The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-07-23
II. B. Earle left on a brief business
trip to Montana Monday evening.

returned from Montana Wednesday
morning.
1t seems hardly necessary to en-
large the entrance door to the post of
fee if we are to have free delivery so
soon.
DIR F. C. Meyers has moved into
his new residence that has been build
ing for several months on Washington
street.
The Whitewater ball team engaged
for the big T. A. & B. picnic, August
4th. played 10 inning game at Water
town Sunday, winning by a to 2 score.
"A smallpox scare with its usual at
tendant vaccination, fumigation, ETC.,
doesn't seem to phase the legislature
or hurry their deliberations to any
great extent.
-Thos. Flarity, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Flarity of this city, passed the
examination given this week by the
state pharmacy board and was given a
certificate as assistant registered phar-
macist.
Arthur Shannon and family of Por-
tage came Saturday to spend month
at the Bentley cottage on Lake Kosh-
konong. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Klenert
of Portage are their guests at the lake
for few days.
The annual picnic of the Congrega-
tional church and Sunday school will be
held at Charley Bluff Thursday, July
20. Autos and rigs will be at the
church at 9 o'clock. With fine day a
good time is expected.
Reduction sales are now the order
of the day and Ratzlaff Bros. are send
ing out circulars announcing bargain
sale, during which deep cut is made
on many lines, July 27 to 20. See their
full page ad. in this issue.
The friends of Oscar F. ABBY, for
some years a resident Of Albion, will
be pleased to learn of his marriage at
Woodstock, ILL.,, July II, to Miss Emma
Benson Mr.. ABBY has good position
in one of the large factories in Rock
ford, and had house already furnished
for his bride in that city.
Next Sunday the Tobacco City
Nationals will play the Oregon team at
Charley Bluff, Lake Koshkonong, game
to be called at 2:3O sharp. The battery
for Oregon is Cusick and Kivlin and for
Edgerton, Peterson and Hallett. Both
teams are in form for fast game and
it will be we'll worth seeing. Admis-
sion Is cents, ladies free.
Fortune smiled at last on the an
nual K P. picnic which was held at
Charley Bluff on Friday last, for the
sun came out after nights shower
and the day proved warm and pleasant.
The program committee had provided a
schedule of events that furnished a
fund of amusement from ball games to
baby contests. The Edgerton band
furnished the music for an unusually
enjoyable outing and the attendance
was fully up to expectations.
Frank Hitchcock, who has been
filling the chair of engineering in Rob
erts college in Constantinople, Turkey,
for the past year, reached home We'd
nesday for few weeks vacation. He
returned on Greek steamer to New
York, coming through Bulgaria by
train to the Greek port of shipping.
He reports that he saw but very little
of the European war aside from few
naval encounters in the Black Sea near
Constantinople, though his ship was
held up several times by cruisers in the
Mediterranean and halted day at Glib
raltar while the ships papers and pas
sengers were being examined. Rob
erts college is an American institution
under direction of Columbia college of
New York. 1t is attended by about
$50 students drawn from all the coun-
tries of southern Europe. Unless war
breaks out between Bulgaria and Greece
he is expected to return to his duties
August IL, as he is under three years
contract The college is located five
miles north of the city on high bank
overlooking the Bosphorus, from which
the snow-capped mountain range in
Asia Minor may be seen fifty or sixty
miles away. 1t is equipped with good
building and living quarters and the
climate is healthy. Mr.. Hitchcock is
much pleased with his year spent
abroad and is able to give most inter-
esting accounts of his experiences with
the people and their customs we know
so little about.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.