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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-12-14
First publication Dec. IA, 19171-t3

First publication Dec. Ia, 1917]-t3
Notice of Final Settlement and De-
termination of Inheritance Tax.
COUNTY COURT, ROCK COUNTY,
Wisconsin, Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Frank
Wyman. otherwise known as Frank
Weinman, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that at reg
ular term of the county court to be
held in and for said county at the court
house in the city of GAINESVILLE in said
county on the first Tuesday, being the
1st day of January A. d. 1918, at
the opening of court on that day, the
following matter will be heard and
considered:
The application of Fred Weinman,
executor Tor administrator of the
will Tor estatel of Frank Wyman,
deceased, late of Edgerton, in said
county, for the examination and allow
ance Of his final account, and for the
assignment of the residue of the estate
of said deceased to such persons as are
by law entitled thereto; and for the
determination and adjudication of the
inheritance tax, if any. payable in said
estate.
Dated December 9Th, A. D. 1917.
By the Court:
Charles L. FifieId, County Judge.
Paul N. Grub, Attorney for Admins
traitor.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-12-14
Chamberlain's Tablets

Chamberlain Tablets are intended
especially for stomach troubles, bilious
ness and constipation, and have met
with much success in the treatment OF
those diseases. People who have suf-
fered for years with stomach trouble
and have been unable to obtain any
permanent relief, have been complete
fy cured by the use of these tablets.
Chamberlain's Tablets are also of great
value for biliousness. Chronic consti-
patton may be permanently cured by
taking Chamberlain Tablets and OBJ
serving the plain printed directions
with each bottle.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-12-14
Stomach Trouble and Constipation

Those who are afflicted with stomach
trouble and constipation should read
the following: 81 have never found
anything so good for stomach trouble
and constipation as Chamberlain Tab
lets. have used them off and on now
for the past two years. They not only
regulate the action of the bowels but
stimulate the liver and keep ones body
in healthy condition." writes Mrs.
Benjamin Hooper, Auburn, N. Y.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-12-14
TO THE PUBLIC

Recognizing the unusual slgnln-
canoe of the coming Christmas tide
to the members of the Edgerton
Platoon of Company M, 128th Infan-
try, Camp Macarthur, Texas, the
name of each is herewith given, in
order that our citizens who may de-
sire to do so, may realize cherish
ed wish to place in the hands of the
absent ones, a token of friendship
and esteem on Christmas morning:
Rock County Auxiliary Council
of Defense
Henry Ebbott, President
G. A. Hoen, Secretary
Lieutenant Ernest Wood
Norman Clarke
Mahlon Ogden
George Lynts
John Flagg
ROLAND Livick
Thomas Head
Guy Ogden
Wayland Bliven
Gerald Ogden
Ira Jenkins
Wellington Fredendall
Kenneth Lutz
Willard Fessenden
Laurence Whitford
George Ogden
Edward Short
Thomas Ruosh
John Strassburg
Albert c.. Schumacher
George Boesel
Herbert Nichols
Hurley Ford
Hugo Stark
Floyd j. Mabie
Wilbert Murphy
Frank Devine
John McDonough
Willis Madden
Harry Mccain
Richard Hayes
James Monroe
Charles Bunker
Glenn Gallman
Harold Dave
Abner Hanson
Biarne Rossabo
Christian Nelson
Alfred Teisberg
Melvin Bake
Carmen Nelson
Paul III. Jensen
Leon Ellingson
Ralph Amundson
Adolph Guinness
Wesley Tellefson
Giles Lien
Oscar Severson
Stanley Fosse
Merle Olson
Evan Norgard
Christian Oppegard
Otis Strand
Gilman Teisberg
Nicholas Oppegard
Harold Amundson
Harold Bliven
Verne Griep
Oscar Odin Eide
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-12-14
A Theory.

Fogg says that the reason the fash
ions change SO frequently is that they
are trying to elude some of the people
who are following them.-Boston
Transcript.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-12-14
Guard Your Tongue.

de more you talk" said Uncle Eben,
"de more you has to explain why you
didn't keep still in de fus' place l''-
Washington Star.
Evening star., 1917-09-23

to attacks. in some quiet sector, which
viii get them beyond the German third
line, where trenches and the rest are
fewer-to war in the open"
Not to an open" all prepared by Ger
mans in retreat, all bristling with pit
falls and nests cf machine guns, mind
You. but to a more virgin open, unex-
pected. uninvited.
