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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-15
Fire at FootyiIle.

Fire Sunday afternoon destroyed the
Christian church at Footville, and for a
time threatened the entire village,
brands from the burning structure be-
ing sent whirling by the strong north
west gale in every direction. Several
houses in different parts of the town
caught, but by the quick work Of the
villagers, who formed into bucket bri-
gades, the fire was practically confined
to its seat of origin. The loss will be
upward of 1900, covered by insurance
of about 81, 300. Steps will taken at
once to rebuild the church. The fire
was caused by an overheated furnace
Following week of revival meetings
an unusually large congregation met
Sunday morning for services, and the
Sunday schools had also been well at
tended. At about one 'clock the ser
vices closed, and within an hour after
the church was found on fire.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-15

THE Jefferson County Union speaks
of four Wisconsin cows whose butter
output for the year was worth 81 1000.
Think of it, One cows yield worth
e050
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-15

THE country, congress and the presi-
dent are all convinced by this time that
the sleuth department is not subject
to be fully mastered without consider
able study.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-15

Don't miss this big half price cloak
and suit sale. Any ladies, misses or
children's cloak or suit in the store at
half price. P. Burns, GAINESVILLE,
Wisconsin 7w1
Having opened shop we are now
prepared to do all kinds of small jobs
of painting, vanishing, etc. Tables,
chairs, desks, screen-doors, window
screens, bedsteads, etc. Goods called
for and delivered. Keeling & Kaufman,
phone 10. 6w2
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-15

Bargains in hosiery, underwear,
tovershoes, dress goods and handker-
chiefs at Joe Conn's.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-15
The Land.

We are at last working round to
some conception OF what the land is
or ought to be in the scheme of ma
tional well-being. We are at last be,
ginning to see that there is hardly any
great social question, however urban
1t may seem at first, that is not ulti-
mately to be traced back to this prob.
lem or that of the open country.
London World
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-15

MONEY is going out from Uncle Sam
cash box faster than it is coming in,
but an empty cash box means full
heart.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-15

REMEMBERING so many that fell off
during the year, hang on, boys, the
water wagon has only just started.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
SOME NEW YORK REPORTS.

The summary Of branch reports. some Of them
sent to the general secretary and not read the
annual meeting lack of time. will give only a
| limited idea Of the amount Of work done the
name of Sunshine.
The Mount Vernon branch was not represented
owing = entertainment on the same day. but
Mrs. Barron, the retiring president sent the fol-
lowing condensed report:
We brought helpful sunshine to a mother with
eight children. not only by aiding the family
selves but by reporting the needy condition to the
proper authorities who have cared for them since.
For three months members visited and carried
cheer a sick girl, and when the end came. pro-
vded everything necessary; rent for three months
paid for sick teacher and the same help
given to widow with four children; flowers, soups
and jellies went TO eleven invalids We have
formed a committee of twenty members to make
sheets for the Mount Vernon Hospital; the mem
herS pay % a month and meet with the
chairman month to sew We hold our
meetings once month, and have about twenty
members present. rule.
we in a very good financial condition and
have had a most successful play. IN which many
Of TIE members took part. We expecting to
add 10 our membership this month. every
member has promised to bring In a name. that
hope to have ninety members 10 pay dues for
the general society. We will be glad to have Sun
shine suggestions from any OF the branches. and
hope to hear from some Of them in the future.
The officers forl 1903 were elected on May 3.
and are: Mrs. Z. Sampson. president, No 25l South
Mrs J. B. Palmer, secretary, and Mrs George
Lewis treasurer
DansvIle branch Two boxes OF clothing and
reading Grace Nett1eton Home
and box to the general office, the combined
value of which $35; five Thanksgiving baskets,
fruit flowers. plants, booklets and Easter cards
to thirty-three invallds; nine Sunshine boxes
were provided for local needs; $42 80
tributed for a memorial window for the church
and 50 TO two shut-ins individual gifts by mem
barg incl cd To hose in pzd
given by Mrs. Reynolds, our president, 10 as
sist old get into home; seventy-one
calls made and twentysix letters and eighty
postcards sent 10 'shut-ns. Many acts of kind
ness have been done by the members, such
helping those who needed assistance. giving gar
was i'll 10 attend the annual meeting. but sent
the following report: I'm September. 1908, the
of S515 raised her city home for sick and
crippled children; s. given TO consumptive
home and s. to send a young girl TO the Adron-
dacks 81 for child's shoes; large boxes OF
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
THEFTS AS LOVE GIFTS
APARTMENTS PLUNDERED
EleCator Boys and Women Friends
He'd for Alleged Crime.

