The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-09-14
Local Happenings


Edgerton relatives.
The Highway Trailer Co. is MAX
ing a display at the Milwaukee State
Fair this week. sy -
This is State Fair week and Ed
gerton is sending its usual large dele
cations to the big show.
Mrs. Robert Attlesey left Saturday
for Portland, Tenn, for visit at the
home of her son, Geo. Wilson.
T. B. Earle attended the Minnesota
state fair at st. Paul last week stop
ping at his Rice Lake farm enroute.
John and Chas. Carmichael went to
Prairie Gu Chen Monday to attend
school at Campion college the coming
year.
John Roethe was host to number
of his young friends on Friday evening,
Sept. 7th, the occasion being his sixth
birthday.
VIM. Tyler and wife, who have
been several months on the Pacific
coast, returned home the latter part of
the week.
Miss Alice Mooney went to Monti-
cello Saturday where she will teach in
the public schools of that town the
coming year.
Francis Curran has gone to New
Mexico to accept position on half a
million acre ranch controlled by Chi
cago parties.
Mrs. C. F. Mabbett and daughter
Jessie returned Thursday from a trip
to Colorado Springs and other points of
interest in Colorado.
Miss Blanche Shumway left for
Waukesha last week where she will
teach the sixth grade in the public
schools the coming year.
-Chas. Thomas and wife, who have
passed the summer at Indian Ford, re-
turned to their winter home at Lind
Haven, Florida, on Thursday.
j. E. Sweeney, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. C.. E. Sweeney, has gone to Mon
tana to teach in the publick school at
Hobson. Mont, the coming year.
Edward Quigley of Lawler, Iowa,
visited relatives here for a short time
this week, while enroute from Detroit,
Mich, with automobiles which he was
taking overland from the factory.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Lund departed
Friday for Minneapolis to visit their
daughter, Mrs. Lichtenberger. Re-
turning they stopped to visit another
daughter, Mrs. Hackbarth, at Appleton.
George Rea, Charles Dunn, A. w.
Shumway, Will Pelton, Frank Pyre, j.
"A. Jensen and r. E. Hopkins are as
sisting A. H. Jensen in charge of the
admission gates at the state fair this
week.
The price of barbering in Edgerton
will be advanced by new schedule on
Sept 18TH Everything except plain
shaving has gone up on par with the
high cost of living in other service and
commodities.
Rock county drafted men are to
comprise Co. G of the 331st machine
gun battalion. Dane, Walworth, JEFF
ferson, Green and Lafayette county
men are to comprise the other compa-
MES of the battalion.
One of the sharp turns in the New
Vile road so difficult to negotiate ex-
cept with extreme care, is the place
where the expected happened to Henry
Larson Sunday evening whose big
Mitchell car struck the wing of the
culvert at the turn. He was running
slow and the injury was confined to the
automobile.
Hunters who have been out. in the
usual preserves since the opening of
the season report that game birds are
extremely scarce this season. Local
waters where the early duck shooting
is usually good have yielded but little
game so far. Later when the ducks
come down from the northern waters it
is expected the hunting will improve.
On Saturday last A. w. Shumway
disposed of his barber shop in the Prin-
gle block to Mr.. L. L. Mennes of Deer
field. The new proprietor stepped into
the business Monday ready to welcome
all patrons of the shop. After practic-
ing barbering for twenty-five years
Mr.. Shumway thinks it is time to step
down and let the younger men have a
chance.
The big oiling truck and repair out
fit of Dane county has been at work
during the week on the East Albion
highway. The road was in bad shape
and whether temporary repairs and a
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