Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-07-10

with measles.
Mrs. Ira Griffin visited La Crosse
friends last week.
Lillian Kromrey is recovering from
a severe attack of mumps.
-Purley and Bessie Dickson have
been very sick with measles.
james McCaul returned from bus
mess trip in Texas and Kentucky.
Now the next great event will be the
county fair and it is not far away.
Money to loan on real estate sccur-
ty. Butt q Butt.
-Jeweler Jos. Boehrer paid visit
to his brother at Durand, last week.
Rev. and Mrs. g. w. Nuzum spent
a few days with their daughter at Viola.
Growth of vegetation and crops
has been phenomenal during the past
fortnight.
Casper Oftedahl of Cream City,
Minnesota, visited relatives in this city
and Springvile vicinity.
John O. Fortney has bought one of
those combination hay and stock rakes
of Chas. S. Slack & Co.
Mrs. M. f. Ogden returned from
Riehland county, where she spent a few
days with a daughter.
Watch repairing has always been
my hobby; especially good work.
Sam, the Jeweler.
Success is dependent upon the
skilled application of scientific methods
to whatever is undertaken.
Hershey's pure milk chocolate, the
finest thing to be had in confectionery.
Price sc. Sold by j. Omundson.
Mrs. Lind and children of HiIlsboro,
Capt. and Mrs. Conner, in this city.
Haughton Brown of Minneapolis,
spent last Friday in Viroqua the guest
of his grandmother, Mrs. VIM. Haugh-
ton.
-Deering, Milwaukee AMI Champion
mowers and rakes at Chas. S. Slack &
| Coz. the latest and best, on easy
terms.
50 calls for office help within Z
months at the Brandrup d. Nettleton
Business college, Winona, Minn. Free
! catalog.
Two hundred miniature foot rests
| for sale, next Saturday. Don't fail to
get one; price 10 cents.
Otteson q Steenberg.
Professor Elmer Smith has pur-
chased a stationery and novelty stock
of goods at Montfort, where he viii
reside in the future.
Our line of negligee and coat shirts
appeals to the good dresser as never
before. An immense line and variety
of patterns. The Blue Front Store.
Home grown strawberries are now
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editors table with several quarts that
equal in size and beauty any we have
ever seen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tennis, who live near
| Avalanche, mourn the loss of their on
ly son, a lad of seven years. The gen
| tleman is a brother of Mrs. Otto Otte-
son of this city.
-Chas. S. Slack e Co have one left
of the Fuller & johnson horse-lft corn
ploWs with hoeing attachment. Better
| get il, Mr. Farmer, and get after the
weeds, as it hoes them all out.
Mayor Chase, W d. Dyson and H.
E. Packard, with their families, are
spending week of camp life on the
creek in Harrison Hollow. They are
living in an improvised house on wheels.
At call meeting of the school
board, last Friday evening, Bert Fro
hook was reelected as engineer and as
lanitor of the high school building and
Dan Beck as janitor of the grade school
buildings.
Matthew Geary of Condee, South
Dakota, is visiting relatives and old
time friends in this vicinity. He was
formerly resident of this county, hav-
ing moved away some twenty-five years
ago.
The bowling alley building is being
overhauled and remodelled preparatory
to becoming the new home of the Re
publican. Editor Bailey has leased the
building and thinks he will make it a
pleasant home for his printery.
Otto Brown has the matter in hand
of adding $500 to $400 in premiums to
the list of county fair offerings, and
nearly that amount has been contri-
buted by Viroqua business men. The
amounts and additions will be announced
in due time.
-Lucius Favor, C. d. Williams and
w. II. Pulver are off for week S
camping and fishing expedition in Mon
roe and jackson counties. If anybody
can get fish these gentlemen certainly
will not go hungry, for their skill or
luck is proverbial.
Now is the time when you should
have your distant friends come and see
you If there is a place more beauti-
ful than the country around here at the
present time it hasn't been discovered
yet. The crops are in the finest condi-
ton and everything growing at rate
that will soon make up for the late
spring.
Chairman Will Selbach was over
from Rockton, Friday. He held on the
first day of July, the largest auction
sale ever pulled off in the county. Oy-
er six thousand dollars worth of live
stock was sold This was a sort of
clearing sale, Mr. Selbach having yet a
nice bunch of stock He recently dis
posed of 1,200-acre farm northwest of
Rockton, to Willis Van Dyke, the sell
ing price being $50, 900.
About fifty of their relatives and
friends journeyed to the pleasant farm
hcne of Mr.. and Mrs. Erastus Bow
man, at Asbury Ridge, on Tuesday of
last week, to do them honor in view of
the fact that that day marked the twen-
ty-fifth anniversary of the day they
took the solemn marriage VOWS. A fine
out-of- door spread was served in the
nearby woodland. The worthy couple
were presented with numerous presents, 1
all of silver, substantial in character