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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01
Free From Hog Cholera.

''There is no need of the farmers of
Rock county being alarmed about hog
cholera" says r. 7. Glassco, county
agent. II have made thorough in
vestigation of the hog situation in this
county, and have found but one case of
cholera, that case near GAINESVILLE. In
this case the disease is the result of
poor serum being used in vaccination
of the hogs, and not caused by natural
means"
Much concern has been attached by
the farmers to the statement which
was issued from Madison q short while
ago, which listed Rock county among
those counties where cholera prevailed.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01
Band Concert and Ice Cream Social
at Fulton.

This Friday evening, August LIST, the
Edgerton band will give concert in
the community grove at Sis p. m.
The young people will dispense the re-
freshments. Ice cream will be on sale
and all sorts of homemade cakes.
There will be an abundance of soft
drinks. Come out and meet your old
friends. There is good time in store
for you.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01
Public Library Notes

The Library has just received a
complete edition, of thirteen Volumes
of the Burton Holmes Travelogues.
these books are very beautiful and
were brought with some of the mon
ey so thoughtfully left to- the Library
by Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Carter.
Because it isn't easy to decide
just what books to choose fora joy
Gus literary vacation the Public Lii
brary will suggest books on travel,
biography, poetry, drama and all
sorts of alluring excursions into lit
erature. Better let them help you
make up your vacation bundle of
books. A special six week time is
given on vacation books.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01
Common Council Proceedings.
Edgerton, Wis, July 81, /

Edgerton, Wis, July q, 1919.
Regular meeting of the Common
Council, Mayor Leary presiding. AL
dermen present: Brown, Hopkins.
Wesendonk, Atwell, Stark, Dallman.
Minutes of previous meeting read
and approved.
Bills presented and allowed:
A. Rusch, street work. ......S " 90
r. A. Rosendahl, three bubbler
fountains and installing. -. 28S 35
Lee Alder, building manholes-
waterworks ......... 270 40
&c. M. & st. P. Co., frt. on coal 85 70
Heddles Lumber Co., coal. 118 Sc
Aug. Blank, unload coal. 49,. 10 40
view expense. "a 90
Owain Hughes, sewer inspection 60 90
Lee Alder, building manholes
for sewer. =. 116 81
Motion made and seconded that IL
cense agreement with G. M. & st. P.
Ry. for construction of sewer across
railway right of way be signed and the
sum of $500 be RENTED to treasurer
of Railway company.
Motion carried.
Motion made and seconded that the
Street Assessment committee be in
structed to inspect street pavement
and sewer work and upon approval of
same to issue certificates against prop
erty benefited thereby.
Motion carried.
The matter of employment of city
nurse referred to Health committee for
report at next council meeting.
Motion made and seconded that pro-
posed ordinance on purchase of lands
for park be published in the official city
paper as provided by law.
Motion carried
On motion council adjourned to meet
Monday evening, July %, at 7:30.
Geo. w. Blanchard, Clerk pro tenn.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01
Card of Thanks.

We wish to sincerely thank our neigh
bors and friends who sent flowers, fur
nished automobiles and performed so
many acts of sympathy, kindness and
helpfulness in our late bereavement of
husband and father.
Mrs. C. C. Hoague,
Chas. C. Hoague and Wife.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01
CORRESPONDENCE

Correspondents please mail one
day earlier next week. We take a
day off for the Community Picnic.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
CAN AMERICA PRODUCE
HER OWN POTASH?

New light is thrown on this inter.
esting question by facts and figures
contained in recent publication Of
the bureau Of soils of the United
States department Of agriculture.
Bulletin No. 572 gives a careful
analysis of the probable potash sup.
ply to be had from the cement indus.
try when apparatus for its recovery
has been universally installed.
On the basis Of an average produc.
ton Of 90,O0O.O00 barrels OF cement,
the total potash escaping at present
amounts to about 81, 900 tons annually.
It has been demonstrated commercial
ly that 90 per cent Of this potash Is
recoverable and experiments show
that 90 per cent Of this amount L. In
available form or may readily be made
available. On this basis We would
have a production of approximately
5000 tons Of available potash each
year.
Since only about so per cent Of the
potash In the raw material IL or1inars
lily volatilized in the process Of making
cement, as handled at present, there
is a prospect of still further quantities
to be made available from this
source.
The present high prices Of potash
are encouraging installation Of collect.
ing apparatus and when once installed
the cost Of potash recovery Is small.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
SAVE 10000, 900 BUSHELS
OF WHEAT THAT FORMERLY
WAS LOST IN THRESHlN6
Farmers, Urged BY Food Administers
tIon, Provide Seven Extra Loavss
Of Bread for Every American.

