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Life in Viroqua from the Vernon County Censor:
DEC. 3, 1924
STODDARD SCHOOL
Patriotic programs were given by the various rooms on Armistice Day at eleven o’clock. At 11:30 the rooms joined a parade and marched down main street. On their return they all joined in singing of America... The various rooms are preparing a Thanksgiving program to be given at the next meeting of the P.T.A. November 26th.
A packed house greeted Ben Brown’s fine show at the Temple the evening before Thanksgiving – and perhaps with their eyes also on the Thanksgiving eats he was offering as prizes... In addition each child having paid a half fare to enter the theatre received a bar of candy as they passed out... Mrs. John Brown was the lucky winner of a turkey at the Temple Theatre... The next day she...took the turkey to a family gathering at the home of W.S. Melvin on Salem Ridge. There the bird was roasted and 40 relatives got a portion for afternoon lunch. Nine chickens had also been prepared for dinner.
An enjoyable shoe social, at which about 200 were present, was held by the Royal Neighbor lodge last Tuesday evening. The length of shoes was measured and the owners paid two cents per inch.
You will never realize how much you can get for small money in the way of fine Christmas gifts, until you visit our 50¢ counter and our two $1.00 counters. K.N.Larson, Jeweler.
NOV. 26, 1924
HEARSE BADLY BURNED
The fire department was called out last Friday night to extinguish a blaze which started in an unusual manner and place. The fire was discovered in Otto Otteson’s hearse which was stored in Mons Helgeson’s garage.
The brake was set in the hearse, but the conveyance was pulled out of the garage and the fire was put out with chemicals after it had burned through the partition and burned all of the inside of the cab. The glass in the doors and windshield was burned. There were four other cars in the garage but none of them were injured. It is supposed that the fire was started by the batteries or short circuit wires.
Mr. Otteson carried no insurance on the vehicle and it will probably cost him several hundred dollars for repairs.
John Sidie is erecting a substantial building just south of his grocery store, which will be occupied by Baker George Chinn as soon as completed. Mr. Chinn expects to be going again by the first of the year. The new building is somewhat larger than the old bakery room which was fire swept two weeks ago. Mr. Sidie is renovating his building and will open his meat shop into the room occupied by the bakery before the fire.
Viola, November 17 – A new filling station will be put in Viola by the Perfect Oil Company of LaCrosse soon as the building cam be constructed on property purchased from Mrs. Lulu Stormont, where Dr. Stormont’s oce [sic] was located... Thieves stole Bliss Hull’s Durant Sedan at LaCrosse, Thursday night of last week. Later the car was found near Sparta with the radiator smashed and the upholstering burned out. Evidently the thieves had run out of gasoline and they attempted to destroy the car.