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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-13
Sudden Death of George Hargraves.

George Hargraves, the we'll known
contractor and builder who has been in
failing health for several months, eX-
pired suddenly about 4:30 O'Clock We'd
nesday afternoon just after he had
stepped into the home of DR.. McChes-
ney to report his condition. He went
to GAINESVILLE in the morning to consult
DR.. Mum, who was treating him, re-
turning on the afternoon train, and
was feeling so much better he thought
he would stop at the McChesney resi-
dence and tell him what Mum had said
of his improved condition. Possibly
the exertion of the walk from the de-
pot was too great and heart failure
was the immediate cause of his death,
for he was scarcely seated when his
head was noticed to drop forward and
before anyone could reach him he was
dead. The suddenness of it was great
shock to the community. The body
was removed to his home soon after.
Funeral services will probably be held
on Saturday.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-13
twenty-five Years Ago.

Jane, wife of Edwin Scofeld, died at
her home at Indian Ford on the 18th,
aged 66 years.
Rev. H. A. Palmer united in marri-
age Geo. A. Richardson of MELVILLE
and Matilda Wescott of this city.
C. H. Spitzner, Max Bamberger, Joe
Hermshein, C. w. eager and Frank
Pulver are in the state looking after
the purchase of the 1888 tobacco crop.
A petition is in circulation asking the
appointment of DR.. S. L. Lord as post
master of Edgerton.
Geo. Parmley of Center has made a
voluntary assignment with debts that
amount to $40, 1000.
An active tobacco market for the
Is; crop is under way at prices rang
ing from to 10a cents assorted.
Friday, March Is, 1889.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-13
Frank COllman Dies of Pneumonia.

Frank ColIman, we'll known tobacco
dealer of this state, died at his home
in Madison at an early hour Tuesday
morning after an illness of two weeks
with pneumonia.
Mr.. Goldman was born near Bailey
vile, Ill.,, in 1857. After being in busi-
ness in Freeport, ILL.,, several years, he
removed to Madison twenty years ago
to take charge of the tobacco business
in Wisconsin for Suffer Bros. For the
past few years he has represented the
New York firm of Rose & Wobbe in
this state. He had large acquain-
lance and his genial disposition made
him host of friends who deeply re-
gret his death. Few men in the trade
enjoyed greater respect and confidence.
He leaves a wife and four grown
children, Fred A. of San Francisco,
Pearl M. of Chicago, Chester w. of
Eau Claire and Milton G. of Madison.
He was member of the Elks, having
held the office of exalted ruler, and the
Knights of Pythias lodges, in both of
which he had held many offices and had
been very prominent.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at O'Clock at the residence,
and was attended by a large number
of the tobacco dealers of the state.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-13
Death of Mrs. Hans Lindas.

After suffering intensely for almost
fifteen months from cancer, Mrs. Hans
Lindas died Saturday afternoon at her
home at 578 Charles street, Kenosha.
Belle HOMELAND was born in Norway,
May 25, 1856, and when only little
girl came to this country with her par
ents and lived on a farm near Slough
ton, Wis. Here she lived until at the
age of ~ she was united in marriage
to Hans Lindas of Marshall, Wis. The
greater part of her life was spent in
Stoughton and Edgerton, with the ex-
ception of the past II years which were
spent in Kenosha. She was member
of the Park Ave. M. E. church and was
a devoted Christian woman and a
woman of high ideals. Besides her
husband, there are four children to
mourn her loss, Charles R., Mrs. j. II.
Karnes Jr., Ida c., all of Kenosha, and
Andrew E. Lindas of Chicago, and
three sisters and three brothers, Miss
Hannah HOMELAND of Milwaukee; Mrs.
O. Thomas, Minneapolis, Mimi; Mrs.
C. Thompson, Eau Claire, Wis. j. j.
HOMELAND, Cottage Grove, Wis; Gill
bert HOMELAND, Owatonna, Winn., and
Andrew HOMELAND, Huntley, Mont.
Funeral services were held from the
house at l: 80 Tuesday afternoon.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-13
A Tale of Two Contractors.

