Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-12-20
Christmas next MondaY

Skates and handsleds at Towner's.
Don't put of shopping till the last
minute.
Rev. ]. B. Rutter is spending q
week in Chicago
"A fine complete line of cut glass.
j. W. Lucas, Jeweler.
Christmas cheer pervades and
sweetens the whole earth.
Look at Romans grocery special
Christmas offerings on last page.
| Order flour, bran and middlings
now and save money, at J, w. Thay-
er's.
Remember and pay your subscrip-
ton before January !. The price goes
up after that.
Mrs. Joseph Sanders of Rockton is
at Mrs. Norris hospital being treated
by local physician.
The place to buy your Christmas
candy and nuts is at Romans grocery.
See ad on back page
| Watches for men, ladies, boys and
girls Prices from $40 to s38 90. J..
w. Lucas, Jeweler.
-Thayer can sell you oak mbers
or posts as well as boards and shingles
| for your barn or shed.
Go to Aliens blacksmith shop in
Newton and get your horses shod with
never slip shoes or the common shoes.
Women to the front-Mrs. AdaAdy
| took receipt No when City Treasurer
Minshall opened his books on Monday.
In the city churches, except where
elsewhere announced, Christmas en-
ltertaiuments will be held Saturday
night.
Reuben Bromley braved the severe
weather of yesterday to come over
I5rom Victory and make delivery of his
tobacco crop.
Attorney Byron Yakey of Milwau-
kee called on friends in the city. He
is adjuster for one of Milwaukee's in
surance companies.
Five pounds of % cent Peabody
coffee for Sl.00, at Anderson Brothers
Grocery, on Friday and Saturday of
| this week. Remember, Sides old
corner store.
Viola Sons of Veterans did pa
triotic thing in naming their camp
for that grizzled, one-armed soldier,
David 3. Seminars, who passed to his
reward a year ago.
Geo. Schroeder and J. a. Moeh
sold the Frank Owen timber Oh Dach
Ridge to J. w. Thayer, who vii pro-
coed at once TO cut and haul same t.
| Viroqua for lumber and wood.
- Oscar Willenberg of Victory neigh
| borhoCd, marketed a load of sorghum
syrup IN Viroqua. And thus many
families are indulging in real sugar
cane sweetness ON their pancakes.
Pearl Con6en arrived in a west
ern zephyr and zero breeder to visit
his parents and wife, the latter COM
ing here some time ago. He is en-
thusiastic for Montana after ten years
there.
Country people are especially in
vited to attend the matinee atthe Star,
Saturday afternoon. You will see a
fine Fox picture, Under Two Flags, :"
with rheda Bara playing Cigarette. +"
Special matinee price and loo.
Get a "Winner" mill and COM
mence to grade all your grain for seed
next spring. In this way you have
the choicest % the 1916 crop to SOW
in the spring o.; 1G7 Breed TO the
best and buy a ohorubg bred like the
winner" true to ~ ;.
Don't be the goat. Buy Commun-
i ity Silver, guaranteed for SO years by
the factory. Cali and see the latest
designs. Community silver has stood
the test for over hall a century, where
others failed. For sale by A. p. At
wood, jeweler and optometrist.
AT her home in Jefferson, last Sat-
urday, Grandma Doerr's children and
part of her grand children and great
grandchildren went in with well filed
baskets and gave her happy surprise,
it being her S7th birthday. Her child
rem presented her with a couch.
Mr.. H. S. Curtis of Mansion, wri-
| ties: "The Howell Roller Mill / pur-
| chased from Chas. S. Slack year ago
is still doing satisfactory work" Mr..
Curtis moves his roller mill from farm
to farm and does lot of grinding
See a sample at the office of Chas. S.
Slack in Viroqua
Mrs. John Doerr received a post
al on which is printed a picture of
the state capitol of South Dakota. It
was sent by her brother, Alvin NJ.
Moore who penciled on the card" this
is the place to Which have been SEN
fenced for the coming two years, ="
! signifying that he had been elected
state senator in his district Because
of his fine qualifications and splendid
manhood Alvin Moore has been "sen-
fenced to many official honors and
responsibilities during his thirty years
residence in Sphinx county. He is a
native of Harmony town, son of the
late Townsend NJ. Moore.
Veteran Michael Sallauder of Re-
treat, hobnobbed with soldier com
rades and other friends in the city on
Saturday. Incidentally he remarked
that on December 4, sixty years ago,
There was two feet of snow on the
ground in this section, that being the
| date when his fathers family arrived
here direct from Germany. II is I'M
necessary 10 say that Mike is 10 full
sympathy with his countrymen in the
great International struggle of devas-
tating war. but is anxious to see cru
elites and hostilities end.
Mrs. Ole Kingsland. an aged resi-
dent of this city, was called TO Man
vile, North Dakota, by the unexpect-
ed death of her aged husband, who
| passed away at the home of daugh-
ter, December +, where he was visit
| ing. Mr. Kingsland was a former res
ident Of Cashton and lately proved up
on a claim in Canada. expecting to
| join his wife here in a few days, when
suddenly stricken. He was about 50
/ years Of age and survived by six chill
dren, his going being the first death
| in the family. One son, Cornelius,
lives with the mother here. Mrs. Ed.
Gunderson is a daughter.