The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-08-16

| the ordnance school, but expects to De
assigned elsewhere for duty.
Robert Wilson came up from the
Great Lakes naval station to be pres
ent at the community picnic. He has
been assigned to a position in the store
house greatly to his liking.
The information reaches his par
ents here that Sergt. Warren Coon has
received transfer from the ordnance
department at Camp Hancock to the
artillery officers training camp at Camp
Taylor and departed for Louisville on
Sunday last
During the storm Saturday morn
! ing lightning struck a barn on the farm
| of Nels Nelson, two miles south of
Utica, and it was destroyed by fire.
All his crop of stacked oats except two
loads, quantity of hay and old grain
was lost
-Whitford Bros. threshed at D. L.
Babcock's last week and the yield was
one of the best this season. Seven
| acres of wheat averaged 40 bushels to
the acre. The Whitford Bros. have
threshed barley that yielded so bushels
| and oats 70 bushels to the acre.
Max Voigt, George Dallman, Ed
and Fred Schoenfeldt, Will Schultz,
Otto Trattin, Herbie Goede, Fred
Crepe, Ben Schmeling, Carl and Otto
Christopherson and Emil Sommerfeldt
were up from Camp Grant to pass
Sunday with relatives here.
The MELVILLE Red Cross social has
been postponed until Friday night of
this week. Good speakers, good music
and good things to eat. Be sure and
be present, the auction sale Of chickens,
ducks, eggs, ETC., for benefit Of Red
Cross will be some sale. At the Clarke
farm Friday night.
John Leary, John Nichols and Cliff
ford Shaw received orders to report at
naval headquarters in Milwaukee at 10
o'clock Wednesday. These three boys
enlisted in the navy and left on the
evening train Tuesday for Madison to
join bunch of boys there who were
under the same call.
| Clarence Swenson writes from Sa-
vannab, Mo-, that Mr.. Sam Wileman
| has had his arm amputated by spec
ialist at that place, and there is good
hope that Mr.. Wileman will come
through all right Mr.. Wileman, &C
companied by Mr.. Swenson, left here
week ago Tuesday.
"A marked copy of the Ripon Com
| monwealth has reached this office con-
tanning a notice of the death of Mrs.
| Emogene Hinckley Dart, which occurred
on the 4th inst at the age of n years.
| She was married to Richard Dart,
man who had no small part in the his
tory of Ripon, in 1859.
The big fire noticed by many, off
to the south during Tuesday evenings
storm, was barn on the August Wal
dow farm, the old Walrath place, which
lightning set fire and totally destroyed,
including this seasons crop of hay.
| The stock housed in the barn was saved
with considerable difficulty but the
loss will prove serious one.
The attractions staged for the
Dane county fair August 27-3O, will be
found listed elsewhere in this paper.
S25, 900 in premiums and purses are
hung up to be contested for and in this
year of plenty competition is certainly
going to be acute. The entries already
! show large field of horses that will
participate in the race program.
Mrs. G.. Amundson received dis
patch from the war department Satur-
| day announcing that her son Harold
| had been seriously wounded in action
on the French line. This is the second
casualty coming to this family. One
son, Ralph, was the first Edgerton boy
! to surrender his life, while a third son,
Severt, is with the regulars on the
| Mexican border.
"A considerable number of our busi-
ness and professional men have indi
Gated their desire to assist in harvest
ing crops by volunteering their SER
vices as farm laborers in the field.
Farmers wishing to avail themselves
of this emergency service may obtain
it by applying to Mayor Joseph J.
Leary at the Edgerton Cigar Co. office,
phone "a, or to Postmaster G. A. Hoen.
Annual Mission Festival services
will be held at ST. Johns German
church next Sunday. There will be
three services during the day. At 1920
in the morning Rev. Schmidt of Ply
mouth will preside; at 2:30 in the af
| ternoon Rev. R. T. Schoewe of Milton
will preside; at 7:30 in the evening
Rev. Eseman of Racine will preside.