The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-03-24

w. S. Brill and G. P. Touton Sun
dayed in Milwaukee.
Work in the rank of Knight at the
X. P. lodge Tuesday evening, March %.
Mrs. w. A. Shelley passed several
days of the week with relatives in Chi
cago.
Ole Hogue is at Rice Lake shearing
800 lambs which T. B Earle has been
feeding at his farm near that city.
Parties having Stilson wrenches and
wire stretchers belonging to Henry Eb-
bolt will confer great favor by return
ing them at once.
"A ten months old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Aug. Willie died Sunday of pneu-
monia. Funeral services were held from
st. Johns church Tuesday.
"A telephone booth and pay station
has been installed in the reading room
of the Carlton hotel for the convenience
of long distance customers.
Mrs. Mott and two sons, who have
been with relatives in this vicinity the
past six weeks, returned to their home
in Beloit Monday afternoon.
Henry P. Peterson, state factory in
spector, was in town Tuesday visiting
the tobacco warehouses to see it any
child labor was employed contrary to
law.
Sylvester Walrath, one of the pio-
neer farmers of Fulton, has become a
resident of Edgerton, having rented the
George Lynts residence on the cemetery
road.
Walton Pyre will come to Edgerton
Wednesday. evening, March 10Th, with
the strongest cast of players he has ever
had together, and on that evening will
present "The Fool and His Money" 1t
is play that no one can afford to miss.
About six inches Of snow and sleet
fell Sunday just as the first covering had
about disappeared. A few days of sun
reduced it to slush and there is but lit
tie left now to remind US of the roaring
March storm.
John Dormer, an escaped patient
from Mendoza, was picked up on the
streets Saturday night by Officers Camp
bell and Ratzlaff and held in the city
lookup until an attendant from the hos
pital came after him Monday.
The dwelling house on the O. O..
Melaas farm near Nora was destroyed
by fire Sunday night. How it started is
a mystery. The blaze broke out while
the men were doing the evening chores
about the barn. There was an insurance
of $500 on the properly.
The Edgerton Cornet band, assisted
by some of the best local talent. are re-
hearsing for a big minstrel show, to be
produced on April 10th, at Royal hall.
1t will be the biggest and best produc-
ton ever attempted by amateurs in Ed
gerton. One of the special features will
be boys chorus. Watch for the NAM
moth parade.
Jerry MCGOWAN, who has made his
home for several years past at the Noe
farm in Albion, died Saturday morning
after long illness of pneumonia, aged
48 years. Little is known of his former
life, except that wife and son living at
Watertown survive him, who were pres
ent at the funeral services held from St.
Joseph's church Monday afternoon.
A correspondent to the FIT. Atkinson
Union writes protesting against the carp
fishing in Koshkonong and tributary
waters. He charges that the nets now
obstructing many of the streams empty
ing into the lake so that the game fish
cannot get into the head waters to
spawn; that the pulling of nets destroys
the wild celery and Injuries more or less
of the fish which are not taken and if
persisted in will not only make duck
hunting poorer. but damage the pros
poets OF the fishermen who favor these
waters. Another point raised is that the
carp fishermen are the only people who
derive any benefit from the fishing oper-
atoms.
Relatives and friends here have just
been appraised of the marriage of Miss
Lenora Quigley and Mr.. John Ryan,
which took place in Chicago on the 9th
day of January last. Miss Quigley is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. P. M. Quigley
of this city and is model young woman
with large circle OF friends. The groom
is an upright and industrious young
man, we'll and favorably known to many
In this city, and at present issa contract
ing carpenter in Beloit where he has a
good business and bright prospects for
future prosperity. The young couple
are living in Beloit and it was during a
few days visit here recently that Mrs.