Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-02-06
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DIR. Baldwin, dentist, second floor
Ferguson building. Phone &c.
DIR. Chase, dentist, Office in Nat
ional Bank building. Phone 80.
Take your teams to the Viroqua
gerson.
Free band concert at the High
school room Thursday night at eight
O'Clock. Be there
The delayed films, Fatty Arbuck
lie in "a Country Hero" will be shown
on the first date possible.
Master Winston Moore came
from Winona to pass some time with
his father and grandparents.
MIR. A. j. Moen, longtime treas
urer of Hamburg insurance company
was Censor caller from Christiana,
yesterday.
-Silas Primmer and family have
returned from Dell section to Viro-
qua. Mrs. Rebecca Primmer came
with them.
The c. L. Colman Lumber Com
pany wants your 16 inch dry wood.
Bring it in and get the highest mark
ct price for it.
Mr.. j. Johnson of Coon town felt
so well pleased over the arrival of
son at his home that he sends US SO
on subscription.
Mothers, have your children see
the beautiful story 1.-THE Life of Our
Savior" Monday after school. Only
10c to the children.
Henry Hooper, a man long in
this community and well-known, a
mute, 78 years old died suddenly from
g. -
Friday.
Paper was day late last week
because of tie-up in express and
freight movements on the railroads.
We hope it will not occur again this
winter.
The Censor has taken an unusu-
ally large number of new cash in ad-
vance subscribers within the past
month and there is room for others
on our lists.
-Springville correspondent gives
US a new one, and pretty good, too.
Says that the weather was so cold
down there that the thermometer con-
tracted pneumonia.
Mrs. Fred Mccormick, a long
time resident of Towerville, died at
Waterloo, where she was passing the
WlnI6T Will Il QduRuIeT. SEVEN SOIlS
and daughters survive.
Judge and Mrs. Mahoney are
greatly rejoiced over the fact that
they are now being saluted as grand
father and grandmother, a son hav
ing come to the home of Attorney and
Mrs. Emmett Mahoney in St. Paul,
last Thursday.
Editor Kjome was in from Coon
IL
steal examination and was placed in
first class. He says he is ready to
go when Uncle Sam beckons. He does
not now know what disposition he
will make of his newspaper.
Miss Frances Lauder city~1ibra-
rian, arrived home today from Berea
College, where she completed liter
airy course. The young lady is re-
ceiving congratulations over her hap
by success. She will renew active
service at the city library, her moth
err having substituted during her alb
sence.
Mr.. Otto Schroeder. treasurer of
Harmony, was a business caller in
the city yesterday. He placed a new
subscription to the Censor and left
us the long list of taxpayers in his
the public burdens. Mr.. Schroeder
says people are very prompt in tax
paying this winter.
"A St. Paul news item records the
marriage of Sergeant Victor West
phal and Miss Glenie Dillon of the
same city. Rev. NJ J. Westphal, faith
er of the groom, officiated. Sergeant
Westphal is a former Viroqua boy,
-+oA = All.
sas. He has brief furlough for the
special occasion above mentioned.
Soldier Larry Showan arrived
from Waco, Texas, on Monday where
he has been stationed during the tim,
Wisconsin troops were there for sew
eral months. He tells that the army
camp is cleared of the last regiment,
having all been transferred east
ready for embarkment to France.
Larry was cook for officers of the 3rd
Wisconsin regiment. He is and has
been under weight and try as he may
and repeatedly has, he will not be ac-
cepted in the army.
-Readstown news items contain
statement that's worthy of emulation
Read it. 1t tells of the great appre-
citation that one or more pupils of that
tunity to obtain an education. In no
country in the world, and in scarcely
a state in the union, is it possible for
young people to obtain any and all
character of preparation and equip
ment educatiolally as in the United
States and th4 State of Wisconsin.
1t is as free as the pure winter air
we breathe, yet we see scores upon
scores of boys and girls in every COM
munity refusing or neglecting to avail
themselves of the great privileges
extended to them. Do YOU know,
young people and grown-ups, that
practically all of the enormous tax
levied by the state in Wisconsin is for
school purposes? Fifty per cent of
the entire tax burden in the city of
Viroqua is for educational up-build.
Yet we have many right here who
refuse to fit themselves for the every
day struggle of life that they are GER
tain to encounter.