By adopting cleaner threshing meth
DDS and by literally comb:ng harvest
fields to gather grain formerly vast
ed. threshermen and farmers Of the
United States this year saved fully
10000 900 bushels Of wheat, estimated
as equivalent to about seven one-pOund
loaves of bread for every person -
the country. This result, accompanies
by corresponding savings of barley.
oats rye and other grains, is shown ~
reports from 33 grain states to the q
8. Food Administration. Other stateA
although not prepared to furnish del
mite figures Of conservation In To
grain fields, report greatly reduces
harvest losseA
This rural food saving achievement,
accomplished In scarcely six months
time, was In direct response to ~
quests BY the Food Administrators,
which asked farmers and threshermea
to reduce harvest losses from abo9k
8x per cent-7the estimated averages
In normal times-to the lowest posi-.
BILE minimum. Country grain threGk
ing committees carried into every
grain growing community the omaa
recommendation for accomplishing
the results desired. "-h
In numerous instances drivers az
racks with leaky bottoms were seu9
from the fields to repair their equio.
ment and frequently bad order thres1-
ing machines were stopped until IL
cause Of waste was removed. But =
proportion to the number Of persono
engaged In gathering the nations grain
crop. cases Of compulsion were con.
paratively rare. The Food Admins.
tration freely attributes the success e
the grain threshing campaign to ~
triotic service by farmers, thresheE.
men and their crews Incidentally
grain growers Of the United States aEo
many millions Of dollars Tin pockses
% q result Of the grain saved.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
SPIRIT
OF DEMOCRACY
Voluntary Basis Of Food Saving
Showed Heart of America
Beat True for Freedom.

To the voluntary service and sacri.
dee Of the American people must be
attributed the continued health,
strength and morale of the Allied ar.
mics and the civil populace.
Upon this spirit of service and sac.
rifice will depend Europe's fate in the
months to come. In the past year we
have carried out an export program,
the magnitude of which Is almost be-
yond comprehension. But with the
new demands that have come, with
the liberation Of nations freed from
German oppression. our exports must
be almost doubled. Instead Of 1890.
600 tons, we must ship twenty million
tons Of food to Europe In the coming
year-as much as can be pushed
through our ports.
II the Allies had not been fed BY
America. 1t would have been impos-
sible for them to maintain their de-
tense against Germany. .
Meeting this world need on purely
voluntary basis, the American people
have conclusively proved that democ-
racy Is a success ano that in time Of
need It will rise to Its own defense.
II there were no other accomplish. Z
ment to its credit the very fact that 1t
has shown the strength Of democracy
has In itself more than justified the
existence Of the Food Administration
In the eyes Of the world.
Less than four months after the
United States declared war the United
States Food Administrator expressed
his determination to meet Americas
food problem on basis of voluntary
action and reiterated his confidence
that awakened democracy would prove
irresistible. ...s #:&
"Many thinking Americana" said
Mr.. Hoover. land the whole world
have been watching anxiously the last
four months In the fear that demo
cratic America could not organize to
meet autocratic Germany. Germany
has been confident that 1t could not be
done. Contrary proof is Immediately
at our door. and our people have al. |
ready demonstrated their ability to |
mobilize. organize, endure and prepare |!
voluntarily and efficiently In many d.
rections and upon the mere word Of !
inspiration aside from the remarkable |
Of our Army and finances"
The history of the Food Administra. I
ton has clearly shown that the trust
Of those who put their faith in democ-
racy has not been misplaced
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
CANNON AND CROPS CONSUME
THE SAME MATERIALS
Wartime Conditions Threaten Fertil.
izer Supply.

