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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22
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ENROLL THIS WEEK

AS the Thanksgiving season APP
proaches, the Censor editor has indeed
much cause for rejoicing. The Cen
sor's special holiday offer of the Gem
sor at reduced rates up to the first of
January is me ting with good re-
Spouse, and turing the past week
twenty-five rev subscribers have en-
rolled on the Censor list-a larger
number than has ever enrolled in a
like period OF time in the papers his
tory. We are deeply grateful for the
increase in or list, and hope that
many more will avail themselves of
the $1.50 year offer to new subscrib-
ers. Since November 9th, when the
special offer went into effect, forty
five new namts have been added to
the list Those nrolling this week are:
Mrs. Harold Delaey, Mrs. R.R Tow
er, Mrs. Lena Sutherland, Thorvald
Solverson, VIM. Rabbit, Mrs. Julia
Flikke, orbec Sherry, Henry R. Wad-
dell, Mrs. C. d. Williams, C. w. Green,
Clara Swenson, Selmer Ronken, An
drew Sanwick, Mrs. j. F. Burgess,
Thos. WLawrence, Maurice Davidson,
Mrs, Gladys Side, Mrs. Fred Lawson.
Melvin Hanson, Mrs. Jacob Molland,
NJ. H. Monson, Melvin o. Johnson,
Grace Rittenhouse, John H. Smith, Fl.
B. Hanson.
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five years. Those making five year
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Thompson, o. NJ. Galstad, Theo. Stole
son, Roy Gorrell, Scott Cunningham,
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A. White, 0. o. 0strem, Paul Ka-
panka, Carl Gilberts, P. NJ Wig.
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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22
GUARD UNIT HAS new
HOME AND OFFICERS

Owing to the large amount of time
and effort necessary to expend in tax
ing care of the affairs of the local
National Guard unit, and also in part
due to the issuing of some new regu-
lations which they deem rather dras-
tic, Captain Spellum and Lieutenant
Bann have rendered their resignation
and retired from the guard They are
to be thanked for their efficient and
earnest efforts in caring for the unit
up to this time Alderman E. C. Hell
geson will be the new head of the unit.
"Sheenie" as he is best known by the
boys, is q man of wide military ex-
perience, several years with the Ma
tional Guard, sergeant on the Mexican
border, and Lieutenant with the 32nd
Division in France. He is abundantly
qualified to take TIE position of Cap
tain of the Engineers. Second Lieu
tenant Wood has been promoted to
First Lieutenant, and the Second Lied
tenancy has not yet been filed.
With the change of officers has come
a change in the home of the company,
the equipment having been transfers.
ed to the basement of the Odd Fellows
building-which is pretty comfortably
filed with the same. An uniformed
person has no idea as to the extent
of the material which goes with the
Engineer unit when fully equipped.
We understand that $4,000 will hard
ly cover the cost of all the equipment
which is supposed to go with the out
fit. The possession of such guard
unit is a matter of considerable inn
portance to our city.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22

Supervisor John E. Lepke of Har-
mony was in today to renew Censor
dues. He has been suffering with car
buncles on the right hand for several
weeks, being treated at the hospital at
Lacrosse.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22
SAUER EXTENDS SALE

Just as the Censor goes to press we
receive word from Hardwareman S.
J. Sauer that he has secured another
shipment of the special merchandise
which he has had on sale for the past
few days. Nearly all of the first ship
ment was sold in the first few days of
the sale and many people were disap-
pointed in not getting what they want
ed. The new shipment viii arrive to-
morrow friday and the sale will be
extended until Saturday of next week.
Mr.. Sauer offers some of the biggest
bargains you ever saw, and you had
better get in early so as not to be dis
appointed again.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22
NORMAL PALY A SUCCESS

