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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-10-13
New York.
NEW YORK. Oct. Z. 1916.


: The leaf market remains in state
of "watchful waiting" Watching
carefully on the one hand what effects
the advance made by certain class of
cigar manufacturers or at least the
more prominent brands of their output
is likely to have on the course of the
cigar trade and watching on the other
hand the attitude of our cigar leaf
raisers as to the limit Of prices for the
new crops. If the cigar price advance
should be carried through effectively
and become generally accepted, then
the manufacturer will be placed in a
better position to pay also the advance
on the new crops. For the price of
these are soaring higher and higher
with every report of new acquisitions
by packers. In spite of the consider
able damage done by the recent frost
in Ohio and Wisconsin tobacco districts
the prices for the sounder crops have
rather risen than abated and the prices
held even at present surpass all former
figures and al prospective calculations.
The leaf market is therefore not over
anxious to do rushing business in such
stocks as ore still being held. The in
crement of their increased value is
bound to more than compensate them
for the time lost in their watchful
waiting. Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-10-13
DAYTON. O.. Oct. A. 1916.

Buying has come TO halt, excepting
of the frosted end which is bringing Z
to cents, all stripped together. The
true situation is this: All tobacco har-
vested up to the 10th OF September will
make good tobacco; that which was
harvested from Sept. 10th to 10Th when
the freeze came has been chilled in the
sheds, is black and will have consider
able fat stems. That which was out in
the field on the 10th is frosted and
chilled and some of it cut green, for it
was never topped. This is the true
situation of the 1916 tobacco in Ohio.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-10-13
Pennsylvania.
LANCASTER, Pa, Oct.

LANCASTER, Pa, Oct. 2, 1916.
Last week weather was ideal for the
tobacco, though unfortunately barely
rs per cent of the crop remained in the
field. The growers who had the nerve
to let their fields remain untouched un-
til the last minute, in order to be able
to turn over to the buyers the kind of
tobacco they want, ought to have
better price for their holdings than the
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-10-13
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

For months it has been preached to
the trade that shortage of cigar leaf
was inevitable before the end of 1916.
Now the jobbers and smaller manufac-
turers have at last woke up to the fact
that the prophecy is coming true. They
are fast finding out that there is only
limited amount of old stock to be pur-
chased in the leaf centers, while the
country packers have been swept al
most clean of their holdings. Local
packers have never known a time IN
years when their warehouses were so
empty as at the present time. While
the larger concerns have doubtless for
titled themselves against turn like
this, it is the medium and smaller man.
ufacturers that will feel the pinch Of a
short supply of cigar leaf for the COM
ing year, for the 1915 crop of Wiscon-
sin at least is largely a disappointment,
yielding far below the normal amount
of leaf suitable for cigar purposes
Neither is there much relief from high
prices or short supply until the 1916
crop reaches the market.
-
A man who has been in the Ohio
cigar leaf trade for great number OF
years and who very probably knows
more about the product of that state
than any other in the business, has the
following to say about the damage
wrought by the cold snap of the past
fortnight: cit is not a frost, but
solid freeze, Fully 70 per cent of the
1916 crop in Ohio is ruined beyond re-
covery Never in all my experience
have encountered such conditions as
those now surrounding the leaf mar
ket in this region. The 1915 Zlmmer
and Gebhardt have all been cleared
away. Where filler tobacco in this
state for the coming year is coming
from / am completely at loss to say.
A scant amount of tobacco was gotten
into the sheds before the freeze came.
But, of course, prices asked for it are
out of sight.
-
The American Agriculturist, In their
annual estimate, as has been their Gus
tom for years, says that the cigar leaf
tobacco crop should prove one of the
most profitable to growers in recent
years, because of an estimated total
yield Of ZIG, O00,00 pounds, and higher
prices than have been paid for several
seasons past. Cost of production was
Somewhat increased because of labor
shortage and higher prices for fertiliz-
ers. This is much more than offset,
however, by the eagerness with which
buyers have>been contracting the crop
in the fielc and the good average yield.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-10-13
The First
National Bank

answers the question of how to
keep money perfectly. An ac-
count there means absolute
safety for your cash and free
dom from worry for you. Open
an account and you can give
all instead of half your mind
to your business.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-10-13
The
Money
Question

is as much how to keep it as
how to get it. What is the use
of striving to acquire it if it is
going to be a source of worry.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-10-13
Acreage
lS2000 l695O0