Every cannon crash and every burst
ing bomb on the battlefields of Europe
uses up important fertilizer materials.
A single skirmish may consume more
potential plant food than would be re-
quired to feed the fields of an entire
township, and the quantities burned
up during q real b0mbardment are ire
mendous. Last year more than 6OO,-
900 tons of nitrate went to make ex-
plosives, in the United States alone.
Millions of tons Of sulphuric acid were
likewise consumed. <
Fertilizers and warfare bear q most
intimate and most sensitive relation
ship. War decreases the supply OF
fertilizing materials and at the same
time increases the importance of their
use. Food production takes on q pa
tnotic aspect. The farmers tools Of
production become of importance sec
ond only to the needs Of the army it.
self. Yet when Mars Is the arbiter
the preference on materials must go
to the soldier rather than to the farm
er. This accounts for the shortage Of
materials from which fertilizers are
made. X IS.
But nova new danger threatens the
spring fertilizer supply. The labor
supply has failed. The needs of the
munition plants and the shipyards
have been so great as to seriously
drain the fertilizer factories. Many
plants have lost 80 to 40 per cent of
their labor, and there Is no prospect
for improvement by next spring.
In normal times spring fertilizers
are turned out by working the fac
tories at high speed during the late
winter and early spring months. Only
half as many laborers are employed in
November and December as in Febru.
airy and March. .- .....
With the present difficulty Of getting
laborers, it can be seen how remote is
the chance of speeding up to double
production next spring. There Is only
one way to get out the fertilizer ton
mage needed for next years crops, and
that is to start in now and run every
factory as best it may every day from
now until spring.
But manufa curing every day must
mean shipping every day. Fertilizer
factories do not have and cannot get
storage space for this tremendous
bulk of goods. Finished goods must
be loaded directly on the cars and
shipped to the consumer.
Here is where the farmer must help. |
He must place his order Immediately
and accept immediate shipment. In
no other way can the problem be
solved.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
++5+++++i. ++.r+.s++%

Our exports since . country .
+ entered the war have justified a
+ statement made by the Food Ad-
+ ministration shortly after its con. .
+ ception, outlining the principles .
+ and policies that would govern .
T. the solution Of this country's .
+ .ood problems. .
+ 1.-THE whole foundation of de- .
+ mocracy," declared the Food Ad- .
+ ministration. Lies in the indi- .
+ vidual initiative Of its people i.
1. and their willingness to serve the !
!. interests Of the nation with COM !
+ plete self effacement in the time .
/. Of emergency. Democracy can -!
f. yield to discipline. and we can !
+ solve this food problem for our 1
I. own people and for the Allies in !
+ this way. To have done SO will 1
+ have been a greater service than 1
+ our immediate objective, for we 1
+ have demonstrated the rightful. 1
+ ness of our faith and our ability 4
+ to defend ourselves without be- I
+ ing Prussiantzed." f. 1
+ -. i
+ r i. i. i. i. j. i. 4. i. j. i. ., 4. + i
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
ANOTHER AMERICAN CON.
QUEST
Baked Beans Have Made q Place for
Themselves in Europe.

Beans! Do you know them7 Bos-
ton baked Red beans on toast! Or
just beans. Home and foreign con-
sumption Of beans has increased rap
idly in the past few years. The war
has "iven thousands of Europeans
their first taste of real "Yankee pork
and BEANS" This "bean habit" will
linger, md beans will become a neces-
sity on the European bill Of fare, as
it has on the American.
Possibly no other cultivated crop Of
fers quicker or larger cash return
than does the field bean. In the past,
bean growing has been confined to
comparatively small areas, but grow
ers have found out that there are va
rieties adapted to growth in most every
section of the country. H..
While beans have been looked upon
by some as a poor land CROP" they
do best on a fertile soil that is neither
extremely light and open nor too heavy
and compact. The bean Is legume,
capable by virtue Of its root structure,
'of taking nitrogen from the air, but
owing to it's brief growing season the
nitrOgen-gathering bacteria on the
roots have but a short space Of time in
which to fix nitrogen. Fertilizers used
on beans should supply nitrogen as
well as phosphoric acid and potash.
The rapid growth and early maturity
secured through the use Of fertilizers
are also valuable In enabling the crop
to escape rust, blights or early froets.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
We'll, MANY Don't Seem 10 Have.

