Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-10-16
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Don't be mlser-help lick the kaiser.
Boyle.
-Gabe Roisiand of Dudley section, weat to
EauClaire to visit friends.
Cover. each cough and sneeze; If you
don't you will spread disease"
supervisor Brad Bailey autoed from
Hiilsboro. having business in the county seat.
Remember, every bond you buy is bomb
for the Kaiser-the kind we home folks can
thro'
Misses Olive and Clara LePage recently
went 10 the state of Iowa TO teach in the pub
lie schools.
Hurry up and make settlement with the
censor before the government puts his iron INST
Liberty Bond sale closes next Saturday.
Hurry up and do yeur part If you have not
Mrs. Andrew Larson and son Arthur, were
in the county seat from Rockton, last Friday,
on official matters.
Assistant Postmaster Nye spent part of
THE last eek with his aged father, Captain
Nye, at Viola, Sho has been i'll.
Albert NJ. Anderson Of Coon, youngest
of the late Hon. Ole Anderson a bust
ness caller in the city on Thursday.
MIR. A. M. Anderson of Newry met with
painful accident His hand was lacerated
by coming in contact with tractor.
Rev. HOfstead tells that about Canton,
South Dakota, some farms produce high
as LIS bushels of corn per acre this season.
-F.eetion is only three weeks distant, and
not peep about politics yet. No one ever
reh emh,rs such campaign before in Wiscon-
sin.
j. F. Parker is advised that his daughter,
Mrs. Roy Carver, recently underwent oper-
alton for appendicitis at Marshfieid, their
home.
jesse Sherman, who has been attending
county training school was taken to his Bills
boro home and underwent an operation for APP
pendcitis.
county lasted just one hour. Judge Higbee is
making long distance record for short terms
elsewhere in Vernon.
Willis ID. Maeby, former citizen of Viro-
qua and Newton, died recently in the state of
Iowa. He about SIS years old. For some
years Nj .Maeby conducted store at Newton
and Viola. ~
-Severt T. Larson was caller in the city
from Westby Saturday, coming to pay a
visit 10 his brother-in-law, Mr.. Jos. Omundson,
who is still weak and not able to leave his
home often.
The wife of that longtime Coon Prairie
pastor, the venerable II. HalvOrson, was Oper-
ated upon in Lacrosse Lutheran hospital
The many friends of the good woman wish for
her speedy recovery.
Veteran Mike SalIander of Retreat, drop
ped corn stalk at the Censor Office that
tall we lost our breath while climbing
e ladder to measure its height, and it was well
cared with prime corn.
1t is reported from their Red Mound home
that Mrs. Milton Henry sustained fractured
arm. She was about to step into buggy
when the horses strated, throwing her to the
ground. with the misfortune stated.
The government wants one thousand com
mon labOrers and two hundred carpenters at
good wages and steady work. For particulars
write the u. S. Employment service, sos So.
Fourth Street, Lacrosse
Sidney Higgins tells the Censor of the
death. at his home in Basin, Wyoming, Of Mr..
William McCracker. a former citizen of Lib
erty Pole, agei aboU- sxty-fve years. He
moved vest ten or dozen years since.
MIR. Leland Olson has purchased the forty
acre farm home from G. 4. Chase. mile east
of the city, portion of the old TiltOH place,
and we believe it sets the pace for farm land
sales, at $500. The Chase family will rIove
TO the city.
Miss Ina Rabbit and other Vernon coun-
ty students at Lacrosse state normal school
arrived home TO remain during suspension of
school during prevalence of Spanish influenza.
Lacrosse is reported TO have two or three
hundred cases.
October 81 is the day when tile hands Of
time will be arrested in their Eight and turned
back hour, thus re-establishing the old
schedule and allowing sixty r,i,utes additional
slumber. The day of setting back the clocks
falls Sunday
And women are good bond buyers and
hustlers. The local Woman's Relief Corps,
at late meeting, voted to buy bond for
hundred dollars. That patriotism and
love for country of the real kind that the cOun-
try needs in times of stress.
MIR. and Mrs. j. w. Galloway Reads
town callers at the Censor Office, enrolling as
members of big family. They have done
their part in pOpulating our county. has ing
reared family of ten and one daughter
One is in France. another in a govern
ment cantunment, and four others enrolled for
service when the sail is sounded.
The Censor calls attention to the official
announcement made in this paper by the
county superintendent fer board convention
and teachers meetings. These gatherings
called at earlier dates than in the past They
are among the most important educational
gatherings thas are scheduled for the year,
and it Is encUmbent on teachers and district
board members to give their attention and
best efforts that they made successful.
The remains of Mr.. Knudt NJ. Hooverson
of Folsom arrived here Sunday morning. He
passed away at Whitehall hospital Saturday
morning, his death being caused by pernicious
anemia. His wife and sister Mary assisted
ha in taxing of him and
thing that kind and loving hands could possi-
bly, do for him was done but of no avail. His
death means the less of good husband. father.
son, brother. relative, friend and neighbor. An
ex-oaicial of the town of Franklin. Funeral
held at the home yesterday afternoon. A
suitable tribute TO the life of this fine young
citizen will be given next week.
Venerable Henry kish, one of the very
few active survivors of the Civil rebellion. was
q welcome caller from Newton. He was Ia
menting the late death of one of his comrades
of that struggle and neghbOr for more than
half century, ]. Milton Powell, who died in
a Lacrosse hospital October first, following
an operation, and whose funeral occurred at
Chaseburg the 5th. MIR. Powell located in the
town of Harmony in 1866, then called Powell
the war, native of Ohio, aged rs years. He
is survived by son, Bert, of Stoddard. and
a daughter, resident of Montana.
-Lumberman L. NJ. Roseland had rather
a Embarrassing experience between Westby and
VirOqua a recent evening. As he neared
a bridge, on the other side stopped to let
him nave a GEAR track. Wnen 100 fate 10
stop, Mr.. RoseIand saw that the bridge was
occupied by a stalled car with lights burn
ing. He struck the car, tearing wheels from
both machines and otherwise damaging them.
Then his went over into the ditch, bottom
side up, and he under the wreck. Miraculously
he sustained no injuries beyond being stunned
for a few moments. When he regained con-
seriousness and cravled out from under the car,
he found that the who had turned out
had drove without offering aid or evS.
caring enough about common humanity to
ascertain whether he injured. That man,
whoever he was, is a proper subject for
tar and feather party. In the called car on
the bridge lay a drunk man. Roseland walked
to Westby, reused Lloyd ISekkedal, they re-
turned by car finding tn cause of the accident
still in drunken stdpor. When aroused he
proved to be a hired man employed near Coon
Valley. They took him home and arranged
through his employer for reimbursement TO
MIR. Roseland for damages sustained. o, Lord,
how long will il be- how many costly accidents
and injuries must be sustained before the les
son is fully learned that gasoline and alcohol
makes about the most deadly mixture known
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