The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-01-14
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ball team will play the Edgerton High
School at the gymnasium Saturday
evening, January Is. Game called at
o'clock.
The first real blizzard of the season
came bowling down upon us from the
northwest w Wednesday night and brought
temperature of 20 degrees below
Thursday morning.
The morning service at the Luth-
eran church will be in English and the
evening service in Norwegian. At the
evening services there will be series
of addresses on the Apostles Greed. A
meeting for the reorganization of the
Y. P. S. will be held Thursday evening.
The joint installation of officers of
the Edgerton Chapter No. 63 and the
Fulton Lodge No. SO will take place
Tuesday evening, January 18th. Six
o. m. is the hour for dinner which is to
precede the installation, and the mem
bers are urged to be prompt in their
attendance.
The Lyric has booked for Friday
1.-The Lorelei Madonna" dramatic
masterpiece of how young artist
found his ideal Madonna" model in
| the person of modern Lorelei and So
cial parasite. Ending in a sublime pic
| ture of happiness. Another Chaplin
comedy will be shown on Tuesday en-
titled "Mabel at the Wheel" in two
parts.
AT meeting of citizens interested
| in the Saunders creek drainage at the
council rooms Wednesday evening,
committee consisting of P. M. Filing
son, w. B. Doty, w. L. Pelton, D. W.
North, Fred Jensen and Henry Stricken
| was selected to consult counsel and IT
in their judgment advisable petition
the court for the organization OF
drainage district.
Twenty thousand dollars was lost
in fire at 3 o'clock Monday morning
in the three story building in the down
town district of Beloit, in which the
Beloit Shirt and Overhaul Co. and the
Halls Glove and Mitten Co. had their
factory. Each lost $4,000 on its stock
and the damage to the building was
about $4,000. Sixty persons were
thrown out of employment.
Mrs. l.. A. Anderson has received
telegram announcing the death OF her
father, l. o. Brictson, at his ranch In
Mexico. Mr.. Brictson has been at his
home in Deerfield most of the time
since matters became so unsettled IN
Mexico until few weeks ago Mr.. and
Mrs. Brictson started back. The two
sons have remained on the ranch dur
ing the entire troublesome times.
"A meeting of the Mems Club of
the Congregational church, held at the
home of M E. Titus. on Friday even
ing, was quite largely attended. The
| topic under discussion was the regula-
ton of insurance rate by state or fed
eral government was led by Andrew
Mcintosh for the affirmative and L.. A.
Anderson on the negative. Others
took part in very interesting discus
sion. Light refreshments were served.
The body of Fred Wolf, Jagged about
65 years, wealthy farmer of Clinton,
was found frozen in the bed of small
creek near the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad bridge, about three and a
half miles from Clinton, Sunday after
noon. The man had been missing from
his home since January first and the
corpse was found by several young
men who happened to be on walking
trip near the railroad tracks in the
afternoon.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the First National bank was
held Tuesday afternoon. The entire
present board of directors were re-
elected consisting of C. H. Babcock,
C. w. Birkenmeyer, E. G.. Bussey, M.
J. Doran, Geo. w. Doty, G. w. H.
Hall, J. L. Holton, VIM. Mcintosh and
|
w. B. Wentworth. The officers con-
tinued were: G. w. Doty, president
E. G. Bussey, vice president; Oscar L.
Olson, cashier; j. F. Hruska, assistant
cashier.
AT the annual meeting of the N.
Lutheran church the following officers
wese elected: Trustee-O. G. Hanson;
Secretary-John Thoreson; Treasurer
Clarence Swenson; Janitor Han
son; Advisory Board p. M. Filing
son, M. Mason, C. Adolphson. The
treasurer's report showed liberal dona-
tions during the year. The two auxil-
larry societies had collected $697. By
|, unanimous vote it was decided to raise
the pastors salary to $3.50. The Gem
terry association reported contract fol-