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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-11
New York.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 19

NEW Onh, Lee. y, 1914.
There was no let-up in the healthful
activity of our leaf market during the
week. The demand was still strenuous
for Wisconsin and Sumatra and many
big lots of the latter type were dis
posed of by importers who have provi-
IDENTIFY provided themselves with ample
stock. One importing house is re-
ported to have cleared off about 900
bales, feat equivalent to the Suma-
ira hay-day in 1890. Almost equally
strenuous seems to be the demand for
our shade-grown leaf, both Connecticut
and Florida Georgia. More than ever
do these types seem to find their way
to our cigar factories of all varieties.
the market was also cheerful with the
news Of the dampness in the Connec-
ticut tobacco fields which assures
sounder outcome of the crop. AS for
the Wisconsin the premature specula-
tive buying seems to have stopped,
leaving the disposal of the crop to take
its natural course which will mean more
figures for packers and
manufacturers A brisk movement in
the purchase of Remedies seems to
have set in in Cuba, an interesting re-
port of which is given in our HaS ana
letter. In our local market the Ha-
vana trading remains steady. journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-11
SToUGHToN. Wis. Dec. 3. 1914.

John Holtan returned on Wednesday
from a few days business trip to the
northern tobacco sections. Mr.. Holtan
says that there was very little buying
there but the prices paid for satisfac-
tory crops were good, from IL to 13
cents, while as high as II cents was
paid for exceptionally good crops.
There was considerable riding done,
says Mr.. Holtan, but, as in this local
ity, few sales were reported In length
of leaf, most of this years. crop fails
to measure up to what tobacco men
like to use, and on this account buying
will for time be confined to the best
crops.
Farmers are somewhat busy these
days stripping tobacco and a number
of men who were idle in villages and
cities have been given employment.
While some believe that only about a
quarter of the 1914 crop has been re-
moved from the poles, Al Schroede said
that one-half may have been piled,
though it is difficult to ascertain the
exact amount,
Tobacco sales continue to be few and
far between in this vicinity. A local
buyer said that he had been riding for
several days and had seen very little
that could be used for binder. This
years crop he characterized as one of
the poorest raised here in good many
years. While IL and 123 cents was be-
ing paid for what was up to the buy
ers' requirements, he was Of the opin-
ion that the bulk of the crop wonld sell
at very low price. The following
sales were reported: A. W. Freund, Ga
at 123 and Sc; Otto Schantz, Ga at 122
and &c; Nels johnson, IA at II and Sc.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-11
ORFoRDVILLE, WIS, Dec. 3, 1914.

The past few days have been wei
coined by the tobacco farmers, and
the actual operations of stripping and
packing tobacco are we'll under way.
The indications are that most of the to-
bacco around here will be packed ready
for delivery Perhaps SO per cent Of il
has been sold, and it is just likely that
delivery and warehouse handling will
be started during the next ten days at
some of the packing centers. Mr.. O.
A. Peterson has bought a few Of the
choicest crops here and expects to pack
at the Campbell & Peterson warehouse.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-11
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES
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One of the peculiar features of the
tobacco buying movement is that so
far no stemming goods of any conse-
quence have been purchased. Usually
the hail cut and other damaged leaf is
first sold and often there is lively
competition on to secure the cheaper
grades. The buyers who generally
take over large quantities of this stock
say they are not interested and hence
nothing is doing in this line. Whether
it is because they do not need the goods
or whether they think they need not
be in any hurry to secure them, is a
question no one seems able to answer.
1t is well known that the manufacture
ers who consume the stemmed leaf are
not overcrowded with orders and that
they have considerable old stock on
hand. But with half or more Of the
Vernon county district hail cut to a
more or less extent, and with plenty of
short or broken wind whipped leaf to
come out of the crop in other sections,
there would apparently be no real rea-
son for any alarm over not being able
to secure such quantities of stripping
stock as they wish any time after the
binder portion of the crop has been
picked up. Already the price of old
stemming stock has declined about two
cents from that paid the last two years
so it is somewhat problematical just
what the cheaper grades of the new
crop will eventually bring. One thing
is certain, the 1914 Wisconsin will yield
an unusual quantity of them.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-11

