The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-12-11

relatives IN Stoughton w wednesday.
"A ladies well worn hand bag pick
ed up near town awaits the owner at
! this Office.
&C. H. Banks went to Gays Mills
this week to take position in 0. R.
Pomeroy's drug store.
"A. F. Hammerquist and wife have
returned from Scion Springs and are
now with relatives at Sumner.
Miss Kathryn Ellingson will enter
tain the Pigeforening in the basement
of the church this Thursday evening.
John Copley and wife, John Dave,
wife and son Harold, and Mrs. J. D..
Whittet left Thursday afternoon for
California. They do not expect to re-
turn before May next.
The Pigeforening of the Norw Sgian
Lutheran church will hold the;f annual
| Christmas bazaar in the church base
ment on Tuesday, Dec. Is. The fair
will begin at 4 p. m. and supper will be
served at 5.
Herman Ruosch, son of August
Ruosch and wife, who was operated on
for appendicitis by DR.. Jackson at Mad
ison Saturday, is reported to be doing
nicely and will be in condition to be
brought home in few days.
| Martin Vehm of the town of Porter
has sold his 80 acre farm to Ole Olson
at $75 per acre. And J. E. Kennedy of
] GAINESVILLE has sold his 80 acre farm in
the town of Fulton to George Leitz for
| So, 200. The above sales were made
through the c. E. Sweeney agency.
"A telegram received here by the
Culton family Tuesday morning an
nounced the sudden death of Mr.. Henry
Aiken which took place at 5 o'clock
that morning at his home in Pittsburg,
Pa, due, it is supposed, to heart di-
sease. Mrs. C. r. Bentley left on the
10 o'clock train Tuesday and Mr.. and
Mrs. C. L. Culton and Mr.. and Mrs. J.
III. Culton Wednesday morning to be
present at the funeral to be held at
Pittsburg.
| In cases like the sad drowning on
Lake Koshkonong Saturday evening is
where the telephone becomes an almost
| indispensable feature in every home.
/ The first news of the calamity came
over the telephone at the Lake House
and instantly the Richardson and Coop
| er homes at MELVILLE were communi-
Gated with and searching party dis
patched to the lake very quickly there
after. It would have taken two or
three hours to have notified all the peo-
pie interested by any other means and
possibly the bodies might not have been
recovered the same evening. For the
next few hours the telephone was kept
so busy that at times there was not
switch cord on the board not in use.
An extra operator was put on to help
answer the calls of inquiring friends,
showing how important this agency of
communication is on occasions like this.
The City Federation of Women's
Clubs has joined the white plague
Christmas stamp campaign. A supply
of Red Cross stamps is expected the
last of the week and will be placed on
sale in the different stores handling
Christmas goods. The stamps are is
sued by the National Red Cross Society
consigned to the state headquarters,
from whence they are sent to any or
| ganization that will handle them. The
proceeds go to the tuberculosis
league of the state. 1t is hoped, that
every holiday package in Edgerton
will have at least one of these one cent
stickers on it. DR.. Harper of the state
board of health says, 1T is an excep-
tionally worthy movement and teaches
the people to fight the plague and the
advantages from the lesson are of great
er moment than the money" Use the
Red Cross Christmas stamps when you
do up your Christmas parcels.