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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
AUG. 18, 1926
Vernon’s big agricultural event commences to loom up, only six weeks away. Lay your plans to help make it the biggest and the best ever. The date is Sept. 28, 29, 30, Oct. 1
There will be three days Gospel conference, beginning, Friday at 10:30 a.m. Three sessions daily including Sunday... The ladies will serve free luncheon at noon in the tent, all are welcome.
Don’t overlook the Victor Record Sale. Hundreds of popular 75 cent records. Three for $1.00 Brown’s Music Store.
Viola, Aug. 15 – A benefit dance was given Wednesday night, Aug 11th for Dean Shepard in the new barn he is building on his farm west of town. His barn was destroyed by fire a few months ago... Orvus Myers killed a large rattlesnake on the C.A. Smith hill. It was three and one-half feet long and had seven rattles and a button. Rattlesnakes seem to be more common in this vicinity than usual.
Weather conditions were fine last Friday night and the band concert drew a fair sized crowd.
The Viroqua Public Library which has been closed for the past week while being redecorated, will be open to the public on Friday afternoon, Aug. 20.
Help will be appreciated at the American cemetery on Asbury Ridge on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 21. All come. Please bring tools to work with. Don’t forget the date and time.
WANTED! WANTED!
The names of those people in this city who will room and board Normal school students, or have rooms to rent for light housekeeping, or who wish to take a girl and allow her to work for board in full or in part. Kindly inform J.H. Wheelock, if you want to take one or more students.
AUG. 11, 1926
The Viroqua School Board wishes to receive bids for the unloading of coal and placing in the bins at the school houses. Bids to be by the ton. Contractor must stand all demurrage charges. Send sealed bids to C.F. Dahl, Viroqua.
The “Round-the-World” Buick...arrived in the city on Monday, and was the center of interest until it left for Prairie du Chien on Tuesday. Mechanically, the car was very little different than any standard Buick to be seen upon the streets anywhere, except that it was a right-hand drive, to comply with European regulations, but the inscriptions which covered it left no doubt as to the extent of its wanderings...hundreds of names covered it... Up to this date the car has covered more than 266,000 miles. It has been driven by hundreds of different drivers, over every possible variety of road...
Viroqua enjoyed an impromptu musical event Sunday evening at 11 o’clock, when one of the Lutheran choirs of LaCrosse stopped on the street and rendered four fine selections. They had just rendered a concert at Mt. Sterling and were on their way home.
The best known writer of band music among folks of this section is Ed Chennett. The city band will play Chennett’s latest work, at the concert Friday night.
Readstown, Aug. 7 – After being closed about two months, the new opera house was opened last Saturday night to a record attendance... A new screen has been added, additional machines and equipment installed….[a] marked improvement that has been made in appearance and visibility of productions.