The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-09-26

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| The Smoker last Monday evening
at the Carlton hotel was splendid sue
cess in every way. The attendance
was large and representative, the dim
ner very good, the cigars excellent, and
the spirit of the meeting charged with
wholesome booster enthusiasm. A
larger and better Edgerton was the
/ keynote of the meeting; an Edgerton
| that will be able to welcome the best
citizenship, because it will provide good
modern homes, desirably located, at
| prices that will appeal to the class OF
people who desire to locate permanent
| ly, either to do business here or take
up work in one of the growing indus
tries, or settle here as renters. The
real estate men of the city are at their
wits end now to find homes for all
those who would like to move to Ed
gerton to live. The need of more
homes has been felt for some time, and
some enterprising gentlemen came to-
gether and talked matters over and
concluded that the most practical and
patriotic way of handling the housing
proposition would be to organize a
building corporation. A committee was
| instructed to gather data as to how
other cities have dealt with their hous-
| ing problems. 1t took some time to
work this matter over. When the COM
mittee was ready to report, the Cham
Der of Commerce sponsored the matter
in public way by arranging for the
Smoker" where the whole matter
could be presented to all. This was
done last Monday evening.
| The president of the Chamber of
Commerce, Mr.. Mabbett, rose at the
end of the dinner, and after the cigars
had been passed around and everybody
made comfortable, and stated the rea-
sons for the Smoker" He told what
preliminary work had been done and
concluded by stating that group of
men, had, in order to get the matter
under way, obtained charter to or
ganize corporation to be known as
The Edgerton Building Corporation
with capital stock of $4,000, and he
called on the secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce, Mr.. Raymond, to read
the articles of incorporation, which was
| done.
Mr.. Biederman was the next speaker.
| He called attention to what was being
done at GAINESVILLE to meet the housing
problem there, and proposed that the
citizens of Edgerton represented at
this Smoker" start right there and
then to subscribe for stock in the new
| corporation. The best plan, he thought,
| would be to start at once by paying %
| per cent of the amount of stock sub
scribed and have about 25 houses start
| ed this fall. He also stated as his
opinion, based on the experience of
similar building associations in other
cities, that the houses to be built should
| be we'll built, but of size so they could
be sold at from $4,000 to $4,000, ac-
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commodating class of people who
needed good comfortable home within
their means.
/ Mr.. Reichardt, the city engineer,
4 speaking as an outsider who had had
chance to observe conditions in many
| places, thought that the organization
contemplated would do the very thing
for Edgerton that was needed just now.
"Edgerton is one of the slickest little
! towns in the state" he said.
Mr.. Menhall Of the Highway Trailer
was the next speaker. The housing
proposition was no new thing to him,
he said. He had tackled the PROPOSE
ton on his own hook in Beloit and
made good, in spite of the fact that he
began without previous experience.
Showing how the Highway Trailer
proposition had developed and how it is
/ growing, he stated emphatically that
/ with the new axle manufacturing plant
1 in operation here, this industry is bound
to grow, the orders for trailers and
1 trucks coming in much faster than they
can be handled under present condi-
tions. He intimated that plans already
are under way for the construction of
an additional building of the trailer
plant. The urgency of demand for the
article to be manufactured here gave
1 assurance that big things are coming,
! that Edgerton will have large num-
Der of new people here as employees
in the two plants, and he predicted
! that, if the citizens now want to see
the population of the city doubled or
even trebled within the next six years,
all they had to do was to get ready for
it by making room for the growth.
| Homes to sell to the new people com
! ing in, is the urgent thing now. Six or
seven houses could be sold right now,
he said; in fact were as good as sold,
pending the building of them. File also
showed that the investment would give
the stockholders fair profit, at the
same time that it would give the buy
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