The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
Mrs. Chas. Shannon and children of

Powell the mindreader, is special
attraction witt the Bell Ringers under
their splendid tents, here all next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Blessing and
grandson, Edward Healey, OF Chicago,
are visiting in this city with Mr.. and
Mrs. Weetman Dickinson.
Telephones that Manager Mckinney
has recently supplied are: A. 0. Hen
derson, residence, No. A. Mrs. Mary
Perrigo, residence, No. 139; Ell. j. Stangl,
residence, No. So.
The Epworth League of the NJ. E.
church will give an ice cream social Fri
day evening on G. Fl. Babcock's lawn.
You are all invited. If you 60 it means
good time for you and help to the
League.
Campers to the Delavan Lake AS
sembly are urged to go day or two be-
fore the opening of the Assembly in Or
der that they may get settled and be
ready for the first days session, Wednes-
day, July Both.
The following campers, who have
been at Lake Koshkonong for the past
few days returned home Tuesday even
ing: Mrs. Page, Mrs. Kellar, Misses Cora
Mosher, Blanche Clifford, Nora Learn,
Olga Hanson Clara Hanson, Mary and
Alyce Ebbott.
Evansville is making great prepare
tons for the County Fair this fall, Sept.
2, 3, 4 and 5. The premium lists are out
and may be had by application to the
secretary at Evansville. They had
good fair last year and propose to offer
better premiums, larger purses and bet
ter accommodations this year.
Grove Pomeroy who has position
| in Beloit, made heroic attempt to save
| Frank Canton, student of Beloit col
| lege, from drowning last Sunday after
noon. They were bathing in Rock river
| and young. Canton was taken with
cramps and cried for help. Grove swan
| to rescue him, but the frantic actions of
the drowning boy prevented him from
making the rescue.
Henry Z. Bardeen of Wausau, who
visited with his son, Will, over the
Fourth, is at the Palmer hospital at
GAINESVILLE where he submitted to an op-
Grafton on Thursday last for the removal
Of cancer. More than year ago he
injured himself while riding bicycle
that has since developed into cancer
Gus affection. His case is quite serious
though his condition since the operation
hopeful.
Back home! Hurrah, hurrah"'
| These are the words used at the begin
ming of a letter which Henry Willie wrote
to his father from California. Seven
teen months ago Henry enlisted in I'm
Gle Sans service and has been doing
duty in the Philippine islands. His COM
pany arrived in San Francisco July 9th
and are now stationed at one of the coast
forts. His time Of service is only half
out and he is glad to pass the remainder
in his own country
Reno & Alvord's show which exhib-
tied in this city Saturday was very
clean and entertaining performance and
pleased those who patronized it. The
children especially enjoyed every feature
of the show. The artists on the hori-
zontal bar, the trained dogs, Reno, the
magician, and the funny clowns were all
as advertised. The patronage was all
the management could ask for and con-
sequently satisfaction was mutual be-
tween proprietors and patrons.
Judge G.. V. Bardeen, accompanied
by his daughter, Eleanor, and Miss
Main Of Madison, were guests at 1.-THE
Bogart," Mrs. Jacobus resort, for a short
time during the week. This pleasant
summer home was the original home
stead of the Bardeen family and the
Judge came down to sleep once more
under the old roof and revisit the boy
hood scenes about the place. While
there is little left to remind him of early
days, the farm being cut up into small
sections and the buildings mostly re-
placed, there were still few landmarks
remaining that time even cannot efface
to recall pleasant memories of long ago.
The immense crop in all parts of the
country has caused an exceptionally large
demand for binding twine. The manu-
facturers have been unable to supply the
orders and in consequence local dealers
as a rule are not in shape to supply the
farmer. The price of Irvine has been
steadily advancing and at the present
selling price the farmer is paying dearly
for what he uses. The local dealer is
not the one to make the large profit, for
he too is taxed the raise in price. The
dealers in Edgerton are making an effort
to buy enough to supply their trade and
one nf than StataS that ha lie oorta;n Of