Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-09-24


almost utterly failed to take advantage
| of the liberal premiums offered by the
association. 1t is to be hoped that the
grade teachers will stimulate interest
among their pupils so that this condi-
ton may be overcome.
A pleasant feature indeed was the
coffee and lunch served by the domestic
science girls, six doing the honors each
day, and proving the praetieability OF
that course in our schools Supplies
were literally donated By Viroqua BUSH
ness men.
Many and creditable we're the dis
plays by Viroqua merchants of their
seasonable wares. O. Z. Davis Chi
Namel booth showed the possibility of
rejuvenating old woodwork at small cost
The Brown Music Co. furnished plenty
of harmony for the crowds in addition
to a display of musical instruments.
Chas. S. Slack & Co. showed fine line
of modern labor saving devices for the
/ home. Stoll g. Groves exhibited sea-
sonable showing of wearing apparel,
grouped round a suspended pair of
trousers unto one leg of which was at
tached hundred pound keg of nails.
Hasn't ripped yet with apologies to
/ Bon Ami. Many people examined the
most modern invention in the Kuebler
hardware booth showing how temper
allure could be kept at certain degree
in your house-a device which automa-
tically opens and closes the furnace
draft and check.
THE CORN CONTEST
/ The hNvaf nd i'll nn~,.
contest was a feature of the exhibit
that attracted much attention and it
is creditable to the young people of the
county. There we're Sc entries and the
first and second prizes for SIS and SO
were won respectively by two girls,
Delma Jennings of Viola, and Madeline
| householder of BIoomingdale: the third
for 81 by Neil Nelson of Westby.
The 81 awards were to: Chester
Nelson, Hjalmar 0vergaard, Essie Good,
| Chester Good, Oscar Theige, Oscar
johnson, James Darcy, WILDER Wood
house, Melvin Gardner, Palmer Over
| gard, Evelyn 0vergaard. Tommy New
bauer, Otto Froiiand, Garvise Wilson,
Elmer Prokseh, Palmer Berger, Conrad
Allness, Blaine Nedland, Alice Robin
son, Kenneth Mills, Andrew Peterson,
Stanley Simpson, Juliette Male, Altman
dor Anderson, Philip Christianson, We
da Stole, Hilda Primer, Olga Hanson,
Leonard Davenport, Melvin Fortney.
Fifty-cent awards to: Wallace Jas
person, Otto Dahl, Johnnie Hetek, Ber-
nice Kellogg, Adolph Lind Louis Pado-
/ WITT, Joseph Severson, Arnold Veg
lain, Huldah Sterbakken, Pearl Getter,
Carol 0rrison, Lester Weber, Fred
Bernard, Nordahl Fortney. Julia Stu.
nichka, Buford Smith, Bliss Smith,
Floydia Male, Lena Primmer, Title
Berger.
i Those commended for exhibits were,
/ Archie Weber, Earl Vance, Melvin
Fortney, Harold Lord. Frank Longer,
Ellen Anderson, Adolph Anderson, Hell
en- Bodke. Blanch Thompson, Peter
Johnson, Vivian Hoff, Aleda Hottie, Oil.
yer fernandez. Irwin fernandez, Chas.
N. Ballsrud, Otto Proksch, Title Ber-
ger, Carl Costing.
Prof. Brown, instructor of agricul.
ture in Viroqua high school judged the
contest, and pronounces it first class
showing.
MACHINERY AND VEHICLES
The section set apart for machinery
disnlay was well taken up, extending
from near the fair house TO stock barr
on the west. The display was rather
bewiIderiug to note the great variety
of labor saving equipment now on the
market. Chas. S. Slack Il Company
exhibited by far the greatest array
having full thirty different tools, i'm
plements and vehicles for farm anC
home, manure spreaders, three makes
two kinds of wagon racks, hay press,
| several gasolene engines, cream sepa
rators, power washing machines, WOOD
saw, stock tanks, piows and other arti
cles Of utility. Probably the most in
spected article Of the showing was the
power washing machine and wringers
kuebier Hardware Company made {
substantial display of barn equipment
, zhowing litter carriers in operation
! stancbions and feed troughs, ventilators
: etc.
, Ole 0. Tuhus maintained large ten
IN which was shown gasolene engines
. cream separators, manure spreaders
, and other tools.
A. H Dahl & Sons OF Weetby, erect
ed a large tent IN which they housed
their exhibit of Ford and Overland au
tomobiles, and early and late people
were gathered there to see the ma
chimes.
Tuhus & Clark were alert in showing
the latest makes of Buick cars.
Anderson & Torkelson of Westby
had new Case machine on exhibition
1t was an an ideal opportunity fol
statesmen to display the merits and cal
attention to their manufacture of au
. tomobiles.
THE BALL TOURNAMENT
The county fans surely had their FL
!. of the national sport-four games re
: presenting every degree of merit from
big league form to bone-head plays be
ing staged. The grounds were too sog
gy for play Wednesday, so q double.
header was pulled Off Thursday. Gays
Mills and Readstown were the first tC
cross bats. 1t was a rather slow, long
drawn out contest but not lacking In
interest. The score see-sa wed back
and forth; plenty Of stick work on both
sides; Readstown finally winning by a
score of 7 to s. The second contest
was between Onalaska and Ontario. 1t
was fast, snappy game, score stand
ing one and one in the seventh frame.
Then the good red Kickapoo blood
surged up, and the Onalaska bunch
went down to defeat 10 the tune of one
to three.
4 Friday opened with a game by Thurs
days loosers--Gays Mills and Onalaska.
The opening innings promised close
contest, but when It comes to base ball,
the Kickapoo valley is supreme. Gays
Mills started merry -go-round in the
fifth inning which netted them three
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