The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-03-22

Chase at Royal Hall.
Arrangements are being made for
the organization of Knights of Pythias
Lodge in this city.
Mrs. Fanny Crandall of Chippewa
Falls, passed few days of the week
with her mother in this city.
Monday, March 25th Thompson's
comedians will commence five nights
engagement at Royal hall.
The John Bulls farm of 211 acres in
the town of Albion has been sold to
George Sherwood for $13,615. The
sale was made by E. NJ Ladd.
Mrs. Geo. Doty and her mother Mrs.
Bintlif were called to Chicago Monday
to attend the funeral of Gen. Bintliff, a
former we'll -known resident of this state,
and relative of these ladies.
Mrs. D. G. Edwards was brought
back Saturday to her home in this city
after spending the winter months with
her daughter, Mrs. Brace in Fulton.
She is very much improved in health.
Hon. John G. Woolley, the leading
prohibition orator of the United States,
will give an address March 3Oth, in the
city hall, Fort Atkinson. Wis. Admis-
sion free; reserved seats % cents, on
sale at III. j. Dexheimer's. Everybody
is invited to 60 and hear this noted orator.
DIR. w. w. Morrison, who is at pres
ent occupying office rooms with Mr.. L..
E. Gettle, expects to move in short
| time to a new suite of rooms which is
being prepared for him over the Boston
Store. Mr.. J. Copley owns this build
ing, and is fitting up for the doctors
office and consultation room, one of the
finest suites of rooms to be found in Ed
gerton.
| -Haugen Pearson died of pneumonia
at his room in the Taylor house block
on Thursday, March 18th. Little Hau-
gen, as he was Familiarity called, was
about fifty years of age and had lived in
this city nearly twenty years. He was
bachelor and the only relative he had
in this country was nephew, Charles
Gotfried. Funeral services conducted
by Rev. Linnevold, were held from the
Norwegian Luther church on Saturday
last.
AT the Henry Thronson auction on
Tuesday, over twenty-five hundred dol
lars worth of property was sold. Con-
sidering the fact that it was a raw, wet
March day, bad roads and generally dis
agreeable, it was large lot of property
to turn into dollars and cents. But
wind and weather seem to cut a very
small igure when w. T. Dooley under
takes to sell goods. With Dooley as
auctioneer and P. G.. Brown as clerk,
everything moves right along in rhythmi-
cal order.
Royal hall ought to be filled from
door to stage Friday night, as Lyman
Twins in "a Merry Chase" are the best
attraction on the road today. The Ly-
man Twins established reputation for
themselves when they appeared here in
the "Two Macks." A Merry Chase is
one of the cleanest cut comedies ever
put together, and is roar from start to
finish. There is not quiet moment
and anyone feeling in a melancholy
mood will find that an hour or two with
the Lyman Twins is great benefit
How many of the boys and girls I'M
der the age of fourteen years, who are
out on the streets after eight o'clock at
night, hear the curfew bell when itrings?
How many of them heed its tones and
scurry home? The curfew ordinance
was passed for the express purpose of
keeping children off the streets after
night fall, and that it might assist par
ents in knowing their whereabouts.
Young boys and young girls at home
after the curfew hour are more likely to
grow up to good men and good women
than those who are given the freedom of
I CuO OtICOG az IL LIZ CliuO. l. al OdtO 0uOulo
insist upon their children needing the
ringing of the bell at eight every even
ing.
-Forty-six years ago last Wednesday
Elmer Langworthy landed in Edgerton
and walked up to the Pierce Burdick
farm about three miles north of town.
On that day farmers were blowing and
springs work was going forward with a
rush; the dust in the road was twoinches
deep and the weather was nearly as
sultry as June. Contrast that March
day in eighteen hundred and fifty-fve
with last Wednesday, when blizzard was
brewing, the thermometer was going
down toward the zero mark and the
roads so rough that in driving over them
| the varnish was jolted off from the bug
gy box. And yet the weather man says
that all indications point toward an