An old hand WAS telling.
why | asked him.
Because ne said. ''in their trenches
We know that they are almost as i'm
pregna BILE as we are. IT is very ex-
pensive to take them. 1t requires n
vast artillery prepa ration. Under cover
of il. We can get cheaply to their first
and second lines. but, You see, they've
got the ranges. All their various
trenches are ranged accurately. They've
had time to do il all. nlathema tically.
from every possible point. They can
get their seventy-sevens and other ar
tillery Just where they want it. The
minute they are telephoued that a GER
tain spot is occupied by our troops they
turn their guns on that spot. But be-
yond their reserve lines we Will be in
country which they have not mapped SO
accurately. In that country our artil-
lery Will be as good as theirs. And our
infantry and cavalry also"
He started to say something else
and stopped.
II he had said 1t l would not dare tell
it, STERLING HELLO.
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excavating machines. results of Amer
lean mining and subway experience and
ingenuity. adapted to mysterious uses.
Evidently. we must be patient. An
Italian paper has just published the
photograph of an American tank" un-
loaded at a French port but even such
great favor to an ally does not extend
to the underground.
I'VE admire and venerate the French
and Join right up with them." exclaims
my sergeant. "At the beginning they
had nothing. Now they have every
thing.
How our American soldiers profit by
all this!
American wives and mothers vene-
rate French widows. Your beloved.
day by day. will sit in safety. by ex-
perience Of their dead. On the battle
fields of Lorraine fwhere Paris was
saved in the great struggle of August
September. 1914. no less than on the
Marne) French infantry took" the
Bavarian shell rain on their naked
breasts. On the Plateau d'Amance "a
hill less than mile long and an eighth
of a mile deep) the Bavarians threw
$4,000 shells. This was I'm the early
days before we heard of a million being
fred between breakfast and afternoon
tea. The French had no subterranean
refugees to shelter in and a poverty of
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beef or rain coats. They are, praCti-
cally contracting firms of professional
excavators and cementers. They have
illustrated catalogues. The general has
only to look through the pictures and
pick out the number. When the order
is given, the department takes the work
in hand with it's giant machines-pow
er excavators. hydraulic piercers and
fushers. narrow-gauge tracks, cars for
the removal of dirt and rock. and blast
ine-sticks to hurry it all along. Then
they get busy with their iron roads and
cement. their wooden and metal grid
ers, lay the waterpipes, electric light
and telephone. install the ventilators
and all is ready for the kitchens. stoves
chairs. beds and ables for the troops
to play poker while waiting.
This department. has existed for
year back. but only recently has il
been permitted to speak of its work.
Every month its machines have become
perfected. Digging with pick and
shovel. faiways' necessary is reduced to
a minimum, and even the loading of
narrow-guage cars with eXcavated dirt
and rock is automatic.
What strikes me is its straight COM
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mixed with other ingredients before
they are ground into SNUFF. The stuff
is packed up for market in OK blad-
ders in balls ranging in size from that
of your fist to your head: and it is sold
by the ounce or the pound 1t is used
largely in the mountain districts of
the south after the custom known as
snuff dipping" In this the snuff is
not sucked up the nose. 1t is taken
into the mouth, being applied with a
chewed stick which is dipped into the
mixture and then rubbed over the
teeth and gums. 1t is common through
out the southern Appalachian noun
tains.
The custom of using snuff for the
nose is fast dying out, although il was
more or less prevalent among all
classes in colonial times. Dolly Nfadi-
son. the wife of the President, was an
artistic snuff-user. She had two hand
kerchiefs for the purpose. one of these,
she said. was for blowing and the 9TH
or. a delicate lace affair, she used as a
uolisher. Not long ago many of our
United States senators used snuff, and
i'll my own time as A correspondent at
the Capitol at Washington large
snuff box was kept in the Senate cham
Der. the powdered tobacco in which
was supplied to such senator's as were
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mond that is now making more than a
million cigars every day. 1t has also an
output of cigarettes that runs into the
billions a year.
The town of Reidsville. n. c.. manu-
factures s4.oO0.000 worth of plug to-
bacco year.
