100 Years Ago

Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:

FEB. 17, 1926

We have several ranges on the floor which we will dispose of at a reduced price in order to make room for our new display of fine new Majestic ranges. Sauer Hardware Co.

SIDIE HOLLOW ROAD

Editor Censor:

I was pleased to see your article a couple of weeks since advocating the Sidie Hollow Road. Those of us on the Western section of the county know this road should be built. This winter it has furnished a means for about half of Vernon county to get to the county seat. It would be the most traveled road in or out of Viroqua if improved. In summer it would make a most delightful drive and in winter many times the only way to and from the county seat when the ridge roads are drifted in. The sheriff lately used this road to get to Chaseburg and Coon Valley...C.O. HELGESON.

It appears as of this writing as if every serviceable crop of the 1925 leaf tobacco for sale by the producer, be it sorting or stemming will be contracted for by the tobacco buyer this season...

The V.H.S. basket ball team went to Bangor Saturday evening and were badly defeated by that team. Score 18 to 4. Both teams had played the night before, and the game was slow and ragged, with the Bangor boys putting up the better game throughout.

FEB. 10, 1926

The Ski Tournament of the Wild Cat, Esofea, Three Chimney and Westby Clubs was held at Esofea last Sunday. The event attracted considerable attention and about five hundred people were in attendance. Skiing is gaining in popularity each year in this locality.

Mothers, if you want to save money on your rosiery [sic] bills and have less mending, take advantage of Ellefson & Johnson’s line of Rollin’s children’s stockings.

The annual tournament of the Westby Snow Flake Ski Club, held at the new slide northwest of Westby today, was favored with a most ideal day and a large crowd took advantage of the fine weather to attend the event and enjoy the thrills offered. More than three thousand people were there. The slide was very steep and fast.

Redmound, February 6 – The men of this vicinity had a bee getting wood up for Annie Cole... Tommy Sheldon and Walter Tenney have almost completed the job of getting out logs for Mr. Dach. They have a fine lot of timber about ready for the saw.

Blankets and outing gowns at reduced prices, while they last at Suttler & Tate’s.

Another of those delightful 25¢ suppers will be served by the ladies’ aid society at the Congregational church on Thursday, February 18.

The missing parts for the county snow plow are now here and the plow is in shape and ready for service. It is a Champion plow with a ten-foot blade, and weighs about a ton. The regulating of the blade is done from the driver’s seat in the truck. It is the intention of the county men to try out the machine in keeping the road open between Viroqua and Westby, when blocked by future storms. There is no money appropriated for snow removal, but the subject becomes more and more pressing and no doubt in a year or two the state will take action on keeping the principal trunk highways open.

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