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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
SEPT. 23, 1925
Gene Pennell has added a new piece of furniture to his restaurant whic [sic] he calls a soda fountain, but in truth it seems like a whole restaurant in itself. The front and top is of beautiful marble, it is nearly twenty feet long, is iceless, and automatically cooled by electricity with a circulation of forty gallons of alcohol. Sad to relate the nearest you can get to the alcohol without wrecking the fountain is the smell.
The Dr. G.W. Minshall family are mourning the loss of Earl Oneida, Dr. Minshall’s grand old race and family horse. The old veteran was thirteen years... He was a most [valuable] animal having the remarkable record of never having broken in four consecutive years of racing. In his last four races he has been in the money each time, and won first in two of them. At the Weyewega last week he raced five heats, winning three of them, and getting first money – but the exertion proved too much for his horse, and he passed away in the evening.
107th Engineer Note
The annual rifle tournament at Camp Perry, Ohio, closed Saturday, September 19. The Wisconsin team finished in 17th place. There were over one hundred and twenty teams entered from all branches of the U.S. service... Sgt. Jackson was man on the team shooting about twenty points above the next man on the Wisconsin team.
The wonderful weather with which nature has blessed us during most all of the year, still continues. Today is the 23rd of September – and no frost has arrived as yet. Ninety-nine per cent of the tobacco crop is safely in the shed... Corn planted for silage by so many farmers is going to mature a real hard-ear crop.
SEPT. 16, 1925
BIG FAIR SOON!
The time slips along pretty rapidly, and it seems hardly possible that the big annual county event – the Vernon Fair – is so close, yet in two weeks from today our fair will be on in full blast...
Nature has wonderfully helped us this year in insuring the success of the fair. The early and long growing season has brought all crops to maturity without damage – and such a wonderful harvest it is. Surely the Vernon fair will have a showing of farm products this year that will out strip anything we have seen in the past in this time.
One of the big attractions at fair time is good racing...more race entry blanks have been called for up to this date than in any like period in any previous year. This means that we will have the largest and best race program ever held here... The free attractions always play an important part... The prospect for lots of concessions is never quite so good as this year... In all aspects it’s going to be a boomer of a fair.
The ladies’ furnishing goods store of Mrs. Manley at Readstown was entered by burglars sometime during Tuesday night. The thieves gained an entrance through the basement and carried off between twelve and fourteen hundred dollars worth of coats and suits. No clew [sic] to the guilty parties has been found yet.
The United Brethren church in Lower Weister will be dedicated on Sunday, Sept. 26. There will be services at 10:30, 2:30 and 8:00.
LOW EXCURSION RATES on LCASE Ry. To La Crosse Interstate Fair... Round trip fare from Viroqua $2.50. Good returning until Sept. 28th.