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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
What It Costs to Write a Letter.

Naturally you will think of the new
Scent postage, which adds a burden to
the cost.
The postage really adds to 3 per
cent of the cost of writing letters
that is ALL The actual cost of writing
a letter has been correctly figured at
SO cents at the minimum. Here Is the
way it stands: A sheet of paper, an
envelope and the 3-cent stamp are not
the larger but the smaller items that
enter the cost of writing letter.
A fair stenographer will cost you
$7OO year and over. Ii you keep her
busy she will use 10000 letterheads and
envelopes, costing $500 or more
wear. This will require 10000 Scent
stamps, which adds $500 to your annual
bill. :,
You must add to this the overhead
charge of S7OO for light, heat, rent,
machinery, ribbons, files, carbon paper,
supervision, etc.
Thus YOU can see that busy stem
ographer will cost you at least 81 800
wear at the least to produce 10000 let
tiers. You can figures this; it IS IL
cents for each letter. If you don't fig
ure YOUR overhead in it Is IL cents per
letter.
Then there is the man who dictates
the letters; what of him? His time
should be worth at least $500 a day.
Suppose he dictates 80 important let
tiers day, his cost is 80 cents per
letter. You can cut this down to ~
cents, if you think he is earning in
other duties of the day.
Now put your items together, and
see if it does not cost 38 cents for a
letter, or 81, 900 per year for the posi-
BILE 10, 900. If there are less number
of letters, all the cost but postage and
stationery will run up.
This gives you the actual minimum
cost of correspondence.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
Dove That Built Great City.

When mighty Amru went to conquer
Egypt he camped on the east bank of
the Nile opposite Memphis, that great
2O-mile-long capital of mud bricks,
whose western verge was the pyra-
mids and hose mud brick houses have
all vanished. Amru crushed the Egyp-
tians and came back to get his camp
to move over and occupy Memphis.
A dove had built in the folds near lie
top of his tent. Blood-bathed Anr..,
the ruthless, would not let her be dis
turbed. A new city started about his
tents. It grew i1orthward along the
Nile. 1t is today Cairo. Memphis is
only a name. -.z-.-.--.e-.4
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
Congressman Cooper to be Opposed.

A conference of over three hundred
republicans of the first congressional
district assembled at Eikhorn on Thurs
dav for the purpose of selecting can
didate to oppose Henry Allen Cooper in
the congressional primary in Septem-
Der. On the ninth ballot the honor fell
upon Judge Clifford E. Randall, though
Hon. Geo. L. Harrington of Walworth
might have been nominated had he
chosen to accept Strong resolutions
were passed denouncing the war atti-
tude of Congressman Cooper, and If a
like sentiment prevails throughout the
district Mr. Cooper's term of office
will soon close. Here is what the
Whitewater Register has to say on the
situation:
'FHenry Allen Cooper is pretty GER
tain to 90 through the rest of his life
with the firm belief that thirteen is a
hoodoo number regardless of the fun
that is made of that superstition.
Henry has gone thirteen times to con-
gress from the first congressional dis
trict of Wisconsin. At one time ne
was not without considerable influence
in the lower house. Last year he was
one of the short-sighted minority IN
congress that voted against the war
and the war measures, bringing dis
grace to Wisconsin and especial odlum
and suspicion upon this first congress
sional district. We trust you see the
connection.
The determination of large number
of republicans of the first congressional
district to retire H. A. Cooper from
congress because of his failure to stand
by his country is to be commended. In
voting and speaking against war, Mr..
Cooper favored submission to the ag-
erosion of the lawless German govern
ment. He would have surrendered the
honor of this nation to the insolent and
criminal autocracy of Germany. He
would have abandoned the rights of the
nation on the high seas and supinely
allowed the German submarines to Kill
American citizens without warning anc
DESTROY their property without redress
or COMPENSATION. His vote against wal
palliated and ignored the atrocitie:
committed by the military forces o.
the central powers against innocen
peoples and non-combatants, and then
violation of international law and al
the recognized rules of warfare. Un
less the Times-Call very greatly mis-
takes the temper and character OF tn
people of the first congressional dis
trict, congressman with such recor'
can never be returned to Washington
This great district populated by pros
porous, intelligent and intensely loya
people, will accept no excuse for o
explanation of such record. The
will never vote to endorse such rec
ord by returning to Washington tn
man responsible for it.-Racine Times
Call.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31

