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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28

PROBABLY the greatest fire in the
world is burning in southeastern Ohio,
says J. Fl. Mount in the July Popular
Mechanics Magazine. 1t has been
burning for more than 80 years and
has been fed by more than $4,000, 900
tons of the finest soft coal in the United
States. The fire has spread over about
Is square miles of territory, and has
actually consumed about 1900 acres OF
a coal vein that in places is Is feet in
thickness, averaging 81 feet. So far
the fire has defied every effort to ex-
tinguish it and promises to be still
burning a hundred years hence. The
coal vein that is burning is said by
mining experts to be the finest vein in
the. Hooking Valley district, and per
haps the finest soft coal vein in the
United States. 1t has been found i'm
possible to smother the fire, either by
inclosing it or by using chemicals. In
one of the early attempts to extinguish
the fire, water was pumped on 1t con-
iinuonsly for three years without visible
effect. The fire was started stimuli
taneously in seven big mines in the
vein during the strike disturbances
which occurred in 1884.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
Twenty-Five Years Ago.

A complete new post office OUTFIT IS
being installed by Postmaster Dave.
David Stillman, an old resident of
Albion, died Monday at an advanced
age.
Contractor Henderson has started the
basement walls of the new Bamberger
warehouse.
Lawrence Whittet is in Chicago this
week playing with the University club
in series of college games.
Dry weather is interfering with the
transplanting of the tobacco crop and
hot weather is burning out many of the
late set fields.
The marriage of Henry Johnson and
Miss Cora Crandall was solemnized at
the home of the brides aunt, Mrs. j.
Davidson, in Joliet, ILL.,, on the 28th;
Inez Hartzell and Walter Martin Of
Milwaukee by Rev. L. HI. Keller on the
Goth.
Johnny Willie, the Is year old son of
John Willie, was killed by the kick of a
stallion at his uncle's farm near Lake
Koshkonong Monday. The animals
feet struck him directly over the heart
causing his instant death.
Friday, June 80, 1898.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
Easy TO Exterminate Skunk.

Some authorities hold that skunks
are the most abundant of all wild ami
mails. This is hard to believe after
one has long watched the squirrels and
the rabbits, but it may be true. 1t
must be remembered that the daylight
skunks are the exceptions, and that
most of the tribe only show themselves
by starlight. For all we know, every
field may be chock full of skunks at
midnight. If it be true that they are
our most plentiful species it must be
apparent that the harm they do is not
tremendous. 1t would be compare
lively easy to exterminate them as so
many of our small woodland species
have been exterminated. Besides,
skunk pelts are valuable. With the
double incentive of revenge and profit
skunk hunters should be able to make
mephitis extinct in a few years.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
Reflections.

His face would have stopped clock.
But how can one wonder at it when
one learns that he was wandering
lecturer? Anyway, NO one had even
seen anything approaching the face
that he hauled into Clay
one wet and muddy November night
and set up in the town hall, allowing
words-calculated to make every drink
er of anything stronger than barley
water at once reform and spend the
rest of his existence in sackclOth and
ashes--slide out of the hole in the mid
die of it.
eyes, my dear brothers," said the
weird looking person, ''for more than
forty years / have Stunned the glass"
'And I bloomin' well believe yer,
guv'nor," said loud and hearty voice
from the middle of the audience. eff
I'd face like yours I wouldn't never
look in q pail of water even."-London
ideas.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
ALL HAVE THEIR UNDER-DOGS
Good Reasons Why Peoples Sympa-
thies Are With the Fellow Who
Is Temporarily Down.

