The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-10-04

George McGifin of Richland Center
has been spending the week with Ed
gerton relatives.
Joseph Croft and daughter Naomi
were guests over Sunday at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Gill
bert, in Clinton.
John Kehoe Of GAINESVILLE suffered
a badly broken arm by the ditching of
a Ford auto near the Anderson farm in
Fulton on Tuesday.
Mrs. Orson Thompson and daugh-
ter returned the last of the week from
a weeks stay with relatives at Geneva
Junction and Beloit.
Mrs. Sarah Richardson of Fargo,
N. D., is here for visit with her
father and sister, John Spencer and
Mae. When she returns. home in about
ten days she will be accompanied by
her father.
B. J. Springer and wife returned
Friday from Michigan City, Ind, and
Chicago where they had visited with
relatives for two weeks. Mr.. Springer
assumed his position as night police
Sunday.
Last Saturday afternoon about
twenty lady friends of Mrs. Spencer
Clark planned and carried out sur
prise on her. They assembled at her
home prepared to pass the afternoon
and serve a lunch, which they did. 1t
was a most enjoyable affair and the
guests presented Mrs. Clark with
souvenir of the occasion. Mrs. Eugene
Clark of Stoughton was down to pass
the afternoon.
The street improvement work is
moving along slowly and residents and
business men on Henry street will well
come the finish, as it is now about
eight weeks since work was commenced
there and travel and trade have prac-
tically been prohibited during that
time Che foundation work is about
complete and the top dressing with
asphalt binder is being put on. When
completed the improvement to the
street cannot be estimated.
Next week announcement will be
made of the first number of the Fed
GRAFTON lecture course, which occurs
Oct. II. The ladies are delivering sea-
son tickets now. The price of season
tickets is: Adults, $1.00; students, 75c.
An attempt is being made to canvass
the city thoroughly. If, through any
error, you are missed in this canvass,
apply to F. E. Ash for your ticket to
the best lecture course ever given in
the city. Elias Day, the impersonator,
is the first number, Oct. II.
&C. H. Tellefson, who last week
went to Rochester, Mimi, underwent
an operation on Saturday for ulcers of
the stomach. A letter received by
friends here on Tuesday from Mrs.
Tellefson, who is with her husband,
states that the operation was success
full and that all conditions were favor
able. Mr.. Tellefson has been ailing
for number of years and has failed
to receive permanent cure through med
ical aid. His many friends here and at
RockdaIe will welcome the news of his
recovery.
Members of the German Ladies Aid
society drove to the home of Mrs.
Henry Krouse in Fulton Monday night
in honor of her birthday anniversary.
There were about twenty in the COM
pany and from the we'll filled baskets
carried sumptuous supper was served
at II o'clock. The evening was passed
with music and social good time and
before departing Mrs. Krouse was pre-
sented with couch cover and hand
painted plate.
In great measure the commercial
standing of a town is reckoned accord
ing to the number and value of it's en-
terprises; it's moral standing, accord
ing to the number and power of it's
institutions exerting a good influence
as opposed to those exerting bad.
These things being true, it should be
the intent of the citizens of a place to
encourage such new enterprises as
tend in any way to make the place bet
ter; for a town is greatly what it's citi-
zens make it, nothing more and nothing
less.
The editor of The Reporter return
ed Monday morning from nearly three
weeks trip to Colorado, where he Wis
tied the family of his daughter at Pao-
MIA in the fruit growing region of the
western slope during the harvest. His
son Warren, who has been west since
February last, returned with him. The
report that an enormous crop of fruit
had been grown in the western part of
the state he found tn he fll1lv verified