Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-01

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| Wheatland.
You will find a welcome at the
Christian church next Sunday.
Get the church-going habit this
year. Start Sunday to the Christian
church.
Start the New Year right by at
tending the Homelike church next
Sunday.
Come to the Christian church next
Sunday and rejoice with us that the
flu ban is off.
Thomas Costing and wife of Mil
waukee, are passing few days with
Viroqua relatives.
Grant Stravn and family have
moved from, Spokane to Pasco, in the
state OF Washington.
Make it a truly Happy New Year
by subscribing for interesting maya
zines. Howard Thayer.
Read the ad of the country store
for sale at Bud. 1t is a desirable To-
cation for the right man.
Rev. and Mrs. F. A. Stephens re-
turned from Milwaukee, where they
paid holiday visit to their sons.
Miss Neprud, county superintend-
ent, made a visit to the state capital
on matters connected with her work.
After spending Christmas at home
]. W. Thayer returned to the northern
woods to put in winter at logging.
e. T. VanWinter, of Kickapoo,
secretary of the Utica Insurance COM
pany was in the city on official business.
Former Alderman Will E. Nelson,
has been critically i'll weh flu and
pneumonia, but is now somewhat inn
proved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rosebush, after
passing a fortnight with the Cass
families returned to their Appleton
home.
Mr.. Joseph Beranek of Yuba, was
in the city on Saturday. He just re-
turned from Nebraska, where he has
landed interests.
Traffic Manager Lawrence A.
Finstad of the Southeastern road was
a business caller in the city from La
Crosse on Monday.
Were you among the eighty lucky
persons who received magazine sub
scriptiOns for Christmas? Howard
Thayer sent in the orders.
All our university students leave
for Madison today, classes opening to-
morrow, considerably earlier follow
ing the holidays than usual
ton to attend family reunion, it be-
ing celebration of the eightieth an
niversary of her father, Reverend
John Harris, who has been a Method
list minister for more than half a CEN
fury.
Mrs. Fannie Tinker Stumble, came
from Richland Center to pay a last
farewell to beloved sister, Mrs. Mel
lie Decker Somerby, whose remains
were brought from far-off California
to be placed 70 rest beside the dust of
numerous other kin.
Miss Katherine Lindemann re-
turned to- her teaching work at Hib-
bing, Minnesota. Also Miss Dorothy
Packard to Rhinelander, Caryl Will
liams to Oklahoma, Dorothy Trow-
bridge to Portage, Vivian Fawcett and
Blanche Running to Reedsburg.
1t is rumored that the Southeast
ern will soon put into service, for pas
senger carrying, a gasoline car that
will accommodate about thirty people,
using the steam equipment. only for
freight traffic. 1t may be only a rail
road dream, but it is in circulation.
Simon Glenn was a caller from
Clinton, last Wednesday. He recent
ly returned from Winona, where he
was employed in a munition manufac-
turing plant that turned out an i'm
mense amount of war supplies. Mr.
Glenn received a slight injury in one
hand while operating a machine.
The Misses Olga and Tilda Nat
wick are passing holiday season with
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. H.
Natwick. The first named is instruct
or in stenography and typewriting in
the Lutheran academy at Albert Lea,
Minnesota. The latter teaches in the
state normal school at Glendale North
Dakota
The newspaper fraternity of the
state joins former editor NJ. P. Rind-
laub and family in the sorrow that
comes to them in the death of charm
ing wife and mother, which occurred
at the family home in Platteville a
few days since Mother Rindlaub was
real mother to the state press as
sociation, and she was loved as sin
cerely by the brethren as by her own
family. To them all sympathy is ex-
tended.
Former County Superintendent,
Henry L. Gardner, came from Green
Bay to pass holiday fortnight with his
family and many friends 1t is his
first vacation and visit home since ac-
cepting his present position at the
state reformatory, where he is teacher
and supervisor and censors all mail
going from and received by inmates
in the institution Henry says it is a
pretty busy job, but one he is much
interested in, the betterment of young
men educationally and morally.
Mr.. Eugene Somerby, who ac-
companied the remains of his step
mother from California, is a son of
the late John L. Somerby, an old-time
newspaper man of Viroqua, who was
associated with his brother, Joseph A.
!Somerby in establishing Bad AK coun-
tvs first newspaper, the Northwestern
Times, now the Censor. With three
or four other printers, including Viii
liam E. Minshall, Printer Somerby
dropped the stick, and in 1861, went
into the great Civil war. He was in
the west most of the long period until
his death two years ago.