Figures which the government issued
last June for the stocks of leaf tobacco
on hand emphasize the strength of the
general market situation, and, in fact,
do not tell half the story. These fig
ures include only the stocks of big deal
ers and manufacturers. Last faM these
same oig dealers and cigar manufac-
turers went into the states of Penn
such prices that the smaller local deal
ply 1t probably never happened that
the big tobacco men secured as large a
total proportion of the available crop
as last year. Yet figures OF last April
showed that these same big dealers had
80, 600, 900 pounds less leaf tobacco on
hand than the previous year and H.
900, 900 pounds less than in 1914.
Xxx
The notion that the present era of
high prices is making enormous profits
for the packers and importers is COM
bated by good authority. While crops
of any sort older than the 1914 are out
of the market as a general thing, still
there are many firms that hold lots
that date back as far as 1911. There
has been a great cleaning up of these
old lots lately, and many are the stories
rife in Water Street of profits made on
these tobaccos, which were bought at
prices much under those ruling now
According to prominent packer, it is
to all intents and purposes impossible
to make an actual profit upon tobacco
carried as long as three years. 'sThe
first year we charge up the original
cost, the cost of packing, storage, in
surance, shrinkage, overhead and all
the legitimate charges" he said. 1.-The
second year we leave off everything
except storage and interest. If we
have to carry it into the third year we
take it up at the cost of the tobacco
and packing. If during that year any
body comes along and wants to buy it,
we will Sell it usually for what we can
get for it. But the fact remains that. |
regardless of what we carry the goods
on our own books at, the expense is |
going on just the same. | made a sale
of Pennsylvania this week that cost me |
nine cents in 1912. For two years |
had been carrying it at just about che |
bare cost of the tobacco and the ex-
pense of packing. | sold it at what |
sounded like 100 per cent profit. After
the sale | figured it up, cost and four
years carrying charges, and / found
that had actually made less than 10
per cent. Yet the man / sold it to
thought was robbing him. But for
the present high market, which comes,
of course, from circumstances that have
nothing in the world to do with the to-
bacco business, / would have lost prac-
tically my entire investment in that
particular lot of tobacco. The 1915
crops are the only ones that are max
ing any money for the packers. The
1916 crops-well, I'll tell you more
ahai't them in October, 1917. IN. <.
Leaf
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-10-13

(Concluued on Page s.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15
VIV1SECTION ON HUMAN BEINGS
AROUSES STORM

A storm has been aroused at Ann Ar
Dor, Michigan, by discovery of the fact
that not long ago DR.. U. J. Vile, Pro-
lessor Of Dermatology in the University
OF Michigan, went to the Pontiac State
Hospital, bored holes with an ordinary
dental drill, into the brains of six living
people, confined there as hopelessly and
helplessly insane, and extracted from
each hole quantity of living brain sub
stance, with which he innoculated a rab-
bit. This was done as a matter of ex-
pertinent.
When one stops to consider the extent
to which these medical ghouls go in prac
tlcing experiments upon the human
body, and the license and liberty which
they now assume in playing and tamper-
ing with human life, is it any wonder
that Zion contends that the life of no
one is safe in their hands?
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15
CEMENT SIDEWALKS BY LOCAL I'M
PROVEMENT PLAN

