The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-04
Local Happenings

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Mae Spencer was in Chicago Tues
d ay and Wednesday.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs NJ. e. Conway on Monday.
-Chas. Bowen is home from Milwau-
t1ee where he has spent the summer.
d. F. Heddles and wife were down
from Lake Kegonsa for brief stay
Thursday.
The Elgin price of butter bobbed up
another cent this week. The market is
291a cents now.
A. L. Mcintosh of La Crosse visited
among relatives here during the early
part of the week.
Charles Shannon came down from
Westby Monday evening to spend few
DAYS with Edgerton relatives.
Rev, L. A. Parr and wife and John
j. Pearson are attending the Congrega-
tional convention at Oshkosh this week.
Mrs. VIM. Barnes fell last Saturday
morning at her home, sustaining the
fracture of one OF the bones of her arm.
Some of the members of the M. E.
Society will serve coffee Oct. 9th in the
church basement, as usual from 4:30 till
all are served.
The Missionary Society of the Con-
gregational church will meet on Friday
afternoon at $3.50 at the home of Mrs.
Chas. Bentley.
Judge Smith and his daughter, Mrs.
Learn, returned Saturday evening from
a months vacation spent among rela-
tives in the East.
Marvin Marsden is suffering from
three fractured ribs sustained by falling
on the back of a chair at his machine
shop last Friday.
The August Dumann property has
again changed hands, sold this week to
August Weisan, consideration S2lOO.
Sale made by G. e. Sweeney.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hyland announce
the engagement of their daughter Mona
to Howard Seman of Mitchell, S. D., the
marriage to take place at Mitchell on
Oct. 9Th.
The October term Of the circuit
court convenes next Monday with a cal
endar that contains about eighty actions.
Edw. Peters is the only juryman drawn
from this city.
Job Marsden and wife returned from
Letcher Dakota, Saturday morning and
Mrs. Marsden has since been confined at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Vickers
this city by illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Ell. Bowen left Fri
day evening for Portland, Oregon, with
view of paying an extended visit to their
daughter, Mrs Robert Smith, who re-
sides at Van Couver, Wash.
The Ladies Society of the NJ. e.
church have elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: Pres, Mrs. Jane
Kelley; Vice Pres Mrs. Stella Hatch;
Sec Mrs. Laura Holton; Treas, Mrs.
Jessie Birkenmeyer.
Casper Scharfenberg brought to this
office the other day eight potatoes that
weighed 60 pounds, grown by him, of
the Gen Rusk variety, which he thinks
is far superior for the table to any tubers
he has yet seen.
DIR. E. L. Shepard was taken back
to Rochester, Mimi. Sunday evening,
where it is expected he will soon under
go al operation at the Mayo Bros hos
pital. A. S. Flagg and a nurse accom-
panied hi n to Rochester.
Irving Crandall of this city and Miss
Nellie Walrath of GAINESVILLE were mar
ried at the court house by Justice Reed
er on Thursday last. a special permit
having been obtained The bride is a
daughter Of the proprietor of the Union
house in that city.
According to DR.. j. Fl. Burdick of
Milton, who makes weather observations
for the national weather bureau, the
rainfall so far this year has been "a
inches, or two inches more than the
ofCAoSC PACCikito1lOA III ehio SUI
ton, and there are three months left of
the year.
Mel Johnson is in Chicago this week.
Frank Finkel died at the Elver
hotel, Madison, Monday, of consumption,
after an illness of two years, aged 81
years. The deceased leaves wife and
two children. He formerly lived here
and was employed as engineer at the
brick yards for time. He had $4,000
of life insurance in the Modern Wood
men.
The special train arranged for the
Jefferson county fair last Thursday fail
ed to make the connections advertised
and somewhere near fifty Edgerton peo.
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