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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
Porter

Mr.. Hopke's family are entertaining
relatives from Chicago.
Leslie Whey and Wilt Flarity of Ed
gerton were here Sunday:
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Brunsell visited in
Rio few days the first OF the week.
Mrs. Will Schroede of GAINESVILLE is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. Earle.
Miss Helen Flarity of Edgerton was
an over Sunday visitor with Vera Boss.
The Larkin club met at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs Will Ford Tuesday. De-
licious refreshments were served and a
nice time enjoyed by all.
White Star and Porter mines crossed
bats at Gibbs lake on Sunday resulting
in victory for the latter. Next Sunday
Fulton and Edgerton play.
A little son of Hans Haakenson had
the misfortune to fall down cellar cut
ting his head so badly as to require
several stitches to close the wound.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
CORRESPONDENCE
Albion

Mr.. and Mrs. |. D. Rice motored to
GAINESVILLE Saturday.
Pastor Sayre, who was up north last
week, returned nome Sunday.
Miss Nellie Babcock went to Mason
City, Iowa, Monday to visit relatives.
A large number from here attended
the S. d. B. picnic at Charley Bluff on
Thursday.
o. ]. Painter and family and H. E..
Thomas and family visited relatives at
Milton Saturday.
Mrs. Geo. Buten of Milton Junction
visited her daughter, Mrs. w. w. Coon,
Wednesday night.
M. ]. Babcock and family and Mr..
and Mrs. |. d. Humphrey motOred to
Milton last Saturday.
Mr.. Lou Babcock and family of Mil
ton and Mrs. Lamphere called on rela-
tives here last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Whitford and
daughter Elizabeth of EdgertOn are
visiting relatives here this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Drake, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. A. Drake and Mr.. and Mrs. j.
A. Harrington took supper with Mar
tin Gunderson and family Sunday.
]. A. Slagg and family motored to
Walworth Saturday and Miss Maude
Crandall returned with them Sunday.
Miss Ruth Stillman returned home
Sunday night. Her cousin, Miss Doro-
thy Maxon of Milton, came with her.
w. A. Mccarthy and family and
Mrs. H. E. Lilly attended the harvest
festival at Cambridge last Wednesday.
E. A. Drake and Elmer Whitford
drove to Lake Mills Saturday morning
and returned with Maxwell touring
car.
Mrs. M. J. Bolser, who has been
staying with her daughter, Mrs. Still
man, for some time, went to White
water Tuesday to visit relatives.
Mrs. C. S. Sayre and Mr.. and Mrs.
C. M. Sheldon started for New York
state Sunday night where they will at
tend S. D. B. conference. They expect
to be gone about thirty days.
R. F. Nelson, who has been ct the
head of the department of agriculture
of the local high school for the past
wear, has rendered his resignation to
take effect at once. He has gone to
South st. Paul, Mimi, to take charge
of the local work of the Swift q Co.
packing plant. E. D. Ayre of Albion
is his probable successor. - Waupaca
Record
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21

camping grounds at Hubbell's springs
on Rock river this week.
Miss Minnie Berg of Fort Atkinson
has been spending her vacation here
with her parents. She returned We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bush of Chicago are
camping near the mouth of the Yahara
on Rock river with Mrs. Bush's broth
ers, Chas. and Sydna Bentley.
The heavy rains the past few days
have delayed the tobacco harvest, but
the farmers feel good that they have
escaped any damaging storms in this
vicinity.
The Misses Stella and Alzada Attic
sey and Maud Fessenden, who have
been camping at Lake Koshkonong,
broke camp and returned home the
first of the week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
TOBACCO MARKETS
Continued From Page ~

sold the packing at one time for Is
cents.
All reports agree in stating that the
growing crop could not look better or
more promising, and the opinion is gen
eral that it will turn out to be the best
in every respect that this county has
had in years. The past week has been
most favorable to the crop.
The impression prevails among the
growers that they are going to get a
good price for this years tobacco,
more like old-time prices, which may
be placed all the way from II to II
cents.
The cigar industry appears to have
stiffened little, and the manufactur-
ers are full of hope for an early fall re-
vival in trade, in spite of the European
war.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
Three Months for Ten Cents.

