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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
JULY 7, 1926
Hays & Warren, of EauClaire, were awarded the contract to build the new bridge across the Kickapoo river at Gays Mills. This bid was $28,400.50.
Work on the new bride will get started at once, the location to be a few feet below the old steel bridge. It will be reinforced concrete and the approach from the bluff side will be fifty feet wide; a great improvement over the old bridge.
The bridge will be wide enough for cars to meet without being in danger of rubbing fenders. – Gays Mills Independent.
On Monday, while enroute to the celebration at Westby, Hans Johnson and family sustained quite bad bruises and Mrs. Johnson suffered a broken arm in an auto accident. Mr. Johnson was caught in a bad traffic jam and in endeavoring to pass a car collided with the railing near the Round Prairie school house.
The pavement dance planned by the American Legion boys for Friday evening was sadly dealt with by the elements. Practically steady rain on Thursday and Friday reduced our roads to quagmires and made holding of the dance impossible. The event was transferred to the hall at the last moment, but weather made the attendance nil, and the boys lost money.
However, there is no loss without gain, and that splendid rain and he beautiful torrid weather which has followed were worth untold wealth to the farmers of Vernon county.
STATE HIGHWAY 27 IS BEING GRAVELLED
S.J. Graves & Sons of Minneapolis have a crew of thirty-five men together with cars and teams, employed on highway 27, through Eastmen, Seneca and Mr. Sterling. This stretch of thoroughfare containing twenty-one miles will be gravelled... - Gays Mills Independent.
JUNE 30, 1926
The old church, recently purchased by the American Legion, has been moved from its old location in the south part of town and is now in position on the Devlon lot south of the Viroqua mill. The foundation is completed and the building will be in shape for occupancy in two months. It will be a nice home for the Legion boys.
Severt Seime brought a real hen’s egg in for inspection Monday. The egg measured 7 ¼ x 6 1/3 inches and weighed over 3 ½ ounces. Large eggs of the double-yolk variety are relatively common, but this one was single yolk, and of perfect shape.
Workmen have practically completed a fine improvement on the road from the pavement to the Alms House. The road has been graded, the low place near the railroad track filled, and all has been surfaced with gravel. It will prove a fine convenience, especially in muddy weather, to all visiting the county institutions, and to the farmers coming onto the pavement from the east.
107TH ENGINEER NOTES
The local Company has been ordered to report for field service on July 10th for the annual two weeks of instruction at Camp Douglas, now known as Camp Williams... Next Monday, July 5th, we are going to Westby to put on a Sham Battle as a part of the holiday program... The proceeds will be used as a mess fund for the boys at Camp this year.
Perhaps you are going to need more dishes when the thrashers come. Maybe you need new dishes anyway. If so, you had better look over our fine large stock of tableware. It will please you. Surenson & Thompson, The Farmers Store.