The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-06-06


for Memorial day.
Services in English at st. Johns
Lutheran church next Sunday evening
at 7:30. The public are invited.
Mr.. Fred Barton Jr. came up from
Beloit last Friday to visit his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Barton of this city.
"A meeting of the Chamber Of Com
merce is called for Friday, June 6, at
s p. M, at Library hall. A full at
tendance is desired.
The amount now pledged to the
great Methodist Centenary fund by
Edgerton is S1I,075. This is So, 145
over the quota for the charge.
An old fashioned play Of the type
popular in the days of our sgrandmoth-
ers will be given by the ladies of Full
ton, Thursday, June IL, at $3.50.
Miss Clara Jensen came home from
Red Wing, Mimi, yesterday, where
she has been teaching the past year in
the Lutheran seminary in that city.
1. G.. Lutz and wife received a
wire announcing the arrival of their
son Kenneth at Camp Merritt May 31st.
His home coming may be expected any
day now.
Since the electric storm of Satur-
day night Henry johnson has been
busy adjusting tomato insurance. The
storm was destructive to barns, silos
and windmills.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Berry came up
from Beloit Saturday to take home
their baby son Wilfred who has been
staying year with his grandparents.
MIR. and Mrs. Fred Barton.
-Jens Olson and wife have received
word that their son, Elmer, has arrived
at Camp Merritt. and will probably be
discharged from Camp Grant. He was
with the Mounted Police.
Sunday evening, May 25th, the
Rev. w. C. A. Garness of Whitewater
delivered sermonic lecture at the local
Norwegian Lutheran church. Those
who heard it speak very highly of it.
Henry George, the six year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Marsden, died
Friday night after short illness Of
diphtheria. The funeral services were
private from the home the following
day.
Sergeant Earle w. Shaw writes
that he has been visiting in England at
the home of his great-uncle, who is a
member of Parliament, and that his
unit left France May 9Th en- route for
home.
Mrs. Alfred Abbott and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Slater of Tyndall, S. D.,
have been visiting friends and rela-
tives on Albion Prairie during the
week. Both ladies were daughters of
Mr.. and Mrs. BENZ. Bussey, early set
tiers there.
The U. w. observatory reports 2.81
inches of rainfall recorded during Sat-
urday and Sunday night storms. This
is somewhat larger than in this locality
but the rain was heavy here and it was
needed. All Vegetation is making rapid
advancement since.
"A S year old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Thronson on Albion Prairie
died at Mercy hospital in GAINESVILLE
Saturday evening of spinal meningitis.
Funeral services were conducted from
the home Tuesdey afternoon by Rev.
G. G. Krostu, interment at the East
church.
Last week Rev. E. A. Grefthen
was confined to his bed with lumbago.
On this account the confirmation serv-
ices, which should have been held last
Sunday, were postponed two weeks, to
the 18th of June. Regular Pentecost
services-one English and one Norwe-
gian-will be held next Sunday morn
ing.
A resourceful motorist whose car
has been stuck in the mud does not
always have to fall back on pair of
horses to get free. For such an en-
Urgency the United States Tire COM
pany offers suggestion that has prov
en- valuable. The first calls for having
stored away somewhere in the car a
stack of old newspapers. When the
car gets stuck and the wheels refuse
to take hold, feed in some of the old
papers between the tires and the mud.
Usually only a few will have to be
worked in before the wheels will be-
gin to grip and the car will start for
ward. This method of handling diff
ficult situation is so simple and so uni
formly successful that every motorist
should know it and carry pile of old
newspapers, unless he is equipped with