The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-02-22

A revised telephone directory will
be issued about March 10. Subscribers
who contemplate change of residence
or farm movements should notify the
office at once.
The four minute speakers assigned
at the Lyric for the balance OF the
week are Prof. F. o. Holt, L. II:
Towne, D. C. Gle, Paul N. Grubb and
Geo. w. Blanchard.
The handsome Percheron stallion,
Lord Galloway End, was ratified by Jas.
Hepburn Saturday and Otto Staff OF
Albion Prairie held the lucky number,
1873. Five hundred tickets at dollar
each were sold on the horse.
The icy condition of the streets and
walks the past week as to cause every
one to watch their step least broken
bones result. Mrs. Belle Wilson sus-
tanned a bad fall that tore the liga-
ments at the wrist and elbow Monday
evening.
1t is announced that the Milwau-
lkee-Prairie du Chen trains Nos. l and
a will be restored on the 25th, which
will give us the usual facilities for
travel on this division that has main
tanned for some years. One can again
go to Milwaukee, transact business and
return the same day.
-Chas. Bowen, writing from Porto
Rico. where he holds responsible po-
sition with large tobacco corporation,
states that he has been transferred
from Cayey to Aibonito; also that he
recently had the misfortune to slip and
fall on the cement walk, sustaining a
fractured wrist, but is still on the job.
Two of Stoughton's high school
basketball teams went down to defeat
at the hands of Edgerton in game
played here Tuesday evening. The
Junior teams made the best showing in
a score. of Is to IL, but the regulars
fell down by a score of 20 to 40 in an
Iexciting contest before a large audi
ence.
Leland Martin, the one year old
son of Mrs. Martin Hanson, died last
Sunday morning after an illness OF
some length. Funeral services were
conducted at the home Tuesday after
noon, Rev. Grefthen officiating. Inter
ment was made in Jensen cemetery.
The young widowed mother has our
Isincere sympathy.
-Ex-City Clerk A. N. Savee OF
Whitewater pleaded guilty to the en-
|bezzlement charges against him at
Elkhorn and was sentenced to five
years in the state penitentiary at Wau-
pun. HIS defalcations amounted to
So, 474.73, beginning in JAM, 1915, and
ending in 1917, when he took sudden
trip to California. Savee is married
and has three small children.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Thoreson have
received two letters from their son,
Second Lieutenant Andrew Thoreson,
both written somewhere in France. In
them he states that he is perfectly
well and expects soon to be transferred
nearer up to the battle front for train
ing purposes. Where he now is the
grass is green, the shrubbery in leaf
and he is going about without an over
coat.
Peter Cullen, young man employ
ed recently by the railway company,
lost his pocketbook containing 500 and
valuable papers in town Thursday after
returning from GAINESVILLE where he had
been called for an examination before
the draft board. A liberal reward is
offered for it's return for it represents
the savings of several months which he
hoped to hold in reserve until he was
called into service.
F. L. Clemens, Rock county food
administrator, on Tuesday evening gave
to the press of the county the informa-
+ ton that he had received an order to
! the effect that the ruling requiring
i dealers when selling wheat flour to sell
an equal amount of wheat substitute
has been changed. He has therefore
, given the order that it is necessary for
the consumers to buy only half as much
, substitutes when buying wheat flour,
, that is, when housewife purchases
, fifty pounds of wheat flour she will
have to purchase only twenty-five
; pounds of wheat substitutes, or in
, smaller orders in like proportion.
I Edwin Lipke of the First Field
!, Artillery, BIT. B, U. S. regulars, now
: at Fort Sill, Okla, is spending two
weeks Through with Edgerton rela-
F, tives. Since his enlistment in June
! last he has had quite varied exper-
. fence in soldier life. From Billings,
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