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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-09-17
First publication Sept. 10, 1909. ]
Notice to Creditors.
ON x.7rCCC,1cTN

CTATE OF WISCONSIN,
- County Court for Rock County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at regular term
of the County Court to be held in and for said
County at the Court House, in the City of
GAINESVILLE, in said County, on the first Tues
day of April A. d. 1910, being April 5th
1910, at O'Clock a. M, the following matter
will be heard, considered and adjusted:
s All claims against Julia Jocelyn, late of the
City of Edgerton, in said county, deceased.
All claims must be presented for allowance
to said Court, at the Court House, in the City
of GAINESVILLE, in said county, on or before the
18th day of March, A. D. 1910, or be barred
Dated Sept. 9TH, 1869.
BY the Court
j. w. SALE, County Judge.
L. HI. Towne, Atty.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-09-17
The Price Going Up.

During the month of September only
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Record Herald for one year. After
October 1st the price of the Chicago
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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-09-17
First publication Sept. II, 1909.
Notice tn Creditors.

CTATE OF WISCONSIN, County Court for
- Rock County.-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at regular term
of the County Court to be held in and for said
County. al the Court House, in the City of
GAINESVILLE in said County on the first Tuesday
of AIril, A. D. 1910, being April 5th 1910,
at 9 o'clock a. M, the following matters Will
be heard, considered and adjusted:
All claims against Oscar G. Perry, late OF the
City of Edgerton, in said county. deceased.
All claims must be presented for allowance
to said Court, at the Court House, in the City
of GAINESVILLE. in said county, on or before the
18th day of March, A. d. 1910 or be barred.
Dated Sept. 18th, 1909
By the Court,
j. w. SALE, County Judge.
j. p. Towne, Atty. for Executor.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-09-17

The famous Landauer troupe, the
comical aerial bar experts, introducing
the original Flying Dutchman, will be
seen at the Elkhorn fair, Sept. 21-24.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-09-17

Stall room for three horses. In
quire of John Dickerson. 41t3
Vacant rooms over Shumway's bar
Der shop for rent. Apply toJames Pol
lard.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
HOWARD
GREAT MEN HAVE FAILED
TO WRITE GOOD LlBRETTOS

In the history of opera there are
many curious anomalies; but perhaps
the strangest is the role played by the
librettist For the most part obscure
and unmportant and generally unre-
membered, his ranks have neVerthe-
less been recruited from the ablest and
most brilliant men of letters. Among
those who have undertaken the part
are such unlikely names as Noltalre,
Goethe, Wieland, Addison and Field
ing; while others of considerable
poetic talent, as, for example, Metas-
tasio, Calzabigi, Runuccini, BOito and
Coppee have tried their hand at lib
rettO- writing with assurance, giving
to it their best efforts. And yet the
merest handful out of a harvest
of three centuries. There seems to be
something in the task that eludes pur-
suit. Goethe, the myriad minded, eX-
perimenting in every phase of poetic
art and almost always justifying his
attempt wrote several librettos that
have justly been consigned to the linn
bo of forgotten things. His latest
biographer calls them insignificant,
colorless and shadowy." And the same
story of failure may be told of many
others only less gifted. Yet literary
hacks of the lowest caliber have turned
out successful librettos and some of
the composers themselves, without pre-
tenc~ to literary ability and actuated
solely by musical considerations, have
produced results of which the best
of their collaborators might well have
| been proud.-Lewis M. Isaacs in Oc-
tober Forum.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
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NEWS OF STOCK WORLD
AND OF ITS PEOPLE

