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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-03

enjoyed trace from DIS LA Soulil 40 i-SS
and Van Buren, counties and even
northern Missouri, as far north as
Parnell and williamsburg east as far
as Washington, and west as far as
Charlton We haven't had day that
we could call dull one during the past
year. We have learned that the out IF
town business is worth looking for and
that it is ever on the increase"
George Haw. Jr., of the ottumWa
business in our history. People have
had money. bought freely and paid
cash for their purchase. The out of
town business has been the best in tn"
history Of our store, especially during
the holiday season. The most notable
thing is that the people have had
money and paid for their things i'll
cash. The business has been steady
throughout the year The prices Of
hardware and other supplies was iii
the line of reduction. The people Gid
their Christmas shopping early, COM
nencing in the fall months and con-
tinuing up to Christmas"
Mrs. Tiny Sullivan Of Sullivan-M Nor
rissey:-"Our business has been in
creasing right along. We cater to
ladies' and children in ready to wear
apparel and our business is far ahead
the past year over 1909. l attribute
the large Increase in business in other
lines as we'll as in our own to better
merchandise and that Ottumwa is
shopping city. TIL. holiday business
was very good. Our business during
the holiday season showed large in
crease o-er that OF 1909. The people
shopped early and steady trade re-
suited up to Christmas time. Business
has been continuous through the year
and there has been no dull days al
though we have enjoyed larger business
on some days than others. have no.
ticed new customers every year and
that they are coming from farther
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Doubtful Wisdom of Binder Plant Law

The Society of Equity, which claims
the credit for the passage of the law
establishing binder plant at the state
prison, now begins to doubt the wisdom
of the movement, we judge from the
late issue of the Equity News, the or
gan of the society, for it says: '1t has
been our fight and we have won.
1t makes no difference whether it is
good business proposition whether it
will pay the state or whether it will be
a total loss to the state, we hold it is
the duty of our representatives to en-
act the Legislation asked for and let the
burden of responsibility then rest upon
the peple making the demand. 1t may
be true that conditions have so changed
that the manufacture of binder Irvine
is not dead sure proposition as it
was when the subject was first intro
duced, and if this be true it may be a
better investment for Wisconsin to
hold it's plant as club and let those in
operation supply our needs as long as
they will do so at an equitable price,
than to actually manufacture Irvine.
This is strictly farmers proposition,
demanded from the legislature, secured
against powerful opposition as we'll as
against the better judgment of many
legislators, who have made more or less
close study of the question in all it's
phases and who recognized the changed
conditions since the matter was first
introduced. If for any reason it should
not be success then the farmers and
the Equity organization would suffer
and their future demands met with an
unanswerable argument of disloyalty
and failure of their first enterprise and
it will be difficult if not impossible to
create sufficient public sentiment to
ever again influence legislation in their
behalf"
What a free and frank confession
The child is already tired of it's toy.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Milton Man Missing.

Rollin Smith, well known young
farmer living near Milton Junction, has
disappeared and his wife is in serious
condition from worry. Some time ago
Smith was found guilty of having shot
George Palmer, a neighboring young
farmer, who was one of party which
was ''horning" Smith and his wife the
night following their wedding about
eighteen months ago. The bullet, one
of number fired, entered Palmer's
knee. The matter is believed to have
unbalanced Smiths mind.
He has been missing since Tuesday
and no further information can be
CLEANED as to what has befallen the
man. The sheriff and his assistants,
aided by Atty. Chas. Pierce and rela-
tives of Smith, have done everything
in their power to locate him with prac-
tically no results. Descriptions of the
man have been sent to nearby cities IN
an effort to find him and relatives and
friends whom he might go to see have
been notified of Smiths disappearance
by wire or letter and asked to wire i'm
mediately in case he shows up.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
The New Game Laws Passed.

