The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-11-23

Tor this notice ana secure properly.
One of the most attractive signs ever
put up by business firm in the city is
the one on the west end of W. T. Pom
eroy & Co.'S warehouse. 1t is an ad. for
the Edgerton Electric Light Co. It's
worth your time to come down town and
take peep at it.
There are two ways of spending
dollar. You can spend it at home, gain
an easy conscience, make another friend
and perhaps get the dollar back tomor-
ryw, or you send it away, feel that you
have sinned offend the home merchant
and forever lose the dollar and the
blessed influence for good to yourself
and neighbour
An arched grave was opened By
workmen in VIM. Wille's quarry last
week and the bones of human being
found therein. 1t was probably the last
resting place of some frontiersnan who
died while exploring the country up
Rock river and was buried by a COM
panion. There were no signs of wood or
other material in the cavern.
The initial number of the lecture
course given by dorado Taft Wednesday
evening met every expectation of an APP
preciative audience. Mr.. Taft's smooth,
winning ways of expression and his
illustrations pleased, delighted and in
structed his hearers. Ii the other num-
bers of the course are of like high char
acter there will be found little to criticise.
Rev L. A. and Mrs. Parr we're hap
PLY surprised last Friday evening, when
about thirty of their friends called at
their home. The occasion was the fifth
anniversary of their wedding day and
the evening hours were pleasantly
passed. A handsome clock and a num-
Der of silver spoons were the tokens
which the company left as reminders of
the happy day five years ago.
The big mai-order houses have sent
notices to their customers to the effect
| that they will fill no more orders for
sugar or flour. This act is an admission
that they. cannot compete with the
country merchant on articles that can
not be misrepresented. Therefore, it is
a fair conclusion that il the mail order
houses cannot compete with the country
merchant on these articles, neither can
they compete on other articles. If pa
irons of these houses will take the
trouble to compare the catalogue price
on standard articles with the prices
local merchants put on the same goods
they will find it the cheapest to trade at
home, besides saving cost of freight or
| express.
There was some lively sprinting done
in the direction of the depot Wednesday
| morning. The Milwaukee passenger was
late and came into the station five min
utes ahead of the leaving time Of the
| o'clock Chicago train. A number of
passengers for the Chicago train were
on their way to the depot when this
train came in. Of course everyone
| thought their time pieces late and needs
| hustle to catch their train. Riley Malt
press came rushing into the depot just
as the train was leaving with his collar
in his hand, not having time to complete
dressing, and jumped aboard without
stopping to inquire whether it was the
train he wanted or not. Before reach
ing Milton Junction he had time to find
out he was on the Milwaukee bound and
| mistake.
Mr. B. S. Miller of Wausau, father
of Mrs. G. V. Bardeen, will leave Madi-
son Monday for Los Angeles, where he
will spend the winter with friends. Mr..
Miller was quartermaster of the 4lst
! Wisconsin infantry in the civil war, and
is an active c.. A. r. man. He is still in
good health and strength, though past
his Goth birthday Madison Journal
1t would save great deal of mis-
understanding with the public generally
if there could be a more ineligible un-
Outstanding of the mission Of the news
paper. There are so many who misap-
prehend what it is here for that we feel
justified in reprinting from Press and
Printer these sensible statements. To
our mind they admirably sum up the
whole matter and leave nothing more
worth saying on the subject. ''The news
paper is not police force for the pun
ishment of crime: it is not the promoter
of personal ambitions; it is not the in
quisitor to find out the hidden evils of a
community The newspaper of today is
a moral force in educating public opin-
ion, not in Furnishing crime. 1t is an ed
vocational force in disseminating intelli-
gence, not in ridiculing ignorance. 1t is
a promoter of material prosperity by
stimulating the industrious, not by
abusing the indolent. 1t is stimulent
to good will in the community by seek
ing the good name of the people, not by
exposing their shortcomings"
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