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Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1917 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Entered as Second-class Mail Matter at the Postofflce in Edgerton, Wisconsin. CORREUPONDENjpE Albion A number from here, attended the W. R. C. picnic Tuesday. The Home Benefit society met with Mrs. John Bliven Tuesday. Miss Svea Adolphson is spending the week with E. Gladys Drake. Clara Stillman took supper at the E. W. Whitford home Friday. Cass Emerson and family of Milton visited at O. L. Coon’s Sunday. Miss Lucile Torgerson of McFarland visited Rena Oleson last week. Myrle Stillman is doing the house work for Mrs. 11. E. Whitford. # Miss Marion Palmiter spent Thurs day with Miss Erma Townsend. Mrs. Hattie Edwards spent Wednes day with Mrs. D. D. Emerson. The Willing Workers met with Mrs. Lester Kelly Wednesday afternoon. Willis Stillman is working for K. D. Whitford in E. W. Whitford’s place. Oscar Aaby is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Ernest Setter, at Woodstock, 111. The young people gave a surprise party for Hattie Stewart on Tuesday night. Gladys Drake returned home Satur day after a three weeks’ visit at Steb binsville. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Lawton took din ner with Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Humphrey Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Campbell spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Balch at Rock River. E. A. Drake, Walton Green and Rob ert Gunderson attended the Janesville fair Wednesday. The S. D. B. Junior Endeavors held a social at the home of Miss Doris Green Sunday night. Mrs. Herman Stark, son Howard and daughter Marion visited Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Reuterskiold. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bartlett of Lima visited their cousin, E. A. Drake, and family Saturday. Miss Hattie Stewart returned home Monday after a four weeks’ visit with relatives in Illinois. Mrs. Frank Cook and daughters of Milton visited at 0. J. Palmiter’s from Tuesday until Friday. Emma Womson, who has been work ing for Pete Anderson, returned to her home at Stoughton Sunday. Mrs. Mary Bolser of Palmyra visited her daughter, Mrs. H. F. Stillman, from Thursday until Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Babcock and daughter Nellie took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Coon Wednesday. Mrs. I. D. Humphrey visited Mrs. Sartoris Humphrey Wednesday. Mr. Humphrey took supper there. Willis Stillman and Miss Adaline Green motored to Maaison Sunday and visited Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Bolser. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Townsend and son Rodney of Kilbourn are visiting his brother, Claude Townsend, and family. A number of W. R. C. ladies, old sol diers and their wives attended the W. R. C. picnic at Lake Koshkonong Tues day. E. W. Whitford and family, F. H. Drake and Mrs. E. A. Drake were call ers at N. O. Lein’s at Hillside Wednes day night. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith and Mrs. A. C. Burdick motored to Lake Kegonsa and spent the day Monday. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Slagg and daugh ter Lucy went to Milwaukee Saturday to attend the wedding of their son, W. E. Slagg, and Miss Viola Lucks. Indian Ford John Lyke and family were up from Janesville Sunday. Miss Genevieve Chamberlain has a position in Mr. Ladd’s office at Edger ton. Edward Kealy is getting along nicely after an operation for the removal of his tonsils. Mrs. Maggie Abblet and Mrs. Jane Walker were guests of Mrs. Milford in Janesville during the fair. Mrs. Mary Casson, formerly of Mari nette but now residing in Arizona, is visiting old neighbors here. