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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06
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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06
Stats
Diary

Friday-A feminine book seller call
ed at are house in indevoring to sell
a book to ma for pa to use in his
noosepaper job. Ma sed we had sevrel
books all reddy. The Agent sed Well
madim this book will be of CRATE as
sistence in helping to increase yure
Husbends Vocabulary. Ma replyed
sniffingly that his waste measures az
in. now so he don't need no more books.
Saturday-When pa got paid and
cum home ma had about a dozen
things she wanted to by down at the
store and pay sum bills and when
she got threw with him he diddent
have no more money than a hownds
tooth and was financial wreck. Ma
refers to pa as The Kin she loves to
tutch. Witch ] call a LIST class joak.
Outside of pas presents.
Sunday-As pa and me went to
chirch to gather we met a man witch
asst pa where the Golf lynx was and
pa told him. Then pa up and says
to him What does yure wife say be-
cause you play Golf on Sunday. The
man retorted | amt got no wife. Then
pa says What in the samhill do you
want to play golf for.
mOnuay-lne lumDeT man 0OWn al
the bottom of the hill has got Garige
with a fords in it and he calls it his
old fashioned fotograf Album. When
l of his trends asst him why did he
call it that he sed Because it is full
of Tin Types. ! am trying to figger it
out.
Tuesday-Ma informed pa that we
was to have Co. after supper witch
wanted to play Bridge and that he
wood half to cut out lodge meeting.
After very profane silence pa chaw-
ed off finger male & went down town.
For a little vile.
Wednesday--Brot home my test
grade in histry and ma wanted to know
why ! got such low grade & wanted
to no if my Department had ben good.
/ give her the best infrmation / cud
think of but she is like lawyer in a
trile. / answer her questions and she
questions my answers.
Thursday-As we went home frum
the pitcher show ma sed Amt the
movy heroes fine fellows. Why cant
you be like they are pa. Pa smiled
with a grin and sed Well you know,
he says. Them guys gets enormous
salry for doing it.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06
OUTLOOK FOR 1922 GOOD,
SAYS BANKER
Forget This Years Difficulties, Which
Were Inevitable For Readjust-
ment. He Advises

Lets look ahead" urged Mr.. Mork
of the Farmers Bank in an interview
today on f-the-year business con-
ditions. He declared that while bust
ness in 1922 had been affected by
many distressing difficulties these
were tempered by encouraging devel-
opments which justify an optimistic
frame of mind in looking forward to
1923.
"The New Year is almost here" said
Mr.. Mork, "and the nearer we get to
it, the more apparent it is that 1928 is
going to be a good year. If 1922 left
much to be desired, it would seem to
be good common sense for us to for
get about it as soon as possible and
concentrate on the year to come. 1t
looks as if it is going to be a lot
better; it is up to US to make it meas
ure up to expectations.
"In this year now drawing to close
there has been a strange madley of
conditions. Many of them were pro-
ductive of optimism. Some were not.
"Just when we thought we had the
wheels CREASED and were due to whirl
right into prosperity, along came the
strikes of miners and railway workers.
They were settled in dut time, but not
before they had given the calamity
howlers a chance to make the welkin
ring with their morunful predictions.
"The farmers too, have had their
trials. After raising a bountiful crop
they found a market which refused to
take it off their hands at prices which
enabled them to buy the things they
needed. The frieghi car shortage COM
plicated the situation.
Looking back now, we can see that
these conditions were really outcrop-
pings of the process of readjustment,
which had inevitably to follow the
war. After wartime wages and war
time state of mind, labor troubles
were natural. The nations of Europe
are struggling pnder staggering debts
and, as a result, are unable to buy
food from America in the quantities
formerly demanded. This meant more
reimbursement. The general liquida-
ton of credits was naother factor.
"That is one side of the picture.
The other is more encouraging. The
process of dehation brought with it
no panic although conditions were ripe
for the greatest panic this country
had ever known. The wage situation
generally better thanfor many months
with more employment and higher
wage scales in operation. The agri-
cultural situation is also receiving the
earnest attention of the government
and the leaders infnance and business.
1.-THE declaration of Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace that we cannot
have productive agriculture unless we
have prosperous agriculture has the
approval of every thinking person.
ave are now much better prepared
to go forward to lasting prosperity
than we have been at any time since
the war Labor troubles and the other
difficulties served to clear away the
distractions in our path. Their mani
festations were unpleasant, but by no
means disastrous.
"And the big thing to remember is
that now they are behind us. They
were reeable-decidedly so-but
we do not have to cherish their men,
DRY. We can forget them and occupy
our minds with the promise of the fu-
ture.
Lets look ahead"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06
RANDOM THOUGHTS