Our sympathies naturally travel the
line Of likes-that is, the things we feel
in ourselves, we feel in others. We ap-
plaud the under-dog, because we so
often have been the under-dOg. We like
to lift the other fellow up when he is
down, because we also have been down.
Sympathy starts at home-Or else it
isn't sympathy.
Your periodic moods of failure and
disappointment are your under-dOgs.
So, instead Of walking past these
under-dogs of yours and casting no
sympathy their way, pause to give
them your heart and your hope, and
soon the picture and fact will be your
Over-dogs-your victories and your
genuine achievements.
No under-dogs can possibly appeal
in Importance to the under-dogs of
your daily experience.
Perhaps you will applaud alone the
under-dogs of your personal glooms
and shadows, but what of it? AS Low
ell says: "Daily, with souls that
cringe and plot, we Sinais climb and
know it not" What difference, what
odds, so long as over your manhood
bend the skies?'
Courageously cheer the under-dogs
of your experiences and stay proudly
by them until their fight becomes fac
tor of your kingship..George Matthew
Adams, in Good Housekeeping.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
HAD THOUGHT FOR OTHERS
Second Traveller Decidedly More Con-
siderate Of His Fellows Than
Was the First.

At the information booth in a large
railroad terminal q traveller asked for
a timetable, which he looked through
until he came to the particular table
he wanted. This table he cut out with
his pocketknife, and then he put the
booklet with this table now gone out
of it back on the counter.
1t seemed a thoughtless thing to do
because, lying there as it did with it's
outer cover smooth, somebody might
have picked it up and carried it off
thinking, naturally enough, that it was
complete, to discover it's real condi-
ton only when it was too late.
But this misfortune really befell no
one, for a moment later another trav-
eler standing near, who had seen all
this done and who was perhaps more
thoughtful than the first, picked up the
torn timetable and carried it off to
drop 1t in the nearest waste paper re.
ceptacle.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
Notice to Registrars

Questionnaires are now being sent
out to the men who registered on June
5, 1913 Every lawyer in Rock county
is a member of the Legal Advisory
Board. 1t is the duty of the members
of this board to advise registrants Of
their rights and obligations and to as
sist them in answering their question
naires, without charge. All registrants
who are now required to return their
missionaries should go to the nearest
member of the Legal Advisory Board
for assistance so that the papers may
be properly filled out. In order to save
time each registrant should come pre-
pared to answer all questions readily.
He should read the QUESTIONABLE care
fully and look up any data necessary to
fill out the answers correctly. Those
intending to claim deferred classified
tion on any ground should bring along
persons qualified to make the support
ing affidavits.
NJ o. Mouat,
Paul N. Grub,
T. d. Woolsey,
Legal Advisory Board for Rock Co.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
AT THE LYRIC

Ambassador James w. Gerard's
"My Four Years in Germany" will
be the attraction at the Lyric Thea
tire, tonite Thursday This big
ten ,eel production shows the whole
series of Incidents that forced Amer
,ea into this worlds battle. This
rict.''e is composed entirely of facts
rot fiction and is one that every true
American should see, also anyone
that does not fully understand the
true conditions that lead up to the
war. If you didn't see this picture
last night don't fail to do so tonight,
twenty-five and fifty cents plus war
tax. Two shows, 7.15 and 9:15.
The Princess of Park Row. with
Mildred Manning and Wallace Mac
Donald will be shown on Saturday.
This is a delightful love story of a
snappy young American newspaper
reporter who stumbles upon a ro-
nance that he doesn't write up.
The fans favorite Alice Brady
will be presented on Monday in one
of her plays "The Silent Sacrifice"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28

KEEP in mind that Friday, June 28 is
the last day to complete your quota for
the War Saving drive. Washington has
its eye on the whole country and ex-
poets every one to do his duty as the
following despatch to M. G. Jeffris,
county chairman, will show:
Washington, D. c., June 81. 1918.
M. G.. Jeffris,
GAINESVILLE, Wise.
AS county War Savings chairman you
are expected to reach the assigned OBJ
jective in the June campaign as surely
as we rely on our boys in France to
reach theirs. One hundred per cent
Americanism in your county should
mean nothing less than one hundred
per cent pledged War Savers. My
most earest wishes for your success.
F. A. VANDERBILT.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
The MAGNETIC Compass.

