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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
JULY 14, 1926
It surely seems god [sic] to see something done in the building line on Viroqua’s Main street. Workmen on the Boyle and Eckhart buildings are making substantial progress, and Tailor Lund is razing his building preparatory to replacing the frame building with a substantial structure of tile and krick [sic]. While construction is going on, his shop is located in the Larson building across the street.
The Northern Tobacco Co-Operative Tobacco Pool has just completed another huge sale of 1925 tobacco. It was learned today...that on yesterday...closed a deal involving fully one quarter of a million dollars of northern packed tobacco of the 1925 crop.
The big Motorcycle Hill Climb which is to be held on one of the steep hills down Seas Branch on Sunday afternoon, July 25th... Twenty five of the best riders in the middle west will enter. The hill which has been selected is a terror-to-snakes, and Promoter R.S. Maxwell is offering a prize of $50.00 to any automobile that can climb the hill under its own power. The hill climb near Hillsboro some months ago was the first climb in this part of the state. Four thousand people saw the event, and it is expected that double this number will gather to witness the Seas Branch climb.
Coty’s face powder, talcum, rouge and toilet water at Dahl’s Drug Store.
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.