In coming to this tobacco belt of the
south 1 expected to find some large
plantations. The fact is that the most
of the tobacco crop comes from garden
patches. and the farmers estimate the
size of their crops. not by the acre, but
by the hill. There are about four thou
sand hills to the acre. and a man who
has a half million hills is nabob. II
all the tobacco fields of the United
States were put into one block, the field
would be only about twice the size of
Rhode Island, its area being little
more than two thousand square miles.
If all the tobacco farmers were gather
ed together they would number some
thing like three hundred thousand.
I have visited the warehouses at Dan
VILE where these auction sales are
held. There are eleven of them. and
each covers several acres. The tobacco
cured as l have described. is brought
in by the farmers and laid in piles
upon the floor. The piles are in Ion g
rows and each pile is as big around as
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a wash tub. 1t represents one mans
crop. and is marked with card bear
ing the name of the owner.
Walking about among the piles are
scores OF tobacco BUYERS. They ex-
anime the tobacco, handling the leaves
ana smelling them When the auc-
tioneer comes IN he begins at one end
of the room and moves from pile to
pile. auctionlng off each lot as he goes
He gives the amount of tobacco repre-
Sented by the pile and does not waste
time waiting for bids He auctions off
two or three lots per minute After
finishing one row he starts down an
other. and so on until all are disposed
of. AS soon Il sale is made il is
marked down by bookkeeper who fol-
lows the :,uctioneer and the farmer
can get his cash straight away from
the warehouse. which acts as a clear
ing house for the buyers.
Tooacco is one of the money crops OF
the farmers. 1t is sold for cash. and
there is no trouble about payment.
This has always been so. aud it will
probe bly, continue as long as man is
addicted to the toba co using habit The
first morey that came into the south
was from tobacco. 1t came from sales
made to England as far back as l $50.
and a little later tobacco passed as
money and was used in payment of
taxes Preachers got their salaries in
tobacco, and the town officers were
Paid the same way. Some of the Oldest
families of our country have among
their colonial great-grandmo OF hers
women who were brought over from
England to be married to the first set
tiers. They were landed at jamestown,
Va. when a likely maid brought. it is
said, one hundred pounds of tobacco
and upward in the auction sale of the
girls to the planters.
FRANK C. CARPENTER.
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had thirty-one thousand acres in to-
bacco, and it netted her almost 1our
million dollars. Ohio had about ninety.
four thousand acres, with product OF
more than eighty-four million pounds
whereas Wisconsin, which we look upon
as one of the cold states of the Unlon'
had forty-one thousand acres in TO-
bacco and she received therefrom more
than two million dollars Nearly all OF
the southern states produce more or
less tobacco, and some make special
kinds that are found nowhere else.
There is little district in Louisiana,
not far from New Orleans. which grows
tobacco which Is as black as your
hat and as strong as fresh lye. This
is known as perique tobacco. 1t is
cured in its own juice and is said to be
one of the finest tobaccos made. 1t Is
sold in rolls wrapped around with
cords, and is said to grow sweeter as it
becomes older. 1t is too strong for
those not accustomed to use it
The tobacco of North Carolina and
Virginia makes good cigarettes. and
billions of them come from the soil
near where 1 am writing. This toba eco
is mild. light and yellow, and 1t has Il
fine flavor. I went through a cigarette
factory here. which is one OF the iarg
est of the United States, the product of
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Vast Underground Shelters for American Soldier
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watch it. other stoveplpes rise and
waggle toward you. An attack of
aerial torpedocS has hegun in the quiet
sector and orders are that all men dive
into the subterranean refuge. Each
aerial torpedo carries from so pounds
to 600 pounds of trinitrotoluol. ninety
eight times worse than dynamite. And
this is "A quiet sector, When great shell
mbardnents begin (but regularly
they don'D nothing can live above
ground.
But the attack? How can these deep
refugees aid the attack II / should tell
YOU ali that l have heard. ii would
surely he censored cut. So. il anything
seems lacking here. or hard to UNDER
stand. don't blame me, but the circum-
stances.
II is extremely interesting.
To begin with thut not 70 continue),
If thousands and thousands of infan-
trymen are to make rush tnot over
the top" perhaps. but Unto the open'D
they must be aiive and near the start
ing point 10 start off at the signal. And
what would you say TO ca.alry ia a secret
passage miles long! If you feel disposed
TO smile, remember the coal mines OF
Lens
This is just the talk OF rank and file
not officers. All the rank and file
(inciuding Americans. exactly as err
thusiastic as the othsrsl look forward
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addicted to the habit at the expense of
the government.
