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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

If one could judge from the news
paper reports of practically all the
newspapers in the circuit, the Cleary
candidacy is pretty much of joke.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

Wisconsin tobacco growers whose
crops have been damaged by hail
storms, may be interested in the
fact that for many years, in some
of the wine districts of France. the
successful use of cannon to dissipate
hail storms is reported. It is re-
ported by the consul at Lyon that
this method has been used for the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

Wisconsin manufacturers of cream
separators can find a market fo1
their product in Japan, as consular
agents report that there is a demand
for hand machines suitable to handle
the cream from four or five COWS.
The present supply comes from
Copenhagen and American competi.
ton is invited.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-12
SCIENTIFIC AUCTIONEERING.

One of the great fea- lures of Simpson &Con- nor s success IS the man. ner in which the actual selling Is conducted. Their staff of salesrnen are all experts and they are headed by T. F. Connor, an auctioneer without a peer in his particular line of work. He Is a graduate of the old school and has sold land and merchan- disc all over the United States. No less im- portant, however, are the men who assist in the sale. Every man has his duties and per- forms them so that he cannot be criticised.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-12
WAGE FARMERS

Will you learn place your earnings where they will grow into fortunes will you pod along from day day, labor and give the largest potion of the profits of your toll to the who hires you make money by your labor for hm9 Your landlord by intelligent investment real that the of Gould Wander b Rockefeller Carnegie Marshal Field and others became famous the world the weest of their age It usually safe follow the examples of successful The form by which the great Ao wealth bubuy land just outside and wait for the advance of the ciy-s sound and logical
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-12
JOHN ROCKEFELLER SAYS

' recently asked by young my opinion as to the way little money He had few hundred dollars which, by had succeeded in saving of his weekly wages advised him invest in good house lot free mortgage suburb close to the city Land always away As the population increases the value of land greater Ye small investment there security than house lot city
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-25
EVIDENCE MUST
Be POSITIVE
GUESSW0RK IN REGARD TO
SPEED CONDEMNED
Convictions Without Regard for Testi-
mony of Accused unjust-Law
VioIators Should Be Barred
From Operating Cars

President Morris Of the Automobile
club of America in regard to the ques-
ton of the day among autoists says
that no conviction should be made for
alleged violation of the speed law un-
less positive evidence is at hand which
will show that the accused driver was
proceeding at an excessive and dam
gerous rate. He says:
1T is a great pity that a certain
class of automobiles has done SO
much to injure the sport in this coun-
try and it is against this class that
would like to see drastic legislation di-
rected. A change in existing laws,
making them more severe in certain
provisions and more liberal in others,
would reach these individuals, teach
them a much desired lesson, and at the
same time work to the best interests
of those who run their cars in rea-
sonabe fashion.
'In the first place 1 would make it
impossible for the man who is persist
ent in his disregard of the law to oper-
ate his or any other car.
Under certain conditions I would
have his license either suspended or
revoked, and should the latter course
be pursued in regard to him, he would
have to content himself with taking
his automobile trips with a chauffeur
instead of himself at the wheel. Incl
dentally, / would have the laws so
changed that the chauffeur would be
the last man to court arrest for dis
regard of the speed regulations, since
it would mean cancellatioRapf his GER
tificate and license as EAptor car
driver and throw him OUT t work.
"The normal speed of axet2utomo-
bile based upon the normal &ait of
the horse, which in the city is from
seven to eight miles an hour, is from
fifteen to seventeen miles an hour.
Now, an automobile going at that
speed is, beyond question, under far
better control than a horse travelling
at its normal gait. 1 would like to see
a law enacted which would give the
conscientious motorlst reasonable lib
erty in the management of his motor
vehicle and restrain him who is not.
"As to convictions for overspeeding,
would wish to see none unless the EVIL
dence clearly showed that the defend
ant knowingly exceeded the prescribed
speed limit, or that the rate of speed
he was maintaining at the time of his
arrest was excessive and dangerous"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-25
IN FAINT FROM JOKE
Card Vender in Critical Condition
After Pail of Ice Water
Dropped on Him

