Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-02-07
Short News Stories of Interest
ckUps by Censor Reporters the Comns Gons
Viroqua and Vicinity

es, mayer pays top price lot
poultry.
-Jeweler Lillis was in Sparta over
Sunday.
Manure proof work shoes. Stoll
& Groves.
-Walk-over shoes, new styles.
Stoll & Groves
"A Hoosier extension roof ought to
be on every silo.
Five hundred bushels of ear corn
wanted at Thayer's.
For one week only we offer l5c
bats at l0c. Suttle & Tate.
DIR. Chase, dentist, office in Ma
tional Bank building. Phone 81.
See our $500 overcoats. Blue
Front Store, Ellefson g. Johnson
First shipment of spring silks for
waists and dresses received al Suttle
& Tate's.
You will save doctor bills and wet
feet if you wear Stoll & Groves Hi
press footwear.
F. r. Hungerford & Son, of On
tario, have the agency tor Winner
grain separator.
just received, another shipment of
the BallBand low Alaskas. Blue Front
Store, Ellefson & johnson.
Dorothy Perkins was taken to La
Crosse Saturday where she submitted
to an operation for appendicitis
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Nowatney and
wife spent two weeks in Milwaukee,
Mr.. Nowatney returning Tuesday.
Money to loan on real estate Sc
curity, per cent INTEREST," in amounts
up to $4,000 Proctor & Proctor.
Red Wing seminary glee club was
forced to cancel their date here Mon
day night on account of the storm
Buy flour, ground feed. corn, oats,
bran. middlings, graham and corn meal
at Thayer's and cut high cost of liv-
ing.
Mrs. Daisy Semmingson returned
to her home at Conrad Montana, after
several weeks spent at Viroqua and
other points.
Boys and small mems overcoats
regular prices from $3.50 to $3.50,
your choice, $500. Blue Front Store,
Ellefson & Johnson.
Specials at the Farmers store
10 pound sack corn meal 35c, l00-pound
les 35c peck, special coffee at 1Sc
kirkpatrick Brothers of Richland
Center have taken the agency for the
Winner mills of Chas S.Slack & Com
pany, the general agents for twelve
counties.
Community workers club of Dis
tlict IA will hold an old-fashioned
spelling school Friday night of this
week. Prize offered for the best speller.
Everybody come.
An 8-pound son arrived Saturday
morning at the Viroqua hospital, born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Tracy. The
young Landaker boy has improved suf-
ticiently to go home. Miss Desty Cox
is new employee at the hospital.
Ernest Sloniker was arraigned be
fore Squire Pollard, on a statutory
charge. He pied not guilty;was bound
over to the next term of circuit court
under ST, 600 bonds. Others were in
plicated in the testimony of Bessie
Martin.
-Purdy NJ. w. a. will give mas
querade ball February l6. Four grand
prizes offered. Supper will be served
by Mrs Geldy. Good music, good or
der, good time. Floor managers: Robt.
johnson, c. q Helgeson and Herman
Christensen.
DIR. Porter has sold his big farm
lust south of the city to +. A. Chase
All equipment goes with the farm.
The doctor and his good wife will give
possession April lsrsc and move into
the city, erecting a dwelling on their
lot near Rev. Smeby's residence.
The Lewis Olson Company of De
Soto have secured the agency for the
Winner grain and seed separators and
cleaners. Farmers doing business at
DeSoto should not fail to call at this
place of business and see ademonstra-
ton of the Winner mills as well as
their large display of other lines.
Sunday was positively one of the
worst days ever experienced in this
section. A bitirg gale from the north
west piled the snow in drifts hard as
if they had been pounded down, while
the mercury hung around ten below.
All railroad traffic on main lines was
stalled, the local branches being badly
interfered with, while rural carriers
are just beginning to make their routes
after week of battling with drifts.
is there honor among thieves?
Mrs. Ben Norris, home from Montana
on a visit, thinks there is. In the jam
at the postoffice Saturday night, she
was relieved of her pocketbook, Ncon-
tanning a sum of money, railroad tick
ct, stamps, receipts, etc. Sometime
Monday night, the pocketbook in some
manner made its way back to the front
porch where it was found the next
morning, minus the money and stamps.
Friday night, February 9, the an
nual quadrangular debating contest
will be held in Tomah, Sparta, La.
Crosse and Viroqua. The question is
compulsory arbitration of labor dis
putes Negative team, Roy Bentson
Carlson Gauper, Harold WEIGH and
Percy Roman, alternate, go to Sparta
while Tomah will come here to meet
the affirmative team consisting of Fred
TrowJridge. Robert Nixon and Leon
Chase. The debate begins at 8o'clock
in the high school auditorium. 25c
admission.