The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-24

Mrs. j. M. Conway entertained a
seven table bridge party Wednesday
afternoon.
Mrs. B. L. Cleary entertained at a
o'clock luncheon Tuesday in honor of
Mrs. C. L. Culton.
w. E. -Babcock was up from Chi
cago for couple days stay here the
fore part of the week.
Roy Farman and wife returned on
Tuesday evening from two weeks
vacation spent at Sturgeon Bay.
M. B. Fletcher is still confined to
his bed from the accident on picnic day
but is believed to be slowly gaining.
Mrs. E. A. Sherman of Stevens
Point was a guest Of her daughter,
Mrs. G. w. Blanchard. from Friday
until Wednesday. a.
"A fire at the Utica creamery Tues
day destroyed the roof over the boiler
room before it could be extinguished
by the help of the patrons. The loss is
covered by insurance in Henry john
sons agency.
The attractions of the Jefferson
Co. fair next week, Aug. 1881, is out
lined in display adv. on another page
of this paper. They promise bigger
and better fair this year and you will
want to see it.
! The explosion of the air tank at
Schrub's garage Thursday morning was
heard over town. The steel cylinder
was blown straight up through the
roof. No one was near enough to be
injured and the damage was slight.
Miss Helen Coon gave miscellane-
GUS shower for Miss Nellie Bentley at
her home Tuesday evening. The out of
/ town guests were Miss Beula Heddles
of Madison, Mrs. Earl Langworthy of
Milwaukee and Mrs. Norman Brokow
of Oconto Falls.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Gleaves and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Smith motored to
Rockford Sunday and viewed the new
contonment now under construction a
few miles below that city. Thousands
of workmen were employed at all kinds
of labor in the rush work of building
quarters for the new army, making
streets, sewerage, electric lights, tele-
phones, officers quarters and every
thing necessary for city of 10000 sol
diers. The camp covers two or three
miles of fine farming country along the
east bank of Rock river.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Maltpress and
Miss Emma Maltpress arrived Wednes-
day from San Diego, CAL, having made
the trip by auto. Mrs. r. J. Maltpress
/ joined them at Ogden, Utah, for tour
through the Yellowstone Park, leaving
them again at Billings, Mont. The
| journey from southern California to
Edgerton consumed exactly five weeks
to day. One of the tires on their
Studebaker stood the entire trip though
there is but little rubber left on the
casing. They expect TO take the south
ern route through Texas on their re-
turn to their Pacific coast home.
Salvation JOAN" a 7-part Vita
graph special release, will be the at
traction at the Lyric tonite Thursday.
Edna May as Salvation Joan" is a
society girl who tires of the empty
society life when she realizes the suf-
fering, misery and poverty that exist
in the great city in which she lives and
goes to work as Salvation Army lass.
There are many beautiful settings in
this 7-part production and is full, clear
entertainment. Prices, 10 and Is cts.
Two shows, 7:3O and 9 o'clock. Two
famous stars, Peggy Hyland and E. H.
Sothern, will appear in 1.-THE Chattel"
on Saturday night. There will be the
usual Brady production on Monday with
Gail Kane and Carlyle Blackwell. The
story, 'sOn Dangerous Ground" is
taken from Burton E. Stevenson's
famous novel, Little Comrades"
"A death that has puzzled the au-
! thorities and caused vast amount of
surmises of murder occurred in the
town of Bradford, southeast of James
vile, last Thursday. The coroner's
| jury sitting on the case of the death of
five year old Willie Yandry, son of Al
fred Yandry, town of Bradford farmer,
found dead Thursday morning in an old
cupboard in an abandoned tenant house
on the farm, argued and balloted for
nearly an hour. Their verdict was that
the lad came to his death "by undue
suffocation and fright. By their YER
dict the jurors guaged their decision
solely by the expert testimony of Drs.
Wayne A. Mum of GAINESVILLE and A.
S. Parker of Clinton, and disregarded
the testimony of the father relative to
the latter's suspicion towards George
Simpson. farm hand, who left the place