VOLUME 35
Business Directory .
HENRY JOHNSON,
Fire, Tornado, Life and Accident
Insurance,
BDGERTON, WISCONSIN.
OT"offlce In Schmeling Block.
W. T. POMEROY & CO.,
Dealers in and packers of
Leaf Tobacco,
Edgerton, - Wisconsin.
O. G. HANSEN. C. H. HANSEN
HANSEN BROS.,
(Successors to O. G. Hansen)
Dealers in
Leaf Tobacco
EDGERTON* - WIS.
ANDREW JENSON & SONS,
Packers of and Dealers in
Leaf Tobacco,
EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN.
C. E. SWEENEY.
DEALLK IN
Leaf Tobaccc
EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN
O. C. ...<
Dealer ir* axtd EacKer of
Leaf Tobacco,
STOUGHTON, - WISCONSIN.
H. R. POMEROY
PACKER OF
Leaf Tobacco
Commission Business Solicited.
GAYS MILLS, - WIS.
HEINRICH NEUBERGER
EXPORTER
Bremen, 145 Water St.
Germany. New York, N. Y.
E- ROSENWALD & BRO.
SUCCESSOR TO
E. Rosenwald & Bro. and I. Bijur & Son,
PACKERS OF
Leaf Tobacco,
145 Water Street,
New York City.
S. C. CHAMBERS,
• DEALER IN AMD PACKER OF
Leaf Tobacco,
MILTON JUNCTION, WIS.
PAMPERIN LEAF TOBACCO CO.,
Packers Exclusively of
NORTHERN GROWN
Wisconsin Leaf.
La Crosse, Wis.'
Northern Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco Cos.
Packers of and Dealers exclusively in
Northern Grown Wisconsin Tobacco
LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
FRED. SCHNAIBEL,
(FORMERLY OF RUSCHER * CO.)
Tobacco Inspector
STORAGE.
149 Water Street. NEW YORK
GEO P. McGIFFIN, Western Agt.
Phone No. 145. Edgerton, Wis.
... , • .
Tobacco Tiawk,
EDGERTON, WISCONSIN.
Capital - $50,000.00
Surplus - * - - $ 15,000.00
Undivided Profits - - $10,000.00
Officers and
ANDREW JENSON W. S. HEDDLES
Pres, and Cashier Vice-President
O. G. BIEDERMAN, D. L. BABCOCK,
W. A. SHELLEY, Wm. BUSSEY,
ALEX WHITE.
The Imperial Cigar, 10c
Hand Made. Havana Filled.
EDGERTON CIGAR GO., Edgerton, Wis.
CHAS. L. CULTON,
LEAF TOBACCO
EDGERTON, WISCONSIN.
MaGee’s Improved Tobacco Case.
The best case made for the packing of Leaf Tobacco.
Sampling done with one half the labor and expense. .
Write for delivered prices in car load lots.
MaGEE BROS. • - Janesville, Wis.
Office and Warehouse adjoining C., M. & St. P. Passenger Station.
FRAZIER M. DOLBEER. GEORGE F. SECOR, Special.
Original “LINDE” New York Seed Leaf Tobacco Inspection,
ESTABLISHED IN 1864.
F. C. LINDE, HAMILTON & CO.
Tobacco Inspectors, Weighers “s Warehousemen.
Office, 180 Pearl St. New York City. Branches In all of the principal tobacco districts
A. H. OLARKE, Special Agent, Edgerton, Wis. Badger ’Phone No. 71
COLSON C. HAMILTON,
Formerly of C. E. HAMILTON FRANK P. WISEBURN,
F. C. Linde, Hamilton & Cos. LOUIS BUHLE
Formerly with F. C. Linde. Hamilton & Cos.
C. C. HAMILTON & CO.,
Tobacco Inpsectors, Warehousemen, Weighers.
MalnOfflce—B4-85 South Street, New York.
THOS. B. EARLE, Agent, Edgerton, Wis. Telephone No, 23
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S. B. MEDDLES
OEALER IN
LEAF TOBACCO
JANESVILLE. WISCONSIN.
jYO. 5 SOUTB ADAMS
GREENS’ TOBACCO CO.,
Dealers in Leaf Tobacco,
Warehouses at Janesville, Milton and Brooklyn, Wis.