There are possibly few families in
Edgerton where The Reporter is not
sent regularly and we desire to give
everyone a chance to see what good
local newspaper can serve you, by
making the price for trial subscrip-
ton so low that. no one can afford to
miss the opportunity. Send US 10 cents
and we will enroll your name for three
months and be in line with the rest of
the community.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21

GRAND RAPIDS, WIS. = AT a
special meeting of the school board,
held at the Lincoln school, bids for
the new school house to be erected on
Grand and Seventh avenues, were
opened.
The contract was given to the Vein
burg Construction company Of this
city whose bid was $17,490. 1t is ex-
pected that the building will be COM
pleted by the middle of January, 1915.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
Bumper Wheat Crop.

Chiffon, WIS. = Winter wheat
has been yielding as high as forty and
forty-fve bushels to the acre in the
vicinity of New Holstein. Peas are a
good average crop, but prices are low.
Barley is light wherever It was lodged
by the heavy rain storms in June.
Oats are a fair crop, the early oats
yielding the best.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
BeIoit Austrian Is Back.

BELOIT, WIS.-Being unable to
join the Servian army because trans
portation across the Atlantic was re-
fused, Nicholas Ravock mas returned
here from New York. Mr.. Ravock
gave up his position as janitor of the
Beloit General hospital at the out
break of the war and went to New
York. He says there are thousands
of Austrians and Servians there wish
ing, but unable, to go to fight the
Germans and Austrians.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
Common Council Proceedings.

EDGERTON, WIS, Aug. II, 1914.
Regular meeting of the common
council, Mayor Skinner presiding: Al
dermen present: Arthur, Cleary,
Dickinson, Dallman, Stark.
Following bills were presented and
allowed:
Schaller Young Lbr Co., material 2 Of
J; Clarence Jones. 81 ~ 99
H b. Knapp, salary mo- .;:......' IO0 W
B. j. Springer, to pay special police. -. 30 90
Communication from Edgerton Motor
Co. read.
Aid. Arthur offered the following
resolution and moved it's adoption:
Be it resolved by the Mayor and Common
Council of the City of Edgerton, That the pro
pOsal of the Edgerton Motor Co. III regard TO
an additional electric light post on henry St.
be and is hereby accepted, and that the city
agrees to maintain and pay the cost OF operat-
ing such fixture and lamps. provided that the
Edgerton Motor Co. furnish and install said
fixture and lamps free of cost to the city.
When so installed the fixture and lamps shall
become the property OF the city
Resolution adopted on roll call.
Aid. Cleary offered the following res
olution and moved its adoption:
Resolved by the Mayor and Common Coun-
ell That the mayer and clerk pc autnoraea 10
street signs and posts and report same at next
meeting
Resolution adopted.
Aid. Dallman offered the following
resolution and moved its adoption:
Resolved by the Mayor and Common Coun-
Gil, That the city engineer and superintendent
of waterwOrks be instructed to get measure
mentS and ascertain what MIGRANTS are neces-
Sary for laying water main on Lord street and
report at next meeting.
Resolution adopted.
Profile for street and sidewalk grades
on Perry and Jensen streets were sub
| mitted by City Engineer Jones and on
/ motion were placed on file city
clerks office where they may be in
spected for the next two weeks.
On motion street committee were in
structed to purchase necessary tools
| for use of street commissioner.
4 On rcc..c~> "a'-~o 0d>~..,
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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
New England.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Aug. II, 1914.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Aug. II, 1914.
Splendid progress is being made in
harvesting the Connecticut valley to-
bacco crop. The first printing of the
shaded tobacco is curing in a manner
wholly satisfactory. The leaves are
free from blemishes and good colors
are indicated. Buying in the fields
continues in heavy volume and only a
small part of the New England crop
will 60 into the barns uncontrolled for.
Labor is abundant ard vroo+ho~ co~''-
f,r~s Il" e@~ is,easIs AGO..
TIE 1874 New England y;e!d " Il. by
virtue If the largest acreage ever
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
$4,000 For Good Roads.

