The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-01-17
Local Happenings

The W. C. T. u. will hold their an
Eual supper February IL.
-Chas. Green and wife of Beloit
paid Sunday visit to relatives in Ed
gerton.
"A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Teigs at the Lockwood hospital
Monday evening.
Atty. Paul N. Grnbb and family
returned Monday evening from sew
eval weeks absence in Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. E. Peters enter
tanned company of friends with a
wild goose dinner Sunday evening.
DIR. A. o. Henderson of Mandan,
N. D., paid short visit to his parents
and other friends here on Tuesday.
Atty. Fred w. Bentley came up
from Chicago to attend the funeral of
his aunt, Mrs. John S. Coon, on Sun
day last.
Mrs. ]. S. Miller and children of
Madison have been guests of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Pomeroy,
here this week.
-Silas Hurd was in town Thursday
for the. first time in sixteen weeks,
having had long siege with influenza
and pneumonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Menhall re-
tnrned Saturday evening from two
weeks trip in the East, visiting Wash
ington and New York.
Louis Hammond, son of Charles
Hammond on Wheeler Prairie, sustain
ed broken leg through horse slip
ping and falling upon him.
His father here has been ad-
vised that Harry McCann has reached
the hospital at Camp Grant with an
overseas consignment of wounded.
The Electric Co. is building trans
mission line from Houfe's corners west
to John Mussehl's to furnish power and
lights to farm homes on Maple Drive.
Geo. Goldthorp of Sumner was op-
Grated on at the Mayo hospital in
Rochester, Mimi, last week for gall
stones, from which he is reported to
be recovering satisfactorily.
"A telephone message from Harold
Hemphill at Chicago Monday informed
his parents that he was en- route home
with the Blackhawk division booked
for discharge at Camp Grant.
Oscar Hanson, Henry Biesmann,
Walter Becker, Archie Bake and Emil
Schlichtstein have arrived home during
the week from Camp Hancock, Geor-
gia, with their discharge from service.
Mrs. Mary Casey, another pioneer
of Rock county, died at her home in
Evansville Saturday morning, aged go
years. She was born in Ireland in
1926, married to Dennis Casey Of the
town of Porter in 1868, who died in
1908. She is survived by two daugh-
ters and three sons, Mrs Thos. Ford
and Dennis Casey of Porter being
among them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Swenson,
who were recently married, were en-
tertained Monday evening IT the Nor
wegian Lutheran church. Mr.. Sven
son has been a church officer and, the
members took this opportunity of show
ing their appreciation for the good
work and service he has rendered Mr..
and Mrs. Swenson were presented with
some silverware as wedding gift
The remains of Mrs. Anthony An
derson, who died at Fergus Falls,
Mimi, were brought to the home of
her daughter. Mrs. Earl Cook, in
Stoughton, Monday. Until two years
ago the family made their home in AL
bion. She is survived by seven chill
dren, Albert, Carl, Linden, Mrs. Earl
Cook of Stoughton, and Mrs. Veda
Olson, Mrs. Martin Samburg and Willis
Anderson now in service in a southern
camp.
"A truck load of milk consigned to
the Stoughton condensery, standing a
little too close to the main line track,
got bad bump Sunday morning when
an extra freight came bowling through
town and the cylinder head of the en-
CINE hit the truck, sending it end over
end. The depot platform was milky
way for several hours thereafter. Bat
tered cans and broken truck were
strewn along the right of way but the
freight never stopped to note the dam
age.
The recent cold week about the
holidays reminds Richard Barnes, an
cid resident of this locality, that sixty
years ago the coolest week of the win
ter was the one just before Christmas.
He was then living west of Lake Kosh-
konong and had to cross Rock river on
ferry. 1t was so cold that the ferry
did not cross for the whole week and