The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-10-18
Local Happenings


home.
"A baby girl was welcomed into the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Will Ratzlaff on
Thursday last.
Miss Mary Morrissey of Racine
paid week end visit to the home of
her parents here.
John Leary was up from the Great
Lakes training station for an over Sun
day visit to his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ash were in
Chicago the latter part of the week Sc
Iecting their holiday stock.
W. E. Newman and G. E. Shannon
departed Monday for Pelican Lake on
fishing and hunting vacation.
-Edgerton has sent quite delega-
ton of laborers to work in the beet
sugar factory at GAINESVILLE during the
week.
Letters received last Friday by
relatives announced the safe arrival
overseas of Oscar Christopherson, Max
Voigt and Fred Schoenfeldt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl Kiel of Slough
ton and Mrs. Harry Kiel and daughter
Ruth of Madison were week end guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Kiel.
W. C. Stricken has been in the
northern part of the state during the
week purchasing the winters supply OF
potatoes for the Stricken Bros. store.
Manager Palmer and wife of the
Lyric have gone by auto to La Crosse
to spend the week with relatives while
the closing of public gatherings is in
force.
Hugh McInnes visited T. B. Earle
at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago
the latter part of the week, whom ne
reports is cheerfully bearing his en-
forced vacation.
Fire set by passing train at the
Driving Park Thursday called For some
help from town to protect the buildings
and grand stand there. Only slight
damage was done, However.
Rush Touton of Albion, attending
the S. A. T. G. at the university, left
Saturday with an assignment selected
from that camp to enter the officers
training camp at Camp Grant.
Ringing Bros. closed the season in
Georgia but will not return to Baraboo
this year, shipping the outfit to Bridge
port, Conn.,, to winter with the Barnum
& Bailey show which the Ringlings
control.
"A trainload of sheep and lambs
were sent out to the Chicago market
Sunday evening. But the same night
another train from the western range
came in filling up the yards again for
few days.
Mrs. George Farman was called to
Washington, D. c., Sunday by the i'll
ness of her daughter Nora who is suf-
fering with Spanish influenza. Miss
Farman holds a government position in
Washington.
The Rev. L. H. Keller, who has
been superintendent of the Wisconsin
State Congregational association for
the past six years, is planning on TAX
ing up Congregational church work in
Oklahoma after the expiration of his
present term.
Fred Carrier suffered most pain
full injury while at work at the Trailer
factory Thursday He was at work on
a palmer and piece of steel flew from
the machine, striking him in the eye.
The steel did not remain in the eye but
inflicted mostspainful injury.
Harold Pratt has been spending a
ten day furlough at the home Of his
parents in Fulton. He enlisted in the
wireless service, trained at the Munich
pal Pier in Chicago for time and later
in New York and upon his return ex-
poets an assignment to active sea duty.
H. F. Stillman of Albion, who has
faithfully carried the mail on Route
No. 2 out of the Edgerton office ever
since the rural service was established
here nearly II years ago, has resigned
his position. His family will remove
shortly to Battle Creek, Mich, to be
near their married daughters who live
there.
"A check for $59.O7 was turned into
the Red Cross fund by N. Swerdlof. a
local junk dealer, for the old tires that
have been donated to the Red Cross by
auto owners in Edgerton and vicinity.
Mr.. Swerdloff shipped the tires and
rubber thus collected with car of junk
and turned over the entire proceeds to
the Red Cross.
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