Dropped on Him
Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Feb 24.-Following the
perpetration of a so-calIed practical
joke, Samuel Peltro, who has a souvenir
card stand in front OF IL Broadway,
yesterday suffered a nervous collapse
He was taken to his home i'm Rutgers
street i'm a critical condition. A large
crowd that had Witnessed the affair
demanded the arrest or the perpetrator,
but the police refused to act.
AS hundreds of BUSINESS men in the
neighborhood We're returning from
luncheon a man in the uniform of an
attendant of the building II Broadway
leaned out of a window of a firm OF
shipping agents on the second floor
and emptied pail of ice cold water
on Peltro who was directly under him
vending his wares Peltro was stunned
by the suden shock and fell in
faint.
Two hundred persons quickly gath
cred and demanded the arrest of the
man who had thrown the water, but
the only policeman present refused to
make the arrest unless there was
definite complaint. Several spectators,
unable to restrain their anger, rushed
up the stairs of the building to get
the offender, but when they entered
the office Of the Shipping agents he had
disappeared. He could not be found.
Peltro, In a semi-conscious condi-
ton, was carried to a livery wagon
close by and driven to his home. His
stand of postal cards was utterly
ruined. Business men i'm the buildings
in the neghborhood win take up
collection today to partly recompenso
him for his loss.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-25

ity to go behind actual performances
and bellttle the actualities by theoriz-
ing and individual opinions.
Burns also acknowledges to an in
tense craving for battle with Jack
OBrien, who these self-constituted
arbiters of the game have pointed out
as the real thing next in line to Jeffries
as the legitimate heavyweight cham
pion.
Although O'Brien and Burns fight
along the same sines. the O'Brieu side
stepping and running away tactics ap-
peal with great force to the fancy of
some, while the same tactics when in
dulged by Burns become the source of
risibilities and a careless linl-famming
of the English language in an attempt
at raising laughter for the amusement
Of the disappointed ones.
The new champion says that he is
confident, of his ability to defeat
O'Brien and is willing to make the try
on one condition, that the experts who
push a pencil after witnessing the feat
will give him the small credit their
jealous natures must, perforce of a re-
gard for things real, acknowledge.
The one complaint that has issued
against the clean cut decision by which
Burns acquired the worlds champion
ship Is that Hart is willing" although
unable to defend the title, but his, op-
uonent, Burns, is entitled to no credit
because Hart Is suddenly discovered to
be a dublin the consideration of a
constituted fight expert who trav-
eled all the way from Frisco to see
one of the greatest travesties upon the
fight game, in his opinion, that ever
occurred.
Charity compels Burns and his loyal
friends to excuse the complaint on
the grounds that it is probable that
the long, tiresome and wearying trip
wore heavily upon this self-consututed
and widely advertised expert (?) and
it may be possible that, although no
fault Of Burns, the necessity of Sleep
ing through the fight may have had
some influence upon the opinion ex-
pressed in print.
Regardless of the depressing influence
this opinion may have upon his future,
Burns is willing to undertake the job
of defending his claims upon the
worlds championship and if the fight
experts" will allow him, instead of
them, to settle the question as to who
is really champion, he will endeavoT
to be convincing in the next argument
In the meantime, fight experts" will
ing, Tommy Burns will presume to
wear the laurels he fairly, cleanly and
decisively won by whipping to a stand
still the man whom the same fight
experts have previously and at all
times heretofore acknowledged as the
successor to Jeffries as the world
champion.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-25
SEE A BATTLE FOR LIFE
Passengers Witness Thrilling Fight
From Car Windows as Train
Passes Wheat Field
Special to The Herald.


