The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12

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| synod meeting of the Norwegian church
| which will take up some matters re-
| garding the union of the Lutheran
| churches.
-Edgerton friends of Clayton Will
liams will be pleased to learn that in a
recent letter received by his parents he
reports his health greatly improved
and is delighted with the California
climate that is doing SO much for him.
He is regularly employed in drawing
| for western magazine and living at
Long Beach.
The Wisconsin Library Commission
has placed collection of good books
constituting travelling library of Nor
| wegian books at the Edgerton public
library. Every person in the commun-
| ity is invited to borrow books from this
library, for which there is absolutely
no charge. The books can be borrowed
at &c and TO p. m. daily, except Sun
days, and also 1912 a. m. Saturdays.
The Mems Club were entertained
at the home of Mayor Conway on Fri
day evening. The topic for discussion
was compulsory military training, with
D. C. Gle and Rev. Schoenfeld leaders.
| The election of officers for the year re-
| suited in the reelection OF John Pear
son, president; Andrew Mcintosh, vice
president; d. C. Gle, secretary; w. T.
Pomeroy, treasurer. Refreshments
were served at the close of the pro-
| gram.
Mr.. Carl Johnson of Fort Atkinson
has been secured to take charge of the
Edgerton branch of the GAINESVILLE
Electric Co., to succeed D. j. Marcus.
Mr.. Johnson has had training in the
business with the municipal plant at
Fort Atkinson and comes well recon-
mended. He is young man recently
married and will occupy the fiat soon
to be vacated by Mr.. Marcus. The
Reporter gladly welcomes these young
people to our city.
Two basketball games are sched-
uled to take place at the high school
gym next Friday evening between the
regular and Junior teams of the Sun
Prairie and Edgerton high. Sun Prai-
RE has played six games this season,
losing none, so the team will come here
with some degree of assurance of TAX
ing away the honors. The first game
of the juniors will be called ct 7:30 p.
m. Admission Is and Is cents.
Sixty members of the Edgerton
Credit association sat down to fine
| banquet served at The Carlton hotel
| Tuesday evening. Later a business
| meeting was held in the 4. P. rooms
| and several amendments were adopted
to the bylaws and the election of Of
ficers took place as follows: President,
Harvey Raymond; vice president, Sam
Pringle; treasurer, August Ratzlaff.
Trustees for one year, P. M. Ellingson,
L. Hutson, Elmer Ebbott; for two
years, Dean Swift, Frank Livick, c. S.
Farman.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the First National bank was
held Tuesday afternoon. The election
of the present officers and directors
took place as follows: President, Geo.
w. Doty; vice president. E. G. Bussey;
cashier, Oscar L. Olson. The board Of
directors consist of VIM. Mcintosh, J.
L. Holton, C. II. Babcock, Chas: Birk
enmeyer, w. B. Wentworth and Geo.
w. Doty. The reports submitted were
very satisfactory to the stockholders,
we are informed.
In writing from Amerillo, Texas,
to change address of The Reporter, j.
Herbert Snow says that he is now en-
ployed as right of way agent for the
Santa Fe railway for western lines of
1000 miles and is now securing land
for line into the oil fields in the vicin-
| ity of Blackwell, Okla. This new field
has one we'll which produced 1890 bar
rels in "a hours, the average being
about 1900 barrels daily, worth now
1.50 per barrel. The district also has
some fine gas wells.
"A fve-part drama entitled "The
Man from Nowhere will be shown at
the Lyric on Thursday. featuring King
Baggott, supported by an excellent
cast. On Friday three-part feature,
"The Better Woman" will be present
ed, starring Reaves Eason and Lucy
Blake. ''The Dragon four-part
feature for Monday, presenting fav-
orite of the screen, Margarita Fischer.
"A change of dates has been neces-
sary for the last number of the Fulton
lecture course to be filled by the Cav
eny Company, from Saturday to Mon
day evening, Jan. 18th. The program
consists of the blending of art sculp-
ture and music in an evenings enter