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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11

For twenty three years, we have
prepared young people for positions
paying from $45 to SIS per month to
begin with. We do not care how old
you are, how young you are, how much
education you have or have not, we
can prepare you in one of our courses
for first-class position. Here are
few facts. More employed graduates
than all the business schools combined
in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North and
South Dakota. Expert Faculty. Hand
some and complete equipment. Every
modern Office device known. No en-
trance examinations. No public reci-
tations. Personal instructions. Low
rates OF tuition and board. Students
board in private homes of people we
know. Beautiful and healthful city on
the Mississippi river Immediate re-
port and care in case of sickness. Rec
commended by Bishop and every clergy
man and every bank in the city, and by
many of the greatest men of the United
States. Students from Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Da-
kota, Montana, Indiana, New Mexico
and Canada and foreign countries. Hap
pest student dances, parties, theater
parties, ETC., all under school supervI-
sion. You are az home the first day.
All you have to 80 is to pack your trunk
and come; we attend to everything else
for you. Parents can trust this school.
Only school that offers one month trial
free and pays part car fare.
If you are going to school and these
things are all true, is not the w. B. u.
worthy of your attention?
The Wisconsin Business University
of La Crosse. Wisconsin, in its twenty
third year and chartered by the state
asks for your patronage. 1t is too old,
has too high reputation. and is too
solid financially to lie in it's work, in
its letters, or in its advertisements.
Write me, ask questions, and will
give your letter personal attention.
Send for beautiful catalog free and the
greatest list of successful students
ever published. Winter Term begins
January 9Th. Address Leigh Toland,
President, Wisconsin Business Univer-
sity, La Crosse, Wiz.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11
A Clean Up of Good Things

In order to clean up my stock of
room mouldings am quoting the low
price of lie per foot Can furnish cur
tain rods in different sizes and finishes
to meet most any demand in this line,
also window shades. My stock of fur
niture is complete in every respect.
Look over my offerings and compare
prices before purchasing elsewhere.
Calls for undertaking filed either day
or night. Phone office 294, house 230
G. E MORLEY,
Running Block, Viroqua.
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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11
They AlwaYs HeIp Elderly People

Foley Kidney Pills give just the helt
elderly people need to tone and strength.
en- their kidneys and bladder and regu.
late their action. John McMasters,
Streator, H., says: 81 feel better anc
stronger than have for many years,
and Foley Kidney Pills did it," o. E.
Davis.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11
First publication December II. 1875.
PROBATE NOTICE
Notice Of application for final 8

NNeIsSs VI AppHVAton Tor unal Settlement-
" ERNoN COUNTY COURT-M PROBATE.
State Of Wisconsin. county Of Vernon ss
In the matter Of the estate Of Albert johnson.
deceased.
On reading and fling the application of H. P.
Larson, executor of the estate OF Albert
Johnson, deceased representing among 9th err
things that he has fully administered the said
estate. and praying that time and place be fixed
Tor examining md allowing his account of his ad-
mintstraton. and that the residue Of the said
estate be assigned to such persons as are by law
entitled TO the same; and praying for an order
which claims are preferred and dividend thereof.
II is ordered, that said application be heard be-
fore this court at regular term thereof 10 be held
% the probate office in the cts of Viroquao the
fth day OF January. 1913. at 10 O'Clock a.
And Il IS further ordered. that notice of the
time and place Of examining saa allowing said ac-
count and assigning tha residue ai Salu estate, be
gwen 10 al persons Interested, by publication Of
copy OF this or1er. for three successive Ks,
in tbs VERNON COUNTY CENSOR. a newspaper
published in said county. before the day fixed for
said hearing.
Dated this 9Th daY Of December, 1919
BY the Court d, y. AAHnEEY, County Judge
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11
viii Do Sale Work

| am prepared to cry auction sal' in
any part of the county on short ne .e.
Having had twenty years experience |
can render right service. Give me a
trial. r. Nj. MCAULEY, Viroqua.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11
MONEY TO LOAN

On farm security at reasonable rates
of interest. All business confidential.
Address Lewis Bros Realty and Invest
ment Co., N. w. corner 4th & Main
Sts., La Crosse. Wissse
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11
DIR. Baldwin, dentist, second floor
Ferguson building. Phone Sc.