Sportsmen will be interested in the
new game regulation bill passed by the
legislature. AS the bill now stands,
non-residents may not take game birds
out of the state except as open hand
luggage and the number of birds he
may take is reduced to twenty-five. A
clause was added to prevent any person
while hunting to skin, pluck or other
wise mutilate game so that its identity
may not easily be observable. The
number of ducks, geese and similar
water birds that may be shot is reduced
to twenty-five that may be had in pos
session at any one time. The number
of deer that may be shot was fixed at
two and the provision to prevent killing
of does was stricken out. The deer
season was fixed from October 18th to
November Both instead of November 10
to the Both, but the licenses issued are
good only for twenty-five days from
issuance. The season for shooting
ducks, snipe, plover and woodcock is
fixed at from September 18th to Nov
ember goth. Game wardens are also
constituted fire wardens.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21

THE general comment of the press is
that Senator LaFollette has not
strengthened his candidacy for presi-
dent in the bitter and malicious attack
upon Pres. Taft in his recent speech
upon the reciprocity bill Such jour
mails as the Record-Herald take strong
exceptions to it, while the State Jour-
nal says it is truly characteristic of the
man and continues: ''LaFollette is at
his best as a public speaker when he is
denouncing somebody. One will look
in vain through his list of public
speeches, whether made in a campaign
for office, while in office, or on the
chautauqua platform, for clear, can
did affirmative presentation of the prin-
ciples he is contending for, free from
denunciation of some one whom he
thinks is opposing him. He long ago
assumed Electrically the role-and it
must be conceded that he has success
fully played it before an increasing
audience-of the little champion with
his back to the wall hewing down the
enemies of the people. 1t matters not
that those he is cutting down with his
broadsword may themselves be defend
ing the wall; he must hew someone. }"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Flies Fear Electric Fan.

Practically the only thing. fly (or
mosquito) is afraid of is an electric fan.
Why this little pest should fear the
whirling fan is mystery. Perhaps it
does not like the sullen hum of the mo-
tor, or is afraid of being sucked into
the whirling blades, or finds the stiff
breeze uncomfortable An electric fan
will keep flies off from windows, show
cases, candy and food stuff exposed for
sale, or from vegetables, if allowed to
play over the place or wares to be pro-
tected. More than one merchant has
found the electric fan invaluable to
keep flies out of the store. By placing
a fan near the main entrance, so that
the air current flows towards the door
way, very few flies will enter. Flies
take little comfort in room where an
electric fan is in operation. Aside from
keeping the rooms cool and sweet the
electric fan is very valuable to drive
away flies. This deadliest of household
pests lives in stagnant air, hot and
stuffy rooms and is not found at all
where the air is pure, clean and vigor
ously stirring.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21

THE Wisconsin income tax provides
that all salaries shall be included in the
income except those that are received
from holding public office. That's nice,
isn't it? The man who moils and plods
for his money must hand over, but the
fellow who gets fat salary as an office
holder goes free. What blessing to
everybody that La Toilette legislation
has been. They have had to repeal one
of the laws they passed and the gov
ernor signed. 1t is such smart thing,
you know, to chase the La Toilette idea
and make radical laws. Well, we know
of a good many radicals that will have
to put up their good money to pay for
the fun of running state on the radi-
cal plan. That is some comfort. Fort
Atkinson Union.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Queer Acts of Dunkirk Farmer.

Con Murray, who resides on a ECO
acre farm west of town with maiden
sister as housekeeper, has long been a
puzzle to his neighbors and problem
with his relatives. Outsiders did not
care to interfere, but matters came to
an issue this week when drove of
Murray's cattle were given no water
to drink. Chairman Otto M. Olson
took matters in hand at the request of
a brother of Murray, recently arrived
here from South Dakota, and a
commission in lunacy will be appointed
by Judge Zimmerman to make an in
vestigation. When the brother arrived
he was attended by Mr.. Olson and they
began a search of the premises, at last
finding Con Murray seated in the cellar
outside entrance, making butter. The
he might escape observation. When
discovered he rushed upstairs, locking
himself in room. Around the cellar
carefully and neatly prepared for the
market, which Con was afraid to de-
liver. The Murrays KAYE lived in Dun
kirk since the early days when the
father settled on the land. Other sons
have gone elsewhere and only Con re-
manned or the homestead. The land
was allowed to grow up in weeds the
past year and to greater and worse
extent this year, so that no crops will
be harvested or fodder obtained for the
stock. The soil is good, the land level
and the farm would sell for more than
$1OO an acre. The windmill went into
disrepair and no water was given the
stock.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
CHANGE THE RATES.
REIMBURSEMENT to be Made at Meeting
in Chicago.

