Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-10-15
Short News Stories of Interest
PckUps Reporters Goings Doing
Viroqua Vicinity
with JOhn Dawson & 90.


Money to loan on real estate. Call
on ]. E. Stoll.
-"Thelma" perfume, the new odor,
at Davis drug store.
A carload of choice bridge plank
just received at the Nuzum yard.
-Arnt johnson brought in from JEFF
ferson some second-crop strawberries.
Opera Electric every Wednesday
and Saturday. riothing but features.
-Mesdames Hook and Lucas passed
some days with their parents at Viola.
Carload of winter apples wanted
at once, at top prices. ]. W. Thayer.
Ladies mackinaw coats in the new
styles and patterns. The Blue Front
Store.
Il am prepared to do sewing by the
day. Telephone number l3l. HAZEL
TERHUNE.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Skarstad re-
turned from few days visit at West
Prairie.
Small damage was caused in the
kitchen at A. E. Surenson's residence
by a leaky oil stove and incipient blaze.
Il am prepared to do piano tuning
in city or country and guarantee work.
Call on me or write. J. Z. Parker,
Viroqua.
Rev. Jacobson is at Taylor attend
ing district meeting of Lutheran church.
lie Will return in season for next Sum-
days appointments.
We are rushed with business but
will use you right if you will come in
and make your wants known. Bekke-
dal Lumber Company.
Quality is economy. The high
grade building materials we handle are
cheaper in the long run. John Z. Nuz-
um & Son Lumber Co.
Prof. and Mrs. C. C. Bishop had
the pleasure of few days visit from
Mrs. Einckley, mother of Mrs. Bishop,
who resides in Minnesota.
Mrs. B. F. Ferguson, accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. Nathan Coe, leave
today for Chicago, where they will spend
the winter with Charity Coe.
Saturday night, October %. the vi
roqua 5.piece orchestra will give a
dance at AL Mason's Liberty store on
the Viola road. Everybody's invited
Bernard VonRuden and wife are
happy over he arrival of little daugh-
ter at their home east of town. Aunt
Fanny Silbaugh, trained nurse of Mil
waukee, arrived to help care for the
little one.
Miss Florence Allen, who lived with
her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. H. p.
Proctor, and attended school here for
some years, was recently married to a
young man of ElroY, where their home
will be established.
I'm company with her granddaugh-
ter, Mrs. C. P. Brye, of Newry, Mrs.
Eliza Rumsey returned from visit
with Blaine Cade and wife at Pocahon-
tas, Iowa.
DO rot 1ss.leclS che storm window
and doors till cold weather comes. Or
der them now. Bekkedal Lumber Com
pany will take the measure and guar
antee fit.
Beginning tonight the Opera Elec-
trio will give its regular shows, Wed
nesday and Saturday nights You may
/ look for a fine feature eacn time as
Manager Brown has closed a contrac;
with the Universal Film Co, for fea
lures only.
Earl Truesdale has determined moi
to leave Viroqua, having purchased the
original John Edwards residence in the
southern section of the city. Surgeon:
at Mayos' hospital advised Earl that
change of climate could little abate his
sffiiction of rheumatism.
AT the age of seventy-five years,
Mrs. MART Haugen, wife of Peter
Haugen, died at the family home ir
Jefferson town on the 9th instant. She
had been ailing for several years. g
stroke Of apopiexy terminating hel
existence. Funeral was conducted al
Coon Prairie church by Rev. Halvorson,
longtime pastor of the deceased. Hus
band and eight grown sons and daugh-
tiers survive to mourn the loss of de-
voted wife and mother.
After a years residence in the city
Mr.. and Mrs. c S. Lawson returned Il
the farm near Red Mound, well satisfi,
ed that there is more genuine happiness
at the old home, where they have ac-
cess to the chicken house, pork barrel,
granary, berry patch, plenty of fresh
milk and butter. Where the family
was born and reared, all, there's the
place. Although physically too weak
to do much, Mr.. Lawson found towr
life too lazy for him.
Attention is directed to the adver.
tisement of the American adding ma
chine, which appears in todsy's CENSOR.
| This little machine is available for use
in shops, creameries and business places
in general. In time saving and correct
ness of computation they will soon pay
for themselves. The agency for Yer
non county has been accepted by Berlie
Moore, who will be pleased to demon
strate the usefulness of this invention.
Sunday was a busy day in many
! sections of Vernon county, the exegen-
cies of the time necessitating re-estab-
lishment of homes, stock and grain
barns, and most urgent of all, the saw
ing of wrecked tobacco crops. With
three OF his asylum assistants Superin-
tendent Buffers formed four parties of
five, making twenty men in all, who
went forth TO Pleasant Ridge to assist
in restoring order to shattered property
there. Who is there that believes it q
oesecration of the Sabbath?
Hon. A. H. Dahl Of Westby, Just
returned from a short stay on his large
farm in Billings county, Montana, look.
ing after threshing and other work.
He declares that many farmers had
fine yields and are prosperous, while
others are too shiftless to make head.
way anywhere. As an example, one
farmer grows twenty-five bushels of
good wheat, while on the opposite side
Of the road the other fellows crop does
not yield five bushels Reason: One
plows and properly takes care of his
crops, while the other merely scratches
in his seed grain and does not pillow his