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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-29
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
FRIDAY, JANUARY %, 1909.
CORRESPONDENCE
Albion

Lelon Coon is suffering from an at
tack of bronchitis.
Miss Clara Wood was at her home in
Marshall from Friday until Sunday.
Mr. Roy Coon and wife of Stoughton
spent Sunday at the parental home.
Melvia Nelson of Beloit spent por
ton of last week at Martin Nelson's.
Mr. and Mrs Will de Lancey spent
Wednesday with friends in Edgerton.
DIR and Mrs Shepard of Edgerton took
dinner at w A de Lancey's last Friday.
Mabelle Slagg is spending the week
with Mrs George Sherwood on Albion
Prairie.
Mae Painter is spending the week
at the home of her brother IN James
vile.
Roy Sweat and family of Rockford
are spending a few days at the home OF
his uncle, Chas Saunders.
&c Main and wife left Thursday for
week visit with their daughter, Mrs
Dayton Hubbard, in Walworth.
IA Head and wife of Beloit visited
friends and relatives here last week,
returning to their home Saturday.
MF Painter, wife and daughter Zoe
of Edgerton were Sunday visitors at
the home of Albert Painter.
PC Kaisee returned from the Madi-
son hospital Saturday, where he has
taken treatment for kidney troubles.
The Albion local A S of E will meet
in the Albion blacksmith shop Monday
evening, Feb 1st. A good attendance
is desired.
Hugh Whitford expects to move his
household goods to Milton Junction,
where he will work Mr. Mitchell's farm
the coming season.
Among those who attended quarterly
meeting at Milton last week were Mrs
T j Van Horn, G Walters, Mrs Max
son and Nellie Babcock.
The annual meeting of the Albion
Cemetery association will be held at the
town hall, Feb 14th. Everyone inter-
ested is requested to be present.
The Campus Club met Jan 21st with
Mrs @ Emery. The topic for the af-
ternoon was 1.-TWO Unique Americans,
Helen Kellar and Mark Twain" Mrs
M A Head came up from Beloit to take
charge of the program for the after
noon. After a brief account of the
early work of teaching the blind by Mrs
Head, the following program was given:
The Main Facts in Helen Kellar's Life. as Told
by Herself ...-. Mrs. Jessie ,Bllven
A Letter from Helen Kellar to Mark Twain
Observation-Disclosures Mrs. Winnie Painter
Music. ...............,. Mrs. Belle Head
A Short Sketch of Mark Twain. .......
Observation-Disclosures. Mrs. j. @ Emery
Batting a Guide from Innocence Abroad.
...l............ 1890. Mrs. Ida Atwood
How the Author Was Sold at Newark" from
Sketches by Mark Twain. Mrs. Mamie Crosley
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Great Music Offer.

Send us the names of three or more
performers on the piano or organ and
twenty five cents in silver or postage and
we will mail you postpaid our latest
Popular Music Roll containing 90 pages
full sheet music, consisting of popular
songs, marches and waltzes arranged for
the piano or organ, including Rud.
Knauer's famous Flight Of the Butter
flies" March Manila" and the latest
popular song, 1.-The Girl I've Seen" -
Popular Music Publishing Co., Indian
apolis. Ind. ltf
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Albion Prairie

S Tall is numbered with the sick.
A number of children are suffering
with colds.
Mrs Jens Nasset spent portion of
last week with Mrs P M Ellingson at
Edgerton.
Mr. and Mrs Geo Dickinson attended
the society at Mrs Wilmer Slagg's last
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs Amos Bunting were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs j S Marsden on
Sunday.
The Ladies Aid Society of the P M
church will meet this week with Mrs
Ezra Bussey.
Miss Mae Marsden and Mr. Geo Hall
have been chosen to represent the p M
church at the Home Missionary conven-
ton at GAINESVILLE this week.
The P M Sunday school invites the
public to attend a social at the P M
church Friday evening, Feb 9Th. Light
refreshments will be served for ten
cents;' proceeds for purchasing library
books.
At the annual meeting of the Hillside
Cooperative Creamery Co the directors
were all reelected. Pres, Eric Smith
back; Vice Pres, Sam Hall; Secy, Sern
Anderson; Treas, Wilmer Slagg; Mgr,
Lars Kravick; Director, Martin Lindas.
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Natural to Seek to please.