The Modern Woodmen of America,
the largest of the fraternal organiza-
tons, has called special meeting Of
it's head camp, to be held in Chicago
the latter part of next January, to con-
slider the readjustment OF rates to COM
ply with the new uniform fraternal in
surance law. This is already law in
ten of the states in which the Modern
Wondmen are operating, and it would
require an increase in rates within
three years in those states to comply
with it's conditions.
AS serious legal complications would
follow unless the application of the
new rates were made uniform, the gen.
eral change was regarded as inevitable.
The Modern WOodmen now have over a
million members, with the largest
membership in Illinois and adjacent
states, so that the proposed changes
are of great Importance to the frater-
nal system.
With the assessment levied for this
month the plan for the present will be
to pay one assessment each month, or
twelve each year, while ten has been
the largest number levied any one year
in the past, it is declared. The one as
sessment month affects every order
organized on the assessment plan, so
the Woodnen will be only doing what
other like orders are compelled to do.
The reason for this change in assess
ments is due to the Mobile law, which
demands that all insurance lodges must
show an increase in membership and
funds every three years, and then must
be examined by board Of examiners.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21

THE state has been gerrymandered
by the legislature to make it possible
for few republican pinheads to go to
congress, and there is dissatisfaction
throughout the state in the ranks of
the republicans, to say nothing about
our democratic friends who have been
buncoed During the session laws have
been enacted to perplex and annoy the
voter. Our democratic friends should
be cheerful, for to them is largely due
the prevailing political conditions in
the state. Had they been loyal to their
party the past few years, that which
they now condemn would not have ma
terialized. Watertown Leader.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Gollmar Brothers Circus Coming With
Many Novelties.

The shake-up to your nerves, the rag
time beat of your heart, the fear that
some one will be hurt with the accom-
panying apprehension that they may
not, all of these are the delights of the
Gollmar Brothers circus coming here
July Is.
Credit must be given to the profess
SIGNALS who shake dice for their lives
with fortune at every performance.
The Gollmar Brothers circus is high
hygiene. 1t is true American circus
for American kids from ''six" to
"sixty." One of the big acts is the
original Moro Family. What this Won
derful family does looks easy. Sup
pose you try it, and newspapers will
write story about it with diagram
showing the place where your body
struck.
Another of the best-ever acts is the
leaping contest. Fifty leapers take
part. Charles LaRue, the champion,
does double somersault over ele-
plants, camels and horsee. Marie
Marvello riding Rudleys and many 9th
er big acts are presented in many new
riding stunts.
You will see the Ben Hur herd of
stations and the Black hussar horses
perform. They prove what perfect
world this would be if all men had as
much intelligence as horses. You will
see elephants waltz, teeter, play hide
and-seek, and go to bed like people.
You will see dog shows, mule shows
and countless clowns. The Gollmar
Brothers is great show, presenting
magnificent good old barbarous sport
that makes YOU happy in feeling that
civilization has not eliminated all the
traits your grand-dads of the stone age
left you as message.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Gasoline Wagons Pay More License.

Automobile owners will be required
to place numbers on their machines
both in the front and rear, under the
provisions of the new state law. Not
only are two numbers required on each
machine, but the license fee is increas-
ed and owners will be required to pay
a tax every year. Under the new law,
which goes into effect next December,
all machines of 20-horsepower or under
will be taxed SIS per year, while those
of greater power will be assessed rs
cents for each additional horsepower.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Auto For Sale.

A used five-passenger touring car, in
tachabie tonneau, and easily converted
into a milk or market wagon-just the
thing for farmers use-can be bought
for very moderate price. For partic-
ulars call on
FRED CARRIER,
34tf Edgerton, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21

THERE may be this virtue in the in
come tax law-it may make some men
pay taxes who now go scot free. But,
then, if they lie about their assess
ment, what is to hinder them playing
the same dodge when it comes to the
income? One thing is certain, it will
catch the man who works for salary
providing the salary is large enough.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Notice of Special Meeting of tht
Stockholders of the Edgerton
:, Wagon COrlDany.