-Jasperson, the photographer, has
. full line of the latest and most up
to-date mounts. Call at his studio and
see them. 81 s1ras
Remember that Nuzum & Son q
new lumber quarters are at the old
Tibbits-Cameron stand, the best place
to buy building and finishing materials
in all western Wisconsin. There is
nothing in the scope of supplies needed
for construction OF city and farm build
ing that they fail to keep In stock
just now storm doors and windows is
their long suit. Cement, too, they
have plenty of.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11

Good Old Fashioned Common eense,
Honesty and Hustling Are What
Make Young Men and Women
Successful. This is an ADVERTISE
ment, But Leigh ToIand Would
Like to Have you ReadI
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11
First publication December II. 1928.
PROBATE NOTICE.

DecttIlDcr IL lolE--3.
PROBATE NOTICE.
Notice Of application for letters Of administration
STATE OF WISCONSIN. VERNON COUNTY
= Court IN Probate.
STATE oF WISCONSIN.
Vernon County ~
In the matter Of the estate Of Andrew Christie
sherson. deceased
On this 4th day Of Deeeazeer A. D.. 1912 upon
reading and fling the petition of Sena Christie
phersoD. stating that Andrew lhristopherson. Of
the county of Vernon died inteState on or about
tbs nth day Of July A. D., 1872. and praying
that Carl Fortney be appointed administrator Of
the estate of the sail deceased.
II Is ordered. That said application be heard be-
fore me. at the probate office. in the city of Vi
oaus on the 7th dRl II january. AID, 1918 at
10 o'clock q. N.
And Il is Further Ordered. That notice Of the
time and place appointed for hearing said appliea-
ton be given to all persons interested. by pub
fishing a copy Of this ordes FOR three weeks sue
cessively. in the VERNON COUNTY, CENSOR. news
paper printed and published IN seid eounty, pre-
vious TO said hearing
Dated this 4th day Of December, A. D. 1912.
by the Court. ID. o. MAHoNEy. County Judge.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11

l. II. E. Packard, Cashier of the above named
sank do solemnly swear that the above statement
is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
H. E. PACKARD, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this 7th
day Of December, 1912. sAJoHN J. M DAWSON.
Correct-Attest: H. p Proctor. E. w. HAGEN. A.
Soverson. Directors
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-12-11
BANK STATEMENT
FIRST NATIONAL BANK


DEPoRT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
n First National Bank at Vroqua, in the State
of Wisconsin. at the close of business. November
2g 1912
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

