The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-05
Albert Muff1ey of Boscobel, now has

Albert Muffiey of Boscobel, now has
| a position with the Reporter force.
The band concert was omitted We'd
nesday evening on account of prepare
tons for the 4th.
The Pige forening of the East Kosh-
kong church will meet with Mrs. Ole
Lein on Thursday, July 18th.
p. G. Brown and wife and r. w.
Mckinney and wife drove to Evansville
Sunday and passed the day with friends
there.
Regular meeting of the A. 0. u. w.
lodge next Wednesday evening at eight
o'clock at the usual place. A full at
tendance is desired.
Miss LYDIA Postel of Muscoda, who
has been spending the past month with
her sister, Mrs. Fl. j. Stangl, returned to
her home Monday evening.
About twenty of the young friends
of Miss Belle Dave rendered her sur
prise party last Thursday evening. A
dainty lunch was served and pleasant
evening was passed.
TO prove that June is the favorite
month for weddings, we would cite to
you the fact that in the last week of the
month Will Bardeen made photos of
seven bridal couples. June is not only
the month of rosies and weddings, but
the past month was one of the hottest
on record.
The water works ordinance provides
that all lawn sprinkling must be stopped
after seven o'clock in the evening. This
is provision for the purpose of keeping
head of water in case of fire at night,
and all takers ought willingly to comply
with it. If takers do not comply the
rules will necessarily be rigidly enforced.
Mr. Ferdinand Hilltop Drake of AL
bion, first saw the light of day in Potter
county, Pennsylvania, in eighteen hun
dred and forty. That makes Ferdinand
Hilltop Drake nearing his sixty-frst
mile stone, If our mathematician does
not error in his reckoning. He has ham
mered and welded iron in little shop
at the village of Albion winter and sum-
mer for twenty years. Everybody knows
him. and everybody ought to know that,
by the law as she is writ, he is exempt
from paying poll tax. But the chair
man of the town board of Albion did
not take into consideration the date on
which Ferdinand Hilltop was born, and
in making the poll tax levy, they as
sessed him along with others, one and
one-half dollars as poll tax. Mr.. Drake
is not only exempt from paying to the
town of Albion this onerous tax, but he
has bill of five dollars thirteen and
one-half cents against the town of AL
bion, which, if not paid instanter, will
be placed in the hands of His Honor
Judge Emery, for collection. Ferdinand
Hilltop Drake stands for all that is hon
est and upright in his dealings, but
when it comes to asking a man upwards
of sixty to pay poll tax, he renunciates
all allegiance and submission to the
tyranical rulings of that august body,
The town board. And we are authorized
to officially notify the town board that
if this matter of the poll tax and the bill
of five dollars, thirteen and one-half
cents is not made right before the ink
on this issue of the Reporter becomes
dry, Mr.. Ferdinand Hilltop Drake will
jar one, Mr.. Jay Wescott, by furnishing
him with the information as to who put
Goldfish in the gravy. Ferdinand is
man who never jokes, and these few
words of warning ought to have the de-
sired effect.