The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-07-09
Mor+;r K,oven and family of Rock

The Ladies Missionary society OF
the Congregational church will serve
cafeteria supper in the church parlors
July ID, beginning at $50 p. m.
DIR. Holton has bought the Frank
Brown property on Bentley Place.
The consideration is reported to have
been $4,000. Possession in December.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Harvey, ac-
companied by the latter's mother and
brother, Mrs. Torpey and Chas. Tor
pey of Footville, visited at the state
sanitarium at Wales, Sunday, July 4th.
Mr.. Cash Whipple, who has an
nounced his candidacy for the office of
sheriff in this county at the coming
election, called on The Reporter one day
last week. Cash is jolly good fellow
and brings good cheer with him every
where.
The Highway Trailer has acquired
the Frank Pringle residence on Albion
street. The deal involved $4,000. The
house will be occupied by A. W. Diet
zell, superintendent of the Highway
Trailer and Axle plant. Possession in
September.
The sheriff of Jefferson county was
in Edgerton one day last week to
straighten out matter with party
here who had given check without
having adequate funds in the bank to
meet the payment of it. A settlement
was effected.
Oscar ABBY and family of Rock
ford, Ill.,, came to Edgerton to spend
| the Fourth with friends and relatives
here. They are staying at the home
eff Mr.. ard Mrs. Gust Hagen on Wash
ington street. Mr.. ABBY called at the
Reporter office.
Fred Strassberg, formeE ly janitor
of the schools in Edgerton, has been
re-appointed to his old position and as
sumed charge July 1st. His family
will move from Madison here in the
near future. Mr.. Strassberg has been
employed as janitor at the schools in
Middleton.
The annual school meeting is ad-
journed to meet Friday evening of this
! week at eight o'clock. The budget,
which is considerably higher than last
| year, election of officers and other i'm
portant matters will come before the
meeting and the voters should turn out
in force to take action.
ALI shade trees overhanging the
| sidewalks should be trimmed up fifteen
feet from the ground. The common
council has authority to trim your trees
properly and assess the cost against the
property. That would be expensive at
the high cost of labor. Better get busy
and save this expense.
On July LIST the law prohibiting the
use of vehicles with metal tires of less
than three inches, except animal drawn
pleasure vehicles seating less than
eight persons, went into effect in Rock
| county. The county board failed to
legislate against it, and 1919 law went
into effect automatically.
Miss Catherine Heddles, who has
been visiting at the home of her grand
| mother, Mrs. F. w. Coon, has gone to
her home at Paonia, Colo. She is a
teacher of public schoopmusic and art
IN +Lo nt
After spending her vacation with her
folks at Colorado, she will return to
her school work at Anoka.
The Ladies society of the Nor
wegian church will be entertained on
Thursday July 18th at the church
parlors by Mesdames Will O'Leary,
Jens Olson, Anrew Sjottum, Alfred
Sjottum. A report from the meeting
of the Women's Missionary Federation
will be presented. The ladies are re-
quested to bring their mission boxes.
Frank Fargo of Lake Mills, we'll
| known breeder of Holstein cattle, and
owner of number of farms in Jeffer-
son county, was killed on one of the
main streets in that village last Sunday
morning. He was struck by a car
driven by a woman from Cambridge
and killed instantly. Surviving him are
his wife, prominent club woman, two
sons and two daughters.
Henry Johnson, wife and their
guests, Mr.. and Mrs. Carpenter and
daughter of Racine; Geo Blanchard and
family and Miss Sherman, Clouden
Farman and family and their guest,
Mrs. Sherman Green, of New Milford,
Conn.,, Mrs. Louise Pierce, Mrs. Effie
Lord, J. A. Jensen and family had a
pleasant outing and picnic supper at the
Cambridge golf club last Sunday.
The Rock County Protective asso-
citation is doing it's best to increase the