Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-01-03
Said or Written TO The Censor


Gus Morterud, BloomlngdaIe: "The
the county training schools, and what
ours has done for the young people of
the county, was certainly timely. For
instance, we have seldom, il ever, EN-.
ployed an inexperienced teacher in our
schools. We now have two such, but
they had the advantages of the train
ing school, and are making good, and
we all recognized it, Yes, believe in
this branch of educational work in our
county.
Ole o. Tuhus, Stark: al recently
returned from Dane and Rock counties,
and was almost in the path of the great
cyclone which passed that way month
ago Land values in that old settled
portion of southern Wisconsin are going
up by leaps and bounds. Ii is not un-
cor mon TO learn that farm with ordi-
nary Improvement, three or four miles
from S>ouChton, has passed to new
hands at SIS per acre"
John J. Midthum, Kickapoo town:
Eyes, our creamery has brought an en-.
viable name for our section as a dairy
location We have the water the
grass, the cows and the creamery,
They are all making money for US as q
people "
Abraham Lincoln Kaivestran. Ava
lanche "01r new miller has his dam
in and doing good business at the old
stand 10 seems natural to see people
come from remote distances to DO their
milling in old Avalanche.
Thomas Latimer Genoa: From our
store we packed ard shipped twenty
seven carloads of apples the past sea-
son On some of the shipments we lost
quite heavily, but made it up on late
varieties Of apples. =
John W. Curry, Ablemans: II made
seven trips to Montana thg past season,
and l WAS kept pretty busy hustling,
you may imagine. II man takes hold
in the right way he will succeed out
there. / like the hustle of that west
ern section.
Geo. b. Fisher: son my recent
trip north | found that farmers and
mill men were not paying the wages
received by workmen in this section.
Ingebret Larson, Webster: eve are
certainly living in favored time. Well
90 | remember in the pioneer days
what il meant TO earn or get our fing-
ers on a dollar. As farmers, we don t
need any changes IN the times, no free
trade or agitation that will curtail the
prosperity Of our people. | came when
boy, 7 know what the varying changes
mean to Us As favored community and
people
Albert j. Broadhead, Sterling: ~
wish you could have seen our Retreat
gang. with a complete outfit for turn
ing the sod, discing the land, sewing
the seed, etc, on our North Dakota
farm the past season. 1t beats every
thing. and one who has not seen il can
scarcely comprehend the MAGNITUDE,
We broke over 700 acres, sowing al
most section TO flax. Our section had
with fair crop conditions.
H. H. Rabbit: 81 have just re-
turned from North Carolina. The part
that | visited is situated one hundred
miles south Of Norfolk, Virginia, and is
in what is known as the coastal plain.
1t is level, productive country, rails
ing everything we oir Wisconsin, with
the exception of timothy. Cheap lands
and good markets ought to make it the
best country in the United States in a
few years. From fifty to one hundred
bushels Of corn can be raised per acre,
FIVE TO crops Of alfalfa year; cotton,
peanuts, tobacco and clover all do well.
Anyone wishing TO know more about
that country can get what information
can give freely / was accompanied
by Mr.. H. J. Moon, and we we're treat
ed as the southern people alone know
how TO extend hospitality.
City schools open Monday. after