The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-18

Chris Olson returned Wednesday
from North Dakota, where his son is
operating farm.
Mrs. d. |. Wilson has returned
from visit to her daughter at White
Plains, NJ Y, of several weeks.
Mrs. Adolph Ellingson, living on
the Cook farm on Maple Drive, was
successfully operated on for appendl-
citis at Mercy hospital, GAINESVILLE,
Tuesday.
"A two reel Lubin special is on the
bills at the Lyric Friday evening. On
Monday next No. II of 1.-THE Thousand
Dollar Mystery" serial that is now
| drawing to dramatic close.
Some snug winter weather followed
in the wake of Sundays snow storm
that covered the ground to the depth
of about an inch. Monday morning
| thermometers marked 10 below.
No public sales or auctions can be
held in any of the quarantined counties
of the state until the order of the live
stock board is amended or repealed. A
proclamation issued Tuesday put the
lid on tight regarding movements of
| stock in the infected districts.
While leaving the plant of the
| Standard Oil Co. in Beloit Saturday, r..
]. Maltpress slipped and fell, striking
on his elbow. The injury was thought
to be trivial at first but the arm has
swollen badly since, causing good
deal of pain, and a fracture of the ell
bow joint is almost suspected.
Manager Keller of the Majestic has
decided to omit the moving picture
| show during the balance of December
and instead will run roller rink every
night except Tuesdays. The roller
skating is quite popular and we'll at
i tended. Good orchestra music is fur
nished and the rink is open until 10
o'clock
An unusual sight was witnessed at
the depot Wednesday when a train
composed of about twenty dead en-
gines passed over the line to the Mil
waukee shops for the scrap heap. They
were mostly small engines used on the
western branches that had become ob-
solete and replaced by the more mod
ern ones.
The following officers were elected
| for the ensuing year by the Royal
| Neighbors at their last regular meet
| ing: Oracle-Onnie Sherman; Vice
Oracle-Lillis Clark; Recorder Hettie
Merrill; Receiver athlin Mcintosh;
Chaplain-Anna Knapp; Conductress-
Katherine Smith; Guard, Grace Ander-
son; Managers Sarah Kellogg and
| Harry Ash: Physican-Dr. McChesney.
Leo Rusch, the II year old son of
Emil Rusch, living a short distance
from town, had the misfortune to blow
a bad wound through the center of his
hand In climbing over fence with
/
! his hand over the mouth of the barrel,
the weapon was discharged with the
result that he will probably lose the
use of that member for some time if
not permanently crippled.
The Brotherhood meeting will be
held in Child Memorial hall Friday
evening. The subject for discussion
will be ''The Foot and Mouth Disease. "
| Jonathan Marsden, G. G. Biederman
and a representative of the q. S. gov
eminent or of the state veterinarian s
office will lead in the discussion. This
topic is timely and will be interesting,
especially so to the farming community.
The return of zero weather has
probably put an end to seining IN Rock
river for rough fish by the Dick Miller
concern until spring. The last carload
of buffalo fish and carp, 153 boxes of
175 pounds each, was loaded out OF
GAINESVILLE Tuesday. In the six weeks
which the Miller outfit has been operat-
ing on Rock river between the Catfish
and GAINESVILLE, over $4,000 worth of
fish have been taken. Geo. Rea Of this
city has been deputy warden repre-
| senting the state to see that no game
| fish were taken.