William Nolan and Theodore Farley. elevator
boys. who said they lived at No 435 West 54th
street. Walter ana May Gilbert, a young married
couple. and Helen Nash. of No. 606 Eighth avenue
were held in sleu0 pail each by Magistrate CorneH
in he West Side court Yesterday. Nolan and FAR
ley charged with burglary. and Gilbert ana
mis- wife and Helen <ash were charged with re-
ceving stolen goods.
The five. we're rounded UP on Saturday by De
tectives cook. Kahn and Donohue, after Miss A
A. Johnson. OF the Gainsborough Studios. NO ~
West 5gh street and Mrs. F. Sterrett who lNeS
at the Washington apartments at No $40 west
51st street had complained to Police Headquarters
of thefts of jevyelry. silverware and silk gooos
amounting 10 several thousand dollars
on going to the Gainsborough Studios the detec-
tives learned that Nolan, who had been enpioyeu
there had quit his job rather Unexpectedly Ihey
were told that he had often been seen talking with
two gayIy dressed young women in the large hall
way of the studio building.
Going TO Nolans home the detectives told him
that the girls had confessed. and then Nolan owned
Nd they saw With Farley a similar ruse was tried,
and he the detectives allege, implicated May Gil
Next the detectives called May Gilbert who
was gorgeous in fine clothes and a gold and dia-
nlond studded bracelet which bore striking re-
sernhIance to a keepsake Miss Johnson. of the
Gansborough had lost She fared up it is alleged,
when she heard of the boys alleged weakening,
and the detectives say she took them to No 2l6
East S6th street. where she had a quantity OF
silverware and silk packed ready to be taken on
Gathering UP the various threads and clews. here
is how the detectives say the robberies took place.
Nolan entered the studio of Miss Johnson. in
the Gainshorough. on April Il, by pass key and
took a diamond studded watch. s400 diamond ring
and diamond studded gold bracelet He pawned
the ring and gave the watch and bracelet to May
Gilbert.
Farley, who was out of work. sneaked into the
Washington Apartments, entered empty fat
and got into Mrs. Sterrett's home through the
dumb waiter, The lady away, and Farley just
helped himself.
When the girls and boys were arraigned yester-
day they looked daggers ar one another.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
FIFTH AVENUE SHOP ROBBED.
Two Burglars in Hanson Escape with Men S
Furnishings.

Detectives Of the West 9oth street station and
Police Headquarters are looking for the daring
robbers who escaped with more than 5000 worth
OF stock yesterday morning from F. A Newell &
Co. mems outftters. No 246 Fifth avenue. Charles
J Taylor. of PassaiC. who happened TO pass the
store his way home, says he saw a hanson
standing in front of the door There was well
dressed young man outside, Taylor says and an
other young slowing stuff in the cab
The robbers entered the store through the side
entrance in 2sth street. using passkey. instead Of
q jimmy. The stock stolen included seven dozen
silk shirts twenty-three dozen pairs Of silk socks
and case of neckwear containing $50 pieces.
Edward !. Newell. lawyer and secretary Of the
CORPORATION said that with one exception, all OF
the employees had been with the firm from thlrty
10 forty years. and that every one had been re-
liable and trustworthy
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
BOARD MEETING.

The board of managers Of the T. s. s. Vacation
Rest House for Working Girls held meeting III
New Haven last week, at which Miss BIZ. the
housemother. was present. Owing to the increased
cost ~ living II was decided raise the price OF
hoard from S3 to s3 5n a week But If the same
courtesy is extended this year as formerly 10 the
T s s by the transportation company. of much
reduced fare, the small sum Of so will pay Two
weeks board and all travelling expenses Tor one
eirI II has been found necessary to engage the
services of a strong woman help with the kitchen
work which will add additional expense OF seo
for four months. VIII some of the branches that
were not represented at the annual meeting ana
therefore made no pledges for this special Sunshhe
work please consider at their earliest convenience
how much they will give for this purpose? lndl-
yidusl members are also asked to contribute Inc
money paid for board is sufficient for table ex-
penses. but rent help and fuel must be provided
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
FROM ALABAMA.

