Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-26
Short News Stories of Interest
the Comngs Gongs and Doing of
viroqua Vicinity
-Chautauqua July s-13.


-Chautauqua July 5-13.
Insure with John Dawson & Co.
Brown of Harvard, Thursday and
Friday.
Friday was the longest day of
the year.
Remember, Friday is thrift
stamp day.
w. 4. Crook and wife visited
Sparta relatives.
Fine stationery at o. E. Davis
Drug Store
, Mrs Elijah Powell is visiting
Sparta relatives.
Great War Savings Stamps drive
Friday. Do your part.
See the great Yale-Harvard boat
race in Brown of Harvard"
e. j. Older did surveying near
Stoddard for Lewis Brothers.
DIR. Chase, dentist, Office in Ma
tional Bank building. Phone 80.
Joe Roman returned from the
university for summer vacation.
-Warnie Cox and wife of Ross,
are entertaining baby daughter.
Barn paint at $50 per gal in s.
gallon cans at o. E. Davis Drug Store
Don't forget the place. Buy your
matches for Sc per box at Romans
Grocery.
Come and try the new edor, Day
Dream perfume, at o. Z. Davis Drug
Store.
John E. Stoll and w. d. Dyson
drives new most modern Buick six
roadsters.
Miss Laila Spellum of Coon VAL
ley is spending few days with Cath
rine Munson.
Mrs. C. w. Miller went to Maren-
go, Illinois, to see her mother, who is
81 years old.
Be sure and use DIR. Hess Louise
Killer for your chickens. o. E. Davis
Drug Store.
The sinking of the Lusitania in.
"Lest We Forget" at the Star Satur-
day and Sunday.
One lot bingham and percale
house dresses, sizes 36 to A, price
$1.19. H. f. Rogers.
--Mrs.Albon Lindemann and daugh-
ter, Katherine, arrived from Chicago
to pass the summer.
Board of review meets to pass
upon the work done by the city as
SCISSOR next Monday.
Miss Zell Mccall, one of our late
high school class, is attending La
Crosse summer normal.
For convenience of the public,
all stores in Viroqua will remain open
the evening before the Fourth.
Special at Romans Grocery,
matches SC per box-only six boxes to
each customer. 1862
Former Chairman of the county
board, Mike Brody, was a business
caller in the city from Cashton, where
he now lives.
Mrs d. o. Malone was at Min
neapolis ia see her first grandson,
six months infant of Attorney and
Mrs. Emmitt Mahoney..
Special sale offer OF Billie Burke"
dresses, Bingham print, percales,
chambray and ginghams Sizes SO to
IA. Price STAG Rogers.
John Tewalt and wife learn that
their son Leo just enlisted at Des-
Moines and goes to Ames agricultural
college to the auto squad.
Keep Climbing. Lots of room at
the top. Make the start by taking a
course in the Mankato Commercial
College, Mankato, MINI. Send for
our catalogue.
-Viroqua Eastern Star Chapter
will have a special meeting on Tues
day evening, July 2. A class of eight
will be initiated. Members are re-
quested to attend.
Andy D. Helgeson was up from
Coon Valley on Sunday. He declares
that his station is the heaviest ship
per and receiver of freight on the
Southeastern line.
Miss Alice Snodgrass was lately
married at her mothers home in
Tomah She was the daughter of
Mitchell Snodgrass, former Censor
printer, who died here more than
twenty years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Swiggum and
daughter returned home after three
weeks visit in North Dakota with two
other daughters. Mr.. Swiggum tells
us that crop prospects are excellent
clear to the Canada line.
Mr.. 10 Deters now sports the fin
est family auto car in Vernon county,
an eight cylinder seven-passenger
Cadalac, modern and handsome ma
chine in every respect. This hand
some car was secured through Mar
tin Larson's agency.
Mrs. George Clements and son
of Viroqua and Harrison Smith Of
Sparta spent last week with Geo.
Smith near Cornell. Mr.. Smith says
his son has fine location and soil for
future dairy farm. They also visited
Chase Rusk and family of Holcomb.
Mr.. Turnbull, who has been city
station agent for the Southeastern,
severed his connection with the road
today for the purpose of accepting
position at Albert Lea, Minnesota.
With his family he departed for that
place this morning. He is succeeded
here by Harry C. Akin, who has been
agent at Chaseburg for some years.
The Wis-Minn. Power and Light
Company is asking a raise in rates
at all places where they operate.
Their application will be heard before
the state railroad commission on Fri
day. Our city council delegates au-
thority to City Attorney Proctor to
appear and protest against an in
crease here. The rates are now too
high, and should be reduced instead