The rush for internal revenue stamps
required under the new law was so
great as to swamp practically every
collectors office and in some places the
congestion and excitement approx
mated small riots. This was due to the
belief that if the stamps were not pro-
cured on December ! there would be
penalties imposed. The emergency tax
law is arousing feeling of intense
bitterness and opposition to that meth
cd of raising money to meet govern
ment needs. Many Of the treasury Of
ficials who have to handle questions
raised by the law are open in their
criticism. One official said: ''The
United States government may last
many centuries yet, and we may have
many congresses, but never again will
there be a congress that even under
the stress of actual war, will ever at
tempt to raise revenue by stamp
duties" He said this with much en-
phasis, and the remark was echoed by
others who heard it. He further said:
"a time may come when we shall need
money so badly that tax on wages of
the laboring people will be levied, but
never stamp tax Another official,
and one not given to talking on politi-
cal subjects, while discussing the an
noyance to the people occasioned by
having to affix stamps to so many of
the papers that enter into the daily
business of life, said: The people can
never be made to understand why an
emergency tax should be necessary in
times Of peace, and will hold that the
only excuse for it was TO furnish more
money for an extravagant congress to
waste, and the annoyance to which the
people will be put from now until the
law expires by limitation viii arouse
such feeling that nearly all OF those
who voted for it will be retired from
public life
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-11
VIRooUA. WIS. Dec. 2. 1914

Sunday night brought fog and rain
and gave a day and two nights of case
weather. Sheds were opened and at
the very first chance taking tobacco
from the poles commenced and has con-
tinued to this hour. Some completed
the work, others are partially through,
while stripping is now on.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-11
LODI, Wis. Dec. 8, 1914.

In this section the 1914 tobacco was
generally sound, fair size and shows
quality About Is per cent has been
contracted for at to IL and &c, the
general price being II and &c. Not
much stripping done to date.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-11

! Farmers have been very busy the
past few weeks with other crops than
tobacco. Having the tobacco crop in
the sheds and the curing process going
on interruptedly, says the American
Agriculturist, they have devoted their
energies to the corn crop, fall blowing,
and other more pressing tasks. In
Pennsylvania and Ohio this year the
feeling has been stronger than usual,
favoring the holding of the crop until
it was stripped and in bundles before
selling the crop. The pig in the bag"
way of selling tobacco is altogether
unsatisfactory is the consenses of opin-
ion in many tobacco districts. In Ohio
some thinner Spanish tobacco sold at
about 10 cents per pound prior to the
opening of the European war, but
since then very little buying is noted.
Growers are about ready to strip to-
bacco and are asking IL cents for Span
ish and 10 cents for Seed tobacco and
Dntch. There is yet much excellent
tobacco to be purchased in Ohio. Sales
IN pennsylvania nave Deen IeW anu Tar
between, but in the near future activ-
ity in this line should be more marked
because growers are now ready to take
the tobacco out of the sheds. A few
lots early in the season were sold on
the poles at IL and cents for Seed
Leaf. Havana has nearly all been
stripped and sold. at prices ranging
from IL to Is cents per pound. In
Massachusetts and Connecticut buying
Of tobacco is at a standstill, nearly all
the crop being sold early in the season.
Prices dropped somewhat after the
opening of the war, early sales being
best.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-12-11
Business Directory.
Wisconsin Tobacco Statistics.

Tobacco growing began in Wisconsin
30 years ago.
II counties now proc oiitnhacco.
~. 200 acres We're gro OCdC6 Hic
Average yield in W. Ills SO
50,O00,0O0 pounds.
Brings Wisconsin farmers annual in
come of So 100000.
S2O00,00O spent annually for handling,
storage and insurance
Edgerton has "a warehouses on insur-
ance map.
The sixth important agricultural in
dustTy in the state.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12
THOMAS LAwsoN's suggestion.