Lyman Ward, founder and principal OF the Camp
Hill (Ala) Industrial Institute for White Youth,
after acknowledging with thanks the receipt of a
gift from the emergency fund for a pressing need
al the institute adds the following report we
had in school last year ninety students. with
seven officers and teachers and expect about
the same number this year Our students are from
several different states. and interesting pupils
We have a young fellow. some twenty-th years
old. from North Carolina. who has entered school
within the last two months. You would be sur
prised at his preparation. There really no
classes in school that he prohtably enter. He
can only read with considerable difficulty and work
simple problems in arithmetic; he knows nothing
Of grammar and geography. We have just had
two young fellows from an adjoining county, in
this state enter the school They brothers, and
eighteen and twenty-one years old. They can t
work problems beyond addition. We have four
children from Mississippi. sister and three
brothers, their ages ranging from fourteen to
twenty-one years They collateral descendants
OF President William Henry Harrison, a sister OF
President Harrison being their great-grandmother
They are from of the interior counties of the
state and have had practically advantages
Their mother is a widow, and works in the field
There are ten children. One is continually asking
himself how this thing can be in America
The few instances related by Mr. ward snow
how great is the need or such practical. educa-
tional institutions I'm the South he has estab-
bshed and the Tribune Sunshine Society would
like to give him much more assistance than mas
been possible in the past.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
An Embroidery Opportunity
From a 2O-year Old Friend

For more than 20 years we have been
buying Embroideries from the firm that
has sent US the choice prize that we place
on sale today. There are:
Wide Flounces at 60c Yard,
Usually 75c to 81
insertions at 25c a Yard.
Usually 35c to SOC
In variety and style. fine material and
workmanship, the embroideries are most
desirable-of the quality in fact for which
this firm has always been noted. We also
offer our whole remaining stock of
Embroidered Null and Batiste
at SOC a Yard
Prices hitherto have been 81 to $3.50
Yard
and the fabrics are the finest imported
from Switzerland. Widths are 38 and 40
inches All the designs are this seasons.
Main aisle, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
SHIPWRECKED MEN HERE
Sir Escaped IN Small Boat from
Sinking British Schooner.

The Fabre liner Gallia, from Marseines and
the Azores brought TO port yesterday Captain
Aronson and the crew Of five Of the British
scbooner Roanoke. which went to pieces twenty
Eve miles off the Azores on March 26.
The Roanoke left Santa Paolo, Spain, on
March IL with q cargo OF salt for St John,
NIB She ran into a hurricane when 100 miles
off FayaL which cut her canvas into shreds.
The crew managed . sail again under jury rig
and got TO a point twenty-five miles from the
Azores when the deckhouse was carried away
BY the seas The only hfeboat on the Roanoke
had been split in places, but the men patched
fl with canvas. AS the Roanoke settled, Cap
tain Aronson and his men got under way in the
small hoat
Two steamers passed on the horizon but
made no effort 10 rescue them, and their fare
light which had been seen on shore, was not
understood By constantly baling, they got
their small boat into Fayal, where they took
the Gallia for this port The men viii be sent
TO their homes in Nova Scotia by the British
Consul.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
! ments to the poor furnishing flowers for the
| church etc ELIZABETH SMITH,

ments to the poor, furnishing flowers for the
church, etc ELIZABETH SMITH
Secretary
Saratoga branch: Mrs George Perkins Lawton
clothing went a widow with four children IN Lew
istown. PENN and three boxes of clothing TO other
needy families: box of Christmas toys for
branch in Nebraska twenty-five Christmas greet
ings to invalids reading matter sent each week TO
twelve 'shut-ins visits made the sick and fruit
and flowers distributed, and at Easter l personally
sent out 40 cards to invalids"
The Purchase branch is small one. having only
twenty members, therefore its work is necessarily
limited Since the November meeting IS has been
appropriated to help clothe a crippled child who
was Obliged to go to hospital in New York; 81
was sent to the T. S S. office toward Thanksgiving
dinners, 81 to the society birthday Offering and
81 to the Day Nursery of the East Side Settlement
in 18th street. Home made cakes were sent TO Mrs
Green at the Chelsea toward a cake and apron sale
At Christmas twenty bags made and filled
for the Little Mothers two barrels Of clothing have
been sent to a school for colored children in South
Carolina, and articles of clothing. food and reading
matter have been given to the needy in this vicin-
ity
Little acts of sunshine are constantly being done
by one member or another, but we hope in the fut-
ure to be able to increase delightful work.
ESTHER c. HAvILAND. Secretary.
Report sent from the Faithful Workers at South
Cuba, N Y. reads as follows
Sin Since organzing, our T. S S. branch in July
lyOS our membership has increased from eleven TO
'at 6TentyrsX Us and We have accomplished little Of
the like have been sent to shut-ins, one comfort
able, made for a needy family. and one for a
by fire. Toys were sent to several children at
6hhrlstnlas time. and box went to the inmates Of
uted hy members of the branch also quantity
families. and some sewing done for our own mem
bers Altogether we feel that this first nine months
MRS. BERTHA W HILL. ~ President
SeCretarv
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
OTHER WANTS.