We all live, and few learn.
Dewey did it-and so did LaFollette
If you are looking for something
for nothing trouble is easy to find.
The noise of tongue indicates the
wisdom of the brain.
An exchange says "let brotherly
love continue" But why not let it
begin?
At any rate, wife with a mind of
her own is preferable to one with no
mind at all.
1t would never do to settle all of
our strikes and other troubles at once.
We would have nothing left to worry
about.
A local wise man insists that only
snakes have forked tongues. And at
that he may be correct.
Speak softly to your wife. She has
not forgotten how to contrast your
growl of today with your purr of
courtship days.
Counterfeiters have invaded Rus
STA, but the ruble is so worthless no.
body cares what they do.
Some people are quite justified in
thinking there is no such thing as a
secret. They spill everything they
know.
This country is full of brains. You
can even find few of them in con-
gress.
If you can not carry an undertake
ing through to completion do not be-
pin. The world is full Of wrecks who
found a place to stop.
It is no disgrace to try to do right,
even though you don't succeed.
Dress materials that do not rumple
are popular with the young people.
Smooth cloth tells no tales.
The self made man is often all self.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Sands of
Sparta visited at the Willard Graham
home on Sunday. In the afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Graham and Mr.. and
Mrs. Sands visited at the James Sands
home.
james Fleming received the dis
tressing news by telegram from the
west, today, that his brother, John,
is lying in a hospital very critically
i'll. This will sadden Johns many
friends in the old home.
Ole Bentson of Sand Point, Idaho,
arrived Saturday morning to spend
some time on the old stamping ground
with his brother, R. T., and other rela-
tives and old friends. Mr.. Bentson
left Vernon county eighteen years ago,
going first to Canada. and then set
ting in Idaho.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06
COMING TO
Viroqua
DR.. DORIAN
DOES NOT USE THE KNIFE
VIII Give Free Consultation on
FIR DAY, DECEMBER 18th
at
HOTEL FORTNEY
from 10 a. m, to A p. m.
ONE DAY ONLY
They Come for Miles to See Him

DIR. Doran is a regular graduate In
medicine and surgery and is licensed
by the state of Wisconsin. He visits
professionally the more important
towns and cities, and offers to all who
call on. this trip consultation and ex-
animation free, except the expense of
treatment when desired.
According to his method Of coming
to your nearest city to see patients he
gives all sick people an opportunity
to obtain the best that medical science
can offer right at home. He does not
operate for chronic appendicitis, gall
stones, ulcers or the stomach, tonsils
or adenoids.
He has to his credit many wonderful
results in disease Of the stomach, liver,
bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart, kid
ney, bladder, bedwetting, catarrh, leg
ulcers and rectal ailments.
II you have been ailing for any
length of time and do not get any BET
ter, do not fail to call, az improper
measures rather than disease are very
often the cause Of your long standing
trouble.
Remember above date, that examin-
alton on this trip will be free and that
his treatment Ia different
Married ladies must come with their
husbands. and children with their par
ants.
Address: Medical Laboratory Of On
Doran, 3S5-336 Boston Block, Minnes-
polls, MINI.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06
OUR new CITY OFFICIALS

