Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-05
LOCAL JOTTINGS


guests from a distance.
Highest market prices paid for
eggs at Romans Grocery.
Highest market prices paid for
wool at Romans Grocery.
Miller Louis Thompson drives a
fancy new Oakland touring car, six
cylinder, white wire wheels,
Bill Shower had note from his
son Roy telling that he got over"
0. X.
Mr.. Hans Amundson is here from
AIondovi to call on relatives and old
time friends.
Community commencement at the
Court House park Friday evening.
Everybody invited.
Miss Nellie Chapman of this city,
graduates from the Lacrosse nor
nal school this week.
Mr.. Ed L. Rogers came down
from Sparta to attend the funeral of
his step-mother, Mrs. Z. N. Rogers.
w isconsin was seventy years old
last Wednesday, Good cid state;
growing greater and stronger with
advancing age.
Mrs. Harry Adams and daughter
of Spokane have been the guests of
Mr., and Mrs John Fish and other
l atives and old friends.
Arnold Fawcett arrived home
from Marquette dental college. but
viii return to Milwaukee to continue
his studita during vacation days.
Mrs. Guibrandson requests that
parties wishing Sunday dinner phone
their orders in by noon of Saturday.
Phone 345. Price Ace; children 25c.
Mrs Daniel Weber is in Lacrosse
staying with her children. her little
girl having had her tonsils removed,
and son Lester undergone a delicate
operation.
DR.. Wade Harrington has been
notified to be ready to join the army
dental medical corps any minute, eX-
pecting to report for duty before the
close of the present week,
A scientific examination of your
eyes by DIR. Evenson reveals the cause
of eye troubles, headaches etc. He
, then grinds your lenses in his own
laboratory. You get satisfactory SER
vice every time.
And it is now Lieutenant Rab-
bitt, Ora notifying his parents that
ne has received his commission in the
| flying corps and assigned to active
duty at Love Field, Dallas, Texas. A
fire and merited honor for the young
man.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. n. Baker left
for an extended trip in the west. They
viii visit in Wyoming and Montana
and may see the National Park. Miss
Frances Baker, who has been teach
ING in Waterfowl, South Dakota,
Joined them in Wyoming.
Rev. ]. ]. Jacobson departed for
Fargo to attend annual meeting of the
united Lutheran churches fAmerica.
| Ole T. Fortney, Jacob Aberg, Robert
Robertson. Sever Sherry, and doubt
less many others Of this section go as
delegates.
Don't forget to attend the COM
aunity commencement Of more than
fifty young people at Fridays joint
graduation exercises in the Court
House park A program and sd
| dress of interest viii be given. Every
body is invited.
Many of our young women who
| have taught at other places have al
| ready or are returning to their homes.
So far as we know they are: Caryl
! Williams from Stoughton, Dorothy
| Trowbridge from Milton, Nellie Ma
honey and Mary Graves from Brook
| lyn, Ruth Rogers, Livingston, Mon
tana; Doris Eciihardt, Iowa.
| Mrs. Lawrence A. Brennan and
daughter Lois, formerly of ViroQua,
now of Belmont, Monta.a, have been
visiting relatives and friends in this
city and section. They are on their
way home to Montana from Ithaca,
New York, where Miss Brennan has
lust completed the piano post gradu-
! ate course in the Ithaca Conservatory
Of music,
Mrs. H. Z. Packard was called to
| Minneapolis because of the indlspOsi-
ton Of her daughter Dorothy. On
| Tuesday they came as far as Lacrosse
remaining there to take medical adj
vice. Dorothy is member of the
graduating class of a kindergarten
seminary. She will receive her di-
| ploma but was compelled by this I'M
fortunate illness to forego COM
mencement exercises and festivities
Mrs. Ethel Cobb Everson, for the
first time in several years, greeted
relatives and many friends in the old
home town. Her personal appear
ance is that the great west treats her
magniicently, as it has officially and
| otherwise Two years ago she was
nominated and elected auditor in the
big and populous county in which
Missoula is situated, and she is pres
ident Of the state association of coun-
ty auditors. She thinks the west is
great, and the state of Montana
the best of them all.
Melvin c. Knudson was in the
city from Chaseburg on Saturday,
where he is a clerk in the store of
| Egstad & Company. Mr.. Knudson is
one Of the soldier boys who left Viro-
qua on Nay 3rd and went with the
contingent to Columbus, Ohio The
army surgeons found that he had a
goitre and he was consided physically
| disqualified because of that. He says
Columbus Barracks is a lovely place,
situated in the center Of the city in a
| park. It is simply a receiving and
distributing ilace. The boys who
went with him from this county, were
in few days, sent to South Carolina.
Mr.. William S. Oliver arrived
from Montana on Saturday to spend
| some weeks among the scenes of his
| boyhood days on the Kickapoo. For
a dozen years he has lived in the west
and is well pleased with the country
and his success out there. Last year
he, practically alone, worked his 300
! acre farm, but i'll health compels him
to lay off this season, and he feels
that a change to the hills and valley
Of old Vernon with the relatives and
friends is the most satisfactory thing
to do. Mr. Oliver tells the Censor
that Montana never had brighter pro-