The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-17
Mrs. A. E. Stewart returned Tues

Steele, of Hood River, Oregon, have
been visiting Miss Nellie Bentley here
during the week.
Mrs. Washington Potter, wife OF
one of the pioneer residents in Albion,
died Wednesday morning. Funeral
services will be held on Friday after
noon
In compliance with the new ordi-
nance, the saloon keepers cleared their
rooms of screens and shades Wednes-
| day.
&C. H. Babcock is in Milwaukee this
| week attending the meeting of the
Grand Lodge F. & A. M. as representa-
tive of Fulton Lodge No. So.
"A baggage agent has been located
at Lake Kegonsa for the season so that
campers can now check their belong
ings to the lake station instead of to
Stoughton as heretofore.
Miss Anna Downey of Dunkirk was
operated upon Wednesday at the Mercy
hospital in GAINESVILLE for appendicitis.
| She has been in that city.for some time
and graduated last week as nurse.
| Miss Winifred Coon has been in
Chicago this week visiting her sister
and attending the commencement ex-
ercises of the American Conservatory
of Music where Miss Nellie Bentley
graduated with honors.
"A large attendance is desired at
our next regular meeting, June 21st,
as the report of the Twenty-seventh
Annual Convention of the Woman
Relief Corps will be given. Lizzie
Williams, Corps Pres.
The case of VIM. Schrub, charged
with selling liquor to minors, came up
in Justice North's court on Tuesday.
District Attorney Fisher was here to
prosecute, but Ray Olson, the complain
! ing witness, was not to be found and
the case was put over until July 9Th.
AT meeting of the directors of
| the Edgerton Wagon Co. Friday even
ing, the purchase of the necessary ma
chinery was authorized and Mr.. w. H.
Wheeler of Beloit was engaged as con-
| sulting engineer in the installment of
the same. The building is getting so
far along that the machinery will COM
mence to arrive shortly
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Dickinson,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Conway, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. j. Dickinson, Mrs. Theo.
| Clarke, Mrs. j. S. Hutson were among
Edgerton relatives who attended the
wedding of Miss Harriet Hutson and
Mr.. L. B. Croker of Mexico, at the
home of the BRIDES parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. c. Hutson in Madison at 2 p.
m. Wednesday.
While the fremen were attending
the funeral of L. K. Jessup on Thurs
day afternoon, fire was discovered is
suing from the hay NOW over Thomp-
sons livery and the alarm called them
Immediately to the scene. The fire
was soon gotten under control and but
little damage resulted, the loss being
| covered by insurance. The cause of
the blaze is somewhat of a mystery.
The cut stone for the new front for
the Tobacco Exchange bank has arriv-
ed and the work of erecting the same
will commence at once. The improve
ment in the bank block, which was be-
gun last fall, was carried so far into
cold weather that replacing the front
with ornamental cut stone was delayed
until this year. When the proposed
changes completed and tiled floors laid
the bank will present very handsome
appearance.
Mrs. j. @. Emery, wife of Dairy
and Food Commissioner Emery, was
removed from the general hospital at
Madison Monday to her home in Albion.
Mrs. Emery has been patient at the
hospital for almost ten months She
was taken there last September with
fractured hip, receiving the injury by
falling over CuG lOOlSCOOi III d SlO0plIlS
car while she and Mr.. Emery were re-
turning from trip to Salt Lake City.
During her injury and convalescence
Mrs. Emery has exhibited remark
able degree of patience and cheerful
ness of spirit.
Here is an item that is going the
rounds of the papers: A farmer finds
one-dollar bill and appropriates it, by
right of discovery, to himself. He goes
to town and pays it to newspaper
man on what he owed him; the news
paper man hands it over to a merchant
to settle his account; the merchant
pays his meat bill with it; and the
butcher pays it back to the original
finder to finish paying for calf he had
purchased. After which the farmer
takes it to the bank and discovers it to
be a cOunterfeit and on the ensuing