The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-08-07
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1908
CORRESPONDENCE
Neville
(Too late for last week.

(Too late for last week.
Fred Richardson is the victim of
very painful felon.
Mrs P G Maxson is entertaining COM
pany from Illinois and Minnesota
Ed Steinke is having his gasoline
launch repaired by E Carrier Of Edger-
ton.
Misses Boyd and Armstrong of Lima
visited at the home of f Sherman last
week.
Mr. and Mrs Will Vivian are having
two weeks outing at Lee Alder's cot
tage.
The Conway, Kellogg and Wixom fam
lilies had family picnic in Richardson's
grove Sunday.
Mrs p LEVEL returned to her home in
Beloit Monday after spending week
among relatives here.
Mrs Frank Burdick and children of
Edgerton spent a couple of days at the
home of G L Richardson last week.
Richardson's held family reunion and
picnic in the grove Sunday. Relatives
were present from Beloit. GAINESVILLE and
Edgerton.
Mr. and Mrs w Davis of Milton re-
turned home Sunday after two weeks
outing spent here They boarded at the
home of Will Stricken.
Lee Alder got his hands burned Fri
day while extinguishing a fire on the
launch Paul Jones'" The fire was
caused by lightning.
Mrs Whitney and son Arthur have re-
turned home from two years stay in
Pennsylvania and will again take up
their residence among us.
Mrs ] Webley and children of Evans
vile spent a week visiting her sister,
Mrs Max Brown. Mr. Webley came Sun
day and she returned home with him.
Cambridge
At the home of the brides parents,
Mr. and Mrs E Warne, on Wednesday
afternoon, July 29th, at 2:30 o'clock, &C.
CURED the marriage of Miss Dorothy 2
Warpe to Mr. Carl d Nelson.
The people of our village were shock
ed and grieved on Tuesday evening when
it was learned that Thomas Leslie Sew
erson, little son of Mr. and Mrs Lewis
Severson, was dead He died at o'clock
that evening at the tender age of
years, months and % days. The cause
of his death was brain fever.
One section of the mill dam across
Keshkonong river gave way last Monday
night and since then the mill has been
obliged to rely on steam power The
river had been low for week but the
heavy rain north of us last Friday
brought down good supply of water.
A new concrete dam is being built to
take the place of the section which
broke out.
Rodell Ward, a young man aged ~
wears, was drowned in about three feet
of water in Lake Ripley Sunday. He
had driven from his home in Oakland
Just about at the noon hour and while
waiting for some friends at Cedar Lodge
decided to take swim in the lake. He
secured a bathing suit and had gotten
only short distance from the shore
when he was taken with cramp and
disappeared beneath the water. A little
girl playing on the shore heard him cry
for help and went to call some one, but
when help arrived no trace OF him could
be seen, and he was in the water about
20 minutes before he was found.
Mr. James Douglass, the oldest resi-
est in the state, died at his home in Lon
don Monday afternoon, July 9th, at 81!
o'clock He had reach the advanced ag,
of SO years, months and 81 days, ani
had he lived until Nov 1st he would
have celebrated his one hundredth birth
day. The cause of his death was genera
debility. His last illness was OF fifteel
weeks duration, but up to that time h
was hale and hearty and remarkabl,
active for man of his age. Jane
Douglas was born in Ireland Nov l, 1906
and came TO America with his wife ant
two children in Their year 1880. He cam
to Milwaukee by boat and then proceed
ed westward overland. When he got a
far as Jefferson county he found suit
able farm in the town of Lake Mill
which he purchased. Here he locates
with his family and endured all tn
hardships of pioneer life. In 1882 b
met sad bereavement in the death O
his wife, and after spending few NOR
years on the farm he moved to Londo
where he purchased home to spend hi
declining DAYS.