Several changes in the personnel of
Viroqua's city officials took place last
week. Due to the fact that Alder
man M. A. Smith removed from the
first to the second ward, his position
became vacant and necessitated the
appointment of an alderman to repre-
sent the first ward. Nick Krogan was
elected by the Council to fill the va
eancy, and their judgment will meet
with general approval. Nick is SOL
i'd substantial citizen and a good bust
ness man-and also a man of courage,
or he would not have accepted the po-
sition rendered him, for with the
amount of unnecessary grief that has
been heaped upon our eouncilmen the
past year in the shape of unmerited
lawsuits certainly the office of alder
man has been rendered anything but
desirable. However, Nick is man of
nerve, possesses positive convictions
along the line of city betterment, and
we congratulate him both upon his Sc
lection and acceptance of the office.
Mr.. Smiths retirement from the
Council left that body without a pres
ident, and Alderman John Stewart
was elected to this position. Mr. Stew
art is a level-headed business man,
posse ssing the necessary good judg-
ment and concern in city affairs to fill
the position with merit.
The resignation of VIM. B. Morris
as one of our police force necessitated
an appointment here, and Steener ia
cobson was selected to fill the posi-
ton This also is a happy choice.
Steener is a congenial gentleman
and besides not very many people will
dispute the right OF way with him.
He has the look and build of regular
brawny city Irish policeman-even
though he is Norwegian, and the Cen
sor predicts that he viii make a
mighty good official
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06
os. j. Sinkule, 981, al, 46.1.
pouItry Show

All plans and preparations for the
1922 second annual poultry show of
Vernon county have been completed.
Mr.. George B. Fisher, president of the
association assures all poultry fan
ciers of ample accommodations for ex-
hibiting their poultry in the Viroqua
Opera House on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, December 10, ID and
Is. Mark your calendar now and
make entries early.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06
DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK

That city that has splendid spir-
it of cooperation is always moving
ahead.
That a live Community Club does
not conflict with any other organiza-
ton, it studies the needs of the entire
community and plans programs that
look into the future and it avoids ILL
advised and costly experiments.
That cities with resources and pros
poets should widely advertise those
facts so more people and industries
will move there. That will mean more
business and prosperity for all.
That small investors should put
their savings into solid permanent in
vestments or business near home in
stead of something far away from
home. It helps your city and when il
helps your city it helps you.
That some businesses that come in
contact with the public should start
courtesy school of instruction for
their employers.
That for a city to have a good repu-
tation is priceless asset.
That quality, price and service are
great trade builders.
That a city should be known as a
merchandising center with stocks of
every kind.
Tat the rise or decline in the val
ne of real estate is good way to
Judge city.
That it viii tell you whether the
city is forging ahead, content with
present conditions, or going into a rut
and not trying to get out
That if a city is going backward
every effort should be made to make
a dent into the thick skulls of those
responsible, so they may wake up, put
their shoulders to the wheel and help
to make their city move forward.
That you should pin your faith in
your city. 1t pins its faith in you.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06
RUEL FLEMINGIS MARRIED
Alameda. Cal, Nov. 81. 1922.

Dear Friend Goldie:--
Notice by the Censor you had me
married Sept. /, which was slightly
adead of schedule as we were not
married until November 10. Have
been spending our honeymoon and va
cation up in northern California, hunt
ing with my brother-in-law. The
ducks and geese are thick as flies and
if you get in good place you can
get all you want. We hunted one day
on the Spaulding preserve at Willows
and it is considered the best in Amer
lea. Talk about ducks and geese
they were there by the thousands and
you did not even have to crawl up on
them. We got the limit easily and
could have had that many more if we
cared for them. The limit in Califor-
MIA is rs ducks and geese per man.
The Spaulding ranch consists of elev-
en- thousand acres and one-half is Civ
en- over to hunters but before you can
get in you have to get permit. They
only hunt twice a week and it seems
all the ducks in the world go there to
roost. / got in one lake covering
about five acres and shot as many as
/ could carry out and believe me be-
fore | got to the car | was tired for
one of those big srrigs weigh close
to three pounds and you have to wear
hip boots. My brother-in-law who was
with me estimated there was ten thou
sand ducks in this lake alone. How
would you like to have been along,
Colby? Pretty hard on the old pump,
eh?.
/ am working in the Oakland post
Office and live in Alameda, only a
short distance from Margaret's folks.
/ do not see many Wisconsin people
but it sure seems good when one shows
up.
Say hello to the wife and the Office
force for me. AS ever,
RUEL FLEMING,
719 Haight Avenue,
In India 100000 acres of land are
irrigated.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06

