Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1921-06-22
ROUNDABOUT THE COUNTY.
NOTES OF INTEREST ABOUT OLD
YERNON'S PEOPLE
Important Happenings Chronicled in
the Papers of Our County
During the Last Week
VIOLA NEWSLETS

spent from saturday until tuesday at
this place with his sister, Mrs. Geo.
Drake and brother, Eph Swancutt. 1t
has been twenty years since he has
visited the old home and he was agree
ably surprised to note the many chan
ges made in the old town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Sutherland NOV
ed to Viroqua last week where the
former has employment working at
his trade of carpenter for the summer
Mrs. George Dowell who recently
submitted to an operation at a La
Crosse hospital is getting along nicely
and will be home the latter part of
this week.
Messrs. J. B. Kinder, " B. Mathews
DIR. d. E. Weber and Lawson Rabbit
went north last Friday and spent a
few days in camping and fishing.
Word was received here this week
of the sad bereavement which befel
Rev. and Mrs. Fred Dahlberg of Lady
smith, former residents of this place.
Their son, Melville, was drowned Sat
urday night while in bathing in the
river at that place. The sympathy of
this community goes out to the strick-
en- family.
Mrs. George Drake left Tuesday for
01tuCdDUilS NAieAt sic VIII optiiu a
week or ten days visiting her daugh-
ter Mrs. Harry Olson and other rela-
tives.
Raymond James and family of Rich
land Center spent Sunday and Mon
day at hte home of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
E. Martin.
DR.. and Mrs. C. F. Dougherty an
nounces the marriage of their son,
Ill - DHxrI 1f
Girardeau, Missouri The marriage
was solemnized in old historic StVin-
cents church in that city on Wednes-
day, June the LIST at nine o'clock a. M,
Father NJ A. Malloy officiating. The
young couple will make their home in
Cape Girardeau, where the bride was
born and reared and where the groom
is engaged in business as a member of
the Mum G. Luenschloss Construction
Company
Messrs. WI.Grifin and J. H. Smith
left Tuesday morning for Milwaukee
where they were in attendance at the
annual meeting of the Masonic Grand
Lodge of this state.
Mrs. G. w. Gribble and son, Claude,
John Blakley and Cal Blakley drove
to Dexterville last Thursday to see
Clint Buckley who had recently suffer
ed stroke of paralysis. He will be
remembered by many as a former res
ident of this locality.
Mrs. Lulu Stormont is visiting rela-
tives at Lacrosse.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Err
nest Grim of this place on Thursday,
June 9, 1921.
Mrs. l. B. Hull is on the sick list.
B. E. Moore is suffering with blood
poison in his hand.
Wilbert Schmidt and family of Lady
smith are visiting at the home of Mrs
Schmidt's sister, Mrs. p. c. Walter.
The Ohiyesa Club of Viola present
ed home talent play, "The Wild Rose"
last Friday Those taking part were
Cora Wheeler, Hazel Ames, Jennie
Martin, Ruth Simmons, Jack Lovass,
Loren Brindley, Harriette Anderson,
Ruth Rabbit, Dortha Hnethorn, Bes-
sic Marcus, Dot Smith, Helen Lepley,
Milard Schubert, Vera Smith, Esther
Barclay, Chas. Faulkes, Ethel Marcus,
Viva Mathews, Gail Campbell, Violet
Mathews, Miriam Dake, Joy Milum,
Josephine Davis, and Maude Frye.
Annie Minnie Koehler was born in
Goeritz, Germany, October IS, 1891.
She came to America nj 1910. On
June 10, 1912. she was married to
Ernest P. Bellman. To them were
born two children, little son, Walter,
and a little daughter, Annie. Mrs.
Bellman succumbed to long illness
with several complicating factors and
passed away az hec home in Viola on
Sunday evening, 1l:30 o'clock June s,
1921. Mrs. Beilnlan leaves her hus-
band, father, brother, three sisters,
her little Walter, and her three weeks
old daughter, Annie. Services were
held on Tuesday, June 7th, at 2:SO
o'clock from her late home in Viola,
and from the Congregational church.
A former pastor, Rev. B.W Saunders,
of Oregon, conducted the services, as
sisted by Rev. p. w. Gibson of Viola.
The host of attending neighbors and
friends attested the wide esteem in
which the people of Viola hold Mrs.
Bellman. Mrs. Bellman was an af-
fectionate wife and mother, and an
ideal neighbor and friend. She was
member fthe local order of the East
ern Star, also the Rebecca lodge, and
an earnest Christian woman and pure,
upright and thoroughly honest in all
her relationships. She had cultivated
the high virtue of patience, and met
death unafraid.