The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-17

Mrs. Ed Haugen will entertain the
Kvindeforening Thursday, Nov. %, IN
the basement of the church.
Rev. j. C. Spilman will conduct
services in the Norwegian Lutheran
church next Sunday at 2 p. M.
Mrs. C. L. Culton and Mrs. Henry
johnson attended party given by Mrs.
Mel johnson in Madison Wednesday.
There will be meeting of the w.
c.. 7. u. in the rest room at the public
library building Friday afternoon at 3
o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ash and Miss
Susan Maltpress attended the funeral
of Mrs. Jerre Heritage, an old resident
of Edgerton, at Madison on Saturday.
"A large delegation from this city
are planning to attend the Madison
Minnesota football game the big event
of the year-at Madison on Saturday.
People passing along the street dis
covered a fire just starting on the roof
of the Congregational church in time to
prevent a serious blaze Wednesday
evening. The chimney burning out
dropping live Goals on the roof was the
cause.
Because of evidence of tampering
with the jury, Judge E. Ray Stevens
in Dane county circuit court Monday
dismissed twelve men who were sworn
in to try DIR. A. r. Law, Madison
physician charged with manslaughter
in connection with the death of Mrs.
Annie O'Brien. A new jury was at
once empanelled. -
Twelve new members were taken
into the Methodist church here Sunday
morning. They are Mr.. and Mrs. John
Jensen, Amelia and Oscar Jensen, How
ard Wentworth, Matte Maltpress, Jes-
sic Biederman, Meta and Georgia Gift
ford, Doris Clarke and Helen Green
wood. Four Of these young ladies and
men were also baptized at the same
service
The circuit court jury calendar
melted away so fast last week that not
single case was sent to the jury and
everything disposed of except two dam
age cases against the Milwaukee rail
way, for which juries were empanelled
and the remainder of the jury dis
missed. Three cases will be tried dur
ing the week, making it one of the
shortest jury terms ever held in Rock
county.
The receivers sale at auction of
the T. A Perry stock was conducted
by The Central Wisconsin Trust Co. of
Madison in front of the Main street
block Wednesday afternoon. There
was quite gathering of out of town
merchants present and bidding at times
spirited. The dry goods stock was
finally knocked down to Andrew Jen-
son, president of the Tobacco Exchange
Bank, at gross sum of $4,000. The
Perry tobacco warehouse was sold to
C.. G. Biederman for $475. The prices
obtained are generally satisfactory to
the creditors.
"A runaway marriage in defiance of
the parents wishes has given cause for
printing columns of sensational matter
in the daily press concerning Miss
Hazel White. Her marriage in Chicago
on the 10th to Athol Bragg clears up
all the mystery of the case in her leav-
ing her GAINESVILLE home. Miss White
is daughter of Charles White, one of
the pioneers of Porter, who removed
to GAINESVILLE about year ago. She is
graduate of the Edgerton high school
and has numerous friends who are
panied at the notoriety given the mat
ter.
The weather of the week has given
us some lightning changes seldom wit
messed in this latitude and broken some
records as we'll. Saturday was the
warmest November II in the annals of
the weather bureau and Sunday the
coolest with a record of Z above,
sheer drop of 63 degrees in about "a
hours. But the cold of Sunday would
not have been felt so intense had it not
been for 60 mile gale that blew furi-
ously, searching every crevice and
chilling the blood of everyone who ven
tured out. And winter has only just
started!
The most important social function
of the week was birthday surprise
upon Mrs. Henry C. Schmeling, given
at Academy hall Tuesday evening. The
German Ladies Aid Society were the
originators of the affair, whose invita-
tons included their husbands and the
Young Ladies Society. Kneff's or
chestra gave concert from $50 to II
O'Clock, Lunch boxes were distributed
and an evening of real pleasure was
passed. About 70 couples were in at
tendance, those from out of town being
Mrs Geo VOepel Mrs BERTHA Nell-