THE annual property loss or this
country. due to lightning, is about
So. 900. 600. About 1900 persons are
struck by lightning each year, one
third killed outright, the others IN
i1red or marked for life. Fully three
fourths of this loss fall on the rural
districts. Farm barns and residences,
churches, schools, elevators and wire
fences are favorite marks. Inc tram
travelling on steel rails, the steel sky
scraper, or other iron structures, are
apparently immune from lightning. In
reality they are struck FULLY as oIten
as wooden buildings. The steel and
iron in them offer a good conductor,
along which the equalizing electric cur
rent between the air above and the
earth below flows uninterruptedly
Wood is poor conductor, so wooden
buildings are, frequently struck, as we
call it. The problem then is to equip
the wooden buildings with some good
conductors, to perform the same func-
ton steel and iron do in buildings which
appear to be immune from the light
ming stroke. The lightning rods made
of copper or double-galvanized iron are
such conductors. Experience shows
that lightning rod system properly
installed, grounded to permanent moist
ure. and kept in repair, makes build
ing immune from lightning damage.
Available evidence shows that lightning
rods of all kinds of installations and In
all sorts of conditions, reduce the light
ming fire hazard on farm barns % to ~
ner cent. and on farm residences IS to
on nor cent
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31

If AN advance of third in passenger
rates and rs per cent in freight tariffs
had been proposed by the railways pre-
vious to the governments taking over
these properties, what storm of pro,
test would have arisen everywhere
But Secretary McAdoo is determined
that the roads shall pay their way and
the public must submit. We can begin
to see how unfair legislative bodies,
commissions, ETC., have been treating
the transportation facilities of the
country late years in not permitting
them remunerative rates. 1t may be
true Sec. McAdoo has set his scale a
trife too high.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31

THE experience in public work which
thousands of men, women, boys and
oirls are now for the first time getting
Should mean much to this country in
the future. Thousands of people who
never had done anything useful for
their city, state or nation are now lab
orinp as volunteers in various fields in
cident to the war. These workers have
learned several things. They have
found the satisfaction which comes
with service and have gained confidence
in their own abilities. Many or the
narrow and self-centered prejudices
and viewpoints have been changed.
After the war is over and American
cities face the vital civic problems
which will be presented, there Will De
found on hand new element OF people
ready and eager for constructive serv-
ice. They will have been awakened to
a new sense of responsibility by what
they have already done for the Red
Cross, for civilian relief, in the various
Liberty Loan drives and in the many
other pressing undertakings of the day.
There will be large increase IN the
available number of helpers. This war
will have been a training school In
more ways than one, and not the least
important of these schools will be that
which prepares the home psople for
more unselfish and better public serv-
ice. Many problem which used to go
by default for lack of interest or ex-
perience will seem a natural and SIM
pie question for intelligent solution.
And the old easy way of Letting
George do it" will be less popul ar. =
Cincinnati Times-Star.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
Shark Leather Here.

From being an implacable enemy to
man science is making the shark expi-
ate it's crimes by helping to reduce the
high cost of living. For the tiger of
the sea has now become a source OF
leather to clothe millions of pairs of
feet.
Experiments with shark leather indi-
cate that it may be used for practically
everything now made of cattle leather
Tt is even claimed that shark hides
have one great advantage over cow
hides in that the splits are amaz-
ingly strong. A ''split" is simply 9
peeling of the hide-something like the
veneer cut from slab of wood.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31

OyERsUBsCRIBED by SO per cent and
taken over by 1900, 900 individuals,
the third Liberty Loan is one OF the
worlds triumphs. Country and city
districts exceeded their minimums, the
country this time doing better than the
cities. There were fewer large sub
scriptions and far more small ones than
in the second loan, the total number OF
takers touching 17,0OO,0 900, an average
of about one subscriber for every fam
lily in the land. That's where the rec
ord counts. Think Of the spirit OF a
people where every family comes for
ward with it's subscription to the war
fund! Think of that nations deter
mination, its courage and its faith. Ii
shows a nation determined to see the
thing through, not counting the cost
but the gair, not the beginning but the
end. No vote could better give IN
struction to the government to pusf
this thing through to right end. M
election of candidates could better give
an order. Milwaukee News.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31