Some woven underwear for a poor woman help
lessly crippled from rheumatism is urgently
needed AS her arms are drawn out OF shape the
underwear needs to be large In order for the at
tendant to dress her without causing unnecessary
suffering Clothing for boy eleven years old.
whose mother is a widow. is another imperative
want
The Little Mothers Aid Association makes a re-
quest for second hand graphophone any in
strument that Will make music for the children
who go to Holiday House. Pelham Park, this sum-
mer. The old piano is literally worn out.
worthy woman West 133d street would like
to secure fine laundry work to do Mt home. This
request comes from branch president
Mrs Kate Young asks for CHEEKY greetings on
May 25 which is her fifty-nnth birthday. She is
a "shut-in' and alone all day while her son is
away at his work. Pleasant remembrances will be
greatly appreciated.
Miss s NJ Hull, of Danbury. Conn. makes a re-
quest for a wheel chair for a man who cannot
walk but in chair day and night. II he
could have a chair one would be willing to
take him out into the sunshine. Any Connecticut
member or branch having chair to pass will
please notify Miss Hull,
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
SEVERAL HURT IN TROLLEY CRASH
Passengers Cut and Bruised When Cars Hit
Each Other in Queens

Two trolley OF the Calvary Cemetery and
College Point lines in collision at Hunters $
Point, Queens Borough, last night They crashed
together with force sufficient TO smash every pane
OF glass and throw about the passengers. Police
serves had 10 be called out 10 handle the crowds
Those hurt included Annie Fitzsimmons twenty
five wears old of No IA 11th street Hunters
Point, contusions and shock; Mary Cassidy. fifteen
years of No. 90 East avenue Hunters Point
tusions of the head and back; Joseph Kulin TWEEN
ty-four years. Of No. 276A 18th street. Brooklyn.
laCeration over left eye and Susan McGrady, thir-
head. The two first named were taken to St
Johns Hospital
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
GRATEFUL. FOR ASSISTANCE.

In acknowledging the money sent for the con
sun.ptiye girl the physician who made the appea!
sends the following letter TO the Office:
Your letter with draft for $50 = was duly received
and / cannot express the gratitude feel toward
the members OF the Tribune Sunshine Society VINO
have so generously contributed TO help Mrs B. l
received notice from White Haven to-day that she
had been accepted and hope TO send her next Week
Even II she should not cured she will have many
weeks IF comfort and happiness as result Of the
interest taken in her behalf. Again thanking you
am yours sincerely LEROY ". HUBBARD
A Virginia cripple writes that without her gift
from the emergency fund neither she nor her chill
dren would have had anything to eat.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
SUBWAY RowDles SENTENCED.

Ten Young men who had been arrested on sub
way trains on the Broadway branch yesterday for
rowdyisn1 were arraigned before Magistrate House
IN the night court Nine of them were fined SO
each and as they could not pay it were sent back
TO the cells.
The tenth, Salvatore Currilo, bootblack, Of No
l. Mott street. had yanked the starting cord on a
Inbound subway train several times When the
magistrate was told that Currio's act might have
caused the loss OF several lives he sentenced him
the workhouSe-
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
FIND GROCERIES INSTEAD OF FURs.

IBy Telegraph TO The Tribunel
Waterbury, Conn. May i6-A lot Of mink skins
worth s. 500 part Of the furs stolen from Revilon
Frereg. in New York. which detectives believed
they had discovered in 4 fence here turned out 10
be q box OF groceries The detectives still think
they had the right cieW-- but say the skins were
srnuzgied away before they got here.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
E0R REST HOTSE.

