Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-01-09
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holiday time in the city.
Misses Susie and Agnes Thomp-
son We're at LaFarge to visi friends.
Fred P. Bean was in from Retreat
Friday, accompanied by his daughter,
Frances.
Misses Leila and Gladys Standi-
ford returned from a visit to Madison
and LaFarge.
-Cashton will have a farmers in
stitute January 1916, conducted by
II. D. Griswold
Mrs. Storlie and son Charles pass
ed portion of last week at the old
Coon Valley home
Mr.. and Mrs. McMasters have
been over from Viola visiting among
relatives and friends.
Calendars of various dimentions.
have been distributed to customers by
Viroqua business houses.
Former Chairman of the County
Board, Chas. ]. Eastman, has been Wis
iting a son in Minneapolis.
Readers will find the grist of To-
cal items and articles on all four home
printed pages of the Censor.
james Mains and wife, who NOV
ed to Montana last spring are back to
pass Tile WlitISI
Rev. o. E. Hofstead departed,
Monday, for Canton, South Dakota,
to spend few days with his aged par
ents.
Tuesday evening last Miss Ada
LieuraRce entertained a company of
young lady friends at the home of her
aunt, Mrs. Green.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Scott of Milton,
were guests of Miss Dorothy Trow-
bridge at the home of her parents in
the Second ward.
For fortnight Mr.. and Mrs. Jas
A. SnOdgrass had with them their
nd-daughters, Hillary and Dorothy
Snodgrass of Lacrosse.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Roach of
Greenwood town were over to pay
holiday visit to their son and family,
Edison Roach of Rusler ridge.
Mrs Bert Atwood was taken to
Sparta hospital and operated upon for
gallstones, and her condition is report
ed satisfactory. She has been i'll for
some months.
Buchanan Brothers have sold
the coal and fuel branch of their
business to the Colman Lumber Com
pany, together with their coal sheds
at the Southeastern station.
ALI of our university students and
pupils in other educational institutions
and teaching positions abroad have
left us after passing holidays pleas
antly at their respective homes.
Hon. A. H. Dahl and wife were
summoned to Wenatchee, Washington,
by the critical illness of their son-in-
law, Attorney W. F. Whitney, who
had typhoid followed by pneumonia.
Lawyers of the county seat have
given over most of their time the past
fortnight to filing questionable
blanks for registrants. The work has
drawn heavily on their time and ener-
gy.
-Selmer Messing is at Manitowoc
working in the shipyard Common
laborers receive SO per day. They
board on a boat that is anchored there
for the purpose. The yard embraces
So acres.
The farmers attention is called
to the program ard additional an
nouncement, in another part of this
issue, of the Farmers and Women's
Institute TO be held here on January
1918. Read it and arrange to come.
Misses Margaret Reed and Mar
garet Morse returned to teaching du-
ties at Minneapolis. The former tax
es night studies in the state universe
ty. Dorothy Packard accompanied
them to resume kindergarten studies.
Mr.. VIM. Oldenburg of Newton
valley, although crippled up with
rheumatism and not frequent visitor
in the county seat, was here Saturday
with his son to file his questionable.
Henry Bluske was also a Censor call
err from the same neighborhood.
1t pays to go to Lacrosse and
have your eyes properly examined by
DIR. Evenson. He has been perma-
nently located for sixteen years, and
gives satisfaction to hundreds each
week. His lens grinding laboratory
saves time, money and assures one of
correctly made lenses.
Farmer Will Norris of Round
Prairie is certain we are to have a
mild winter, from the fact that they
had Christmas and New Year robins
at their place. Don't let them fool you,
Will. The weather itself is the best
witness to date.
At the recent business meetings
in the charge of Rev. E. O. Hofstead
the salary was raised $500 to meet the
high cost of living. That's news that
pleases the pastor, his family and
friends, and was a grateful act on
part of his congregations.
DIR. Geo w Minshall, always low
er of a good brisk horse, purchased at
a Chicago sale, span of fine PAGERS,
one black and the other bay, and
he is taking not 4 little satisfaction
in drawing the reins over them while
we have this nice sleighing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Tate took leave
of their friends here for Spirit Falls,
in Lincoln county, where they go on a
40-acre farm, expecting to make sheep
husbandry and poultry raising a spec
ialty. Their acquaintance wish them
the best of success. For years, in the
sixties, Mr.. Tate was one of Uncle
Sans soldier boys. He has served
the government well for more than a
dozen years as rural mail carrier.