Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-05-22
LOCAL JoTTINGs

second registration.
Get noxious weed notices and
blanks at the Censor office.
Dance to Gabel's six-piece or
! chestra tonight Thursday.
Mrs. c. H. Trowbridge is recov-
ering from painful attack of quin-
sy, and is now able to be about her
home.
Mrs. L. L. Baptie and little son
arrived home from Lacrosse hospital,
where Master Alexander Dahl-Baptie
! had his first introduction to civiliza-
ton.
Mrs Ezra Whites new block res
idence purchased from n. d. McLees.
not the old C. H. Minshall house, is
where P. H. Knudson's family is dom
iciled
Attention is called to the adver-
tisement in our For Sale column of
Holstein young cattle offered by
Superintendent POWELL at the county
aims house farm.
Mr.. c. S. Lawson was in from
Red Mound to call on town friends.
He reports his good wife as in a bad
condition and constantly confined to
her home and bed.
Nitrate of soda hastens growth
of tobacco plants. Theuse is very
simple, merely dissolve it thoroughly
in water and sprinkle on the beds.
For sale by Surenson & Dahl.
Mrs. Catherine Crawford of
Charleston, West Virginia, with her
two children arrived for a protracted
visit at the parental home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. w. Eckhart on Asbury
ridge.
Abraham Kalvestran was among
our Thursday callers, coming from
his new farm in Clinton, and he is
pleased with the change from Avalan-
che section, where he was born and
reared.
Rev. Finstad of Folsom, return
ed from Fargo, North Dakota, where
he was called by the serious illness of
a brother, He says they are fearing
short crops out there because of dry
ness of the spring.
Mrs. Elnora Dahl-Whitney of the
state of Washington, with her two
little daughters, has been in the city
visiting her sister, Mrs. Loren Baptie.
She will spend some time at the par
entail home in Westby.
R. d. Wakeman and family have
moved to Lacrosse so that he may be
more accessible to his work as travel
ing salesman, The residence vacated
by them is now occupied by DR.. Ben
son and family.
Senator Bennett has repurchased
the residence property some months
ago sold by him to Chris Bangsberg
The place will undergo interior and
exterior changes and modernizations
kNnE =
Thomas I. Buchanan of the city
buss line, who underwent operation in
a Lacrosse hospital fortnight since,
is reported on the upgrade to recov-
cry by relatives and friends who have
returned from visits to his hospital
cot.
Good time to subscribe for the
Censor and reveive all the local news,
the soldier letters, lists of boys who
are sent to the front, and a thousand
and one thingslocally and throughout
the county that can be found nowhere
else
Unusual record of mail delivery
is reported by Mrs. Bolstad in a let
ter received from her soldier son in
France. 1t was postmarked on May
End and arrived here May IS, making
the journey in two weeks and two
days.
Louis fainter comes here from
Towerville to take the place of his
brother, Ira, who has long been a
vigorous salesman in the Farmers
Store. Ira is numbered with the SOL
diers next to go, and a big, brawny
one he will be, sure. Miss Ruby Web
er also is added to the same clerking
force.
Manager Thompson of Fargo
cheese factory, was in the city on
business. He says they are having a
fine run of milk, going some days to
1000 pounds. He takes an optomis-
tic view of successful prices for the
entire season, quite contrary to other
manufacturers, some of whom predict
material drop for dairy products.
It o. Mork was a business visit
or to Milwaukee on Saturday, wit
Messing one of the most formidable
parades it has been his pleasure to
see-the Red Cross women were out
by the thousands as marchers, none
other in the parade except members
of the thirty bands that played.
Harriet Elizabeth Jackson, who
has long suffered from paralytic
stroke, passed away at the home of
her sister, Mrs. F. w. Calkins, near
Bud, Monday night Funeral will be
at the home this Wednesday, inter
ment in the city cemetery. Deceased
was rs years of age, longtime resi-
dent of the county.
From the New York Times we
quote the following notice of the
daofh Of n fOrroay. Narroyr co,,p+xy 1.,o
man:-Suddenly Wednesday morn
ing, May 8, at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. w. A. Boyd, New Brighton,
Staten Island, Mrs. Sarah A Rockwell
Burnett, widow of Capt. Allen A. Bur-
nett, U. S. A, and beloved mother of
Mrs. Miles NJ. Dawson.
At his home in Sag City commun-
ity, Mr.. William Heavrin, an unmar-
ried man, attempted to commit sui
eide on Thursday last by hanging
himself in the barn. A sister, who
keeps house for him, discovered him
while it was not too late to prevent a
fatal ending Mr.. Heavrin's mind
has been unbalanced for some time.
and he was put under guardianship
!. short time since.
The Censor has no particulars,
but learns with sincere regret of the
death of two prominent people in the
eastern section of the county, Mrs. A.
U. Curry of Valley, and Mr.. l. d.
Poorman of Union town. Both, we
are advised, died suddenly. We shall
hope to give further particulars. Mr..
Poorman was among the earliest pion-
GERS, his family coming in when the
country was wilderness.