Jane Grey, former Belasco leading
woman, recently has filled engagements
with the Colonial stock company, Col
umbus, Ohio, and the Albee stock COM
pany, Providence, r. l.
Dorothy Bernard, formerly of the
Relasco company, is now playing in
the Vaughan CHASER stock company OF
Detroit.
Carrie Clarke Ward, formerly well
known in local stock circles, has been
with the Ferris stock company OF
Minneapolis of late months Her hus-
band, Sedley Brown, has been a mem
Der of the same organization, being
stage manager for Dick Ferris.
Blanche Stoddard a former member
of the Belasco company, is listed as re-
Gently with the Valencia stock forces
in San Francisco by the pictorial cen
sus of the leading stock companies OF
the country, published in the Novem-
her Peoples magazine. The same issue
publishes a picture of Gerald Harcourt,
recently with the same San Francisco
company. He was once with the Bur-
bank company here
The Peoples prints picture Of Den
ton Vane, well known to Unique pa
irons here, among the members of the
Henry McRae stock company, of Ia
coma, Wash. The pictures for this col
lection were taken last May,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
ACTORS SOCIETY READS
PLAYS BY NEW AUTHORS

The play readers committee of the
Actors Society of America, 1873 West
Forty-f1fth street, New York city,
once more has resumed its readings
of unknown authors plays. The COM
mittee, formed at the suggestion of
Augustus Thomas, is reading the plays
of authors who have been unable to
obtain a production through the reg
ular channels, and will produce the
most promising plays so discovered
at special matinees, casting them from
the large membership of this organ
ization.
The committee consists of over
twenty well-known actors and stage
managers. This numerical strength is
of great value to the author play
instead of lying on the shelves IN a
managers office for months at time
then to be rejected by one man. his
professional reader will, if sent to
the committee. receive immediate at
tention and be read by at least hYe
people before final rejection or ac-
! ceptance
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
MANAGERS SHY AT
PLAYS OF CAPITAL
BY WILLIAM A. BRADY

About the time I first became a
New York city producer Fanny Aymar
Mathews, the playwright and novelist,
told me that she had peddIed a comedy
called washington Life" from man
ager to manager, all of whom had re-
fused 1t on the ground that its title
would kill it even before the first
nights audience learned its theme.
Yet the record is largely in favor of
the play of Washington. Thus we
have had no American play Of greater
popularity than The Senator" started
by Chicago newspaper man, the late
Henry d. Lloyd, and completed by
Sydney Rosenfeld. William II. Crane
used this play exclusively for three
years and with it clinChed the some
what doubtful hold he had on the pub
lie esteem after his separation from
Stuart Robson. Of course there was
little of the federal flavor to THE Sen
ator." although it contained the stock
set of characters, including a foreign
diplomat and an enhancing woman
lobbyist-a character that by the way,
gave "A brilliant and brilliantly utilized
opportunity to the late Georgia Drew
Barrymore. the mother of Ethel
Lionel and Jack, and the true successor
of her own gifted mother in the realm
of true comedy.
far better play than "The Sen
atOr" was Eioyt's "A Texas Steer, "
which never gained really serious at
tention from either press or public be-
cause of its authors association with
pieces of the type Of "a Rag Baby
and "A Trip to Chinatown" Never
theless it was as keen a satire on a
certain aspect of American "states-
manship" as Gubert's "Mikado" was
on the British equivalent.
Then there was For Congress-
which served John T. Raymond fol
many years and afterwards, as "The
Politician" helped make patrons foi
Roland Reed. And "The Nominee
in which Nat Goodwin starred, al
though that was simply Yardley's ole
English farce of "The Candidate,
adapted to our partisan vernacular,
Two of our foremost playwrightS
wrote failures with federal Washing,
ton as the milieu-Augustus Thomas
and Henry Guy Carleton. The former
tried his hand at a really serious study
of Washington official life called "Tht
Capitol" which failed unqualifiedIy
although he has not since written any
thing Worthier Carleton's piece was
| called Ambition" and was aimed T.
give Goodwin a serious role after h,
/ had won the belief of a great many
! persons that his mission on the stag,
was not to make US laugh but to max,
us cry. The play was simply milC
melodrama and was not a success.
/ The anti Washington fetish clung t,
me even after "A Gentleman from
Mississippi" was ready for the stag
and L. =. Grismer, too, confessed to II
We both felt that we had play o
popular quality as a play, but feare,
that the Washington locale would op
crate against it. The enthusiasm o
its first audience in Washington itsel
did not hearten us; nor did the un
mistakable pleasure expressed by tn
second audience. But when, later Il
the week, Mr.. Roosevelt sought us out
shook our hands and told US that
was a perfectly corking play W
hnth felt better.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
QUEER IDEAS FOR
PLOTS OF PLAYS

