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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
DEC. 16, 1925
Only thirteen days remain in which the Censor’s big family of loyal readers can avail themselves of the special offer on subscription. Until the first of January, you can get the Censor for $1.75 a year, or $2.00 and two tickets to the Temple Theatre with each year’s subscription. The tickets are worth 70¢ and can be used any time... On the first of January the regular piece of $2.00 per year will go into effect again.
107TH ENGINEER NOTES
There will be training in engineering, such as trench construction, barb wire entanglements, sketching, map reading, demolition, and road building. We have also completed the construction of an nidor [sic] rifle range... On December 28, we are going to put on another boxing contest. We have secured some good talent...
Wisconsin hunters have killed 752 wolves so far this year, netting them over $21,000 in bounty payments... Hunters receive a bounty of $30 for each full-grown wolf and $4 for cubs...
The City Council is having City Hall painted and will have new light fixtures installed.
The genuine Zipper boot sold only at Stoll & Groves’. Always works. Avoid imitations.
DeSoto, December 14 – The Retreat aid held their annual bazaar last Wednesday. A large crowd attended. The proceeds were over $100... The road patrolmen used the grader to remove the snow, so the roads are pretty good again... The DeSoto meat market is closed for the present.
Genoa, December 14 – Farmers are very busy around our vicinity stripping tobacco... The Mississippi River is now frozen over.
DEC. 9, 1925
The Cairnes Bros. with their company are playing an engagement at the Temple Theatre, all this week... The Cairnes Bros. have a first class show. Their performances are a continuous entertainment of up-to-date plays and high class vaudeville... The company are of the highest type of ladies and gentlemen and deserve full houses.
ATTENTION PARENTS
With the coming of snow the youngsters are getting out into the streets with their sleds and tobeggonh [sic], and unless a miracle intervenes we will surely see some serious accidents. Each winter sees more cars being operated every day. Cars are hard to control on slippery roads, and the children lack the mature judgement to protect themselves from danger. All parents are urged to keep their children from sliding in the streets. Firm action by you may save the life of your child. One farmer reports that only by the barest chance did he escape killing four little children over near the school house, who ran into his car from behind. W.E. GARRETT, Mayor.
C. Webb for your windmill oil. Oil should be changed at least once a year in the oil bath mills. If you bring your cans you save the price of a can.
Several more Viroqua homes are quarantined for scarlet fever.
From four to eight inches of snow followed on the heels of a two days’ rain, and fanned by a gale from the northwest, piled the roads full of “the beautiful”... Today all the main roads are open... The west road to Genoa is passable, travel going through the fields in three places.