Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-09-08
LOCAL JoTTINGs
Roads were frightfuIIy dusty.

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Miss May McKittrick went to
Cleveland to resume her educational
work.
Now that the damage by frost has
been done we are having real summer
weather.
Mrs. Clarence Webb and Miss Ger.
tie Fladen passed few days with Spar
Ia friends.
Mrs. W. II. Stogdill receiyeda Wis
It from her brother Edward Hodous of
Spokane.
Mrs. Karl Rosebush, formerly Miss
Hazel Cass, is visiting her parents for
several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Roberg returned
from fortnight's visit with jackson
county relatives.
Miss Marie Vergeront of Madison
is spending the week with her brother
at Halcyon Heights farm.
Miss Viola johnson, who passed
two weeks in a Lacrosse hospital, ar
rived home Saturday evening.
Mrs. Thos. A. Thompson and fam
lily CT Coon Valley were in the city and
this section to visit among relatives.
Miss Leona Wolfe of Red Mound.
graduate of our training school, goes
to Waterloo, Iowa, to teach the coming
year.
Miss Doris Dyson and Mr.. Kenneth
Smith returned from Fond du Lac;
where they attended house party of
young people.
Misses Fern Gage and Alta Albers,
for several years teachers in the pub
lie schools of Viroqua, spent Sunday
with friends here.
While the branch train was pro-
ceeding north on Thursday evening last,
COW was thrown from the track and
killed at the crossing in Pine hollow.
-Luzella Rich, foster daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam McWilliams, went
to Tomah to attend the funeral of her
mother. Mr. McWilliams accompanied
the girl.
Mr.. Frank English of Minneapolis
spent Sunday with the Joyces. Mrs.
English and son Gardner accompanied
him home after spending some weeks
in Vlroqua.
Large crowd went to the park to
listen to the band concert on Friday
evening. It was a real summer night,
one of the very best of the season, and
the fine music was enjoyed.
The bridge across the Mississippi
river at Lacrosse, for a half-century
maintained as toll bridge, has become
free to all travellers and for all purpos-
es This is an action of the Lacrosse
city council.
In the course of Westby new pub
lie improvements it is made encumbent
upon the Bell and local telephone com
panies to remove their poles from the
main streets, put them under ground
or run in alleys.
Charley Porter returned from his
southwestern trip. He was in Texas at
the proper time to see the, great dew
astation wrought by the awful storm and
Gulf tidal wave The bad effects can
scarcely be pictured, he declares.
Mrs. Emmett Zook and daughters
Ardys and Reva, arrived from Stroll,
South Dakota, for an extended, visit
with relatives at Newton. Mrs. Zook
was formerly Miss Elizabeth Rood, q
graduate nurse of Hahnemann hospital,
class of 1907. sst
Eastern Star picnic given at the
Stoll summer cottage on Thursday af-
ternoon, was one of the most enjoyable
affairs of the season, attended by near
ly hundred persons. No nicer situa-
ton could be found for a gathering of
the character.
"A sight. seeing party from New Al.
bon, Iowa, made this county pretty
a La,
by Albert Kuehn, Jr., j. 7. Ryan,. G.
Coleman, E. E. Collins and Master
Kuehn. They were enjoying the ride
and beauty of our prairies, bills and
valleys. @
The body of Isaac Shreve, a for
mer Greenwood citizen, was brought
here from Mendoza where he died.
For year the deceased lived in Califor-
mia, returned to Wisconsin in recent
years after breakdown in health. The
funeral was held and burial made in
Shreve cemetery in Greenwood town
ship. -Hillsboro Sentry.
Henry E. Rogers and daughter
Ruth returned from their western trip,
visiting the two California expositions,
their SONS and brothers in Montana and
Washington, the sights in Salt Lake
and other places. At Spokone there
was picnic assembling in their honor
by former Viroqua people. Henry tells
the CENSOR that at no point were crops
found as good as in Wisconsin.
Prof. G. NJ. Appleman just returned
from trip to the Pacific coast, taking
in the expositions and many places OF
interest in the states of Washington
and Oregon, spending day with Cap
tain Silbaugh at Seattle. Mr.. Apple
man was absent ten weeks. enjoying
his vacation very much. He renews
his work as principal of Viola schools
this week.
The CENSOR is in receipt of Muir
ray county, Minnesota, paper announc-
ing the death of Amund Olson, an early
settler of this community. He came
here from Norway fifty seven years
ago, enlisting in 1861 in General Rusk s
regiment, Company A. At the close
of the war he married Miss Bertha
Tennison. They moved to Minnesota
in 1870, where Mr.. Olson has continu-
ously held his residence.
The contrast between ordinary and
oiled roads can best be understood and
appreciated during this dusty time. On
Main street to the fair grounds there is
an entire absence of flying dust, while
everywhere on the highway one can
scarcely see or breath. When roads are
once well-m .de and rounded the proper
thing appears 20 be to have them oiled.
By this process they are preserved in
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