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Porter and two boys of Rockford and Mrs. M. Milford of Janesville were guests of the Ab blets Saturday. Miss Harriet Cox made a flying trip to Camp Douglas Saturday night to bid the Racine boys good-bye when they left for Texas. On Sunday of last week Mr. and Mrs. Will Price, Mrs. Bert Cox and Allen Cox drove to Magnolia to meet Hubert Greenwood and bride who visited the Barrenger families on their way from Wiergor to their new home in Beloit. There are several neighbors still re siding in this vicinity who remember when Marcia Price taught school at the Four Corners, and will be interested in the fact that her eldest son, Charlie Amsden, a Harvard student, has been driving an ambulance in France the past six months. Last Sunday forty-seven relatives of Bert Cox met and had a picnic dinner on the lawn. The following were pres ent at the sociable gathering: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cox and Misses Ella and Harriet; Mr. and Mrs. Hunesaker of Chicago; Joe Conroy and wife and Miss Little from LaPraine; Stanley Conroy and wife and little Geneva of Shopiere; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Schieldt and baby of Stebbinsville; Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Fredendall and son Wil mer; Mr. and Mrs. Lon Dickerson; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dunn; Gerald Whit ford, wife and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dickerson; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tellefson; John Dickerson and family; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cox and children of Edgerton and Mr. and Mrs. Will Price. Fulton This coming Friday there will be an ice cream social at the hall under the direction of the young men. Come and have the young men wait on you. The proceeds will go towards a church fur nace fund. Fulton Congregational Church. Vacation days are over now and it is high time for us to begin our church life with new vigor. Next Sunday we are looking for a church delegation from Stoughton. Bea community booster, and make it possible for them to see us at our best. Men’s Bible class at the hall at 10 a. m. Let us hit the 25 mark this. Sunday. That means you. Preach ing and worship at 11. Sermon sub ject, “Fifty-Fifty People.” Special music. Frank T. Rhoad, Pastor. •<n< , „. Porter Miss Hazel Casey of Madison spent over Sunday with her parents. Quite a number from here attended the fair in Janesville last week. George Dooley of Janesville is-spend ing a few weeks at J. Tiernan’s. James and Kathryn Ford are spend ing the week with relatives in Colum bus. Joe Mullowney was an over Sunday visitor at the home of Hugh Sweeney in Edgerton. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Maresch of Co lumbus were Sunday visitors with Robt. Ford’s family. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Nalan were call ers at the Thomas Frusher home Wed nesday evening. Mrs. David Wheeler has been enter taining her sister, Miss Peterson from Janesville, the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boss and daugh ter Madeline of Chicago were visitors at the home of Frank Boss and family. Miss Rosella Casey returned to Mad ison on Sunday evening after spending her three weeks’ vacation with her parents. J. W. Bates, Mrs. Ida Bates and son Charles motored to East Troy on Sun day and spent the day vvith Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Cox. Mr. and Mrs. Charles HoagueJr., daughter Melva and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hoague Sr. left Monday night for a week’s outing at Lake Chetek. East Porter The two Sayre families spent Sunday at the A. K. Wallin home. Harry Boothroyd and wife spent Sun day at James Hall’s at Hanerville. Sam Osterheim was an over Sunday guest of Mr. and Mrs. Herbie Herried. Miss’ inger Moe of Stoughton is the guest this week of Mrs. Oscar Kjernis. Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Severson spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Matthew son. N. E. Porter was exceedingly well represented at the Janesville fair last week. * Mrs. Rob Livick spent Tuesday af ternoon with the Misses Alice and Em ma Wright. Mrs. M. Cambell of Birmingham, Ala., spent last week at the James Spike home. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Teubert enter tained Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Lockwood of Edgerton on Sunday. Mrs. H. C. Amsbary and two little girls of Milwaukee are visiting her cousin, Mrs. Wm. Gardiner Jr. Mesdames Ole Kjernis and Oscar Kjernis attended Ladies Aid at Chris Roberts’ Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gardiner and daughter Frances spent Sunday at the home of Sam Hall on Albion Prairie. Mr. and Mrs. Herbie Herried and family motored to Lake Okauchee, a distance of about 60 miles northeast, on Sunday. Mrs. Ernest Haylock returned Sat urday from La Crosse where she had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Bush, who is now moving to Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lenerz of Sauk City motored down and with the lat ter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Boothroyd, attended the Janesville fair Thursday. (Too late for last week.) Nearly everyone from here attended the community picnic Thursday. Rev. and Mrs. F. T. Rhoad and son Junior of Fulton spent Friday at the Wm. Gardiner home. Mrs. Stein and two grandchildren of Janesville spent a few days at the Ern est Haylock home. Mrs. L. A. Viney and three children and Miss Marjory Heffernen of Leyden spent Monday with Mrs. Harry Booth royd. