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A. P. Nicholson, F. C. Meyers, D.D.S. j DENTISTS, Office over Perry's Dry Store. VT Office 158 Telephone Nos. f Residence 78 Edgerton - Wisconsin DR. J. L. HOLTON, DENTIST. Office in the Ladd and Holton Block. EDdERTON, WISCONSIN. DR. A. T. SHEARER Physician and Surgeon „ „ 7’to Ba.m.;lto 3p. m. Office Hours \ 7 to -8 p. m. OFFICE AT RESIDENCE PHONE 20 Edgerton, - Wisconsin. DR. S. F. SMITH PHYSICIAN Special attention given to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, and Fitting of Glasses OFFICE OVER Shelley, Anderson & Farman Store HENRY C. PRICE. Carpenter & Builder, Edgerton, Wisconsin. KSTIMATCHEEK FULLY GIVEN. GEO. W. BLANCHARD Attorney - at- Law Office over First National Bank Edgerton, - - Wisconsin PAUL N. GRUBB Attorney and Counselor telephone; no. 12 Office over Postoffice Edgerton, - - Wisconsin. H. R. MARTIN Attorney and Counselor-at Law All Papers Drawn. Prompt attention to collections Office over Ist National Bank. E. M. LADD, Attorney and CounseUor-at-Law. REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE Edgerton, - Wisconsin. C. E. SWEENEY. Dealer in Real Estate. Edgerton, Wisconsin, WISCONSIN and WESTERN LANDS for sale or exchange. H E. PETERS & SON DEALERS IN Fresh and Salted Meats, Fish, Game and Poultry. Butchering Done for Farmers attne following rates: Beeves, per head - - 500 Swine, per head -50 c Sheep, per head - - lOc Oalves per head - lOc GEORGE NICHOLS Dealers in all Kinds of Fresh and Salted Meats OYSTERS AND FISH Butchering on Reasonable Terms "ity Steam Laundry ', H. M. RAYMOND, Prop. Satisfaction Guaranteed Telephone 37. Edgerton, Wis Granite Monuments Of all Descriptions at Right Prices Fort Atkinson Granite Works Jos. F. Kaunzner, Prop. 2s Real Luxury of shaving is realized only until the Eleclric MIM Cup HOT WATER 1 VJ w lien you want it, where you want it, and at just the right temperature Connects to the electrolier Kke an incandescent lamp •Especially convenient when the fire is low or out and there is no hot water F*ntplc hum X Clean jiCOOKIHGAPPUAHCtSK Sale Durable T/dgerton ElectricJLight Company GARAGE We Have a Full Stock of Tires, Tubes, Tanks, Oils, Auto Supplies J. J. CULTON. Poultry Wanted Cash Prices Paid for Poultry Delivered at H. G. Schilling's Restaurant Spring Roosters.... lie to ll%c lb. Old Hens to 11 lb. Old Roosters 8c lb. Stags. 10c lb. Highest Price Paid for Furs. Yeal priced according to quality. Lambs wanted also H. G. Schmeling Insurance Why run the risk of loss of prop erty by fre when a few 7 dollars will insure you against total cash loss by having a policy in a good insurance company. We are representing some of the best companies doing business in the United States. Big Risks O R Small Ones We are prepared to handle in surance of any amount you want. Do not place your insur ance without seeing E. M. LADD INSURANCE AGENCY EDGERTON, WIS. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S CASTORIA GREEN BAY MEN i CONFESS BURGLARY Acknowledge Perpetrating 22 Robberies in Wisconsin. GREEN BAY, WlS—The Police Chief Thomas E Hawley Li e Distric t Attorney Davis have arrested Emii Hall and Fred Johnson, eighteen and twenty years old, respectively, ac cused of committing burglaries in this city and Depere for the last six months. The boys confessed, Police Chief Hawley says, to committing twenty two burglaries. They were caught after breaking into a store on the south side and are locked up in jail. The various raids netted the perpe trators money amounting to § severa! hundred dollars, jewelry valued at S4OO, and a great amount of mer chandise, including fur coats and other wearing apparel, groceries, tools and other articles. A safe was broken open in the Woolworth store and SIOO taken. In one school a victrola, valued at S2OO, was stolen. All of the loot has been recovered by the police and will be returned to the owners. BREAK RICH FATHER’S WILL Sydney Holyoke of Milwaukee Wins in Los Angeles Court. MILWAUKEE, WIS. —A dispatch from Los Angeles says: “The will by which Frank H. Holyoke, a lumber man of Bangor, Me., left the bulk of a $400,000 estate to two nieces, Mad eline and Marjorie Holyoke was broken by a jury in the Superior court. By a 11 to 1 verdict the jury decided that Holyoke was of unsound mind when he made the will just prior to his death in Pasadena in November, 1911. The will was con tesed by Sydney Archibald Holyoke, a son of the lumber man, now a res ident of Milwaukee, who was cut off with a bequest of SIOO. The executors of the estate announced that an ap peal in behalf of the Misses Holyoke would be led at once.” If the verdifict stands in spite of the prospective appeal, Holyoke’s widow, Mrs. Cora Holyoke, will re ceive cne-third of the estate, or ap proximately $200,000, although under the terms of the will, invalidated by the jury, she was cut off with only SI,OOO. RAIL VETERAN PENSIONED Charles McCarthy, Antigo, End® Thirty-four Years of Service. ANTIGO, WIS. —Charles McCarthy, who has for thirty-four years been in service of the Chicago and North western railway, has been informed in a personal letter from R. H. Aish ten, vice president, that he is to re ceive a pension in recognition of his retirement and long period of service McCarthy entered the service of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western, long ago absorbed by the Chicago and Northwestern, on Sept. 20, 1879, and ceased active work on Oct. 25, 1913, because of poor health. He did Ills first work on a work train at the age of 17, then became a brakeman, a fire man and an engineer. He served in the latter capacity for over twenty seven years. IS PROOF AGAINST CUPID Clerk in Health Office Renews Pledge for Six Months. MILWAUKEE, Wis. —Smiling de murely Miss Minnie Schmidt wel comed the dawning of her sixth month as occupant of cupid’s desk in the vital statistics branch of