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“Do not have in your home any thing that you do not know to he useful or believe to be beautiful” Your home can be made cozy and home like at a small cost with Colonial Drapery Fabrics These materials are suitable for window drapes, door hangings, covering boxes, upholstering fur niture, bed covers, table and dresser scarfs, pil lows, curtains of all kinds, and many other uses. Below we list a few of the new spring patterns: CRETONNE, floral and conventional designs 1 f|p 2b inch, per yard ■ CRETONNE, plain weave, oriental designs, lOp 36 inch, per yard 1 ART DENIMS, medium weight, bright pat- lOp terns, 36 inch, per yard BOHARD TAPESTRY, a beautiful doth for £f|p drapery, 36 inch, per yard wUU ASTER MOMIE CLOTH, rough weave, rich lOp coloring, 30 inch, per yard ,uu SILKOLINE, plain colors 10c. Fancy, 36 1 inch, per yard 1 L ® ORLEANS SATTEEN, light and 10p ond ORp dark colors, 36 inch, per yard two ART TICKING, stripes and fig- ORp onH 0(lp ures, 32 inch, per yard 01111 OUb DUNDEE BURLAP, all colors, 36 inch, per -jgg Call and see these before you finish your house cleaning. Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter PUBLISHED FRIDAY Ente red as Second-class Mall Matter at the 'stoftlcein Edgerton. Wisconsin. FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1914 An Oregon view of state commis sions is indicated in the following from the Tacoma Daily Ledger: Oregon is tiring of numerous commissions. An initiative bill has been prepared which abolishes seven commissions and boards and consolidates ten others to four. The author of the bill says it will save $500,000 a year. If taxpayers get a chance at it, they’re pretty likely to give the bill a chance to work out as its author predicts. An important decision was handed down by Judge James O’Neil in circuit court held at Black River Falls, where he held that towns are under no stat utory liability to owners of automobiles for injuries "of their machines or pas sengers therein growing out of their failure to keep their roads in a safe condition for automobile traffic; that such towns have fulfilled their whole duty when they construct and maintain their roads in a reasonably safe condi tion for ordinary traffic by carriage or wagon. The bureau of statistics of the de partment of agriculture estimates that on the basis of farm values June Ist the losses from disease of cattle, hogs and sheep aggregated in value about $122,000,000, and losses from exposure of cattle and sheep about $28,000,000 a total loss in meat animals from dis ease and exposure in one year of about slso,ooo,ooo—an amount which w T ould have been more than sufficient to fur nish a normal year’s supply of meat to the entire population of the New Eng land states. The epidemic of hog chol era caused losses of 134 per 1,000 head last year. The state of lowa alone lost one-fourth of the entire number of swine. The government’s decree in the anti trust case against the Elgin board of trade w T as entered before Federal Judge Landis at Chicago. In accepting the decree Judge Landis declared that the action, in which the members of the board of trade directorate acquiesced, marked the end of the “coloration of butter prices.” By the terms of the decree of the court the Elgin board of trade and its members permanently are enjoined and restrained from further engaging in the combination or con spiracy charged in the bill of com plaint. Some of the principal require ments of the decree of the court are that the Elgin board of trade shail not appoint any person, persons or com mittee to fix or suggest prices of but ter. That it shall cease to maintain a quotation committee or other agency which shall fix the price of butter. That it shall refrain from quoting or publishing any figure purporting to be the market price of butter unless they are actually obtained upon the board by bona fide sales. Other methods of determining the prices at which butter should be sold are barred by the decree. PRINGLE, BPvOS. COMPANY Department Store. Edgerton, Wisconsin In Minnesota, where they have a better primary law r than we have in Wisconsin, we find a weekly newspaper exclaiming: “There will soon be a ‘back to the convention system’ move ment!” It’s coming. The primary frill, like the continuation school, the recall and referendum, is an innovation whose valueless character is outcropping fast. The municipal bond is a viscious lure. It draws cities into extravagance that might well be avoided. It pro motes improvements that should be de ferred. It obligates the future largely for the benefit of the present. It is a modern device that should be looked upon with suspicion and fear. Every city should pretty well live up to the principle of paying as it goes. —Ellis Usher. The supreme court has recently set its disapproval upon the referendum law passed by our legislature, in that it violates the provisions of the constitu tion and is therefore void. In the court’s decision Judge Timlin says: “To those who enjoy elections it gives promise of almost