The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-06-23
J. W. Conn was in Milwaukee buy.


Henry Kaufman and wife visited
relatives in GAINESVILLE Sunday.
Mrs. August Peter is up from Rock
for few days visit with relatives.
The Ladies Society meet at the
Congregational church next Wedees-
day.
Mrs. Peak Bliven and daughter, Is
abelle, left Wednesday on a visit to rel
atives in Boston.
DR. Cleary was in Chicago to attend
a reunion of his class at the Medical
college on Thursday.
Mrs. Claude Hendricks and daugh-
ter of GAINESVILLE, were guests at the home
of Fred Jensen Wednesday.
Mr.. J. N. Anderson, missionary to
Canton, China, was visitor at Rev. F.
| G. Richardson's Wednesday.
Geo. Hargraves was called to Port
age Wednesday on business for the
United Cigar Manufacturers.
The young ladies of the Narcissus
!
Maltpress farm Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Frank Brown left Wednesday
| for Richland Center to visit for couple
| of weeks with Robert Minette and wife.
20. G.. Hanson and wife left Tuesday
evening for Minneapolis to attend the
Lutheran Synod in session there the
coming week.
Henry Schmeling accompanied his
family to Milwaukee Wednesday where
they will remain two weeks visiting with
Mrs. Schmeling's parents.
The Kvindeforening of the Norweg
| ian Lutheran church meets with Mrs. j..
Jacobsen at the church basement on
| Thursday afternoon, June goth.
The Fire Department, accompanied
by the Edgerton Cornet band left for
| Rice Lake Wednesday forenoon to at
tend the state tournament. Several
business men also accompanied them.
August Ratzlatf and wife, Chas.
Ratzlaff and wife, John Schmeling and
family, Fred Schmeling and family,
Paul and Emma Bruhn visited at the
home of John Maves near GAINESVILLE on
Sunday.
The weed commissioner has COM
menced to serve notice on delinquent
ones requesting that all noxious weeds
upon psoperty owned or occupied by
them be destroyed. This process ought
| not be demanded by residents, as person
al pride should avert it. Cut the weeds
and trim your shade trees along the
sidewalks before official request is made.
DIR. Robert Forbes of Philadelphia
will deliver his popular lecture, What
| Is He WORTH" at the NJ E. church Sat
urday evening. Mr.. Forbes takes place
among the foremost speakers on the
American stage. It is only through his
| presence at the convention that the peo-
pie of Edgerton have this privilege. Ad-
mission 25 and 15c.
Several days of extremely warm
| weather eliminated in terrific storm
Sunday evening that was accompanied
by heavy winds and hail in localities
where much damage was done farm
| property. In the towns of Dunkirk and
Pleasant Springs large number of to-
bacco sheds and farm buildings were
Frustrated and crops were badly battered
by nail along the track of the storm.
"A live topic for discussion on the
street and in the home during the week
| has been the proposed exchange of sites
between the Congregational church and
the public library, and the opinion of
nearly every body was needed, either for
or against the proposition; and after
all nothing has come of it except that
both would be better suited not TO make
the shift. The architect for the new
Carnegie library advised against the
change, and besides the title to the IL
brary site was vested in the city and the
common council must be consultad, who
! said no.
Telephone subscribers often wonder
why their calls are not answered at the
central more promptly, but if they
could look in at the central office and
watch the operators handle their work
during the busy hours they would learn
many things that tend to cultivate pa
thence and consideration for the girls
who are doing their best to serve the pa
irons of the Office. The morning busy
hours come between and 10 o'clock,
when nearly every family places orders
for the day with the grocer or market.
Often times half dozen or more calls
come in at once for single business
place and of course only one customer
can be served at time and the others
must wait their turn-but the housewife
at the other end of the phone probably