the health department. When engaged for the place she was warned by health department of ficials that four bad fall en victim in one year to germ laden ed shafts shot by the tiny god who rules the realm of hearts. Miss Schmidt said cupid couldn’t “get” her in six months and she renewed the pledge, although she was crocheting so domestically that a rumor went forth to the effect that the influence of the desk had finally overwhelmed her. BATHER INJURED BY ICE Henry Raethers of Racine Is Badly Cut While in Lake Michigan. RACINE, WIS. —Herman, Raethers. who braved the recent zero weathei* hnd a stiff lake blast to swim in Lake Michigan for the edification of a largi crowd, i3 very ill on account of cute and bruises administered in contact with the floating ice in the lake. Raethers. who takes daily lake baths, winter and summer, spent ten minutes in the water. He was so cold he did not notice the injury done by floating ice. Doctors? were com pelted to take stitches in several wounds. Falling Wagon Box Breaks Neck. SHERMAN, WIS. —While playing about the yard and alone, the four year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor accidentally knocked the prop from beneath a wagon box. The sharp edge of the box struck him on the neck, knocking him into the snow. Some hours later, in the anxious hunt for him by his parents, he was found dead, his neck having been broken. WISCONSIN BRIEFS | Ranks High in Building. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Milwaukee Wis., ranks twelfth in a list oi the twenty-five leading cities of the United States in the matter of lmild ii.g according to a statement in the Building Construction News of Chi cago, just issued. From 1904 to 1913 the figures for Milwaukee have steadily increased till they are now almost double those of ten years ago. The cities ranking above Milwaukee in the amount of buildin'* during the period are New York, Cuicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland, San Francisco, Newark, Pittsburg and St. Louis. 20,000 Go to Church. RACINE, WIS. —About 20,000 people attended church on Racine’s first "go tc church” Sunday. Some churches reported as many as three times their regular attendance; the average was about double the usual congregations. Despite a northeast blizzard, the peo ple crowded the houses of worship. Twenty-five churches, representing every denomination in the city, were ?n the movement. A committee of 500 made a house to house canvass, and every telephone patron in the city was called up invited to church. 10,000 Attend at Superior. SUPERIOR, WIS. —Many more Su perior pastors preached to capacity congregations or at least well filled pews “go to church” Sunday man ever before in the history of the city. As the result of a campaign it is esti mated that “go to church” Sunday brought out about 10,000 persons, nearly one-fourth the total population cf Superior. Lucky Illinois Woman. ASHLAND, WIS. —The will of the Judge J. W. Cochran of this city was filed here for probate. It bore the date of Jan. 8, 1914, and it was made out at St. Augustine, Fla. It is said that the total amount of the estate will reach $1,125,000. The will divides he estate equally among four children, one of whom is Mrs. Caroline Felt Small of Evanston, 111. Plan Interurban Line. MADISON, WIS. —The articles of the incorporation of the new 7 Madison and Janesville Traction company were formally filed with the secretary of state Monday morning. They provide for a capitalization of $25,000 and the incorporators are Gustav Pickhardt, J. W. Peper, Frank Weston and A. W. Schoelkamp. The line will be built, this summer. Many Seek Naturalization. RACINE, WIS. —More than 300 aliens will have hearings on the ap plication’s for naturalization papers at the June term of circuit court. The coming fall election and the con sequent activity of political leaders is said to be responsible, in part, for the large class—the largest in the his tory of Racine county. Injuries Prove Fatal. FOND DU LAC, WlS.—Jacob Yunk er of Princeton, died as the result of injuries sustained wnen he w r as struck by an interurban care here on Jan. 18. His right leg was mangled and his spine was injured. Yunker stepped from a city car just as the interurban came from the op posite direction. Schrank Put in New Quarters. WAUPUN, WIS. Being closely guarded bv two deputy wardens and carefully watched that he might make no attempt to escape, John Schrank who tried to kill Theodore Roosevelt, was taken from the state peniten tiary and placed in the hospital for the criminal insane. Woman Burns to Death. EDGERTON, WIS. Mrs. James Quigley, ninety years old, was burned to death at her home here | when her clothing caught fire from a gasoline stove. She threw 7 herself into the snow, but her clothing was burned from her body. Horse Dies of Fright. i LA CROSSE, WIS. —“placing a | six-year-old, high spirited horse be- I longing to M. McDowell or Preston in a shoeing rack in order to enable the j blacksmith to shoe it, the animal be came so badly frightened that it died. Big B. and L. Business. MADISON, WIS. —There w T as an in ! crease of 20 per cent in the business done by building and loan associa tions the last year is the principal feature of the annual report of Bank ing Commissioner A. E. Kuolt. & Old Pastor Returns. ! RACINE, WIS. The Reverend John Davies of Wales, B. 1., has been elected pastor of the Welsh Presby terian church. He was pastor several years ago, but resigned to accept a charge in Wales. Baby Dies on Knife. MARINETTE, WIS. The infant daughter of Albert Grezlak, who is a farmer, towrn of Beaver, fell on a carving knife, the blade severing the jugular vein. Kills Gray Wolf. LA CROSSE, WIS.—A big gray wolf, the first killed in La Crosse county in tw 7 enty years, was shot five miles east of the city by John J. Mc- Kenzie. 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