The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-12-30

-MF. ana MrS. FRANK IlIaJScn anu
sons, Stoughton, visited the week end
| with relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs Ingvald Anderson
spent Sunday and Monday with che
! latter's parents, MIR. and Mrs. Ole
.Aakvik.
Mrs. James Menhall and her moth
er, Mrs. Zilley of Belcit,. left Wednes-
day for California where they will
spend the remainder of the winter.
Miss Ruth Clark was the lucky one
! to get the chest Of silver at the Chris
tenson & Aalseth jewelry store, having
! guessed the nearest to the number of
beans in the dish which was exhibited
in the show window. There were 1874
beans in the dish and Miss Clark's
guess was $500.
IF one-half of the war budget were
spent for the support of education in
stead of for guns and ammunition, there
would be an allotment of about $4O,-
600, 900 for the school budget in Wis
consin, or per capita increase of SIG
to spend for schools, meaning an extra
$48, coo to use for the improvement an
nually of our schools in Edgerton.
The many friends of Mrs. Court
land Herbert Bliven, formerly of the
''Lake House," Edgerton, Wis, will
be surprised to hear that after nine
years, of widowhood she has been we'd
ded to Henry Lee Smith of Akron,
Ohio. a hero or life guard of Daytona
Beach, Florida. The ceremony took
place Dec. 20, 1921. Their home is to
be at 4O5 S. Ridgewood Ave-, Daytona,
Florida.
AT the meeting of the board of d.
rectors of the Highway Trailer Co.
week ago the same officers were elect
ed to serve another year. An execu-
tive committee was chosen: ]. w.
Menhall, Will Mcintosh, Aug. Ratzlaff,
E. L. Moorman and w. E. Seymore.
The Trailer is employing about 25 per-
sons at the present time taking care of
the orders which come in for new
goods.
james Harrison is home from
Sterling, ILL.,, to spend the holidays.
Christmas day Mr. and Mrs Harrison
had with them for dinner their sons,
Frank, George and his family, and
their daughter, Mrs. Maud Krupp of
Bloomington, Ill. Mrs. Harrison, who
has not been well for some time, is
better and able to enjoy the festivities
with her family. One son, John Har-
rison, could not come home this Christ
mas.
"A cantata was given by the singers
of the Congregational church Sunday
| evening. The NJ E. church had the
nativity of the Savior presented by
impressive tableaux before large au-
dience Christmas day in the evening.
| The Norwegian Lutheran Sunday school
under the direction of Miss Marina
Johnson, had it's annual Christmas tree
festival Monday evening in the church.
| st. Johns Lutheran church celebrated
it Saturday evening, st. Joseph's church
| celebrated early mass.
The community Christmas tree pro-
gram in the Rialto Monday offered the
following program to an audience Of
900 children: Carl Maves played in his
inimitable style mouth organ; Marie
Doty, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lard Doty, recitation; group of 9th
graders gave in costume ''The Negro
Christmas" eight reels Of pictures
loaned the school by the extension de-
partment of che u. W., and the whole
audience sang such beloved Christmas
carols as "Hark, Hark, the Herald, !"
Joy to the World" and others. At
! the close of the program every boy and
girl present was given package of
| Christmas nuts and candy.
| The Madison high school first and
second basket ball teams came to Ed
gerton to match their skill against that
| of the first and second teams of the To-
cal high school. Reports which pre-
coded them indicated that the visiting
teams would all but wipe the earth
with our little high school quints. 1t
did not quite turn out that way. The
Edgerton first team defeated the Mad
isonians by the comfortable score of 20
! to Id This wac on y,ol1ch y,ooro rom arL
able as the local team was in crippled
| condition. Claude Whitford could not
be played at all, MADISON had three half
sawed off fingers in his way, and Bar
deen.a game ankle. The Madison Sec
ond team carried the only balm with
/ them from the field of battle; they de-
{ feated the Edgerton high second team
! by score of IL to Ia.