The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-10-11
Local Happenings

street.
Robert Wilson was home from the
Great Lakes training station for
weeks stay.
Quite number of oversee letters
from our soldier boys in France were
received Wednesday.
Mrs. w. Dickinson attended the w.
C.. T. u. convention at Rhinelander the
latter part of the week.
Rev Adkins has been attending the
Congregational ministerial conference
at Whitewater this week.
The new Lawton street bridge
across Saunders creek has been COM
pleted and ready for traffic.
"A. D. Lyon, employed in the factory
of the Nash Motor Co., at Kenosha,
came up for a week end stay here.
Special communication of Fulton
Lodge No. SO F. A. NJ, Thursday, Oct.
10, 1918, o'clock. Work in M. M. de-
gree.
The Sunday school of the Congre-
gational church will observe Rally Day
with a suitable program next Sunday
evening.
The Meyers barber shop was re-
moved from the Pringle block to the
Mcintosh & Thompson building on Sun
day last.
Over II, 900 pounds of old rubber,
contributed by our citizens to the Red
Cross, has been sold, netting quite
tidy sum.
The band concert Sunday afternoon
was again postponed on account OF the
prevailing sickness having invaded the
ranks of the musicians.
%. G.. Hanson and wife returned
Sunday evening from Rochester, Minn.,
where Mrs. Hanson has been receiving
treatment at the Mayo hospital.
Mrs. T. B. Earle went to Chicago
the latter part of the week to see Mr..
Earle who is taking treatment at the
Presbyterian hospital in that city.
Kenneth Earle, with the U. S.
navy, has been transferred to Madison
to assist in organizing the naval divis-
ion of the S. A. T. c. at the university.
The Highway Trailer company has
sent out couple of new type areoplane
trailers this week that were forwarded
to the air service station in Nova Scotia.
Lieutenant Charles Mcintosh con-
Guided a three:weeks furloughiwhich was
passed at his home here, returning on
Wednesday to Camp Taylor where ne
is assigned as instructor.
The postoffice force has been con-
siderably disrupted during most OF the
week when five or six of the clerks and
carriers were confined to their homes
with the prevailing influenza.
Charles Wileman has finished his
road contract in Lima and moved his
outfit into the town of Porter the fore
part of the week where he has few
weeks work yet before the close of the
season.
John Henderson was brought home
from the S. P. Saunders farm on AL
bion Prairie Monday with broken col
lar bone and cut on the knee as the
result of being kicked by horse he
was Harvesting His injuries are likely
to lay him up for some time.
Mrs. Martha Ash of this city was
elected to head the Order of Eastern
Star in Wisconsin as Matron at the
Grand Chapter held in Milwaukee last
week. The Order has membership of
about %, 600 III the state and the duties
of Mrs. Ash will require a visit to the
local Chapters throughout the state the
coming year.
An application has been made by
the GAINESVILLE Electric Co. to the Rail-
road commission for permission to in
crease their rates 10 per cent. An ex-
emption is made of the contract which
the company holds with the city of Ed
gerton but does not include the COM
mercial business in Edgerton. A hear
ing has been set when all parties inter-
ested may appear before the commits
sion at Madison.
Clayton Hubbell, with the U. S.
Marines at Dover, N. j., writes the
Reporter that he is located at the larg-
est naval depository IN the country
when improvements under way are all
completed. He has just recovered from
an attack of influenza and beginning to
feel fine again. While he would much
prefer to go across, his work there can
only be done by the Marines. He would
like to see Edgerton go over the top ir
the 4th Liberty Loan.
The prevailing epidemic of influ-