closed without any stupid books having
I'VE have reading sessions" explained
Mrs. johnson in answer to a question
concerning this absence of literary ma
terial. The children sit in circle and
listen to stories. The fundamental idea
is that children left to make their own
choices will always prefer some interest
ing occupation in company with other
children. There is constant companion
ship of responsible supervisors in work
or in play, but discipline takes the form
of natural or logical consequences of any
wrong act, as suggested by the children
as a group or as approved by them"
1t must not be supposed that this novel
school is an Arden school exclusively.
The children are sent there by parents
who approve the ideas set forth, but who
are not single tax advocates themselves.
Some, of course, are children of the Ar
denites, but many are from distant cities.
The single tax colony of Arden con-
sists of a group of cottagers who share
between them hundred and sixty acres
of land. Fringed by the forest, the cot
tagers live in houses erected on land
owned by the community. There are two
large commons for athletic sports, tennis
and baseball. \ little club house and an
outdoor theatre serve for special events,
Shakespearian productions and lectures,
and the Inn provides for the entertain
ment of the transient guest.
Arden ought to commend itself to the
suffragist as the ideal spot of the civilized
world. Not only do the women vote at
the regular meetings held by the COM
munity TO discuss Arden matters, but at
a recent meeting it was decided that the
children also should have 4 vote. Could
the communistic spirit go further than
this?
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boy was at his seat in school. In th'
afternoons he did other work about the
place and studied at night. The family
clothed him and gave him a small wage
and every cent he earned went TO swell
the little nest egg in the savings bank.
His progress the first year was neces
sarily slow because of his limited famil
iarity with English, so he devoted his en-
tire attention TO spelling and reading
His second year in school marked the be-
ginning of the remarkable progress he
has since made. He led his class at the
acadepic year terminated he had taken
three grades in one. After two years in
the graded school at Bound Brook Mich
olas was graduated with honors and he
was ready for the high school.
The long hours of study at night
affected the boys eyes, and through the
kindly offices of a schoolmate Nicholas
was taken to see an oculist in Plainfield,
eyes, but formed a sincere attachment for
him. 1t was to this oculist that Nicholas
confided his longing to come to Plainheld
and live, that he might attend the high
school there, where he could the more
readily be fitted for college.
Arrangements with the Bound Brook
family with whom Nicholas had lived
were soon arranged whereby the boy took
up his residence with the specialist, then
a bachelor, as butler and handy man
about the place.
Nicholas has been in his new home now
two years and he has worked just as zeal
ously about the handsome estate of the
oculist as he has at his books. From the
day he entered high school he has stood
at the head of his classes, and this COM
manding position he holds against all
Corners. He selected a scientific course,
which includes four years of English and
mathematics, three years of French. two
years of German, chemistry, physical
geography, biology and Greek. This
course, unless he should meet with some
unforeseen obstacle, he will complete in
htAl JUNE ut WIN NC
armed with his diploma and ready for the
college he hopes to enter by means of a
coveted scholarship.
Zelmas is not in the least disturbed
about his future. He talked as confident
ly of being graduated from one of the big
American universities with the degree of
M. E." or "E. E." as though ample funds
already were lying in bank at his com
mand.
"Any boy who can hustle can work his
way through college" said Nicholas, and
from the college men l have talked to oni
the subject the young man who goes
through college that way has big ad-
vantage over those whose wealthy parents
foot their bills.
Il know when l go to college / will
not only have to study hard, for l expect
10 take four years course in three years,
1t the most, but l will have TO work likel
| slave to make both ends meet. as ]
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Can You Beat This for an Odd School?
Here Boys and Girls Are Taught to Stan
Heads, to Throw Stones at Targets and sssss;

| A show of hands next discovered that
target exercise was the favorite diversion.
A target was erected, the boys and girls
took their places in line, toeing q mark.
and each essayed to knock hole in the
target 1t was necessary to give the boys
and girls plenty of room, for some of the
shots were very wide of the mark. but the
children entered into the spirit of the
thing with infinite enjoyment, and in all
!earnestness kept up the fusillade until told
that the class could adjourn.
The visitor had to lay violent hands on
himself to keep from picking up stones
and letting fly at the target, notwith-
standing the fact that time would have to
turn backward nearly half century to-
bring him to the age that would qualify
him for a place in the Arden schSbl. I'll
is astonishing how contagious is the ex-
ample of real childish abandon. Organic
education for adults would perhaps be a
good thing. Go into some quiet spot and
try standing on your head and throwing
stones at a target next time you have AMI
attack of the blues.
After the target practice came dane
ing session. On the edge of the forest the
children made a pretty spectacle going
through the intricacies of folk dances.
Dressed in variety of nondescript cos
tumes-oE bathing suits, cast off dresses,
boomers and anything and everything
that could be spared from the family rag
bag-the children could romp and roll
without fear of spelling clothes or of
damaging their hardy little bodies. Then
came the dinner bell.
The single takers are devout believers
in vegetables. At least one gathers that
idea from sharing the hospitality of the
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

light. One boy was brought to the front
to illustrate to the assembled class how
a well trained, highly educated boy of a
superior grade of knowledge could stand
on his head and remain there for an in
definite length of time.
Breathless attention, especially on the
part of the little girls. was given as the
champion stalked to the front, pillow in
hand. Selecting suitable spot, the lad
gracefully reversed the normal walking
appearance of the human animal, and with
his bare feet wiggling in the air he per-
formed a number of interesting eyolu-
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

