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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
May 5, 1926
We have recently added a Funeral Car to our undertaking equipment: thus insuring you more satisfactory and efficient service. M.C. OLSON, STEENBURG & CO., Retreat, Wis.
On Thursday, April 29, at noon, at the home of Mrs. Minnie Draper, mother of the bride, in Bangor, occurred the wedding of her eldest daughter, Blance M. Draper, to Editor H.E, Goldsmith of the Vernon County Censor.
Mr. Goldsmith was born and reared in Boscobel, coming to Viroqua as a printer on the Censor force in 1907. Two years later he became foreman of the Censor, and since 1920 has been its editor.
Miss Draper was born on a farm near Bangor...graduate of the LaCrosse Hospital... Miss Draper’s fourteen years of public ministry in the exacting and responsible hospital positions have drawn heavily upon her health, and her wedding was hastened by the need for a complete rest and the healing influence of an outdoor life.
A good cigar for 5¢ at O.E. Davis’ Drug Store.
Viola, May 1 – The Junior Prom occurred Friday evening, April 30, at the Opera House and was a very successful affair. About 300 invitations were issued... Trout fishing opened today. Drs. Weber, Von Ruden and Don Lloyd were the first to follow Camp Creek with hook and line. About 2:30 AM they went fishing and succeeded in securing nine speckled beauties.
A farmer near here sheared his flock of sheep last week. The cold weather and rain followed and as the sheep were unprotected, many of them died and the loss was a very heavy one.
APRIL 28, 1926
Joe Haskins of Viola had a close call this afternoon, while driving into Westby from the north. He collided with the afternoon Southeastern, but was able to stop in time so that the damage was confined to a smashed headlight and fender.
The biggest buffalo ever caught along this part of the Mississippi river!
That’s what Frank Gillette and his three boys came home with after they had been fishing the other day... Their prize weighed exactly 49 pounds...the catch brought a good price. It sold for 19 cents per pound. – LaCrosse Tribune.
The session of the Council on Tuesday evening was a most interesting one, a delegation of twenty-five ladies appearing with petitions for oiling our streets, signed by over two hundred property owners. The matter was discussed at length, and the motion was finally put and passed that the property owners who desired oil should pay for the oil, and the cost of applying it, and the city to put the streets in shape to receive it, pay for oiling intersections...the cost of oiling the street in front of a four-rod property will be in the neighborhood of $4.00, and surely none should complain over such a modest investment to get rid of the dust nuisance.
...On Tuesday a howling wind brought skifts of snow out of the northwest. Today is somewhat of an improvement yet most unseasonably cold. So apparently April of 1926 must be added to the winter months.
This is garden time. Get your garden tools at the Farmers Store, Surenson & Thomposon.
Pleasant Ridge, April 28 – The school will soon be at a close, there being only two weeks left. A picnic is planned for the last day, May 7th.