In looking over number of manu-
scripts of plays sent to Elsie Ferguson
to read, an inspection of two of them
revealed the following plots. says
Henry B. Harris news bulletin:
The Unknown Spectre-The hero is
a ghost who is loved by a missionary
connected with a foreign mission in
Japan, but the ghost has an affinity in
Letitia Allen, whose soul finds its
greatest solace in Byron's poems, but
necessity compels her to be a typist in
a lawyers office. The villain is a ma
terial being of an inventive turn of
mind who discovers that his rival is
a ghost, and Immediately upon this
knowledge sets about to invent an
electrical apparatus that will anuihi-
late the ghost. The ghost at one time
lived on earth and had been a Knight
Templar in the crusade of Richard
the Lion Hearted How the play
works out covers thirty-fVe thousand
words of manuscript. There are eight
acts and only twenty-one scenes.
Broken Hearts-The second in the
list was the story of a beautiful girl
whose parents died when she was ten,
and before her fourteenth year was
reached she had Jllted three men who
vowed that there was nothing that
could anneal their punctured hearts.
By the time she had reached eighteen
there were so many men Tilted by her
that she had lost count She finally
meets her fate in young newspaper
man who had been sent from a large
city to interview her for a Sunday
story as to her methods in winning
mems affections: In the course of the
! interview, while gazing into her steel
blue eyes, she lost her heart for the
first time in her life, and here is where
fate paid her back in her own coin.
The cold and heartless jilt melted under
the glowing radiance of the strong
personality of the literary gentleman,
and magnetized. by the Apollo-like
| features of the avenging Nemesis OF
many broken hearts, the fair Gwendo-
line was carried away by a wave OF
| feeling.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
T. M. A. BENEFIT PROGRAM
WILL BE ELABORATE ONE

The benefit to be given by the The
atrical Mechanics association at the
Auditorium on Friday, November 5.
is absorbing the attention of the local
members of that body. A full program
will soon be completed. The tickets
have been ON sale only a few days at
the box offices Of the various theaters,
and judging from the interest already
shown by the theatergoers this year S
benefit will be a pronounced success.
Perhaps few outside of the profession
know how much good is done by this
organization in helping the sick and
unfortunate actors and stage mechan-
les who are its members, but the
quality of the work done by the Or
ganization is attested by the fact that
fully three-fourths of that part of the
profession embraced by its member
ship in the United States are it's loyal
adherents.
This years program viii b can ex.
ceedingly long and attractive one
Practically every theater in the city
will be represented either by one act
of the current play or by individual
specialties.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
PONDER THIS THOUGHT
OF A PoNDEROUS PLAYER

James Lackaye who plays Senator
Langdon in 1.-THE Gentleman from Mis-
sissippi" company which comes to the
Mason tomorrow night, is fat from
choice. he declares. He is cheerful
about it, because his girth has added
much to his value as an interpreter
of several recent roles.
"T am not afraid of being fat" says
Mr. Iackaye. at keeps me warm and
makes me feel comfortable. Some one
told me once that whisky was fine for
reducing flesh. cut out the whisky
Immediately 1t may be all right for
some actors to be lank and lean, but
I never intend to play any of those
Henry Irving or e. II. Sothern parts.
When play Falstaff, no pads for
mine. The Falstaff in pads has not
entered into the spirit of the character
any more than the flesh of the char
acter"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
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DRAMA

