The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-11-25


list of Farmers Institutes for the COM
ing winter.
Twenty cents pound was the pre-
vailing price of Thanksgiving turkey
this year, aud they were not very plen
tiful at that price.
The Ladies Society of the Catholic
church will give cinch party in I. A. &
B. hall Friday evening of this week. All
are invited to attend.
-Lost-Somewhere in the city on
Monday last a watch charm bearing the
K p. emblem. Finder please return to
Fl. NJ. Raymond at the City Laundry.
Mrs. Paul Watson is at the home of
her parents, c.. B. Carey and wife, in
Stebbinsville, helping to care for her
brother Alva, who has been i'll with ty-
phoid fever.
II. B. Earle cashed in all his election
winnings this week and it amounted to
the snug sum of S23o0. The largest
amounts were placed in Milwaukee and
everyone proved winner.
The Gem restaurant, conducted by
Frank Collins in the Pollard block, is
being we'll patronized and is convenient
and neat place to get warm or cold
lunch. Menu cards with prices attached
show relishabe dishes at small cost.
Prof. Norton will open a dancing
school in Academy hall Friday evening,
Nov. 25th. instruction will be given
from 7 to 9 o'clock and social hop will
follow until | o'clock. This school will
continue for ten weeks. Season tickets
for instruction, including dance to fol-
low, $500 to gents, $500 to ladies and
$500 to Intermediates. The first evening
free. Everybody is cordially invited.
No spectators allowed.
Saturday was sugar beet day in Ed
tons marketed here on that day. On
Monday seventeen cars of them were
billed for Menomonie Falls, making
about one hundred and twenty five cars
that have gone to that factory from
this market It is the intention to have
all the beets delivered for there the
present week. Owing to the lack of
storage room, shipments to the James
vile factory have been suspended for
few days.
Local huntsmen who went to the
northern part of the state to shoot deer
were successful in getting their share of
game and sport. Z. B. Earle brought
back one, G. E. Shannon two, Aaron
Wallin two and J. Mast one. Friends of
the hunters have been treated to cuts of
juicy venison this week as the law does
not permit deer carcases to be sold. Mr..
Shannon says the express car on the
train he returned from the north carried
over sixty deer.
Arrangements have been made for
the removal of the Morse Pottery works
from this city to Rockford, ILL., Samson
& Epson have been conducting the pot
terry here for the past year and some of
their latest designs in pottery have
proven good sellers on the market. A
Rockford man who has been selling the
ware in large quantities made the firm a
proposition to establish the pottery in
that city and it has been accepted. The
change will not be made until about the
1st of January.
In the way of permanent improve
ments the city has forged ahead some
this season. A good portion of the funds
used has been put into sidewalk pur-
poses, and good sidewalks go long way
towards giving any place thrifty ap-
pearance. There are about nine miles of
sidewalks within our limits, some good,
some bad and some worse. But about
two more seasons like the one just clos.
ed will see the bad and worse ones
oblitersted from the typographical map.
The total number of rods of cement walk
mer is five hundred and .forty-four,
and this added to that laid in the two
preceding seasons make trifle over four
miles. The total cost is ten dollars and
seventy-five cents per rod and of this
amount the city pays about one third.
the cost of grading and filling. Main and
Rollin streets are in the lead in cement
work this year, being credited with
eighty-four rods each. In addition to
the walks there has been laid about one
hundred rods of cement gutter at cost
of eight dollars and seventy-fve cents
per rod. Only three cross walks have
been put in and they average fifty dol
lars each. In all probability another
season will see large number of them
laid, as the common council propose to
provide special fund for this purpose.
The present council have in some in