RACINE, WIS. The cam
paign of the Racine Commercial club
for county road improvements netted
$4,000 in a single day. The Frankville
road residents just outside the city
contributed 5000. Prospects are the
campaign will be productive of results
far beyond the expectation of the pro
motors.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
Fulton

School will begin here Monday, Sep
TENDER z.
D. F. Sayre is attending the fair at
Evansville this week.
August Zeman of Chicago is visiting
his uncle here this week.
L. c. Whittet will hold a political
meeting in the Ladies hall on Thursday
evening, Aug. q, at which he and 9th.
ers will speak.
o. P. Murwin and family are at the
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
Fatally Injured by Elevator.

RACINE, WIS. John Toto
walked beneath an elevator at Ra-
cine factory and was struck on the
head and crushed when the cable
broke, allowing the elevator to fall.
Toto was practically scalped and re-
ceived internal injuries which will
cause his death.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21

planted and better than average yield
per acre, be the largest on record, bar
ring heavy hail or pole-sweat loss.
Prices for standing tobacco are prac-
tically unchanged.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21
Unclaimed Letters.

Letters remaining uncalled for in the
P. o. at Edgerton for the week ending
Aug. %, 1914:
Mr.. Chas. Loefelbein Emile Preuss
Morse Pottery Works B. f. Wilson
G. o. Guldhaug Mrs. Hazel Roberts
Emma Hackinson Ralph Montgomery
Persons calling for any of the above
named letters please say advertised.
H. MCINNEs, P. M.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21

Until Sept. 1st, DR.. Morrison will
be at his office in the First Natl Bank
h.-;l1:-r r-a~7 = - 20 % -. e~1 n
: =. aa1N. e~iF S5e,.!ee c or
Wednesday and Saturday evenings FROM
to 9 clock.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-08-21

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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24
ADVERTISING THE SOUTH

In comparing the advantages of
California, Oregan and Washington
with those of the south, Mr.. David H.
Kirkland says in the Ocala (Florida)
Banner:
We can grow a greater variety of
crops every month, and we are in Iii
rect communication with the best dis
tributing markets of the world. Yet,
farm lands in Georgia are selling at
from forty to a hundred dollars an
acre, and in Florida from seventy-five
to a hundred and fifty dollars ar
acre, while in the Pacific coast states,
where only one crop a year can be
grown, where the soil is less fertile
than ours, and the farms much less
favorably situated in respect to mar
kets, land sells for a thousand dol
lars an acre."
This remarkable difference is due
largely, Mr.. Kirkland thinks, to the
fact that the opportunities of the
west have been widely and continual
ly advertised. The natural resources
of that section cannot compare with
the south's, either in richness or "a
riety. But they have been exploited
so thoroughly and SO intelligently
that they have become a mecca for
thousands of h-ome-seekers and in
vestors.
There are cheering indications,
however, that the southt is fast realiz-
ing it's own needs and opportunities
in this regard. In Georgia and neigh
boring states we'll organized move
ments for creative publicity are under
way. The chamber of is
doing excellent work of this kind, and
at the same time is upbuilding the
state within.
OF particular importance is the
larger service which the railroads of
the south are rendering in the way of
publicity enterprises. The railroads
of the west have spent millions in adj
vertising that region, and to this fact
it's prosperity is largely ascribed.
With similar methods, southern roads
can accomplish greater results, be-
cause they have far richer material
with which to work.-Atlanta Jour-
nal.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24
THE SUPERIORITY OF BRICK

