The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-09-10

lehman Bros finished their con-
tract of concrete road building here
Wednesday, The new bridge on East
Fulton street will also be finished this
week.
Mrs. A. E. Skinner, Mrs. w. ].
Henderson, Mrs. Thos. Hurd and Mrs.
Frank Livick were over Sunday guests
at the home of Mrs. Jennie Croft in
Milwaukee.
DIR. B. L. Cleary and wife attended
the funeral of Mrs. Cleary's brother,
DR.. Joyce, who was killed in an auto
mobile accident, at Rochester, Mimi,
the latter's former home, on Saturday.
Alex Ely, who is employed with the
U. S. railway commission on the phys
ical valuation of railway property, came
up from Chicago to pass the week end
| at his home in Fulton.
! Fred Barton Jr. and family and
Mrs. Barrett ind granddaughter of Be-
lott passed Saturday and Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Barton Sr.
here, making the trip by auto.
! Miss Maude Miller of New York
City visited her sisters, Mrs. A. P.
| Nicholson and Mrs. Fannie Girard, here
a few days the past week while en-
route home from the Pacific coast.
! Mrs. P. H. Donovan and two
daughters, who have been spending the
summer with Mrs. Donovan's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Morrissey, returned
to their home in Albert Lea, Mimi,
the latter part of the week.
Regular meetings of Edgerton
Chapter No. So Order Of Eastern Star
will be resumed on Tuesday evening,
Sept. IA, at 7:30 o'clock. A short pro-
gram will be given that evening. A
| full attendance of members is desired.
Gov. E. L. Philip and Col. Pixley,
his private secretary, enjoyed the hos
pitality of Ed Peters shooting preserve
| at the Muskrat when the duck shooting
season opened Tuesday morning. They
left for Milwaukee on the 10:41 train.
Geo. w. Blanchard, wife and son
left for Colby, Wis, Monday evening
to attend the wedding of Mr.. Blanch-
ards sister, Miss Bernice Blanchard,
on Tuesday. Mrs. Blanchard will visit
her mother at Stevens Point for few
weeks before her return.
Some disease, whether cholera or
not, yet undetermined, iscausing heavy
losses in hogs near Cooksville in Porter.
Whole herds are being wiped out and
some farmers figure that their receipts
are cut from $500 to $500 in conse-
quence.
Rev. VIM. Hooton left Tuesday for
Racine where the annual conference is
| to be in session for one week. Bishop
Wilson presided This is the body
| which determines by what pastors the
i nearly 200 hundred different M. E.
, churches of eastern Wisconsin shall be
served for the coming year.
| The melon crop in Wisconsin comes
j the nearest to a complete failure this
year that was ever experienced. Con-
siderable acreage on the lighter soils
along Rock river is usually planted to
this crop, but the cold, wet summer
has been it's complete undoing, for
many growers will harvest nothing.
AT the Norwegian Lutheran church
there will be a morning service in Eng
: lish and an evening service in Nor
Sunday school are requested to be pres
ent at the opening of the new year,
next Sunday at IL o'clock. The new
confirmation class will meet at the
church Saturday, 10 a. m.
-Chas P. Gray & Co., of Chicago,
who have just sold L. H. Towne's sub
division on Albion road, are about to
close deal for one of the most attrac-
tive pieces Of residence property in
Edgerton. This property will be put
on the market in very short time and
will be sold on weekly payments at
very attractive prices. Watch this
paper for date of sale.
The Edgerton Woman's Relief
Corps entertained the members of five
neighboring corps of GAINESVILLE, Evans
vile, Milton, Milton Junction and
Stoughton at / o'clock luncheon at T.
] A. & B. hall Tuesday. The dining hall
was handsomely decorated for the oc-
casion, pink and white being the color
scheme. In all there were ia visitors
who sat down to an excellent course
dinner. At the conclusion of the re-
past a short program was rendered
consisting of reading by Mrs. Fred
Sherman, solo by Mrs. Mike Smith
and character reading by Mrs. Ger
trude Mccarthy. The visiting mem