At a meeting Of the Board of Local
improvements Of the City Of Zion held on
the 18th inst, it was proposed to give
citizens desiring a local improvement in
the form of cement sidewalks, the oppor-
tunity to present petitions to the Board of
Local improvements requesting the build
ing Of said walks Sidewalks constructed
on this plan are to be paid for in five an
nual installments unless the individual
lot owner desires to construct his own
walk under the terms Of the Local I'm
provement Ordinance and the supervision
Of the Board Of Local Improvements.
To finance such an improvement
scheme, the local improvement district
must effect lots of sufficient number and
Of sufficient value for taxing purposes, to
make the property, as thus specially as
sessed, a good security for the payment of
the local improvement bonds. Such i'm
provement district should be at least three
/ blocks or more in length, although short
er district of certain kind Of property
may be satisfactory The Board Of Local
improvements would like to have citizens
desiring sidewalks constructed on the in
stallment plan in front Of their own prop
erty, on certain streets, present petitions
requesting such improvement. If any are
interested and will call upon the Secre-
tary Of the Board Of Local improvements
and describe the district proposed to be
improved, a suitable petition will be pre-
pared for signing by the lot owners
affected and when the same is presented
to the Board Of Local improvements, it
will inspect the line of proposed improve
ment and take action as the facts may war
rant.
Any lot owners interested are invited to
call at the Office Of the Secretary of the
Board of Local Improvements, Room 2O9
| IN the Administration Building, for full
directions and copy Of petition to be
signed by the lot holders affected by any
proposed improvement.
w. Hurd Clendinen,
Mgr.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15
CITY ELECTION

NOTICE is HEREBY given that on Tues
day, the 18th day of April, A. D. 1916, at the
five 60 voting precincts, as shown below in
the City of Zion in the County of Lake and
State of Illinois, an election will be held for
the following officers, viz:
One CD Alderman for term of two (2J
years, for each of the five 60 Wards of said
City of Zion.
First Ward-Polling Place-North room of
Shiloh Tabernacle
Second Ward-Polling Place-College Build
ing, southwest cor. 9th Street and Enoch
Avenue.
Third Ward-Polling Place-2921 Enoch
Avenue
Fourth Ward-Polling Place-3107 Enoch
Avenue.
Fifth Ward-Polling Place-Southwest cor
ner Shiloh Boulevard and Elijah Avenue.
The polls of said election will be open from
o'clock in the forenoon and will contin e
open until O'Clock in the afternoon of the
same day.
Given under my hand and seal at the City
of Zion on the 23d day of March, A. D. 1916.
JNO. D. THOMAS, City Clerk
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15
AMERICAN MAIL CENSORED AT
WINDSOR, ONTARIO

United States mail, crossing the De-
trolt River for Canadian points, was
held up on April 10, at Windsor,
Ontario, being opened, read, and re-
sealed with a government "sticker,"
on which was stamped the word
censored" No letters were ex-
copied, and large extra corps of
special clerks were employed to do the
work.
The Postmaster refused to discuss
the matter in any way, further than
to admit that all the mail had been
opened and inspected.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15
ATTENTION HOUSEHOLDERS

Now is the time to put in your winter S
supply of hard coal. Price will go up loo per
ton the first of each month, until it reaches
the highest price September L.
Call us up for summer prices on all kinds
of soft and hard coal and coke.
We furnish sand gravel, and cinders.
Just received a carload of barnyard manure.
When you call us up, give us your COM
plants well as your compliments.
The scarcity of paper material has become
sufficiently important as to prompt the govern
ment to send out circulars asking the people
to save their waste paper and rags. The
prices are higher than formerly, and if you
will save them, the Zion Fuel Department will
pay you the highest market price for them.
This includes all waste material, such as
paper, rags, iron, copper, zinc, etc.
Respectfully,
ZION FUEL DEPARTMENT
Phone SO
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15
Local Items
Continued from second page)

ricots, ounces, and other fruit In adj
dition, he has 20 colonies of bees, and his
wife looks after large incubator of 400
egg capacity. This shows what can be
done in the way of intensive farming.
Last Lords Day, the General Over
seer, in his address at Central Zion Tab
ernacle, Chicago, denounced Christian
Science, quoting numerous passages
from Mrs. Eddy's own writings, to show
the absurdity of this false system.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15
Classified Advertisements