Large and appreciative audiences
filled the Temple Theatre last Thurs
day and Friday evenings to witness
the home talent play presented by
Prin. Hill and the students of the YER
non County Normal school. 1t was
very well received, the screaming COM
edy"Mrs. Briggs Of the Poultry Yard"
keeping the audience in a continual
roar of laughter, and was pronounced
one of the best home talents ever stag
ed here.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22
THE ELECTION CANVASS

On another page of the Censor will
be found the official canvass of the
votes cast for the several candidates
at the General Election held Novem-
Der 7th. 1t is interesting reading even
if the results in every case were afore-
gone conclusion. As was to be ex-
pected because of the lack of contents,
the vote was about half of that regis
tered at primary time.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22
A BIG BARN DANCE

Carpenter Frederick of Chaseburg
has just completed some fine farm
buildings on Sever Talley's big farm
a basement barn 32x120, a glazed tile
silo 14x30, and a 12x16 cement block
milk house. The completion of these
buildings will be fittingly celebrated
by big dance in the large barn Sat-
urday night of this week. The Chase
burg orchestra has been engaged to
play, and all are invited to turnout
Saturday night and have a rousing
good time.
--15c value Mechanics Hand soap,
2 for loo at o. E. Davis.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22
Special School Meeting
State Of Wisconsin

Notice is hereby given to the quail
fled electors of Joint School District
No. / in the City and Town of Viro-
qua, that special meeting of said
district viii be held at the High School
room on Monday, the 9th day OF No
vember, A. d. 1922, at 8 o'clock p. M,
for the following objects, viz:
To designate a site for the new
school building. To authorize the
school board to wreck the brick veneer
building, provided, the old site is des-
ignated as the site for the new build
ing.
Dated this 18th day of November,
1922. C. F. DAHL Dist. Clerk.
Viroqua, Wis, November 81, 1922
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22
MARRIED FOLKS CLUB
THANKSGIVING DANCE

The Married Folks dancing club
viii open the season with big dance
at the Opera House Thanksgiving
evening, November 30th. All MEM
bers of the club should make il a
point to be on hand for the opening
dance.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22
ROAD men GIVE PARTY

The Temple Theatre viii be the
scene of big theatre party Friday
evening of this week when Highway
Commissioner Ristow and the Road
and Bridge Committee, composed of
County Chairman VIM. Dolen, and
Supervisors C. j. Smith of Viroqua
and Oliver Hayden of Wheatland will
be hosts to the following persons:
Members of the county board, all
the County officers, Training School
faculty and pupils, the members of
the Community Club Of Viroqua,
members of the Viroqua City Council,
all of Viroqua city officials, and the
wives, sweethearts am scorts of all
Of the above. If all of the above in
vited guests assemble at the Temple
Theatre tomorrow night the theatre
will be very comfortably filled, and il
will be a. very merry party indeed
The hosts are to be thanked for the
entertainment, and it is hoped that all
of the guests may be able to attend.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
In the DAYS News.

Gen. Julian S Carr. whose critical
illness has been a cause for anxiety
among a wide circle of friends and ac-
quaintances. is the COMMUNICATIVE chief
of the United Confederate Veterans.
General Carr is North Carolinian with
a fine record as an officer in the Con-
federate states army. After the war
ended he turned to business, became a
manufacturer in his home city of Dur
ham, and investor in, and builder of
railroads. a bank director, a trustee of
educational and religious institutions,
and a promoter of regional reconstruc-
ton on broad lines. He is one of the
great lay leaders of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, has attended sew
eral world conferences of the denomina-
ton, and during the late war served as
head of the food conservation commit
tee of the church. General Carr has
been active in the affairs of the Demo-
cratic party, as a donor of funds and
an advisor as to state and national
policies, but has never sought nor held
public office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
LAW LESSONS FOR WOMEN.

