The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-26
This office aims to send out state

| ments Of account to delinquents on sub
scription during the month, which we
hope will meet with a prompt response
from friends of The Reporter Small
as these accounts are, in the aggregate
will go long ways toward meeting
the big advance on paper stock.
"A meeting of the City Federation
| will be held in Culton Memorial hall,
Saturday, Jan. 9th, at o'clock. All
| members are requested to be present
as work of Importance will be consid-
cred. Light refreshments will be
served and a social time enjoyed.
The special train run from James
willie to Madison Monday evening on ac-
count Of the Bryan address, carried
about $50 people from intermediate
points. but only a portion of those tina:
accompanied the excursion were able
to get into the stock pavilion at the
university which was already crowded
before the special reached Madison.
Mr.. Bryan addressed an overflow meet
ing later but large portion of out of
town people were unable to hear his
prohibition address.
DIR. Gillen of the state university
will lecture in Culton Memorial hall on
Tuesday evening, Jan. 30th. at 1880.
Subject, "Social Wreckages. This
lecture is given under the auspices of
the City Federation and is along line
of work which is being studied quite
extensively by the clubs, consequently
all club members are earnestly request
ed to be present. An invitation is also
extended to the public. DR.. Gillen is a
very pleasing lecturer and has many
truths to bring home to his hearers.
Admission free.
The Mock Sad Ali Stock Co. will
start a three days. engagement at
the Majestic theatre on Thursday,
January 25th. This company has
been for twelve weeks in Milwau-
kee playing the best family theatres
there and are now returning to the
road. Three great plays will be Of
fered- ''Love and Politics." ''The Cot
cry Pason' and ''The Million Dollar
Mystery" not a picture but a real
western play of today. This company
carries the best line of feature vaude-
vile acts with the show to take up
every moment between the acts of the
plays.
-''The Iron Hand is the title Of the
five part political drama of love, re-
venge and tainted money, to be shown
on Thursday at the Lyric, featuring
Hobart Bosworth, assisted by an all
star cast. Everyone should see Charlie
Chaplin, Friday, in the ''Floor Walker"
in two parts. Charlie is now with the
Mutual Co. receiving the largest salary
of any man in the U. S., $780, 900 a
year. Besides Charlie Chaplin, when
Justice Won" will be shown Friday,
presenting Margaret Clayton and Rob-
ert Ainsworth... ''The Struggle a
five part Equitable World drama, will
be presented on Monday, starring Frank
Sheridan and Ethel G. Terry. A great
feature about the production of ''The
Struggle" is that it is not only elab-
crate, but is genuine, many scenes be-
ing taken in the South American trop-
ical forests. On Tuesday the third
episode of Liberty will be shown.
Two strangers registering at the
| Carlton hotel as w. L. Lawrence and
G.. K. Porter were in town during the
week promoting the sale of a mauso-
leum for Fassett cemetery for the Abb
! hey concern of Michigan, and were sue
cessful in placing some stock among
our citizens. Saturday Sheriff Whipple
notified Chief Springer that he had a
wire from an Illinois officer to arrest
Lawrence on some charge preferred in
that state. He was taken into custody
Sunday morning and Springer tele-
phoned the sheriff to come after his
| man. After some talk over the wire
the marshal was requested to turn the
prisoner over to the custody of Deputy
Mccain. During the supper hour
Lawrence gave the officer the slip and
was spirited away by his partner in a
rig obtained at Thompson's livery. The
roads, however. were so badly drifted
that they only got as far as Antoine
Olson's in Albion where they spent the
night and Porter returned the next
morning. 1t was learned later that
Lawrence hired farmer to take him
to Fort Atkinson, where another rig
took him to Whitewater when he left
on the early Tuesday morning train,
since which time all trace of him has
been lost. Monday Sheriff Whipple
came I'M and arrested Porter and a son