Well, Many Don't Seem to Have.
Robert was a thoughtful child rnd
was used to reasoning out the "why'
to his own questions. One day q little
boy came In from next door. He asked
questions continually and Robert final
~ looked at him curiously and said.
Haven't you think Of your own7"
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
GREATEST OPPORTUNITY
.s' WOMEN EVER HAD

It was given to the women Of this
country, to perform the greatest serv.
Ice In the winning Of the war vouch.
safed to any women in the history of
the wars Of the world-to feed the
warriors and the war sufferers. By
the arts of peace, the practice Of sim.
pie. homely virtues the womanhood Of
whole nation served humanity In its
profoundest struggle for peace and
freedom
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
FIRST GALL TO FOOD ARMY.

This cooperation and service
, I ask of all In full confidence
) that America will render more
for flag and freedom than king
} ridden people surrender at COM
pulsi0n.-Herbert Hoover, Au-
gust 10. 1917.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
sleker Than Ever.

What makes kid the maddest 10 TO
Get sick 90 Ne won't have 70 60 to
sthool. and then % ind out that DE
teacher was sick on that day and that
there wasn't any school.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
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A year ago voluntary food control
was q daring adventure In democracy;
during the year an established proof
Of democratic efficiency. 81
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03

Sending to Europe 141.OOO, 900 bush
els Of wheat from surplus of appar
emily nothing was the outstanding ex.
plot Of the American food army in the
critical year Of the war.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03
Greatness and Strength

Greatness and Strength.
Greatness lies not in being strong.
but in the right using Of strength, and
strength Is not rightly used when It
only serves to carry a man above his
fellows for his own solitary glory.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-03

WANTED-Two rooms for light house
keeping. Enquire at this office.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-07

officials are "profting" from the sale
the Mayor. In his letter the Mayor re-
ferred to unnecessary textbooks, thou
sands of which are lying around the
schools unused" Mr.. Hirsch then cited
list of textbooks used in the years
1914 and 1915. The list shows that
more than 100000 textbooks were
purchased by the Department of Educa-
ton, in which employees of the depart
ment had very large monetary IN
terest," Mr.. Hirsch said. The total
cost OF the books was 100000, while
127,748 books, costing $43,S54, bore DR..
Ettinger's name as author, he said.
Income Not Over $4,000
at is absurd to imply that l receive
any large income from royalties on
textbooks" said DR.. Ettinger. ut is
false to say that / influence teachers
in the use of the textbooks in New
York schools. The principals of the
schools select what books they want
used. My income is not more than
$4,000 a year. 1t does not come from
the sale of books in New York alone,
but from their sale throughout the
country. About ten years ago, while a
principal at School 147, in East Broad
way, /, collaborating with two other
teachers, began the writing of series
of readers. Those readers are still in
use. They are the only books from the
sale of which | receive royalties. All
educators write textbooks. If they
didn't there wouldn't be any books
New-York tribune., 1919-04-07
Alabama Ex-Governor
Praises Tuskegee Work
Snecinl CORRESPONDENCE

Special Correspondence
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala, April
6-The third annual founders day eX
ercises were held at the Tuskegee In
stitute to-day. Emmet O'Neal former
Governor of Alabama, speaking on
"What Booker Washington meant to
the South and the duty of the South
to the negro" referred to the long
standing friendship between himself
and Booker Washington.
OF the late negro leaders unswerv
ing loyalty to the South and to his
own people and to the vision which
guided him in his great achievements,
he said: "It was a long and difficult
task to teach race recently emanci-
pated after 200 years of unbroken toll
that work whether on farm or in shop,
if done with skill and intelligence, was
education, and that education which
did not better fit them for the labor
of life was of no value"
In referring to lynching and the
South's duty to the negro, the speaker
said:
"The community which encourages or
permits lynching openly or tacitly and
refuses to visit the death penalty upon
New-York tribune., 1919-04-07
Ace of Chaplains
Seeks to Restore
French Churches
Fund of $4,000 600 Needed
for Temporary Relief Is
Plea of Rev. Albert Leo,
Six Times Cited as Hero

