The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-05-20

Frank C. Hall of Manchester, Iowa,
was in Edgerton Monday greeting old
friends.
w. A. Shelley has been spending
the greater part of the week at his
Milwaukee store.
The Ladies society of the Norwe-
| gian Lutheran church will meet with
Mrs. Martin Mason at her home in Al
bion on May 10Th.
Fred Biessman, Carl Klinger, Bert
Jung and Herman Handtke went to
GAINESVILLE Tuesday to make application
for their naturalization papers.
The Alumni Association of the high
school will hold its annual meeting in
the assembly room of the high school,
Friday evening, May 20, at 7:30.
-Theo. Clarke has sold his residence
on Albion street to DR.. B. L. Cleary
for $4,000 and will give possession
June 1st. A quarter section of Dakota
land was taken in part payment.
ID. F. Mccarthy Of Porter lost
valuable horse Friday. He had driven
it to town and left him at livery
stable while he went away on the train.
In the meantime the animal was taken
sick and died from ruptured stomach.
w. S. Heddles arrived home from
trip to the Pacific north coast Sunday
evening On his return he visited the
family of his brother Frank living on
fruit ranch at Paonia, Colorado. He
reports that their prospects for a bum
per crop of fruit are excellent.
Two cans of rainbow trout fry, Sc
cured from the state fish hatchery on
application of D. w. North, came Mon
day and were planted in near by
streams. 1t is estimated that the two
cans contained about $1,000 fish each.
Later it is expected that other varie--
ties will be sent from the hatchery.
The Honeymooners at Royal hall
Friday evening, May 20, will not only
be interesting to you, but to all your
friends, for it certainly will show all
the funny phases of newly welded
couple. The company is a good one
and they will give you laugh for every
cent you invest. Seats on sale at ASKS.
Early gardening this year is full of
disappointments. All the tender plants
subject to freezes have been nipped so
often that there is at present little to
show for all the work started weeks
ago. Three heavy frost sufficient to
make ice on open water have occurred
during the week. The second crop Of
leaves on the willows and naples were
frozen again during the unseasonably
cold spell. Vegetation has made but
little progress for the past three weeks
and the dry weather is also curtailing
the pasturage.
"Wednesday was busy day again
for Judge North--a sort of aftermath
of the Stoughton celebration-when
seven plain DRINKS were brought be-
fore him. No partially was shown,
all being a dose from the same bottle
$40 and trimmings, aggregating the
unlucky number of $13. Two of them
dropped off the train from Stoughton
in such a condition that they were
gathered in before they got away from
the station When it comes to import
ing talent of this kind we draw the
line.
Quite large delegation of Edger-
ton high school teachers and pupils at
tended the oratorical contest at White
water Friday, though our own repre-
sentatives who were winners in the
Rock River league failed to secure a
place in the awards which were as fol-
lows: Boys section George Yahn,
GAINESVILLE; Justin Davis, Reedsburg;;
! Allyn Wright, Columbus. Girls sec
tion-Lela Fairchild, Beloit; Della Car
lin, Columbus: Mary Clamer, Fort At
kinson. The judges were Prof. c. S.
Pray, Principal R. L. Cooley and Prin-
cipal T. W. Boyce, Milwaukee; Supt.
Phil. Kolb, Oconomowoc, and H. 0.
! Hamilton, Whitewater.
The Stoughton Weekly Courier-Hub
issued special edition on Friday, May
18th. 1t consisted of sixteen pages
printed on fine quality of book paper
and every page was model typograph
ically, while the press work showed the
painstaking and skill of an up-to-date
pressman It's columns rounded out
with articles on timely topics by able
writer's and the liberal advertising pat
ronage was finely illustrated and well
displayed, all helping to boost the in
terests of the community. Under the
! proprietorship of Mr.. J. M. Hubbard
the Courier-Hub has grown to be one
of the best of papers in Wisconsin and
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