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lenerz, Mrs. Carl Lenerz and daughter Irene of Sauk City motored down Wednesday and stayed with the ladies’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Boothroyd, until Sat urday. Let Your Idle Books Help Our Soldiers Our young men are sacrificing their education, business, professional train ing and home tife to serve their coun try. > They need books and current maga zines for study, recreation and diversion in lonely moments. You can help them by donating books and magazines which will be forwarded to army camps, the front and the hospitals. Books on the War, Popular Travel, History and Biography, as well as Short Stories, Detective Stories, Stories of the Sea and Adventure, are desired. Any readable book of general interest will appeal to the soldiers, as there are men of varying tasts among them. “DO YOUR BlT’’ by immediately bringing to the Public Library such books as you wish to do nate. Unclaimed Letters. Letters remaining uncalled for in the P. O. at Edgerton for the week ending Aug. 23, 1917: Mr. Edward Harte Charlotte Thompson Persons calling for any of the above earned letters please say “advertised.” C. A. Hoen, P. M. iKl® A steer broi-:e its neck by getting tangled in a field of alfalfa near Ash land. > Miss Anna Giddings and Captain Clarence W. Zachow were married be neath an American dag at the bride’s home in Fond du Lac. Quincy A. Matthews, sixty-nine years old, well known in furniture manufacuring circles throughout the , northwest, died at Milwaukee. Hobart King of Woodstock. 111., em ployed in a tire factory at Racine, had li* left arm crushed to a pulp be tween the rollers of a colander. John Latimer, formerly employed as an engineer at the school of the Blind at Janesville, has been or dered interned. He was arrested last April on the charge of being an alien enemy. The nineteenth annual convention of the League of Wisconsin Municipal ities, which was to have been held at Racine Aug. 16-17, was postponed until the last week in /September. After many hours’ search by scores of farmers the two children of Alfred Yardy, a Rock county farmer, were found, one dea4, locked in a cupboard in a deserted house near their home. Lena Letteau, fourteen years old, of Marblehead, left home several days ago to walk to North Fond du Lac. She has not been seen since, and the sheriff has been unable to find any trace of her. Guy D. Goff, Milwaukee, has been called to report at once in the office of General Crowder, judge advocate general of the United States army, at Washington. The appointment is for a “special duty.” The city of Racine has presented to The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light company a claipi for $4,000, the cost of repairing the motorized fire truck which was wrecked July 18 in a collision with a street car. Caught with a heavy grip contain ng paris green, a poison sprayer and lynamite sticks near Almond by sev eral farmers, a stranger was taken to Stevens Point for arraignment on a charge of attempting to poison cows. That an attempt has been made to have Governor Philipp include in the call for the special session of the leg islature a modification of the anti trust law passed by the last legisla ture is one of the discoveries made. Insulting remarks against the Amer ican flag at Kaukauna resulted in John Collins and Leo Madigan being led to a conspicious place ii). front of the public library by a crowd, where they were forced to kneel and kiss the flag ten times. Twenty-six thousand dollars for public purposes, in addition to the sums distributed to employes, was left by -the late Andrew Week, head of the John Week Lumber company of Stevens Point, who lied while vis iting in California. A state convention of delegates elected by authorized