Several fine farms and several nice
residences in almost any part of the
city of Beloit for sale. Crops go with
the farms if desired. Immediate pos
session given. When in Beloit call and
see me. j. F. Wussaw, 215 State St.,
Beloit, Wis. Phone 1859. 27t4
For Rent or Sale Business place
on Swift street. Very reasonable.
w. w. Hammond. 25tf
Stencil brushes and large boxes case
blacking for sale at this Office. If
Shop to rent. Inquire of Mrs. Ella
Watson. 25tf
A $3.50 Cable player piano in A No.
l condition for sale cheap. Apply at
Reporter Office.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
Effects With Laths.

Left over wall laths can be made
nse of in various ways. Tackled hori-
zontally and vertically at the back
of an ordinary wooden box and the
whole thing painted in white or some
bright color, they make a most charm
ing trellis for the window or porch.
They are also effective as bedroom
closet convenience for holding dress
ing gowns. etc. They should be paint
Cd white and touched up with pink or
nine flowers, or they can be painted
with the motifs from the chintz hang
Iinrogs. Brass hooks are attached to the
s6uares, and an addition. both useful
AID pleasing, is gained in the home.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
First Publication May 81, 1879
Notice to Creditors.

STATE OF WISCONSIN,,
County Court for Rock County. In
Probate.
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 OF
October, A. D. 1918, being Octo-
Der 1st, 1918, at 9 o'clock a. M, the fol
lowing matters will be heard. consid-
cred and adjusted:
All claims aga;nst Florence Carpen-
ter, late of the City of Edgerton, in said
County, deceased.
All claims must be presented for al
owance to said Court, at the Court
louise, in the City of GAINESVILLE, on OF
before the 29th day of September. A. D.
1918, or be barred.
Dated May 20, 1918.
By the Court:
Oscar N. Nelson,
Register il. Probate.
E. nj. Ladd, Atty.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31

THE next move in government own
ership is the taking over of the express
companies, so it is announced. Wnlle
the move will throw out of employment
a vast army of wage earners, the econ
omies obtained justifies the consoilda-
ton Of these carriers.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
For a Sprained Ankle

AS soon as possible after the injury
is received get bottle Of Chamber
lain's Liniment and follow the plain
printed directions which accompany the
bottle.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
Dental Offices Closed.

Dental offices will be closed Saturday
afternoons during June, July, August
and September.
DR.. HOLTON,
DR. HYLAND,
20tf DR.. MEYERS.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-31
Memorial to Paul Cody Bentley

Memorial to Paul Cody Bentley
The following poem was written
by F. w. Bentley of Chicago as
memoir al to his son Paul, who was
he first American Soldier to fall in
action against the Huns, after the
arrival of the Pershing Expedition
N France
Memorial Day, May 80, 1918
In memory Of Paul Cody Bentley
(Croix du Guerre) who died Of bat
lie wounds on Chemin Des Danes
September 10th, 1917, CUR first dead in
action after Pershing landed in France.
Where Frances bleeding lilies
CLEAN
By fallen spire and charnel
stream,
Our son lies sleeping in his grave.
He volunteered, and died, to save.
The cross of wood that marks his
place,
Has painted his sable face,
By artist hand in living white,
A name that one may read by
night.
His chambered cell COPIED with
cement,
(The arc of earthly covenant,)
Is like the others, rows on rows,
In wars pale garden of repose.
The clay that folds his sleeping
room,
Instead of linen from the loom,
Is common. earth. Each soldier
dead
Finds just the same grey Easter
bed.
But glory rides each ray of light
From Sun or Moon or star-shell
flight
And decorates each treasured
With Easter dawn, with heavenly
flame.
The Earth whirls in this ring OF
dawn,
There is no sunset glow. The
pawn
That was the castle of soul
Remains within the shadow bowl
The Earth, the mother of thu
flowers,
Of all the corn and all the bowers
Takes back the husks, but not the
grain
That nurtures God in human brain
The grain failed from the rim O.
night
Falls in q field of purest light,
And. growing in celestial rays,
Star-lights the dark obliviou
rays.
On! Science. you have near de
Gtroyed
Most all that Christians once en-
joyed,
We deeply delve your hardene'
mines
And re-enstore the Lords designs
One name ne'r passed the pagan
lips
Through which red Woden's oftel
| trips,
That name is "Christ," This tok
| en- tells
| Wherein the peaceful spirit dwellS
The Beast that shipwrecked Fart
with greed
Is not of Gods celestial seed,
The army, dead on Honor's field,
Is carried forward on God
Shield.
There are no dead. They all SUI
vive
And in another essence thrive,
Somewhere within that boundles
light
They're striving still for truth an
right.
| NV soul beholds their serrie
shades
From on the heavens high pc
rades,
Equipped for war. Each on
alike
Arise! Ye living dead men
STRIKE!
| Shark Leather Here.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-06