Good Roads, a non-partisan publica.
tion, has the following to say of brick
roads:
AS to the curb for a country high
way, it is advisable simply to build it
flush with the pavement, SO the teams
can pass ON or off that pavement
without let or hindrance.
AS to the quality, after a pavement
is thus constructed. it is almost i'm
possible for it to get out of order,
and I am almost inclined to refrain
from offering the facts with reference
to the durability of brick pavements
thus constructed. We never have had
a brik pavement in this county to
call for repairs in twenty years, and
that is something worth while that
the American people ought to know.
l am not an advocate of the use of
brick Unfortunately; you must have
the sand clay roads, you must have
the water bound macadam, you must
have the water treated roads we have
heard SO much about. But upon roads
over which would come continuously
automobiles, trucks, farm wagons and
traffic of all kinds, there is but the
n pavement that is economical to
construct upon such a highway and
that is either granite or brick. OF
course a granite pavement would be
out of the question, but brick is not
prohibitive in cost for excessively
used roads, and it is the solution of
the problem as to the material for
highways that the American people
demand.
Although l cannot go into details
and recite all the evidence of the eco
nomic value of brick roads on the ex-
cessively used highways of this coun-
try, 1 will state two or three of t.
advantages. Traction resistance is
less than that of any road. 1t does
not originate dust, and a farmer with
the utmost comfort can have his
house by the side of the highway
without the dust flying in his win.
dows and yard. You can get about
any time of the year. But the chief
virtue of that road is that it is never
out of repairs, and it is good for use
night or dav winfar Or Summo wot
or dry.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24
"BIG SKIS" STUFF FAILED TO
BATTLE G. RICE-AT GOLF

Cristy Mathewson, star pitcher of
the New York Giants, lost an eigh-
teen-hole golf match to Grantland
Rice, a sporting writer, Thursday at
the South Shore Country Club in Chi
cago, because he said he was en-
barrassed by the gallery of women
who followed the play.
st vas more than a worlds series
game" said Mathewson. 81 never was
so embarrassed in my life. l couldn't
do myself justice at ALL"
Mathewson had Rice three down on
the first nine holes, but the news
spread that the noted pitcher was
playing, and a crowd of women who
had been engaged in a tournament
abandoned their game to follow the
match. Mathewson then became err.
ratio, and finished with a medal
score of 80.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24
MEN CANNOT THINK ALIKE

Brahma was not a god or a man,
but a product of theological abstrac-
ton. John Calvin was a Protestant
reformer; John Huss was another.
Henry Thoreau and Emerson were
transcendants. Confucius and Buddah
each had a different religious belief,
yet today their followers number
more than one-half the inhabitants
of the earth. Aristotle, pupil of Plato,
the teacher of Alexander the Great,
and the most famous Greek philoso-
pher, differed in religious belief from
the people of his own age. Francis
Bacon, Carlyle, Swinburn, Gothic,
Dante, Scott, Milton, Hugo, Mill, Ten
nyson, Darwin, Tame, Browning and
Huxley, each had their W individ-
ual religious idea. None agreed to-
gether.-Geo. H. Maine.
1t is too true that men cannot think
alike in politics or religion, hence we
should all be very tolerant of an
others beliefs. Rather than hatred,
malice adm force, we should use the
weapons of love and persuasion.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24

Each successive reunion of the vet
Grams of the Confederate armies calls
renewed attention to how rapidly
their ranks are thinning. Yet it is
astonishing that so many of them are
alive nearly fifty years after the great
conflict in which they took part. For
from one to four years most of the
survivors were exposed to wind and
rain, hot sun, snow, hail, sleet, bullets
of the enemy, diseases of various
kinds and the accidents that are
bound to occur when large bodies OF
men gather in the field. 1t is true
many of them were mere boys when
they went to war, but their powers OF
endurance must be very great tC
bring so many of them to this far
point of time after what they exper
fenced. The only conclusion is that
they were men of unusual stamina
physical and mental, or they would
all have dropped from the ranks be
fore now.-Savannah News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24
THE GARDEN OF EDEN OF ADAM
AND EVE TO BLOSSOM AGAIN

A special from London a y that
the first step in the work of restoring
the prosperity of Mesopotamia, once
the granary of the world, by a of
~irrigataion is described in a Constan-
tinople dispatch to the London Daily
Mail. Sir William Wilcocks, who de-
signed the works for the Turkish gov
eminent, often asserted that the gar
den of Eden once fiourished in the
district between Babylon and Bagdad.
The formal opening of the Euphra-
ties Barrage takes place Friday. The
Barrage, which is at Hindia, about
forty-seven miles north of Bagdad, is
the first completed part of the extern
sive irrigation works undertaken by
the young Turk government for the
improvement of Mesopotamia.
Further works still remain to COM
plete the scheme of converting the
country into a second Egypt and re-
storing the ancient granary to the
empire. Notably among tie uncom-
pleted works is the Habbani Escape,
which will allow the surplus fools to
flow in an adjacent lake, thence to a
large natural depression, thus ave- id
ing the submersion of the area be-
tween the Euphrates and Bagdad.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24
Total s,44S,775.O5 27.559.1OS s52.5'