STORAGE CAPACITY, - 15,000 OASES
Janesville, - - Wisconsin.
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L. B. CARLE & SON,
Packers of and Dealers in
Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco,
Janesville, * - Wisconsin. *
EDGERTON, ROCK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1909
3 P.r Cent, paid on Savings Deposits
A. N. JONES.
DEALER IN
AND PACKER OF
Leaf Tobacco.
118,120, 122 N. Main
and Pease Court,
Janesville; * Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES
The planting of the new crop has
started in a moderate way but a long
season of cold rains during the week
has interfered materially with the work
of preparing the fields ana also delayed
the transplanting which might be well
under way. All this time the plants
are gaining in size, though the cool
weather has checked their growth some
what, but the continuous rains are lead
ing to another misfortune, it is feared
—the rotting of the plants in some of
the more forward beds. Clearing
weather now is only needed to see the
planting season under full swing. The
soil is in most excellent shape for the
early rooting of the plants as soon as
they are transplanted to the field, but
as matters now stand growers will have
plenty of hustling times ahead until the
crop is safely pitched in the fields.
There ought to be an abundance of
plants ready for the intended acreage
by the time the farmer can get around
to attend to the transplanting.
The tobacco schedule in the Payne-
Aldrich tariff bill was reached in the
senate just before adjournment on Fri
day ana adopted in about ten minutes
without change as reported from the
Senate Finance committee. The only
particular feature of the schedule is
the fact that the senate struck out the
increased duties on Turkish imports
which the house put on in response to
thp pleas of the Virginia congressmen,
and which the Virginia and Kentucky
senators sought to restore by amend
ments. Although Senator Beveridge
of Indiana and Senator Paynter of Ken
tucky had asked some time ago that
the tobacco schedule be passed over,
neither of the gentlemen raised their
voices when the schedule was reached.
The passing of the tobacco schedule
does not, however, free the trade from
the anxiety which it has undergone
since the tariff measure was first taken
up last November, for Beveridge’s
amendments making a wholesale in
crease in the internal revenue rates on
cigars, cigarettes and all other tobacco
products, and Senator Bradley’s and
Paynter’s amendments for the free leaf
proposition, and Senator Scott’s efforts
for the increased duty on briar wood
mpes, are yet to be considered. They
will come up when all the customs fea
tures of the bill are gotton out of the
way. The duty on licorice is also yet
to come up. Briefly, the situation is
this: The senate has adopted the to
bacco schedule of the Payne bill, elim
inating the paragraph which would have
increased the duty on Turkish tobacco
and leaving the import duties on all to
bacco products exactly as they are
under the existing tariff. The adoption
of that schedule, however, does not af
fect the Philippine section, which is to
be taken up next week. Nor does it
affect the proposition to increase the
internal revenue taxes on tobacco pro
ducts, which subject is still under dis
cussion.
An exhaustive report containing a
huge amount of information regarding
the prices of tobacco in the United
States has been sent to the senate by
President Taft. This information is
submitted in response to a resolution
introduced by Mr. Beveridge. It is
stated that the bureau of corporations
has in preparation a complete report
covering the subject of the prices of to
bacco and the operations of corpora
tions, the information for which was
secured in accordance with the law cre
ating the bureau. The more important
material, substance the re
sults of the investigation, is included in
a preliminary report. Commissioner
Smith says that any consideration of
the subject of the tobapco industry dur
ing recent years is necessarily largely a
consideration of the relation of the to
bacco combination to the industry. It is
stated that combination controls sub
stantially three-fourths of the business
of manufacturing tobacco, other than
cigars, in the United States. To show
the extent of this business it is stated
that the output of the independent con
cerns, excluding cigars, now amounts
to $35,000,000 per year. According to
the report, the American Tobacco Cos.
and other companies in the combination
have given the bureau full and ready
access to their hooks and records.
