The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-09-03
Local Happenings
Goodbye straw hat.

a caller in Edgerton Tuesday
w. F. Mabbett drove out a new
model Overland from Milwaukee Mon
day.
Mrs. Milo Collins has returned from
a visit to her sister at Clear Lake,
Iowa.
Mrs. C. F. Mabbett and daughter
Leora paid visit to the Dells on Sat
Urday.
Misses Cecil and Adele Wentworth
are attending the Y. M. G. A. at Lake
Geneva.
w. A. Klunder and family have
gone to Wausau for a weeks visit
with relatives.
%. R. Pomeroy of Gays Mills passed
few days of the week among his old
friends in Edgerton.
Supervisor of Assessment Taylor
was in town Monday on business con-
nected with his Office.
Mrs. George White and Mrs. John
Clark went to Elkhorn Saturday for
short visit with friends.
Miss Clara Jensen went to Brod-
head Monday for few days visit to
Mrs. Lawrence Johnson.
-Nordahl Gunderson of Chicago
passed a few days of the week with
FdpertOn relatives.
Earl Whitford who has been at
tending school at Cedar Falls, Ia, is
home for a short visit.
The Dane county and Jefferson
fairs being held this week have drawn
a good attendance from this locality.
Miss Clara Stevens of New York is
paving visit at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Stevens, here.
Miss Belle Dave returned to her
home in New Jersey Monday after
several weeks visit with relatives here.
C. H. Mcintyre came up from Oak
Park, ILL.,, for an over Sunday visit
with the editors family, returning with
Mrs Mcintyre Monday.
Miss Iva Saunders is visiting rela-
tives at Amigo, previous to the open
ing of the schools at Elva, where she is
employed as teacher the coming year.
Local hunters are preparing for the
opening of the duck shooting season
next Tuesday. They report plenty of
game in the immediate waters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Copley of Chi
cago have been visiting his uncle, John
Copley, in this city, also his mother in
Omaha, widow of John Copley's broth
er.
H. S. McGiffin and family of Sparta
paid a short visit to Edgerton friends
the latter part of the week while max
ing motor trip over the tobacco grow
ing sections.
Clarence Mcintosh, Hixon Knapp,
Geo. Lynts and ROLAND Livick left
Monday morning for weeks outing
at Lake Mills. VIM. Mcintosh took
them over in his car.
Miss Lucille Culton departed We'd
nesday for Oneonta, Alabama, where
she has been engaged to teach music
in the county high school in that city
the coming year.
Amos Bunting of Albion Prairie
sustained broken leg through getting
caught in a belt of threshing outfit
Monday. The fracture is just above
the ankle, which DR.. Shearer reduced.
Directors of the Badger road, which
is being built between Whitewater and
Lake Geneva, hope to have work re-
.sumed on the project by September 1st
and rushed to completion as soon as
possible. 1t is said that plans now con-
template extending the road to Fort
Atkinson.
The t-and-mouth disease made
its appearance in two states recently.
1t appeared in Illinois and Mime
sofa. The best available information
indicates that the outbreaks were due
to infected serum. Benefting by the
experience that has been passed through
since last October, the officials of the
national department of agriculture had
all infected and exposed animals
promptly slaughtered.
Eddie Carlson, aged II, son of
Charles Carlson, wealthy farmer of
Clinton, was killed Sunday morning
when an automobile overturned near
Aliens Grove. Carlson and two sons
of Chris Newhouse of Clinton were in
the front seat of large car driving 40
miles an hour when it struck rut and
overturned, pinning Carlson down by
the chest. He was dead when the car
was righted. One of the others re-
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