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Kickapoo papers complain bitterly of the poor train service they receive these days one mixed train a day each way, taking seven hours to make the trip of 52 miles, with the prospect of the roadbed giving way at any time at that.

Uncle Sam, Monday of this week, wrote a gilt-edged guarantee of approximately 2 million dollars for Vernon county in 1945 in the form of tobacco crop insurance. The crop insurance is available to every person who has an interest in tobacco planted in Vernon county at an astonishing low rate to provide 75 per cent of normal income from the sale of tobacco.

Mrs. Edna Partridge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Erickson of this city, but living in Madison, leaves Monday for Des Moines, Ia., where she will train in the Womens Army Corps. Mrs. Partridge, who has been in the teaching profession since the death of her husband, Charles Partridge, is the mother of two sons, Sgt. Albert Partridge, overseas, and Lt. Robert Partridge, also in the countrys service. As Sgt. Partridge has a young son, the new recruit has the honor of being the countys first grandmother in the army.

With the very extended hand and generosity of Mr. Harry Fehlberg, (the Viroqua Peerless Beer distributor) we were able to get a ball team started in Viroqua this year. We were fortunate that he could donate 100 dollars toward our uniforms. The teams manager, Fussy Hall, has had a rough time to get enough players, but he has been successful in doing so. He knows he has an airtight infield with the grand performance of such swell actors as Leslie Wiesy Wistenberg, Russel Clements, Melvin Harris, Loren Gronning, Stanley Yttri and Russel Lefty Olson, the hurler.

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