Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-11-06
Bits of Local News

November.
For storm sash go to Thayer's.
County board meets next Tuesday.
DIR. R. w. Baldwin, dentist; oppo-
site postoffice.
New winter millinery arriving daily
at Mrs. Norris.
Mrs. August j. Smith has been
sick for a week'with pieurisy.
VIM. Banks has moved in the house
recently owned and vacated by Sam
Jack son..
Mrs. Robert Parker of Viola, recent
ly spent few days with the family of
j. w. Lucas.
4. C. Knudston and family have
moved into the Sam Ellefson house in
the first ward.
organized and taken on new life after
months of muteness.
Shirley Marshall and daughter of
Red Mound, are off On a visit with
relatives in Illinois and Ohio.
John Haskins, familiar character
of Soldiers Grove, died at the remark
able age of ninety eight years.
Chris Egstad of Chaseburg, is on
tour of inspection to Canada. Other
land seekers accompanied him.
"A class of six young people were
confirmed in the De Soto Norwegian
Lutheran church, last Sunday.
The Fairbanks 3-horse gasoline and
4-horse kerosine engines are now on
exhibition at Chas. S. Slack & Co.'S.
Hans P Larson and wife returned
L e.. r
son made purchase of monuments.
No competition on the famous
"Adler" over coats. We are sole agents
for them. The Blue Front Store.
Two Coon Valley boys, Charles and
Willie Thrune, killed twelve coons
Not much of a seasen for coons, either.
The CENSOR hopes that all delin-
quents will prepare to pay their ar
rearages by January first, if not sooner
Fred Barry and Everett Richmond
have returned from several weeks
painting jobs in the vicinity of Re
treat
R. F. D. Carrier Albert Dustin, is
taking his Is days annual vacation this
month. j. S. Robson is serving the
route as substitute.
Rev. A. ]. Corum, former pastor
of the Methodist church here and loca-
ted at Menominee, came on Monday for
a stay with Viroqua friends
The most up-to- date childrens suits
and overcoats to be seen in the city,
Stylish and made to resist hard wear.
The Blue Front Store.
The Wisconsin Valley Settler, a
weekly newspaper published al Valley
Junction for the last two years, has
been absorbed by the Tomah j ournal.
M IS Omega Snodgrass vert to La
Crosse, where she enters Tolard's bus
mess university. She was accompanied
by her brother Elvin, who spent the
day there.
The Rebekah lodges of district No.
s will hold a meeting at Sparta, We'd
nesday, November 18th, at 200 p. m.
Regina lodge No Is is to send large
delegation.
Next Monday is open season for
deer hunters in Wisconsin. Already
number of county nimrods have gone to
the northern woods to be ready for the
first hours of open season.
The farm residence of Mrs. Jerome
Norris came near meeting destruction
on a recent night. The roof was burned
off before the flames could be checked.
The place is in Webster town.
We are in receipt of full line of
those popular stiff bosom negligee COM
bined shirts. Everyone who had them
last season will want them again this
year. The Blue Front Store.
Remember that the CENSOR will
furnish the sound ard newsy Chicago
Inter-Ocean for 25 cents per year in
connection with this paper. A combi-
nation for county, state and general
news not excelled.
Mr.. George Pulham, one of the
leading young farmers of Victory COM
munity, is preparing to move to Mime
sofa. Surely loss to that section and
Vernon county. The Pulhams are one
of the pioneer families of western Yer
non.
The La Fargo Enterprise reports
that prospects are bright for a big
revival in mining matters at the Bear
creek mines; that the first carload of
valuable mineral has been shipped, and
three more loads are ready for the
smelter.
The young wife of DIR. Fred A.
Barney, formerly of Viroqua, died at
their home in Soldiers Grove. Funeral
was held at Prairie du Chen, her girl
hood home on her fifth wedding ami
versary. Mrs. Barney was twenty
eight years of age.
Lee Dennison of Stoddard, who
harvested and spent the threshing sea
son in South Dakota, tells the folks
that he experienced but half day that
he was unable to work on account of
rain; that crops are much lighter than
in the past years.
-Chas. S. Slack, with his tfYellow
Fellow and 25 horse Reeves cross
compound engine, will finish threshing
this week He informs us he has
threshed for one hundred farmers this
season and although crops are light yet
with his hustling crew, he has earned
over 1000.
Since 1890. Rhtr the Grand Army
of the Republic Tad 400, 489 members
enrolled. its numerical strength has
been cut down almost one-half. There
are only about 2l2, 600 comrades now,
The loses by death ran up to 1900 or
10, 600 a year. There is practically no
chance to gain recruits.
Mrs. Jacob Lind, one of the 1857
pioneers of Hillsboro, died in that vii
iage October "a, at the age of seventy
seven. She was native of Germany.
The influence of her good life has been
impressed on the community where she