Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-05-12

VIZ dsu SuilS dt Rogers.
Every farmer is now busy in his
fields.
wall paper at Towner's, sc per
ro.l and upwards.
Ben Williams visited friends near
Soldiers Grove Sunday
Fay Smith visited friends at West
by Saturday and Sunday.
Ed. Flanagan of Readstown was
a business caller here Monday.
Miss Matte Holland visited her
mother at Soldiers Grove Sunday.
Walter Gilman is employed at the
Surenson grocery as dellveryman.
Miss Jettie Bielland is home from
visit with her sister at Chaseburg.
Take note of the La Crosse Woolen
Mills advertisement in this week issue.
The best Portland cement either
Atlas or Universalat Tibbits-C Cameron S.
Tibbits-Cameron can save you
money on any kind of barn material or
shingles.
Misses Belva Saugstad and Mabel
Mitby of Westby visited friends here
Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. Thore Thompson are
happy over the arrival of baby boy,
born May 8.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Thompson of
Readstown were VirOqua callers on
Thursday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Thompson of
Bangor are the happy parents of ten
pound boy, born May 4th.
i think l can show you the best sill
verware for the price that you ever
saw. C. NJ. Morrison, Jeweler.
Miss Annie Jeffson of Westby
visited her sister, Miss Millie Jeffson,
of tins city portion of last week.
Calvin Cox was caller on Mon
day. He says he has one of the finest
of fish ponds near his Manning home.
Buy your barn-boards, cement,
plaster, brick and other material for
spring overhauling of John E. Nuzum.
Grandpa and grandmother Nuzum
have another grand heir-a little son at
the home of D. M. and Jessie Hunter
at Viola.
New and stylish neckwear, hats,
caps and furnishing goods at less than
they can be had elsewhere. The Blue
Front Store.
j. C. Hull, the Viola stock buyer,
shipped two carloads of veal CALVES to
markets from Viola, Readstown and
Soldiers Grove.
Remember all suits and overcoats
marked down for the great sale, still
go at the same price. No changes
made. The Blue Front Store.
Miss Hazel Cass, one of our Viro-
qua students at Lawrence University,
has been honored by the election of
editor of the college paper for 1910
John w. McLees, chairman of
Harmony, is off for a trip to Montana
to look after farming matters ou his
lately acquired western possessions.
N. e Bowman and crew have con-
structed 5, $50 tobacco boxes up to the
present time and viii will total about
1000 when through If these boxes
were strung along along in straight
line they would reach over So miles.
Relatives here and at Liberty Pole
have been apprised of the death of C..
NJ. Clawater at Cincinnati, Ohio, April
30. Several years ago he was married
to Jennie Clawater of Liberty Pole.
Deceased was thirty years of age.
The Viola Intelligencer says that
Dr. Stormont took Oscar adams, of
Avalanche to the Lutheran hospital at La
Crosse, where he will remain and re-
ceive treatment for the serious trouble,
ulcer of the stomach, with which he is
suffering.
Mr.. William Milne has been re-
elected to the principalship of the high
school at Merrill, at an advance of $500
in salary. The high school has an en-
rollment of nearly 300 and Mr.. Milne
has ten assistants. His wife is a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joel M. Nuzum of
this city.
Mr.. Ronning yesterday broke
ground for his new business block to be
located on the vacant lot between the
Rice building and CENSOR Office. 1t
win be one of the substantial and i'm
posing blocks of the city, two stories
and full basement, built of brick with
modern front.
The annual district school meetings
for 1909 will be held on Tuesday in
stead of Monday. The 4th of July
comes on Sunday this year and the
statutes declare that in all cases where
legal holiday comes on Sunday the
succeeding Monday shall be the regular
holiday. Monday being legal holiday
the school meetings must be held on
Tuesday.
Clerk Gosling gives official notice
in another portion of the CENSOR for
meeting of commission to draw jurors
for the June term of court, which con-
venes on the 8tb. Who will preside is
problematical Judge Fruit certainly
will not, and court officers are having
difficulty to find a substitute for him
among the numerous circuit judges of
the state.
-Viroqua has caught the popular
automobile fever that prevades every
city and town. Chas s. Slack was first
to yield to the temptation, then DR. J.
H. Chase, W. D. Dyson and j. E. NJ
zum have machines in shipment. ALBION
and Henry Lindemann are negotiating
/ for cars suitable to their ideas, com
fort and pleasure.
Martin Knutson o. Rising Sun, who
/ slashed his throat and both wrists with
| pocketkrife and then drove the blade
/ into his breast because of desDondency
/ due to the loss of his wife by death.
and later jumped from second story
window at the Lutheran hospital in La
/ Crosse and was captured in a slough
with his head under water, is said TO be
getting along nicely and his recovery is
expected.
j. B. Switzer renewed acquaint-
snce with bis many Viroqua friends cn