The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-16

relatives in GAINESVILLE Thursday.
The annual stag of the Lobster Club
is billed to take place Friday evening.
The Ladies' Missionary society will
sell cake, beans, ETC., at Perrys store on
Friday p. N.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
with G. Ell. Babcock next Wednesday
afternoon.
Regular services at the M. E. church
next Sunday. Preaching by the pastor
at usual hours.
Barton Tate and sister, Mrs. Roger
Watson, leave next Monday for Mime
sofa to visit their parents.
The Anderson Bros. of Albion deliv-
cred 43 head of fat cattle to P. G. Brown
Tuesday. They were fine lot and we'll
finished.
Mr. and Mrs. David Malcolm of
hartford, are visiting at the home of
their former pastor, Rev. E. G. Richard
son, in this city.
Dell Clark was called to Leonards-
Vile, N Y, this week by a telegram an
nouncing the serious illness of his moth
err, Mrs. Cottrell.
About eighty people in Edgerton
we're awarded third prize in the geo
graphical contest of Madison piano
company. The prize consisted of an
eighty dollar coupon, good in part pay
ment on one of their pianos.
"A smallpox scare keeps away a
large amount of outside trade" says the
Stoughton correspondent to the State
Journal Of course, and this is the rea-
son why he wants to rub in into Edger-
ton" by promoting the scare.
Some pretty severe winter weather
was experienced several days this week.
Sunday and Monday nights thermome-
ters reached the zero mark and the roads
that were badly cut up during the re
cent thaw were in about as rough con-
dition as possible. The cold wave
brought snow enough to cover the
ground again. Spring seems indefinitely
postponed at this writing.
Gilbert e. Biugstad and Lima Mel
son were united in marriage at the Nor
wegian Lutheran parsonage Saturday,
March 10th, by Rev. j. Linnevold The
brides brother and sister, Anton and
Carrie Nelson, witnessed the ceremony.
A wedding supper was served to imme
diate relatives and friends at the home
of the bride. Mr.. and Mrs. Bjugstad
will make Edgerton their home.
-"Should the Use of tie Bible IN tie
Public Schools be Permitted" is the
topic for discussion before the mid-week
meeting at the Congregational church
this evening. Prof. Roethe will speak
on the benefits of secular education, and
Mr.. Wright upon the benefits of relig-
ious education. Rev. PARIS theme will
be "The Bible as Literature" A large
attendance is desired at these meetings.
The family of Fred Sherman, living
on the Albion road, are under distress
irg affection. Six children have been
down with scarlet fever of a severe type.
A ten year old daughter, Della, died
after an illness of less than two days and
the physicians in charge say there is but
small hopes of saving one or two more
of the children. The family is in poor
circumstances and the occasion is one
that appeals to charitable people.
Professor Roethe and the two con-
testants in the declamatory contest, Miss
Wilson and Mr.. Ellingson, will attend
the district contest to be held in Slough
ton Friday evening. Owing to exagger-
ated and highly colored reports regard
ing the smallpox condition in this city,
the Stoughton people have requested our
school not to send delegation to the
contest, and the request has been
granted.
i Mrs. G. E. Shannon and Mrs. F. w.
Coon reached home Friday afternoon
from very pleasant ten days visit in
Florida. The most of the time was
passed at Moundgrove, an orange planta-
ton near Oomond, which is shipping
this season $500 boxes of oranges and
1900 cases of grape fruit. They called
upon DR.. Stillmans family at Daytona
whom they report as enjoying the pleas
ures of a winters stay in Florida.
Next Tuesday, March Goth, the vot-
ers of Edgerton will have an opportunity
to march up to the city hall clothed with
all the dignity of freeborn and enllght-
ened American citizens and deposit their
free and unurammeled choice for whom
they wish to become candidates for a
small, measly, insignificant Office in the
municipal government - positions that
nobody wants and scarce indeed are the
men who can be prevailed upon to &C.
IL