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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24
FIRE engine IS A BEAUTY
vIROQUA HAS SPLENDID NEW
FIRE FIGHTER
Tests Show Wonderful Throws
500 Gallons Per Minute, III Inch
Stream, About $50 Feet

Viroqua's new StutZ fire engine is
a beautiful red and nickle machine
with lion heart that simply overjoy-
ed the city officials at its recent tests.
NJ. ]. Parker, the underwriters engi-
neer, found its performance very good
during the entire tests, and gave his
verbal opinion that the machine in a
pinch could throw 800 gallons of water
per minute. With the engine working
moderately, at $50 pounds pressure,
a IL inch stream was thrown nearly
a block.
The machine is 50 horse power, with
600 gallon rotary pump. Hose capa-
city 1900 to 400 feet. Forty gallon
chemical tank and $50 feet hose. Two
hand extinguishers, search light, self
starter, siren, disc wheels, 38x7 pneu-
matte tires, weight bout 10000
pounds.
VirOqua's highly progressive mayor
and council are to be congratulated
over the purchase of this splendid
piece of fire fighting apparatus. Viro-
qua city was due for rerating, hav-
ing not been rated since about 1914.
The rate would have gone higher, Mr..
Parker says, but the new engine will
reduce it so that this reduction in in
surance premiums will pay for the
fine equipment in a very few years.
Thus, viewed in this way, it costs the
city nothing, not to mention the feel
ing of security its presence brings to
our business men and citizens.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24
THEY HAD A FIRE AND A FEAST
Methodist Women Celebrate Liquida-
ton of Their Financial Church
Obligations

A jubilee of no mean proportions
was held Thursday evening, in the
Methodist church. the happy occasion
being the incineration fthe notes for
which the members 0 fthe Ladies Aid
Society were obligated for building of
the new house of worship. Following
a luncheon in which an hundred joined,
the formal burning of the ten thousand
dollar notes was the jubilant program.
Mrs. Otto f. Davis, president of the
siciety, presided She presented Mrs.
H. D. Williams, who in her usual plac-
id manner related her connection with
Viroqua Methodism for sixty years,
reviewing the pioneer days in church
struggles, covering the financial side
particularly of the work of the Aid
Society, which had contributed to ev-
cry movement during all their years
of church forward progress. This was
the browning event in all the struggles,
she said 1t was mighty task when
the women assumed one-third of the
great burden of financial responsible
ity for the present church home, the
most pretentious and substantial in
the West Wisconsin Conference dis
trict. She said none were left to re-
count the heroic efforts of the founders
of Methodism connected with this
church, but there are still many de-
cendants of that valiant band
Mrs NJ. J. Jordan and Mrs. Arie
j. Favor, past and present treasurers
of the Ladies Aid, gave details of f.
nancial standards fthe society since
camp meeting days Mrs. M. j. Jas
person lead in a semi-humorous invo-
cation that proved silent merriment.
Pastor Harris extended congratula-
ton to ladies of the society for their
abundant assistance in financing the
church project, saying but for their
sturdy efforts Viroqua could never
have successfully carried through the
project. He complimented them on
being the most intense and forceful
band of workers connected with any
church during his years of pastoral
service.
The gathering dispersed with the
hymn "Blest Be the Tie That Binds. "
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24