Two contractors were engaged in a
railroad building job. One contractor
required every man going to work for
him to remove his clothing and take a
bath. A clean suit of overalls was
then furnished him until his clothes
could be disinfected. The employer did
this because he didn't want dirty men
working for him. He was determined
that there should be no lice IN his camp.
Each laborer was furnished with a good
sized tent with board floor The tent
was supplied with a spring cot and
clean bedding. Tents were screened
with mosquito netting. The cooking
and dining tents were kept in sanitary
and invitingly clean condition. Garb-
age and manure were disposed of so as
not to attract flies Privies were
screened to prevent flies carrying in
lection from typhoid or other intestinal
disease carriers. Men who were dirty
tramps when they arrived left as clean
|self-respecting men.
The other contractor did as most con-
tractors do Whatever his own idea of
cleanliness might be, he wasted no
money on frills." The first contractor
had no trouble getting men. The best
came to him. There was absolutely no
sickness. The only doctors bill in nine
months was for man who had his
arm broken by horse.
The conditions of the two contracts
land the work done were practically
identical. The first contractor made a
handsome profit. The second actually
lost money.
Il IF the moral of this tale were ap-
plicable only to railroad builders, there
would be no point in printing it here.
A railroad construction camp is a small
community. The contractor is the rul-
ing power. In the civil community
the voters are the supreme authority.
AS such they can determine what the
living and working conditions of their
community shall be.
The moral, however, has an even
more personal application. A commun-
lily is an aggregation Of individual
homes. The housewife is usually the
authority on management. She can
see to it that her house is screened and
clean. The cost of clean water sup
ply, of proper sewage and garbage dis
Iposal can be met by the saving in doc
tors bills, extra help made necessary
by avoidable sickness, etc., not to men
ton avoidable funeral expense.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-13
Basketball Tourney.

A basketball tournament for the high
school teams in the southern part OF
the state, conducted under the auspices
Of Beloit college, open on Thursday and
continued until Saturday night. While
the Edgerton high school team was
present and made creditable showing
in the contests, it failed to land posi-
ton in the elimination contest at APP
pleton. Following is list of the scores
of all the games played in the tourney:
Thursday afternoon = Elkhorn, 10;
Stoughton, 9. Edgerton, 40; Evans
vile, 20.
Thursday night oodstock, 25; Lake
Geneva, T. Waukesha, 27; Platteville,
Is.
Friday morning Platteville, "a; Lake
Geneva, 5.
Friday afternoon : GAINESVILLE, Fl;
Stoughton, 8. Beloit, 30; Woodstock,
IA. Platteville, 10; Evansville, IA.
Friday night Edgerton, 20; Elkhorn,
II. GAINESVILLE, 38; Waukesha, II.
Saturday afternoon = GAINESVILLE, II;
Edgerton, 26. Beloit, %; Platteville,
20.
Saturday night-Janesville, Fl; Be-
lott, 10.
Platteville and Edgerton played for
third place and Platteville won by a
close score. The two winning teams,
GAINESVILLE and Beloit, received the sill
yer trophy and GAINESVILLE was declared
the victor for southern Wisconsin and
northern Illinois.
Under the auspices of Milton college
basketball tournament will be held at
Milton, March Is and 10. Teams from
Edgerton, Elkhorn, Evansville, Fort
Atkinson, Monroe, Jefferson, Slough
ton and Milton high schools will COM
pete for the silver cup, presented by
Milton college, which is to be the prize.
Edgerton is now the holder of the
championship of last years tourna-
ment.
The members of the visiting teams
will be the guests of Milton college,
and a banquet at the close of the tour
nament will be enjoyed by all teams.
The games will be played in the Mil
ton college gym, one of the best bas-
ketball floors in the state, and the well
known referee, Donnelly, will referee
these games.
There will be two games each after
noon at o'clock and two games each
evening at 7:30. Admission to each
pair of games will be Is cents, but
season tickets good for the entire
series will be sold at so cents.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-13
Tobacco notes

Horace Pease of Fulton has been en-
ployed by Senator Ackley to superin-
tend the raising of 40 acres of tobacco
on the senator's farm near Chippewa
Falls, Wis.
Mr.. c.. w. Wobbe of New York was
in the state short time during the
week, called here by the illness of
Frank Goldman who looks after the
Wisconsin business of his firm.
Edwin S. Brill arrived Monday even
ing after brief visit to his home in
New York.
Frank P. Mcintosh of Viroqua re-
ceived the last of his purchases in this
locality on Saturday.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-13
New Management of Myers Hotel.

