The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-11-27

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The election OF officers OF the W. K.
| G. takes place at the next regular meet
ing, Dec 1st.
Mrs. J. A. johnson and son, Melvin,
spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. +. r..
Wilt in Chicago.
The Elgin price of butter was ad-
vanced two cents this week. The mar
| ket is "a cents
The skating season is on again and
the younger generation have enjoyed a
| full week Of it.
The Edgerton Cornet Band will give
social dance in Academy hall (this)
| Wednesday evening.
Robert Cook has rented Alfred Col
Inns place for the coming year, in the
town of Dunkirk
R. J. Maltpress sold 20 barrels of
apples to Stoughton parties and Is bar
rels to Milton parties.
Amos P. Wilder, of The State Jour
nal, was caller in Edgerton for short
time Tuesday evening.
Charlie Ratzlaff, VIM. Maves, Annie
and Lizzie Schmeling have gone to Wat
ertown to pass the Thanksgiving with
friends.
Dave Lampman has secured posi-
ton as day operator at GAINESVILLE and
will remove his family there in few
days.
The w. w. Williams homestead has
been sold by T. j. Atwood to Chas.
Sweeney for $500, being the third trans
fer for the property inside of year.
The Bon Ton restaurant in the
Schmeling block, conducted by Thos.
Madden for the past year or so, has been
sold to Mrs. Gertrude Mccarthy.
Those from out Of town who at
| tended the funeral of Orrin Pomeroy on
Saturday were Nj. Pelton and wife, w.
L. Peton, Mrs. Geo. F. Brown, John
| u,
| wife, Ben Grove, Jessie Grove, Mrs. C..
| O. Sutherland, GAINESVILLE: W. Woodstock
and wife, Henry Woodstock and wife,
Lima: Mrs. L. Page and son, Stou5 hton.
"A husband, wife and small babe
| were stranded ia Edgerton Monday,
among strangers, without the means to
! purchase lodging or meals. They told a
hard luck story about being beat out of
their wages in Michigan and needed
only temporary charity until the man
| could find job. Their wants were pro-
vided for, but they vigorously protested
against being sent to the county house.
| The supposed Internal machine that
was found in the office Of the Grand Cen
trail hotel in the village Of Oregon week
ago has turned out to be simply dry
carbon battery used IN telephones. The
officers of the village took the thing out
in an open field and tried to explode it
| failed they shot il full of holes with a
rifle, still the thing stubbornly refused
| to explode. Finally one brave man went
up and found that it was simply an or
binary double tube carbon battery.
| The season for corn shredder acct
dents is again at hand. A few days ago
William Handke, nephew of Frank
Handke of Fulton, had his left hand
crushed in shredder. He was trying
| to put belt on while the machine was
in motion, when flying ear of corn
struck his hand causing his arm to drop
and button on his sleeve caught in the
chain, drawing his hand into the gear.
But for the instant stopping of the ma
! chine by his brother he would have lost
his arm.
State Superintendent G. P. Cary has
| given out list of the free high schools
Of the state that are to participate in
the apportionment of the 100000 annu-
ally distributed. The Edgerton high
school comes under this head and will
receive the sum of S43457, Under the
law, no school is entitled to more than
$500. With the exception of the town
ship high schools, those having four
year course of instruction this year will
each receive S434 81. The amounts that
schools having three year course of in
struction will receive is from Sl521O to
S434.57.
Lake Koshkonong is frozen over to
the depth of two or three inches, putting
an end to the carp SEEMING for the season.
In fact, the carp harvest closed nearly
two weeks ago when during fierce gale
the tug used in hauling the net swamped
and sank to the bottom of the lake. All
but the pilot house was under water but
it has since been raised. Hunters say
that millions of canvassback ducks
came into the lake just previous to it's
closing over or their flight to southern