unlimited hilarity; to those who pay the bills almost un limited expense. ” Our industrial commission regrets that it is unable to assess liability com pensation for injury sustained from lightning and suggests that the law might be amended to include employ ers’ liability for even what is generally known as the “acts of God.” Some things were evidently overlooked when this indemnity law was enacted. Fresh attention has been called to the particularly tricky and objection able character of the joker tucked into the proposed amendment of Section 1 of Article IV of the state constitution, to be voted on by the people next No vember. The amendment ostensibly is intended to establish a popular referen cum on legislation. It begins by pro viding that no law shall go into effect for ninety days after the close of the session of the legislature; that if with in the ninety days a petition is filed to submit any law to a vote of the people such law shall not take effect until thirty days after its approval by a ma jority of the voters of the state, and that if a majority of the popular vote is against the enactment the law shall not stand. But this is only part of the proposed amendment. The part con taining the joker is as follows: “No law making any appropriation for main taining the state government or main taining or aiding any public institution, not exceeding the next previous appro priation for the same purpose, shall be subject to rejection or repeal under this section. The increase in any such appropriation shall only take effect as in "case of other laws, and such in crease, or any part thereof, specified in the petition, may be referred to a vote of the people upon petition.” If a referendum on the subject of appro priations is a good thing, why in the name of common sense should it be lim ited in this way, to protect all the es tablished extravagences from reduction by the vote of the people?—Evening Wisconsin. Spring is Hie time for New Curtains and this spring there is such a variety to choose from, Among the ready made curtains are all kinds of nets, voiles, scrims, and marquisettes. LACE CURTAIFS - Nottingham, QQp fn 00 brussels, filet and cable nets, vdiviU BUNGALOW CURTAINS Voiles, scrims, mar quisette and brussels net with 01 Kfl fn CR Q 0 insertion and lace, per pair lu vdiOL PIECE GOODS WHITE SWISS in polka dot and Op In ORp fancy figures, per yard lu VOILES and SCRIMS in fioral patterns and fan cy hemstitched borders 15c to 59c NETS—White, cream, ecru and two-tone effects, beautiful new patterms 1 Rp jn Rflf) Per yard * MADRAS White and cream 9Rp Per yard tuu Green, brown, blue and old rose, heavy mercerized finish, for over drapes and door Rfln & 7Rp curtains, per yard JUb 06 Ido Remember we have the famous “No Piece” ..Curtain Stretchers.. 75c to $2.00 each Spraying Materials! Corona Dry Powdered Arsenate of Lead Corona Dry Mixes easily and readily with water. A perfect mixture is always assured. There is no sediment, no lumps, no waste, and it does not clog spray nozzles. One pound Corona Dry makes 50 gallons spray solution. Bordeaux Mixture Dry Concentrated —one pound makes 10 gal. spray solution. Lime and Sulphur Wash, Paris green. Nitrate of Soda for Tobacco Beds. DEAN SWIFT Phone 204, Edgerton, Wis. The %ixa£l Store Now You Can Afford to Cook by Electricity The New 7 in. Hotpoint El Glostovo is so effective, with so little current, that it does your family Cooking from any lamp socket -and uses your regular dishes. During Hotpoint Week-May 11th to 16th El Glostovo will be Sold at Halt Pfice--$2.5D Regular price is $5.00. Come to our office during HOTPOINT WEEK and see how efficient and convenient El Glostovo is. Watch Our Window. Edgerton Electric Light COMPANY new Spring Footwear For Ladies, Misses and Children Our line comprises the smartest new styles of the sea son, as well as the best of the staple styles. Baby Doll Pumps Barefoot Sandals Made of best quality tan lotus calf leather, thick flexible oak soles, two buckled straps. Cool and durable and just the thing for a summer piay shoe. Sizes sto 8 .85 Sizes IV& to 2 sl.lO Sizes Bfc to H SI.OO Sizes 2* to 6 $1.25 Ladies 1 Gun Metal Button Oxfords Medium and light weight soles, low heels, at $2.25 and $2.50 pair Gun metal or patent leather, with tailored ribbon bow, with low flat heel, at $3.00 per pair Your Watch Needs a Rest And a Cleaning Once a Year CHAS. H. HITCHCOCK JEWELER SEE OUR NEW Bavarian China Tea Sets 6 Cups and Saucers 6 Tea Plates 6 Bread & Butter Plates 6 Sauce Dishes 1 Sugar Bowl Decoration -Pink roses and green foliage in small dainty pattern 37 Pieces for $4.25 Buy Your Garden Seeds Now We Have the Best Northern Grown Seeds M. B. FLETCHER * * The oil dries and the bearings be gin to wear and your watch does not have a chance to show what it can do if you don’t take care of it. You ought to entrust your repair ing only to a jeweler of unques tioned skill and reliability. We take special pride in making watches perform better than they ever did. Our charges are moderate. 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