Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-09-05

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Frederick Wilkins spent several
days in Milwaukee.
p. Scott Curtis is suffering from an
attack of rheumatism.
Lawrence Dickson went to Soldiers
Grove, thence to Chicago.
For rent, my West Prairie farm.
Z. LOTUS, De Soto, Wis.
Miss Goodenough of Tomah, is
visiting Rev. and Mrs. G. E Buffers.
DIR. w. M. Trowbridge went to
Richland county to attend an appendi-
citis patient.
Miss Goldie Glenn wh5eis en-
ployed at Hillsboro visited her parents
| for week.
-Messrs. g. E. French, c. B. Nc
Auley and M. ID. Collins were up from
De Soto on Sunday.
Prof. w. p. Colburn went to La
Crosse last, Wednesday, to attend q
| teachers convention.
Now Is the time to get next to those
Chas. s. Slack & Co.'S.
| Mrs. Fl. P. Proctor and Mr. and
and Mrs. Walter Proctor were guests of
DIR. and Mrs. C. s. Smith at Elroy.
School supplies tablets, pencils,
pens. penholders, rulers, compasses and
erassrs. o. K. Davis.
Mrs. Bertha Broadhead returned
last week from an extended visit with
friends in Washington and Oregon.
Attorney and Mrs C. w. Graves
| spent week at Hotel Astoria in st.
Paul as guests Of MIR. John W. Savage.
Why buy the cheap kind at big
figure when you can get good reliable
.-ggy at low price of Chas. S. Slack
| 81 Coz
oh my those are fine cook and hsat-
ing stoves Chas. s. Slack q Co. have
just received. Come and get their low
prices before looking elsewhere.
Miss Jessie Forsythe of LIS Crosse,
spent some days at the home of her
\ aunt, Mrs. John McKittrick, In this
| city. She returned home on Tuesday.
-Plows tnat plow and plow as you
\ would have them plow-the Grand De-
tour, Fuller d Johnson, Thompson and
Rock Island, at Chas. s. Slack q Co's.
--Lucius Favor returned, Sunday last,
from two weeks visit to tue French
Lick Springs at West Baden, Indiana.
AS usual, he is pleased with treatment
received there.
Sparta BARRIERS have in some in
stances increased prices Tor their work,
the new scheduls 30 take plscs Septem
| ber 1 Increased cost of doing business
| is the reason given.
Preaching services next Sunday,
Springville IL m; Brookvnie .. m;
Liberty Pole 8 p. m. There will be
preaching services III Bishop Branch:
Friday night, 7:3J p. IN.
W. FL Cash, tho we'll known rail-
road promoter OF New Lisbon, was in
the city, on Saturday last, on business
in connection with the proposed extern
s!on ef the Hillsboro branch railway to
Richland Center
-Hilds Carmichael of Viroqua, has
accepted position rs teacher OF one of
the grades In the Re,.dstoyn SCHOOL,.
This speaks we'll for q youg lady who
has jast completed high school, having
had no experience in teaching. Leader.
We acknowledge q pleasant call
from Lyman Bugbee of the town of
Clinton, Monday. Mr.. Bugbee tells us
he has lived on the same farm for over
fifty years, settling there with his par
EMS when but eight years old.-Cashton
Record. >,
The remains of Mrs. G. E. Leete
were brought to Sparta for burial last
week from New York. The deceased
was for years the iandlady at the Win
ship house at Sparta, and will be re-
membered by many of the older resi-
dents of Viroqua.
The GAYS Mills Independent reports
the death of Henry Lester of Tower
vile, pioneer of the pioneers, man
well known to all southern Vernon
county people. Mr.. Lester was q man
OF remarkable age, something over
ninety years.
-Messrs. Vance HAMILTON and Guy.
Wertz of Richland Center, were Viro-
qua visitors, Saturday and Sunday Mr.
Wertz played third base for the home,
team against Cashton in Sundays
game. Mr.. Hamilton Is a member Of
the staff Of the Republican Observer
While playing base ball at La,
Fargo, q week ago Sunday, Grover
Brewer, a member of the Richland
Center team. dislocated his left ankle
and fractured the bones above the ankle
joint. He met with the accident while
making desperate ''slide" to second
base.
One of the attra ctions at the big
Sparta fair now being held is our own-
Charley Peters who is exhibited as
"Wisconsin's Famous Fat Boy" He
will also make the Boscobel, Lodi and
Richland Center fairs. Chtrley tips the
steelyard heavier than any boy OF his
age in the United States.
-Workmen engaged in tearing down.
the old jackson county poor house re-.
cer tly found fifteen hundred dollars In.
gold. 1t Is not definitely known to.
whom the money belonged, but 1t is sup.
posed to have been boarded by one
James Gallagher, who died in the insti-
tuition some years ago. Gallagher was
an eccentric fellow, who had or pro-
fessed to have lost all trace of his rela-
tives.
--Miss Emma Plough went to Chica-
go last Sunday TO enter DIR. Bouffleur's
hospital there and prepare herself as q
professional nurse Miss Plough has
been an employe of The Tate Mercantile
company here for several years and is