soto when that thriving little ham.
let was New England village trans-
planted IN the little nook on the Mississ.
ippi Mr. Gillette migrated TO Texas
soon after the war, made money emf.
| grated to Idaho and filled his purse
trekked on to Seattle where he has
| good bank account. They came here
| for consideration of health: have bean.
! tiful home built by | w. Blake, in an
I ideal place, facing San Gabriel mission,
and Alhambra, with the San Gabriel
valley before their vision with all the
beauty Of landscape mind can realize.
Beyond this view rises the mountains in
all their grandeur and suhlimity: so
/ ideal that one can but exlaim, GLORY
TO God who created the mountains and
called ths valleys into existence. The
sun came slowly up over the snow range
| of the Sierras and lighted the world; it
! spanned the horizon aud went down ov-
er the curve, in the Pacific Ocean with
halo Of glory, argent and gules, and
the earth was dark, but not silent, for
Los Angeles seldom quiets down
| | met Mrs. DecKer-Somerby, who
seems happy in her little cottage home,
caring for two children of her late nus-
band, Somerby. Mrs. Decker -Somerby
is daughter of the late DIR. Tinker, an
early Viroqua physician. She was mar.
ried TO L. r. Decker, who, with her two
sons, rests in the Viroqua cemetery
John Somerby helped to establish the
Northwestern Times" in Viroqua fifty
years ago; worked on the paper till
June 1861, when he enlisted with the
writer and went down to battle for the
country. He was severely wounded and
1 all the intervening years to his death
was never free from pain. He went
marching on to glory and to glory, hav-
ing left a record of duty well performed
in the ranks of the Union army. On each
of my visits to this city met him and
we bivouacked again. by star light. on
the Potomac He told me of incidents
of the camp had forgotten. Each time
/ came, saw the disease was wearing
him out and now come this way again
and John Somerby, the early type set
ter, my comrade in camp, on'the march,
on guard and in battle, has gone through
the gates Of paradise and shall only see
the little mound out in the cemetery,
not far from the late Ira Adams, where
Somerby sleeps, sleeps on forever and
! forever, resting free from pain in the
| bivouscs of the dead-another one of Co.
ON 'Fames's eternal camping ground, -
with Alex, Lowrie and seventy-two 9TH
! ers of my comrades.
Mrs. Dixon and daughter, sister and
neice of my neighbor, NJ. V. B. Rich
ards, are residents of this city | called
! to pay my respects to Mrs. Dixon, whom
| | had known years ago. In our remin-
iscences we turned back the dial forty
and more years ago, back in war time
I when the bows were going to war and
! business seemed to have ceased, TO talk
of war and what's the news Then
/ the old North Star" was vscant. The
school OF Viroqua was not sufficiently
advanced for the education Of the young
women and men of the village. Mrs.
! Dixon room in the North Star now the
| great eastern annex to Dan Fortney's ho-
/ tel barn and ice storage, and started an
academy for young men and women.
| Among those enrolled she named the
! Rusk girls Charity Craig. Mrs. III. G.
| Nichols, Mrs. N McKie, Emma Bliss,
now Mrs Buell of Milwaukee. Josephine
| Green. st Paul. Nancy Daley, now
Mrs. Sears of New London, Rebecca
| Hsggerty. three Of DR.. Thinkers dsugh-
ters. Mrs DeLap and Mrs Stimble of
Richland Center, Misses DeFrees, Ed.
ith Lincoln, Minerva Tinker and Aman.
| da Williams, the las. four no living
one for twenty-six years the companion
of the writer. OF the young men want
| ing higher education and enrolled IN the
| academy were r J. Layne san Die.
go Eerthier Trowbridge of Hayward
/ Lycurgus Rusk, Chippewa Falls Leon,
ard Terhuns, John Bennett and Brice
I purdY, who still live in the town OF their
alma mater, the Nlroqua academy OF
/ 1852
Mira Dixon IL bright young woman
Of exceedingly rare legal acuneu She
Ii assistant in the law department OF the
Edison Electric company, of which MIR
! Trowbridge. brother of Dr. VIM
Trowbridge, Is the principal attorney
Niles Dixon Is a member of the Chicago
and Laos Angeles bars. and woe to any
attorney who undertakes 10 play any
thing bnt good law pleadings when she
Is on the opposite side she will make
corporAtion law her chosen work for the
future She related 10 me her last sum
mer's outiug 70 take land claim In the
Imperial Irrigation district in the south
aaat corner of the state, where the de-