The City College of New York is
adding a course in law for home and
business women. The idea is not to
prepare women for the practice of law
but to give them instruction in the va
rious legal matters which affect every
woman closely.
Among the topics which will be han
died are insurance and the laws which
govern insurance contracts; the rudi-
ments of banking; mortgages and loans
and the part they play in home financ-
ing; the legal descent of property under
will or without; the rights and obliga-
tons of landlords and tenants; the
making of contracts; property titles,
how they may be secured, held, lost and
transferred; the legal safeguarding of
investments, and the status of women
under state and federal laws in these
and many other matters.
1t is a phase of education too fire.
quently neglected where women are
concerned. The New York institution
is meeting a present need in providing
such instruction, and is setting an ex-
ample for other organizations, public
and private. .....
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
FRIDAY. MARCH "a. 1922.
EDUCATION VS.. QUEsTIONNAIRE

A writer in the Boston Transcript
sees no reason to worry about the sad
state of the schools, or the abysmal ig-
.norance of the pupils on the ground of
wildly answered questionnaires.
1T is conceivable he says, that the
same men who laugh heartily because
children can't tell them about Gandhi
or VenizeIos would find themselves I'M
able to extract a cube root or do some
other little problem which the modern
schoolboy considers simple" This, too,
in spite of the fact that the adult has
once studied cube root in school while
the child has not studied about either
the Hindu or the Greek leader.
If present-day pupils really learn to
read. write and spell correctly and to
figure accurately and to use hands and
brains sanely and efficiently. the ques-
tiOnnaire failures should worry no one.
There is cause for concern, however.
when a high school pupil, supposed to
enter college in another year, writes a
letter beginning as does the following 4:
"One of the most pressing needs at
present is the absence of more than two
public telephones" There was more,
but that is enough to prove the value of
stressing the correct use of the English
language a little more before the next
QUESTIONABLE comes around to distract
attention and confuse the pupils notion
of education
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
Protected by George Matthew Adams

venting fire loss didn't work when it
should have viii probably never be
known. Experts say that its belated
functioning removed any evidence that
might have existed on this point.
BY way of Offset to any feeling of
encouragement that officials of the De-
Witt company may harbor on account of
the fire and its consequent disruption
of their business. they are justified in
rejecting on the fact that few concerns
anywhere stand more faSorably with
their trade. The reputation for square
dealing that the company has built up
is certain to prove its worth in the
present emergency, and despite tempo
rary annoyance there is every reason
for believing that the concern will soon
find itself looking back upon the fire as
little more than an unfortunate Incl
dent In this connection it is a pleas
ure to note that plans for continuing
the business in its present location
were in the minds of Mr.. Dewitt and
his associates before the blaze of Mon
day morning was under control. The
Meddler merely voices the sentiment of
a great many people when he expresses
the hope that this week may prove to be
the beginning of a period of unexam-
pied prosperity for the Dewitt COM
pany.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
Violating Quarantine.
(St. Adams Messenger.

(Nt. AlDduS NHtSsehSCAsJ
A Graniteville woman has been fined
in the Barre city court on the charge
of violation of a quarantine placed
againi;t Der six-year4old daughter, by
removing the girl from an infrmary TO
her home without permission. The
woman may consider herself well
treated in being placed on probation.
Any parent will make allowances for
mother doing such a thing because
a parent can sympathize with the state
Of mind of another when a child is sick.
But scarlet fever is a serious disease
and the public must be protected against
it, Other children must not be exposed.
The impulse which drove this mother to
take the child to its own home for
treatment must be held in check.
Respect for quarantine must be drilled
into peoples minds, otherwise we will
have nothing better than a primitive
condition so far as public health is
concerned. 1t is a matter where the
individual must give way TO the rights
of the whole. Breaking quarantine can
eonceivably be much more serious than
breaking into a house. When the state
authority puts up a quarantine sign it
is a mandate that must be obeyed and
those who violate it must expect TO be
punished.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
Copyright by George Matthew Adam.
Today S Events

