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Locals and Personals, A weekly record of those who have come and gone. ‘T cannot tell What the truth may be T print it as ’T was told to me. Bert Miller visited relatives at Madison part of the week. Chas. Sally, of Madison, is vis iting relatives in Westport at present. J. H.Koltes is having his lum ber shed shined up with a coat of paint. Janada is now harvesting one of the largest wheat crops ever harvested. Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Kennedy, of Madison, are visiting relatives in Westport. Miss Winnie Ford is visiting with relatives and friends at Ore gon this week. The Misses Raffle and Statz, of Madison, are the guests of the Misses Doll at present. Mrs. Burns and two children, of Portage, are, visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Doll today. The Ladies Aid Society will meet with Mrs. James Clarke on Thursday afternoon, September 6th. Miss Ida Koltes will attend the State Normal School at Whitewater the ensuing school year. A marriage license has been issued to Mike Buchner, Berry, to Mary Hellenbrand of Spring field. Miss Marjorie Brader enter tained a party of six young lady friends at a tea party Wednesday afternoon. That Boston man who recently ate fifty-eight ears of corn in two hours certainly must be a good specimen of a hog. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Baker and Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Thiedemann spent Sunday Mr. and Mrs. JD. M. Tubbs at the lake. Mrs. Thos. O'Malley returned Saturday from a two weeks out ing at Shawano Lake in the northern part of the state. There will be no services at the Presbyterian church on next Sunday owing to the repairs that are being made at the church. Anything that stands in the way of the President’s second term chances must go. His lat est is the dumping of Lorimer overboard. Edw. Ellickson and Elizabeth Annen were married on Wednes day, August 23, 1911. They have moved in to rooms in the Archi bald Ford house. Dr. Edward Ford, of Cambria, and Dr. Arch. Ford, of Roberts, were in the village part of the week to see their father who is dangerously ill. How is your favorite ball team in the ‘‘running’’ in the different leagues? The 191] race is now ‘rounding the curve” for the ‘home stretch.”’ Miss Anna Heller entertained a number of young lady friends at her home here last Thursday afternnoon from Baraboo, Madi son and Sun Prairie. Miss Lillian Hillier visited at Madison with friends part of the week. While there she has been given a spoon shower and also a handkerchief shower. Miss Edith Shipke went to 5 Dakota Monday afternoon where she has secured a position as in structor for the ensuing year. Her many friends here will wish her success in her new field of work. Taft will spend a day and a night in Milwaukee and two days in the state in his campaign tour of the West. He will need a lon ger period than this to stem the tide of public disfavor of his ad ministration, and the sentiment against his second term. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN GHURGH Services Sunday School at 2:30 P. M. Regular Worship 3:30 P. M. welcome to all Rev. Geo. E. Hunt, Pastor. Forepaugh Sells circus will be held at Baraboo tomorrow Fri day. Get your auction bills at the Inpex office. Free notice in the paper. Three packages of goods XXX Envelopes for 10 cents at the IN DEX Office, Mrs. Ray Brown and daughter of Lodi, were the guests of rela tives and friends in the village part of the week. A number of special passenger trains have been run over this line of late transporting men to work in the wheat fields of Can ada. If the county clerk charges you for administering oaths on your hunting licenses don’t kick the clerk, Attorney General Bancroft in an opinion given out Wednes day hold that county clerks may charge for such services. Are your scales and measures o. k. Mr. Merchant? If they are not, you will do well to look in to the matter before the new state inspector calls on you. The state is on the eve of an exten sive campaign to correct many abuses of the law on weights and measures. The village schools will com mence Monday, September 11th. Prof. Gampion, of Milwaukee, has been secured as principal and Miss Murphy as one of the assis tants at the high school. A Miss Terry has been secured as prin cipal of the grade school and Miss Daily in the primary room. It now looks as if Congressman J. M. Nelson need have no fear of Congressman Kopp in his race race for Congress in the new dis trict, of which the greater por tion is now represented by the latter, Eos reported that Con beeen Kopp will not be a can didate for reelection. Many new candidates are “springing up’ in the different counties of the dis trict, oe Deer hunting in the northern wood will be excellent next Nov ember. This prognostication is based on reports of deputy state game wardens who are in the northeen part of the state, who state that deer are unusually numerous this season. The sea son is from November 10th to 20th and only one deer may be shot by each holder of a license. Partridges are also very numer ous. The hunting season is from September 10th December 1st. Hereafter hawkers, peddlers and tanscient merchants must secure in addition to their reglar licence a badge or a number plate which must be carried in a conspicuous place when going from place to place. Heretofore peddlers and hawkers could say that they had a licence but they could not be apprehended before the facts could be ascertained from Mad ison. Now wagons and carts much have the offical **W ? num ber plate and foot peddlers must wear the offical badge. When the law forbidding of drunken men to ride on trains first went into effect, people were heard to say that it was an other of those laws which would not be enforced. Not go, for they have found that the conductors were quite as anxious to put a stop to the nuisance as the pas senger were to have them do so, and in this vicinity several ar rests have already been made, and there is a notable improve ment in the conduct of the of fenders.