100 Years Ago

Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:

NOV. 3. 1926

One of the biggest Boy Scout meets that has taken place since the organization of the Gateway Area Council, which consists of Trempealeau, Vernon, Monroe, Jackson, LaCrosse counties in Minnesota, will be held in the nature of a get together Saturday, November 6, at the LaCrosse Normal-Columbia University football game. The Boy Scouts of the entire Area, will be guests of the LaCrosse Normal school on that occasion...

Vernon’s fall term of circuit court was the briefest in several years. There were no naturalization matters heard, and all cases were cleaned up in two days. Only one case came before the jury, and Judge Cowee discharged the jury Tuesday afternoon.

A Resolution calling for the permenent naming of the military training camp at Sparta in honor of our late General R.B. McCoy, “Camp McCoy”...was passed at the National convention of the American Legion at Philadelphia last week. – Monroe County Democrat.

We can sell you medicine to relieve pains or sell you panes to replace your broken windows now. A.J. Johnson Drug Store.

Old Man Winter made his appearance in this locality in earnest Saturday night when several inches of the beautiful snow mantled the landscape in its soft white folds. Then the mercury went down below freezing. It is the season of tending fires and repairing cracked auto radiators. Makes us long for Florida or California.

Viola, October 30 – The Clinic Care which visited Viola, October 25-26, was a decided success. 96 children were thoroughly examined and many very helpful suggestions given the mothers. All were pleased with the work of Dr. Sylvia Stuesay, and nurse, Miss Rather. We were sorry not to have had them another day the work seemed so urgent and helpful as well.

OCT. 27, 1926

The patrolmen and the tar cooker have been in evidence on the pavement through Viroqua the past few days repairing the same. All concrete pavements will crack, but no damage when the cracks are properly filled with tar. Left unfilled, the cracks prove the entering wedge, especially during the thawing and freezing winter weather, and this spells ultimate ruin if tarring is neglected.

George Armstrong exhibited his car in the city Monday morning, to show the force that a passing car traveling at probably fifty miles an hour can throw a stone. He passed a car on Bashford hill... The other car threw from its tire a small rock with such force that when it hit the Armstrong windshield it pierced it as would a short gun making a small hole through the heavy plate glass, but not shattering the glass. Richland Democrat.

Two instances have occurred in the past on Viroqua’s Main street where cars traveling at moderate speed have thrown pebbles thru heavy plate glass display windows with such force as to pierce them like a rifle bullet without shattering the glass.

Readstown, October 25 – Some one broke into the Readstown creamery last Wednesday night and appropriated three tubs of butter... During the excavation for a new bridge near the L.E. Rabbitt place at Kickapoo, Art Henthorn picked up a tooth measuring 3 3/4 inches lon [sic] and 2 3/8 inches wide. It is supposed to be a tooth from a mastodon or some large prehistoric animal.

COAL

Don’t blame us if you get short of COAL this winter.

It looks now like higher prices were liable at any time and all good coals are getting scarce on account of the long coal strike abroad.

Call us while we may serve you properly with choice coal at right prices.

Viroqua Coal Co. Phone 337.

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