SPADES, Ind, Feb. 24.-Passengers
ON train from Cincinnati to st. Louis
while looking from the car windows
yesterday near here saw two men in a
wheat field battling for life. One had
a pick-ax and was raining blows upon
the other. The passengers reported to
the conductor and at Hyde tower he
delivered a message for the crew of the
eastbound accommodation train to be
on the lookout They reported they
could see no one in the field, but had
met foreigner walking toward Bates
Vile. A searching party found the dead
body of Joe Crawell who was last seen
with Mike Danish, another foreigner,
both of whom were employed with an
extra gang of workmen on the Big
-Four.
In the afternoon a person answering
the description of Danish walked into
the station here and after counting
his money bought ticket for Chicago.
A telegram was sent to the Chicago
chief of police.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-25
TRAP FOR FALSE FRIENDS
Physician Who Hears Bad Reports
Calls Gossips in and Convicts
Them With Records
Special to The Herald.

Special 70 Ihe IiuFuIu.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24-Imitating
Timon of Athens, who summoned
false friends to banquet, so that he
might tell them what he thought of
them, DR.. j. w. Posthauer of Flat
bush invited to a dinner a dozen of
his neighbors, whom he suspected of
having criticised him, and when it was
over he told them some unpleasant
things about themselves.
DR.. Posthauer's charges and the de-
malls of his guests, who in many In
stances, to save themselves, accused
others at his table Of being respon-
slble for the stories, were carefully
taken down by a stenographer and re-
corded by a phonograph, and when,
stil accusing one another, the hosts
rose to go, Or. Posthauer had the
phonograph repeat the whole thing
over again for their benefit.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-25

machine. Different makes i'm the same
class look much alike and the only
way to tell a new car is its greater per-
fection in detail and the improved lines
and more comfortable riding of the
body.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-25

the officers declared that
II was their plan to make at least four
or five arrests day in order to make
good" Mojonier has been quoted as
saying: "If we tried to arrest every
person who violated the speed law it
would require force Of fifty men. We
to gather in four or FIVE q
dav"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-25
May Go on Stage

1t has been long and weary climb
to the top Of the heap. but Burns is
Wiling to stand the test OF ability and
demonstrate full that he is entitled to
the honors with no unnecessary delay.
Although he has been tempted by Of
fers TO go on the stage and reap the
benefits that accrue to champions by
a tour Of the country, Burns is willing
to forego this opportunity to gather in
the coin to satiate the yawplngs OF
those who would pose as critics Of abil-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-25

A unique industry is to be estab-
lished at Trenton, N. j., under the
name of the Philadelphia Portable
Stores company. The charter recently
issued to the company enable 1t to
conduct a general store, but it is said
that the real object is to conduct an
automobile pedding service. Huge cars
are to be fitted up as stores on wheels.
With Camden as headquarters, these
will be run through the state, selling
principally to people in the country
districts.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06
New York.
NEW YORK, June 30, 100

It is not actual trading that at pres
ent occupies SO much the market as
making calculations for the time when
the buying season commences. With the
most pleasant mein packers and import
ers deny having any stock for sale and
when questioned why they do not under
such circumstances take themselves far
away to the mountains or Europe, they
smilingly answer, they are simply loaf
ing around to watch the market. At
their desks, however, when unobserved,
they lose themselves completely in cal
culating the percentage of raise they
should fix from week to week and some
times from day to day. And if their de-
NAL of having any stock for sale is
doubted they are ever ready with a
counter proposition to buy anything at
the price offered. 1t is indeed the most
remarkable situation in which the leaf
market was ever placed. Actual trading
seems to 60 on only in Sumatra, while
in Havana leaf offers from 671a cents to
70 cents for Remedies are being refused
The u. S. Tobacco Journals prediction
several months ago, that the price OF
Remedies will raise to dollar is now
literally verified.-Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06
conneoticut valley Tobacco Market.

