The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-12-07


Fred Wyman, wife and son of Mad
ison, ate their Thanksgiving dinner with
Frank Wyman and wife.
Mrs. Tiesberg entertained the Pige-
forening in the church basement on
Thursday evening, Dec. 9th.
VIM. Raath, Milwaukee Medical
College student, spent Thanksgiving
day with Edgerton friends.
H. G. Telefson was in Milwaukee
and Chicago the first of the week buying
goods for his furniture store
Mrs. w. Ford, who has passed the
last three weeks with friends here, re-
turned Sunday to her home in Indian
apolis, Ind.
Tie Pigeforening of the Norwegian
church will give their annual fair and
supper, Thursday evening, Dec. 18th, in
the basement of their church. Doors
| will be open at 1870 p. N.
-Edgerton Lodge Knights of Pythias
will confer the Rank of Page on three
candidates next Tuesday evening, Dec.
18th. At the conclusion of the work
refreshments will be served.
-Edgerton Chapter No. So O. E. S.
will hold regular meeting Tuesday
evening, Dec. 18th. The officers for the
ensuing year will be elected. Refresh
ments will be served by the men.
During the late muddy spell the
need of more cement cross walks has
been fully demonstrated. The ones now
laid were the only crosswalks that
person could pass over without wadng
in mud nearly to the shoe tops.
The ladies of the W. r. G. gave Miss
Lille Vayette a happy surprise last
Wednesday evening, when about forty
walked in at her home ladened with
good things to eat. A very enjoyable
evening was passed and Miss Vayette
was presented with a solid silver spoon
as a remembrance of the occasion.
Camp $40 M. w. A. will hold it's
annual election of officers this Thurs
day. evening. 1t is the first regular
monthly meeting and will be opened at
8 o'clock. All members are requested
to be present. The Royal Neighbors
will hold their annual election Wednes-
day evening, December 18th. A full at
| tendance of members is desired
The eighteenth anniversary of the
marriage day of Harry Ash and wife was
the occasion of about twenty four of
| their immediate friends dropping in for
| dinner last Friday. The company
! brought we'll filled baskets of ali the
good things that 60 to make up we'd
| ding feast and very pleasant hour or
two was passed. Two Georgian table
spoons were left as reminders of the
occasion.
Mrs. Lawrence Barrett died at her
her home in the town of Center at half
past seven o'clock Wednesday morning,
at the age of IS years. Deceased was an
| old resident of this section, having spent
most of her life in Rock county. She is
survived by five sons Peter, John,
Lawrence, William and James. The
| funeral was held from the home Friday
! morning at nine o'clock and from St.
| Patrick's church in GAINESVILLE at half
! past ten o'clock.
The Retailers Journal, a grocery
! publication, states that it has informa-
| ton that the mail order house of Sears,
Robuck & Co. will quit handling grocer
| les January 1st and assigns as the reason
! of the withdrawal to the national pure
| food law which goes into effect on that
date. It long has been common knowl
| edge that many retail mail order houses
| have done an immense business in cheap,
! adulterated and misbranded foud pro-
| ducts. Under the new national food law
they will find it impossible to handle
| any but pure goods, and there is every
reason to believe they cannot proftably
do this. The falling off in the grocery
trade of the retail mail order houses is
; attributable to the growing agitation
; against their business in general, and
! against the class of food products sold
by them in particular. In the latter re-
gard numerous exposures by state food
departments have exerted a powerful in
! tluence.
/ The financial statement of the city
government for the year ending Sept. 1st
! will be found published on another page
of this paper and the figures will be
found interesting to the taxpayers who
might care to know how the money has
, been spent. The statement shows that
many unusual expenses were paid out of
public funds during the year that may
not occur again for some time. For
instance, about $500 was invested in ex-
tensions to the water works system, be-
sides the new reservoir had cost at that