Experiments with magnets known to
the scientists $500 years ago, which,
developed by Doctor Gilbert and Peter
Perigrinus, led up to the present-day
admiralty compass of Kelvin, were
shown recently by Prof. J. A Fleming,
professor of electrical engineering, Uni
versity of London, at the Royal insti-
tute.
"The earth is magnet" said the
professor, sand every piece of iron that
has stood in vertical position for any
length of time is magnetized by the
earth. You can try it on your garden
ratings"
The hostelry sign. "The Goat and
Compass" he said, docs not refer to
the mariners friend, but is a conrrac-
tfon of the saying, "GOd encompasses
u.s." and the compass takes it's name,
not from the magnetism which governs
its working, but from the CIRCULAR card.
which eneompa the needle
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
SLEPT WHILE GUNS R0ARED
ing a Nap on Hillside During
Pickest's Charge.

In the campaigns of both Artietam
and Gettysburg ! was an officer in a
regiment of cavalry, a mere subor-
dinate, responsible only for obedience
to orders.
At Gettysburg July the division to
which we belonged occupied the high,
partly wooded ground on the right Of
the line, covering the enemy's flank
and rear. 1t was bright July day,
hot, and with white clouds slowly roll
ing across the sky. Neither our lines
nor those of the enemy were visible
to us; and the sounds of battle were
hushed. Waiting for orders and for
action, we dismounted, out of regard
for our horses as well as for ourselves,
and sat or lay on the turf.
Injured to danger by contact long and
close and thoroughly tired in body and
overweight in mind we listened for
the battle to begin; and shortly after
noon the artillery opened. We did not
know it, for we could see nothing in
that direction, but it covered the ia
nous advance of Pickett's Virginia di-
vision upon Meade's center-that
wonderful feat of arms-and just
then, lulled by the incessant roar Of
the cannon, while the fate of the
army and the nation trembled in the
balance, at the very crisis of the great
conflict, I dropped quietly asleep. It
was not heroic, but it was essentially
war.-From the Autobiography of
Charles Francis Adams.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28

In A recent address before the Chi
cago Association of Commerce, Henry
Rosenberg of Indianapolis said: eff
any person believes that Germany is
right in this war and that the United
States is wrong, that person should re-
turn to Germany. This is no time for
men of German birth to sulk in their
tents. Declare your fealty to America
from the housetops, if necessary, and
show our fellow Americans that we
can come out as boldly as they for the
basic principles of liberty. Most of the
Germans in America today left Ger
many because they could better their
conditions, and we have obtained rich
returns There isn't thing in Ger
many that this country wants, and
there isn't thing in America that
Germany will get. The German of to-
day-of blood and iron, of deceit and
duplicity, the land whose brutalities
drove us into this warts not the Ger
many of Goethe and Heine, the Ger
many that we all loved. 1t was a soul
crushing moment to me, and to all of
us when Germany was accused of her
monstrous crimes. We could not be-
lieve it at first, until the situation be-
came clarified. From now on we must
be 100 per cent Americans. We will
then feel that the melting pot has done
its work.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28

AS A result of the studies at the
front, methods have been developed
whereby more than 80 per cent of the
wounded, who originally remained at
the military hospitals for months, are
now cured and returned to the forces
in three or four weeks In order that
army surgeons stationed at camps, can
tonments and other military hospitals
in this country may thoroughly under
stand the latest treatment of war
wounds, the army medical department
has established special classes of in
struction to which are sent selected Of
ficers who, upon completion of their
courses, return to their own hospitals
and instruct other surgeons in these
methods.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
Tobacco Notes.

w. T. Pomeroy has furnished over
10000 tobacco plants to growers in
outlying territory, several being out
side of the state.
]. B. Klllibrew, of the U. S. crop
bureau of statistics, having tobacco his
speciality, and w. F. Collander of the
same bureau, in charge of Wisconsin
crop statistics, were in Edgerton Mon
day getting line on the condition of
the tobacco crop in this vicinity.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28

