The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-03-13

ing visit to relatives here during the
week.
Mrs. J.. e. Wescott is entertaining
her daughter. Mrs Grace Torpy, of
Footville.
/ Mrs. L. w. Persons and daughter
visited relatives ia Whitewater few
days this week.
DIR. E. L. Shepard returned Tuesday
evening from a two weeks trip to the
sheep ranges of the far West
! Mrs. Alfred Henderson was over
from Milton Junction for short visit
! with relatives during the week.
Miss Jennie Thoreson Of Chicago
! paid short visit the first OF the week at
! the home of her uncle, John Thoreson.
Mrs. Albert Rice, who has been
/ afflicted with rheumatism for the past
twenty years, has been confined to her
bed all winter by dropsy with no hopes
of recovery.
Invitations have been issued for
meeting of the Mons Club Of the Con-
gregational church at the home of Mr..
John Mawhinney on Friday evening OF
this week.
The Kvindeforening OF the Norwe-
gian Lutheran church will serve sup
per in the basement of the church Thurs
day, March 10Th, beginning at o'clock.
You are all invited.
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family from Nebraska here. has opened
a shoe shop in one of the Stillman build
ings on Swift street. Mr.. HUM was in
shoe shop here for number 'of years
prior to going west
Mrs. Nancy Howell has sold part
of her land to Ed Sommerfeldt for $125.
And her husband is led to remark that
"Your Uncle Isaac will neither toll in
the patch nor peddle the luscious straw
berry the coming season." The Howell
berry patch in former years has furnish
ed some of the best berries, and custom
ers were each morning supplied at their
DOORS
l. Street Commissioner Mcintyre has
been pretty we'll engaged this week in
blasting and rafting ice in Saunders
creek 1t is through his good work that
the bottom lands along the creek have
been saved from several days food and
much damage has been averted. The ice
jam at the lower bridge was the worst
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to start it down the stream. On Tues
day, however, it was broken and the
water along the creek dropped some two
feet in very few hours.
L. N. Bushorr of Pawnee, Okla, was
calling upon Edgerton friends Monday
after an absence of over twenty years
spent in the southwest. For about ten
years be has been postmaster at Pawnee,
f1ourishing town in the Cherokee strip.
He came up to be near his wife, who
submitted to an operation at Chicago
hospital last week. She is believed to
be fairly on the road to recovery now,
but will remain with her mother, Mrs.
Geo. Scofeld, at GAINESVILLE during the
summer
This is certainly good time of year
for the auto endurance test which was
undertaken from Milwaukee Tuesday
morning. The country roads are about
as bad as they will be in the spring
breakup and if they can successfully
weather the snow banks and deep mud
they establish themselves as reliable
machines. The run the first day was
Milwaukee to Oshkosh. The second,
Oshkosh via Ripon, Columbus, Sun
Prairie, Madison, Evansville to Beloit,
and the third from Beloit to GAINESVILLE
to Milwaukee again. Eight machines
started in the test.
William and Annie Jacobs, proprie-
tors of the Jacobs farm in the town OF
Albion, about five miles northwest OF
town, who are about to retire from farm
ing and will remove to Edgerton where
they built themselves cottage last fall
3 were rendered farewell surprise Friday
: evening by upwards Of twenty of their
3 neighbors and friends. Refreshments
were served and the evening was pleas
: antly spent in cards, and before leaving
] the guests presented their host and
hostess with handsome rocker as re.
membranes of the gathering. Mr.. Jacobs
, and his sister have resided on their farm
for thirty or thirty five years and are
a highly esteemed in their neighborhood
CONSUMERS of electric light will feel
somewhat assured that they are not get.
i ting the worst of it by the expert testi
, mony brought out at a meeting of the
electric light people with the state rail
! way commission last week, which went
to show that nearly all electric meters
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