Miss Ethel Bruce went to the
Grandview hospital in Lacrosse last
Thursday and was operated upon for
appendicitis on Friday morning. Her
sister, Alma, went with her and re-
turned Sunday.
Mr.: and Mrs. Thomas Atkins came
from Minneapolis on business last
week. Mrs. Atkins visited relatives
here while Mr. Atkins transacted bust
ness in this city and surrounding
towns. Tom is secretary and treas
urer Of the Westbrook company.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-06
719 Haight Avenue,

In India 100000 acres of land are
irrigated.
Fur-seal pups are killed by paras-
titic worms.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1922-06-17

through the narrow opening down be-
low. All these facts lead us to believe
that there are huge caverns and sub
terreanean lakes far down under this
farm and perhaps under the adjacent
lands"
editors Note) In the late eighties
when Kansas was settling up. a news
paper man sent out the most lurid Of
tales from WiChita---so lurid and so
frequent were they fired at a gullible
public that this Kansas writer came
to be called by the craft "The Wichita
liar" Shortly after the writer began
work on the old Gazette a story sent
out from wichita was to the effect that
some well drillers in putting down a
well near Meade on the Rock Island
had seen their drill suddenly disap-
pear into the bowels Of the earth.
They had, the story said. tied on bale
after bale Of barbed fence wire to
which they had attached a bar Of rail-
rO1u IRON TO act as q SlnkSTt out no
bottom had been found. and the
searchers had stopped work awaiting
fresh supply Of fence wire. James
n. Burnes, Jr., was then manager Of
the Gazette and on reading the press
dispatch called in the writer and or
dercd him to Meade forthwith to fur
nish Sunday feature story. The
writer went--landed in Meade-had a
good dinner at the towns crack hotel
found that no one had ever heard
OF s,fch an attempt ana that 35 feet
was the deepest well in that territory.
He also learned that "the Wichita
liar" had drawn down a great sum
from gullible newspaper publishers
for his story"
The earmarks of the Wichita liar are
much in evidence in the Advertiser
story.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1922-06-17

one thousand, two hundred and sew
entcen cream scparators arc, in use in
Cass county. The separator is a sort
Of milk threshing machine. 1t has
circular motion, is highly geared. runs
at a dangerous rate Of speed. has a
sound like the zooming of an air
plano, and divorces cream from milk
far more rapidly than the divorce
mills at Reno operate. Since the in
vention Of the separator it has been
discovered there is a lot more cream
in milk than used TO be thought Of.
A diligent separator will get rich
cream out Of the poorest bluejohn
ever accredited to a cow, while what
it will do to milk from a fine Jersey.
for instance, is a revelation and a de-
light. The other day Old Man Buxaw,
out on Route 7, being in an expert
mental mood. filled Aunt Cissie's sep
arator with hard water from the well
in the back lot and went to work on
It. when he got through separating,
the product totaled three quarts Of
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1922-06-17

be known as Camp Ouareau. II 10
reached by a drive from Sc.
Agathe, a railway station near
Montreal. This camp Is conducted
along the lines of Girl Scouts
camps. Instruction in swimming,
boating and riding. under C-mpe-
tent teachers, and some clRSs work
is provided.
No less than three big camps are
maintained on the Islands Os Lake
Timagami In Ontario. They are.
Wabi-Kon. for both men and
women; Keewaydin Camp W.T.. 200
members - all Americans - and
Camp Timagami for boys. Fine
bathing beaches, superb scenery
and good fishing are some OF their
attractions. Trout Lake Lodge on
Trout Lake near the French River
district, makes its appeal to fisher
men--even the veriest novice ia
able to land a string Of bass, they
being very plentiful in Trout Lake.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1922-06-17

Tenting under the pines ant stars
Of the northiand has a charm that
draws more and more vacationists
each summer. The eastern prov
inccs of Canada are particularly
popular in this respect. There are
camps for girls, for boys, for raen,
for women and for everybody all
together.
Down in drowsy. delightful Nova
Scotia there is Camp Moos"a on
lake Annis near the picturesque
seaport of Yarmouth, and a bit
farther up the Bay Of FUndy, in
DiFby County, is AlderclFe Camp
both Of which are boys camps Of
long established reputation a-6 de-
seryedly popular. Thirty tales by
good motor r1ni, from historical
Annapohs Eoyai IS 'ora'rt Ked.p-
mahuurr "ag ayt Gun IIIs. Il IS
not ~ ..# t. .-. 'ln.p I'm
plies bv; 80 .i.-. O.. %! Who iCye the
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1922-06-17

