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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
JULY 28, 1920
A real circus – Jinx, Thursday.
Work on Viroqua’s sewer contract will soon be commenced. The contractor and crew are now on the ground but are handicapped by lack of transportation for their heavy equipment.
No sprinkling streets or lawns without first obtaining a permit.
Westby has received her charter and is now officially a city with three precincts. Our warmest congratulations are extended.
Shortage of labor and materials continues to hold up the county road work.
The Hillsboro-Tripville road will be completed in about a week.
Right-of-way on the LaFarge-Cashton road has all been bought and work commences right away.
The committee goes Thursday to get the last piece of right-of-way for the big LaFarge bridge.
The Cunningham bridge in Viroqua town on the Viola road has been completed... This crew is now moving to Newton to complete the Townsend bridge.
Board at the Unique Restaurant $6.50 per week.
The first [highway] census in Vernon county was taken on Sunday, July 25th at the old Gunerius place in Franklin, at the Junction of Routes 27 and 11... The amazing total of 652 vehicles passed the corridor between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. No wonder it is next to impossible to keep a smooth surface on our roads. Of this number 615 were domestic cars, 19 foreign cars, 7 trucks, 6 motorcycles and ONLY FIVE HORSE DRAWN RIGS. This is more than double the counts of last year... if the Townsend bill passes, Trunk line No. 11 will become a Federal road and will stand a fine chance of being completely paved in a short time.
JULY 21, 1920
Mrs. Louise Sime is on the job as Censor linotype operator after five weeks spent at the old home at Soldiers Grove.
Forty pure bred pigs will be given out this week to the boys and girls of Vernon county who were the fortunate ones to win a pig in the examination. Twenty of the boys and girls chose Duroc Jerseys, eleven of them chose Poland Chinas, six chose Chester Whites, two chose Berkshires and one chose a Hampshire as their choices of breeds to raise.
FRANKLIN –DACH RIDGE – July21 – There are only a few days left in July; the farmers are busy putting up the last of their hay getting ready for harvest time.
Bert Jacobson’s team took the bit in their teeth over in Brush Hollow Friday, smashing up the wagon badly, bruising Mr. Jacobson, and finally landing in the ditch below John Deaver’s place in such fashion that other horses were needed to pull them out. Will Kellicutt’s team took fright at the runaways and started something also. Between the two, the Bruch Hollow cheese factory was short five cans of milk.
You will find Geo. Griffin at the old stand in the Williams building, which he now occupies entirely with his cream station, and invites farmers to bring him their cream. He will also retail sweet cream right off the ice.
It will be gratifying news to Viroqua people to learn that the latest samples from Viroqua’s three wells have been analyzed by the state hygiene laboratory and pronounced safe.
Fine corned Beef, per lb. 15¢; Santa Claus prunes, per lb. 15¢. At Roman’s grocery.
JULY 14, 1920
Nuzum Lumber Co. the Purchaser, Making Them Nine Yards
One of the largest business deals occurring in Viroqua for a long time, was consummated last week when the Nuzum Lumber Company purchased from L.M. Roseland, his two lumber yards at Viola and this city, taking in on the deal the old A.L. Ewers farm midway between Readstown and Soldiers Grove. Consideration was close to $60,000.00... The Nuzum Company will close the yard at Viola, but will maintain the one in this city...
Last Saturday twenty of Brush Hollow’s public spirited farmer folk gathered at the hill below Ike Groves place on the LaFarge road and spent the day improving that piece of highway.
The McIntosh warehouse has about two weeks’ run left of the 1919 crop. The Hazen warehouse will clean up in about three weeks.
STODDARD – July 11, 1920 – About 3000 people attended the celebration held here on July 5th, altho the weather was cool and rainy in the morning the program was carried out as planned.
Dr. Geo. Minshall and Edison Roach shipped four race horses to Janesville this week, Thursday, to remain a short time.
Adolph Sorenson and Sidney Tuhus left last week for cherry picker’s camp at Sturgeon Bay, where they will spend the cherry season.
What is a smile? Our office devil says it is the spirit of kindness oozing out from a good heart.
Tired of having to move his cement vault equipment every new moon, Levi Lake is erecting a commodious shop on his residence property to carry on this and other concrete work.
Pillsbury Best Flour, $4.25; 10 Bars White Laundry Soap, 65¢; 6 bars Big-4 Naptha Soap, 50¢; Cheese, 30¢ lb. at C.H. Ostrem’s.
JULY 7, 1920
NO MORE BERRY PICKING
There will be no more berry picking allowed on our land and roads adjacent thereto. We will no longer stand for scores of women and children wallowing through our fences and fields in quest of berries. Keep out and save trouble and expense, as it is our firm intention to put a stop to it. No more berries to be had at our expense. SEVERT and JACOB SEVERTSON.
Tired of seeing those detour signs on No. 11 at the top of the Burns Morrison Hill and at the Fianagan place, the Franklin farmers from Louis Hanson’s and the Kickapoo farmers to John Midthun’s place, assembled at the bridge taken out by the flood some weeks ago and put in a temporary structure there and also repaired the road adjacent, placing No. 11 in condition to be travelled again. A mighty fine job, gentlemen, for which the traveling public will thank you.
Wisconsin women will vote at the general election next November, and women voters will be subject to only those restrictions which apply to men voters.
Mrs. E.W. Butt late in 1917 set out a row of strawberries, a foot apart and 60 in all, getting a small crop in 1918, a fair crop in 1919, and this year with that row 11 ft. Wide picked 149 quarts in 16 days.
The Censor is issued on Saturday this week, and mighty glad we are to be able to issue at all. Moving a printing office is a good deal like getting married – something we hope will not happen to us more than once in a lifetime.