The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-01-09


Best Shingle company, and the Taylor
Land company, and was in the white
cedar business for number of years.
When the Tobacco Exchange bank
was organized in 1897, Mr.. Heddles was
one of the men who in the face of dis
couraging conditions insisted that Ed
gerton should have it's own bank. Many
were then of the opinion that the offer
of the Rock County State bank of
GAINESVILLE to run branch bank here
should be accepted. Mr.. Heddles and
with him Andrew Jensen, Tom Earle
and Harold Child were appointed as a
committee to see if the funds for a
bank could be raised among the home
folks. Inside of week the thing was
accomplished; the building Of the de-
funct Edgerton bank was bought, the
new bank organized and open for bust
ness within thirty days. Andrew Jen-
son became the first president, and up
on his death Mr.. Heddles was elected.
During the war Mr.. Heddles served
with conspicuous distinction and sue
cess as chairman of the State Council
of Defense. The organization of the
council with all its county and local
agencies. and the putting Of these into
active and efficient service to assist in
the war work, required talent for ex-
ecutive ability, and persistent hard
work to make it successful; and to do
it for a minimum Of expenditure of
funds for administrative purposes re-
quired a full sized man If Mr., He'd
dies and his associates were successful
in this may be found out by any one
who will take time to read the official
report OF the State Council Of Defense.
Mr.. Heddies in this matter, as in all
public service, followed his custom of
paying all his personal expenses. He
never accepted pass or frank, but
gave his service and paid his own
way in giving it,, In telegram to
President Wilson and Secretary Baker
as chairman of the National Council of
Defense, dated Nov. Is, 1918, Mr.. He'd
dies reviews the organization, aims,
purposes, extent and methods of the
Wisconsin council in manner that for
ever will make this document of his
torical Importance for all time to come.
1t closes with the following paragraph:
''The Council of Defense system in
Wisconsin, an organization reaching
every village and rural section Of the
state, with thousands of willing and
able men and women ready to put in
motion working set of machinery,
have the honor to offer freely to the
President of the United States and the
Council of National Defense with the
prayer that they make direct use of it
in all federal reconstruction activities
in Wisconsin. We await your instruc-
tons. y No instructions came from
Washington. And the state took meas
ures to demobilize this organization,
one of the most efficient in point of
service that the state ever had.
The last legislature created State
Board of Cancellation. The governor
made Mr.. Heddles chairman of it. He
was successful in settling in satisfac-
tory manner strikes in Madison and in
Milwaukee, Milwaukee single hand,
ed, as the other members of the board
could not be present.
Mr.. Heddles is now taking well
earned rest, together with his family,
at Miami, Fla. Time and again he has
been approached by fellow citizens to
become a candidate for public Office
in the state Many have felt that he
is the type of man who by character,
personality and experience would be of
a calibre to serve the state in the high
est administrative office. But Mr..
Heddles has so far always understood
how to put quietus upon all political
courtship.