William H. Hamilton and three sons,
James E., Harry H. and Charles B.,
have secured a ten year lease on the
Myers hotel at GAINESVILLE, commencing
Nav first, when the lease held by the
Mcneil Hotel Co. expires.
The Myers estate and the Hamiltons
will remodel and modernize the Myers
to large extent, including running hot
and cold water in every room, new
passenger elevator, a new steam heat
ing plant, a new lobby and general
overhauling of the entire plant, includ-
ing new public laVatories. The Hamil-
tons will refit and refurnish the house
in modern and comfortable style and
conduct it on the broad guage plans
that have characterized other hotels
which have been operated by them,
among them being the Barnett House,
Logansport, Ind, the Throop at Tope-
ka, Kan, the Saulpaugh at Mankato,
Mimi, and several others.
Charles B. Hamilton at present is one
of the owners and proprietors of the
Oxford hotel and new annex at Denver,
Colo, one of the largest and best
known hotels in the western country.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-13
Old Time Conductor Gone.

Calvin w. Westbury, probably the
oldest railroad conductor in Wisconsin,
died Wednesday morning at his home,
275 Tenth street, Milwaukee, following
an attack of Bright's disease Mr..
Westbury until about five months ago,
when he retired from active service
because of illness, was employed on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul road,
his run being on the Milwaukee and
McGregor branch of the Prairie du
Chen division. He was known to many
of the travelling public of Wisconsin.
Altogether Mr.. Westbury spent forty
five years of his life in the employ of
the Milwaukee road.
Mr.. Westbury entered the life of the
railroad man as brakeman at the age
of Is, securing employment with the
Milwaukee and Mississippi railway COM
pany, now the Milwaukee road.
Mr.. Westbury was born in Rochester,
N. Y, in April, 1849, and came with
his parents to Milwaukee when years
of age. He was married at Madison,
Wis, on May 10, 1875, to Catherine
Hughes, who, with two children, Frank
J. Westbury, Milwaukee, and Mrs.
James M. Markham of Chicago, survive
him. A third child, George Henry
Westbury, was drowned at the age of
"a in lake near Madison seven years
ago.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-03-13

w. A. Shelley left Tuesday for
Virginia to look after farm which he
owns in that state.
The resources of the bank state
ments published in this paper show that
.Edgerton banks have over a million
dollars.
The high school debating team will
debate the affirmative of the minimum
wage question at Kenosha and the neg
alive team with Sparta here on March
10th.
Mr. Otto Staff of Christiana and
Miss Elise Sund of Cambridge were
married by Rev. Linnevold at the
Lutheran parsonage, Thursday, March
18th, at 2 p. m.
Bryant Mortified died at his home
near MELVILLE Sunday last after an i'll
ness of several months of dropsy. The
funeral services were held from the
home Tuesday afternoon.
The father of Prof. +. j. Holt9
who was injured in a street car acct
dent at GAINESVILLE recently, died at his
home in that city Tuesday as the result
of injuries sustained. Funeral services
took place on Thursday.
William l.. Herman of Edgerton, a
student of the University of Wiscon-
sin, recently was awarded the Villas
prize for the best short story. Mr..
Tiernan's contribution was entitled
'"The Worm" and is a story of country
life in the vicinity of his own home.
There are two prizes for this contest;
the first prize is $50 and the second
prize $25. Colonel William F. Villas of
Madison is the donor of the prize.
After being engaged in the cloth
ing business in Edgerton for nearly
thirty years, VIM. A. Shelley disposed
of his interest in the firm to his asso-
GATES this week and will devote his
energies to his Milwaukee store and
farm in Virginia. His successors are
young men who fully understand the
requirements of the trade and we be-
speak for them the continued conf
dence of the community.
The popular play house, The Lyric
theatre, has some good attractions
booked for the last three nights of this
week. Anetea Terick, singing and
dancing, Mexias & Mexias, the clown
and the funny dog. The pictures are
always good. Being one one of the
neatest and most comfortable picture
houses in southern Wisconsin and we'll
managed, the people of Edgerton ought
to have great pride in seeing it flourish.
Prizes will be given away on Saturday
night to the ones holding the lucky
numbers. Save your coupons every
night.
About 35 friends and neighbors of
c.. H. Litney and wife assembled at
their home Tuesday evening to partici-
pate in farewell" Mr.. and Mrs.
Litney intending to move to Wood
county April 1st The coming of the
friends was surprise, but their pres
ence was welcomed. The evening hours
were pleasantly passed with music and
a literary program. Luncheon was
served and Mr.. and Mrs. Litney were
presented with half dozen solid silver
spoons. In departing from Edgerton
the Litney family leave behind large
number of warm friends and those
present Tuesday evening expressed re-
grets, but wished them happiness and
prosperity in their new home in the
north.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-10
SALEM

