The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-07-07

ner nome Dy SICKNESS.
DIR. Burr Atwood Oconto is visiting
relatives in this section.
The Ladies Missionary society of
the Congregational church will not meet
this week.
Mr.. johnson of Rio, has been pass
ing few days of the week with friends
in this city.
Miss Margaret Stafford has gone to
Milford for few weeks to visit her
friend, Mrs. Walter Gleason.
-LosT.-S Somewhere in the city,
navy blue macintosh cape. Find will
please leave same at this Office.
w. E. Babcock came up from Chi
cago to pass the 4th of July holiday with
Edgerton relatives. Mrs. Babcock had
already preceded him.
j. D. Whittet went to Milwaukee on
Wednesday for an operation on one of
his ears which has been troubling him
j. L. Saunders and wife of New
York, arrived during the week for an ex-
tended visit with Mr.. Saunders sister,
Mrs. w. w. Williams.
Mrs. j. A. Lord returned from her
Chicago visit Saturday evening. She
was accompanied home by Mrs. Blanche
Tallard for short stay.
Mel Walker former clerk with Bah
cock & Birkenmeyer, but now employed
by the Elgin Watch Co., visited friends
in this city during the week.
"A special meeting is called of At
lantic Encampment No. So, next Tuesday
evening July II, at o'clock in their
lodge rooms. By order of secretary.
w. J. HENDERSON.
Our school board was increased at
the annual meeting Monday night by
the election of four additional members,
under provision of law passed by the
last legislature. The new members are
c.. F. Mabbett and J. M. Conway, elected
for two years, and Jos. w. Conn and G.
A. Hoen for one year. We learn that
the provision was adopted by quite
number of cities working under the old
school law, at the late meetings.
Miss Mary Estelle Hayden received
the degree of Master of Letters from the
Wisconsin University last Thursday.
Miss Hayden took up the post graduate
work at the university last fall after sew
eral years of successful teaching and
prominent work of teacher in the high
school at Edgerton. She has accepted
the position as teacher of English history
and literature in the Fort Atkinson high
school for the coming year. The posi-
ton is very desirable one.-Sun Prairie
Countryman.
Another pioneer was called from this
earth Wednesday noon. Mr.. W. H.
Watson living two miles west of this
city, died very suddenly of appoplexy,
aged 81 years He had been about the
garden all the morning and came into
the house remarking that he was tired
and laid down on a couch. A few mo-
ments later his wife was called to his
side to find him expiring. Funeral ser
vices will be held from the late home
Friday at 2 p. m.
Modern fireworks are becoming
about as destructive an agent to life and
property as any of the latest inventions
of warfare The Chicago Tribune prints
statistics from fifty two principal cities Of
the nation showing the results of the
patriotic fever on July 4th. The num-
Der of killed reported is three; injured,
l,074. Fire losses due to fireworks,
$149,105 Of the injured 627 were hurt
by cannon firecrackers, lib by toy can
nons 50 by powder explosions, SO by
skyrockets, 143 by guns and revolvers,
and Is by stray bullets. Some of the
near by accidents is one that happened
to Oscar Hanson of Cambridge, who lost
a good portion of one of his hands
through an explosion of giant fire
cracker. Internal Revenue Collector
James Monahan has had his hand LAGER
ated in the same manner.
The mails last week brought letters
to relatives here from James Mcintosh,
dated at Dawson City, Alaska, April 10,
giving the only information from the
Edgerton representatives in the klon-
dixie gold region for over a year. Jim
writes his mother that he and Ben
Smith, son of Judge Smith, worked a
claim during the winter on Dominion
Creek, but the result of the clean up had
not been revealed when he wrote. During
the summer they expected to work a
bench claim and if they had an oppor-
tunity to sell the claim would be home
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