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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
APRIL 7, 1926
The tobacco companies operating in this section, where in they discourage the use of root-rot seed. In Talking with a representative of one of the large eastern concerns, the Censor is informed that the root-rot type makes a beautiful appearing growth in the field and is nice to handle but after being curd it has peculiar texture and aroma which renders it absolutely unfit for binders for the higher priced cigars, and can be used only for the very cheap cigars. Wisconsin is building a reputation upon growing of a high quality of binder leaf, and the growers see a danger of Wisconsin losing its prestage [sic] as a producer of quality leaf if the growing of root-rot crops gain a foothold.
Saturday saw the clean-up of all buying of right-of-way on No. 41, between Westby and the LaCrosse county line. A full five-rod road has been purchased the entire distance... LaCrosse county will pave from the Ten Mile House to the Vernon county line, to meet Vernon’s work...
Last year on March 17th, Marshall Reed found grasshoppers alive and kicking on his farm, and sent the Censor two of them as proof. This year he relates that they were a little late. He did not find them until March 28th.
The Vernon County Board voted outright to each township in the county the sum of $750 for patrolling the township roads, providing that the township employ at least two patrolmen, and several of them have hired five patrolmen, and will raise additional funds for the purpose. Good roads begot good roads. As the state trunk highways were improved the movement spread to the county highways, and it is now including the township roads.
