Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-02-01

'"This leaves us all well and we like the
country here. Have only had one week
of winter so far; weather is fine and
we have flowers in bloom out of doors,
Have met great many from old Yer
non county and all seem to be doing
well and contented. We send our best
wishes to all old friends.
Jasper J. Peterson, Waterloo. Iowa /:
please find draft to remind you the
CENSOR is welcome visitor at our
home. l am just finishing a $40, 600
Methodist church here. Ina short time
/ go to Muscatine, Iowa, to build 500, =
900 Methodist church. Would like to
see old friends and good old Viroqua
once more.
Otto Fulmer, Donald, Wis al am
still here with the Fountain Campbell
Lumber Company and like my wori.
fine. This is quite large mill, run
ming about nine months in the year,
night and day, cutting from nine to ten
million feet OF lumber. / am kept quite
busy most of the time and am always
glad to receive the CENSOR. p"
Thos. w. Latta, Victor, Iowa:
"Please credit for our subscription to
the CENSOR, which is to us long letter
from home each week. Though we have
been away from Viroqua seven years
and the interests of home, business, So
ciety, ETC., are elsewhere, still there
are memories both sweet and sad that
carry US back to the old home and
school days of our boyhood and there
are still many ties friendship that
bind our hearts to the old home and
friends of our younger days. There is
scarcely an issue of the CENSOR that
does not bring ussnews of interest re-
garding one or more of them. There
is not a newspaper, book, or magazine
coming to our door that is grasped more
eagerly and the columns of which are
scanned more carefully and with as
much satisfaction as the old CENSOR.
1t never grows old, and seems to cheer
the heart as well az sharpen the in
tellect. Therefore to the CENSOR and
all the old friends, and young friends,
too, we send our love and best wishes
for the year A. ID. 1911"
c. M. Sterling, Three Forks, Mon
tana: Another year has rolled by,
will let you know that am not like
the year-a thing of the past. Our
town is alive and so are we. II has
just passed its second birthday and can
boast of i, 200 population and every
person working. Today workmen are
putting cornice brick on the new bank
building. We have two banks here do
ing a good business. There are -four
general stores, two furniture stores,
two tailor shops, one drug store, one
gents and ladies furnishing establish
ment, one shoe store, two barber shops,
one electrical supply shop, two poo
rooms, one bowling ally, one feed mill,
three large hotels with all modern i'm
provements, besides the restaurants and
rooming houses. In regard to living ac-
cording to prices quoted in your paper
the can goods OF an average are about
the same. Flour we are selling at So. 3G
per hundred, potatoes, commonly known
as spuds, sell at 81. IS per hundred, 81 2s
per hundred for oats. We are paying
the poor dry land farmers 60 cents pei
dozen for eggs. They bring in case
of eggs and haul home load of gro
ceries. Hay baled is worth S13. so de-
livered, alfalfa IS. We have a first
class jewelry store and a few places
where the dry rancher can quench his
thirst for reasonable compensation.
My son Claud and nv brother-in-law
have general merchandise store here,
and are doing about $1,000 business per
month. C. NJ. st. p will have its branch
line completed from here to the Park
in time for next years business. My
son Floyd is conductor on the c. NJ. St.
P. and runs out of here. My daughter
is stenographer and boOk-keeper for the
store. We have two newspapers; also
electric Dowerv