The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-06-08

mild in character.
| AT a meeting of the public library
board on Saturday evening it was voted
! to invest five hundred dollars of the IL
brary funds in Liberty Bond.
| Mrs. Sam Fielder returned from
Rochester, Mimi, Sunday, where she
went to consult the Mayo hospital
staff. The physicians advised recov-
cry of strength before an operation.
Rev. J. Linnevold and wife and O..
G. Hanson and wife left Tuesday for
Minneapolis to attend general con-
ference of all Norwegian Lutheran
churches and complete the amalgama-
ton of the different branches.
Miss Mary Watson, head saleslady
! in the ready to wear department of the
Pugh Stores Company at Stoughton, is
enjoying a few weeks vacation from
duties at the store, at the home of her
parents, MIR. and Mrs. Wray Watson.
Edison L. Ogden, who joined the
regulars and has been stationed at Fl.
Bliss, Texas, writes his parents that
the regiment to which he was assigned
had been ordered to New York. The
regiment left Texas on Sunday, June 3.
-Durrel Davis, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hiram Davis, came home from the
GAINESVILLE hospital, where he submitted
to an operation for appendicitis nearly
month agoD When about ready to
leave the hospital he came down with
small pox and was sent to the isolation
hospital until his recovery.
| From June 18th to June 18th in
elusive, is United States Marine Corps
recruiting week. Rock county is called
upon to assist in the campaign to raise
Wisconsin's quota of men for the
! Soldiers of the Sea-" which is 1000
for this service. The enlistment per-
| iod is for the duration Of the war only.
Miss Elizabeth Amery of the Col
lege of Agriculture at the u. of W., in
cooperation with Emergency Food
Committee, conducted canning dem
| onstration at Library hall, Monday
evening, June 4th. A large audience
of women watched Miss Amery and
expect later to apply her methods to
the vegetables and fruits in their sea-
sons. Girls clubs are to be formed
under the guidance of Miss Hoen and
several assistants.
There will be Sunday school at the
usual hour at the Norwegian Lutheran
| church, but no services. Sunday, June
10th, will go down in history as the
day on which the three Lutheran
church bodies celebrated their union in
the United Lutheran Synod. This eel
ebration takes place at ST. Paul, Mimi,
in connection with the first convocation
of the new church. Andrew Jensen,
o. G. Hanson and J.. Linnevold are
delegates from the Edgerton church.
-Edgerton continues to do it's bit
towards recruiting the naval and land
forces of the government. During the
week Raymond Saunders, Arthur Berg,
Frank Routan and Henry Craver went
to Madison to enlist in the artillery of
the regular army. Nicholas Appegard
Hugo j. Mabie and Hugo Stark have
also joined the Edgerton platoon of
Co. M, 1st Reg. w. N. G. Rollin Will
Hams and Mahlon Ogden contemplate
| joining the navy if their release from
Co. M. 1st Reg. can be obtained.
"A county board of registration
| composed, according to the law, of the
county clerk, sheriff and county ply
stefan and four other members named
| by the governor. For Rock county the
board is composed as follows: Sheriff
! R. o. Whipple, County Clerk HI. w.
Lee, County Physician DR.. J. F. Penn
Der, J. A. Craig of Evansville; E. Van
Patten, Evansville; William Mcintosh,
Edgerton; George Ingersoll, Beloit. 1t
shall be the duty of this board to can
/ NdSS IIlG IStQIliS lOI tuS Guilty dIlu
| make the report to the governor and
adjutant general of the state.
The Shakesperean play to be given
this year by the students Of Milton
college will be GAS You Like IT. The
addition of much extra. scenery and
equipment last year, gives the college
auditorium the best equipped amateur
stage in the state and will help to make
it more than an ordinary performance.
Although the war conditions have les
sened somewhat the number of candi-
dates for places, Coach Stringer has
the cast rounded into form, and in view
of the fact that this is the semi-cen-
tennial year for the college, every eff
fort is being made to make it the best
play ever staged in that place. Seats
| will he ON colo Mop1au Jr,po II CO