By direction of the directors of the
Edgerton Wagon Co. at meeting by
them duly held, / hereby give notice to
all stockholders of the Edgerton Wagon
Company that special stockholders
meeting of the said Company will be
held at the Council Chamber of the
Common Council of the city of Edger-
ton, July oath, 1911, at 7:3O p. m. for
the purpose of considering the question
of issuing and placing on sale bonds of
said company to the amount of $25, 900.
w. w. HUXTABLE,
Sec. of Edgerton Wagon Co.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21

For SALE. = Eleven acre farm, 21s
miles north of Stoughton, near Lake
Kegonsa Station. Best of land well
improved. Apply to Mrs. John Cook,
Stoughton, Wis. 33t2
The best tea and coffee in town at
Conn's.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Italians Are Robbed.

Three hundred Italian laborers on the
Chicago and North Western railway at
South GAINESVILLE were held up and
robbed of their monthly wages and jew
elry Wednesday night by four men. The
thieves got more than $4,000, as the
laborers were paid off on July Is and
had the biggest part of their wages in
their pockets.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Band Concert Program.
Saturday Evening, July p.

Z Steamboat Bill March.
Little Coquette-Caprice
The Same Thing Over Again Waltz
nbachiana-Oyerture.
KiSSeS-Novelette.
Roses ValSe LentO.
Stems Popular Medley.
Georgia Rag.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21

Sunday 1890 a. M, ''The Instantan-
eous Change
$50 p. m. Epworth League.
7:30 p. m. union service at the Con-
gregational church.
Prayer meeting Thursday 7:45 p. m.
Ladies Aid will serve supper We'd
nesday, the 18th, from to Z.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Sweet. iuicy oranges at Conn's.

Two good tents for rent or sale. =
j. Cunningham, phone 212 red. :3t2
Not an article or piece of goods in
our store that is not reduced in price
during our clearing sale. T. P. Burns,
GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
Common Council Proceedings.
EDCERTON. WIS. july 10. 1911,

EDGERTON, WIS.,, July 10, I5II.
Regular meeting of the common
council, Mayor Conway presiding. Fol-
lowing aldermen responded to roll call:
Jensen, Birkenmeyer, Cleary, Dali
man, Skinner.
Minutes of previous meeting read
and approved.
Financial report from Treasurer
Dickinson for month of June, showing
balance in treasury June 80 $11, 159. IA,
read and accepted and ordered filed.
Following bills audited by finance
committee were read and allowed, all
voting ave on roll call.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21

THE La Crosse Leader says: A little
bit of ''Big Business" does not seem
to have been obnoxious to our good
president of the university.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21
congregational Church Briefs.

The last week of July and the first
two weeks of August are vacation
weeks. Sunday, July 23rd, Rev. Mr..
Schoenfeld will preach both morning
and evening and is DESTROYS of seeing
all of the friends of the church at these
services. The prudential committee
has in mind that at least one other va
cation Sunday be supplied and further
announcement will be made later. The
pastor will return August 18th or 18th
and will be in time for the last two
Sundays in August and possibly for
August 18th.
Union services at our church Sunday
evening, Rev. Shoenfeld preaching.
Next Tuesdaysthe Missionary society
will meet at Lake Koshkonong at the
Hopkins cottage All are cordially in
vited. A picnic dinner is the order.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21

AGENTS Either sex, to distribute
free packages Perfumed Soap Powder.
Good pay. All or spare time. No money
required. Dept. l, 1922 Lincoln Ave-,
Chicago, Ill.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-07-21