THERE is a good deal of Illuminating
information in the returns of the Min
nesota primary election of last Tues
day, and careful study of that cleo
ton will serve as both instruction and
warning to Wisconsin republicans and
democrats, and also to socialists ard
farmers who think the time right to
crystalline class movements in Ameri-
can politics. It seems clear that Sen
ator Knut Nelson has been overwhelm-
ingly renominated. He has been very
patriotic and helpful to the government
and despite his republican politics, was
openly endorsed by President Wilson
for reelection, before the April sena-
torial election occurred in this state.
Governor Burnquist has also been re-
nominated by decisive vote. He, too,
has distinguished himself for patriotism.
Minnesota and Wisconsin are close to-
gether in population. Minnesota has
the larger percentage of foreign borr
citizens, because she is younger, Scan
dinavians largely outnumbering Ger
mans there, while the reverse is true
here. Minnesota population is more
largely rural than is the population Of
Wisconsin, and for that reason the
Nonpartisan League has set great hope:
on the Minnesota farmers. One of the
current statements of the campaign
has been that the league had fund o.
100000 that it was spending to defea
Gov. Burnquist.-Ellis Usher's Cor.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28

For months the United States De-
partment of Agriculture has advocated
for every community and county the
policy which Kansas has given state
wide application. The people of Ne
braska, Minnesota, North and South
Dakota plan similar concert of action
as the harvest swings northward. In
every state and for every harvest, or
crop emergency, this is the safe, and
certain and patriotic solution of the
farm-labor problem-the utilization of
town volunteers to the extent that
farm-labor needs may require.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28

OUR American soldier is an idealist.
Long columns of them are on the way
to the front. Little French children
whose homes have been swept away,
whose fathers have fallen before the
foe, and who will never again know a
mothers love and tenderness, hand
flowers to the boys in khaki. Tears
trickle down the cheeks of the troopers
and when they go into battle they fight
like demons. And they write back to
those who are keeping the home fires
burning, ITO fight and die for liberty
and humanity is glorious Let US buy
Liberty Bonds the next time, and the
next, and the next, just as our soldier
boys fight and because we have the
same ideals
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
Annual School Meeting

The Annual Schol Meeting of
Joint School District No. s of Edg-
erton and Fulton will be held at the
High School building at eight
o'clock Monday evening, July 1st
for the election of officers and such
business as may be brought before
it.
iSigned; Durant C. Gle, Clerk
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
In Prehistoric Times.

Bonechisel-S Say, you! Whaddye
mean by sneakin' into my cave an
beatin' up my daughter?
Stonehammer-Yes. I did call on
your daughter and beat her up some.
But I assure you, sir, my intentions
were honorable.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28


For SALE-One Studebaker Six with
starter and lights, 1926. One Rambler
Runabout, SIS. One Buick Roadster In
first class condition. Sampson Touring
Car, 5000. One Mitchell Six Cylinder,
with starting and lighting system, slip
covers, with two extra tires, at bar
gain. One Mitchell Four passenger,
with starting and lighting system, $500.
Inquire Buggs Garage, GAINESVILLE, Wis.
For SALE-Plenty of the best farms
at and near Beloit at the right prices.
Northern farms to exchange for city
property. Baum Real Estate Co., Be-
lott, Wis Office over Woolworth store.
30t4
Edison records selling best this
week at Bardeen's 5O468- 56467 -5O463.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
Business Opportunity-For Sale or
Rent.

A 80 room hotel with bar in connec-
ton, about Is miles from Madison. The
only frst-class hotel in the city of 5000
population. Has an established BUSH
ness which insures very profitable in
come. The bar business alone aver
ages over $25 per day. Will sell at
very reasonable terms to settle estate.
Address, Herman Brill,
22tf Madison, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28

Best selling Columbia records this
week A 2533-A 2536-A 2546. Play on
any machine. Try them.-Bardeen. 32t2
(. Fine organ for sale. See Bardeen.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
Notice

To those who own. lots in Jensen
cemetery aud have not paid their dues
are kindly requested to do so before
long. O. G. HANSEN, Treas.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28
Dental Offices Closed.

