The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-02-10

-Ex-County Treasurer Miles Rice Of
Milton was visitor in Edgerton Tues
day.
Harry McChesney is up from Chi
cago for visit to the home of his par
ents.
The Elgin price of butter reached
the top notch price this week, selling at
81 cents.
-Forty-two hundred fat sheep were
at the feeding station Sunday in transit
TO market.
"A new steam heating plant on the
modern pattern is being installed at he
Carlton hotel this week.
Jake Badly returned Sunday even
ing from a visit to the scenes of his
childhood days in Pennsylvania.
The Pigeforening of the Norwegian
Lutheran church will meet with Mrs.
Chas. Adolphson, Stebbinsville, Thurs
day evening, Feb. 10Th.
Louis Levy and wife of GAINESVILLE
we're over Sunday guests of bis brother
in-law, G. P. Touton, at the Hotel Carl
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. G. Brown enter
tanned a company Of about 60 of their
friends with a card party Tuesday even
ing in a most enjoyable manner. -
-Drs. Wood & Mccarthy have opened
dental parlors in the Schmeling block
and offer special inducements to custom,
ers in another colu mn of this paper.
The Firemens ball Friday night
was attended by about $50 couples and
marked another of those pleasant occa-
sions for which the company are noted.
II. B. Earle left Sunday evening for
O. visit to his stock farm at Rice Lake
where he has bunch of 800 lambs fat
tening in readiness for an cent market
Leroy Saunders has rented the Pal
inter residence in the second ward and
intends to remove his family to this city
between now and April LET, leaving his
farm in Albion in charge of his son.
W. A. Shelley, G. G. Biederman and
L. G. Whittet left on Tuesday morning
for Bonita, La, where Messers. Culton
and Shelley have numbering interests
which they propose to develop shortly.
Mrs Scott Hatch gave a children's
party in honor of the birthday of her
three year-old son Saturday afternoon at
which about twenty proud mothers and
their young hopefuls were entertained.
The thirty-tfth birthday of Nels
Nelson was made the occasion of pleas
ant surprise given him at his home on
Tuesday evening, wnen about twenty of
his neighbors dropped in to pass the
evening.
The annual Declamatory Contest of
the Rock River Valley League will be
held in Edgerton at Royal hall March
18th The high schools comprising this
league are Ssoughton, Milton, Milton
Junction, Brodhead and Edgerton.
Father Mathews T. A. & B. society
will give social dance in Academy hall
Friday evening, March 3rd. Smiths Or
chestra has been engaged to furnish
music, and tickets will only cost seventy
Eve cents. Supper will be served at the
Bon Ton. All are invited.
Information received here from
friends in Florida is that the late cold
wave of wide extent covered the greater
portion of that state, running the un-
gathered oranges and vegetable crops
that were just coming into market. The
full extent of the damage is not known,
but it is believed the freeze was not so
severe as in 1894 when the orange trees
were killed.
Stephen Haight of Rockdale was a
visitor in Edgerton Tuesday. He says
the latest gossip up his way is that the
Cambridge & Lake Superior railway is
to be extended to Edgerton to accommo-
date the sugar beet growers along the
route who have figured out that it costs
too much to haul their beets to Edger-
ton or Cambridge for shipment.
j. Herbert Snow, who is in the en-
ploy of the Santa Fe railway, arrived
Sunday evening for short visit with
friends in this locality. He was in charge
of construction work for railway in Indian
Territory when the blizzard of last week
swept down upon that country burying
it under blanket of snow and sleet
An extreme cold wave followed the
storm when thermometers sank below
zero causing good deal of suffering and
loss to the range stock for time being.
Mr.. Snow says the Santa Fe Co. is build
ing an extension in New Mexico and
Arizona that will eventually shorten
their California route about 800 miles,
besides eliminating some of the heaviest
mountain grades and greatly lessen the
running time of overland trains.