Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-03
: -Chinaware at j. Omundson's.

Marvel -four at A. E. Surenson's.
DIR. Baldwin, dentist, second floor
Ferguson building. Phone Sc.
Mems and boys leather rnittens,
15c pair, at Rogers.
Wanted, 100 bushels of good sound
A No. l red onions. w. F. Lindemann
Co.
Attorney l.. Grimsrud had pro-
fcssional errand at the county seat last
Monday.
Mrs. Frank Primmer entertains the
Priscilla club Thursday afternoon of
next week.
Just received a car of unusually
nice w. c. fence posts at right prices.
Tibbits-Cameron.
The international Live Stock ex-
position will be held in Chicago Now
ember 81 to December 10.
You can stop that cough with Nyals
Cherry Cough Syrup. Get it at Davis
drug store. Price 25c or Soc.
After a two weeks visit at Mil
waukee and Watertown Mrs. w. w.
Wigginton arrived home last Monday.
-Messrs. H. H. Texley and Ole Field
of Newman Grove, Nebraska, visited
last Friday and Saturday at the home
of Mrs. G. N. Hauge.
Sidney Side departed for Ismay,
Montana, last Monday to take up his
residence on half-section of land upon
which he recently filed.
Altar a summers stay at Hutton.
South Dakota, Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph
Thorgerson have returned to Jefferson
town where they will make their home
this winter.
Coming at the Opera house Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, November
4, 5, and 6. The Harvey Stock Com
pany; eighteen people, band and or
chestra at popular prices.
Put on that new roof. Do it now.
Spring will see shingles higher. Tib-
bits-Cameron can supply your roofing
needs in roofing or shingles at bottom
prices. Call and examine our goods.
All unpaid premiums for 1909 fair
will be paid at Bank of Viroqua. Pre-
miums not called for before December
/, will be considered as donated to the
society. F. w. Alexander, Secretary.
Editor F. H. Graves has moved his
printing equipment from the Side
building to handsome quarter above the
Viroqua Shoe Store. In celebration of
the event he has given his publication
new dress of type.
Theodore johnson has resigned his
position as manager of W. F. Linde-
mann Co.'S grocery department and will
open SC and 10c store in the north
room of the Tate building. He is in
Chicago purchasing his goods and will
open on or before November Goth.
The farm home of Ellis Reed in
the town of Jefferson burned to the
ground about noon last Friday. The
fire started in the roof, caused by
sparks from a chimney. But little of
contents was saved. Mr.. Reeds son.
in-law, Mr.. Irwin, lost among other
things fine piano. No insurance was
carried
Mrs. Rosetta Silbaugh, national or
ganizer for the w. G. T u, mingled
with Viroqua friends the fore part of
the week. Yesterday and today she
visited Coon Valley and Stoddard in the
interest of that organization and will
attend the county convention, which
will be held at De Soto on Thursday
and Friday of this week. Mrs. Sill
baugh is meeting with great success as
lecturer and worker in the temper
ance field.
The Star of Bethlehem may be
seen by early risers now on any cloud
less morning. Astronomers say that
this star is visible at the present time
for the first time in 500 years and that
it will not be coming this way again for
the next 500 years, and it is more than
probable that most people now on
earth will not be. here then. The star
is visible in the east every morning iust
at daybreak. 1t is very bright and can
easily be distinguished.
There is a mighty significant bit
of truth in an exchange statement that
the nearer home you invest your money
the surer you are of getting what yoI
pay for. 1t may not promise so much
but in actual performances and staying
qualities what you buy in your own
town or your own state, is likely to
excel any mirages seen in the distance.
This is true whether applied to goods
or lands, and many man : leaving a
good thing in Wisconsin - an uncer-
tainty in the far west.
The principal of Minnesota school
sent the names of his pupils to coun-
ty superintendent of schools in Texas
and requested that he hand the list to a
teacher who would promise to let the
pupils in her school write letters to the
pupils in the Minnesota school. Letters
were received and the pupils in the
Minnesota schools replied, describing
the climate, occupations and crops in
neighborhood and sent specimens of
different kinds of wood and also of the
grains raised there. In return they
have now received rice on the straw,
Spanish moss twigs of orange trees,
myrtle and wild peach and specimens
of different kinds of wood and flowers
1t is an interesting way TO study ge-
ography and the children take great
deal of interest it, especially because
they send photo postals taken in the
surrounding country and receive others
in return from Texas. This work, while
really practice in composition and let
ter writing, is at the same time sup
Elementary to the text book in geOgra-
ply and thus serves two purposes.