and when off duty INDUCES in his hobby
of making hammocks for little girls to
rock their baby dolls to sleep in.
Forty-five years ago Jack was towboat
pilot and guided boats through the upper
Hudson into Albany. At that time he
added to his income as pilot by making ten
foot hamnocks
Jacks home town is Rondout, and his
grandchildren enjoy their afternoon maps
in the same hammocks that were made for
their mothers. Eighteen other. hammocks
in Rondout were made for little girls
whose own little girls are using them now.
AS a proud father left the boat at
Kingston Jack handed him a package ad-
dressed to his little girl. That" said he,
SIS the hammock l promised your dear
little baby" His-ba5y friends speak Of
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Once I get established here" said
Nicholas, Il will bring my mother and
little brothers and sisters across to live
with me. Ny brother threw me down. I
shall stick by the little 'ones at home and
see that they get a decent start"
Nicholas won prize for his compost
ton at the high school this year. He
chose for his theme. his experiences at
Ellis Island, where, as immigrant, he was
compelled to wait five days for the brother
who failed TO meet him when his steamship
arrived. The heartburnings and fears the
Child endured during those few days were
wildly told in the composition, and SEEM
ingly nothing escaped him, for he was as
deeply affected by the joys and sorrows Of
those about him in the detention pens as
by his own, and all of these he told Of in
his own way.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

have only little money saved. 1 haven't
been able to lay by a great deal, for
l don't feel that have the right 10 work
on the outside during vacation. That's
the time l like TO put in my best ticks
about my employers place, TO repay him
in measure for all his many kindnesseS
TO me in the winter, when he allows
nothing to interrupt my studies.
You see, want to make good on his
account as much as on my own. for he
has done more for me than anybody in the
world"
Nicholas declares that the hustle and
hustle of the New World as compared
with the slOth of the land of his nativity
are fairly intoxicating. and from the mo-
ment he landed here he was imbued with
but one thought. and that to make. name
and place for himself.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

IRED by the ambition to some day be
come a great engineer, Nicholas Zelma
is bending every energy to continue
the head of his classes in the PlainfelC
IN. j. High School that he may, upor
graduation, win a scholarship TO one o
the big universities, where his dream ma!
be realized. He insists that he will com
plete a university course. He is alone il
the New World and will have to worl
his way through college, but he is not in
the least daunted by the future, inasmucl
as he has already worked his way through
the graded schools and on up TO the junior
class of the high school, and this despite
the fact that five years ago. when HI
landed from an immigrant ship at Ellis
Island, he could not speak a word OF
English.
Nick" as he is called by his class
mates, is a sturdy chap of seventeen. His
facial features at once proclaim him q
son of Greece, and although he began
life here as a bootblack he is well poised
with command of an extensive vocabu'
larry, and his English, from grammati,
cal viewpoint, is letter perfect, while as a
mathematician he is a wizard.
Nearly six years ago, when a barefoot
lad in his native city of MESSIAH, Nicholas
met a party of American tourists and he
readily observed how much better dressed
were the little boys of that party than
those he chummed with at home. An
older brother had come to America to
carve out his fortune and Nicholas coaxed
his mother to permit him to join his
brother in America. Reluctantly she con-
scented, and with a capital of $40, after
paying his passage, the boy landed at
Ellis Island and caught his first glimpse
of the Land of Liberty.
The big brother met the little immi-
grant and at first all went well. Instead
Of being sent to school, as the brother had
promised, however, he. found a place as
bootfAack.
By keeping his ears open and associat-
ing only with English speaking children
Nicholas at the end of a month or so
could make himself understood in the
language of the country he had decided
to call home for all time. A studious
child at home, he determined to continue
the education there begun, and TO this
end he set to work to shape his course.
With portion of his treasured capital
he inserted an advertisement in Sunday
newspaper Offering his services free to
any family who would give him home
and at the same time permit him TO attend
school. He specified that he preferred to
live in the country. >.
A family al Bound Brook, n. j., replied
to the advertisement, with the result that
Nicholas packed up his few belongings
md journeyed forth to his new home. He
lid the chores about the place, cared for
, horse and cow and looked after an
The bulk of this work he did
before breakfast, and by nine O'Clock the
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

