The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-06-01

Mr.. Arthur FL. Clark and fami-
ly spent Sunday with relatives in James
vile.
Ferdinand Kepp and wife returned
the first of the week from Richland
county, where they have been visiting
relatives.
Miss Nora Olson, who has been
clerking for Conn & Schmidt during the
past year, has resigned her position and
returned to her home in Oakland.
Isaac Dickinson died at his home in
this city Tuesday afternoon after lin
gering illness of many years. Funeral
services took place from the P. M. church
on Albion Prairie Thursday afternoon.
A more extended obituary will appear
later.
Mr.. John Young prominent bust
ness man of Muscoda, who recently sold
his lumber yard to the Heddles' Lumber
Co., was in town Monday. While here he
told of the wonderful development of
the dairy interests in his section. A
cheese board of trade is held at Muscoda
every Monday, when the product of 81
factories are offered and sold to buyers
who gather there from every part of the
country. The product is settled for and
shipped from that station distributing
a good many thousand dollars weekly to
the tributary farming community
Quite satisfactory view of the par
tial eclipse of the sun could be obtained
Monday morning and nearly everybody
was prepared with smoked glass to take
peep at the phenomenon, between the
hours of 7 and 9 o'clock. During the
time of greatest contact about three
fourths of the suns surface was hidden.
At the Washburn Observatory Director
ComstOck took the actual time of contact.
It commenced three seconds later and
ended seven seconds later than the
time computed in advance from the ac-
copied tables, showing that the actnal
positions of the sun and moon do not
quite agree with the computed positions.
MIR. j. P. Walker, of Boscobel, in
spector of free rural delivery, was in
town Tuesday to look over the proposed
routes for establishing a free delivery
from Edgerton. A petition was circu-
lated some time since and quite gener-
ally signed by country people whose
mail is supplied from this station, and
Congressman Cooper took hold of the
matter at Washington with the result that
Mr.. Walker was sent here to look over
the territory and lay out the routes if
the service sought for are. in his judg-
ment, necessary Mr.. Walker drove over
report will be forwarded to the depart
ment, and the probability is that route
will be ordered. Mr.. Walker is very en-
thusiastic on the rural postal delivery
question and thinks within very few
years all the settled farming country
will have their mails delivered at the
patrons doors at government expense.
The Edgerton Public Library will be
open Saturday, June End, at 2 p. NJ,
when books may be drawn by any one
holding guarantor's card. Before a
minor can draw books, this guarantors
card must be signed by the parent or
guardian. These cards may be obtained
from the teachers in the public schools
or from the librarian. Sixty-four new
books have been bought, among which
are many interesting children's stories
and popular novels. Following is list
of some of the new books: David Har-
UNI, Janice Meredith, When Knighthood
was in Flower, To Have and to Hold,
Richard Carvel, Briton and Boer, The
Porto Rico of To-day, Dom Paul's Peo-
pie, Mr.. Dooley in Peace and War, Sto-
ries of the Railroad, The Jungle Books,
Five Little Peppers (series of FOUR San
ia Claus Partner, The Monkey that
Would not Kill, Tramping with Tramps,
Personally Conducted, Betty Leicester,
Betty Leicester's Christmas, The Knights
of the Round Table, Toby Tyler, Jack
the Young Ranchman, Two Little Con-
federates, Hero Tales from American
History, Yankee Ships and Yankee Sail
ors.