FORECLOSURE SALE

STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT,
VERNON COUNTY.
A. B. Ewers. Plaintiff, VS. Elsie Draper. Fred
Draper. Bum Draper. Vivian Draper, Buella
Ewers, Bessie Ewers, Elma Draper, James
Draper. Opal Deters, and s. r. Rundebush,
Defendants.
judgement rendered in favor of the plaintiff
and against the defendants in the above en-
titled action the S0th day of October 1919,
the undersigned referee, will offer for sale and
sell the mortgaged premises in the above en-
titled action, to the highest bidder for cash at
the law office of Proctor G. Proctor in the city
of VirOqua, Wisconsin, at the hour of 10000
o'clock in the forenoon the 22nd day of
December 1920. Which said mortgaged prem
ises are described as follows, to-wit:
Commencing at a point on the south line
Of section 5, township IL. range g. on the east
side of Kickapoo River where the highway
crosses said section line, thence north along
the east side of said highway SS9 feet TO the
place of beginning Thence easterly at right
angles with said highway 14S feet thence
north parallel with said highway 22515 feet,
thence westerly parallel with the south line of
this tract 14S feet, thence southerly along
the east side of said highway 225b feet to
place of beginning. The same being a part of
the southeast Il of the southwest u section 5,
township II, range 8. Also all that part of the
southeast u of the southwest Il of section g.,
township IL range 8, lying west of the high
way and east of the river, excepting there
from land thereon now used for cemetery pur-
poses and the privilege when necessary to go
to and from the same, and excepting the rail-
road right of way, and excepting therefrom the
following described tract. commencing at the
southwest corner of the southeast Il of the
southwest Il thence north ga rods 10 feet
thence in a northerly direction along the Kick
apOo River Is rods, thence south 10 rods 6
feet. thence east to the railroad right of way.
thence in southerly direction along the west
line of said right of way to the south line of
said forty tract, thence west 20 rods Is
feet to the place of beginning. Also including
all that part of the northeast Il of the souht-
west Il, lying east of the Rickapoo River ex-
cepting therefrom the railrc"1 right of way,
all in section s. township IL. range 8.
Dated November eth, 1920.
H. E. PACKARD, Referee.
Proctor Proctor Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24

Use Or. Hess Panacea to help the
chickens uo1tt and get them started
70 laying. O. z. Davis.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24
HOW ARE YOU CULLING YOUR POULTRY
FLOCK

The second carload of poultry will be ship
ped out of Viroqua this season, and the same
thing is happening all over the country.
Here a few simple rules to follow in GULL
ing your flock. If you have Rhode Island,
Rock Wyandottes. Leghorns any yellow
leg variety, Gull out all hens year over IN
age that have bright yellow legs or beaks. A
good layer has drawn upon the yellow pig
ment in her beak and legs and therefore they
have become very pale yellow nearly white.
The good looking hen with all her new plum
age and having yellow legs and beak he's not
been laying any eggs for you for nearly six
weeks. The young pullets should not be culled
until later in the season or possibly until
early next summer they have not started
laying yet and therefore cannot be culled by
this method. The late moulters those hens
that just getting their new pIumage now
are your good layers.
Another method is to examine the head care
fully. 1t should be clean out, bright prom
inent eyes and broad between the eyes. The
hen having a deep sunken eye never will be a
good layer. They should stick out from the
head like a shoe button. Remember the three
points mentioned. keep your late moulters,
having pale yellow nearly white legs and
having q bright prominent eye.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24
EQUITY HOLDS CONVENTION
County Delegates Select Three to Go
to State Convention

Delegates from the Equity locals
throughout the county met in annual
convention at the Court House Mon
day. Judge Mahoney, Lano Buchanan
and E. j. Jennings were selected as
delegates to the state convention of
the Equity society to be held in Mil
waukee. c. o. Smith, J. d. Beck and
Mr.. Huschka were selected as alter
mates. Congressman-Elect Beck will
be present as the delegates of the Vi
roqua local.
Amalgamation with other organiza-
tions is the big problem to come before
the state convention, and the Censor
believes it unadvisable. The Equity
was a positive force for rural good
before Tittemore an dthe rest of the
politicians converted it to their own
desires and advancement. We devout-
ly hope the spirit of the old Equity
will rise in it's might, strike off the
political shackles, maintain its insti-
tutional integrity and have a new taste
of being.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24
Once Of Treasurer Of Vernon County.

HIbtTt MhTutn, ne a lot ., DIX 4......
G N Manley, n 20 fl lot blk 9......
Albert Marden A piece of land begin
ming at a point in center of Ontario
and Rockton road of land formerly
owned by L. Reyes, thence along cen
ter of road Is rds. thence My TO a
point of land formerly owned by
L Keyse, thence to place of begin
ming, pt of Sc ne sec 0 twp II range
west 9 lots
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24
THE CITY COUNCIL DOINGS