The United States senate has fixed
today for taking a vote on the ratiica-
ton of the four-power treaty.
Centenary of the birth of Nicholas
Collin Hughes, a distinguished North
Carolina clergyman and educator.
Argument is to be heard before the
Nebraska supreme court today on the
constitutionality of the much discussed
Reed-Norval foreign language law.
Student representatives of Yale, Har.
ward and Princeton are to engage in a
triangular debate tonight on the sub
peet: Resolved, That the United States,
in joint action with England France
and Japan, should recognize the Soviet
government of Russia
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24

My cuzzin Artie was GROUND at ouI
house for suppir today, being Ham
berger stakes and things, and there was
fresh horse reddish on the table on ae-
count of the horse reddish man having
bin GROUND this AFTERNOON, and
tasted a little bit on one corner of a
peece of a Hamburger stake and it was
so strong my eyes got oil wattery as
If l thawt l was going to cry, me think
ing Heck, good mite, that's fearse.
WITCH jest then / had a ideer how to
play good one on Artie, and | sed,
G that horse reddish is week, | Jest ate
hole tea spoon full and | got a good
mind TO eat a hole table spoon full,
that's how week it is. Why don't YOU
take tea spoon full, Artie? l sed.
l don't eat horse reddish, it don't taist
enuff like ketchup, sed Artie, and pop
sed, All, mild horse reddish, all my life
I've bin waiting for a chance to feer-
lissly swallo a hole COB of horse reddish
And he took the horse reddish thing
and dumped a hole pile of it on a hunk
of a Hamburger stake and vile / was
still wondering weather to say enything
or not he stuck the hole thing in his
mouth and ate it and made one of the
fearseSt faces | ever saw him make and
reetched for his glass of waiter and
drank it and then reetched for mas
glass and drank that still making the
same face and then | quick handed him
my glass to prove | was trying to help
him and he drank that and then he
wiped his eyes with his napkin. saying.
zee gods, wee gods. And then he looked
at me as if he was going 10 say some
thing elts, and / quick sed, Holey
smOaks, pop. G WIZ, gosh, | ment for
Artie to eat it, not you, pop, G wiz,
pop good mite, holey smoaks.
Well then wy dident YOU warn me in
time? sed pop, and / sed. Well / thawt
it mite of got little weeker between
the time l took it and the time you
took it.
Leeve the table and wait for me in
the setting room, sed pop.
WITCH / did
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
Where Bennington Leads.
{ Bennington Banner.)

IL
The voters of the village of Benning-
ton on Tuesday voted, with hardly a
dissenting voice to lay a cement pave
ment on West Main street at cost of
$4,000
This alone may not seem very impress
slve but when taken in connection with
the fact that Bennington village last year
spent S225,O00 for cement roads and the
town of Bennington spent over 100000
for hard surface roads, it can be seen
that Bennington is leading every other
town In Vermont in road building.
lf other Vermont towns would take
hold of the road problems as Bennlng-
ton has done, the issue would be solved
and there would be no argument over
bonding the state to build roads. More
than that the cost would be only half rs
large and more fairly distributed than if
done by state taxation.
The most encouraging thing about the
whole matter, too, in the opinion of The
Banner, is that the voters refused to
postpone meeting their responsibility.
1t was emphatically voted to start pay
ing the road debt at the rate of $4,000
per year in spite of some sentiment to-
ward leaving the bills to the future.
1t was this action of the voters of
the village that is most creditable to
Bennington Half the evils of business
and government are due to rushing
headlong into debt. 1t is the most dan
gerous form OF imitation and the most
common cause of bankruptcy.
Easy borrowing and long time credit
is always the most expensive way of
buying Paying interest means paying
twice for what is bought.
Bennington is far ahead of any other
Vermont town in cement road building
and is even further ahead of most towns
in shouldering its burden and arranging
to pay for its roads before they are
worn out, instead of issuing bonds to
burden us and our successors for two or
three generations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
TodaY's Anniversaries.