SPECIAL NOTICE:-All classified ads. for
The THEOCRAT must be received at THE
THEOCRAT Office, Administration Bldg.
each week not later than IL a.. m. on
Thursdays.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Continued from first page)

Harrison-Dunne Democrats suffered
their most disastrous route in years, the
Sullivan forces carrying the day in over
whelming fashion. Complete control of
the Illinois delegation to- the Democratic
National Convention was assured to the
Sullivan faction, through the election of
at least As out of So delegates.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15

FOR RENT: Apartment, 24OO Elisha Av-
enue, second hOOr Modern. Would re-
hoVate Tor permanent tenant. Inquire on
premises, or Zion Realty Dept.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15

is an OIL MOP like this.
You can go all over the
floors, under the beds and
everything, into the corners
and clean up all the dust,
and leave bright clean
appearance, and do it all
in a few minutes. Some
people spend hours kneel-
ing about on their knees
reaching under beds with
a brush, and getting all
heated up, and then the
job isn't done as we'll as
with an oil mop.
The Oil Mop and Bottle of
Oil only costs 40c.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-04-15
G ALE ND A r
ZION GUARD DRILL

There will be Guard Drill at the College
Building every Friday night at AS.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-10-13
COST WOULD BE ENORMOUS
Only Obstacle That Stands in the Way
of the General Electrification
of Railroads.

1t has been said that almost no
public work lasts more than a genera
ton without requiring in some fashion
to be reconstructed; practically, to be
replaced. The Erie canal has been
rebuilt once generation, bigger. There
is already talk of making the Panama
canal sea-level ditch, even before it
is really completed as lock canal. The
railroads are everlastingly in process
of rebuilding. Rails of 120 pounds to
the yard have replaced those of GO; the
big freight car Of today would we'll
nigh carry a trainlOad of freight of
the first decades of railroading.
Now comes promise of the greatest
revolution of all. The convention of
Master Mechanics of American Rail
ways expresses the serious view that
universal identification will take place
soon.
1t would be in the end cheaper
safer, more rapid and efficient. Then
why not?
If there is a real obstacle, 1t is, to.
day, the difficulty of financing such a
gigantic operation. 1t must be raised
from private investors; it can only be
raised if there is such confidence in the
earning power of the roads, and in
the governmental attitude toward
them, as will guarantee stable condi
tons.
One way to produce this confidence
would be to unity and centralize, un
der the national government, all the in
strumentalities of governmental con
trol.-Washingt Times.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-10-13
DOES AWAY WITH DEFECTS
Discovery of Railroad Expert Will
Add Many Years to the Life
of Steel Rail.

Forty years of experimentation on
turing steel rails has eliminated in an
announcement by the New York Cen
trail railroad of the perfection of a
Ino cess for the elimination of hidden
defects in rails, which has been the
chief cause of the cOuntry's railroad
wrecks. The process, it Is declared,
has solved a problem that has baffled
experts since the railroad industry in
the United States began. The man
primarily responsible for the process
is Plilsont Henry Dudley consulting
engineer of the road, who has spent
nearly half of his life in what he mod
estly termed "the labor of love-" Mr..
Dudley is seventy-twO years old, and
has contributed at least six important
inventions to the railroad industry.
The flaws, or interior assures, as they
are called, never can be detected viSi-
bly, in rail. 1t has only been by fol-
lowing specifications laid down by Mr..
Dudley in the manufacture of the rail
and then relocating the finished prod
uct in special plant, that any hid
den defects can be removed. 1t is said
that extensive experimentation with
this process, has proved that this is
sure way of eliminating every pos
sible defect. According to recent fig
ures broken rails caused 3,045 acct
dents in 1915, the death of 205 persons
injuries to 7,341 persons and loss Of
about $4,O00,00O. Mr.. Dudley's inven.
ton, so far as it has been applied on
the New Central lines, has already re-
duced rail breaks from one break in
GOO rnils to one break In 142 600 rnilS.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-10-13

