The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-10
Plant your gardens now.

| farm.
Henry Johnson left on business
trip to Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday morn
ing.
Miss Anna Hinckley of Milwaukee
is visiting at the home OF her sister,
Mrs. w. F. Mabbett.
j ames Menhall was called to Cleve-
land on business of the Highway Trail
er Co. early in the week.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Mcintosh
anticipate vacation trip into the south
the latter part of the week.
| Ole Rossebo has sold his home on
North First street to Mrs. Kate Hy-
land. Sale made by c. E. Sweeney
real estate agency.
| The surgical dressing class will
| meet Friday afternoon and evening. DR..
| Meyers has kindly donated the work
done on Saturday in his Office to the
! class.
"A series of soaking rains early in
| the week followed by warm days has
pushed vegetation ahead amazingly.
The newly seeded fields and pastures
are fast catching up for all the delays
of late spring.
The Ladies society of the Norwe
| gian Lutheran church will be enter
tanned by Mrs. P. M. Ellingson, Mrs.
Josephson, Mrs. Omsberg and Mrs. Ed
Haugen at the church parlors Thurs
day, May 9. 2
| While at the Sherman House in
Chicago last Thursday en- route to Paris
Island naval station, Clayton Hubbell
invested So in rattle for 500 Lib
erty bond, conducted in the hotel, and
his number, %, won it for him. For
once the hoodoo number was the lucky
one.
The United States Army is urgent
ly in need of tradesmen, mechanics and
horsemen. Men at ages from Is to Il,
and 81 to Al may enlist in this branch
of the service. A recruiting sergeant
of the U. S. army will be at the local
postoffice May 10th and 18th for the
purpose of making enlistments. 2
This office is in receipt of the Me-
| mortal Day annual issued by Supt.
Cary for the use of Wisconsin schools
| on Memorial Day observance. The
leading article, brim full of patriotic
sentiment, is by Chief Justice Winslow
of our supreme court. Secretary Of
| Interior Lane contributes an instruc
tive article on "Why We are at War.
| d. w. North. in charge of the sale
| of Smilage Books for this locality in
forms US that the government is anx-
ious that each of the boys in the Sec
ond draft leave home with Smilage
Books in their pocket. The govern
ment has booked q high-class compa-
MES for the different environments for
which Smilage Book tickets could be
| used.
| Willie Tellefson, son of Mrs Eliza
beth Tellefson of Rockdale, died at
Jefferson Thursday morning as the re-
suit of being run over by train be-
tween Jefferson Junction and Jefferson.
1t is believed he jumped onto the cow
catcher and fell off after the engine
| started Deceased leaves besides his
mother, three brothers and two sisters.
The funeral was held Friday at Rock
| dale
| Frank Pyre and Will Dickinson,
who have enlisted in the ordnance
branch Of Uncle Sans service have re-
ceived their instructions from the de-
partment that after being indicted into
service by the local board, the former
is to proceed to Columbus, O., barracks
and the latter to Jefferson barracks,
Mo-, there to be uniformed, when both
will go to Camp Hancock, Augusta,
| Georgia, for ordnance instruction.
| Commencing on National Thrift
Day which will be observed in Wiscon-
sin Saturday, May 18th, and continu-
ing the balance of the year, every re-
tail store in the state of Wisconsin will
cooperate with the government in a
determined effort to raise So, 900, 900, 900
for the war treasury, thru the sale of
Thrift and War Saving Stamps. Thru
the Edgerton public schools $4,000 of
Thrift Stamps have already been sold.
In the contest held last Thursday
evening at the high school, Frederick
Ellingson won first in original Grafton
and James Curran was awarded Sec
ond. The medal for this was given by
the First National bank. In the ex-
temporaneous contest Stanley Slagg
was awarded first place, winning the
medal given by the Highway Trailer
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