Viroqua. Wisconsin, October 10. 1920.
Regular meeting of the Common Council call
ed to order by Mayor Roseland. Members
present Aldermen Larson. McHenry, Side,
Groves and Nuzum. Minutes of previous meet
ing read and approved. The following &C
committee and upon motion of Alderman Lar
sen and second by Alderman Groves that the
rules be suspended and the accounts allowed.
Upon motion to suspend the rules all voted
ave. Upon motion to allow the accounts under
the suspension of the rules. Roll call all voted
aye Ordinance Nc. l27 was introduced by
Alderman w l. Groves and second BY Alder
man McHenry. that the rules be suspended and
the ordinance passed Upon motion 10 sus-
PEND the rules ali voted aye. Upon motion 70
pass the ordinance under the suspension Of the
rules, roll call all voted ave.
Moved bv Alderman McHcnry and sccCnd by
Alderman Side that the election officials shall
1920. All voted aye. Moved by Alderman
NcHeury ana seconded by Alderman Side that
the Mayor and City Clerk. when the fire en-
zine is accented take eut s.. 009 FIRE insurance
IN tire same. Bus. Standard OH Co, So gat-
Inns oil. . salons gasoline, Sl2i.-&s ADz1lcan
GaSz Iron Pipe Co. = sS4 reducers FL 70 j.
Henry Rennett. telephone and tel-zrlrr sl.li !:
LUDLOW Valve Co. hy5rauts S39Ls5; Western
Union TELEGRAPH &c. telegram &c &ilwsQSee
slc- American Express Co eN0ress "a Madison
Slzs. ". A. Ros,sgra8t &C. inverted ka5-
staus ssI.i6: IL o. Larsen 1915 Fsslcns gaso-
line for FIRE tr3ck s-l-15 Jne. Schultz ana
Albert Burkhart 4as fest isteraIs staa Adolrh
Nrohel labos sea: Nick Iorse1sen, use q
team, SIS Henry Iasc 81
Upon melton cE A|3srmau Larsen ana Sec
ou8-hy Alderman Sidle tire council E1-ogru-
r. J. OLDER, City Clerk
Use Or. Hess Panacea TO help the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24
First publication November 8, 1926
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
STATE OF WISCONSIN. CIRCUIT coun

STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT,
VERNON COUNTY.
Marion W. West. Plaintiff W O. H Hen
derson, ct al, Defendants.
Notice is hereby given that By virtue Of q
Judgment of foreclosure and sale rendered In
the above entitled action on the 27th day Of
October A. d. 1919. the undersigned sheriff
will on the Path day Of December A. d. 1920
at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, on the prem
ises hereinaft .r des ribbed. expose for sale and
sell TO the } CHEST cash bidder the following
described mor gagged premises:
Lots four "a. ave (5), six (s), seven
"a, and eight 49, in block 1--WE (6) OF the
Readstown Improvement Company's Addi-
ton TO the Village Of Readstown, Vernon
County. Wisconsin, TO satisfy said judy
ment amounting 20 at this date to the
sum Of 5000.
F. H. ROGERS, Sheriff of Vernon County.
Smith & Moen Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24
SHIP YOUR NoN-PRoDUCING HENS

SHIP YOUR NoN-PRODUCING HENS
The County Agent examined some OF the
year old hens shipped out of Niroqua on Mon
day. October is and found lot OF good pro-
ducers in this delivery. 1t is too easy to know
the non-produeer by looking at her to let her
remain and probably the sacrificing OF pro-
ducers instead to not learn it
There are a few simple things to make
note of and some of them are here mentioned
The yellow legged and beaked varieties when
good layers always lose the yellow color IN
both legs and beak because it is used up in
manufacturing the yolks of the egg, so always
look for white beak and legs for the ones
you want to keep. The good layers usually are
your rough looking hens at this time of the
year. They are the late moulters. The early
moulters yoLr poor producers, therefore,
the hen with a lot of pin feathers at this time
of the year is your good producer. The good
hen also has a bright shoe button eye, with
no overlapping flesh around it. The deep
sunken eyes found on your poor producers.
Anybody who wants TO have poultry demon
stration his farm poultry ranch should
invite in his neighbors and call on the county
agent 70 soce
PURE BRED SEED VS.. PURE BRED SIRES
We have been doing away with the scrub
sire. We know that he is deceiver and a
without a question blocking the way to pro-
gress. II farmers are still holding on TO the
scrub sire. they are blocking their own way
70 greater future and so II Is and always
VIII be n just and right thing to dispose OF the
scrub.
How does pure seed line Up with pure bred
SAEtN wen We nave hcAfa tuG pure hAsS
sire's reputation and accept him without any
more argument. Pure bred seed Is not new
10 Us anymore and we want to acquaint our
selvss with it's reputation.
The following table viii give you an idea
Of what pure bred seed viii do for Vernon
County If given q chance. You study the table
carefully and notice that there Is a loss OF
Se4a0eo 70 this county because we DO rot use
pure bred seeds. An average loss Of $1,000 ~
each farmer in the county IA not 70 bc over
looket- our total taxes which We knew are
not mall and which we 30 not pay without
9 mark or two. does not equal the loss IN
bushels 81 g-alH to the farmers Of Vernon
county. Next t1ne you kick about your taxes
Esu Also Sirs grst scrub scct and scrub stre
ost ar existtrce and we viii be on Is ua1en
eSs-sr road. Et- figures given are very CON
servat;ve.
Corn. 2S1is ceres Grown in Vernon county,
aNera--2 Eccr Yield common seed 4e bushels
Eaesiasa.6 s.e4 - bushels. loss per acre bush
els. less O. g-von farmers IN bushels 20. 800
Nf}ce f'cr Hasha5 81. loss in CASH S2-a,gJd-
Aa-s. g. les. 81. t2. s. $4,000. sac, S2ao.eet
Rariey. st+ 81 Is. 1. 10000. 81 90. sac zoe
Winter @..at. Ass Il. %. g. 21.9ee, s@-te
SemE 7asat a7ss, ~. "a. 9. $500 SAGA
Total les s5s.oao. AVERAGE loss TO eaef
faruser SEs
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24

