The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-09-09

TRENDS IN JanoSVllle during Mr. OI0pn-
ems absence at conference.
Joseph Warren and wife of Beloit,
were guests of VIM. Hammond and wife
the fore part of the week.
Mort Tuttle and Orville Barnes
were passengers on the Sunday morning
Woodmen excursion train bound for st.
Louis.
Miss Clara Jensen left Monday fer
Red Wing, Mimi, where she will attend
the seminary in that city the coming
year.
The fall term of school in district
No. 6 of the town of Fulton will begin on
Monday. Sept. II, with Claud Stout as
teacher.
You are sure to laugh at "Other
Peoples Money" when you attend the
performance of that clever comedy at
Royal hall tonight.
&C. W. Birkenmeyer passed three
days in Chicago the latter part of the
week securing bargains for the Depart
ment Store counters.
Mrs. August Peter, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Willie, for few weeks, returned to her
home in Rockford Thursday morning.
Will Fl. Carroll, the eminent come
dian, who is appearing this season in
"Other Peoples Money" says the role of
Hutchinson Hopper therein is more to
his liking than any part he has ever
played. At Royal hall tonight.
Rev. A. w. Stephens departed Tues
day for the general conference at Apple
ton. He does not expect to be returned
to his charge here and another assign
ment will be given him, much to the re-
gret of many Edgerton friends.
The four hunters, Carl Peters, G. H.
Babcock, P. M. Ellingson and James
Sayre,, who went north last week in
search of the prairie hen, report that the
birds are very scarce. While they bag
ged only about one-half the usual num-
Der, they report having had very pleas
ant time.
While coming to town with load of
cordwood last week, Fred North's team
became frightened at an automobile near
Mrs. Jacobus.' The team turned short
and upset the load, burying Fred under
meath. When he was uncovered it was
found that the only serious injury was
sprained ankle, and this will lay him off
from work for several days.
The harvesting of the sugar beet
crop in this vicinity will commence in a
short time and it is said that the crop
will turn out an average one. The Wis
consin Sugar Go. of Menomonee will
pay $3.50 ton for all beets which have
IA per cent of sugar and twenty-five
cents a ton additional for each per
centum above fourteen.
An exchange advises farmers keep
their eyes open for the Russian thistles.
The pest has appeared in Rock county
and if allowed to 60 undisturbed for a
year is capable of causing all sorts of
trouble the second and third season.
Colorado farmers had tustle with this
weed, and even today men are employed
in that state to cut the plant and burn
it. Like the tumble weed when it rip
ems and the seeds are ready to terminate
it tears itself from its roots and blows
around like ball, scattering it's seed as
it goes. In this way, while the first
years crop might be confined to a few
hundred bushes, the second year the
property owner would have to compete
with thousands of the weeds and the
third with millions. II taken in time
before it is ripe it can be exterminated.
After four months spent across the
water, Mr.. John Spencer arrived in Ed
gerton last Monday He left Southamp-
ton Saturday, August 25th, and arrived
in New York on Saturday, September
Sd, a pleasant weeks voyage across the
ocean. While abroad Mr.. Spencer not
only visited the scenes of his boyhood
days in England, but made a trip to
Norway and stopped for time in the
famous Morse capital, Christiana. The
largest lake and longest river of this
country were also viewed by him. AL
though the trip was one of many pleas
ures and interesting sights, yet the ever
changing scenes and absence of famil-
lar faces had their gloomy effects and
saddened recollections of the days when
he was boy and before he came to
America. For one OF his age, Mr.. Spen-
Ger stood the voyage remarkably we'll,
and the hearty hand shake of his many
friends is positive proof that his home
coming was warmly welcomed.
The road east of the bridge on
Chaucer street leads over long, high
hill and for the past fifteen wears Mr. n