Over in England they are selling bones
at the rate of five pounds for n shil-
ling. Policemen regulate long lines
of people patiently standing out on
the sidewalks, waiting, not for their
favorite matinee idol to pass, but for
a chance to enter a food shop and buy
a small quantity of food. 1t takes
about three minutes for the shopkeep-
ers to dress their windows over there,
merely because there are, perhaps,
but a few cans of condensed milk and
a box or two Of corned beef to be dis
played.
Yet over here in America, bones,
hay, even fats and precious scraps of
meat are going into the garbage pals =!
Although in many cities there were
long lines of people waiting last win
ter for supplies of coal, there has as
yet been no pinched-faced mob plead
ing for food. True there are frequently
long lines of people on the street, but
mostly they are buying tickets to
showsi In the busy streets In towns
and cities, s~hopkeepers display elabo-
rate arrangements of all kinds Of deli
cacies In their showcase windows.
They would scorn a display" of corn
ed beef and condensed milk!
The accompanying picture is from
the Official Press bureau In London.
1t was sent over to this country for
the express purpose of showing Amer
lea what England is really facing. A
country in such straits not only needs
help herself, but cannot possibly be
expected to contribute to the support
of hundreds of thousands of United
States troops now on the other side. The
food shortage Is real. Save food and
"Carry On"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-06
SHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue of a writ of feri facias, to me d.
rected, issued out Of the New Jersey Court of
WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY
OF JULY, NINETEEN HUNDRED
N EIGHTEEN.
at two o'clock in the afternoon Of said day,
at the Court Room, No. POI, Second Floor.
Guarantee Trust Building, in the City of At
lantic City, County of Atlantic and State of
All that certain tract or parcel of land and
premises, hereinafter particularly described.
situate in the City Of Abgecon, County of At
Number L. Beginning in the Northerly
line of Bolton Avenue three hundred and ten
(31o) feet Eastwardly from the East line of
the Shore Road (said road considered fifty
500 feet wide, and the monuments marking
the same are along the West side of an offset
of two and seventy-five hundredths (2.75)
feet East of the West line of said road)
thence ID Eastwardly along said North line
of Bolton Avenue fifty 80 feet; thence ex-
tending Northwardly between parallel lines
and at right angles to the said North line of
Bolton Avenue one hundred and sixty (16o)
feet more or less to the most Northerly line
of land formerly belonging to William 3.
Frank G Morrill, from William E. Lee ct ux.
by deed dated April 18th, 1904. duly record
ed in book 304 of deeds, page 421, &C.
Number 2. Beginning at a point in the
Northwardly line of Bolton Avenue at a dis
lance of three hundred and sixty (360) feet
Eastwardly from the Easterly line of the
Shore Road and runs thence I'd Northward-
hundred and seventy (170) feet more or less
to line of lands of Peter B. Reed thence (2)
Eastwardly along the same twenty-five (25)
feet thence (3) S~outhwardly parallel with
line of lands in description Number l one
hundred and seventy (170) feet more or less
to the Northwardly line of Bolton Avenue;
thence "a Westwardly along the Northward-
ly line of Bolton Avenue twenty-five (25)
feet to the place of beginning. Being the
same premises granted and conveyed to
Frank c.. Morrill, from William E. Lee ct ux.
by deed dated May 8, 1905, and duly record
ed in book 331 of deeds, page $50, &c.
Seized as the property of Lawrence L.
Shinn ct vir ct ais. and taken in execution at
the suit of Mary NJ. and Lewis H. Wallace.
Trustees, &C., and to be sold by
ALFRED j.. PERKINS,
Sheriff.
Dated June %, 1918.
A. ]. Beckenbach. Solicitor.
Prs fee. 500 10
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-06