MASON-"A Gentleman from Misss-
sippL' by Harrison Rhodes and Thom-
as A. Wise. The comedy Of a south
ern senator's fight with "the system"
First time here Monday night,
MAJESTIC-"In Dreamland," with EN-
met Dewey, expanded from his vaude-
Vile sketch. An extravaganza wherein
dream teaches a neglectful husband
the uses Of domesticity. Opening to-
night.
BELASCO-Second week Of cold Heidel-
berg" the drama of a German princes
tragic effort to live and love as he
willed. Second week.
BURBANK-'NIy Wife" by Michael
Morton, describing how marriage OF
convenience became a belatsd but joy
Gus love match. Opening this matinee,
MUSICAL PLAYS
AUDITORIUM-secon week Of Corinne
in Mile Mischief" a light opera of
Viennese make and fancifuI plot, will
open Monday night.
GRAND-Ferris Hartman and his com
pany open their musical season this
afternoon in THE Yankee Consul the
Robyn- Blossom piece long Identified
with the name of Raymond Hitchcock.
WALKER-"A Merry Whirl," musical
burletta, by Allen Curtis company.
FIsCHER'S-Charles Alphins latest ira
vesty, "OT to Mexico" with music
VAUDEVILLE
ORPHEUM-Rosario Guerrero, Spanish
dancer and pantomimist in a playlet;
Murray and Mack, comedians; Tom
Waters, pianologuist; Spaulding and
Rtego. trapeze comedy. Four acts hold
over. Bill changes Monday.
Los ANGELES-Dolan and Lenharr
Mort Sharp and Dancing Bellies, Steele
sisters, Ahlberg brothers. Mcfarland
and Murray and Armada. Spanish vio-
Ilnist. New bill opens Monday.
UNIQUE-Harry Crane and Louise Gran
dali. song and dance and the four
| Tnderhills. comedy acrobats. One-act
playlet by AL Franks
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
ATTRACTIONS IN STORE

AUDITORIUM-"The Ringmaster."
MASON-"The Travelling Salesman"
NIAJESTIC-"The Girl Question"
BFLASCO-"TheR Regeneration"
BURBANK-"Her Own Way"
GRAND-"The Sultan Of Sulu-"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
TO IMPERsoNATE POETS

Robert r. Haines, formerly with
Viola Aliens company, has a new
vaudeville idea. He makes up as
well known poet, and recites the au-
thors masterpiece as he imagines its
creator would do. His specialties are
Poes Raven and Kipling's YAM
pire"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
TO APPEAR IN "PINAFoRE"

The dramatic club of Oxnard, Cal,
is rehearsing "Pinafore" for an early
production.
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structed Of steel with water-tight com
partments for storing large cargoes;
OF low draft and big tonnage capacity,
and equipped with freight handling
apparatus.
Improved mechanical means for
loading, unloading and transferring
freight from the barges % warehouse
or cars will be used, and The develop
ment Of storage, transfer and delivery
facilities encouraged at the principal
shipping points along the river.
Enough freight has already been
pledged by the shippers Of Kansas City
alone to assure a paying traffic from
the start Of the first barge. And with
the navigation of the Missouri de-
veloped to it's fullest extent, an I'M
mense volume Of freight will be moved
up and down the river, to and from
the seas, at profitable rates to the
company and a saving to producers
and consumers Of millions Of dollars
annually.
"And at the head Of the main truni
of the Missouri River stands Kansas
City-entrance to the Great Southwes
"a jobbing center Of the first import
ance, a big manufacturing city, ant
the controlling gateway for an In
mense east and west traffic.
Think this overl"
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gress and egress, for both freight and
passengers. to this vast territory OF
ours, which has so often been referred
to as the bread basket country and
which l like to think Of as the very
abdominal cavity of the North Amer
lean Continent.
"Elihu Root, senator from New York,
once made the statement that so per
cent of all human effort is occupied, d.
rectly or indirectly, in the transporta-
ton Of articles from the place of pro-
duction to the place of consumption.
Direct and indirect charges for
transportation of commodities are, by
far, the greatest contribution every
man makes to the cost Of existence
and any movement looking towards
tightening that burden is of paramount
importance to every American, and in
fact, to all mankind.
Commercially we are utterly unable
to compete in the markets of the world
with the producers, manufacturers and
shippers of such countries as Great
Britain and Germany, as well as many
other European countries, solely be
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cause their great manufactures are
located either on tidewater, or by
natural and artificial waterways are
enabled to reach the high seas at
minimum rates. These old nations Of
Europe have grown great because OF
their being navigators and carriers on
the high seas
with the early completion Of the
Panama Canal, the people OF the Uni
ted States will have increased their
handicap in the chase for worldwide
trade unless we Immediately improve
and navigate our inland waterways
and restore u one time powerful mer-
chant marine. This is clear because
the great ditch, connecting the Atlantic
and the Pacific, designed to be Of bene-
At to the people OF the United States,
will, under present conditions, more
certainly tighten the grasp Of the sea-
faring nations Of Europe upon world
wide traffic. and enable these nations
to still further outstrip US in the race
for international business with our
very %neighbors.
THE United States, in building this
canal, and upon falling to stimulate in
some way the restoration Of the Amer
lean flag upon the high seas and the
revival OF traffic upon the mighty
} rivers of the interior, will have made
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BOOST FOa RIVER EAVlGGTIOA
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF KAN
sAs CITY BUSINESS MEN.
Marvellous Advance to Come From
Rivers Use Told by President OF
Navigation Company.

