The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-03
Fred Ratzlaff passed Sunday

Milwaukee.
Chris. Biederman of Marshall, was
in Edgerton on business Tuesday.
Fred Becker has built an addition
to his residence in the third ward.
Mrs. Harry Ash is attending the
grand lodge Order of Eastern Star in
Milwaukee this week.
Sixteen carloads of western sheep
and lambs arrived at the feeding yards
Tuesday for short stay.
An eight room residence built by
Atwell & Blanchard in the Willie sub
division is nearing completion.
Mrs. Priscilla Spike departed yes
terday evening for Tyndall, S. D., for
a few weeks visit with relatives
The meeting of the Rock county
physicians association to have been
held in Woodman hall Tuesday even
ing, was postponed one week.
j. S. Miller, wife and daughter and
the formers sister, Mrs. A. E. Ferris
of Spring Valley, ILL.,, departed Tues
day for Montana for a few weeks
stay.
The Ladies' Society of the Nor
wegian church will be entertained by
Mrs. Robt. Jensen and Helen Jensen,
Thursday, Oct. 9, in the church base
ment.
The stated communications of Full
ton Lodge No. SO F. & A. M. will here
after be held the first and third Tues
days of each month. Next stated COM
munication Tuesday, Oct. Z, at 1880 p.
m. Important work.
The charge against j. w. Dawson
for selling liquor to minor on July A,
which has been hanging fire in Justice
Dawes court for several weeks, was
called Saturday and on consent of the
district attorney the proceedings were
suspended. We understand the matter
has been held in allegiance at the re-
quest of interested creditors.
-Wendall w. Cornwall and wife of
Spencer, Iowa, were calling upon old
time friends in Edgerton and Albion on
Tuesday. Mr.. Cornwall who is the
son of Prof. Cornwall, for many years
in charge of Albion Academy, is now
practicing attorney at Spencer and en-
joying a lucrative practice. He first
located in Dakota and few years
later moved to Iowa, where he was
elected clerk of the supreme court OF
that state.
Costs Vast Sum to Make Rock River
Navigable.
H. E. Reeves, a United States en-
gineer, assigned to estimate the cost OF
the proposed improvement of Rock
river from GAINESVILLE to the Mississippi
river, has finished his work and places
the figures at $4,000, 900, to include all
necessary dams and locks as we'll as
widening the channel in places and
making it sufficiently deep for river
boats to navigate.
Mr.. Reeves is also obtaining the
views of water power owners along the
proposed route and reports that the
project is being received favorably.
The proposed reservoir system in
cludes Lake Koshkonong, the Madison
and Oconomowoc chain of lakes, Hutis-
ford lake, the Horizon marsh, the Bark
river and the Pecatonica river. These
reservoirs would have an aggregate
storage capacity of 3,O00,0 900 cubic feet
of water, sufficient to maintain at ] anes-
vile 1000 cubic feet per second, and
below Rockford 5000 cubic feet per
second. Owners of existing water
powers would be expected to pay about
one-third of the cost of creating the
reservoirs. The plan of the reservoirs
is similar to that on the upper Wolf
river by the water power owners at
Appleton, Neenah and Menasha.
This is the engineers view of the i'm
provement, showing it's feasibility. The
next question is, are the benefits suf-
fcient to warrant the expenditure of
several millions? Then again, how
about the damage to property owners
about the proposed reservoirs? We can
almost imagine what would result from
raising the level of Lake Koshkonong
few feet to the farms about it's
shores, putting hundreds of acres of
pasture and tillable lands out of COM
mission that are valuable. The same
conditions would doubtless exist with
the other proposed reservoirs. The
three million dollars, estimated cost,
will only make beginning for much
larger appropriation of government
funds.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
Court Lackner has brought suit