The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-26


business Monday.
-Edgerton VS.. Milton at Driving Park
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob johnson were
among those who went to DEBORAH on
the excursion.
&C. l.. Brown OF Hammond, La,
called upon old friends in Edgerton a
few days this week.
Miss Clara Stevens returned to Be-
lott Monday after spending week OF
her vacation at home.
The Ladies Aid Society Of the Nor
wegian Lutheran church will meet at
the home of Mrs. Charles Adolphson on
Thursday, July 2.
Make preparations to stay and see
the vaudeville show and hear the open
! air concert here on the evening of July
4th. Both are free and frst-class.
One OF the best jobs of road making
| in this city for years, is that from the
Phoenix block to the railroad crossing.
| The present street committee are to be
commended on the work they are doing.
The Ladies Society Of st. Johns
Lutheran church will give picnic IN
Shoemaker grove on Saturday, July
18th There will be games and sports
and refreshments will be served. The
proceeds will 60 toward fund for deco
rating the church. All are invited.
MIR. Matt Reynolds of California paid
a visit to his sister, Mrs. JOS Leary, here
few days this week. Mr.. Reynolds is
locomotive engineer running on the
Santa Fe line and will go to New York
to visit other relatives before returning
to the coast.
Miss Janette Atwood, the first assis-
tant in the Cumnock School of EXPIRES
sion in Los Angeles, CAL, has returned
| to spend the summer with her parents,
after which she will return to resume
her position there. Her sister, Miss Au-
gusta Atwood, will teach expression in
one of the Milwaukee high schools the
coming year.
The Edgerton Eastern Star Chap
ter entertained the members of the Cam
| bridge Chapter in social session at the
lodge rooms here Tuesday evening.
Lunch was served on arrival of the Wis
| itors at O'clock after which lodge work
was exemplifed, Mr.. and Mrs. Saml Hall
being the candidates for initiation. Over
sixty were in attendance and a very
pleasant evening was passed.
People who have attended the work
out of the horses that are being trained
at the Driving Park say there will be the
| finest lot of races here on the 4th ever
given in Edgerton. There is no town in
! the state that shows as many fast ones or
competent to get as warm races out of
| home talent. AS old horseman as Lee
Brown says it is surprising the advance
ment Edgerton has made in the line of
good horses since he left Edgerton.
w. A. Shelley and L. G. Whittet re-
| turned home Monday from a weeks fish
ing trip in the vicinity of Trout Lake.
Their catch of muskellunge was very
satisfactory and a sample of what these
waters produce was sent home and dis
played at the Peters market last week.
| The fish was nearly four feet in length
and weighed 25H pounds. The trophy
was surely the envy of the local anglers.
--Edgerton is having more good side
walk built this season than ever before
in it's history. Two firms are busily en-
gagged in laying cement walks and have
contracts on hand that will reach we'll
towards mile in length. Those who
have put walks liz during the past week
are: Geo. Lynts around the meat mar
ket: DR.. w. Fl. Stillman, the Phoenix
block property; Chan Robinson, James
Greenwood, Maria Pollard, G. Johanne-
son, M. Fl. Ford, residences.
Oscar Perry and Harry McChesney
arrived home from Mexico Sunday morn
ing, after being on the road eleven days.
They were delayed by washouts and
floods, both in Mexico and at Ell Paso,
Texas, and were nearly week overdue.
The former is employed by the Mexican
Central Ry. and is in charge of supplies
in the building new extension of that
line this summer. Young McChesney
belongs to the staff of The Herald. an
English newspaper published in the City
of Mexico. The boys have months
vacation here before returning to their
employment.
Who knows below what foot of sod
human being lies, buried in years
agone? Even the Mcintosh sand pit at
some remote time was used as deposi-
tory for the dead. While shoveling out
sand last Wednesday, Pat Mcintyre un-
earthed human skull which to all APP.
pearances was that of noble red man,
young in years and buried long ago.