The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-08
Local Happenings


this week.
Miss Myrtle Barton was week
end guest at the A. E. Skinner home
at Madison.
Henry Ebbott left last Friday even
ing for Mitchell, S. D., to pass couple
of weeks with relatives.
Herbert Goede has moved from the
D. d. Brown flats to the VIM. Fritzke
residence on Cemetery road.
VIM. Schrub and Chas. Tall were
in Chicago two days the latter part of
last week or garage business.
Members of the Ladies society of
st. Johns church held their annual
picnic at Charley Bluff last Friday.
The Bethany Circle will be enter
tanned by Miss Borghild Thoreson in
the church parlors, Friday evening,
August 9th.
Special communication of Fulton
Lodge No. SO A. F. & A. M, Friday,
August 8, at p. M, in K. P. Lodge
rooms. Work in F. C. degree.
The Mierswa Construction company
have completed their work of laying
sewer and water pipe ip the city. The
last of their work was laying water
main on Bentley Place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Antoine Staff, Mr..
and Mrs. Ole Akvik and Mrs. Ingvald
Anderson motored to Milwaukee and
Racine to pass a few days with
friends. They left last Saturday.
Several baseball fans from here
were in Whitewater last Sunday to wit
ness the game between Fort Atkinson
and Whitewater in which the Fort team
were victorious, the score being to a.
Henry Schmellng and wife return
ed Saturday evening from motor trip
to Fox Lake where they had been with
friends a few days. Mr.. Schmeling
made business trip to Oshkosh while
away.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. McGill of Ore
gon spent a few days of last week at
the John Bowen home, returning Sum
day with their daughters, Misses Nellie
and Marie McGill, and Mr.. Motherhood
who drover over for them.
William Schrub has announced his
intention of rebuilding on the site
where the garage burned. His plans
are not yet formulated but he intends
to erect building that will be modern
in every respect for garage purposes.
There was considerable pilfering
from the wreckage of the fire and some
things taken were of not much value
except for junk. One party was caught
with a sack containing an air pump and
several other small articles that were
not much damaged.
An electric railway item is again
started and is going the rounds of the
press. This time announcement is
made that ]. E. Jones of Portage will
run a line from Madison to GAINESVILLE
by the end of next summer. Mr.. Jones
has been on the map before.
Miss Olga Hanson, of Pringle Bros.
Co., was in Chicaso the first of the
week looking through the markets in
the interests of the store. Mrs. Her
man Handtke and Stephen Brown, both
of the clerical force of the Department
store, are taking two weeks vacation.
Insurance adjustments on the losses
sustained by fire in the Schrub & Tall
garage have all been satisfactorily
made. VIM. Schrub had 81, 900 on fur
niture, $4,000 on the building; Schrub &
Tall, $500 on accessories; F. G. Maves
& Co., $500 on their stock in the pool
room.
Madison is the nearest point that a
big circus will touch to Edgerton this
year. Since the consolidation of the
Ringing Bros. circus and the Barnum
& Bailey shows they are playing only
in the larger cities. Madison is
not so very far away at that if you
have any inclination to see the big
show.
Dane county's Victory fair will be
held August 26 to % and is promised
to be the largest fair ever held in Mad
ison. One hundred and forty-nine
horses have already been entered and
in addition to the many attractions
there will be an unusually fine selec-
ton on the free list.
I'm eastern Dane county there are
forty-seven rural schools that have not
yet employed teachers for the coming
term, reports County Supt. Sylvannus
Ames Among the list of clerks who
have reported as not having completed
contracts are G. w. Hall, George H.
Sherwood and Richard Stricken, all
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