The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-14
Local Happenings

james Menhall returned from W ash
ington the latter part of the week.
%. r. Pomeroy of Gays Mills visit
ed among relatives here for time the
fore part Of the week.
Senator Henry Roethe of Grant
county was guest of Mrs. Angie Roe
the, his sister-in-law, Monday.
w. A. Shelley was called from his
Milwaukee home to Warren, Pa, the
fore part of the week by the death of
his mother.
Paul and Otto Kiemp have return
ed fren Lynden Station where they
completed the contract of cutting $50
cords Of wood.
Mrs. August Ratzlaff Sr. slipped
On the ice at her home Saturday after
soon, falling in such manner as to
break her arm.
Hiram o. Wood, son of the late
VIM. Wood, has lately been engaged as
assistant manager of the Hotel Wis
eonsin in Milwaukee.
Mrs. C.. L. Burnham of Madison
and her daughter, Mrs. Marie Thomp-
son Of New York, were guests OF Ed
gerton friends on Friday.
Freddie Haylock, son of E. E. Hay
leck and wife, left Tuesday evening
for Kansas City, Mo-, to take an eight
weeks course in a motor school.
Miss Margaret Stafford, principal
IN the Kenosha schools, passed por-
tion of the week end with relatives
here. She attended the teachers meet
ing In Madison.
Rev. Grefthen attended district
convention of Norwegian churches at
Lodi this week. Other delegates from
the church here were Martin Mason
and j. A. Jensen.
The Ladies society of the Norwe-
gian church will be entertained by Mrs.
Tom Olson, Mrs. Paul Dorr, Mrs. JOS
ephson and Mrs. O'Leary, Thursday,
March Is. z
-E6k6E L ctSIsOiI1 q yOuhS u1ou CAh-
ployed in a tobacco warehouse, has
been dangerously i'll with pneumonia at
the Moore home during the week but
the crisis is now past. Miss Iva Tracy
is nursing him.
The shearing of 1000 lambs that
are being finished at the feeding yards
here was started Monday and will con-
- tinue until the last is shorn of its fleece.
The present price of unwashed wool is
around 40 cents.
Mrs. Fred Campbell was called to
Riceville, Iowa, Saturday on account
of the serious condition of her aged
father who had slipped and fell, sus-
tanning injuries. A later telegram
announced his death.
The question as to whether license
for the sale of liquor should be granted
in Edgerton the coming year will be
submitted to vote of the people at
the spring election to be held April LIST,
q petition having been filed for that
purpose.
Clarence Mcintosh appeared as the
star player in the University team
which hung defeat on Chicago last Sat-
urday evening in a western conference
basketball game when the Badgers
piled up score of Is to 9. Mcintosh
is credited with five baskets.
On the lest page of this issue will
be found the announcement OF James
3. Keller, formerly of the Babcock &
Keller Co. Mr.. Keller has purchased
the ladies and misses shoe department
of the company and will continue bust
ness in the same store for the present.
John Strassberg, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. w. Strassberg, Madison, pri-
vate, 18th regiment, Co. d, is home on
a furlough and paid visit to relatives
and friends the latter part of last week.
He was wounded at scissors and was
sent to the United States last Novem-
Der.
After serving twenty months in the
navy, much of the time on destroyer
in European waters, Harold Sutton has
been released from service, having been
mustered out at the Great Lakes sta
ton. Harold Pratt of Fulton, also
with the navy, reached home the latter
part of the week.
The Babcock & Keller Co. have
sold out to Pearson & Jagoditch, the
new firm now being in possession. Both
gentlemen of the new firm were MEM
bers of the old firm and are well and
favorably known to the mems clothing
and furnishing trade. Announcement
of the change is made in their adver-
Using space this week.
IN. E. Nelson has been busily en-
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