The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-20
Harley Barnson of Beloit called on


friends here Monday.
Marvin Marsden was in Burlington
on business Wednesday.
HI. Stangl was an over Sunday
visitor with relatives in Muscoda.
Mrs. Geo. McGifin passed a portion
of the week with relatives in GAINESVILLE.
"A daughter was born into the home
of Frank Sager, who recently moved onto
the Carrier farm in Fulton, last Thurs
day.
Oscar Rowe and family of GAINESVILLE
expect to move up to their cottage on
Lake Koshkonong for the season next
! week.
Albert Muse, suffering from broken
back, has been removed to the Rock
county poor farm after having spent two
years in Chicago hospital. Muse was
a blacksmith in Chicago and was injured
by kick of horse. For two years his
former employer paid for his treatment
at the hospital. He is fitted out with
steel rigging which holds his backbone
in place.
"A little -year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Lynts was quite severely
burned Saturday and but for the pres
ence of mind of ten-y ear-old daughter
the accident might have ended fatally.
The little fellow got hold of match
which he lighted, setting his clothing on
fire, and was pretty we'll enveloped in
flames when the elder sister ran for some
water and put out the fire, but not until
her hands were badly blistered.
VIM. Bardeen and wife were happi-
ly surprised Tuesday evening by small
company of friends. 1t was their fifth
wedding anniversary and the friends as
sembled to remind them of the occasion,
and to tender their regards in the way of
few pieces of useful wooden ware. The
hours of the evening were passed at
cards, music from the photograph and a
few impromptu remarks by Bardeen.
Luncheon was served and all report a
pleasant time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Clarke enter
tanned little company of friends at
their home Wednesday evening. Each
guest was requested to represent IN some
way some prominent and we'll known
| character. This was diversion which
kept the company guessing for some
time. An island contest and charades
afforded ample amusement and after a
delightful luncheon followed by music
the company dispersed, looking back to
most delightful gathering.
Elder Milton Wells, an old and re-
spected resident of Footville and a cler-
gyman known throughout this part of
Wisconsin, died suddenly April 10th. He
was taken i'll with heart trouble Sunday
night at o'clock and on Monday pneu-
monia developed The deceased was II
years old and veteran of the civil war.
The funeral was held Friday afternoon
at o'clock from the Christian church,
the services being conducted by the
Masons. Interment was made in the
Center cemetery. Elder Wells was Col
onel of the Fifteenth West Virginia reg
iment during the civil war and was
brevetted brigadier general for bravery.
"A peculiarly distressing accident &C.
Cured in the chemical laboratory of the
GAINESVILLE high school Tuesday after
noon when Miss Vera Nolan, fifteen year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Nolan, sustained injuries which will cost
her the use of her right eye. Hydrogen
was being generated from acid in a flask
and the customary precaution of light
ing quantity of the gas removed in the
test tube. so as to determine whether Or
not there was any disturbing quantity
of air pressure, had Eeen performed
without showing any dangerous indica-
lions. When the light was applied to
the flask, however, it exploded and one
piece of the flying glass lodged in the
eye of the student operator, cutting
across and through the iris and into the
lens, and utterly destroying the front
chamber. The diagonal cash was three
quarters of an inch long.
The Katharine Ridgeway Concert
company will fill the last date of the lee
| ture course at Royal hall, Saturday even
ing, April 18th. The numbers of the
program are all taken by artists selected
by the Redpath Lyceum Bureau. Miss
Ridgeway is one of the most pleasing
and successful readers before the public
today and her selections are the choic-
est, newest and best. Miss Bessie Bon
sail, contralto, and Z. Francis Hughes,
tenor, are both singers of recognized
merit and have place in the foremost
rank of modern vocalists. Mr.. Leo
Tecktonius pianist with the company, is
| a graduate from the best schools of
music and has wide reputation in his