voting aye on roll call:
A. Rusch, street work ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 37 40
Bartz Bros cement walks and curbs A 90
Bernt Harralson cement work .... 90
EdgertOn. Elec. Lit. Co., June lights. -. 152 90
Jersey Mfg Co., meterss ................ 1886 10
James Reynolds, June salary. .......... IS GO
John Nagle, June salary ............... IS 90
Illinois Third Vein Coal Co, coal. 81 so
Coal Co. coal ....................... 70 90
o. r. Barnes draying Observation-Disclosures. l 30
First National Bank, Int. on Water Elk.
bonds OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 100 w
Baldwin Bros fire alarm system. .. 1873 90
Andrew Berry, box for alarm tower. 90
c. H BabcOcl1 money paid for installing
fire alarm system. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 60
M. Broderick. install fire alarm system 90
w. p. Cutlery, board for M. BrOderick.. 4 %
j., ID. Hahn Est, labor and supplies for
Edg dee stal Machine Works, repair on %
alarm system. 5O
Upon application, permission was
given George Harrison to extend his
bar August 9th, picnic day.
License was granted Fred Schrub to
keep two pool tables in his place on
Swift street.
Application for saloon license from
F. j. Hartzheim was read.
Aid. Jensen offered the following
resolution and moved its passage:
Resolved by the Mayor and Common Council
of the City of EdgertOn. That saloon license be
granted to F. J. Hartzheim for the license
year ending June 80. 1912, in his building on
Henry street.
Motion seconded.
Roll call: Ayes = Jensen, Cleary,
Dallman, Skinner. No-Birkenmeyer
Aid. Skinner moved that when coun-
Gil adjourn that adjournment be to Fri
day evening, July 21st, at Z o'clock.
Motion carried.
Bids for putting in water mains as
advertised were received from 5. f.
Madden, F. F. Burgy and ]. d. Hahn
Estate. Action on bids was deferred
until adjourned meeting.
Petition of John Bartz ct. al. for
sidewalk on West street and crosswalk
on Rollin street was read and referred
to street committee to report at next
regular meeting.
On motion of Aid Jensen the super
intendent of waterworks and assistant
were granted weeks vacation each
on full pay, the waterworks committee
to designate the time.
Aid. Cleary was excused from the
meeting.
Aid. Jensen presented the following
resolution and moved it's adoption:
Resolved by the Mayor and Common Council
of the City of Edgerton, That City Engineer
W. F. Mabbett be instructed to prepare plans
and specifications for the reSurfacing of Full
ton street between Main and Jail streets. with
the Bermuda Asphalt Penetration process:
also specifications for macadamiZiug Fulton
street between Main and Catlin.
Roll call on resolutions: Ayes-4.
On motion of AID Skinner, city en-
gineer was instructed to prepare plans
and specifications for street and side
walk grades on Fulton street between
Catlin and Broadway.
On motion council adjourned.
H. B. KNAPP, City Clerk.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-03-03
ALPENA PIGKUPS,

Steve Naples was a Berryville visitor kduring court there.
 w. H. Kirkpatrick was a Green For est visitor last Sunday.
 Miss Roma Bell was Harrison viS- itor Sunday and Monday.
 Bro. Vilines filled his regular ap- pointment here last Saturday night and Sunday.
 Miss May Winn, who has been at Harrison for some time, visited home folks Saturday and Sunday.
 E. G. Whitaker left Sunday morn ing for Texas to bring his wife mother, Mrs. Oakes, to Alpena to live.
 Wesley Leatherbury was called to Green Forest Sunday on account Of the death of his tather-in-laW Henry Cox.
 Relatives here recieved word last week of the arrival of a new boy at the home of MT. and Mrs. Will Porter at Row, Okla.
 Dr. Lewis McCuny and daughter Miss Allie, of Tahlequah, Okla, arrived Sunday for visit with relatives here. They went away Tuesday.
 Mrs. Steve Jones went down to Mar shall last week to welcome new grand son who arrived the 2lst at the home of Rev E. w. Faulkner and vile.
 Mrs. Pert Ferguson and son AlVah and Misses Mayme Smith and Minnie McCurly were down from school at Green Forest from Friday till Sunday
 Mrs. w. Nj. Bukett of Green Forest passed through Alpena Tuesday on her way home from Osage, where she had been to visit her mother, Mrs. Bishop, who has been quite sick.
 Mrs. Ave Thomson and children came home Tuesday night from Tahle- quah, where they had been for two weeks. They report her brother Ever cit Hays as still in very critical con dition.
 Pearl Boyd and his brother-ip-law came in last week from BartlesVille, Okla, for few days visit with rela- tives here. His sister Miss Halle Boyd returned home with him Sunday for an extended visit.
 Dr. McCurry reports four births on last Sunday, boy at George Cisco g, a boy at Will Cox's, and listen! twins, coy and girl, right in the heart of AIpena, at the home of MT. and Mrs. McCue. Our congratulations all around.