We all are conscious of the feeling
that we want to please and that we
want to make ourselves presentable.
This ambition leads to a cultivation of
taste and elegance which are wonder
fully stimulating, inspiring and splen-
did There is nothing absurd about
desires to be attractive. They are
quite natural and really uplifting.
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First publication Jan. 8, 1909. ]
notice nj Hearing.
STATE OF WISCONSIN.

CTATE OF WISCONSIN,
-. County Court for Rock County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at a 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
Tuesday being the I'd day of February, 1909,
at 9 o'clock a. m, the following matter will
be heard and considered:
The application of Minerva Bliven for the
adjustment and allowance of her account as
executrix of the estate of Milo Bliven, late of
the town of Fulton. in said county, deceased;
and for the assignment of the residue of said
estate to such other persons as are by law and
the last will and testament of deceased entitled
thereto.
Dated Jan. g. 1902
By the Court.
j. w. SALE, County Judge.
J. p. TowNE, Attorney for said Executrix.
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For Sale.

LA acre farm IL miles south of Louis
vile, KY, ] mile to Illinois Central sta
ton; electric building past this prop
erty; fine soil, fair buildings, all kinds
fruit, natural gas; well located for veg
etable, poultry or general farming;
produced finest tobacco grown IN this
vicinity. Price $50 per acre; might ex-
change for something near.
5w5 w. F. SELL, Sycamore, Ill.
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Impossible to be We'll
It is impossible TO be WE'LL simply impossible, if the
bowels constipated You must pay attention to the
laws of nature, suffer the consequences Undgesed
material waste products poisonous substances must be
removed from the body at least each day. or there
will be trouble. sluggish liver is responsible for an
immense amount Of suffering and serious disease Ask
your doctor about Ayers Pills He knows why they act
directly on the liver Trust him 1yr Lowell Moss
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Cambridge

Andrew Stokker. former resident
of this community but now located on
a farm Of his own near Barron, was
here calling on old friends last Satur
day and Sunday.
j Vetterlein of Philadelphia is here
this week looking after his tobacco
warehouse. During his stay he is being
entertained at the home of O II Han
son.
All Porter, who is working for the
American Crayon Co of Chicago, spent
Sunday and Monday visiting at the
ner's family in Oakland.
DR. G E Bilstad gave his wife and
children happy surprise last, Monday.
During their absence from home, and
unbeknown to them, he had E j Amund-
son install a handsome Story q Clark
piano in their home.
In the annual report of School Supt
Sylvanus Ames we find this paragraph:
lone school, the primary department
of the Cambridge schools, enrolled u
different pupils during the, year This
is the largest department enrolment of
any school IN the county.
According to an article in the Mil
waukee Sentinel of Tuesday morning,
the Lake Mills high school has been
suspended from the Wisconsin Inter
scholastic Athletic association for a
period of one year for playing ineligible
students against Jefferson high school
in foot ball game last fall.
GAINESVILLE
Probably as bold a robbery as was
ever committed in the city occurred on
West Milwaukee street last evening
betwee six and seven o'clock while
hundreds of people were on the streets
and many passing within five feet of
the scene of the crime. The Office of
the Birmingham & Hixon Lumber COM
pany was entered by breaking in rear
door and the whole office ransacked.
The cash drawer was broken from its
mornings, the drawers of the desks
pulled out and gone through and the
entire place turned upside down. For
their consummate nerve the robber, or
robbers secured but a paltry sum and
an umbrella. The money was in the
form of postage stamps, amounting to
between three and four dollars, and
had been lert in the cash drawer.
AS the drowning of Miss Malone fol-
lowed the disappearance of Madelyn
Odell Clayton a year ago, SO has the
disappearance OF the aged Thomas Nc
Laughlin followed the murder of Mich
ael Cronin. Those two cases of last
winter weee similar and there is much
of similarity in the two mysteries of
the past week. Thomas Mclaughlin,
like Michael Crorlin, was aged and re-
puted to have money. He lived alone
with his wife on St Mary IS avenue. The
mystery in his case is his present where
abouts and what was his end if not
still alive. Mr. Mclaughlin left his
home Friday morning with the inten-
ton of paying his taxes and doing some
shopping. He paid his debt to the city
and then had some money IN bills left.
He failed to return home to dinner and
during the afternoon was seen at sew
eral saloons. He was blind in one eye
and his sight in the other was impair
ed. He felt his way past the Park
hotel and then was swallowed up as far
as the officials know.
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Daily Tho,,nht.

