The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-09-07

| Mayor ]. M. Conway was guest
of Chicago friends over the week
end.
ALBERT RAIDER, wife and daughter
visited friends in Brodhead over the
week end.
VIM. Schrub returned on Monday
evening from a visit to his Dakota
stock farm.
John Walters and wife of Oregon
were over Sunday guests of old time
friends in Edgerton.
Roscoe Mcintosh went to Scion
Springs, that haven for hay fever vic
Tins, last Thursday.
Mrs. D. J. Marcus and daughter of
| GAINESVILLE visited at the home of her
parents here over the week end.
The Missionary society of the Con-
gregational church will meet with Mrs.
M. E. Titus on Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Walter Mabbett will lead.
The Ladies society of the Norwe-
gian Lutheran church will be enter
tanned by Mesdames Robt. Jensen, AL
| bert Otto and Maves Thursday, Sept.
18th.
| Albert Hanson has bought the John
Bickle farm of 40 acres in the town of
Albion, the price being 5000 per acre.
Sale made by C. E. Sweeney Real Es-
tate Agency.
| Ed Peters and Dean Swift made a
| fine catch of trout on streams tributary
to Sugar river one day last week. One
of the speckled beauties tipped the
scales at % pounds.
Prof. Louis Touton and family, who
have been visiting at the home of his
parents in Albion, departed Saturday
for Kansas City to resume teaching in
the high school in that city.
| Max Henderson, Earl Shaw and
Richard Brown, Edgerton boys train
ing with an ambulance corps at Fort
Sheridan, have been transferred to
Chillicothe, Ohio, until orders are re-
| ceived to move to France.
| DIR. Homer Sylvester and family
motored from Montfort Saturday to at
tend the Bentley-Strong wedding. The
DR.. has Joined the medical unit and has
been assigned to a reserve camp to
| which he will leave shortly.
Mrs. Marion Brown, who journeyed
from Brooklyn to become the bride of
Richard Brown last week, was guest
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Doty, over the week end, re-
turning east Monday.
Mine Edgerton members of Co. K
were given furlough for week end
visit at their respective homes. they
were Leon Ellingson, Abner Hanson,
Guy Ogden, Chris Nelson, Thos. Wor-
man. Harold Dave, Hixon Lnapp, Ken
meth Lutz and Frank Devine. The
boys were as brown as berry and
looked as if camp life agreed with
them. They were expected to report
at Camp Douglas Monday.
The piano pupils of Mrs. Roy Liv-
lex will give recital at the home of
D. P. Devine Friday evening, Sept. z,
at o'clock. Everyone is cordially in
vited to attend. The following pupils
will take part: Elizabeth Anderson,
Cloes Bardeen, Elizabeth Bublitz, En-
ma Boden, Mildred Cruise, John Devine,
Catherine Devine, Maren Haired, En-
ma Fritzke, Dorothy Livick, Charles
Hyland, Floyd Painter, Lois Livick,
Rose Porath, Lucille Rossebo and En-
ma Schumacher.
The report of the lower Saunders
creek drainage commission was up be-
fore Judge Grimm in the circuit court
Tuesday. So many of the petitioners
for the improvement appeared either
in person or by attorneys against the
assessments of the report that the
hearing was continued until Sept. 18th.
P. N. Grubb and Nolan & Dougherty
appeared for the commissioners. Clancy
& Loverud for P. M. Ellingson, re-
monstrator, and Jeffris, Mouat, Oes-
treich & Avery for several remonstrat-
ors.
"A meeting of the state highway
commission and special legislative
committee will be held at GAINESVILLE
Tuesday afternoon at the court house
for the purpose of determining the
route for federal and state aid of trunk
lines. The point at issue with regard
to Rock county is the route to be chosen
north from GAINESVILLE, whether it shall
be by way of Edgerton or Evansville.
1t is probable that delegation from
Evansville will be present to argue
points in favor of the route through
, their city, and Edgerton may also be