Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-01-05

Keep the resolutions.
Make it banner year.
The greatest bargains in coon and
other fur coats that will ever be Of
fered you, can be had now at The Blue
Front Store.
Now is the time 10 start your build
ing campaign for 1916 Lei Is help
you plan your new house or barn. We
will furnish you many practical ideas
that will save you money. John E.
Nuzum & Sons Lumber Co.
u Henry Bennett announces that
ne will hereafter continue the practice
of law at his office in the Lin
demann bank building where he will
give clients interests personal atten-
ton. 80 If
Attend Felix great ten day clear
1ance sale and save money
Try a plate of those hot waffl ss and
maple syrup at Your Store"
Send in the news.
DO something for town and COM
munity.
Miss Helen Otteson visited MissMit-
by at Cashton.
&C. ]. Dregne of Ladysmith is re-
newing acquaintances in this section.
Mrs. Addie Tate Hebbard of Min
neapolis is with her Viroqua relatives.
Mrs. C H. Groh, Henry Moon and
wife were at Victory to visit relatives.
w. N. Carter of. Readstown will
have charge of Valley creamery as but
ter maker.
Paul Weber was able to return from
Lacrosse hospital, where he underwent
operation for appendicitis.
January 10, at Sparta, will occur a
big poultry convention and chicken
show, to continue to the 18th.
Let all towns and sections in Old
Vernon county vie With each other for
larger and better county.
Editor and Mrs. ]. H. Frazier of
Austin, Minnesota, spent Christmas
with Viola and Readstown relatives.
Mr. Henry White and sister Eoise
White of Lacrosse, were guests at G
G. Fawcett's home for several days.
The Viroqua Implement Company
would like to show you few things
worth knowing about cream separators.
Roy Gorsline and wife of North Da-
kota. have been passing holidays with
numerous relatives in this community.
-Rancher Albert Sweger arrived
from western North Dakota to pass
some time with bis mother and other
relatives.
Friends in this section learn that
Mr.. Ole Bentson was marie in Cana
da on Christmas day. He was form
er Cocu Prairie man.
The CENSOR failed to note that Ed
Norris, Jitley Norris and family were
here from West Salem to spend por
ton of holiday season.
Oscar Debing and John Nerjson
from North Dakota we're in the city
last week visiting with Mr. and Mrs
Jerome Bowman. sister of the former.
Theodore Stevlingson of GreatFalls,
Montana, is making his relatives and
friends in this section, a holiday vaca-
ton visit. He is travelling salesman in
the west
Who is it that has not been ''under
the weather." Few if any families in
Viroqua and surrounding territory but
have had from one to a half dozen
cases of grip.
The New Year opened anything
but suspicious. There was no ray of
sunshine, dark, lowering clouds, rained
portion of the day and night and was
generally sloppy and disagreeable.
The wife of Nelson j. Thayer died
near Norwalk. She will be remember
ed as the eldest daughter of John s.
Jenness, and once lived in Viroqua.
She was fifty-two years old. Interment
at Ontario.
Mayor Beat and r. W. Rogerson
were driven to Retreat by Albert Lar
son to join Melvin Steenberg in having
annual adjustment of their joint mer-
camille interests so well looked after
by the latter.
"A physician was called to wait up
on Joseph Omundson Saturday evening,
just temporary indisposition. 10 says
it was his first personal call from a med
ical man for thirty-six years.
August j. Smith was calledto Ban
gor to be present at the funeral of his
sister-in-law, wife of Hon. William
Smith, woman who frequently visited
Viroqua during past years. She had
been in delicate health for some time
Mr.. Smith was accompanied by his
daughter Faye.
-Chas. Bishop was caller from Re-
treat on Wednesday,, accompanied by
Mr.. E. II. Slater of Montana The lat
ter has been in the west a half-dozen
years, is located some distance from
Billings, where he says there is a we'll
satisfied bunch of former Vernon coun-
ty people, all having homesteads and
enjoying western pioneer life.
Mrs. Lydia r. Gott %leaves Thurs
day night for Geneva, New York, to
spend the remainder of the winter
with her daughter, Miss Amy, who is
teacher IN girls college there.
Mrs. Colt will enjoy being in touch
with college life as found in Hobart
college and its coordinate school, Will
liam Smith college.
The Viroqua Implement Company
wouldn't be handling the United States
Cream Separator We're it not a good
one. Notice their ATTRACTIVE ad this
week. The ''make-up'Tof the United
States Cream Separator advertisements
this year is superfiue, in keeping with
both the reliable firm who handles the
goods and the superior quality of the
article itself.
This is the time of year when the
CENSOR would be pleased to have its
local news gathefers in the different
neighborhoods and villages get busy
and send in the grists of matter suita-
bic fer publication. Also those VINO
have wandered afar from the home
focH are invited to write and tell how
the world moves in their respective
sections. Get busy all the family.
ION yesterday John E. Nuznm, wife