Tables are included in the report show
ing the remarkable increase of profits
to the concerns in the tobacco combina
tion from 1890 to 1907 inclusive.
Suppose that the provision in the
forthcoming tariff act for the free ad
mission of any quantity of Philippine
cigars is passed, as it will .undoubtedly
pass, since the trade has offered itself
as a voluntary sacrifice on the altar of
broken pledges by the withdrawal of its
opposition, who will be its immediate
beneficiary? It is no secret that the
moment this provision was embodied in
the Payne bill officials of the United
Cigar Stores Cos. left for the Philippine
Islands for the purpose of contracting
for the entire amount of Philippine ci
gars that would be permitted to come
in free. It is our government who
alone is creating this new source of
monopoly for a trust and the National
Cigar Leaf Tobacco Association who
from sheer cowardice has aided and
abetted a faithless administration to
give control of anew source of rev
enue to an affiliation of a trust at the
expense of our domestic cigar industry,
at the expense of our domestic leaf
growers and at the expense of our in
dependent retail cigar stores. —U. S.
Tobacco Journal.
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
Edgerton, Wis.. June 11, 1909.
There is no change to note in the
conditions that prevail about the local
markets. There is a little work yet to
be finished in the handling of last sea
son’s crop and stemming operations
have been started at a few warehouses
which promises to last for some Ynonths
to come. Otherwise matters are ex
tremely quiet. Some old leaf is mov
ing in a moderate way. We note the
purchase of 64 cases of ’O6 and ’O7,
crops of Albert Munson, by A. Jen
son & Sons. A lOOcs lot of ’O7 and
another 100 of ’O6 have been sold by
Janesville packers during the w T eek.
There is considerable inquiry for sam
ples coming from the manufacturing
trade but no large transactions are re
ported.
But for a week of rainy weather the
new crop would now be going into the
fields, for there is an abundance of
plants ready for transplanting and
growers have a portion of the ground
fitted. The week of lost time, how
ever, will mean hustling work to keep
ahead of the plants which will now be
crowding fast.
The shipments out of storage reach
774 cases and 3 cars of bundle goods
from this market to all points for the
week past.
New York.
New York, June 5, 1909.
The leaf market passed a very quiet
week. There wasn’t the slightest kind
of disturbance either up or down. Some
sales were made, of course, but not of
any stirring account. But the market
is likely to become stirred up, not fav
orably altogether, by the Internal Rev
enue reports for the month of May in
the' two largest cigar manufacturing
centers of the country. These reports
show an ominous set-back instead of a
progressive advance in the output of
our cigar industry. The output in the
Metropolitan districts was five millions
less and the output in the Ninth Penn
sylvania district eight millions less than
in May of last year, when the country
was still in the throes of the panic.
This retrogression is the more signifi
cant in view of the fact that it is the
first breakdown in the continuously
steady progress of the industry since
the beginning of the year. Still more
remarkable is the enormous slump in
the May output of the Ninth Pennsyl
vania district when compared with the
May output of the last ten years. These
sinister figures are proof sufficient that
there is something wrong with our
cigar industry, but what that something
is would be hard to fathom for the
present. The large factories seem to
be steadily busy, and that they have no
apprehension of the future has been il
lustrated by our report last week of the
large investments they made in the leaf
market. The retrogression, therefore,
must fall heaviest on the smaller fac
tories, and if so the leaf market in gen
eral will be drawn into compassion. But
after all the general adverse May re
turn may be but a temporary disturb
ance. At least it is to be hoped that it
will so turn out, for all other indica
tions point to a strong and healthy fall
trade*—Journal.
New York, June 2, 1909.
The local market has no features of
interest this week. A prominent leaf
dealer, speaking of the general situa
tion, said:
“Between now and Fall, business, so
far as domestic tobaccos are concerned,
will be the smallest ever done in a three
months’ space—not from dulness of the
trade, but because of the scarcity of
stocks. Small lots of every type
abound, but the market is absolutely
bare of every kind of domestic tobacco
in large quantities, except the 1908
goods, which will not be sampled until
August.”