those boys. Their business is to get
subs What happens to them is an
other matter entirely.
sit was over in less time than II
takes to tell 1t. AT the same time the
next nearest destroyer was perhaps
100 yards away, spinning around In a
tight little circle and dropping depth
bombs as fast as 1t could spill them
over the stern. Presently a great oily
blob of water rose and the destroyer
curved away from the ship and went
over to the first one to see what 1t was
doing. The rest of them had apparent
ly gone plumb crazy. They were sim
ply whipping the nearby surface of
the sea to white ribbons.
Living Wall Formed.
"a big flock of English gunboats and
d%estroyers came up from nowhere in
particular and moved along ahead of
us and on our TANKS. We reduced our
speed to theirs and our own flock of
wasps came up and formed a living
wall around us and we moved along
up to where an hour later an English
pilot was picked up who took us
through the mine fields and into port.
1--WE learned then from the com
mander of the destroyer fleet, who
came aboard us, that there had been
three subs waiting for us. They had
fired three torpedoes at short range,
but just as the fracas started we had
been signaled to turn sharp and beat
1t. We did. The torpedoes skinned
our sides. Two of the submarines went
to Davy Jones' locker and they kind of
felt that the other one was smOthered
the same afternoon"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-06
SALE.

By virtue of a writ of feri facias, to me
directed, issued out of the New Jersey Court
of Chancery, will be sold at public vendue, on
WEDNESDAY, H TWENTY = FOURTH
DAY OF JULY. NINETEEN HUN
DRIED AND EIGHTEEN,
at two O'Clock in the afternoon of said day,
in the Court Room No. POI, Second Floor,
Guarantee Trust Building, in the City of At
lantic City, County of Atlantic and State of
New Jersey.
All that certain tract or parcel of land and
premises hereinafter particularly described.
situate in the City of Somers Point, in the
Beginning at a point in the Northerly line
of First Street distant one hundred feet from
the Northerly line of New Jersey Avenue,
and runs ID in a Northeasterly direction in
said Northerly line of First Street fifty feet
and of that width extending in a Northwest
erly direction between parallel lines at right
angles with First Street one hundred and
forty feet. Being lot No. 200 in section A
on a plan of lots at Somers Point, Atlantic
County, New Jersey, owned by H. H. Van
SAINT, made by William Lake, Surveyor,
March 10, 1894, and on file in the Clerks
Office of Atlantic County, at Mays Landing,
New Jersey. Being the same premises which
Belle Lewis ct vir, by deed dated February
81, 1906, and of record in the Clerks Office
aforesaid in book 315 of deeds, page 238, &C..
granted and conveyed to Clarke Robinson.
Seized as the property of Clarke Robinson
ct ux. and taken in execution at the suit OF
Susanna McKeague and to be sold by
ALFRED ]. PERKINS,
Sheriff.
Dated June 20, 1918.
Albert G. Abbott, Solicitor.
Prs fee, S15.64
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-06
Germany Has Pledged to Let
Both Military and Civilian
Prisoners Have Home Help

Through the Spanish ambassador at
Berlin arrangements have been made
whereby American prisoners in Ger
many, both civilian and military, will
be allowed to receive money from
home. They will perhaps not receive
actual cash, but will probably be given
credit on prison exchanges.
A. ~ Sixty marks (about $15 at
normal exchange rates, but probably
considerably less now may be spent
weekly by officers and others of SIM
liar rank; (2) so marks weekly (about
S12) by noncommissioned officers and
privates.
B. Civilian prisoners-() Sixty
marks weekly "for men of better So
cial positions" (2) so marks weekly
for others.
The note of the Spanish ambassador
says: with a view to obtaining par
ticular articles the prisoners are al
lowed at any time to draw on their
credit"
All money sen interned civilians
or prisoners should be RENTED
through the Bureau Of Prisoners
Relief, American Red Cross, Washing
ton, d. G. Remittances should be
checks, drafts or postal money orders,
made payable to the American Red
Cross. That organization will do its
best to get the remittances through
but cannot guarantee delivery. Thus
far it has had pretty good success, and
such American prisoners as have al
ready or may hereafter become Ger
all the help they can get to make their
lives bearable.