Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-04-12
A TRIP DOWN THE COUNTY


The Censor editorw called to Prai-
RE du Chen on business mission
Saturday, returning the same day.
Quite few interesting items of news,
personal and otherwise, were bumped
into on the trip.
Fred Jacobus, affable and gentle
manly clerk of the town of Wheatland
was enroute home after attending to
legal matters in the county seat Fri
day. He renewed Censor dues. He
informed us that owing to all of the
papers being burned UP in the FIRE that
destroyed the upper five stories of the
Burlington building at Chicago few
days ago, they were somewhat held
up on using the old Burlington road
bed for town road, but as soon as a
new deed could be executed the town
would take over the road. 1t viii
make fine highway, and only about
400 feet will need to be built, the Bur-
lngton still using that much of it.
Mrs. Phil Biddeson and her niece,
Miss Ruby Silbaugh, were enroute to
Lacrosse to spend the day.
Miss Jane Hinkst was a passenger
to Prairie du Chen to spend week
with relatives.
Auctioneer Amos Kegley was head
ed for DeSoto to cry big sale.
H. Z. Buchanan, former editor of
the Independent was bound up the
line on a business mission.
At Stoddard, the editor dropped in
on Merchant A. u. Curry, finding him
in his usual health and spirits. Mer-
chant H. Blashek was at the old stand,
surrounded with his wonderful stock
of everything from stationery to farm
implements-a stock that would put
many good sized cities to shame. Nc
Lees Brothers are nicely located in
the Brendel building with their new
restaurant and dance hall and doing
good business. Ye editor enjoyed a
very pleasant visit at the thriving
Stoddard bank with Cashier Wall and
his efficient assistant land the Cen
sor's valued correspondent Miss Mil
dred Blashek
The village of Stoddard had a hot
election scheduled, but the village bal
lots failed to put in an appearance,
and special election will be held on
Tuesday, April IS. The prevailing
opinion seems to be that the ballots
were lifted" by some interested party
who feared the result of the voters
will
On the Burlington going down the
river, we noticed Miss Sarah Dennis
on her way to spend the weekend with
friends in Freeport, Ill.
At 'DeSoto we met X. F. Dyer and
his estimable wife (another of the
Censor's correspondent staff and their
"boss of the house"-a baby girl. of
course. A the Burlington flashed
along the picturesque Father of Wat
ers, Mr.. Dyer told the editor of the
big project which Is now being pushed
to reclaim 1900 acres of the bottom
lands--a stretch running from DeSoto
south to the mouth of the Winneschiek
slough, using the slough as a drain
age canal, and building a dyke 10
miles long along the Mississippi river.
1t is a big undertaking, and will cost
probably 100000, but several parties
of engineers and soil experts have
carefully looked over the situation and
say that the plan is perfectly practi-
cal and the soil of six foot depth or
more and wonderfully fertile. Mr..
Dyer is disciple of Izaac Walton by
prenatal instinct, and naturally is
pleased with the recent order of the
conservation commission prohibiting
seining except in the main channel, as
it gives the hook and line fisherman a
fighting chance. Methinks the editor
is going to test his hospitality this
summer and see if we can't coax some
of those willy bass to gaff. And of
coure friend Dr. Myrick will have to be
along to render first aid. Not to fish,
for he's not interested in angling ~?
Possibly we uldpersuadeO Otto Brown
to go along, too.
Returning to Lacrosse in the even
ing, the editor took in fine film at the
Rivoli. 1t was our first introduction
to that popular movie house, and we
must say it is beauty-but Viroqua's
new temple theatre is not going to be
very far behind it at that. In spite of
the fact that we were carrying suit
case, we took chance for the night in
the same old room at the same old ho-
tel, but the liquor sleuths were kind
enough to pass US by this time with
out raiding our room at midnight.
However the editor is not complain
ing, for from all indications the La
Crosse police are really making an
honest effort to clean up the old town.
Coming down on the morning South
eastern were Contractor c. P. Peter
son of Westby, and Myron Appleman,
DIR. A. ID. Fortney, Lewis Fauske and
Ray Horribly of Viroqua, all in La
Crosse on different missions. Orian-
do Stevlingson dropped off at Chase
burg-home from Milwaukee Normal
for vacation.
We enjoyed a pleasant visit enroute
with Mrs. Joe Deters, who was return
ing home from the Lutheran hospital.
She had accompanied her brother, Ly-
der Hjelter of Harmony town, to the
hospital Thursday, where his condi-
tion was found so serious that he was
operated upon that evening for APP
pendicitis. He is getting along very
nicely. We were saddened to learn
that Cornelius Sebion's five-year
son had passed away Friday after suf..
fering from peritonitis for a month.
Mrs. Ed. Enochson, who has been at
the hospital for five weeks with a
broken hip, is slowly improving. Ole
Christopherson of Harmony town has
been at the hospital two weeks, and is
now coming along in good shape. Mrs.
DIR. Schee of Westby, who has been
there the past month, is also on the
mend. The Polander, who was iniur-
ed at the Masonic Temple five months
ago, still lays at the hospital with a
broken spine and one limb paraiyzed.
There appears to be no chance of his
recovery.
Mrs. Guy Anderson has been at the
hospital with her nephew, Hudson
Hovde of Coon Valley for three weeks.
He had close call from a severe case
of appendicitis, but is now on the gain.