The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-09-23
Local Happenings

lott college Tuesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert RAIDER visited
friends in Brodhead on Saturday.
Andrew Humphrey and wife left
Tuesday for Juneau to visit relatives.
Mrs. Belle Wilson and son Robert
were guests at the Heddles home in
Madison over Sunday.
The Edgerton Concert band has
been engaged to play at the Jefferson
County fair next Thursday.
DIR. Willard McChesney passed
Tuesday with friends in Wauconda,
ILL.,, and Wednesday in Chicago.
Mrs. j. A. Henderson and son Max
returned this week from month stay
at Duluth, escaping the hay fever
plague.
Miss Hazel Sweeney assisted IN
musical recital given by Mrs. Richard
SON at Evansville on Friday evening.
Henry Schmeling came down from
his farm in Shawano county for brief
visit to his family during the week, re-
turning Sunday evening.
Mayor Conway, P. c. Brown and
e. B. Ellingson have been drawn as
Jurors for the October term of circuit
court which convenes Oct. Bird.
The Dane county fair at Madison
and the Walworth county fair at Elk
horn have both drawn liberal patron
age from this city during the week.
William C. Thorpe, a druggist of
Milton Junction, had one of his fingers
ground off in an ice cream freezer Sat
urday. His hand was otherwise LAGER
ated.
B. o. Roskar of the town of Full
ton has sold his farm of 40 acres to j.
H. Jensen of the town of Albion. Con-
sideration $4,000. Sale made by c. E.
Sweeney.
"A carload of Wausau granite in
tended for the front of the new First
National bank building has arrived.
The stone will be fashioned here by
expert granite cutters.
-Thos. Biggar, who has charge of a
large tobacco plantation at Walker
vile, Canada, has been called here this
week by the serious illness of his moth
er, Mrs. James Biggar. in Fulton.
"A car load of Iowa oats were re-
ceived at this station Monday by Henry
Head, which are being distributed
among farmers in this section at 40
cents per bushel.
Here we are past the usual early
frost date with fine fall weather that
looks like it might continue the month
out, at which time everything will be
beyond the danger of injury from
frosts.
Mrs. Atkin Warren and family left
Monday for Lancing, Iowa, to join Mr..
Warren who has permanent employ
ment there, and with view of making
their home in that city.
w. S. Heddles has received cable
gram announcing the safe arrival IN
Rotterdam Of the party of which his
daughter Beulah was member, after
a pleasant voyage of nine days.
Mrs. VIM. Ccnnors, aged mother
of Will Connors, living west of town,
fell and sustained bad fracture of
her hip on Saturday last. She is it
her 89th year and her advanced age
makes the injury more serious mat
ter.
Ed and Carl Peters were in st.
Paul Monday, where they purchased
car load of fat beeves to be slaughtered
for their market The scarcity of suit
able beef cattle in this locality has
driven them to other markets for their
supply.
According to the Jefferson County
Union, that city's experiment with oil
as dust preventative is highly sue
cessful. The oil is not only economical
for that purpose but seems to preserve
the street surface as we'll. This was
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crushed stone.
M. H. Ford has been picking a Sec
ond crop of Strawberries from his patch
in this city, and they are fine ones, too.
After picking his first crop, Mr.. Ford
ran over the vines with lawn mower,
cropping them close to the ground.
Then the fresh shoots came on, bios
somed and began to bear fruit.
Indian Ford mushrooms caused
seven GAINESVILLE people bad scare re-
Gently, for they proved to be not of the
edible kind. While all of the gather
ing party which partook of them were
made sick, none of them permanently
suffer from the poison. Beware of In
dian Ford mushrooms!
From Boise, Idaho, comes the news
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