The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-09-28

ton of one of her limbs occurred sew
eral weeks ago.
The w. C. T. U. meets with Mrs.
w. Dickinson, Friday, Sept. %. Re-
ports of the state convention in Mil
| waukee will be read. Refreshments
will be served. Each member is priv
ileged to invite one friend.
Roy Mccullough of Milton Junction
was before Judge Longs court Satur-
day charged with illegal fishing, on
complaint of Deputy Game Warden
Sampson of Dane county. On plea
of guilty a fine of $50 was assessed.
Fifteen members of Co. K were
home on week end leave of absence,
being mainly those who had not left
Camp Douglas since called into service.
1t was their last trip home before their
departure for Waco, Texas, on Tues
day.
/ Walter Bush, who was arrested at
Elkhorn on the charge of forgery and
brought back to this city Thursday,
made good the check and paid all costs,
amounting to $3.50. Mr.. Rossebo, the
| complaining witness, declined to prose-
! cute and Bush was released after re-
ceiving some sound advice from Judge
Long.
The need of more permanent en-
| ployment for our laboring people is
amply illustrated by the fact that
representative of the Fairbanks Morse
company secured 35 men in Edgerton
this week for work in the shops at Be-
lott. ssThe permanence of every interior
town is some thrifty manufacturing
plant.
The Sunday afternoon band con-
cert on the high school grounds at
tracted very large attendance that
listened attentively to the fine pro-
gram rendered. Some one has sug-
gested that next season it. would be a
good plan to alternate the weekly con-
| certs between Wednesday evenings and
Sunday afternoons, which is not bad
idea.
Last May, City Clerk A. N. Savee
of Whitewater skipped away from his
office and it was reported went to Cali
| fornia. He returned few weeks later
| and has since been at his home suffer-
ing from nervous breakdown. The
Whitewater council ordered the state
to audit the books at that time and
Monday the work was completed. A
shortage of $2700 was found.
Whether Fred Michaelis, the aged
town of Johnstown farmer. shot himself
or whether he met death at the hands
of an unknown assailant is still a mys-
terry, and will probably remain so until
the inquest to be conducted by the cor
oner next Thursday afternoon at two
o'clock before Judge Harry L. Max
field Of the municipal court. Evidence,
however, points ever more strongly to-
ward a verdict of suicide.
j. W. Menhall of the Highway
Trailer Co. has purchased about one
and three-quarters acres of land from
Wray Watson. The tract just covers
the fine orchard which Mr.. Watson has
set and grown in the past twenty
years and includes some of the finest
fruit in southern Wisconsin. Mr.. Men
hall contemplates erecting handsome
residence on the Albion road south of
the Watson residence.
The next 40 per cent of the first
district quota of Rock county, picked
to go to Camp Grant at Rockford Octo-
Der 3rd, contains the following young
men from Edgerton and vicinity: Leon
ard Myrland, Oscar M. Jensen, Bern
ard Duman, Bonnie Jensen, Arthur w.
Brown, Fayette S. Pomeroy, Alfred
Jensen, Paul F. A. Splitter, Albert
Plantz and Alvin Amundson. The next
consignment will consist of 81 men,
leaving Is per cent of the quota to be
called sometime during the month when
camp is ready to receive them.
-Pringle Bros. Co. have issued a |
large four-page circular announcing a
Fall Opening for one week, October 1st
to 9Th. The offerings include the new
est in coats and suits, the best in cold
weather comforts, the correct fall foot
wears for ladies, large line of gro
ceries, new fall rugs and floor cover |
ings, and the labor-saving Sellers Cab
met which contains all the conveniences
the ladies could ask for. If for any
reason one of these circulars does not |
reach your home, make special effort |
to procure one. Pripgle Bros. Co. will |
be more than pleased to meet all at |
their store during this week of varied |
offerings in all the standard lines listed |
on the circular.
The attraction at the Lyric uheater
tonite Thursday will be "The Island /