THOMAS LAWSON'S suggestions
L as to the proper manner of hand
ling the stock gambling Exchanges"
of the country, appear likely very
soon to receive the decisive attention
OF congress-, and there il a consequent
noticeable squirming of those who fat
ten, by the dishonest Operations" Of
those robber institutions. The gov
err of the New York stock exchange
sets up a lurid howl against the en-.
forced Incorporation OF that institu.
ton, declaring that lit would destroy
Americas primary market place"
Poppycock! It would compel the OK
change to do business strictly on the
square, nd by bringing it under
amenability of the Post Office Depart.
ment would make its present corrupt
methods too risky to indulge in. A
central stock market or exchange,
where stocks of the various corpora
tions of the world may be listed and
bought or sold, is a perfectly legiti-
mate, and indeed necessary, concern,
and If its purpose is to be right incor-
poration will be rather a benefit than
an injury to it.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

nUR readers r admonished to be
~ particular a. to the quality o t
the water they drink, because any old
kind of varmint may hatch and devel-
OPP and even propagate In the human
stomach. VIM. Boyle, of Kellogg,
Idaho, recently had q four-inch lizard
removed fr his stomach, after
1t had been In there and pestered him
with its squirmings and wrigglings for
a matter Of seven years; and it is sup
posed by the physician who assisted
in the removal act that Boyle had
some time, while taking . drink from
a water hole, swallowed q lizard egg,
and the reptile had Matched and al
most matursd in his stomach, and ap.
parently had enjoyed life IS we'll as
though it had come into existence i n
the usual way, and the only reason
that he was not carrying around .
whole covey OF lizards was, that there
was no innate" for the one he had. In
the same manner have snakes, frogs,
fish, and even alligators found their
way into the human stomach. Why,
in the lower Mississippi country and
along the gulf coast 1t Is q common
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

THE mayor of New York received
1 an anonymous letter the other day
in which the writer, who signed her.
self "Miss Mercury" set out the man.
ner in which she would punish h e
Of that city, if she had the
Furnishing to do, and urging the may.
or to give her recipes a trial. She
says she would tatto a brand across the
forehead or cheek OF every person
of crime, and she'd make the
brand representative of the nature OF
the crime. For instance, for q black
handler she would have q black heart
pierced with a red dagger; a gunman
would be marked with q red h a n d
grasping a gun; = thug. with q blue
hand grasping a blackjack; a burglar
would be marked with q doorlock and
pick, while . white SLAYER would be-
turned over to q surgeon for "treat.
ment," eto. The mayors correspon.
dent may be "dippy," but there 10
meat in her suggestion.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

a All notices OF entertainments of
any nature at which admission is
charged given by local organizations
are charged at the rate of five cents
per line per insertion.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

A CHICAGO ward politician and
4 thug the other day knocked down
and severely beat a woman clerk of
election while she was engaged in the
discharge of the legitimate duties Of
her Office. Joseph McDonough is the
brute's name, and the reason given by
him for the assault was that since the
advent of women in politics he had
lost his power as a leader. While Nc
Donough vas arrested and sentenced
to six months in prison for his das-
tardly act, he really had unwittingly
done ore tor the suffrage cause than
can the combined vocal force of every
suffrage orator in the United States
for a whole year. Every blow rained
on the head and shoulders of that lit.
tie election clerk stands for thousands
OF earnest, active converts to t h g
faith" And this is as good a place
and time as VIZ know of to invite all
opposers OF woman suffrage to stand
up and be counted with McDonough,
for he is q fair type of the men on that
side of the question.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

