The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-03-26
Marvin Marsden was a business

Frank at Footville during the week.
| Mel Johnson was down from Madi-
son for an over Sunday stay with his
mother.
| Miss Rose Harrington is home en-
joying a vacation from her school du-
ties.
Miss Esther Mcintyre spent Sun
day with her aunt, Mrs. Mooney, in
Brodhead.
-Mesdames Harrington, Barrett and
Riley visited with friends in Stoughton
over Sunday.
"A baby girl came to make glad the
home of Ferd Gessert and wife last
Saturday morning.
| Conductor Andy Leroy was in town
Sunday to visit C. R. Bentley who is
still shut up at his home.
Mrs. Chris Hanson and Miss Anna
Barness were over Sunday guests of
relatives in Orfordville.
-Sartoris Humphrey leaves Saturday
for Winona, Mimi, for few days
| visit with his friend, Rush Wentworth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Livick enter
tanned a pleasant card party at their
home west of town one evening last
week.
John Arthur, Sr., an old time resi-
dent of this city, has been quite seri-
ously i'll during the week and his con-
dition at times has been almost hopeless.
w. T. Pomeroy and daughter, Miss
Buelah, went to Burlington to pass
| Sunday with Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Pom
eroy, who has been with her daughter
there the past two weeks, returned
home with them.
R. L. Colvin of GAINESVILLE, propri-
etor of the finest bakery in this part of
the country, passed a few hours in
Edgerton Wednesday, calling on GUS
toners and exchanging ideas with old
| friends.
ID. w. North has received notice
from the State Fish Commission that a
shipment of 80, 900 brook trout fry will
reach here next Monday, which will be
| deposited in the head waters of Saun-
! ders creek.
The family of Jens Lund receive
very encouraging news from the hos
pital in Madison where Mrs. Lund was
operated on a week ago. AS soon as
her condition will permit another oper-
alton will be performed to remove gall
stones.
The afternoon west bound passen-
ger train for McGregor ran into an
open switch at Cross Plains one day
last week and collided with a string of
freight cars. The fireman and engineer
escaped with but few scratches, but
the line was tied up for few hours by
derailed cars.
The birthday of Mrs G.. E. Shan
non was thoughtfully remembered on
Tuesday evening when sixteen of her
lady friends paid her pleasant sur
prise by dropping in for an afternoon
at cards, bringing with them an appe-
tizing lunch. A token of their visit
was left as remembrance of the oc-
casion.
In sending his customary remit
lance to this office, C. H. Webster of
Rochester, N. Y, appends the follow
ing: fThe Reporter is ever and always
a welcome weekly visitor at my home,
bringing as it does the news of the
vicinity where my boyhood and school
days were passed, and chronicling faith
fully all events and changes which occur
with the passing of time. I am always
pleased to note the high plane on which
it stands in matters of public interest
in it's community and state and the ma
ton. Long live The Reporter.
About the time Sammy Clark was
hitching up to come to town last Sat-
urday, large flock of geese settled
down in field near his home. His son
brought rifle from the house for his
father to load and while doing so the
gun discharged, the ball grazing the
abdomen of Is year old daughter
standing near. . The wound inflicted
was only slight and is rapidly healing.
Most fortunate that the little girl was
standing in the position she did, for if
she had been facing her father the shot
would have proven fatal. 1t is need
less to say that the geese fed on Mr..
Clark's field that day unmolested.
1t looks now as though the open
air concerts in the summer evenings
would not be given as per schedule this
season. The band stand beneath the
wide spreading branches of the old elm
on Front street has been ordered moved
off by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway officials. and thew saw it