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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
APRIL 7, 1926
The tobacco companies operating in this section, where in they discourage the use of root-rot seed. In Talking with a representative of one of the large eastern concerns, the Censor is informed that the root-rot type makes a beautiful appearing growth in the field and is nice to handle but after being curd it has peculiar texture and aroma which renders it absolutely unfit for binders for the higher priced cigars, and can be used only for the very cheap cigars. Wisconsin is building a reputation upon growing of a high quality of binder leaf, and the growers see a danger of Wisconsin losing its prestage [sic] as a producer of quality leaf if the growing of root-rot crops gain a foothold.
Saturday saw the clean-up of all buying of right-of-way on No. 41, between Westby and the LaCrosse county line. A full five-rod road has been purchased the entire distance... LaCrosse county will pave from the Ten Mile House to the Vernon county line, to meet Vernon’s work...
Last year on March 17th, Marshall Reed found grasshoppers alive and kicking on his farm, and sent the Censor two of them as proof. This year he relates that they were a little late. He did not find them until March 28th.
The Vernon County Board voted outright to each township in the county the sum of $750 for patrolling the township roads, providing that the township employ at least two patrolmen, and several of them have hired five patrolmen, and will raise additional funds for the purpose. Good roads begot good roads. As the state trunk highways were improved the movement spread to the county highways, and it is now including the township roads.
MARCH 31, 1926
Bush & Stout have purchased from Anderson & Sons the grocery department of their business, have moved their own stock into the Anderson building, combining the stocks, and are now doing business there. Anderson & Sons will confine their entire time and attention to the meat market.
As the Censor goes to press, the county is in the grip of a blizzard that for intensity rivals anything we have experienced during the winter... This section was deluged with about six inches, and the heavy gale from all points of the compass from straight east around to northwest has piled the cuts completely full. Moderately low temperatures accompanied the storm.
Next Sunday is Easter, coming unusually early this year, and if the present weather should continue the outlook for a beautiful Easter day is most dismal.
Get your dairy pails and cream cans here where you have a large assortment from which to select. Surenson & Thompson, The Farmer’s Store.
Genoa, March 29 – Clements Brothers caught a large amount of fish the past week. There is a great deal of sickness in our village at the present time.
Victory, March 29 – The ice is all out of the river and we can hear the hum of launches again.
Robins and bluebirds have been uncommonly late in arrival here this season. The birds were here in numbers by this time last year and even meadow larks were singing on March 11... As a rule the flight of ducks and geese antedates the arrival of spring birds, but so far this season few ducks have been seen. – Grant County Herald.