The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-02-24

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Fred Knoble has left the university
and returned to Edgerton. After few
weeks he expects to leave for Montana,
where he and his father have large
sheep ranch.
-Babcock & Birkenmeyer have put in
a gallery at their department store which
will add about four hundred and eighty
feet to the floor space. The gallery will
be devoted to gents furnishing goods,
and is very roomy space for this de-
partment.
There are only five more days in
which to pay your taxes; we mean the
thirty-eight who have not squared up
their accounts with Treasurer Dickinson.
1t is bad for you and bad for the town
to have taxes returned to the county
treasurer marked unpaid
-How's your water pipes? Froze up
of course. 1t would have been a good
investment for many to have superln-
tended the laying of their pipes last
summer and seen to it that they were
planted five feet under ground as the
rules and regulations of the water works
specify.
The carnival of all carnivals is to
come. 1t is the Grand Roller Skating
Carnival at Royal Hall on Thursday
Old l~o ,.rro4
worth seeing and the twelve cash prizes
offered are we'll worth contesting for.
Good music will be furnished and no one
can afford to miss this great event. A
costuner will be in Edgerton to accom-
modate those who wish to rent. Talk
this up, tell your friends about it and get
everybody to go.
Frank A. Turner, resident OF
Stoughtons for forty-four years. died
suddenly Monday night aged 81 years.
He was president of the town of Dunkirk
for two terms before the city of Slough
ton was incorporated, and was three
times president of the village. He serv
ed ten years as clerk and telegraph oper
ator for the Milwaukee railway company
and later twelve years as station agent.
He was a Mason and has been master of
the lodge the past year.
"A dispatch from Rice Lake amour
ces the death on Friday last of Judge
William P Swift, at the home of his
brother, Col. p. Ell. Swift, after an i'll
ness of several months He was prom
inent member of the bar of this district
having held many positions of honor and
trust. He is survived by wife. His
only child, Lieut.. Hector L. Swift; died
at Charleston, last summer. The de-
ceased will be remembered by many Of
the old residents in this section as the
son of FL. S. Swift, prominent business
man in Edgerton forty years ago.
The Madison Gas and Electric com
pany are thawing out frozen water pipes
by the use of electricity. No wires are
cut, but by attaching an extra wire to
the transformer, which is connected to
complete the circuit, to the pipe inside
the house and another to the service pipe
at the curb, the current is turned on. It
takes from ten to twenty minutes to
thaw out pipe after all connections are
made. It takes four men and horse and
wagon to do the work and the company
charges tensdollars for each case
DR.. Sharp, who is associated with
DIR. Nicholson in the practice of dentistry
is not stranger to the people of Edger
ton, having worked for him during the
summer of 1896. He is graduate of the
State University of Iowa and has spent
the leading dentists of Madison. For the
past two years DIR. Sharp has had an
office in Madison where he has made
mady friends and his work has proven
satisfactory to his patients. DR.. Sharp
has located in Edgerton intending to
make it his home. We know him to be
competent dentist deserving the good
will and patronage of the Edgerton peo-
pie and can recommend him to them.
On Tuesday evening at seven o'clock
Mr. Geo. Willard Haskins of this city,
was united in marriage to Miss Belle
Andrews. The ceremony took place at
the home of the brides parents in
Whitewater, performed by Rev. Perry of
the M. G. church of that place. A large
number of relatives and friends of the
contracting parties were present and
among those from this place were Mr..
Will Kroetz, Misses Maude Haskins,
Eveline Jessup and Leah Clarke; Mr..
and Mrs. Buehler of Waukesha, were
also present. The bridal party returned
to Edgerton on the evening train Tues
day and the young couple have com
menced housekeeping in nicely fur
nished home on Swift street.