Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-05-12
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Bert Shreve and John Stewart left
by ear Monday morning for Madison
and Evansville, to be gone several
days.
Mr. and Mrs. N. D. McLees left
for Richmond, Kansas, last Thursday.
called there by the death of the form
er's brother, Dan McLees.
Editor Walter VanWinter was in
the city from Viola, Friday. He was
on the lookout for seed potatoes, a
very scarce article throughout the
country.
u. A. Wells, veteran editor of the
Tomah Monitor-Herald, died in that
city, having reached the eightieth year.
He was one of the trained printers of
his times, q master, too, with the pen,
veteran soldier, a character whose
genius will not soon be forgotten in
the community where he so long lived
The remains of Mrs. Troy Evans
were brought from North Dakota to
the old LaFarge home for interment.
She was a native of Ohio, born lS4s.
coming to the town of Webster with
her parents. Mr. and Mrs Potts, when
mere child. Apoplexy was the cause
| of her death s
-Seventy-one years ago-May 10,
| lS49-Sidney Higgins arrived in Yer
non county, the family settling on the
/ Higgins homestead where they have
since resided. To our knowledge only
three people remain in Vernon county
who arrived in the 40's-Sidney. his
brother Judson (who resides on part of
the old place., and Lamech Graham of
| Springville, who came in 1916.
/ Just now the state treasury of
Wisconsin is bullying with money. The
monthly report issued by Treasurer
I Henry johnson last week, will show
more than S10,000,000 in state funds.
This money is from state taxes that
include general income rad surtaxes,
soldier bonus asess~l nents, railroad
taxes, corporation taxes, government
highway aid funds and other levies.
Every post of American Legion
in the United States is to be supplied
with rifles and ammunition to be used
in connection with military funerals.
The rifles viii be lent and the ammuni-
ton win be sold at cost. Ten rifles
viii be the limit to each post.
"A widow lost a hog. We do not
refer to the death of her husband. She
lost real hog and advertised for It,
The editor says the hog must have
read the paper, for he came hiking
home on the dead run as soon as the
paped left the postoffice. This is not
the first instance where hog has read
a newspaper and incidentally forgot to
pay for it.
Did you observe said a mer-
chant to customer, "the handsome
! advertisement / have had painted on
the railing of the bridge? ?" mo" re-
! FNlF1A fba 4
1 the bridge around to my house | will
try to read the announcement / read
the papers and ] havn't time to run
around from place to place to read
billboards"
There has been an average in
crease Of 100 per cent in the cost of
! living in this country since December,
1914, and the cost of much of the ma
terial used in the production Of a
newspaper has advanced as much as
200 and 300 per cent. But there has
NOT been an increase of 100 per cent
in the price of this paper or in the
cost of anything this Office produces.
No prohteering in this shop, thank you
Get rid of that little white ele-
plant on your hands. Somebody else
wants it and are willing 10 pay for it..
The Censor reaches those who want
and are willing to pay. A little want
ad will sell even a big white elephant
Horses, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens,
plows, harrows, wagons, carts, chairs,
tables, tools and everything and any
thing can be sold through the Censor's
want ad column
The Viroqua Telephone Company
has applied TO the Railroad Commits
sion for authority to change its rates
as follows: $500 per telephone for
switching farm lines with 40 or less
| telephones connected, and SIS per
month for the first trunk line, and So
per month for each additional trunk
| line connected with its switchboard,
for switching farm lines with more
than 40 connected telephones. The
Commission will hold a public hearing
on the application at 9 a. m. of May
IA, at its Offices in Madison.
The supreme court handed down
decision recently which will bring
great relief > large number of our
young married folks. The lower court
held that couples going outside of the
state for the purpose of being married
and returning to reside here, were not
legally welded. The higher court re-
versed this, holding that the state has
no jurisdiction over marriages outside
its borders, and cannot refuse to ac-
lcept as residents people who have com
piled with the wedding requirements
of other states.
The Osteopath is by education
physician. He practices new and
complete system Of treatment. He
must know diseases in their manifes-
tations. He must be a skilled anato-
mist, for he is an anatomical engineer,
the body mechanic, and he effects his
cures by scientific adjustment of the
structures of the body. Thus it is
plain that to speak Of Osteopathy as
rubbing" is gross carelessness Of
speech, and to call it massage is a con
fession of ignorance of its principles.
"Uncle 10" Cannon, dean of the
National House Of Representatives,
was given an ovation in Congress, last
Friday, by his colleagues. 1t was his
Saith anniversary. Uncle 10. holds the
long-distanee record as member of
congress. Last Wednesday ne was
nominated for the 25th term from the
Illinois district in which he lives, COW
ering a period Of fifty years.
For the purpose of aseertaining
the sentiment 81 the people of the
state upon the proposal to have no
open season for trapping muskrat and
mink until the fall Of 1921; and also
to find how the public feel about hav-
ing no open season for deer hunting in
1920; the State Conservation Commits