The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-12-24
Local Happenings
The Elgin price of butter has
reached the 81 cent mark


Jacob Johnson, one of the elder
citizens of Edgerton, is quite poorly
Mrs. Geo. Sheffield is spending the
Christmas holiday with relatives in
Chicago.
Mrs. A. Arthur of South Milwau-
kee visited relatives here the last OF
the week.
Miss Rose Harrington, teaching In
the public schools at Delavan, is home
for her vacation.
Miss Doris Clarke has returned
from Parkston, S. d., where she has
been teaching.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Horton of
Blunt, S. D., are visiting among rela-
tives hereabouts.
Mrs. F. M. Jack and daughter Mil
dred of Chicago are guests at the Birk-
enmeyer home for the holidays.
Frank Hitchcock, who is employed
as instructor in the university at st.
Louis, is home for the holidays.
Miss Eleanor Hitchcock is home
from Oconomowoc, where she is teach
ing, for the Christmas vacation.
If you love to dance after good
music, then keep in mind the ball in
Academy hall New Years evening.
Miss Marion Doty, who is attend
in
troit, is home for the holiday season.
Mrs. Halvor Bjoin of Rice Lake is
spending the holiday season with her
mother, Mrs. Fannie Sutton, in this
city.
Charles Flagg, teacher in manual
training at Ashland, is passing the hol-
iday vacation at the home of his par
ents here.
Misses Aileen Mcintosh, Genevieve
Holcomb and Francis Nichols are
home from the Lacrosse normal for
the holiday vacation.
Alderman John Dickerson's home
is a good deal of hospital this week.
Himself, wife and two children are all
under the doctors care with the pre-
vailing infection, grippe.
-"Saloma Jane" a dramatization of
Bret Harte's story of pioneer days in
California, will be shown in seven reels
at the Majestic theater Saturday, mat
inee and evening, at 10 and cents.
Following basketball game be-
tween the alumni and the high school
teams Friday evening, in which the
regulars were victorious, high school
dancing party was given in Academy
hall, attended by over one hundred
teachers and pupils.
An unusual amount of sickness,
mostly in the nature of severe colds,
grip and pneumonia, prevails in the
community. The attendance in the
public schools had fallen away so seri-
ously that the departments were closed
Monday for the holiday vacation in
stead of Wednesday as was intended.
Capt. VIM. Napier, who was a
resident of Edgerton in the 7O's, will
celebrate his 18th birthday as we'll as
his golden wedding Dec. % at Lake
Geneva. Capt. and Mrs. Napier are
in excellent health. Since returning to
Lake Geneva he has been engaged in
building sail boats and other crafts.
He also assisted in laying the first At
lantic cable in 1865 before coming to
America from England.
The cooperative delivery system is
one of the new things that is gaining in
favor throughout the state. The mer-
chants of Waukesha are about to join
together to reduce the expense and
simplify the work of making deliveries
to their patrons The plan is working
out quite satisfactorily with grocery
men at GAINESVILLE and it seems quite
feasible that considerable saving to
our merchants might be made right
here in Edgerton.
DIR. Ernest A Hooton and wife of
Cambridge. Mass, are visiting at the
Methodist Episcopal parsonage. Mr..
Hooton, who lectures upon anthropol-
ogy in Harvard university and who con-
Quoted an expedition to the Canary Is
lands last summer in the interests OF
his department, will give the results OF
his scientific research in that region at
the Pan-American Scientific Congress
to be held in Washington, d. c., De-
camher 27 To January & next
Under the direction of Engineer
Kirchoffer, surveyors of the state high
way commission have been engaged in
resurveying Saunders creek through
town the past week for the purpose of
obtaining some data regarding the cost