—Brodhead Independent Register. Dane county farmers are into the tobacco harkest in real earn est and a survey of the township seem to indicate that there will be an average yield. In some districts the wind dam aged the crop and in others the grasshoppers wrought havoc with the tender leaves. In Cottage Grove and other towns in the southern part of the county, the dreuth did a considerable amount of damage. The windstorm of a fortnight ago whipped great fields of sound leaves into ‘‘filler stock,’? The leaves damaged by the grasshop pers will also have to be sold as filer. This tobacco brings only three cents a pound while the undamaged leaves sell for ten to fifteen cents.Buyers have bought up great fields at ten cents. Un der this management the farmer takes all the risk incident to har vesting, storing and delivering the crop. ‘The northern tier of townships will get the banner this year for production of the leaves. West port, Vienna and Springfield are especially fortunate this year as these districts got vain that oth er parts of the county did not. The impression is in the minds of a great many farmers that in ten years time there will be less tobacco raised in this district than at present. J. A. McCombe of Dunkirk township said that he and his brother had found it unprofitable and quit it entirely. Seth Stockton another progress ive farmer, is of the opinion that it does not pay to put all of the fertilizer produced upon a farm onto a small area to be used for tobacco. In all probability, sugar beets will supplant tobacco as the chief crop of the county. Tests show that the Wisconsin soil produces a beet rich in sugar and that the clay loam is better adapted to beet culture than to tobaccco.The Income from a acre of beets is greater than that from one of to bacco. Hail and wind storm are not necessarily fatal to beets. The second crop of clover has produced no seed this year, but a a great many have decided to hull that in their hay lofts for the seed is worth almost twenty dollars per bushel. Alfalfa is be coming an important crop.In Wis consin,the farmers having at last evolved a way to keep it from winter-killing, his plant yields three harvests of fodder. —State Journal _ “Get your fancy stationary at the Inpex office and get the best for the money. There will be a bird shoot and baseball game at Nick Lochner’s Martinsville next Sunday after noon. Has anyone saw anything of the timetable for the new Chi cago Wisconsin Valley inter urban railroad. The reports are to the effect that unless an early frost comes the corn crop of Dane county will be the largest ever harvested. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Simon and little daughter went to Mil waukee Sunday to spend a few days. While there Mrs. Simon will purchase her fall and winter line of millinery. Geo. J. Flatman, of Madison, was a caller in the village Tues day. The next Democrat National convention will be held at Bal timore. Mrs. Cohen, of Lodi, has been secured to teach in the Dane schools the ensuing year. Archibald Ford still continues in a very precarious condition with little or no improvement. Mr. and Mrs. ©. E. McWatty, Mrs. E. Bacon and Miss Maude Flatman visited at Okee Tues day. The Elgin butter market is firm this week at twenty-six cents with an output for the dis trict of 889,900 pounds. “Farmers in this vicinity are harvesting the tobacco crop .The crop on the average is only fair while a few fields are very prom ising. D.E. Williams, of Elroy, and Miss Mae Steele, of Lodi, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Williams Sunday. The masons began work on the village hall Monday morning and the carpenters Tuesday. Henry Adler has the carpenter work in charge. H. D. Blumenthal went to Middleton last Saturday to spend Sunday. Mrs. Blumenthal and daughter, who had been spend ing the week there returned with him. Twenty thousand workers and forty-eight firms and corpora tions are working under the op eration of the compensation act which goes into effect tomorrow, September 1. O. J. Price, of the Babcock Press Man‘s’g Co., and W. F. Major, of the Barnhart Bros. Spindler Type Foundery were in village today on business at the INDEX office Nellie, Willie and Eddie Mc Clusky, of Neillsville, arrived here last week Saturday. Miss Nellie expects to remain and at tend high school next year: the boys will return after assisting Edward Watzke in harvesting his tobacco. The beet crop of TYE will be double that of last year is the statenment of WOBE. Petrie, man ager of the United States Sugar Company's factory at Madison. Work at the factory will begin about September 26th. During the season of making up the pro duct two hundred men are em ployed. BF. ©. Taylor has sold his farm of eighty acres 3$4$miles northeast of Waunakee to Andrew [Treland. Consideration is 115 per acre. Mr. Taylor will have an auction sale of his personal property on September 13th and will move to the village where he will make his home for the present. The farm was sold through the F. L. Ouse Land Agency of Lodi.
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