Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-31

order. having unusual volume of de-
gree comforting ahead for the winter
| months.
Happy New Year.
Remember and write it 1920i
Pay your subscription this week.
Tonight - low twelye-good- by
1919.
Eat your Sunday dinners at the
| Unique. 45-tf
Make it year of good deeds and
high purposes.
Raymond Curtis arrived home
from Detroit, Michigan,
| Miss Iona Slack is home from
WaCsau for holiday vacation.
AT the Opera House every Sat
urday night an orchestra dance.
Miss Blanche Fowell is taking
treatment in a Lacrosse hospital.
j. w. Lucas went to Chippewa
Falls to visit his son Keith and family.
Don't forget that orchestra dance
at the Opera House every Saturday
night
Sheldon Treseder of Minneapolis
was with his parents for Christmas
week.
Now strong 1920 pull, altogeth-
er for Vernon county and its various
interests.
Every census has disclosed the
fact that there are more men in the
1 United States than women.
Mr. and Mrs Carl Alden and
family of Gibson, Montana. are here
I, for , sEisster's soJ6ufn with MIR. and
Mrs. J. A. Doerr and family.
His many friends here and at
Westby learn that Rev. c. +. Sybilrud
is convalescing at his St.Paul home
from an appendicitis operation.
John Tewalt is filling his ice
house. The product is taken from the
Mississippi at Stoddard. Meat mark
cts, grocers and others are laying in
their supply of ice.
-Neighbors and friends to the
number of thirty gave Fred Lake an
oyster supper. He was able to sit up
and enjoy the visit after four weeks
battle with blood poisoning.
On account of wreck in the
| Sparta yards of the C. NJ. q StPaul
road, our branch train was ten hours
| late one day last week. Six loaded
cars were wrecked on the main track,
blocking all traffic at that point.
| Mrs. Gerhard Fortney came from
Zumbrota to pass Christmas week
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. P.
Proctor. DIR. Fortney is too busy with
| his professional work to give more
| than a day or two with relatives.
The best wish that the Censor can
express for its fifteen thousand read
ers is that Vernon county mail facil-
tiles may be improved and corrected
during the year, and that, too, speed
| Iiu Wo VanA rt1,tnh do
reduction of high cost of living.
Friends here received word of the
marriage of Eldon E. Alden of Glib
son, Montana, to Miss LaVera Mae
Thompson of Rothemay, Montana.
The groom will be remembered by
many of the V. H. S students. The
happy couple will make their home
near Gibson where the groom has
ranching interests.
-Viroqua postoffice business for
the holiday season was the grea'esy
! in volume ever, except possibly the
| year when such large amount %
| soldier packages were mailed. 1t kept
the force hustling early and late to
| dispatch the congestion of large and
small mail. Extra helpers were en-
| ployed only for two or three days.
The abolition of the tramp and
the death of old John Barieycorn
seems likely to put many city lock-
up and even some of the county jails
out of business. During the past year
many of the former have been almost
unused and the Jail population has
! been so reduced that some counties
consider the jail needless expense.
-Viroqua experienced most cred
| liable growth in population and ma
terial improvements during the clos
ing year Seldom has a year passed
where more substantial modern homes
have been erected. In the business
district, we have made commendable
strides. c. NJ. Clsrk's garage is the
| largest addition made ian undertaking
of magnitude attempted in few places.
Most eye trouble is the direct re-
suit of eye neglect. When the first
signs of eye strain appear a compel
ent optometrist like DIR. Evenson at
La Crosse should be consulted. He
will thoroughly examine the delicate
mechanism of your eyes and prescribe
the glasses that viii give you COM
fort and ease. DIR. Evenson's moder-
ate charge is regulated by the amount
of work on the lenses and the value
of the mountings you choose.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage of Mr.. Adolph Stevling of
StPaul to Miss Thelma Hestethune Of
! Soldiers Grove. The event took place
| in St.Paul December %. Adolph for
merly made his home here, removing
to the Twin Cities seven years since.
He was 2. volunteer in the world war.
Miss Hestethune is a lady Of sterling
worth and a native Of Pine Knob,
where the happy couple viii make
! their home.