Without friendship this life is but
misery, and it is SO difficult to find
true friend that the search is almost
needless; but if you ever do it ought
to be cherished as an exotic plant
Nelson
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Fort Atkinson.

1t is reported that party OS young
prople came very near drowning down
the river the other evening while ice
boating. 1t appears that carp fisher
men had left holes in the ice and the
iceboat dumped the party into one of
these holes, while going at fast clip.
No blame attaches to the carp fisher
men as they now own the river and lake
both winter and summer.
At meeting of the city council, last
Tuesday evening, an ordinance giving
the Fort Atkinson Gas company a 7ull
franchise was introduced and passed to
it's first reading. tits believed that the
measure will go through without any
friction, as the investigating committee
reported in favor of the matter, after
visiting several plants in nearby cities.
AS soon as the franchise is given them,
the company will start work and rush
the same to completion.
The first hydraulic elevator to be
erected in this city will be installed
shortly at the w D Hoard Co plant.
The capacity will be 5000 pounds up,
with no limit on the weight to go down.
A nine-inch cylinder will extend below
the cellar bottom. In this cylinder the
supporting piston will travel. When
the water is turned on the piston will
shove up the platform, carrying the
weight at speed, if desired, of 200
feet per minute, stopping automatically
at the top. On the descent of the pis-
ton the water is let out as rapidly as
desired, the stop at the bottom being
automatic. Ordinarily, the cost of a
hydraulic elevator is three times that
Of an electric installation on account of
the fact that the piston or pfunger must
descend into the bowels of the earth
Just as far as it is desired to have the
platform ascend above the earth. For
building 200 feet high well would
have to be dug about 200 feet below the
surface for the piston cylinder.
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J. P. TowNE, Attorney for said Executrix.
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Andrew Stokker, former resident
of this community but now located on
farm of his own near Barron, was
here calling on old friends last Satur
dav and Sunday.
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ALLEGED TAMPER|NG
WITH JURY LISTS
=, $50 - - :, :.
Warrants Issued for Arrest o.
Several ChIcagoans.

Chicago, Sept. 2L-Bench warrants
were issued by Judge Jesse A. Bald.
win OF the circuit court for John J..
Holland, member and secretary of the
Cook county jury commission; Mich
olas A. Martin, secretary to Alderman
Kenna Of the First ward, and Willis
j. Rayburn, a real estate man. The
charge against the three is that they
conspired to draw names of grand
Jurors in manner other than that
required by law.
Coming at the height of the trial OF
Inspector Mccain for alleged grating
the news of this action, based on al
legged tampering with the jury lists,
caused great excitement in legal and
political circles. The complaints on
which the warrants were issued we're
drawn UP by. special agent of the
states attorney who has been investi-
eating the jury drawing methods for
weeks.
When the warrants were issued
subpoenas were also sent out from
the court for the production of all
records, documents and papers Of the
Jury commission, which will be in
spected in search of evidence against
the accused men.
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candidate for the senate. His op.
ponent was Professor G. J. Carlson OF
Augustus Adolphus college, man OF
fine standing and culture. Johnson
was elected by 125 majority. He soon
came to be recognized rs q prominent
member of the senate and took an
active part both in the debates and In
the work of that body. At it's ses.
sions he won special recognition, first,
as the leader in the contest against
the creation Of a state board Of con.
troll. which he believed to be adverse
to the interests of the state institu.
tions themselves and of St. Peter,
where a hospital for the insane Is 10.
Gated; and, second, for his advocacy
of an increase in the gross earnings
tax on railroads. Although member
of the minority party Johnson was
perhaps the senate's most popular
member and, except where purely
party measures were concerned, one
of the most influential in shaping leg.
islation ~. a.
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Presidential Possibility.

