The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-07-31
Prof. F. M. Jack has gone to Port

Prof. F. M. Jack has gone to Port
Washington as conductor Of institute
work
-Jud Davis and family of Chicago,
have been paying their old Edgerton
friends visit.
Mrs. Hit of Chicago has been
passing a couple of weeks at the home of
Charles Carrier.
Mrs. Fred Carrier is entertaining
her sister, Miss Edith Coon of James
vile, for few days.
The Norwegian Sunday School will
picnic at Koshkonong hotel grounds on
Friday of this week. Conveyances will
meet in front of the church at 8 o'clock
in the morning.
Miss Lydia Jensen is entertaining
five classmates from the Ladies' Semi
nary at Red Wing, MINI. They are
camping at Lake Kegonsa and are chap
eroned by Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Hanson.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
road will sell excursion tickets to James
vile, Sunday August End, on account of
the picnic at Crystal Springs. Prof.
Lueder's Juvenile band will furnish the
music at the Springs. An excellent pro-
gram of entertainment has been arrang-
ed. Steamboat excursion from James
Vile to the springs.
The T. A. & B. Society picnic to
be held at the Driving Park Wednesday,
August 18th, will certainly be an affair
that you cannot afford to miss Every
thing this year will be on wider and
larger scale than ever before and the ar
engagements now point toward the best
picnic the society has ever given. The
speaking, music, ball game, horse races,
games and sports should all claim your
attention. About the crowd; that will
certainly be the largest ever gotten to-
gether in this city, and preparations to
care for all are being made. The play
Hall in the evening will give ali an OPP
portunity to finish the day of pleasure in
proper shape. Arrange your business
and work so that you may be able to at
tend this picnic.
Broadway is destined to be one of
many handsome streets for which Ed.
gerton is justly proud. Property owners
there are keeping pace with improve
ments being made in other parts of the
city and property values are on the up
ward slide. The improvements this year
in the way of cement walks and curbs,
new residences, beautifed lawns, paint
ing and repairing compare favorably
with any other street in town. The city
has also noted the needed improvements
which it ought to make and in conse-
quence brick crossings and other sub
stantial work has been done. In the be-
ginning the man who christened the street
Broadway little dreamed OF the beautiful
thoroughfare was in store for it in the
future. And it is predicted now that
ere ten years have passed it will be the
most desirable residence street in the
whole city.
An ordinance should be passed in
this city, and especially, too, not only de-
tining the rights of transient dealers,
patent medicine fakirs, curbstone quacks
and the like, but fixing a license fee
heavy enough to either prohibit their
traffic entirely or to so discourage it that.
the nuisances will move on. The only
ordinance now governing in any way this
sort Of business is one giving no discre-
tionary power whatever to the authori-
ties and granting the privilege to the
applicant upon the payment of a paltry
fee to the city treasurer. These timer.
ant dealers take hundreds of dollars
from credulous people without just COM
pensation, interfere with legitimate home
trade, obstruct the streets and make
themselves generally obnoxious.
When, Oh when are we to enjoy the
luxury Of riding on the interurban rail
road? The promoters were in a great
hurry to secure franchise here and in
GAINESVILLE as they wanted to start i'm
mediately with the construction of the
road. Sixty days have passed since the
granting of the franchise and it has not
yet been accepted by the company
Neither has the company applied for a
franchise at Stoughton or Madison.
While we don't want to &c Knockers"
the road seems as far off as it did three
years ago when Edgerton granted Phil
Spooner a franchise. Another thing,
great many of our people do not want
the road to build on Front street and
some of our merchants and others have
signed petition and presented it to the
council protesting against the road run
ming on Front street, as it will prevent
farmers and others from using the streets