Dental offices will be closed Saturday
afternoons during June, July, August
and September.
DR.. HOLTON,
DR.. HYLAND,
28tf DR.. MEYERS.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28

-Edgerton Saves and Serves; buy
War Savings Stamps.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-06-28

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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-06
MOTHERS OF MEN

With such mothers as Mrs Anna Gradln o.
Bismarck, it is not to be wondered that the Amer
lean soldiers facing the Hun on the west 1ront arr
giving an account Of themselves.
II DON'T KNOW OF ANY BETTER
WAY FOR MY BOY TO HAVE DIED.
There spoke true American mother.
"He wanted to go very much. He told
me he was no better than anyone else, and
America needed him."
Yes, America needed him, and it has demand
ed of him the supreme sacrifice the utmost that
man can give his life. It has demanded of Mrs
Gradin her son, and she has given as freely anc
as cheerfuly as her boy gave.
When America has such mothers and such
sons to dedicate to the defense of democracy, well
may tyranny tremble. At the front we have
men; at home we have mothers of men, equally
brave, equally loyal, equally ready to sacrifice
And because of this coordination, America will
emerge once more victorious from this greatest
of all struggles for the preservation of the prn
ciples upon which our nation is founded.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-06
FARMERS MUST
BE TO
CLEAN THE SEED

While it is evident that those whose
duty it is to procure large volumes
of grain for sowing the general crop
to be supplied to farmers under the
county bonding act, will have difficult
tv in finding a sufficient volume OF
high terminating quality, it is equally
evident that they vii have great diff
fculty finding a supply of seed which
is unmixed and as free from weed
seeds as most farmers would wish
The chief source Of supply is carload
lots and elevator lots, after the grain
has been handled over many times.
My advice is for all those who are
able and have the farm machinery
suitable for cleaning seed grain, to
get it into shape and be prepared to
reclean any seed which may finally
come to you This Office and that OF
the state commissioner of agriculture
will do everything possible to have
bulk seed stocks furnished to the
counties Of as high purity as possible
All, however, should understand that
while the grain selected will be the
cleanest that can be obtained in bulk
lots, it will be wise to prepare to i'm
prove it's seed quality by recleaning
when it reaches the farm.
If through storage houses the county
commissioners are in position to put
in local re cleaning facilities it would
greatly aid in making use of many
fine stocks of seeds which are now in
this state, and of many local country
supplies which might not otherwise be
available. l therefore highly recon.
mend wherever possible, county clean.
ing stations at delivery, points-H. L.
EROl1ev ..s, I'D IT,. = ..r.-e 81 '.r"r
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-06
Jim CRAMER LIKED 1T.

Having had the pleasure Of attending the Dig
war council held at Bismarck the first of the week,
the Mail man can only wish that it might have
been possible for every resident of our city to
have attended also. The Red Cross, the Y. M. e.
A., the Four Minute men, the Liberty Loan, the
National Council of Defense, the Home Guard or
CARNATIONS were all represented. Speakers Of
National and World prominence addressed the
huge crowds assembled in the auditorium and the
overflow meetings in the Grand Theatre. Charles
Edward Russell, an author and war correspondent
of national reputation, O. A. Culbertson, with Mr..
Hoover in the Food Conservation Department. DR..
Moran of Purdue University and Harry Grove
Secretary to Ambassador Gerard during his four
years in Berlin, all brought messages of great in
terest and Importance to the 1000 people assem-
bled to learn more about war conditions-Mar-
marth Mail.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-06
TRUE AMERICANISM.

The resolutions passed by the state war con-
ference at Bismarck are the most cheering mes
sage that has been sent out from great gather
ing of state people for many long day. Straight
to the mark Of loyalty, undefied by the dollar
mark, and without any 'ifs" and "buts," the reso-
lutons declare undying fealty to our country, it's
government and all it's war regulations. They are
clarion call to the patriotism Of our people:
there is no allusion in them to Glass; to petty pre-
JUDGE, or any Of the little issues which have been
polluting our state for the past two years and
clouding the vision Of a naturally loyal people.
These resolutions should be read by every man,
woman and child in the state, for it is the first
clear cut real American expression of love of coun-
try that has come out of statewide gathering
for many months, and the declarations therein
made will go far to rehabilitate North Dakota in
the eyes of the country. We certainly owe debt
of gratitude to the committee that so completely
expressed the true sentiment of our people-Far-
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