Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-01-01
THE GLAD CHRISTMAS TIME
Observance the Charm of Old and
Young beautiful Day


for. The children could skate, the auto
owners ran their machines, the theatre
furnished entertainment for crowds,
with a happy dance in the evening
Tinseled trees and call from Old Santa
Claus delighted the children in the sew
eral churches on Christmas eve. How
adult hearts grow warm and tender as
we mingle with the JOY of the birth of
the Christ Child. except We become as a
little child Family and neighborhood
dinners were the order and all kinds of
business was suspended and the day
given over to the proper observance OF
this most sacred and delightful of the
whole years calendar
The Sig tree used at the Methodist
church was transplanted TO the dining
room of the county asylum where
program and disfripdtion Of presents
was had for toe uniortunates by Super
iatendent ard Mrs Buffers.
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VIII Ady is heme for New Year.
Order shelled corn Of Thayer &
Bishop
Compressed yeast fer sale At
Salger's.
Roman & Felix have q page an
EnDueement.
Mrs T E. Morley GOES to Ripon 10
see her parents.
Earl Truesdale is receiving q visit
iron his mother
Ed Nestineen is UP from Sparta
/ greeting friends
aiiss Ragna Amoat is visiting her
brother Albert in Chicago
For good Investment in farms or
timber call on j. w. 9hayer.
Oscar Branstad and wife were here
from La Crosse with friends.
Mrs. Jitlev Norris and son Of West
Salem, are st the Weoh home.
-Fuii supply OF mill feed, cottonseed
and oil meal at Thayer & Bishop.
Several good residences at slaugh-
. ter prices, Inquire of j. w. Thayer.
-Orton Hyslop Of Blair is the guest
o. his college friend, Kenneth Smith.
Miss Alma Nelson came from Rich
/ land Center to spend holidays Al home
Sir. and airs. Seth McClurg afe
srraHging to spend the Writer in Flor
! ida
Mrs. Florence Webb Dickson Of
3en9monie is st the parental home in
j tAie city.
Il Order tile for your silo st once and
haul during winter Get prices OF j..
! w rhayer.
Eventually. why not now? Gold
Medal flour 81 p st Sweger's for a
short time. Get pussy.
| Chas. E. Chase and wife arrived
from North Dakota for winter stay
I ~ ~
- Mr.. Byron Yakey of Milwaukee
/ renewed acquaintance in the city and
attended to busidess matters.
on Christmas day the Southeastern
killed calf on the right of way for
! Thomas Stevens north of town.
/ Lem Steveling tells in an ad else
where that he intends to retire from
business. He says prices talk
j. w. Thayer gives you a round
! trip TO Brownsville, Texas, January
| 7th, $50 all expenses included.
= Mr. and Mrs. Seltzki of Rice Lake
have been guests of their relatives, the
Roman and Felix families in this city.
Special Saturday night, Maeder
Orchestra at the Opera Electric posi-
lively no extra charge. All for ana
/ l0c
N Mrs. F. M. Towner entertained at
cards, Saturday, for her sister, Mrs.
! A8die Hebbard of st. Paul, and Mrs
f. E Tate.
William P. Morley of Portland,
I Oregon, is glad to be with relatives
and friends after years of residence in
the west.
Mrs Ella Forum returned from
{ "a.
months as matron of the children's
Lutheran home.
A calm, bright New Years day, no
sieighiDg, autos running about town
/ ana country, mercury 80 degrees above.
These mark the opening Of 1913.
% G. Lewis was over from La
Crosses yesterday. Himself and broth
er w. A, recently purchased the old
| Hugh Donohoe farm of 800 acres near
Ontario.
Miss Jettie Belland is among rela-
tives in this vicinity for two weeks
| holiday vacation. She is employed as
stenographer for a professional firm at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Thomas Bentson arrived fromCana-
| da to pass some time at the old home,
after an absence of eight years mer-
ehandiSing and farming. He has but
good words for the vast northwest, but
of course, glad to be at the native fire.
side for brief stay.
John NJ. fainter returned from
Towerville community, where he did q
big lot of carpenter work for numerous
| farmers. Among the grist was the re-
| building of log house lSx20 for Elmer
fainter. In the same community he
built modern dairy barn for c. w.
Chase of this city.
With pain and regret the CENSOR
learns of the death, in MENDOZA hos
pital, of an old patriarch Of De Soto
community, Mr.. c. G. Caldwell, who
| died in that institution December 81,
after protracted mental afilictionyand
old age. He was eighty-nine.
Closing day Of the old year Frank
Chase engineered the largest farm sale
made in this section for some time,
transfer of the Walter Hardie farm
| Told Enoch Harris place. of 800 acres to
NJ. Loetben and sons of Purdy. Con-
sideration $50, 600. Chase says this
brings his 1912 transfers and trans
actions to about $3.50, 900.
Mrs. II. u. Williams sends greet
ings OF herself and Mr.. Williams from
their far off southern resort at Bolixi,
Mississippi, saying: ut is hard to
realize that it is mid-winter, with roses
and yiolets in bloom, and such warm
sunshine. We are well and enjoying
the holiday season, though so far from
home and familiar faces
"A Happy New Year" and a
check for advanced payment to the
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