The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-02-25


parlors Thursday afternoon, March Sd.
The hostesses are Mesdames Martin
Sommervold, Peter Skar, Chas. Brown
and Paul Doerr.
-Winifred Painter of Albion was
operated on for the removal of tonsils,
Mrs. d. d. Emerson of Albion and Mr..
Robinson of Clinton also underwent OPP
erations Monday at the Lockwood hos
pital
Harry Langworthy and Chas VILE
man will offer for sale fifty head of
good work horses at the West Side
hitch barn, GAINESVILLE, Saturday, March
5; sale opens at LOO p. m. The horses
weigh from twelve to eighteen hundred
pounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Butts of Gin
cinnati came to Edgerton Tuesday to
remain for week. They are here to
wind up the affairs of the Arthur Clarke
estate, dispose of number of house
hold articles and furniture, and pack
the balance for shipment to Cincinnati
where Mrs. Arthur Clarke is now MAX
ing her home with her daughter.
Miss Myrtle Phillips, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Christ Phillips, was mar
ried to Charles E. Stark Tuesday after
noon at 80 at the Norwegian Lutheran
parsonage, Rev. Grefthen officiating.
The groom is foreman in the Edgerton
Motor Co. garage and is we'll and fav-
orably known in this community. The
bride is a young woman brought up in
Edgerton and vicinity where she has
had her schooling and has large circle
of friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Stark will
live in an attractive new bungalow re-
Gently bought by the groom from John
Madden; it is located on Pleasant ST.,
and will make a handsome home for
the young couple.
"A young man, John Oppegaard,
passed away at the state hospital in
Elgin last Saturday. The remains were
brought to Edgerton for burial The
services were held from the Norwegian
Lutheran church last Tuesday after
noon, Rev. Grefthen officiating. His
parents live in Norway, and ne has two
brothers, Christian and Nickolai Oppe-
gard, staying in Edgerton, another
brother, Anton, lives at Rockford, and
sister lives in Chicago. These four
near relatives were present at the fu-
neral, as were some distant relatives
and friends of the brothers living in
Edgerton. The young man was rs
years old at the time of his death. The
body was laid to rest in Jensen GENE
terry.
In 1900 Edgerton had 2,192 people
and ranked as the 9th city in the state;
in 1910 its population was 2,513, but it
had fallen to the list place; in 1920 it
numbered 1858 persons and held the
18th place. To retain it's rank among
cities in the state during the last 20
years it should today have 1888 inhab-
itants. Many towns passed our city in
these years in the matter of growth in
population, but it still holds its place
as ''The Tobacco City," To grow the
city must have more homes built, and
more activities to keep an increased
population busy and fed. The Trailer
plant, when it again gets under way,
will furnish labor to more people and
attract labor, skilled and unskilled.
The linen ginning plant, if brought
here, would also tend TO bring people
in. If spinning company should find
it advantageous to locate an industry
here, as some of the enthusiastic sup
porters of the ginning plant predict,
another growth would be registered in
the population. Homes at reasonable
price are needed. This will attract
people who look for clean, homelike
place to live and work. A firm is now
looking for business location here,
but there is none to be had
LIE IOSIcSoIVc OCuuy CIuU enter
tanned their husbands at Colonial
Banquet, the 22nd inst. The one long
table was artistically decorated with
red candles, miniature cherry trees and
red and white nut baskets. After the
delicious three course dinner was serv-
ed, the address of welcome was given
by the president, Mrs. P. w. Palmer.
The entertainment was given with a
stage setting as a Colonial party in
costumes, opened with community
singing in the old fashioned way, fol-
lowed with piano duet by Mrs. w. E.
Newman and Mrs. Frank Pringle.
Suddenly the evening shadows were
softened, only, by the Pickering cam
dies while Mrs. E. Rush sang Loves
Old Sweet Song" and in 'The Gloam-
ing" Then Mrs, Eldon Crandall was
asked to read the ''One-Legged Goose"
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