The Rev Albert Leo, an "ace" chap
lain Of the French army, who has been
cited six times for heroic conduct,
preached yesterday at st. Stephens
Episcopal Church, brooklyn, on the
necessity for restoring the wrecked
churches of France and giving tempo
rary relief to their pastors and congre-
cations. He estimated that at least
$3,000.000 would be needed.
Chaplain Leo, who was in every part
of the fighting front during the war,
wears the Croix de Guerre and the
French Military Medal, with two palms
and four stars. He told of the ruins in
Rheims and along the front in the
vicinity of the great cathedral that was
gunners. Then he told of his own visit
to Nerdun.
In January, 1916, the pastors of the
city had invited the neighboring chap
plains to come to meet there" he said.
"The great German rush on the town
had not yet taken place. Nobody sus-
pected it's coming. Yet l remember very
we'll the strong impression wrought on
me by the fact that dozen or more
big shells had been fired on the city
some weeks before. | wondered what
it was for Why did they try it, and
especially why did they stop It? The
answer was to come in the following
month. They were just preparing for
the great attack.
1--WE had short meeting in our nice
little chruch. We never were to sec
that church again. 1t was reduced to
New-York tribune., 1919-04-07
''Freat 'E1n Rough"
Tanks Permanent
Corps of Army Now
War Department Approves
Modern Fighting Arm Of
$50 Machines, 1902
Men and BIT Officers

WASHINGTON, April 6.--Recogn-
tion of the importance of armored
ordnance cavalry"-in modern
warfare is indicated by the peace time
organization Of this arm, just approved
by the War Department.
The United States will maintain in
mmssion and ready for service, un-
tanks, $50 being of the heavy and 720
of the light type. A third type, known
as the "signal tank" is provided for
each company and battalion commander,
forty-fvo in all being comprised in the
complete tank organization.
A tank brigade, composed of one
battalion of heavy tanks and two of
light tanks, will be attached to each
army corps. The typical heavy battal-
ion includes 45 fighting tanks, with "a
in reserve, and the light battalion As
fighting machines, with 27 in reserve.
| Thus the army corps complement Will
total 1875 battle craft, fully equipped,
with rs waiting orders from the corps
commander.
The American light tank, adopted
| ldlc Ill lnt WAL, Is Il IWO-UOn macnlnc,
operated by two men and armed with
a machine gun or rapidtiring rifle 1t
is capable Of better than fifteen miles
an hour under favorable conditions and
can manmuvre with great agility The
heavy tanks weigh about thirty-tve
tons, carry a sawed-otf 37-millimetre
cannon and are driven at a mode rate
walking speed by their 50O-horsepower
Liberty motor.
The light type is intended to clean
out machine-gun nests and snipers'
posts, and the heavy is designed for
smashing pillbox defences, breaking a
way through the wire entangements
and for generally clearing a path for
the infantry.
The tank corps in the proposed peace
establishment will have at its head q
brigadier general. The corps is to be
made up Of 377 commissioned officers
and 5,862 enlisted men.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-07
Business Men Help Solve
Unemployment Problem
Generous Cooperation With
Government Reported by De-
partment of Labor Agent

WASHINGTON, April 6.-Generous
cooperation with the government in its
efforts to provide employment for re-
turned soldiers and to stimulate bust
ness by putting under way at once nee
cssary ome-building and public works
construction, is reported by Frank j.
Pollay, speaker for The Information
and Education Service of the Depart
mont of Labor, who has been making
an extended trip through central
states.
Business men in general show will
ingness to get construction work under
way, and are anxious to take care OF
their returned soldiers.
Mr.. Pollay finds labor conditions and
business prospects varying widely in
towns not far apart, though where af-
fairs are not now of the best the signs
of improvement are plainly evident.
In Parkersburg, ". Va, he found a
striking example of prosperity, with
construction work under way or pro-
vidcd for, and all classes in the COM
lmunity thoroughly satisfied.