\ number Of people from Washing
ton ana Franklin county went to
Bland, on the Rock Island railway,
last week to view the mysterious cave
in on the Gieize farm there A big
section OF wheat field disappeared
there Monday of last wcck while the
owner of the farm was eating dinner.
over a thousand people gathered to
sec the sight and several hundred now
visit the place daily. In describing
the cave-in, the Hermann Advertiser
Courier says in part:
young Gleize on Monday Of last
week was plowing field on the farm
Of his father, J. George Gleize three
and half miles south Of Bland. At
noon he went home for dinner, walk
ing along ditch that passed through
n field wherc the wheat stood two feet
high. when he returned he took the
same path. Luctilv he was not near
sighted nor dreaming, for he never
would have known why so soon he
should be transported into another
world. AS it was. young Gleize was
wide awake but for a moment he did
not know whether he was dreaming
or just seeing things, FOR there before
him ana i'm his path was n mammoth
hole right i'm the field OF wheat lie
.tDnpal 9b,,IDt1v in his tracks and il
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1922-06-17
FEELING THE NATIONS PULSE
is COL. VIM BOYCE THOMPSON'S JOB

Never since governments we're
instituted among men has any ma
tional executive been so close to the
hearts and minds of .he people as
President Harding and his advisers
have been during the conference on
the Limitation Of Armament. What
the American people are thinking
of the conference and its actions is
daily before the American dele
gates and the President. Never
before in history has any govern
ment undertaken to interpret so
promptly and thorough the public
opinion Of a nation. Never before
has any government had its finger
so systematically on the pulse Of
the nation"
From the very beginning Of the
armament conference, President
Harding was convinced that its
great possibilities for world ad-
vancement lay in making II quickly
and positively responsible to public
opinion. And the President was
determined to make it responsible.
As a result an elaborate system Of
feeling out the sentiment OF the
country has been instituted and the
views and feelings Of the people
carefully tabulated and interpreted
are placed before the American
delegates daily for their guidance.
In the past, many nations have
striven to guide public opinion.
Millions have been spent for
propaganda" to educate" peoples
to support government policies.
Germany was a past master at this
work. But never before has so
broad and effective an effort been
made TO ascertain clearly and posi-
lively the untrammeled views of a
people as reflected in their daily
newspapers.
The delegates of the conference
find before them at the same hour
every day the editorial expressions
of newspapers from Portland,
Maine, to Los Angeles, and from
Miami, Florida. to Seattle, and the
finger of government which is kept
hourly on the pulse of the nation is
the Committee on General Informa-
tion of the Advisory Committee to
the American delegates TO the con-
ference. headed by Colonel William
Boyce Thompson. Colonel Thomp-
son has for years been recognized
as an accurate and thorough In
terpreter of public opinion. He is a
director of the Federal Reserve
Bank Of New York, and during the
war was chairman of the American
Red Cross Mission to Russia. He
was a great admirer Of the late
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and is
president Of the Roosevelt Memorial
Association.
When President Harding's desire
to keep the armament delegates in
he finest pulverized limestone one
yer saw.-Pleasant Hill Journal.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1922-06-17

wilds. The club is situated in a
veritable maze Of lovely water
ways. Fishing and hunting are
unexcelled and draw many sports
men in season. Cozy cabins
equipped with running water and
electric lights, supplemented by
tents, insure privacy, while the club
house with its spacious public
rooms affords q social center.
Across the bay from Nova Ccotia
we find the Bryn Derwyn Camps on
Lake Utopia near the town of the
same name in New Brunswick.
This is a pleasant family camp
with furnished cottages and tents.
Boating and fishing are but two of
Bryn Derwyn's charms.
The Province Of Quebec and its
fascinating Laurentian Mountains
provide plenty Of fine sites for
camns and rustic summer resorts.
A new camp for girls 10 being
opened on Lake Ouareau AID will