Delaware To establish the single tax
Do as You Like School Mrs. NJ. L. John
son, the leader in this kind of pelagosiC
progressiveness, has been brought from,
Fairhope, Ala, where she has been teach
ing the young idea how TO shoot along en-
tirely new lines for wears. Fairhope, ii
may be necessary TO explain, is another
single tax colony, run on much the same
lines as that at Arden.
In pursuance of the scheme to let the
boys and girls of the new school do as
they please, the sessions at Arden in
clude such novel scholastic exercises as
standing on the head, throwing stones at
a target, archery, dancing, wrestling and
visits, as often as any boy or girl suggests
it, to the Arden swimming hole.
As a large number of teachers and
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

him as Happy Jack" Il am proud of
the name my dear little friends have given
me, although would not be Happy Jack
but for them" said Jack.
The pilot house of the William +.
Romer is indeed popular place for the
young ones, and fond mothers feel secure
that they are in the care of Happy
Jack Many souvenirs in the pilot
house, such as snapshot pictures of chill
dren, pipes and tobacco pouches, are evil
dence of the popularity of the good ma
tured pilot
In the winter months, when ice blocks
river traffic, Jack directs a large fOrce'of
men in cutting and storing the. ne at
Kingston Point. The Hudson, therefore,
affords him means of livelihood in the
winter as well as in the summer
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

those interested in child welfare have Wis
tied Arden with a view to studying at
close range this novel idea in training the
young, it will be interesting to explain the
reasons advanced in favor of the method
by those in charge of the single tax
school.
1--WE call it organic education said
Mrs. johnson. "Our aim is to develop
sound bodies, healthy and alert minds
originality and sweet and
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

tons and variations of the street urchin's
performance.
"Now the rest of tn: boys" gravely an
nounced the leader. -Four little boys
stepped forward and stood on their heads.
Four little girls essayed to initiate them,
but after a whispered conversation with
the leader stepped back into line. The
visitor was assured that the little girls
were as accomplished as the boys at this
kind of gymnastics, but were scarcely
prepared for such violent exercises that
morning, having forgotten to bring their
boomers
The school was having the time of its
life. No foolish questions about ancient
persons who ought to be allowed to rest in
their graves in peace; no tiresome curios-
ity concerning the length of rivers or the
date of foolish old kings death-just a
nice easy exercise like standing on your
head and waving your toes in the air.
Who wouldn't like TO go to school at
Arden?
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

school camp at Arden. 1t is surprising
how appetizing a dinner Of vegetables
can be made by good cooking.
I'VE have a rest hour usually" ex-
planned Mrs. johnson, but as we have
visitors We will go on with the school.
How many want to go swimminS?"
Decide to Study" Swimming.
1t seemed every one favored the idea.
For the first time opinion was not divided
as to how the school should put in the
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01

time. The swimming hole was a short
walk from the camp. Here all the little
None of those swimming holes where
only boys were privileged and the little
girls had TO remain at a distance and
listen TO the shouts of glee and envy, and
wish they had been born boys. Dressed
in swimming tights like the little boys,
the little girls enjoyed themselves hugely.
Many could swim well, and they diyed
from the diving board as brayely as the
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01
MAGISTRATES Janitor

II JANIT0R of fat house in Harlem
~ was arraigned before Magistrate in
the Harlem Police Court. not long
ago, charged by one of the tenants with
abusing him and threatening to do him
bodily harm. The complainant was anx-
ious to press the charge, when another
tenant made his way to the Magistrates
bench and asked permission to plead in
defence of the janitor. He was granted
leave TO have his say.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-01
Children KnOV Pilot
as Their Happy Jack

AWE all have our hob
w bies. Jack Right
myer has his. Jack
is pilot of the William +.
Romer, of the Central
Hudson Steamboat Com
pany, that plies between
New York and Kingston,