The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-10-08
Local. Happening s

Mrs. Henry Houfe has been visit
ing her sister at Sun Prairie this week.
W. A. Borgnis and wife were over
Sunday guests of relatives in Burling-
ton.
Fred Griep, Roy Tallard and Fred
Schoenfeldt left for the Dakotas Sun
day.
May Spencer and sister, Mrs. Sarah
Richardson, were Chicago visitors on
Tuesday.
Mrs. Gertrude Mccarthy left Tues
day for Roundup, Mont, for visit to
her son Carlton.
"A new X-ray machine has been in
stalled in the Office of Drs. McChesney
and Cleary this week.
Fulton and Henry streets are being
treated with a coating of asphaltic oil
and sanded this week.
Mrs. John Harrison and children OF
Sterling, ILL.,, are visiting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Harrison.
The Bethany Circle will be enter
tanned at the home of Mrs. John Le-
naas Thursday evening next week.
Harry Ash and Roy Saunders have
gone to Puckaway lake for season OF
duck shooting, leaving by auto Tues
day.
Mrs. N. w. Norton of Forest City,
Ark, was entertained at the c. l.. Gull
ton home for a few days during the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. N. Green returned
Friday from Viroqua where Mr.. Green
has been looking after tobacco matters
for few weeks.
Rev. Marvin B. Brandt, VIM. I.
Pomeroy and Rev. F. w. Schoenfeld
are attending the state Congregational
convention at Ashland this week.
W. E. Wiedner, who is operating a
carp fishing outfit on Lake Kegonsa, is
reported to have seined 10000 pounds
of fish in a single haul on Saturday.
The first number of the Fulton lee
ture course, filled by the Maud Stevens
Concert Co., will be given at that vii
Iage next Tuesday evening, Oct. IL.
The Culture Club held its first
meeting of the season with Mrs. I. A.
Clarke on Monday evening, when the
years work was discussed over 6:3O
o'clock dinner.
George Cox, who has been en-
ploved by the Edgerton Motor Co. dur
ing the summer, has gone to Detroit
where he has secured employment with
an automobile factory.
-Mesdames J. L. Holton, Andrew
Mcintosh, F. W. Coon and F. S. Smith
are attending the grand chapter of the
Order of Eastern Star in Milwaukee,
which convened Tuesday evening.
Word comes from GAINESVILLE that
seven and a half pound baby girl was
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ellery Barber on
October 18th. Mr.. Barber is teacher of
manual training in the public schools
of that city.
&C. w. Birkenmeyer's family have
moved back from the cottage on Rock
river where they have been spending
the summer while their town residence
has been undergoing some extensive
improvements.
Mrs. Sarah Richardson of Fargo,
N. D.. and Miss Gertrude Spencer,
teacher in the Minneapolis schools,
came Saturday for a visit at the John
Spencer home. Miss Gertrude return
ed Sunday evening.
"A sample of city water sent to the
state board of health for examination
by DIR. Cleary has been analysed and
pronounced o. K. So there need be no
fear that our drinking water is contain
mated by the late flood.
The lecture course committee have
contracted for a series of entertain
ments the coming season which they
promise will contain the best talent yet
seen in our city. Further information
concerning dates, ETC., may be looked
for later.
Sun Prairie sheep feeders and peo-
pie connected WIIh the CdhHeiy IHe1e
obtained IA cars of lambs from the
shipments that were distributed to
feeders from the Edgerton yards dur
ing the week. The yards were pretty
well cleaned up of the big shipments
arriving last week, when a couple more
train loads were received from the west
this week.
The practice of turning the overflow
from cisterns into the sanitary sewer
seems to have been quite general in the
past and there is little reason to doubt
but what this has been the cause of
backwater in the sewerage during the