The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-06-04
Straw hats may be permissible now.

pany are DlII0u dL Tie MdJSotiC IhC"eSA
Friday evening, June 4, in four act
comedy, "a Single Man. coming here
fresh from Central Music Hall, Chi
cago. Edgerton friends of Mr.. Pyre
will again be pleased to witness his
success in the dramatic field.
Several pupils of our high school
stenographic department took part IN
contest held at Madison last week and
Francis Curran came within two points
of winning the gold medal The mark
ings of the winners were 70, 70 and u
in contest for dictation at the rate OF
12O words a minute. Francis was
awarded bronze medal.
VIM. Baum of GAINESVILLE was
robbed of SIS by pickpockets at the
depot in that city Monday as he was
taking the train for Edgerton. An
other passenger also reported being
touched at the same time. Both the
empty purses were afterwards found
behind radiator in the depot.
The GAINESVILLE Electric Co. have
been authorized by the railroad COM
mission to issue $350,000 of bonds OF
which 100000 are tc retire existing
bonds and the remainder are for buying
the Indian Ford power plant and the
Edgerton Electric Light Co. The
bonds are of $500 each, running thirty
years with interest at per cent pay
able semi-annually.
Daniel Pierce Jr of Albion drove
into town Wednesday evening colt
that was not used to city ways, which
got frightened and attempted to run
away. Pierce was still clinging to the
animals head which he was thrown
through one of the plate glass windows
of the department, store front. The
colt was cut in several places by the
glass but Pierce fortunately got out OF
the scrape without a scratch.
Mr.. F. c.. Ullrich was in town for
several days the latter part of the
week packing his household goods pre-
paratory to removing his family to
Boston, where he has taken respon-
sible position with the United Drug
Co., the manufacturers of the Rexall
preparations Mr.. Ullrich came here
a few years ago to take the business
management of the Monarch Labora-
tory and the family have formed many
acquaintance who will regret to see
them leave Edgerton. Mr.. Ullrlch
left for Boston Monday and his family
will follow in a few days.
"A class of twenty-five will be con-
firmed at the Lutheran church next
Sunday. A communion service will be
held at $3.50 in the afternoon. A COM
munion service for the confirmed in
Norwegian will be held on the follow
ing Sunday morning. The following
are members of this years class:
Signe Adolphson Elmer Johnson
Svea AdolphSOn Agnes LlnneVOlQ
Clara AmundSOn Henry MamIltn0
Hilda Bake Melvin MatthiSOn
Cora Binash Clarence Nelson
MYRTLE BinaSh Omer OnSgard
Norman Erickson F1lma Philips
Frederick EllingsOn Philip Philips
Waldo EllingSOn Evelyn StanKe
Elizabeth Huebn0r Marie SIanKe
Laurence Hoffman Eddie thompson
Gerhard JensOn CARA Sunne
Elmer Johnson
Mrs. Louise Pearce left Tuesday
morning for an extended vacation trip
to the Pacific coast. She was joined at
GAINESVILLE by Miss Mabel Morgan of
Oakfeld, who will be her companion on
a journey stopping at Colorado points
and Salt Lake on the way to the ex-
positions at San Diego and San Fran
cisco. Returning by the northern
routes, they will stop in Oregon, Wash
ington and the Yellowstone Park. Mrs.
Pearce's position in the Tobacco Elk
change bank will be taken by Miss
Hazel Biederman during her absence.
Memorial day was especially fav-
ored this year with weather suitable
for outdoor exercises and all the more
enjoyable as in contrast with that of
of the cold, rainy week previous. There
was almost universal observance of
the day by the people of Edgerton, as
all places of business were closed dur
ing the afternoon exercises. An es-
pecially fine parade of the members OF
the Grand Army, Woman's Relief
Corps, Sons of Veterans, I. A. & B.
society and fire department marched to
Majestic theater where the program
announced last week was carried out.
The principal Memorial day address by
Atty. Paul N. Grub was quite highly
spoken of by those in attendance, be-
ing entirely appropriate to the occa-
sion. At the conclusion of the exer-
cises at the hall the procession again
formed for the march to the cemetery
for decorating the graves of old sol
diers. Automobiles were provided for