Hoeing is now the order of the day
with farmers who raise tobacco. Most
of the crop now needs the cultivator and
the hoe to loosen the soil that has been
trodden down by the constant passing
and repassing of men, horses and wagons
in the drawing of plants and water to
set and reset the fields, to say nothing of
the tracks of the tobacco setter. In this
vicinity the setting, SO far as [ can learn,
is now completed, and most of the crop
has been reset the second time. Within
few days | have seen plants which
have attained the height of ten inches
and spread of sixteen to twenty inches.
This was tobacco that had been trans
planted in May; the June setting, of
course, is not so large, but it gives every
promise to very soon reach that point.
I know of one field that has been set less
than a week that started to grow and
hoeing commenced within the week. OF
all the tobacco | have seen late years
none surpassed this crop in its quick
starting to grow. One thing noticeable
about this new crop is, it is so even and
of so dark green thai everyone says:
Tobacco looks nice this year"
The large warehouse at East Hartford,
belonging to w L. Hunting & Co., and
containing $500 cases of tobacco belong
ing to E. e. Hoffmen of New York city,
was burned this week. The loss is placed
at $4,000, but it may exceed shat figure.
At Lancaster, Pa, no sales of any impor-
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06
NEW YORK, June 27, 1906.

The newly set out plants occupy most
of the attention of the trade just now.
Some setback from rain in Pennsylvania
is noted, but in New England and Wis
consin they are growing off nicely, with
excellent prospects. The local market is
absolutely bare of developments of inter
est. Considerable Wisconsin has moved
in the local market during the past week.
Sumatra.-A lively market is noted in
the local trade. During the past week a
number of transactions have taken place
and the volume of stock that changed
hands at high prices is large.
Havana.-Several consignments of new
tobacco have been received by local
houses. In general, it has not been of a
reassuring character. Most of it is
flimsy, characterless, and nondescript.
Nevertheless, prices remain high, and
some sales have occurred.-Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET,

81 EDGERToN, WIS, July 6, 1906.
The transplanting of the 1906 crop has
been completed during the week and
the last plants have hardly been set in
the fields before buyers appear impor-
tuning the grower to set price upon
his prospective crop. Information reaches
US that good deal of riding is being
done in some of the growing sections
and few contracts at II to Is cents ex-
ecuted but the growers generally are
either asking prohibitive prices or de-
cline to enter into sale at this time for
future delivery. If the farmers should
show disposition to yield to these i'm
portunities general scrar, BILE of buyers
might at any time ensue. Lookouts are
kept by the large operators in most of
the growing sections, who keep close tab
on what is being done and news of any
considerable buying would be known
throughout the district almost instantly.
If there is any virtue in being early in
the game, there is small army of buy
ers waiting to jump into the scramble
on a moments notice, if necessary.
The weather has continued especially
favorable to give the newly set tobacco
fine sendoff and the early fields show
up remarkably we'll for the time of year.
An opportunity to cultivate the fields is
all that is needed now to continue the
glowing prospects of the crop.
Nothing has developed in the cured
leaf market to change the conditions
frequently commented on in this col
umn.
The shipments out of storage do not
exceed 300 cases from this market to all
points for the week past
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06
Lancaster.

LANCASTER, PENN, June 25, 1906.
AS the leaf dealers are not making
any special efforts to sell goods, the 1905
crop, of course, and as few outside buy
ers were here, nothing but a dull market
could have been looked for last week.
Many of the dealers do not believe there
will be any business before fall, because
the goods are not in shape for the mar
ket. There is no advantage in selling
conditionally, and this is the only way
the out of town buyers will deal. Be-
sides black rot, it is reported that some
of the packings are showing must" A
good many of the dealers do not like the
idea of the presence of black rot being
noted in the papers, and plenty of asser
tions are heard from dealers of eXamina-
tions of their packings showing little or
no rot. When they come to sell, the
buyer will soon learn whether they have
rot or not.
The wet weather we have been having
for the past two weeks has been little
too much for good thing. Some rain,
much rain. in fact, was needed, but not
as much as we have been having. The
heavy storms have washed out the plants
in good many fields, rendering replant-
ing necessary. There has been good
deal of hail, too, but as the leaves cut
will be the ground leaves wher the plant
is grown, the damage is not serious. The
growers are fearful, however, lest we are
to have a season of hail storms.
The cigar trade has braced up recent
ly, and may be said to be fairly good.
All of the factories are running and
there appear to be no unemployed cigar
makers. The local manufacturers re-
port large western orders.-New Era.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06

