The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-09-02
ROCKDALE

ROCKDALE
Mr.. and Mrs. Ruben Tellefson and
son Charles called at the parental home
last Monday
Mrs. Ingyol Mathison and two chill
dren of Chicago have been visiting here
the past week.
The cement foundation for the school
house is completed and the laying of
the tile will soon begin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. O. Smithback and
family of Utica called at A. &. Tellef-
sons last Sunday evening.
A few lady friends from here went
up and helped Mrs. 0. c. Olson cele-
brate her 18th birthday last Sunday.
They all report very good time.
The millwright who has been here
overhauling the mill has finished and in
few days now they will begin making
the good old Golden Crown -four again.
Mrs. Samuel Brounty has spent the
week here calling on old friends and
neighbors. They have not as yet de-
cided where they will locate. We would
like to welcome them to our village.
Mrs. ]. E. Lowe and son Canute Of
Madison are here spending few days
with relatives and friends. Mrs. Lowe
will be remembered as Tekla Mathison,
born and grown up here. She went out
to North Dakota to one of her brothers
where she was married and lived until
about year ago when they moved to
Madison, Wis.
The past week has been an ideal one
for harvesting tobacco and the growers
have made good use of it. Many fin
ished last week and if the weather con-
tinues favorable more than IS per cent
will be harvested by the end of this
week. 1t is long growth and sound
crop, and if the curing comes out good
the growers will have just what the
buyers have been looking for, and
ought to get good fair price for their
labor.
My old friend, John Torgerson, called
here last week. He was accompanied
by his son-in-law, Sam Potter, and his
son Charles from Spokane, WASH, and
his grandson William from st. Paul.
Mimi. Mr.. Torgerson was 80 years old
July last, and is still hale and hearty
and does not want to be called old. He
is the last of the old pioneers around
here, coming here with his parents in
1849 and has spent all these years in
this neighborhood except few years
he was at Black River Falls. He is
now living with his daughter, Mrs.
Sam Potter, near Fl. Atkinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Tellefson, Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Pollock, who took an
auto trip in the northern part of the
state, returned here last Saturday
morning. They report good time.
They camped out every night and
cooked their meals at the camping
grounds which all the larger cities now
have, furnished with fire wood, water
and a hearty welcome. The farther
north they got the better roads they
found. Southern Wisconsin is as far
behind on road building as the differ
ence is between travelling with oxen
and an automobile. They build good
earth roads up there and they have
men to go over them and keep them in
repair, SO they are always in good or
der for the travelling public. Some of
our road builders should go up into the
wild woods and learn how to build good
roads at half the expense we are now
paying, in place of going to our ex-
pert road builders at the state univer-
sity who can only build road on
blue print.
Torval Otto Larson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ole Larson, passed away at the
General hospital at Madison Aug. 18th,
where he submitted to an operation for
appendicitis, after which complica-
ton of intestinal trouble set in which
proved fatal Torval was born here
and was the eldest of family of seven
children. He leaves besides his par
ents, four sisters, Mrs. Nordal Kra-
wick, Mrs Reirson, Mrs Rinden and
Miss Ella at home; the brothers are
Oscar who lives in Montana and did not
get the message in time to be present
at the funeral, and Ruben who lives
north of Utica. The funeral was held
last Saturday at Rockdale church, of
which the family are members, and
burial was made at Rockdale cemetery,
Rev Halvorson officiating at the house,
church and the grave The funeral
was largely attended and the floral Of
ferings were very beautiful. He had
reached the age of 81 years, and will
be greatly missed by his parents with
whom he had spent his whole life and
was always ready and willing to give
them such aid as they required.
UTICA
Mrs. Anna Berg was an over Sunday
visitor of Madison