The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-07-07
Frank Hitchcock is visiting friends

Jonathan Marsden and family
passed the 4th with relatives in Wau-
kesha.
VIM. Harris is here on few weeks
furlough from the Milwaukee Soldiers
Home.
Mrs. Albert RAIDER and daughter.
visited relatives in Evansville during
the week.
w. A. Borgnis and wife were
guests of relatives in Burlington over
Sunday.
IN. A. Nelson was here to pass the
first few days of the week with his
family.
Roscoe Mcintosh and Miss Clara
Jensen are attending the summer school
at the university.
The season for home grown straw
berries is about over. They were sell
dom more plentiful or finer.
w. 7. Pomeroy spent few days
of the week at Gays Mills, returning
overland by auto with O. R. Pomeroy's
family.
Max Henderson has been engaged
as schauffeur for the Edgerton Cream
cry Co., making his first trip gathering
cream Monday morning.
Mrs. N. Larson and daughter Net
tie have been spending the week visit
ing the formers daughter, Mrs. Lett
ner, at Hampshire, Ill.
Miss Marion Doty returned home
Saturday evening from Detroit where
she has been attending domestic sci
ence school the past year.
j. Clarence Jones, who now holds
a good position with the Northwestern
railroad, passed the first few days of
the week with friends in Edgerton.
Rev. VIM. Hooton left Thursday
for Byron, Wis, to attend confer
ence camp meeting. During his alb
sence Mrs. Hooton will visit her daugh-
ter at Delavan.
F. A. Young and family motored
to Reedsburg Sunday to spend the 4th
with Mrs. Young's relatives. Mr..
Young returned Wednesday but the
family are making longer visit.
The mercury fingered around the
80 mark Saturday and Sunday, giving
us the first taste of midsummer tenn
perature. But it was just what we
had been hankering for to help out the
corn and other .belated crops, and ev-
eryone submitted gracefully to the in
convenience of the hot days.
George C. Damn, for many years
conductor on the Prairie du Chen di-
vision, died at his home in GAINESVILLE
Thursday morning, aged 81 years. Close
to so years service for the railroad
votes him high among the oldest of its
employees. Of late years he has been
running between GAINESVILLE and Mil
waukee.
The Edgerton Credit Association
are now busy arranging their directory
of the rural routes that leave the city.
When their directory is completed it
will be possible to tell just how many
acres of tobacco are raised in this vi
cinity, how many cows are MIXED and
lots of other data that might be of in
terest to the community and to out
siders who might wish to locate in the
city.
The annual picnic of the Congrega-
tional church and Sunday school will be
held tomorrow friday at Charley
Bluff, weather permitting. The picnic
will as usual be an all day affair. Fam
lilies are asked to bring their own din
ners. Ice cream will be furnished by
the committee. Mr.. Andrew Mcintosh
and Mr. E. M. Laid have been ap-
pointed as the committee on transport
alton. Everybody will be welcome.
Action was taken by the state
board of health in semi-annual meeting
whereby health authorities hereafter
will have greater control over cases of
diphtheria. To secure data of many
cases which otherwise might fail of be-
ing reported, rule was adopted re-
quiring druggists to report to the local
health officer the sales of diphtheria
antitoxin, with the name, date of sale,
and other information regarding the
purchase. Upon official publication this
rule will have the force of law.
Under provisions of chapter 453,
laws of 1915, the common council were
permitted to grant but eight saloon
licenses this year. The Frank Hartz-
helm and Rossebo & Jensen saloon
stands had not been granted continuous
licenses since 1907, and under the law
were prohibited from obtaining IL
conco at this time One saloon for