The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-10-15
Local Happenings

Chicago visitors Monday.
John Bowen spent couple of days
in Rockford the first of the week.
Remember the Insurance ball game
at the Driving Park Friday afternoon.
John Parseek came over from Pal
myra for Sundays stay in Edgerton.
Friday, October 8, 1909, little girl
came to gladden. the home of John Lyke
and wife.
Henry Houfe is taking vacation
of a couple of weeks from his restau-
rant duties.
Miss Annie Armit, who is teaching
near Brodhead, passed Saturday with
friends here.
Frank Burgy has connectedu up hot
water heating plant in the editors
home this week.
Miss Eva Johnson and Miss Emily
Watson were over Sunday guests of
friends in Stoughton.
A ten pound boy baby was born to
George Schmeling and wife Thursday
morning, Oct. 7, 1909.
"A bright boy babe was born into
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Langworthy on Friday last.
Henry Bardeen of Wausau spent
several days of the week with the fam
lily of his son, Will Bardeen, in this
city.
On Sunday the German Lutheran
society issued call to Professor Kalb
of Portage to teach the parochial
school.
Miss Christie Bowen went to Lind
sey, Wis. last Friday evening, to pass
few weeks with Mrs. Herman Lid
ECKER.
Mrs. Chas. Spilman and children
will arrive home Friday after several
weeks passed with relatives in the
East
&C. w. Wright was up from Liber-
tyville Monday night to attend di-
rectors' meeting of the First National
bank.
Nearly fifty Edgerton people at
tended the matinee performance at the
Myers opera house, GAINESVILLE, on Sat
urday last.
Frank Lester, who is travelling In
the interests of Wilson Bros. in Iowa,
is home for short stay this week.
DIR. A. S. Heggen of Madison will
discontinue his visits to Edgerton and
be at an office in Stoughton two days
each week instead.
There will be joint meeting of
the two Aid societies of the Albion
church at Mrs w. w. Morrison's in
this city on Thursday, October 21st. =.
R. ]. Maltpress was called to Mil
waukee Tuesday to take charge of the
admissions to the National Dairy Show
which opens at the Auditorium in that
city this week.
&C. H. Babcock and T. A. Perry
each have half page ads, Johnson &
Larson have doubled their space this
week. 1t will pay you to look through
all ads in this issue.
Word comes from Rochester that
the recovery of C. H. Bliven from the
operation at Mayo Bros. is slow and it
may be some weeks yet before he is
able to return home.
New telephones lately connected
are F. H. Campbell, No. 40; August
Koehn, No. 237; Mrs. Ida Sewell, No.
las; Frank Brown, No. GA, and Henry
Kraus, 2 short and long on No. BOT.
The w. A. Shelley home in Park
Place has been sold to Alfred Ander-
son, possession to be given soon. The
consideration is said to be $1,000. Mrs.
Shelley expects to spend the greater
portion of the winter with relatives in
New York.
The land in Kurtz addition is fertile
without doubt. Potatoes planted in
George Rae's garden produced crop
below and above ground. Fair sized
potatoes grew on the vines, while at
the roots there were fine specimens and
lots of them.
Mike Schmidt is now comfortably
located with his exclusive shoe store in
the Campbell building with stock am
pie to serve all who come. When it
becomes necessary to seek footwear,
drop in and Mike will do his share in
trying to please both the foot and the
purse.
"A bold attempt to rob Gamm's
iewelry store at Madison was made
Monday noon. A Chicago thief threw
a brick wrapped'in towel through the
show window, snatched number of