The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09

| bors congregated at the home of August
Handtke in the town of Porter on Sun
| day where picnic and an old time So
ciable was held The German band of
this city furnished the music and a large
number from here were present. That
An estimation could hardly be placed
upon the value of the recent rains to
growing crops the past week. The dry
weather and high winds had retarded
the growth of vegetation to such an ex-
| tent that the farmer had commenced to
feel blue and it had depressing effect
upon all lines of business. But now the
earth smiles, the farmer smiles and all
the world smiles with them.
The EARN and Home" a paper
formerly published by J. T. Wiley at
GAINESVILLE, has merged with "The indie
| pendent Farmer a monthly journal
! published by W. r. Hotchkiss, Of the
same city. The new journal is spicely
edited on topics pertaining to the farm
industry, and has good advertising pat
ronage. There would seem to be an open
field for such paper in Rock county.
The Albion band have been supplied
with new uniforms, and in honor of
the event they will give reception in
the town hall in that village Wednesday
evening, May 18th. No admission will
be charged and everybody is cordially
invited. Albion has in former years
maintained as good musical organiza-
ton as any small town in the state, and
the present band is no exception to the
rule. The members are all good must
clans, earnest and attentive to their
work and some fine music will be rem
dered next Wednesday evening.
Rev. Frank L. Moore and several
boys, members of the Junior Endeavor
society of the Congregational church,
/ INDUCED in an outing Tuesday after
noon. They visited the picturesque
places along the banks of the river Rock,
including the Devils Oven" Wild
flowers were gathered in the woods and
! long refreshing ramble was had, the
Rev. Mr.. Moore enjoying the trip as
hugely as any of the party. They were
all the Moore family for the afternoon
and one little fellow very pointedly re-
marked "Theres Allan Moore, Warren
Moore, Paul Moore and lot of other
Moores, but we haven't lawn mower"
When the east bound passenger ar
rived at this station Monday forenoon,
the conductor notified Marshal Reynolds
that man narrowly escaped being run
over about mile west of town. He was
lying crosswise the track and as the
train approached the engineer whistled
several times and the man rolled down
the embankment just in time to escape
being crushed to death. Marshal Rey-J
holds, accompanied by three or four
men, went in search of the man. He
was met in the deep cut opposite the
Driving Park and was trying to make
his way toward town. It was Andrew
Peterson and he had paralytic jag
which was great impeachment to navi-
cation, Mr.. Peterson was brought to
town and placed in the lookup. The
stock of drinkables found on his person
consisted of two pints of whisky and one
pint of alcohol. Tuesday morning he
was taken before Judge Smith and
fine of $3.50 was imposed. The same
forenoon "Duck" Walrath was taken be-
fore the same tribunal and received the
same fine.
AS a wolf catcher, John Bates of
Fulton is entitled to glittering medal,
fifty inscribed. For several days Mr..
Bates had seen an old she wolf in the
woods near his farm and the first of the
week he started out to locate her den.
He found large hole in bank which
looked like as though it might be the
home of a hungry wolf Mr.. Bates
camped near the hole in the ground for
a short season and kept his ear near the
opening. He could plainly hear young
cubs barking and growing. After stop
ping up the hole so that they could not
come out, Mr.. Bates went home for a
shovel. The digging was good and it
did not take long to get to the bottom of
the den where he found five young
wolves The little fellows resembled
Shepherd puppies in size and color and
were pretty lot. On Monday morning
he took them to County Clerk Starr in
gainesville as vouchers that he had been
IN the wolf killing business. Thirty dol
lars is the sum which Mr.. Bates will re-
ceive for the capture, three from the
county and three from the state.
Arbor Day.
The Arbor Day exercises of the public
schools will be held in the Congreea
tional church, Friday morning, Nav 9th.
The exercises will begin at half past nine
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