SALEM. Mar. 10-The High school
pupils viii give a play at the city
aud torium tonight.
The Rev. u. L. Peters. C. ClastS 5
burg, occupied the pulpit at TINS
Baptist church Sunday morning AMI
evening.
Greed Collins, local agent for the
New York Life Insurance Company y
has gone to Wheeling to attend
banquet given to a number OF agents
who secured a certain amount or
Business for the company in the 10 !
year. Mr.. Collins will 60 from there
to Charleston, where he will W'orA
for several weeks.
Prof A. C. Morrison. who submit
ted to an operation for an for ap-
.pendic.tis in Clarksburg hospita!
about three weeks ago, resurnea
home Saturday and is slowly I'M
proving.
N. d. wilcox has moved to Salem
and VIII make this place his IL d-e
home. He has purchased an interest
in the Salem Drug Company.
Party conventions are being talked
of for the approaching city elec;i on.
1t is rumored that the Socialists
will hold a mass convention Saturday
night, when ward conventions and =
city ticket will be brought out.
II Is quietly rumored here that
the socialist contingent will launch a
Isemf-monthly publication at an early
date. 1T may ultimately come forth
Ionly as a monthly. BY many :.
would be considered a precarious
venture since the Clarksburg So
,cialists failed to succeed, having
much larger field to cover.
] Ed Trainer was a business visit
or here from West Union Monday
| lie was accompanied iby his WIFE
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walk the floor. could not lie down or
sit SIN sometimes for a day and q night
ct a time. was nervous, and had very
little appetite, no ambition, melancholy,
and often felt as though had not q,
friend IN the world. After / had tried
most every female remedy without sue
cess, nv Tnother-in-law advised me to
take Lydia Z. Pinkham's. Vegetable
Compound. did SO and gained in
strength every day. I have now no trou-
bic in any way and highly praise your
medicine 1t advertises itself Airs
S. T. HURLEY, Eldon, Missouri.
Remember, the remedy which did
this was Lydia e. Pinkhan's Vegetable
Compound. For sale everywhere.
II has helped thousands of women
who have been troubled with displace-
ments. infiau.ma ton, liberation, tuuors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing down feeling, indigestion.
and nervous prostration, after all other
means have failed. Why don't you try
it? Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.,
Lynn, Mass.
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ORIG ACID IN MEAT
CLOGS THE kidneys
Take A Glass of Salts if Your
Back Hurts or Bladder
Bothers.

If Won must have your meat every
day. eat il. but flush Your kidneys with
salts occasionally, says q noted author
ity who tells US that meat forms uric
acid which almost paralSzss the kid
neys in their efforts TO 3expel r from
the blood They become Sluggish z nd
weak en- 9s7eiI youti siffes- NSTtiaflfs dal y
misery in the lad riayS negioRE!isRars
palms in the back egRS. elk. fieefS@'ii4icsi1e
dizziness. your stomach so us, tongue
is coated and when the weather is
bad YOU have rheumatic twiniges. The
urine gets cloudy, full of sediment,
the channels often get sore and irri-
tated, obliging you 10 seek relief two
or three times during the might.
To neutralize these irritating ACIDS,
to cleanse the kidneys and flush OF
the bodyy'S urinous waste get Jour
ounces Of Jad Salts from any phar-
macy here; take a tablespoonful IN g
glass of water before breakfast for 2
few days and your kidneys will then
act fine This famous salts IS made
from the acid Of grapes and lemon
Juice. combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to flush anc
stimulate sluggish kidneys. also 70
nelItraIize the acids in urine, SO it nj
longer irritates. thus ending bladder
weakness.
lad salts is inexpensive; cannot in.
lure, aud makes a delightful efferves.
cent Whitewater dirnk.-Advertise
ment.
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PROTECT THE HEART
FROM RHEUMATISM
RIIEUNIA Isurifcs thc Blood and
Throws on Complaining Diseases.

