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

GAINESVILLE tuesday TO make their future
home.
"A train load of western range sheep
were received at the Feeding Yards on
Tuesday.
"A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Chester Tellefson on Thursday,
Oct. 9Th.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ogden left
Monday for Dyersville, Iowa, on visit
to Mrs. Ogden's sister.
-Rey. and Mrs Marvin Brandt of
Sheboygan are spending portion of
the week with Edgerton relatives.
Albion has gone over the top in the
Fourth Liberty Loan with full quota.
There are twelve other townships in
Dane county that have met the allot-
ment.
John Murray, aged %, of Union,
died at Camp Grant of pneumonia Oct.
6. The remains were sent home and
burial took place in the Porter ceme-
terry. Oct. 9th.
Walter Sack, for some months
clerk at Dean Swift's drug store, died
at his home in this city Wednesday af-
ternoon after a two weeks struggle
with pneumonia.
The County Council of Defense has
named Andrew Mcintosh, w. F. Nab
bett and M. L. Carrier as a committee
on building to whom application may
be made for permits under the regula-
ton of the war industries board.
The report of solicitors in the 4th
Liberty Loan UP to Tuesday evening
shows $155, $50 pledged in this banking
district out of a quota of $3.50, 900.
There is every reason to believe that
the full amount Will be raised if the
right spirit prevails in the community.
The quota of garments having
been completed, the Red Cross work
rooms will be closed until further no.
tice. Letters received at GAINESVILLE
from the division headquarters in Chi
cago report that with the assignment
of the next quota there will be steady
work all winter.
Mrs. F. Amundson has received
letter from her son Harold telling of
his arrival in New York from the
French battle front and is being inval
ided home as unfit for further military
duty. While going over the top few
weeks ago Harold was taken with
hemorrhage which caused the report to
be sent to his parents that he was
wounded.
Maurice Hitchcock has received no
tice that his application for admission
into the machine gun officers training
camp had been accepted and left for
Madison where he expects to be sent to
Camp Hancock, Ga. Maurice finished
his freshman year at the university but
was unable to continue his studies, be-
ing of draft age.
The milk train leaving GAINESVILLE
each morning for Milwaukee was
wrecked in collision just east of Wau-
kesha Monday morning, in which sew
eral persons were injured. The milk
train ran head on into ''scoot" re-
turning from Brookield, which had or
ders to meet at Waukesha. Ted Evans,
the most unlucky conductor on the di-
vision, was in charge of the train. 1t
took several hours to clear the tracks
of the wreckage, both engines being
put out of commission.
In letter from Captain Ernest
Wood, now on special detail at Camp
Dix, N. j., to Adolph Jensen, he speaks
of how the influenza has upset the work
at this camp for while. He also says
he was with Co. M in their first big
drive in France and thanks God that
none of the Edgerton boys were killed
in this engagement. A number, how
ever, got mustard gas but got over it
in few days. Continuing he says:
Orchard Hayes of Cambridge, who
was my personal orderly. slept with me
in the same shell hole the night | got
mine. When l left France he returned
to Co. M. When l get orders to leave
here l surely will see you and the rest
of the friends in Edgerton.' Woods
commission as captain of Co. M, 128th,
has been received since his arrival in
this country and he expects to take his
command on his return to France.
After trying for six years to main
tain a good hotel in Edgerton and the
travelling public will attest that he
succeeded, VIM. P. Cutlery has laid
down the burden and left for Chicago
during the week. Notice is now post
ed on the door of the Carlton hotel say
ing ''This hotel will be closed Oct. IL
and the furniture and fixtures will be
offered for sale bv T., H. TOWne