tance have occurred for few weeks.
The black rot is no more prevalent than
for number of years, and packers will
not lose more this year than usual. The
weather is perfect for the growing plants,
warm and humid days and warm nights.
The plants have already got good start.
1t is predicted that few contracts will be
made for any of this crop before it is
ready for cutting. and it will then be
sold in the field, and not too cheaply,.
either. The early sellers let their goods
go last year as low as Sc and &c pound,
but buyers do not expect any such prices
this year. They think buying will start
at from 10 to 12c, and they are afraid to
think where the prices may Jump to.
Ii Pennsylvania tobacco sells at the
start for even 10c, then, comparing the
prices of former years with prices u.s.
ually obtained in the Connecticut valley,
what ought our seed Havana grown in
New England to bring either at the
start or the finish?
One New York buyer has been up
looking over the situation [ met one
of the Belden Brothers a day or two ago,
and asked him if he would be topping as
early as last year. He thought not.
Last year he topped about three acres
July 4. He said they would probably
top about July S-10 if the weather con-
tinued good. This piece of land is sit
uated in very warm place. The bal
ance of their crop is later. E. w. Field
has his tifteen-acre field set to tobacco,
as usual, and | have heard that it was
looking fine. For a number of years he
has done his topping July 1920. This is
a piece of good sandy loan, and as we'll
fitted for raising tobacco as any in Hat
field.
1t is reported in trade papers that
some of the large cigar manufacturers
have stock of tobacco on hand enough
to last them for year. Ii this is cor
rect they must have imported lots of the
goods, and if a few have SO much there
must be others who have not so large
stock on hand. Else the continued urg-
ing of the trade papers was little ''off''
in the winter and spring. But there are
some, according to the same papers, who
are buying from band to mouth, hoping
for reduction of prices.
Our correspondent reports as follows:
East Whately, Mass. Tobacco is about
transplanted, and some are hoeing. AS
a rule, it looks we'll and has started we'll
and seems good color. Many new barns
are being built. Morton Brothers have
over one thousand feet in length to
build yet this season A great many are
putting fertilizer on and hoeing it in
Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06
GAYS MILLS, Wis. July 3, 1906

The buying season has already COM
menced and number of buyers are al
ready driving the country daily. Prices
offered, of course, are high, a great many
growers having refused 15c per pound
A great many have repeatedly declared
that they will not sell this year until
after the crop is harvested but it is quite
likely that as in past years the high of
fers will bring results for the buyers
Independent.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06
BaIdwfnsvilIe, N. Y.

The favorable weather prevailing dur
ing the last few days has greatly i'm
proved the appearance of the fields
already set out, and with good weather
conditions what is expected to prove the
most successful crop of recent years is
now fairly we'll started.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06
A Circus Trust.

The completion of deal is announced
by which the heirs of the late James A.
Bailey sell to Rins,ling Bros. the Bailey
interest in the Forepaugh-Sells Bros
shows. The result probably will end
circus war that has ragged fiercely
through this section this season, with
extravagant advertising and price cut
ting that has knocked a big hole in
profits. Under the new alignment Wal
lace's shows are expected to enter the
syndicate next season, thereby eliminat-
ing the main element of trouble. Wal
lace by refusing to accept the territory
assigned him this season, precipitated
the strife. The late James A. Bailey
and the Ringlings purchased Forepaugh-
Sells Bros show at the time it was sold
at auction two years ago. Bingling Bros.
now are sole owners and assume exclu-
sive management. They will keep the
new acquisition separate from the one
travelling under their name.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06

"IT IS nine hundred years since the
failure of bank in China, said bank
examiner. cover nine hundred years
ago, in the reign of Iii Hung, bank
failed. Hi Hung had the failure inves
tigated, and to his indignation found it
had been due to reckless and shady con-
duct on the part of the director and lhe
president. Hi Hung at once issued an
edict that the next time bank failed
the heads of its president and directors
we're to be cut off. This edict, which has
never been revoked, has made China's
banking institutions the safest ia the
world"