1730-British parliament passed an act
prohibiting any subject lending
money to a foreigner or other ma
ton.
7S4-MassachuSetts resolved to expel
dangerous aliens.
1S29-George Francis Train, who
started the first clipper ships to
California and built the first
street railways in Europe, born
in Boston. Died in New York
city in 1904.
1S77-The annual boat race between
Oxford and Cambridge UNIVERSE
ties resulted in a dead heat.
1SS2-Henry Wadsworth LongfellOw,
the poet. died at Cambridge,
Mass Born at Portland, Me-,
Feb -. 1907
1SS9-Chicago anarchists celebrated the
18th anniversary of the Paris
Commune.
1910-Egyptian Nationalist protested
against speech by Col. Roose-
welt at Cairo favoring British Oc-
cupation.
1919-Supreme court of the United
States upheld the constitutional
ity of the Arizona act limiting
the employment of women to
eight hours a day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
ONLY POWERFUL
MEDICINE WILL END
RHEUMATISM

1t matters not whether you have mad
agonizing pains from rheumatism for 20
years or distressing twitchings for 20
weeks. Rheuma is strong enough and
mighty and powerful enough TO drive
rheumatic poisons from your body and
abolish all misery or money back.
All druggists are authorized to sell
Rheuma on no-cure-n o-pay basis. It's
inexpensive, and after you take the small
dose as directed for two days you should
know that at last you have obtained
harmless and quick acting remedy tina
will conquer rheumatism.
Rheuma is the one remedy that has
banished the agonizing pains of rheuma-
tic sufferers who thought nothing would
give relief. Roots Pharmacy will supply
you and guarantee money refunded if not
satisfactory. -AdVertisement.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24

Among the problems discussed at a
recent meeting of the American Hotel
association was the Americanization of
hotels. committee was appointed to
begin a movement to replace the French
language on menu cards with good
American words. There may be, some
persons who prefer French names for
the dishes they wish to order and who
can make their way through the mazes
of the carte dejour as easily 'as if it
were printed in the purest American
slang, but they are in the minority.
Most of the food itself has been Ameri-
canized long since. The names should
follow suit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
A Flaw Somewhere.
Barre Times.)

A sprinkler system in a large storage
building at Brattleboro failed to oper-
ate until after the building and its con-
tents were doomed to destruction by
flames: then the waters descended in
torrents Moreover, the windows of the
building were protected by heavy metal
shutters so that the iremen had great
difficulty in throwing streams of water
on to the interior of the building. Fur
thermore, the boiler in the basement of
the building was in a room protected BY
brick walls and fire door. Prepared
ness seems to have availed little in that
case, but perhaps there was some slight
flaw in the preparedness system-fer
instance. in the sprinkler The argu-
ment is not against preparedness.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
The MeddIer
eff the coat fits you, put it on"

There wasn't anything spectacular
about the fire that Quilted the Dewitt
Grocery Cos building in the early hours
of Monday morning, but The Meddler
cannot remember bigger local loss. In
fact, it would probably be necessary to
go back to the big blaze of 1869, which
laid waste the west side of Main street
from High to Elliot, to find anything
equal, and there is some question
whether that fire actually resulted in
greater loss though it doubtless des-
troyed more property. According to
current newspaper accounts of the 1869
coniiagratiOn the total amount of insur-
ance carried by those burned out ran
between $4,000 and $500 Values
in those days, of course. were radically
different from what they are now, and
it is possible that insurance was not
as generally carried. When it comes
to actual fire loss, without considering
damage by water. the destruction of the
S. \. Smith plant Feb. l. 1899, immedi-
ately comes to mind. The total loss in
that fire was close to 100000, although
the amount of insurance was but $751;
600.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-24
FIFTY YEARS AGO

a woman in Lynn. Mass, was STEPPING
herbs on her kitchen stove according to
a recipe of her own, to furnish medicine
for the women of the neighborhood To-
day, stones throw from the little house
where she lived. there is a four-stery
laboratory, making the same medicine
for the women of the world. During the
last year almost 500 tons of carefully
selected herbs were used in the manu-
facture of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
A woman's medicine for WOmen's
:,it Have ~ tried it?-Adver-