The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-04-28

Tickets to the st. Olaf band con.
cert at GAINESVILLE Sunday, May 7th, are
for sale by Sanford Onsgaard = the
Eagle Office.
Edward Sund and family of Shey.
enne, N. D., arrived in the city this
week. They are going to Utica to live.
Mr.. Sund is a brother of Mrs. Otto
Staff. The car of household goods was
unloaded in Edgerton Wednesday.
Examination preparatory to con-
firmation is held in the Norwegian
Lutheran church next Sunday morning
at IL o'clock. Confirmation services
with communion the following Sunday.
Both English. Confirmation class meets
Thursday this week at 400 in the after
noon and on Saturday at 80. Sunday
school at 1000 Sunday morning. The
Ladies society meets in the church par
Tors Thursday, May 4, entertained by
Mesdames Ole Aakvik, Edison Ogden,
Bert Harrison, Martin Nottestad and
Gustav Heggen.
The C. M. & st. P. railway carried
an exposition coach which stood on the
track Monday. 1t carried select ex-
hibit of agricultural products of South
Dakota. Montana and Washington. Mr..
R. R. MAST of Ft. Pierre, S. D., rep
resenting the Department of Immigra-
ton, took time to tell The Reporter
Representative of the wonders Of west
ern South Dakota. South Dakota to-
day produces more corn than Wiscon-
sin. In 1910 it was the 25th state in
corn production; today it is in 10th
place among all states in the Union.
Mr.. MAST spoke enthusiastically of the
success in the culture of the Siberian
alfalfa introduced by Mr.. Hansen of
the S. D. agricultural college. The car
remained here only during the day, and
a number of people visited the exhibit.
We do not plant war gardens any
more; now we plant peace gardens.
Every family should have a garden,
large or small, according to the oppor-
tunlty, ability and circums tances of the
home owner. A plot for vegetables
and place for flowers. Does garden
pay? That is not really the question.
1t may not pay. The radishes, toma-
toes, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, sweet
corn and melons from your own garden
may cost you just as much as those
bought at the store in season. But the
gardener is ahead in the game anyway
because he gets something out of the
garden and the work with it that is
more valuable than the mere harvest
for the table. The garden makes the
home a place of life and pleasure; it
furnishes an incentive to the neighbors
to cultivate the spirit of home making;
it gives tone of thrift to the town,
and is an asset of value to the town as
place for folks who want a place
where it is good and homelike to live.
Let Edgerton become a city of pretty
pardens.
Miss Willetta Higgins of the state
school for blind, GAINESVILLE, astonished
a very large general meeting of the
Mems club at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. B. G. Wilson week ago by the
almost uncanny powers of her senses
of smell and touch. She had no diff
Guilty in determining colors by their
odor, nor to carry on conversation by
placing her hand on any bony part of
the persons body with whom she
talked, the vibration of the speakers
body being interpreted by her instant
ly. By running her fingers over
printed page she could read bold print
with astonishing accuracy and rapidity
Except for her blindness and deafness
she is a normal girl, but highly gifted
mentally. The problem of teaching the
blind and deaf seems solved, and con-
siedring the age of the pupils at the
state school, and the variation in their
natural mental and physical makeup
possessed in common with all children.
the progress in their studies is fully up
to, and surprising, that of children
having the full use of all their senses.
DeclamatOry and OratOrical Contest.
Tuesday evening the annual declama-
tory and oratorical contest was held in
the high school auditorium.
Elizabeth Curran, Katherine Johnson
and Dorothy Holt acclaimed. All three
showed very excellent training. First
place was given to Elizabeth Curran.
Lydia Oberdeck and Elizabeth Doerr
recited orations. First place went to
Elizabeth Doerr.
In the the boys group Lowell Thron-