Sumatra.—Business is being done all
the time in Sumatra, in which type
most of last week’s transactions are to
be rated. The new Sumatra is still
proving a good purchase even at high
prices, owing to its extremely good
yield. Withdrawal from bond has been
heavy.
Havana.—There has been some in
quiry for Havana during the past week,
Remedios figuring largely in the sales,
and the demand for mild old fillers, as
always, being strong.—Leaf.
New England.
The percentage of unset tobacco acre
age in the Connecticut valley on June
lis the largest in years. Plants have
been sufficiently developed to set out
for two weeks; but cold, wet weather
has seriously interfered with trans
planting. In some towns nitrate of
soda or other chemicals have been used
to stimulate the young plants in the
fields. Generally speaking the plants
in the fields have weathered the wet
period in good shape and are in a posi
tion to start upward with warmer
weather.
Sunday was the first ideal transplant
ing day of the year and hundreds of
growers longed to utilize tits Sabbath
for strenuous .work. In outlying dis
tricts in some tobacco towns passers-by
marveled to see acres of flourishing
young tobacco plants Monday in the
fields which were bare Saturday. Should
the weather be favorable the next two
weeks the setback ought not to prove
serious.
The tobacco market is quiet. Occa
sional sales are made of both 1907 and
1908 crops at prices practically un
changed from those which have pre
vailed since April"!.
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by spending less than you earn.
Will you let us help you?
Buy your drafts,
Cash your checks,
Deposit your funds
AT THE
First National Bank,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
OUR PATRONS
receive every courtesy and ac
commodation within the range of
prudent banking. Small as well as
large accounts are appreciated.
LORD & McGIFFIN
PACKERS OP
Leaf Tobacco
Richland Center, - Wis.
We Buy or Sell for You. Write us *.oday,
WM. L. LIGETY,
Established 1889.
Commission Merchant In
LEAF TOBACCO.
EXPORT iPhone 3750 John IMPORT
No. 3 Burling Slip, N. Y.
Cable Address, “Ligety,” New York.
Cable Codes. Western Union and ABC
H. T. SWEENEY,
PACKER OF
Leaf Tobacco
Tobacco Bought and Sold
on Commission. -
Edgerton, - - Wisconsin
Campbell-Peterson Tobacco Co**
Dealers In and Packers of
Leaf Tobacco,
Orfordville, Wisconsin.
McGIFFIN & BIRKENMEYER
Packers and Dealers in
Leaf Tobacco
JANESVILLE, WIS.
Pennsylvania.
Lancaster, Pa., June 1, 1909.
It is to be hoped the new month will
give more trade to the local tobacco
packers than did May, which was one
of the dullest months ih the history of
the business. The past week was just
as slow as the others of the month, and
so far as sales were concerned the
E ackers might as well have been on a
oliday. It is true, they now have their
packings of 1908 to look after, buc their
foremen are the persons who are han
dling these goods. Some of the earli
est cut bulk-sweated tobacco will soon
be ready for the market. In fact, it
m-°y be ready before the market is.
The only thing of interest now is the
price this tobacco will bring. As old
goods are selling at from 14 to 15 \ cents
a pound, it is not likely the packers are
anxious to dispose of the high priced
1908 goods for awhile yet. Later, prices
may improve.—New Era.
Ohio.
Miamisburg, 0., June 3, 1909.
Tobacco growers have commenced
setting out plants, and indications are
that the tobacco crop will be planted
early this year. A larger acreage than
last year has been prepared, and any
thing like a favorable season will see it
planted in tobacco before the first of
July.—News.
Early Settlers’ Picnic, June 17.
Eight years ago the early settlers of
Cooksville conceived the advisability of
holding annual gatherings every year
in order to keep fresh in memory o id
time affairs, and also to meet in friend
ly sociability. Each year finds a .>- j --
mation in the ranks, but notwithst. .cl
ing the annual fete takes place.
This year the gathering will be held
in the grove at Cooksville on Thursday,
June 17, and all the early settlers of
northern Rock county are cordially in
vited to be present. A basket picnic
will be the mainstay, but short speeches,
songs and athletic sports will fill the
spare time. Remember the date, June
17th.
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