The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-07-18

1. o. G. T. hall, Indian Ford, Friday
evening. Proceeds for the benefit OF
the church.
A test of the recall law is to- be
made at GAINESVILLE next Tuesday when
a special election will be held to deter
mine whether Mayor Fathers will re-
main in office or be replaced by j. G.
Nichols.
Pres. Frank Hyne and Sec. Fred
Gilman of the Evansville fair associa-
ton were in town Wednesday boosting
for their organization. While here the
Edgerton band was engaged for one
day of the fair which is to be held
August 20-22.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union will hold social meeting
Friday afternoon at o'clock at the
home of Mrs. ]. J. Culton. A program
will be furnished and refreshments
served. All ladies of the city are in
vited to be present.
The season for midsummer clear
| ing sales is here and Edgerton mer-
chants are offering attractive prices to
close out nearly all lines which the
thrifty buyers will be anxious to take
| advantage of. It is surely the money
saving time of the year.
Hal Martin, the young attorney
who has purchased the law business of
L. E. Gettle, was in town Saturday
looking for house to rent with a view
of bringing his family to Edgerton.
| Places to rent are the scarcest thing to
be found in our city at present.
| The arrangement committees for
the big T. A. & B. picnic to be held
here Wednesday and Thursday, August
6 and z, are working like beavers and
by next week we will be able to outline
| the events for the two days. People
from surrounding towns are now max
| ing plans to come and it is expected the
crowd will be record breaker.
| -Thos. Tallard, seven year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Tallard, acct
| dentalIy shot himself through the first
finger on the left hand Monday with
80 calibre revolver. The boy secured
| his fathers gun as pattern to make
a wooden revolver and while carrying
it with one hand over the muzzle he
touched the trigger and the weapon
was discharged, making an ugly flesh
wound.
| The annual meeting of the Edger-
ton Electric Light Co. was held at the
office of the company here Saturday
afternoon, being attended BY several
| members of the GAINESVILLE Electric Co.
which practically controls the property.
No change was made either in the
board of directors or officers of the
| company. The business meeting was
followed by dinner at The Carlton
| hotel
| The farmers in this community
need have little cause to worry about
moisture for month to come at least.
Sunday nights storm brought close to
two inches of rainfall, while that of
Friday and Monday nights brought an
equal amount, so that four inches of
moisture within the week saturates the
| soil to depth that no drought for
some time to come need be feared.
! These are somewhat unusual rainfalls
for midsummer.
| j. Herbert Snow, who for the past
three years has been employed as en-
gineer and in charge of large con-
| struction camp on the Los Angeles
aqueduct, has been visiting among old
friends here during the week. The
| gigantic undertaking of bringing the
water supply for Los Angeles from a
reservoir $50 miles back in the noun
| tains is one of the greatest engineering
| feats of this age. The work is now
about three quarters done, and that
which Mr.. Snow has been in charge of
has been that of boring tunnel through
| the mountains.
| All SISCtIlC otOAnlt p1OOdOly tuC
most severe one experienced in this
locality in years, swept over this Sec
ton Tuesday evening. For nearly an
hour there was almost incessant flash
ing of lightning while rain fell in tor
rents. A chimney on Mrs. Lucy Prin-
| giles house was struck and the brick
| thrown and scattered in all directions,
and many buildings in the country hit
by lightning. The lightning did more
damage to the Edgerton Telephone Co.
than any storm since it was in business.
Over 100 telephones were knocked out
of commission, many of them being
burned out, requiring new parts.
The general impression seems to be
that the $4,000 appropriation voted at
the annual school meeting last week
| will NOT he levied l1nlacc f1rthor cotton