county organiza tions,-for the purpose of meeting and defeating an alleged pro-German con spiracy in Wisconsin, will be held in Milwaukee, probably in state fair week, September 11-15. One hundred and fifty prominent business and professional men, who conducted a successful Red Cross fund drive in June at Oshkosh, have effect ed a permanent organization to act as “minute men” under the direction the state and county council of de fense. Charges have been filed with the Antigo fire and police commission against Chief of Police William Cob lentz and Patrolmafi Warren Hill, al leged to have received money unlaw fully in the form of fines which were not reported to the judge of the municipal court. Resolutions pledging loyalty and pleading that President Wilson be given divine strength that his efforts with regard to the war may be con ducive of service to humanity were adopted at the convention of the In ternational Women’s Catholic Order of Foresters at Milwaukee. The Kenosha exemption beard cer tified to the district board and the de partment of justice in Milwaukee the names of twenty-four “shirkers,” who failed to appear for examination fol lowing the draft call. The men' are mostly foreign born, and only two of them are well known ip Kenosha. Two men were killed and three others were injured in an automobile accident on the Calumet road between Manitowoc and Silver Lake, wheri" the car, going at high speed, skidded and overturned. The dead are Melvin Krause, thirty-three years old, and Herman Kumerow, fifty, of Two Riv ers. Provision for a permanent organiza tion of the Wisconsin State Council of Defense was made at the conference of 100 representatives from all parts of the state. A state convention will be held in Milwaukee, preferably dur ing state fair week. The permanent organization will carry on its present work on a larger scale. The Wisconsin infantry companies of the Second regiment, selected as part of the national army division to be sent across the seas, are looked up on in Camp Douglas as the chosen few. The men in Company E, Fend au Lac; Company F, Oshkosh, and Com pany G, Appleton, are glad tc go, and every other last man in camp is sor ry that he is not going with them. Fulton Community Picnic. The third annual community picnic and field day of the Fulton Social Cen ter and boys’ Y. MxC. A. groups will be held at Frank Sayre’s grove on August 29. This will be a day of big events! Something doing every minute! Sports and games of all kinds! Prof. Holt will give the address! Let everybody take a pride in mak ing this the biggest event of the year. Show your community spirit by boost ing this in every way possible. Committees as followf: Games—J. E. Sayre, Harold Pratt, L. A. Markham, W. B. Serity. Advertising —F. T. Rhoad, J. E. Wallin, Wm. F. Gardiner. Grpunds and Stands—Harry Hubbell, Tom Hartzell, Morris Thompson, Emma Berg, Alzada Attlesey. SPECIALS! ✓ 3 pkg. Monarch Corn ORp Flake at 2 large pkg. Farm House Qfln Corn Flakes at Large Jar of Jam 25c at ..... ........... Large Jar of Olives 25c at Jar of Dill Pickles 20c at Can of Dill Pickles 15c at .... Can of Grape Fruit 10c at. Can of Grape Fruit 15c at* •••• Fancy Patent Flour M Rf] at. hh** J. W. CONN Phones 32 and 58 Department Store Extra Special Fancy Navy Beans, lb 15c B. & R. Fruit Nectar, btl. .25c Easy made by adding sugar and water. Healthful, re freshing. An ideal hot weath er drink. Try a bottle. FLAVORS Raspberry Strawberry Cherry Grape Fancy bulk peanut butter lb. 20c Plums, Peaches, Pears, Oranges Lemons, Bananas, Apples Cabbage, Cukes, Mild Spanish Onions, Cooking Onions Fresh Home Made Bread —lO c Steam Bread 12c Cookies, Cup Cakes, Fried Cakes, dozen 10c Layer Cakes each 10c Thrift Flour, sack $2.75 Daisy High [Grade Butter ine, lb 30c Lily Butterine lb 27c PRINGLE BROS. CO. A Ruined Tobacco Crop Doesn't mean a Ruined Tobacco Grower If the Crop was Covered by a Hartford Hail Policy You cannot afford to take the risk. The Hartford Fire Insurance Com pany can. Let us explain this hail policy and the record and resources of the Company that writes it. HENRY JOHNSON “The Service Agency” Edgerton, - Wisconsin Well Clothes for the fall of 1917, are now on dis play in all the new colorings and shades from THE HOUSE OF HUFPENHEIMER Call and see these smart belted mod els for fall. Priced at $25.00 and up. 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