Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-11-05


creek TO Ontario.
Chile con carne at the Unique
New novelty checked plaid skirts
at Suttle & Tate's.
County board meets next Tues
day.
Kenneth Groves has been initial
ed as clerk at Stoll & Groves clothing
house.
Miss Ruth Williams visited her
sister at Lawrence university, extend
ing her trip to Chicago.
Wisconsin food administrator has
decreed that beet sugar shall be sold
at twelve cents a pound
Miss Mable DeLorimer, of Berk-
ley, California, is guest of her friend,
Mrs. G. ]. Kuebler of this city.
Fred Chapman has moved his
family to Hillsboro and they were ac-
companied by Herbert Chapman.
Mrs. Geo. H. Clarke came from
Whitehall to visit her son and her
neighbors of forty years acquaint-
ance.
Next Tuesday, November II, is
the first anniversary of Armistice
Day, one of the greatest anniversar-
les for history.
john Chambers son of James
Chambers of Springville, arrived home
with an army discharge, having given
two years on the Mexican border.
Miss Mary +. Rusk and her cous-
in, Mary Cooper, departed for New
Jersey, where Miss Rusk expects to
pass the winter with the Cooper fam
lily.
&C. NJ Clark has his mammoth ga
rage under cover and we'll enclosed.
The interior work and arrangements
are making progress. 1t is a whale,
so to speak, as business place.
John p. Melvin, who was in from
Webster, told the Censor of the ser
ious illness of the venerable Mrs. John
Snyder and Mrs. Jacob Appleman.
The latter suffered second stoke of
paralysis.
Ole A.Larson came from Lacrosse
to work on the Dan Fortney farm in
Franklin. Some months ago Ole sus-
tanned crippled arm while operating
a machine in the industrial plant
where he was employed He has yet
had no satisfactory adjustment for
time lost and injuries.
Edwin NJ. fainter has purchased
land in Chippewa county and gone
there to take possession and construct
buildings so that his family may later
join him. Vernon county is adding
numbers to the Chippewa colony. Carl
Curtis and family will occupy the
fainter residence, having purchased
the same.
Rev. H. C. Smeby delivered his
farewell sermon TO his Viroqua con-
gregation on Sunday morning last,
the church being crowded. The fare
well words and good bys by Mr.. and
Mrs. Smelly were pathetic and the
congregation was deeply affected. A
farewell offering for them amounted
to more than 5000 They leave for
their new call next week.
The city council has acted wise
ly in making an appropriation for en-
ployment of an expert to look up and
pass judgment regarding the merits
of the demand of the electric light
ed emergency schedule for light and
power in this city. All places effect
ed are uniting in the matter. We
should have the facts clearly demon
strated, then act accordingly. The
matter will soon be heard before the
state public utility commission.
-CharleyGroh returned from North
Dakota, after several weeks stay.
called to attend the funeral of his
aged mother. He assisted his son-in-
law on a farm $50 miles northwest
of Fargo. Says they had fair crops
where farming was performed in
manner to warrant expectancy of
crops. He declares that much of the
bad results out there is because of
DoOl. cultivation He brought homo
some potatoes that are rare specimens
of the tuber family Charley left
there in a fall of eight inches of snow
and six below zero, glad to get back
where there is greenness and plenty
Rudolph Skaaland was in the city
on Saturday from Esofea. He just
received his final discharge from the
army He returned from overseas
last May, where he spent almost a
year, experiencing sharp fighting on
five front lines. He received shrapnel
and bullet wounds that confined him
to hospitals portion of his enlist
ment, having been treated in some of
the most noted hospitals in France.
Returning from abroad most of the
time since May, Rudolph has been
cared for in the largest federal hos
pitals, and at time of his discharge
feels that he escapes well with only
fifteen per cent disability. He felt
strong enough to walk in from Esofea
and return on foot, Saturday. He has
associated himself with another ESQ
fea soldier, Charley Johnson, and
they viii carry on machine and re-
pair shop, having put lot of neces-
sary machinery and equipment IN