Total $,44S, 775.05 2~7,559.10S $52.57
This is a splendid indication of
Florida prosperity, the states per cap
tia payment of this tax being so per
cent. greater than that of Texas or
Louisiana, almost double that of Vir-
ginia, more than three times as much
as that of Tennessee, Kentucky and
Georgia, more than four times as
great as that of Arkansas, Alabama
and Mississippi, nearly seven times
as great as that of North Carolina,
and more than eight times as great
as that of South Carolina.
Though its population is less than
that of any other southern state, Flor
ida is fourth in individual payments
of income tax. When the payments
r figured in proportion to popula-
tion the state of Florida pays ap-
proxfmately three times as much tax
ON incomes as the balance of the
south. 1t would be we'll for all boost
ers to paste these figures in their
hats.-Pensacola News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24
"a DREAM"

St. Petersburg, Fla, July 10, 1914.
To the Editor Ocala Banner:
The dream seems to the dreamer
as a guarantee of faith.
But in as much as I have dreamed
the dream ten different times and the
same dream with very little differ
ence, | feel that it should be given to
the press for publication and each
paper will take a copy from your pa
per and let it go as far as it will there
will not be any harm done by its pub
LEGATION if no good, as some might
think.
The night of the 14th, of April
dreamed that there appeared in the
skies all kinds Of images and from
the western part of the skies fell
suppose the Scorpion that Revelation
speaks of. 1t was a terrible looking
sight, and as it was coming down the
dreamer and several others, a very
few, were ascending in the air, and
in the northeast the Devil was seen
in an air-ship, and the earth was seen
in a terrible confusion.
The other eighth are similar, but
the ninth one and the first one |
would like to have read by many
thousands of persons. There appear
ed at this time different forms and
also faces. There were Japanese, Chi
nese, and many other faces seen in
the eastern part of the skies, and just
in front of me an image fell from
above in the likeness of a woman,
and when he arose in the likeness Of
the Devil he went through the crowd
seeking those of his. He then made
a second change in the form of a wo-
man dressed in a very fine costume,
with a beautiful handbag in her hand.
Now, whether there is a meaning
to the dream or not, / feel myself JUS
titled in asking you to publish it in
your paper and pass it on to some
one else to publish. I trust that some
one will be effected to the extent to
believe that He is coming in the
clouds some day. c. r. w.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24
A FINE BUNCH OF YOUNG MEN

That is a mighty fine bunch of
young men who have been sojourn-
ing with us this week, gentlemen all,
and clean-cut fellows who have con
Quoted themselves with the greatest
credit to their town. Their whole
hearts were set on winning the games,
and they played with a vim and a
snap that was most commendable..
Without seeming to be invidious
was especially pleased with Johnny
Chazai, who pitched the ia game
Friday. He came up smiling after
the game. didn't try to blame it on
anyone else, and took the result like
a true sportsman. That is likeable
and a winning characteristic in a
man, in other things besides baseball.
TO the whole team l feel like saying
"We like you, even if you did beat us
so often."-Clearwater Sun.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24
FIFTY TEACHERS FROM LONDON
SCHOOLS VISIT PANAMA
Special to Ocala Banner:

Special to Ocala Banner:
London, July 20.-Fifty teachers
from the schools of London sailed to-
day for Jamaica, where arrangements
will be made for a trip to the Panama
canal. The party was organized I'M
der the auspices of the London
Teachers Association, and the Educa-
ton committee has granted those who
entered it leave of absence with pay
for the week prior to and following,
party does not expect to return to
England until the end of August.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24

The Automobile housemaid," is a
new vocation. 1t is a young woman
who can u an automobile and look
out for the children at the same time,
Women with good recommendations
will find ready employment among
those who are not able to employ reg
ular chauffers whose owners have to
be at the office and whose wives dc
not know how to handle the machines
The automobile housemaid" will soon
be an established vocation.