The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27

The new cable for the Edgerton Tel
ephone company has arrived and is be-
ing strung this week.
Remember the date OF the Wood
men picnic at Madison, Wednesday, June
lst. Excursion rates.
H. S. Sloan was down from Madison
and passed a couple of days with his
Edgerton friends the last of the week.
"A large number of relatives from
here attended the funeral of Clarence
Gunderson which was held in Stoughton
Wednesday.
DIR. Henry Ogden of Fort Atkinson,
accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. W.
G. Gilbert of Evanston, ILL.,, were guests
of Mrs. Electa Coon on Monday.
Ed Lawrence departed Wednesday
for St. Louis to attend the fair; Fred
Brown is filing Eds position at Morris
sey's store during his absence.
The much despised dandellon has
an intrinsic value OF from four to six
cents per pound. There are lot of
these in this city which any importer
may have for digging and nothing said
about pay. ::
The ladies of st. Josepb's church
are preparing to furnish dinner at Royal
Hall next Tuesday, the date of the dedi-
h. oh
The proceeds will go TO the benefit of
the chur CHI fund.
After this week j. 7. Dixon will box
the remnants of his stock and retire
from mercantile business in Edgerton.
He will continue to reside in Edgerton'
but business plans for the future have
not fully been decided upon.
AT the M. E. church next Sunday
morning Rev. Van Horn of Albion will
preach. In the evening union memo
rial service will be held for the G.. A. r.
and w. r. G. Rev. Parr will preach the
sermon. Special music by the choir and
the ladies' quartet will give one or two
selections.
The first band concert from the new
band stand took place Saturday evening
and the music discoursed was apprecia-
lively listened to by large audience
congregated on the street. The inten-
ton is to clean up the little park ada
cent to the band stand and supply it
with seats. This would be great &C
commodation to those attending the
weekly concerts.
The marriage of William Maves and
Miss Lizzie Schmelling took place at the
home of the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ferdinand Schmelling, Wednesday
evening at s o'clock, Rev. Spiman ofic-
iating. The affair was very quiet one,
only immediate relatives being invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mayes are young people
and have large circle Of friends in this
city who extend congratulations and
wish them a long life of happiness and
prosperity.
The meeting last Friday evening
called for tho purpose Of arranging 4uh
of July celebration was not largely at
tended, but those present favored hold
ing one here this year. The. first step to
be taken was to secure financial back
ing for the undertaking and a committee
consisting of Mayor Ladd, T. B. Earle
and Joseph Leary was selected to solicit
funds for this purpose and report at the
next meeting, to be held at the Carlton
Friday evening, May 9th. E. G. Hop
kins, treasurer of last years celebration,
was present and reported that something
like one hundred and thirty dollars was
in his possession as starter for this
years fund. 1t is requested that there
be full representation Of the business
men interested il holding celebration
at the meeting Friday evening.
In speaking Of the sugar beet prob
lem, prominent farmer of Albion Prai-
RE said that in his opinion the industry
would prove a failure to many on &C
COuHI Oi over prOuuCLlOu' he average
farmer in his neighborhood was planting
from one to eight acres, and should the
crop turn out TO be just fair one he
predicted that teams could not be Sc
cured in the whole township in sufficient
numbers to market the beets. It would
take fourteen car loads day for three
months to transport the beets grown in
Albion to the factory. In most instances
the increased acreage of beets may be
subtracted from the former acreage of
tobacco There are other townships in
this vicinity that will produce more
beets this season than the town of Al
bion, and the question of early delivery
will be az important one.
The common council were out last
Friday on a tour of inspection of the
streets and roads, walks and bridges
within tha city limits Tn ,oocu ol,oo,