Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-11-24
ROUND ABOUT THECOUNTY
NOTES OF INTEREST ABOUT OLD
VERNON'S PEOPLE
Important Happenings Chronieled in
the Papers of Our County
During Last Week

and the largest in the county's his
tory. The large part of it is, of
course, for roads and bridges, and our
observation is they have the best in
this part of the state.
DR.. Geo. Parke of Viola has arrang-
ed for the installation of an X-ray ma
chine-the first in the Kickapoo val
ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. W. LOCKER of Viola
spent last week in Madison with their
son Ray, of the Lost Battalion fame.
Herbert Cliff, craftsman at Fair
banks Morse plant at Madison, is
spending two weeks at the parental
home at Viola.
Boseobel fair association has placed
their dates for next years exhibition
on August 9-10-11-12.
I. A. Dunn of Richland Center is
the new carrier on Viola 2, made va
cant by resignation of LATE Barber.
Winfred Ewing has been carrying it
since BARRIERS retirement.
Viola people to attend the Wiscon-
sin-Illinois football game were Jas. E.
kerbaugh and son, Lester Griffin, Mr..
and Mrs. P. r. Jost, DR.. and Mrs D.
Z. Weber
A. J. McCarty came from Longmont,
Colorado. to Viola, his mother-in-la
Mrs. J. Turner, returning with him to
make her home there
Twenty-eight of his neighbors gath
cred at the home of w. +. Williams
near Viola and huskked three acres of
corn for him. Mr.. Williams has been
ineapaciated.
Frank Quinn of Hillsboro entered
Wisconsin university dairy school.
H. B Holberg of Coon Valley was
again reelected president of the Wis
consin Buttermakers' Association, a
merited honor to the gentleman and
his community.
Engebret Johnson of Westby has
been very i'll with heart trouble.
Mrs. Nora Grossman of Westby took
in the big football game at Madison.
s. f. Ramsland and o. +. Lean of
Westby were in Milwaukee on business
Mrs. S. o. Rondestvedt spent two
weeks with her daughter at St.0laf's
college at Mortified.
Henry A. Hanson and family of
Westby have moved to the farm re-
Gently purchased of Rudolph Jaeger.
Anna G. Kellman of Galesville, vot-
ed for Harding. She is 81 years old.
Prof. Dahl, a former principal of
schools at Cashton. was elected as
semblyman of Barron county.
Twenty-six republican, seven DEM
ocratic and one non-partisan governors
were elected at the November election.
After twenty-year residence in
Cashton, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Vitcenda
have moved to Prairie du Sac.
Geo. Mulch has sold his garage bust
and panfnl ba hsrflIswo. .N I
Fargo to Ray Norris and Luther
Green The Mulch family have moved
to farm near Mauston.
Mi. and Mrs Emroy Thayer of La
Fargo rejoice over the arrival of a son.
Jas. Davidson has returned to La
Fargo after several months spent with
his son in St.Louis
Berlie Schaffer and Lou Marker of
this city spent last Sunday in La1Farge
L. II. McVey has returned to La
Fargo after spending the summer in
Canada.
Harry Travers and Harvey Potter
of LaFarge are in Sawyer county on
a business trip.
Fifty neighbors gathered at the
home of Mrs. John Gift of LaFarge
and helped celebrate her 6Sth birth
day.
Prof.Kingsley addresses the union
Thanksgiving service at LaFarge to-
morrow.
At the meeting of the county board
at Prairie du Chen last week, A. c.
johnson, supervisor from this village
was elected vice chairman. Mr.. Ham
merly being chosen chairman. Mr..
johnson succeeded in putting through
a proposition for a new bridge over the
Kickapoo River at Soldiers Grove on
trunk line No. 80. The new bridge is
to be built of reinforced concrete with
a driveway of twenty-four feet, at a
cost of $4,000. 24as of the cost is
to be paid by the village. Work will
probably be begun early next spring
A new bridge at this place is badly
needed as the old bridge is not safe for
heavy traffic Kickapoo Scout.
Harry Levine, popular throughout
this section of Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota as violin player with Ga
bells Orchestra, died last Saturday at
the New San following an operation
for the removal of his tonsils. The
pressing of the violin against his neck
and diseased tonsil, long neglected
had caused cancer and the bleeding
could not be stopped This was shown
by the analysis of an expert from Chi
cago. Courier
The first alien property to be
seized by the federal government in
La Crosse county was taken over
Monday on orders from the alien pro-
perty custodian in Washington Act
ing on orders of Francis p Garvan,
George w. Burton, II. c.
and f. II. Henderson have
taken over the west half of the south
west quarter of section ID, township
Is, range 5, town Of Bangor The
land was owned by Mrs. Clara Kor-
kosch, who died. The land is mostly
timber and few improvements, except
a house and one or two small build
ings.
Two Sparta ayiators landed in a
field near West Salem. On the take
off, COW grazing in the line Of travel
caused the pilot to swerve his machine,
and collide with a haystack, breaking
the propeller, bending other parts and
badly shaking up the two birdmen.
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