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Four rural schools will be auctioned Saturday, August 29th at the County Fairgrounds. The school real estate includes: North Springville, Round Prairie, Cherry Grove and Pleasant Ridge.

Deaths: Erwin O. Kern, 29; Ruth A. Kern, 25; June (Hansen) Haugrud, 54; Olga M. (Rentz) (Peterson) Groth, 89; Edwin Stalsberg, 77; Alfred J. Latimer, 58; Marian (Jenkins) Reed, 44; Verden Charles Sallander, 70.

Viroqua physicians convinced the Viroqua Area Schools Board of Education to not include chiropractic services in their insurance plan.

Vernon County Coroner Winifred Ofte told the Broadcaster-Censor late Wednesday morning that she ordered a continuance until Friday morning of the inquest that she convened Wednesday to investigate the traffic accident near De Soto which ended in the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Kern. I feel we have established a number of facts about the accident and the circumstances surrounding it, said Mrs. Ofte. Testimony was taken from several persons but there was some doubt expressed by the Coroner when the most important witness failed to appear. Mrs. Ofte ordered the key absent witness to appear Friday when the inquest reconvenes.

The Vernon County

Broadcaster

Aug. 24, 1995

25 years ago

Marty Ekern of rural Westby drowned after saving his daughter from drowning. They were on a canoe trip south of Black River Falls. Ekerns daughter got caught in the turbulent current and he kept getting underneath her to keep her above water. After finally getting his daughter to shore, Ekern, who was exhausted, was swept away by the current and disappeared. Ekern was the assistant principal and athletic director at Viroqua High School. As of the publication of the Aug. 24, 1995, issue of the Broadcaster, his body still had not been found.

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