IN future 1t may not be altogether the
1 proper thing to tell a man who is
Quitting inn to "keep his nose out of
your business, for as a matter of fact
instead OF his nose it may be some
other part of his anatomy that he is
injecting into your affairs. The other
day, a young man in Baltimore met
with an accident which deprived h m
of his nose, and as society refused to
appreciate him in that condition, the
surgeon in charge cut off a chunk of
n of young mans floating
ribs" trimmed 1t up to resemble as
nearlyas possible a human proboscis,
bored a couple of holes in it and
grated it on to the place where a nose
naturally should be. And why not F?
Wesn't the worlds first teluder built
entirely from a rib?
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

pledge
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

FVENin England, and notwithstand.
- ing the didos cut up by Mrs. Pank-
hurst and her cohorts, suffrsgism is
progressing. Some time ago Queen
Mary made a ruling that n o lady
identified with her court should be per.
mitted to ally herself in any way with
the suffrage movement. But it took
the Duchess of Roxburg, once May
Goelett of New York, to bring her
royal highness to terms on that ques-
ton, and the ban has been lifted and
all the royal outfit, from the ladies in
waitingto the lady keepers of the royal
iron-stone chambers may cry "Votes
for Women" in any old language they
may happen best to know, and to
their hearts content.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

THAT the Great Northern railway
L system is q big-paying corpora.
tion is a we'll known fact, and nearly
every one who invested In its stock In
an early day, and stayed by it, have
come out wealthy. The late Lord
'Strathcona' of Canada, "a a heavy
stakeholder in the corporation almost
from its beginning, away back in the
first days Of the st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis & Manitoba line, and SO greatly
did those holdings profit him that his
will provided for the distribution of a
half.million dollars in gifts to the en-.
ployes of the Great Northern system.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

~ looks to Us to be an Inconsistent
1 piece of business for Congress
TO exclude from citizenship the Japan
ese and at the same time welcome with
open arms oil the ragtag and bobtail,
blackhsnders and professional high.
waymen OF Europe. The Japs are by
far the best class of citizens, az wit
ness the fact that it is the rarest thing
to hear OF q Japanese murderer or
highwayman, O even common thief,
while on the other hand note the daily
record of crime in the eastern cities
perpetrated by the offscourings of
southern Italy and other Of the hot.
blooded Latin nations. These people
furnishm more police and court business
than any other class that come to our
shores. Japan has good reason for
feeling sor over the implied stigma
cast upon her people by the United
States.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

NON'T worry about women not US
- ing the ballot if they are given an
opportunity. Why, you boob, know
that in a sinlge district of Chicago, in
q single day last week lO,246 women
registered as against 3,779 men And
this, too, occurred on the "fashiona.
ble'' north shore, where was sup.
posed there would be the smallest fe-
male registration of any part of the
city. On a single day during the week
1853, O26 women we're registered in that
city. Don't those figures kind o. indi.
cate that at least the Chicago women
will be ''heard from" in the coming
spring elections?
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12
THE Henry Ford b~enefaction to his

TRE Henry Ford benefaction to his
L employees appears to have a string
to it, a n d a very judicious one, too,
all will agree. While Mr.. Ford will
pay all his men a minimum wage Of SIS
per day. it will first be ascertained
whether or not the men are deserving
Of such philanthropy. In other words
no extravagant, thriftless, dissipated
workman will come in on a divvy Of
the Ford millions. And as they all
must ''pass MUSTER" won't that be a
model institution?-l5,O 900 honest, ca
pable, contented workmen, and not
an "organizer'' or "agitator'' or even
walking delegate to cast a shadow
I'VE the perfect peace and happiness
of the whole.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

THE New Jersey suffragists are jub-
1 liant because the lower house o t
that state the other day passed . reso.
luton for IN amendment to the state
constitution giving the ballot to wo-
men, by a vote Of 80 to 4. Still, don't
forget that saying that there's many
q Slip" etc. Things may, and prob.
ably will, happen when the resolution
gets up to the senate. You will recol-
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

NORTH DAKOTA is n O famed
~ alone for It's hard wheat, briquet-
ted coal, etc., but up to date it carries
the palm for the greatest number OF
twin babies brought into existence in
q single locality. Grano is the name of
the locality where this twin business is
carried on TO the greatest extent, three
complete sets being reported from that
town within . short time recently.
If the habit is ct all contagious, that
10 not . place for . poor man to live
iu-uuless be has been vaccinated.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

