Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-13
Bits of Local News.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


City Treasurer Larson made busi-
ness trip to Cashton.
Miss Margaret Cofflan1 leaves
Tuesday for California
j. N. Williamson is down from Ad-
ans county for a.yisit.
Mrs. II. p. Proctor visited in La
Crosse for couple of days.
See advertisement OF Thompson 5
Brlstow winter clearance sale.
We have large stock of shelled
corn for sale. BRENNAN & SMITH.
Gunder Moen, former chairman Of
Whitestown suffers from pneumonia.
Peter Mccall returned from Cali
fornia, where he spent several weeks
r. C. Truesdale and r. H. Drake
" ere Readstown visitors on a recent
day.
T. 0. Lee of Hillsboro, North Da-
kota, is guest of relatives ia this vi
cinity.
Woodman picnic for this district
association will be held at Galesyile' cn
July Fourth.
Mrs. L. j. Martin and daughter
May are visiting at the old home in
Fulton, Illinois.
G. F. Smith of Stavely, Alberta
Viroqua last week.
Henry Bolstad is at a La Crosse
hospital where he is receiving treat
ment for heart trouble.
Near Readstown, the Flanagan
boys had three cows killed by straw
stack falling upon them.
Springville ladies aid society will
meet with Mrs. Frank Reed on Thurs
day, the 2lst, for dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Proctor enter
tain at cards this evening at the resi-
dence af Attorney Proctor.
Mr.. o. P. Hill announces his candi-
dacy for supervisor i'll the Third ward
at the approaching city election.
Attorney C. H. Minshall has pur-
chased the old Side farm of $50 acres,
four miles southwest of Viroqua.
Mrs. Albon Lindemann aud son,
Albon, are enroute for California to
visit her father, Mr.. l. w. Blake.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Anderson re-
turned after a six weeks visit with rel
atives, to their home in Groton, North
Dakota.
-Mesdames Wilkins and c. j. Smith
will entertain Congregational aid socie-
ty at the home of the latter on the Goth
instant.
Misses Bertha Ols@, Mary Morse
and Rose Drew entertain at a valentine
party at the office of Attorney c. w.
Graves
Liberty Pole aid society will hold Il
shadow sociabe at the residence of w.
K. McCracken en- Friday evening of
this week.
j. ". Thayer has gust accepted the
sale of D. W. Fulmer Land Co. 5 Dako-
ia lands, one of the heaviest holders of
western lands
The women's literary society is
reading Browning's THE Flight of the
Duchess" under the leadership of Mrs.
d. o. Mahoney.
Mrs Betsey Sheldon, a resident of
the town of Hillsboro since 1855, died
there on the 2nd instant, at the age of
eightytiv years.
Mrs. Anna Solberg died at the
home of her daughter Mrs. John Moil-
len in the town Of Coon, at the age of
nlnety-one years.
The grades in the city schools are
being drilled by Miss Mccormick, for
Qu cen Esther contata, which will be
given in the near future.
City election will soon be the theme
of talk. Primary proceedings must
soon be commenced in order to get
names on the primary ballot.
Ontario basket ball teams, boys
and girls, made trip to Bloomington,
Illinois, TO play the locals of that place.
Ontario was worsted in both contests.
What's become of the old fashion
ed man who felt proud because the
thermometer at his house registered
lower than any other thermometer in
the neighborhood
Awakening to find her three weeks
old bah, dead upon her breast, was the
experience of Mrs. George Schrader
of La Crosse. The little one had been
suffering with pneumonia.
-Westby shipped from one of it's
railroad stations during last year GAG
carloads, and received 23S carloads.
Pretty big business for town of less
than 1000 population.
Readstown fire apparatus was
used for the first time in extinguishing
an incipient blaze in the livery barn of
Flanagan Brothers The Tribune re
ports satisfaction with the new outfit.
r. II. Drake had as his guest, on
Monday, Mr.. J. G. Savage of Kansas,
who removed from Sugar Grove section
over thirty years ago. He is back re
newing friendships and looking over
the old scenes. Mr.. Savage is well
pleased with Kansas.
After twelve years residence in
North Dakota Grant Allen, together
with his family, has returned to this
city, his former home. He says that
conditions where he as4rnear Minot
are deplorable, there being lack of
both fuel and provisions.
The Enterprise is authority for the
statement that but three cases of small
pox exist in La Fargo at the present
time, and these patients viii soon be
discharged from quarantine. The au-
thorities there appear to have handled
the epidemic with promptness and care.
They had as high As nine cases at one
time.
The sight of two school boys en-
gaging in a bloody fight on a recent
day with a large crowd of students as
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