The south IS now making three
fourths of the tobacco of the United
States. The weed can lie grown almost
anywhere from Canada TO the equator
but there are certain localities and
soils which produce far better tobacco
than others. In Connecticut the con-
ditions are especially good for making
cigar wrappers, and they raise some Of
the finer tobaccos under tents at a cost
of hundreds Of dollars per acre. Some
of the Kentucky tobaccos are so fine
that the plants are bagged IN order to
keep the seed pure. and each region
has its own specially. The finest Ha-
vanas are grown in 4 little district in
western Cuba. where the soil is worth
almost its weight in gold. Not long
ago when = ra a-lroad was put through
that country the people scooped off the
top earth and brought in poorer mate
rial TO build up the right Of way for
the tracks. They used the ton soil for
their tobacco fields, treating it some
what as a fertilizer
AS 20 the southern states which make
the bulk of our tobacco crop, | have
before me the figures for the crop OF
1919 AT that time Kentucky prod uceti
in round numbers about 356. 900. 900
pounds Of tobacco. and North Carolina
almost 200 100000. Virginia made 144.
100000. Tennessee about 10.o00,000 and
South Carolina almost IS, ,000, 900 pounds
The total was more than 100000. .000
pounds for these five states. and the
plantations covered over million acres
The value of the crop to be farmers
was more than $4,000, ,G00 or an average
of about SO per acre.
1t will surprise many to know that a
considerable amount of tobacco is
raised in our northern states. The crop
of Massachusetts is worth more than
a million dollars year, and that OF
Connecticut brings in five million dol
lars and upward. In 1915 Pennsylvania
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which amounts to some billions a year.
The manager tells me that the demand
for cigarettes is greater than can be
supplied. and that this factory made Il
half billion more cigarettes III January
OF this year than it did in the same
month of last year. There is a company
1T Durham, \. C., that is now making
nine million cigarettes Il day. and the
total number annually manufactured by
US Is equal to two hundred aud ten for
every man, woman and child in the
country.
In making cigarettes the tobacco is
prepared by machinery end ground
and favored to taste. II is fed from
the machines onto streams of. thin,
tissue paper. the tobacco being rolled
and pasted by the machines and cut by
them into cigarettes. In fact almost
everything is done by machinery, ana
the tobacco is hardly handled by man
from the time it enters the factory
until 1t goes out III special cars for ex-
port all over the country. The machines
work a s though they had brains. There
is one which counts the cigarettes, as it
puts them into boxes of twenty so tnat
they just III, a package of a certain
shape. The machine first lays two rowS
of seven cigarettes and then one row
of six. 1t never makes mistake.
These machines are almost human in
their manipulations. They have steel
hands and steel fingers. and they make
boxes and bags of tin or cloth, per-
forming hundreds of operations, which
end in the completed products of manu-
factured tohaccos OF various kinds.
There is one Arm at Durham, n. c..
which annually ships $4,000 600 pounds
OF granulated smoking tobacco. and
there is factory here that makes
SOC, 900 packages of such tobacco per
day. The factory puts its tobacco in
ing out 1000, ,008 such sacks every twenty
four hours. There Is a company in Rich
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ammunition TO fire back. and yet they
stuck" and saved Lorraine and helped
save Paris and the world. How many
French mothers paid the price of it?
4
Even the trenches at the beginning
of the trench war of the Aisne We're
accidentally constructed. SO to speak
The Germans we're away ahead. The
French knew nothing about trench
excavators. but scratched the earth
with picks and shovels. Neither side
fully appreciated the coming role OF
heavy artillery and the need OF deep
underground shelters when would re-
suit therefrom. The Germans tscien-
titic killers by profesSion) developed
these deep shelters long ahead The
French had to learn what they were
by storming German lines and seeing
one here and there Gf they were !uckE)
with their own eyes, !. eoSs edein e''
Today. if a French general. either for
attack or defense. mind you. demands
subterranean shelters. on certain spots
OF the front. capable OF preserving a
great number of men against violent
BON ba rdment. the work does not de-
pend exclusively on his military en-
gineers, although these latter are, nat
urally. responsible, for the most part,
Of their organization. No, the general
just gives his orders.