Don't forget the delicious home
made candy at O. F. Davis Drug
Store. You viii Ike it,
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-21

ew7HEN Roosevelt and Taft rode
w up Pennsylvania avenue On
March 4, 1909, it was the first time
since Jackson and Van Buren had
passed that way side by side, more
than 70 years before, that a retiring
president would not have preferred an
otter seat mate and successor than the
one whom the fortuseS Of politics
had thrust upon him.
Roosevelt alone selected his success
or.
Naturally, everyone assumed that we
we're to have Roosevelt admin
lstration by another name, and it was
expected in the campaign that the
ex-president would not. go farther
away from the White House than
Oyster Bay. instead, he plunged into
the depths of Africa.
The fate Of William Howard Taft
would be pathetic if he himself had
not met it and borne it with q smile.
He was abler, more upright, more
independent than some far more Sue
cessful presidents. But by bent and
training he was a judge, and the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-21

n VENTS make sport Of the schemes
~ of mice and men. Mckinley en-
tered the race for the presidency en-
the tariff issue, was elected on the
money issue =. and the greatest
problems that confronted him in the
White House were the fate Of a chain
of islands off Ine coast Of Asia and
the destiny of China!
Spain had been engaged for two
years in a desolating struggle to hold
in subsection the revolving island of
Cuba, and two happenings pushed
Mckinley into the conflict in spite Of
himself In private letter, the SPAN
ish minister at Washington scoffed at
the president as politicastro"-
in plain American, "a peanut poll
tician"-and plainly intimated that
the fair promises which the SpaniarGs
were giving i'm We're only trick to
fool the administration and the Amer.
ican people. Within a week of that
exposure, the battleShip Maine was
blown up in Havana harbor, with the
loss Of 266 American lives.
After vithstanding for nearly two
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-21

4 T the cracking Of a tWig in the
n still depths OF the Adirondack
mountains Roosevelt turned to see 4
guide coming out Of the woods with
the unexpected news that McKinley's
condition was worse. Although he
hastened to Buffalo, the president had
died Is hours before the vice president
arrived.
At the outset Of Roosevelts adj
miaistration a fearful citizen begged
the rough rider not to permit his fight
ing spirit 70 plunge the country into IN
International war. "What!'' The pres
i0eat exclaimed. ga war, and l coOped
up here in the White House? Never"
Many forgot the first half OF the
old mctto that Roosevelt made his own.
Speak softly and carry a big stick"
No man ever had a, simpler faith in
the efficacy OF first talking it over"
man fashion, with an adversary,
whether senator cr an ambassador.
The meddiesome German kaiser was
the earliest to feel the ''his stick" 70
see if it was only stuffed with straw.
Germany and Tory government OF
England were on the point Of sizing
territory as a security fer some claims
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-21
A1cK1NLEY challenaea