4 Johnson's' phenomenal success as a
vote getter, coupled with the record
he had made as an administrator,
early attracted national attention to
him as a possible candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the presi-
dency and, although In 1908 an I'M
successful movement had been inau-
guratod with that end in view, he was
at the time of his death regarded by
many as the party's probable choice
In 1912 -
! During his incumbency Of Office
many calls have been made on the,
governor to deliver public addresses
outside the state. The most note
worthy of these were the address de-
Nvered at the dedication of Mime.
sofa memorials in the Yicksburg Ma,
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GOV. JOHNSON EXPIRED
THIS MORNING AT 1926.
Continued from Page IL

ernor of the state of Minnesota, was
horn at st. Peter July %. 1881. His
parentage was humble. Both his
father and mother were Swedish I'm
migrants. His father was the village
blacksmith. His mother, whose maiden
name was Caroline Haden, was an
orphan girl who had come to what
was then the American frontier with
friends. Owing to unfortunate habits
contracted before he came to this
country by the husband the support
Of the family and the up bringing Of
the four children born to them ulti.
mately devolved upon the wife. Hap
PLY she was woman both of strong
physique and sterling character and
met the situation with courage and
fortitude To keep the family together
and provide for their support she took
in washing. The Influences she DIFF
fused through the humble home were
of the best and the children, to whom
the mother was devoted, were trained
to habits Of virtue and industry. =
In those days educational advan.
tages were few, even for those who
had ample time and opportunity to
make use of them. John A. johnson
had neither the time nor the oppor-
tunjty. He early, and from the char
acter Of the man we can well believe
gladly, took it upon himself to help
his mother in providing for the ma
terial needs of the family. Indeed,
there are those in st. Peter who re-
member seeing young John while still
at school helping his mother by carry
ing in his little wagon the laundry
she had washed to her patrons. As
soon as he was of age to undertake It,
therefore, regular employment was
found for him. For two years he
worked in a grocery store. Then his
desire for advancement led him to
seek more congenial and more lucra-
tive work. He wanted not only to
earn; he wanted to learn. An open
ing in a drug store furnished the op-
portunity to acquire q knowledge Of
pharmacy, which he readily embraced
with such success that it's proprietor,
Henry Jones, to this day often recalls
with pardonable pride the faithful
services of the active and intelligent
boy who was later the governor of the
state. In this employment johnson
remained for the next ten years.
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tional Military park May q. 1907;
the commencement address at the
University of Pennsylvania, on which
occasion the degree Of doctor Of laws
was conferred upon him, and the ad.
dress delivered this summer at the
Seattle exposition. The governor has
also delivered frequent lectures before
Chautauqua gatherings.
Governor Johnson was married at
st. Peter June 1, 1894, to Miss Elenore
M. Preston, who was born in Wiscon.
sin and who previous to her marriage
was teacher of music and drawing at
the parochial school of st. Peter. OF
their union there is no issue.
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Nominated for Governor.

In 1902 he was nominated by his
party for the same position, but SUI.
fered defeat at the hands of another
Swede whose surname was the same
as his own. The state Republican. pri.
mary campaign which followed was
the most bitterly contested in the his.
tory of the state. The Republicans
were divided into two opposing camps
one favoring Robert G. Dunn of
Princeton, the other Judge Loren Col
Inns of St. Cloud, and although Dunn
received the unanimous nomination OF
the convention the contest had left
wounds which were still raw and
which there was no hope Of healing.
It was under such circumstances
markedly favorable to him that John
A. Johnson was first nominated fol-
governor of Minnesota.
At this time John A. johnson was
practically unknown to the vast ma.
jority of the people of the state. He
was not to remain unknown long. On
Aug. 80, 1904, he was nominated by
reclamation as the Democratic candi.
date for the Office of chief executive.
No person expected he would win. He
could not himself have had much
hope. Nevertheless at his party's call
he at once entered upon a vigorous
campaign. It soon became apparent
that the same qualities which had
made him q social and political leader
In st. Peter and Nicollet county were
attracting to him dissatisfied Repub-
licans in all parts of the state. While
not in the fullest sense an orator he
had as few men have the orators hap
piest faculty of getting into touch with
his audiences. His were heart to
heart talks with the people about
matters with which they were famil.
far, in Ian! uage they understood, to
which was added that undefnable
something which we are accustomed
to call magnetism. The mistakes of
his opponent and the execrable man
agement of his campaign added to his
prospects. The Collins supporters
simply would not vote for Dunn. The
result was a victory for Johnson, not
specially surprising under any cir
oumstances, but nevertheless of ex-
traordinary magnitude. While Roose-
welt carried the state by 161,474 plu-
rality and the whole of the rest Of
the Republican ticket was elected by
overwhelming majorities Dunn re-
ceived only 140,130 to Johnson's 49,
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Joins the State Militia,