The French authorities have created
a special department. which is always
ready to pierce, eXcayate and Solidify
with cement. swiftly. as soon as de-
manded and on no matter what point of
the front. as many of the exact kind of
subterranean shelters as the general
in chief shall call for.
It is like giving an order to a great
contracting firm for 10000 tents. 500. 900
shells or 1000 packing cases of timed
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on to some extent. This wood was des-
tined for shipment by sailing vessel to
some railroad point which would trans
port it to pulp mill.
After passing the wood the road winds
across sandy, fiat land, some of it yield
ing a patriotic growth of prosperous
corn. but large areas growing nothing
but ragweed, golden rod. asters, poke
weed and persecaria, or smartweed.
Because of the difficulty in obtaining
farm labor there are many Stacker
acres and some of these lazy acres are
a part of the estate of the old Conti-
mental general. This is not the fault of
the wharfkeeper and present proprie-
tor of "Mattawoman." He and his fam
lily were avid for news of the progress
of the war and in their Americanism
there are no hyphens.
Passing the Grinder home, the Ram
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generally steep but here and there q sec
ton OF bank has been SO eroded as to
expose the clay. giving touches OF khaki
wide and always graceful sweeps; making
big bays; then two points lot land will
&Eproachy from opposite shores, making a
narrcws, after which the shore lines Will
again curve away. exposing a broad
stretch of water. The channel WeaTes
from side to side of the creek and is out
lined by dry, dead, brown cedar brushes,
and there are miles Of shoals and wide,
long stretches of water which. at low tide
at this season, is grassy"
Grinders wharf bears a family re-
semblance to manly other Of the wharves
1t Is about hundred feet long and fifty
feet wide with revetments of ancient
gray and weedy timbers. the whole filed
plentifully mixed At the outer end is
the wharfhouse of weathered gray oak
planking, nailed upright with the seams
stripped. 1t has shing1ed. steep-hipped
roof 1t is really picturesque. and in it's
quietude and solitude seems great deal
farther away in sentiment from the rush
ing, industrial world than it is geographi-
cally. Back of the wharf, on the land
side, trees grow from the line Of high tide
to the crest Of the high bank. Up this
bank from the wharf slants a road bor-
dered by trees and wild shrubbery. and
as you climb it there opens before you
majestic view of the creek.
The Rambler followed this road to
one Of the shrines of America, the home
and the grave of Gen. William Small
wood. one of the distinguished officers
Of the Continental army. He was a
man who was friend of Washington.
was cordially and favorably mentioned
by Washington in his official military
papers and was given a vote Of thanks
Nv for in ha w
Jersey campaign. He became governor
of Maryland and exercised a good and
potent influence in the life and affairs
Of the young republic. He called his
and his holdings. either intact or very
nearly so. are the property of John
W. Carpenter. who. naddition to farm
ing the cleared land of the big tract
holds the office of wharf keeper Of
When the estate of Gen. Smallwood
passed from his collateral heirs Che
having no direct heirs) it was bought
by John Grinder of Washington. whom
many Washington people will recall as
one of the important brickmakers in
South Washington. His wife was born
Dolly Evans. After the death of John
Grinder, "Mattawoman" passed to his
Their daughter. Mary E. Grinder. be-
came the wife of John W. Carpenter
and they live in fine brick house
powered in a pretty garden a few hun
dred yards from where the house OF
Gen. Smallwood is collapsing and the
monument which was erected at his
grave by the Maryland Society of the
Sons Of the American Revolution on
july T. 1898.
The road where it reaches the top Of
the river bank passes long racks Of
wood sawed in the usual lengths and
stripped of its bark. 1t Is not cord
wood. though the cutting Of frewood
for shipment to the cities was long an
important industry and is still carried
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grapevines and high bush blackberries
and above this tangle rise a gnarled
black locust and two old dark cedars.
one Of them tall and conical, the other
of blunter and more rotund form.
On the edge of this sad little jungle
which seems to cover many unmarked
graves there is a massive granite block.
From around this the weeds and other
wild growth have been kept away and
this is testimony that the grave of
Gen. Smallwood is not neglected. The
big granite block bears this inscription:
In Memory Of General William Smallwood. A
Hero of the American Revolution and a Native
of Maryland. Commissioned Colonel in 1776.