The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01


Miss Jennie Taylor came up from
Chicago to pass the Christmas holiday
with Miss Minnie Johnson
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Manard of
Oak Park, ILL.,, were Christmas visitors
at the John Bowen home
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Bliss of James
vile were guests of DR.. and Mrs. Nc
Chesney Tuesday evening
Fred Phifer and family and VIM.
Barrett and family spent Christmas
with relatives in Stoughton.
Remember the New Year ball in
Academy hall Friday evening. A good
time is promised if you attend.
Miss Martha Meister of Chicago is
here for few days visit with the fam
lily of her uncle, Herman Venske.
-Osmund Gunderson and son Adolf
plus and Miss Nellie of Stoughton spent
Christmas with Edgerton relatives.
james Croft and daughter Minnie
were up from GAINESVILLE to pass Christ
mas with Arthur Clarke and family.
The Pigeforening is invited by Miss
Amanda Peterson to meet in the church
basement Thursday evening, Jan. Z.
Mr.. John Bendoun and wife of Mil
| waukee were entertained at the home
| of August Schultz and wife Christmas.
The Elgin price of butter was
boosted another cent hhis week, 80
cents being the top-notch of the season.
The Kvindeforening will be enter
tanned by Mrs. Sern Peterson in the
basement of the church Thursday, Jan.
| 7th.
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Painter OF
Harvard, ILL.,, passed the holidays with
their mother, Mrs. j. H. Price, and
brother Eugene's family.
Misses Madge and Marie Burnham
of Madison are guests of Miss Hazel
Underhill and other friends in Edger-
| ton during the holiday week.
Mrs. Grace Getting and little son,
who have been visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. "A. Perry, returned to
their Chicago home Wednesday morn
| ing.
! Fred w. Bentley, wife and two
sons and Mrs. Cody, mother of Mrs.
Bentley, of Chicago, were guests of c.
r. Bentley's family over the Christmas
holiday.
Henry Ebbott and family attended
the reunion of the Bunting family held
at the home of Amos Bunting in the
town of Albion on Wednesday. There
were upwards of fifty relatives present
The Henry Marsden homestead on
| Albion Prairie has been sold through
E. M. Ladd's agency for Charles Mars
den to Lars o. Lem Jr. Eighty acres
containing the farm buildings brought
$11, ZOO, or S137. SO per acre.
The skating rink is drawing crowds
that equal the Kinks of former days.
Better skates, better music and more
| careful look after the comforts of pa
irons make better time and that ac-
counts for the liberal patronage.
Mr.. Will Pope and wife of Milton
vile, Iowa, are guests at the home of
| H. r. Houfe. On Christmas Mrs. Dur
fee of Carpenter, Iowa, and Mrs. Will
johnson of Columbus, Wis, sisters of
Mrs. Houfe, were entertained at the
| Houfe home.
Herman Ruosch, son of August
Ruosch and wife, who short time ago
was successfully operated on for APP
pendicitis at the hospital in Madison,
was brought home last Friday. There
is every promise of a complete recovery
within few days.
Some unusually fine calendars are
being distributed by Edgerton business
concerns. Both banks, Peters Bros,
| Stricken Bros, A. E. Stewart, the De-
partment store, Ratzlaff Bros, Atwell,
May Spencer and several others had
handsome souvenirs.
| Thomas Nicholson and family re-
| turned to their home in Aurora, ILL.,,
on Monday after passing the holiday
at the home of his brother, A. P. Mich
olson. The Nicholson family just
escaped the unlucky number, there be-
! ing fourteen at the Christmas dinner.
The homes of James Ogden and j.
E. Greenwood were remembered in a
kind and sensible way on Christmas.
Miss Susan Maltpress presented them
with phones, paid for year in advance.
This about complets the circuit of the
Maltpress family in city and vicinity.
New Year services will be held in
the Norwegian Lutheran church Friday
forenoon at 1890 Sunday morning
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