Weakening Of the blood tissues bs'
continued attacks Of rheumatism af-
feets the heart and produces cnmpli-
Ma puts the blood in condition to
ward off other diseases and eradicates
Rheumatic conditions from the whole
system. Recommended for all forms
II Rheumatism. 30 cents at Wells
fIayaakar. co. This letter will con-
vince you Of its great value.
Il was so crippled with Sciatic
rheumatism l could not walk. Doc
tors could do nothing for me. After
taking three bottles OF RHEUMA, the
Rheumatism had entirely left me. -
Guy TorIey. I29 Summit Ave, ST. Paul
1iinu-A advertisement
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THIS new MEDICINE 4
SAVES YOU MONEY

We are druggists right mere IN YOU
town and make liVihg out -
drug business, but II Is DeeS'uaSe ps s. Pr
nave 70 nave drugs ana not
We ike to see people suI,el- ~ !
don't. Our outy Is = rehueF 'he ~
service We can, and twheh som eolie =
aLinS, we are Interested ~ seems
them take the pest TneaIeiie .iieie
for their particular trouble We don Z
recommend ''cure-alis as we don
believe there are such things. Ne
don't want you 20 spend more than
you have to. Some Of you get snloltl
wages. and when you're SICK, none Z :
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DENTIST
Whose Office Was Destroyed
by Fire viii Be Ready for
Business Monday.

DIR John Law, dentist, whose Of
fee fixtures and instruments were de-
stroyed in the Union National Bank
building Monday morning. has been
very busy since the fire. He stated
this morning that he had secured an
other room on the fourth floor OF the
same building and that an entire new
outfit of Office furniture and snstru-
meats were shipped by express from
Pittsburg last evening and that he
would be ready to receive patients
Saturday.
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BY French invention naphthallne
has been made available for automo-
bile fuel, pipes conveying hot exhaust
gases from a specially DESIGNED car
bureter melting the naphthaline.
The earliest attempt at sewing by
machinery OF which there is any au-
thentfc record was in 1775, in which
wear a machine was patented in Eng
land by Charles f. Wcisenthal.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-10
Round TABLE
of the MonongaheIa Valley viii
Meet at Warrington Friday
and Saturday.

The Monoagaheia Valley Round
Table Association viii meet At Man
ninEton Friday afternoon and continue
in session through Saturday morning.
Prominent educators will attend the
sessions and make addresses. Among
those scheduled to address the assoc
iation are Or. a. Duncan Yocum, pro
lessor OF education in the University
OF Pennsylvania, State superintendent
NJ. p. Shawkey and others.
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NECEAh AAEs-9s \ Va ~
years / could not
stand on my fe ct
long st q time and !
could not walk tNFo
blocks without en-
during cutting and
drawing pains down
my right side which
Increased every
month. Ihave been
at that tine purple
in the face and would
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siliousness and Constipation Cured

BiIiousness and Constipation Cured
II you are ever troubled with biliousness
or constipation you will be interested in the
statement of r. +. Erwin, Peru, Ind. "A
year ago last winter had an attack of indi,
eegtion followed by biliousness and constipa-
ton. Seeing Chaulberlain's Tablets 50 highly
recommended, / bought bottle of them and
they helped me right away" For sale by
all dealers Advertisement
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The American elm has many times
demonstrated its superior value as a
street or lawn tree. 1t is not nearly
as subject to disease or insects as
many other trees.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-10

during the first half OF 1918 amounted
to 81 200 tons, an increase OF 103I52
tons over the corresponding period OF
1912.
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The worth her-salary steuographer
who ought to he STRENGTHENING things
out in your Office right now, should
be able to find your classified ad in the
Daily Telegram when she looks for 1t.
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Can't Help But
Admire Babies
Every Woman Casts Loving Glance at
the Nesting Cud5led in it's Bonnet.

A wounn's heart naturally responds to
the charm and sweetness OF . pretty child,
and more so to-day than ever before since
the advent OF Mothers Friend.
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THREE DRINKS.

Three drunks faced Mayor VIII n.
Cole in police court Tuesday morn
ing. One of them paid his assessed
fne Of $3.50 and the other two were
allowed to go their way unmolested.