Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-08-21


Weather commences to feel rath-
er fall-like.
Get your egg canding certificates
at the Censor Office.
New subscribers are added to the
Censor lists every day.
-Ahs. Fred Chapman visited her
parents at Hillsboro.
j. W. Marshall and daughter.
Pearl, visited relatives in Genoa
Farms, all complete with stock,
crops and machinery. I. j. Thorson,
Westby.
-Eotore you buy farm it will pay
you to co nmunicate with T. J. Thor
son of Westby.
Miss Selma Lavold is a guest at
= the home of Miss Kathleen Gilmore
of Soldiers Grove.
j. w. Sanger, who has been con-
fined in a Lacrosse hospital the past
six weeks, spent Sunday at home.
Mr.. William J. Outcelt of Coon
Valley has been appointed station
agent for the Southeastern in this
city.
Auto Davis, is the style in
which one who had business with him.
addressed our genial Druggist Davis.
Nothing like being popular.
Mr.. H. J. Freeze was a business
and personal caller from LaFarge.
He has been reappointed local food
deputy for that section of the county.
Prof. Wendell P. Morgan has
been engaged as principal of high
school at Unity in Portage county
where he moves his family the pres
ent week.
The Red Cross picnic at P. I. Mol
lands farm on West Prairie has been
postponed till Sunday, August 25, at
two O'Clock. Attorney II. P. Proctor
will address the meeting.
Alex Morrison and crew of three
helpers have been at the home of AL
bertJ. Broadhead near Retreat, put
ting basement walls under a large
barn, and making other improvements
about the farm premises.
County teachers institute opens
in Viroqua next Monday, to continue
four days. Then follows two days
examination for applicants for certi-
ficates. Superintendent Neprud is
making ample preparation for "big
doings' educationally and it should
OC rare anu tuLCEC5Ilu2 WGbhs
-Jeweler C. NJ. Morrison is showing
the finest half-dozen art glass electric
lamps he has ever displayed. They
have double hinged sockets and there
are no less than 900 pieces of glass in
the most expensive one of the lot.
You should see them.
Mr.. c.. p. Eldredge, for years su-
perintendent of the Lacrosse division
of the e. NJ & St.Paul railroad, has
retired after a service of forty years
Like most men who have gone to the
front in their vocations, MIR. Eldredge
started at the very, bottom of the lad
der.
The national encampment, Grand
Army of the Republic and Woman's
Relief Corps is being held in Port
land, Oregon, this week So far as
we can learn Vernon county is not re-
presented in this great patriotic
gathering by soldiers or Relief Corps
members.
Primary election September 3.
Every good citizen should time his
work and affairs SO he may attend.
in these troublesome times of war it
is the duty of all to join in govern
ment making. We are most interest
ed in the kind of government we have
and the men we constitute to help
make it.
After a six weeks vacation at
her Soldiers Grove home. Mrs. Louise
Sine is again on duty at the Censor
Office. 1t has been pretty busy and
strenuous period for the "old man"
and the foreman to produce a paper
and do the other Office duties without
assistance. Only with the type set
ting machine could it possibly have
been accomplished.
Base ball is pretty much a lost
art this season, in the country dis
tricts, because of the absence of the
young men in the army and other
more important things which engross
attention of the people. However a
Kickapoo aggregation of old players
from LaFarge, Viola and other points
staged good game with Richland
Center. Result for the Center and
4 for the boys headed by big Ben
of Viola.
Most all daily and weekly papers
are increasing their subscription price
The Censor is seeking to avoid that
if possible, but it does ask that all be
prompt in making payment and re-
,Iewals. Especially those who take
their papers outside of the county
and at long distances. The heavy in
crease in postage to such subscribers
is very material and we must insist
on payment in advance. Therefore
we ask that such patrons consult the
yellow tag on their paper. That will
tell just to what date your paper is
paid. Do it nowl This means YOUi
The Kratzman and Bleott families
motored from Boscobel to Camp Rob-
inson to see Leo Kratzman, who will
soon leave for France. They spent
Saturday and Sunday at the Goldsmith
home while enroute. Chester Stew
art and Edward Seemann were also
at Camp, motoring from Hebron, Illi-
nois, to see their soldier sons. They
visited at the Stewart home here.
The Camp was crowded with visitors
from long distances in anticipation
of the departure of the boys.