Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-22
ARRIVE AT THEIR DESTINATION
Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson Silbaugh Meet For.
mer Vernonites While Enrocte TO
New Home at Seattle.

EDITOR CENSOR: Mrs. Silbaugh and
myself had such pleasant time visiting
old friends on the long trip out that
thought word about former people
! of old Vernon might be of interest to
/ your readers. We met cold reception
from the climate in North Dakota but
warm welcome from the Bold boys
and Dr. (Lieut) r. C. Brenizer with
whom we visited. w. F. Bold and J.
NJ. Bold live near Coleharbor in Nc
| Lean county. The former OWES 900
acres of good land with good buildings
and the latter is teaching and proving
up quarter section. DIR. BreniZer is
near Beach, North Dakota, and owns
three I sections. He went to Dakota last
spring with all equipments for farming
and will have about one hundred acres
in crop. 1t is rather amusing to see
the doctor farming but as the entire six
days that the writer vas there We're
spent IN hunting and looking over the
country, we did not have the pleasure
of seeing him do any farm work him
self and only have his word for it that
he has done any Judging from APP
pearance, however, the change and out
| ing seems to be agreeing with him. j.
| p. Reeve, former promoter of the La
Crosse e. Southeastern railway owns a
! large ranch only three miles away and
is very prosperous. We accepted an
invitation to Sunday dinner with Mr..
| Reeve at the 81. p. f" ranch and when
we We're served in courses with all the
delicacies of the season including straw
| berry short cake, we could hardly
realize that we were long ways out
on the prairie in the very edge of the
bad lands of North Dakota.
| We stopped over night in Livingston
so as TO have all day light and called on
! the De Harris and Mr.. Schubert. The
latter formerly travelled through Vernon
| selling drugs and knows many Viroqua
people. We were met at Spokane by
John Silhaugh and was entertained at
! his home for two nights and a day.
| Grant Strawn and John Silbaue.h drove
us over the entire city and | was
astonished to see the progress made
since my former visit two years ago.
Spokane has 110U,0 900 population now
and will undoubtedly be one of the
! great inland cities of ttis country. 1t
was such pleasure to meet the old
/ friends again from Vernon and best of
T all to find them all prosperous and
happy The following with their wives
called and spent the evening: Peter
| Nelson, Grant Strawn and John Beatty.
| Mrs. Blanche White nee Silbaugh and
| her husband and Alma Steenberg called
during the day. The writer called on
| Dick Nuzum and Frank Chase at their
places of business. Ed Minshall is
ICING to help Mr.. Chase in his loan
1 ana abstract office and was expected
! there sometime during the day with his
4 family and household goods. Mr..
| Beatty has steady indoor work for the
Holland Horr Mill Co. at $4 per day.
Strawn and SilbaGgh are partners and
own one of the finest grocery and meat
markets in this city. Our genial Peter
/ Nelson has retired from the grocery
! business and now calls himself real
estate man but he has been so pros
porous in his new home that we hardly
think the wolf would get very close to
either door even if he did nothing but
look after his own properties. We left
Spokane at a. M. the 10th and ar
rived at Seattle the same evening at
S:l5. In less than twenty-four hours
from that time we moved into a fur
nished flat to await the arrival of our
goods. The weather is fine and every
thing green and nice, Seattle now has
a population of 235, 600 and is in
creasing one thousand month. |
thought better tell you this while |
still retain my reputation for veracity.
When imbibe good supply of this
Seattle enthusiasm, it may be well to
take it with some allowance.
Respectfully,
JACKSON SILBAUGH.
Seattle, Wash, May H.