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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
JULY 9, 1924
Friday, July hte [sic] Fourth was a quiet day in the city of Viroqua. No Celebration being put on here our people attended the celebrations at outside points, or enjoyed picnic parties. The weather was ideal and the day was highly enjoyable.
The Censor office is indebted to J.J. McKenna for the gift of four luscious boxes of cherries fresh from the big fruit farm near Gays Mills. The cherries are now at there [sic] best on the big farm – so “do it now.”
Due to the prevalence of reckless driving in the city of Viroqua several drivers have been arrested and fined in the past few days. This is an unpleasant duty devolving upon the police officers and officials of the city of Viroqua, and they ask that all drivers observe the speed laws and auto regulations so that it will not be necessary for them to take drastic action.
WESTBY CITY NEWS
The annual school meeting of joint district No. 7 was held on July 7th... The plans for the new high school building have now been approved by the industrial commission and contractors bids for the construction of the same will be taken at an early date.
Kickapoo Valley League game at Viroqua Fair Grounds next Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Bud and Westby will cross bats. Plan to be there and enjoy a good game.
Leave your old, discarded rugs and linoleum at the Inter-State Oil Station to cover rough boards in a floor for a very needy family near the creamery.
WASH DRESSES
Regular and extra sizes and all good values...ginghams, with a fine selection of colors $1.98; Dotted voiles Ginghams, Plain voiles $2.98; Normandy voiles, Plain voiles – English Broadcloth – Ginghams $3.49; Choice of the better wash dresses of all kinds values up to $4.00. H.E, ROGERS Masonic Temple Building VIROQUA, WIS.
JULY 2, 1924
The annual summer convention of the State Horticultural Society will be held in Gays Mills, August 20th and 21st. Gays Mills is adjacent to the famous Kickapoo Orchards of 670 acres. A large part of this acreage is now in full bearing.
WESTBY CITY NEWS
The Westby City Band gave its first open air concert in the Rest Room Park on June 27... There was a large crowd of people present who heartily appreciated the splendid concert given...Westby’s first service station was opened on Saturday. The building is not entirely completed as yet, but it will be in the near future. The Dahlens Service Station is a very pretty building and it will be an asset to the city and to tourists.
Readstown, June 30 – A crew of men were here this week erecting signs for highway 41 and 11... Roger Gray brought to the postoffice two stalks of alfalfa raised on the Frank Aikins farm which measured 5 feet and 3 inches in length... Several from this vicinity went north last Sunday to pick strawberries.
FINE WINTER WEATHER
The middle west continues to be blessed (?) with the finest of winter weather; Saturday night, at midnight, snow fell over this section until the ground was white. On Tuesday morning, July 1st, the ground was covered with light frost, and heating stoves and furnaces were called into action to make life livable. And it rains every day. Verily winter lingers in the lap of summer, and all crops are feeling the depressing effects of the most unseasonable weather which this section has ever experienced.
When the roof leaks reroof with mulehide, not a kick in a million feet. For sale at the Nuzum Yard.