Mrs Hamilton F Downing has sent her check
for S15 to be used for the Vacation Rest House,
Mrs. Chambers. now at Salt Lake City, Utah u
for the same purpose: Mrs. George Ashley $o'
Mrs s. P Scherer. 50; Mrs. II. NJ. Page, ST. Friend
" Aid branch. s.. Bridgeport branch Slo, ana
Queen Esther branch, of New Haven, 50. Owing 10
a misprfnt last week the gift Of Mrs Bisse''' OF
the Geneva Guild Newark n. j. was made 10
read st. instead Of 81 which she gave on the day
of the annual meeting
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
GOSSIP OF THE
COMMUTERS.

A bevy Of girls who were returning from visit
overnight with friends in the suburbs boarded
commuters train for New York on Saturday morn
ing. Each OF the four young girls in the party
carried enormous bunch of ilacs souvenirs
OF their trip, and when they seated themselves in
the passenger coach they arranged the flowers in
the racks overhead. 1t noticeable how the
presence Of -he girls and the fragrant blossoms
chirsed up the bored looking carload Of male pas
sengers Newspapers were almost forgotten in the
delicious proximity of much fragrance and
beauty and II is safe 10 predict that the ride TO
New York Saturday morning a special
in the lives OF most of the passengers in that
particular car.
George H. Target. Of Newark. who assisted in
putting together the first locomotives that were
over the old Morris & Essex Railroads. ex
tension to Phillipsburg. Will shortly leave on his
twenty-eghth voyage across the Atlantic to re-
visit relatives and friends. Mr. Targett is seventy
FIVE years old and his recoHections Of railroad life
about New York extend back over fifty years.
A Montclair commuter who makes the daily jour
ney from his home New York made the boast
the other evening that he could tell approximately
where he was the line with his eyes closed at
any point on the trip To show that he could 5lid
hat his eyes displayed a sub-cOnscious knowl-
edge of the that interesting. The Mont
he had gradually come to know every popularity
Of the road The roar Of the train tells him when
then there is another peculiar sound the coaches
pass over the river next comes the mad race over
explosion as the coaches pass between concrete
walls Of the Pennsylvania new air line viaduCt.
around the curve that leads up to the bridge
the river between Harrison and Newark After
Newark has been reached 1t is the easiest thing in
thC world for the experienced commuter toll off
the various points until Montclar is reached
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
Bordered Zephyr Ginghams
at 16c Yard

Bordered Zephyr Ginghams
at 16c Yard
They are as in. wide and have been sell
ing up-to-date at SOC yard. They are
real copies of the Scotch Bordered
Zephyrs that have been imported to retail
at two and three times this price. and have
quite as effective and attractive patterns.
Bordered Linene at 14c Yard,
Usually 25C
A charming material for stylish Summer
costumes; in the prettiest colors and IS
woven with linen finish with self-colored
Jacquard figures and variety of stylish
block -bordered patterns One of the most
effective cotton fabrics produced this sea-
son to sell at 25c yard
Silk-Warp Printed Muslins,
at 25C Yard
variety of exquisitely tinted floral pat
terms in these charming silk-and-cotton
Muslins that are always favored for cool.
dainty dresses. The price is less than the
wholesalers regular lowest price.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
CONTRIBUTIONS

generous contribution of excellent gifts for
distribution received from Mrs. c. Of Harri-
son. n Y: two large boxes OF magazines from
South Manchester, Conn; pair Of fine tan shoes
without a name: unfinished fancy work and en-
brodery silks for "shut-in" from Mrs. F.. OF
Brooklyn. An unfinished Afghan, with wools TO
complete. has been left at the office. viii some one
kindly offer TO finish It?
New-York tribune., 1909-05-17
TO SENTENCE CAPTAIN HAMS TO-DAY.

Captain Peter c. Hains will be arraigned before
Justice Garretson at Flushing. Queens Borough.
this morning for sentence under the verdict Of
manslaughter rendered by the jury which tried
him 1t is rumored that steps will be taken 10 test
the sanity of the captain at the present time and
that suitable court orders will be obtained before
the captain be removed into the jurisdiction of
the courts of Westchesrer County. District Attor-
ney De Witt will move for immediate sentence.
he will not urge that the transfer to Sing Sing
be hurried.