The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-25
Local Happenings

Miss Genevieve Holcomb visited
friends in Rockford ILL.,, this week.
Willard Wileman of Chicago is WIS.,
iting among former friends here.
The Elgin price of butter is up
cent this week-33 cents is the figure.
Fred Young and family will spend
Christmas with relatives at Reedsburg.
Rev. l.. H. Keller of Madison was
caller upon Edgerton friends Monday.
Miss Eleanor Hitchcock, teaching
at Union Grove, is home for the holl-
days.
Miss Marcella Coates of Baraboo
is a guest of her sister. Mrs. Freeman
Lyons.
Miss Hannah Lintvedt of Vivian,
S. D., is here to spend the holiday sea-
son at the home of her mother.
Otto Zieman of Fulton has taken
the Martin Mason farm in Albion,
where he will move in a short time.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Mcintyre are
up from Oak Park to pass the Christ
mas holiday with the editors family.
-Chas. Flagg, teacher Of manual
training in the public schools of Ash
land, is home for the holiday vacation.
Mrs. Rush Wentworth came down
from Granton, Wis, to pass the holi-
day season at the home of her parents
here.
The next entertainment for the
members of the K. of P. lodge and
their friends will be held Monday even
ing, Dec. 18th.
Geo. Sheffield and family and Mrs.
Shefield's brother, Mat Hicks, are
spending the Christmas holiday with
relatives in Chicago.
Christmas tree exercises will be
held at st. Johns church Thursday
evening. Rev. Spilman will also con-
duct services on Friday and Saturday
mornings at the usual hour.
Late services at ST. Joseph's church
at IL o'clock Christmas day. New
mass and special music under the d.
rection of Madison musician. Early
service at the Porter church.
Mr.. F. Bert Carr, one time propri-
etor of The Carlton hotel here, will,
after the new year, be employed as one
of the clerks of the New Morrison
hotel, the newest and largest in Chi
cagO.
Floyd Cook of Albion, who was
sentenced to states prison for two
years about six months ago, received a
pardon from the governor and returned
to his family home on Friday last.
Mrs James Ogden and son Willie
departed last Thursday for Boston,
Mass. They go to visit Roy Ogden,
who is in the United States naval SER
vice, but is now on a vacation and is
passing the time with his wife in Bos-
ton.
The Lyric theater will have mat
inee at 2:30 Christmas day with an en-
tire change of program for Christmas
night. A special feature entitled ''His
Stolen Fortune" featuring Francis
Bushman, has been booked for the
evening.
Geo E. Barkely of Virgelle, Mont,
who came to the Edgerton feeding
yards with a shipment of sheep just
before quarantine was placed on ship
ments, returned to his home last Fri
day after having marketed his hold
ings. In the lot were about 1000 aged
weathers that topped the Chicago mar
ket at its high point.
DR.. Jos. Johnson has received an
appointment as one of the assistant
federal inspectors for this locality. He
has also been appointed as one of the
state inspectors, with authority to pass
on live stock shipments now requiring
certificates of inspection. Both APP
pointments carry reasonable salaries
and expenses.
The Edgerton Concert band will
give New Year dance Friday even
ing, Jan. 1st, in Academy hall. Dane
ing from to l and the price of tickets
will be rs cents. For all who love to
dance, this will be an opportunity to
end New Year day in a pleasurable
way. The band will try and make a
Happy New Year for those who pass
the evening with them.
Wisconsin has a new sleigh law
that goes into effect January l, 1915,
which is unique in that it governs the
width of the runners. The sleighs man.
ufactured hereafter must have runners
that measure four feet and six inches
from center to center, although it will
not be unlawful to sell or use sleighs