Henri, and soon concluded that her sto-
ries about her husband were false.
Then he accused her of his murder In
so many words.
The madam, strong as she was, fell
in a swoon, and when she recovered
consciousness confessed everything.
After ending that her husband was
dead, she carried his body to the Gel.
lar, and there chopped him into con.
venient chunks with an ak. The
pieces she sewed up in sacks, and ev.
cry night, until the whole body was dis
posed of, she carried a bundle to the
river and threw 1t in.
Even when this was known most of
the people sympathized with the wom-
an, knowing how much she had en-.
dured. The terrible story was carried
all over Europe, and for weeks to-
gether the newspapers were full Of it.
and many years afterwards tourists
went out Of their way to visit the cor.
ner of Brittany where Madame Henri
induced her husband to sign the
pledge.
The woman was tried and convicted
in due season, and was sentenced to
twenty years at hard labor.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-10-13
M. HENRI QUITS DRINKING.

Eighty years ago Madame Henri had
no idea that her fame would extend
from the village of Brittany in which
she lived to all corners of France, or
that her name would ever be spoken
In whispers by a nations story-tellers.
She fully expected to lead a quiet and
useful life, and in the end be buried
with her forbears in the churchyard
She was a quiet, practical woman, a
fine housekeeper and an excellent man.
ager, and everybody respected her.
When she was married most of the
girls of the village envied her and per-
haps a few hated her; for divers dam.
sells had made strenuous efforts to
capture the young man who became
her husband. M. Henri was extremely
handsome, and had a hundred charms
and graces. He was the best singer in
the countryside, he was full Of witty
stories, and the way he could dance
was caution. Everybody admired the
young man. Well, it is true that the
old cure shook his head now and then,
when Henri was mentioned. The young
man was too Eighty, said that reverend
man. But the cure was hopeful when
he heard the name of Henri's bride.
This girl came Of thrifty family,
and she abhorred waste, without being
avaricious. She was distinguished for
her beautiful complexion, which re-
minded people Of cream and roses; and
her face was framed by masses of
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-10-13
inexperienced Drivers.

The seemingly large number of auto.
mobile accidents which have occurred
recently lead one to believe that there
is either great deal of carelessness
on the part of drivers or else that the
presence of too many inexperienced
drivers has had something to do with
1t. A reckless driver is often less of
menace to traffic than driver who,
by reason of his inexperience, has not
perfect control of his car. How often
we hear of cases in which pedestrians
have been run down or collisions have
occurred because a driver has become
nervous and has forgotten (which
lever to pull" under trying conditions
when a little more experience would
have made it instructive for him to dc
the right thing. The state now re-
quires an applicant for drivers
license to have had at least one hun
dred miles of actual driving expert
ence before receiving license.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-10-13
Trucks Beat Railroad.

Recently a fleet of flve-and-one-
half-ton trucks, hauling three five-ton
trailers, operated in military convoy
fashion, made an overland run from
New York to Hartford with "A tons of
partly finished ball bearings.
The material had been received at
New York by steamer from Sweden,
and although urgently needed in Hart
ford was being held in the custom
house owing to the existing freight
embargo along the Atlantic coast.
The Heavy Haulage company of
New York offered quick solution Of
the problem by starting the truck train
at 5 80 one night, and after con-
tinuous run of 40 miles arrived ut
Hartford at IL o'clock the following
night.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-10-13
The People Pay.

The people of the United States are.
paying war prices for a great many ar
ticles of everyday use because those
articles are not produced at home. In
other words, they are having a prac-
teal demonstration at so much per of
the democratic free trade idea. The
idea is that we ought to buy where we
can buy cheapest. 1t may have worked
in the old days, but it doesn't work
now, because all the cheap sources of
supply are closed. If the old Repub-
lican idea of protecting industry in our
own country had been followed con-
sistently for the last ten or fifteen
years we should have had factories
busy in the production of all these
things, and our people would be able
to purchase them at reasonable prices.
Right now the mistake of abandoning
the theory of protection is costing the
people of this country more than it
costs any European nation to do its
part in the war.-Yakima Republic.