WILLIAM MCKINLEY CHALLENGED
w and disproyed the old saying
that the presidency casts its shadow
on no man but once and that if the
chance be missed then it will never
come again. Twice the Republican
nomination seemed to be within Ne
Kinley's reach-in the national con-
yentions of 1883 and 1892. Each time
he put it away, content to wait his
proper turn, when he did not have to
shake the tree to bring down the
ripened fruit of his patience.
Mckinley was beaten for the speak
ership by Thomas 3. Reed in 1889, and
he left Washington a defeated con-
gresham only six years before he re-
turned as president-elect. Had he
been speaker, and, instead of Reed. in.
Cured the title of "Czar," or had he
not been turned cut Of congress :.
had he won those smaller henors he
we'll might never have won the highest
honor. A disappointment manfully
.borne enlists the popular sympathy,
and the author of the Mckinley bill
entered the contest for the presiden-
tial nomination in 1896 as one who had
suffered martyrdom in the cause Of
the protective tariff.
After teaching school term or so,
Mckinley was called in the Civil war,
that hard university which graduated
the men who were to lead the nation
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-21

through four decades. Having gone
into the army as a private in the
regiment of another president 'to-be-
Rutherford B. Hayes-he came out at
twenty-five a captain, with the brevet
title of major.
Becoming a lawyer at Canton, O.,
again he found himself in the midst Of
industries in their struggling infancy.
And for IA years he was the spokes-
man in congress of that industrial
district.
The young major, when he came to
Canton, was clean-cut, outstanding
figure, genial in his nature, but with a
sober dignity. His readiness of speech,
when on his feet, came from his nrac-
tice of the art in the debating societies
Of his school days. His habits also
had been properly formed in his boy
hood when he joined the Methodist
church at ten and grew up youth
who was as careful to keep his tongue
as his collar clean.
All doors in the little town natural
ly swung open with a welcome to
"such nice young man." and a ma
jor to boot. Although he was yet
poor, when Ida Saxton, the bankers
daughter, who had been to school il
New York city and who had just come
back from Europe, smiled yes to him,
while they were taking buggy ride"
the banker smiled, too, and made them
q wedding gift Of one of. the best
houses in Canton. 1t YVES from The
front porch Of that honeymoon dwell
ing that Mckinley made his campaign
for the presidency in 1896.
McKinley's is one of the best-and
one Of the mos. patheIic-love stories
in the domesti, records Of the presi
dency. With the birth Of her second
child, the wife was left an invalid.
The death of both OF her children With
in FIVE years of her wedding day utter
" overwhelmed her nervous organiZa-
ton, and her shattered health remain
ed thenceforth the constant object Of
her husbands tender care
Although he never could lnow9rom
minute to minute when she would
pass into a swoon. he made her his
companion on his travels. Once when
he hurried home from congress, and
the physicians had given up hope Of
saving her, his own ministrations and
his prayers through long night at
her bedside recalled her to life.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-21

months the popular outcry of ere
member the Maine" the president
yielded. and war was declared. In
ten days Dewey had smashed the
enemy squadron in Manila bay; in ten
weeks another squadron was sunk
or captured off Santiago: in three
months and a half poor old Spain
threw up the sponge.
It took twice as long to make peace
as to make war. The, Philippines
caused all the trouble. AS we had not
captured the islands in the war, many
believed that we should let them
alone. But Mckinley decided to de-
mand from Spain the surrender OF
the Philippines.
Without waiting for ratification, the
president dispatched military exp2-
dition to take over the Philippines,
proclaiming TO the revolving Fiiipinos
the policy Of benevolent assimila-
ton" The resulting war dragged its
unpleasant length for two years be.
fore the inhabitants unwillingly bowed
to their new master.
It was the strange fortune Of a
president whose entire public life had
been givdn exclusively to domestic
questions to plant the flag il the dis
tant Philippines and to send it to the
pink walls of the Forbidden City ct
China. In the march on PekinS Scr the
rescue of the forgein legations from
the siege Of the Boxers, or Chinese
reroiutionistS, the United States joined
other powers for the first time in a
military expedition.
Under the high statesmanship Of
Jollr Hay, the secretary of state. the
United States had already, before the
Boxer rebellion, laid 4 restraining hand
upon the nations that were iootinS
Chinese territory and had drawn from
them pledges to keep an open doo:'
10 trade in the ports they We're sciZ-
ing at the point Of the gun. tEe
"onen door" has remained ever since
The chart Of our course il ile East.
# we will only continue TO follow It
and should succeed in inducing others
TO follow it While longer, until The
giant of the Orient awalens from his
long s!umDer and shakes of his for
eig. .desroilecs, an eirancipated China
will be sthe imposing monument OF
William McKinley's presidency.