Missouri's navigation project has re
ceived additional impetus from the re-
cent Navigation meeting Of the Kan
sas City Commercial Club.
Stin views and moving pictures
along the Missouri and Mississippi
rivers were shown at the meeting, and
aroused much interest among the sew
eral hundred business men present.
These pictures were taken on the re-
cent waterway trip Of the Kansas City
delegation to New Orleans with the
Presidential fleet, and show the scenic
effects of the mighty streams and their
tremendous freight carrying POSSIBLE
tiles.
The meeting was addressed, and the
pictures graphically described, by
Walter S. Dickey, president OF the
Kansas City Missouri River Navigation
Company. the million dollar company
being organized by Kansas City mer
chants and manufacturers. The Com
mercial Club offered to cooperate viii
he navigation company in raising tn
capital required to revive river traffic
and this assistance was gratefully az
cepted. Mr.. Dickey, in his address {
the club, said in part:
Time was when the waters Of th
Mississippi valley, teeming with acti'
ity, furnished the sole avenue Of i
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mines, farms and factories of the state
Of Missouri would have access were
transportation charges reduced to a
water basis? II so, you a realize
that all the great worlds markets,
now closed to the products Of ~
state, will be open to us when the
Missouri becomes the great highway Of
the West.
"NOW-Let us take just n quick
look ahead.
Kansas City has taken the initiative
in reviving river traffic on the Missouri
in a practical manner, and without
waiting for the government to improve
the channel.
we are raising S1,OOO,OO or nor
for the building of modern boats and
barges and the developing Of terminal
facilities for handling freight in large
quantities at small cost. Over $780,
600 is already subscribed.
"The Boats and Barges to be used
will be modelled upon the modern craft
operated successfully in shallow water
ways, instead Of the old inefficient type
of packet boat. They will be con
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as great a mistake as Il wou4a nave
been to .liEe the sreat trans
continental abroad lines OF the early
DAYS ana then have failed to open
public lads for settlement
Great nations should and do en-
courage their people to sell goods in
distant lands and far on countries and
secure in return an inflow OF foreign
gold. The prosperous and progressive
nation must, like the energetic farmer.
raise and sell more than II buys.
II We wish to keep pace with the
other top notch nations Of the world
and keep our labor employed We must
expand our exports in great variety.
To accomplish this Il is absolutely es-
sential that a vast comprehensive sys-
TEN Of Improvements Of the inland
waterways Of the continent shall be
laid out and maintained.
The great source Of wealth in the
United States, the great producing sec
ton, as we'll in minerals, fuel, timbel
and staples Of manufacture, is inlanC
and not on the Atlantic, Pacific or Gul
, Coast. To-day many commodities o
1, the Middle West never reach foreigl
p markets because of the long mileag.
h and heavy toll exacted by rail trans
Y portation to tide-water. The Who'll
/. Mississippi watershed, while now pra,
tfeoTv produoinu for aynOrf nn1v foo
h products, raw cotton and petroleum
will some day be the workshop Of tn
/, world. But this can never come unit
this large and fertile ares "a reac
the sea with its products at the lowe.
possible cost. THIS SPELLS RIVE
10 NAVIGATION.
v. Can you estimate the increased te
n. utories to which the products of Il