NOV that American manufactures
~ Of guns and other munitions o I
war are permitted to ship their pro-
ducts across the Mexican boundary, II
is believed that the ''troubles" down
there will speedily be brought to IN
end. Certainly, will for many poor
devils who r unfortunate enough to
get In the line of fire, for Q real gun,
even in the hands of . Greaser, 10 .
dangerous plaything.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

thing for negroes to absorb alligator
embryo "a above, and occasionally IN
alligator has been captured whose
stomach contained q good sized pick
aninny-though Of cours 1t 10 n o t
claimed that it was Matched there.
Fear OF " might get into their
stomachs from regular indulgence In
aqua pura is the reason given by lots
of men for not signing the temperance
nladoa.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12
Colds and Group In Children.

Many people rely upon Chamber.
lain's Cough Remedy exclusively In
cases of colds and Group, and it never
disappoints them. Mrs. e. q. Thomas,
Logansport, Ind, writes: II have
found Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to
DO the best medicine for colds and
Group I have ever used, and never tire
of recommending it TO my neighbors
and friends. I have alwsys given, 1t
to m y children whom suffering from
Group, and it has never failed to give
them prompt lelief." For sale by eli
dealers. (Adv.)
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-02-12

leet that at least one house Of the lss.
islatures of Maine, Arkansas, Iowa,
and our own state did tho same 90 New
Jersey, while the corporation lawyers
and professional politicians, who ere
most always the predominant force In
state ssnatss, 90 they are in the Uni
ted States senate, do the knitting act.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-01-21

told my husband to get me bottle of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and would try it before I would
submit to any operation. He did so and
I improved right along. l am now doing
all my work and feeling fine.
'Thope other suffering women will try
your Compound. I will recommend it
to all know. - Mrs. DANIEL D. B.
DAVIS, ITO Franklin St. ,Logansport, Ind.
Since we guarantee that all testimo-
malls which we publish are genuine, is it
not fair to suppose that if Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has the
virtue to help these women it will help
any other woman who is suffering ina
like manner?
If you are i'll do not. drag along until
an operation is necessary, but at once
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Write to Lydia e. Pinkham
Medicine Co., (cOnfidentiaD Lynn,
Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman
and held i'm strict confidence.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-01-21

Sample statements from the Bur-
lington Clipper:
The true reason for Mr.. Prouty's
decision to not enter the senatorial
race is not his health-but the Repub-
lican party.
So Mr.. Prouty failed to tell the
truth. But we suppose the Clipper
knows.
He( Prouty) was assured of support
from certain Republican newspapers
provided he would run on the Republic
can ticket exclusive.
The Monitor would like to ask the
Clipper to name the papers in Yer
mont that have made any such state
ments.
The state expenses are now receiv-
ing some attention from the news.
papers of the state but the facts are
too staggering to be explained.
We suppose that is the reason the
Clipper makes the general charge
of "gross extravagant expenditure of
public money" and then goes off and
leaves such statements unexplained.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-01-21
Vermont Notes.

William Sawyer Newton, aged 81
years, for nearly half century town
clerk of Brattleboro. died Wednesday
of last week.
An increase of S1.534, 429 in the
business of the National Life Insur-
ance Company of Montpelier has been
made over the business of the preced-
ing year. In 1913 business amounted
to $21, 919, 400.
In 1913 the Quaker Oats company
received at its Richford plant 1900
loaded cars from the Canadian Pacific
railway. The freight bills amounted
to over 1925. 900. Over 40 men are
employed in the Richford plant.
The Windham County Agricultural
association has started prize contest
for school boys and girls of the county,
the winners to be those who bring in
the largest number Of tent cater
pillar egg masses before April Is.
Albert E. Martin, the man who
seized John Shrank when he shot
Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee in
October, 1912, has been named as
private secretary to John A. Kings
bury, commissioner of charity. Martin
is native of Vermont, but has lived
in New York several years.