Other local honors came to Johnson
in those early days and responsibility
was thrust upon him. His tastes fof
the national guard. His fine presence
and soldierly bearing marked him as
the fttest man to be it's captain. He
was elected secretary Of the Nicollet
County Fair association and managed
it's affairs with intelligence and vigor.
He was prominent in lodge work as a
member of the Elks' and Woodmen
orders. It devolved upon him to de-
wise lecture courses and provide for
other forms of entertainment. In 1891
he was elected secretary of the State
Editorial association and in 1893 be.
came its president. -
AS the editor of the local Demo
cratic paper it was inevitable that
Johnson should become prominent in
local political affairs. He thoroughly
believed in the tenets of his party
and when Grover Cleveland issued his
clarion call to the tariff reformers of
the nation he found no more ardent
disciple than this popular country
editor. With pen and with voice he
threw himself enthusiastically into
the campaig; of that great Democratic
leader. 1t was soon seen that he had
in him the stuff Of which leaders were
made and when In 1888 candidate
was wanted to lead the forlorn hope
against Charles R. Davis, now con
gresham but then an Influential mem
Der Of the local bar and a popular
candidate for the house of representa-
tives from a district overwhelmingly
Republican, John A. Johnson was Sc
lected as the man. In this, his first
campaign, he was defeated, but by
the narrow majority of 1875 votes.
In 1898 the next favorable oppor.
tunity presented itself to test his po.
Ntical fortunes. This time he was a
r + r.
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Uccup pies Marble Cap|1oI.

John A. Johnson was the first GOV
ernor to officiate at the new marble
capitol. He entered it at a fortunate
time and under happy auspices. It
was at the inception Of reform move
ment general throughout the country.
He had made no entangling alliances.
His party was identified With no pol
. icy of state and responsible for no
mistakes Of administration. He was
free to map out his own course. He
had at his disposal much executive
patronage and the opportunity to Or
ganize many departments so as to
make an official family in large part
homogeneous and in sympathy with
his executive designs. TO him was
given the task of outlining in his mes
sage to the legislature the measures
he deemed desirable and in the public
interest and thus placing upon the
legislature the responsibility for the
reforms the people demanded.
He acquitted himself OF his task
with honor and it was inevitable that
Governor Johnson's administration
should be popular. It was made pop
ular by his personality. He coupled
dignity, decision and strength Of char
acter with charm of manner and pleas
ing address. No one could get in
touch with him without liking the
man. Add to this tact, diplomacy, an
ardent loyalty to the state Of his birth
and transparent devotion to its IN
terest and the welfare Of the people
whose public affairs it was his duty to
manage and one finds the causes
which have given the Johnson admin.
jstration the hold It has on the pub
lie mind and made it unquestionably
the most popular with the masses OF
the people the state has ever had.
: In the Democratic convention Of
1906 Governor Johnson again received
the unanimous nomination Of his
party. His opponent was A. L. Cole
Of Cass county. In the election Gov
ernor- Johnson won a sweeping VIC
tory. carrying almost every county In
the state and receiving 1eS,4S0 votes
to Coles s6,162. He was renominated
a. second time in 1908 against J. F.
Jacobson, whom many believed to be
the strongest Republican in the state.
But although this campo sn took place
like the governors first, In a presi-
Dental year, johnson again carried
the state, receiving 1876 votes to
Jaeobson's 146,997.