Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-01-02
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Happy New Year.
Make it a hummer.
Draft 258 Monday.

Happy New Year.
Make it a hummer.
Draft 258 Monday.
-Walthall at the Star Friday.
Insure with John Dawson Co.
The great Norwegian play, Peer
Gynt, at the Star next Wednesday.
All kinds of paper and roofing
for fall repairing, at the Nuzum yard
See the LaFollette type of politi-
clans exposed in Draft 25S at the Star
Monday.
Mrs. Helen Otteson-Neprud is
here from Westby to pass a week with
her parents.
Miss Clara Pronol spent part of
Christmas week at her Spring Green
home
Miss Marie Bennett of Laramie.
Wyoming, spent Christmas with Miss
Neff and the Stevensons at Denver,
Colorado.
Rev. Frank Nuzum was over from
Baraboo to attend annual meeting of
the Nuzum Lumber Company, held
here Friday.
Call the Nuzum Yard, phone
43, for storm sash. They will take
measurements if desired and guaran-
tee them to fit.
MIR. Chas. Bishop was a business
caller from Retreat while in the hub
Thursday. He reports fiourishing
business with their creamery.
Mrs. Geo. Smith left for Chippe-
wa county to join her husband, who
has bought and located upon a 240
acre farm near Holcomb, where other
Vernonites live.
Mr.. Oscar Fortney is back for hol-
iday vacation after five years passed
at Michigan City, North Dakota.
Weather, he says, is very much like
the old Wisconsin brand.
Eli Thompson, a resident years
ago of Viroqua, died at Reno, Nevada.
The only member left of the family is
a brother George of Salem, Oregon.
Geo. d. Thompson of Hillsboro is
nephew of the deceased.
Edward A. Smith was summoned
to Wonewoc on Wednesday last by the
critical illness of his mother, who pass
ed away from pneumonia soon after
his arrival. She was sixty-three years
old, leaves husband and number of
grown sons and daughters. The fam
lily long lived in Hillsboro town.
Miss Mabel Jensen, who teaches
in what is known as the Brown district
in Hamburg town, is enjoying vaca-
ton at home. In the olden days that
territory was almost exclusively yam
kee in population. Miss Jensen tells
the Censor that her present pupils are
about evenly divided between Norwe-
gian and German descendants.
Fifty members of the Groves
relatives held a pleasant Christmas
jubilee and dinner at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John E. Stoll, who were as
sssSSd IL the sestivis<cs of tire feasting
by Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Groves.
There is scarcely larger, more active
and longer time kinship in Vernon
county. The number that met on this
Christmas day is but comparatively
few of the whole connecting relation
ship.
Mrs. A. L. Kenyon of Sanborn,
Iowa, is at the parental home of DR..
Miller near Springville. She was ac
companied by her brother Bert, who
has been in Iowa helping them harvest
the heavy corn crop. Mrs. Kenyon
says that from her farm home one can
see naught but blue sky and corn
fields; that old seed corn sells as high
as S12 per bushel
The old lie that portion of the
articles sent by Red Cross societies to
soldiers in the field and camp are not
presented to them, that they are COM
PEELED to pay for them, and that some
of the articles are sold or appropriated
by others, has become too stale to be
worthy of denial. F. NJ. Minshall lis
tened to a statement of that nature
the other day, made by a man. When
rinnnd doya,t for tr1Ith of the accusa-
ton he said Sparta woman knew
that it was true because articles pre-
pared by her had been sold. Minshall
wrote to Sparta and found there was
not semblance of truth in the state
ment In fact the woman referred to
had prepared nothing for the soldiers.
A state official is now under indict-
ment at Madison by the U. S. grand
jury for giving vent to the assertion
that the Y. NJ. c. A. and Red Cross
are grafters. He will have chance
to prove his charge Elm Uncle Sans
court this Friday.