Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-08-09
LOCAL JorTINGs

from viola sunday.
Mrs. Fl. F.. Lawrence of Viola vis-
tied her son Paul, going from here to
Lacrosse.
Mrs. L. w Cox visited her daugh-
ter at the Copeland home in Lacrosse
FRIDAY last.
John A WHISKY and family auto
ed mp from Chicago for a visit with
Ole O. Tuhus.
Elmer Marker and Alien Side are
both reported in improved condition
from Lacrosse hospital.
Methodist annual Sunday school
picnic will be held at Camp Tate on
"Wednesday next. Morning train will
carry the excursionists. Get aboard.
"A cement gutteris being construct
ed in front OF the stores of G. II. Os-
trem and &. NJ. Morrison.
Mrs. NJ. J. Felix entertained Fri
day afternoon in honor of her sister,
Mrs. Anna Beaver of New Mexico.
Leonard Kramp of Owatouna, Min
nesota. returned with Mr.. and Mrs. S.
y. Sauer, spending week with them.
MIR. and Mrs. asndhn of Wash.
ingtou, d. c., are visitors at the Fl. D.
Williams home Mrs. Handlin was
formerly Eva FIELDS.
The w. C. T. u. will be entertain
ed bv Mrs. G. G. Brown next Tuesday.
Election of officers and all members
are requested to be present.
Misses Caryl Williams, Geneva
Graves and Dorothy Trow bridge re-
turned from Madison where they at
tended university summer session.
Marjorie Tennison of Warren and
Verna Phillips of Tomahawk were
visitors at the Chas. McDermott home
on Asbnry Ridge for two weeks.
The Vernon county training school
will open on Monday, August %. 1t
is earnestly requested that all stud
ents be present on the opening day.
While autoing in Iowa near Nc
Gregor, Gabefs orchestra collided
with another car, none of the players
being injured but some of the instru-
ments destroyed.
John fainter has just finished the
erection of fine 36x56 basement barn
for Mike Hanson on his farm near
Liberty Pole cemetery, 10 replace the
one burned last year.
Born, Sunday. to Editor and Mrs.
W. B. VanWinter of Viola, a @en-
pound daughter. Friends in and out
of the news paper fraternity extend
heartiest congratulations
Prompt attention given to vul-
canizing by steam and air bags. best
material used. Harris oil tPennsyl-
vania crudel, none better. Firestor e
tires and tubes, at Solverson's garage.
Miss Gladys Scharfenstein is Wis
iting at DR.. Suttle's a few DAYS Uefore
returning to Greeley, Colorado, where
she is employed as domestic science
teacher in the state teachers college.
Mrs. Victor Jacobson was taken
TO Lacrosse Thursday and operated
upon for appendicitis. 1t was very
severe case but Mrs. Jacobson is doing
as well as could be expected and will
recover.
Mrs. B. c. Brown was hostess to a
party of friends Monday afternoon, in
honor of her friend Mrs. Nettie Kleine
of Chicago, who has been a guest of
the Brown families for the past three
weeks.
"A gentleman who rather suspect
ed someone was peeping through the
key hole of his Office door, Investigate
ed with a syringe full of pepper sauce,
and went home to find his wife had
been cutting wood and chip had hit
her in the eye.
An Iowa editor is hiding in the
woods till the clouds roll by. The
ladies of the church gave him no.
tice of spider Web Social" and
it came out in the paper as the ''Spi-
der Leg Social -
George Bakken spent last week
in Madison attending the state con-
ference of health officers. A move
ment is on foot to divide the state in
to districts and hold conventions in
each district in the hope of material
ly increasing the attendance at these
important meetings.
There will be an ice cream social
at the home of Mrs. Thos. Sordahl, on
the Ed. Wiganowsky farm. 5 miles
northeast of Viroqua, on Saturday
evening, August IL If stormy wealth
err social will be held Sunday after
noon at 2 p. m. All are cordially in
vited. ~
First band concert scheduled for
Friday evening was rendered impos-
SiDlC OH dOCOiHN VI idlus WA LHNf
permitted presenting of the pIcert
the following evening, and the new
band surely presented a highly enjoy
able entertainment considering the
small amount of practice together
and the short time since organization.
-"Sunbonnets, presented at the
opera house last Friday night by men,
bers of the Methodist Sunday school
class No. 8, was very poorly attended
owing to the rainy evening. The
young ladies acquitted themselves in
creditable manner. Something over
500 was Melted for the church fund.
Word has been received here of
the death of Mrs. Alice Burrell De-
We're at her home in Hutchinson, K an
sas. She was one of the daughters of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. X. Burrell, who were
among the early settlers of Viroqua,
out moved to Kansas in the early
seventies.
BY sprinkling the streets with
oil il has recently been ascertained
both sparrows and mosquitoes can be
gotten rid of. The sparrows carry
the oil TO their nests on their feet and
oil their eggs which refuse to hatch,
and the oil scums the water pools in
the roads and bitches and the mos
quitos cannot breed. -Waukon Demo-
crat.