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VOLUME 42 Business Direct st ai Henry Johnson Firs, Tornado, Life AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE EDGERTON, WISCONSIN Office on Henry Street Packers of Cigar Leaf Tobacco IF YOU WANT The Best and Cheapest Case made write us for delivered prices in carload lots in shook. Satisfaction guaranteed. By using our case sampling can be done with one half the labor and no damage to case: MaGEE BROTHERS Janesville, Wis. W. T. Pomeroy & Cos. Dealers in and Packers of Leaf Tobacco Edgerton - - - Wisconsin O G. HANSEN. C. H. HANSEN HANSEN BROS. (Successors to O. G. lianseu> Dealers in Leaf Tobacco Edgerton - - Wis. ANDREW JENSON & SONS Packers of and Dealers in Leaf To bacco PUBLIC STORAGE. 3c per case per month EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN. C. E. SWEENEY, DEALER. IN Leaf Tobaccc, EDGERTON, WISCONSIN O. CT ILE-11-. Dealer ifi ax>d Packer of Leaf Tobacco, STOUGHTON, - WISCONSIN. HEINRICH NEUBERGER Packer of and Dealer in Leaf Tobacco 130 Water St., 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. EDGERTON Farmers Warehouse Cos. DEALERS IN Leaf Tobacco, And Farm Supplies Edgerton, - - Wisconsin. HASKINS & SCHWARTZ Packers of Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco, Janesville, Wisconsin Holton Leaf Tobacco Cos. PACKERS OF WISCONSIN Leaf Tobacco OFFICES AT Stoughton and Whitehall, Wis. EDGERTON, WISCONSIN. Capital Stock ... $50,000.00 Surplus - - $30,000.00 Undivided Profits - - $18,000.00 3 Per Cent, paid on Savings Deposits and Certificates Checks on All Foreign Countries Sold. Safety Boxes For Rent at SI.OO. Officers and Directors: ANDREW JENSON W. S. HEDDLES Pres, and Cashier Vice-President Wm. BUSSEY, Asst. Cashier D. L. BABCOCK, W. A. SHELLEY, C. Gh BIEDERMAN ALEX WHITE. “THEY TAKE WELL" That’s what our dealers say, /ir 4 4 ' ) anyway. And an ill lmperial 10 cent cigar !• j W , l/f limi smokes well—that’s what “gets” tne smoker. Try one. -=-=* For a mighty good 5c cigar ask for MAX NO. 10. Edgerton Cigar Cos., Edgerton, Wisconsin THE EARLE TOBACCO CO. Packer of and Dealer in LEAF TOBACCO. EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN. Original “LINDE” New York Seed Leaf Tobacco inspection ESTABLISHED IN 1864. F. C. LINDE, HAMILTON & CO. Inc. Tobacco Inspectors, Weighers Warehousemen Office, 182 Pearl St.. New York City. Branches In all of the principal tobacco district A. H. CLARKE, Special Agent Edgerton, Wis. Badger'Phone No. 71 COLSON E HAMILTON FRANK P. WISEBURN, LOUIS BUHLE Formerly with F. C. Linde. Hamilton & Cos. C. O. HAMILTON &. CO., Tobacco Inpsectors, Warehousemen, Weighers MalnOff lce—B4-35 South Street, New York. THOS. B. EARLE, Agent, Edgerton, Wis. Telephone No, 23 SANFORD SOVERHILL DEALER IN AND PACKER OF LEAF TOBACCO Janesville, - Wisconsin. S. B. HEBDLES DEALER IN LEAF TOBACCO No. 5 South Adams St. Janesville, Wis. GREENS’ TOBACCO CO., Dealers in Leaf Tobacco, STORAGE CAPACITY, ... 15,000 OASES Janesville, - - Wisconsin. N. L. CARLE & CO. Packers of and Dealers inj Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco, Janesville, . - Wisconsin.] EDGERTON, ROCK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1916. NOTE BOOK SKETCHES The assurance comes from Washing ton that the forthcoming revenue bill is not likely to include any increase of taxes on tobacco; on the contrary the committee having charge of the meas ure intimates that the bill will repeal the special tax of $4.80 levied on deal ers in tobacco. The reason assigned for the remittance of the tax i3 that it is annoying to a large number of peo ple, which is not desired in an election year, and further because it does not yield any great amount of revenue. Leave it to the politicians to find a rea sonable excuse for throwing over an obnoxious tax. * * * Another big block of low grade Wis consin leaf, exceeding a million pounds, which has been sold to the account of an export firm confirms the belief that the European countries now at war are still in dire straits for tobacco supplies. Just when the ocean lines will be able to deliver the goods in European ports is uncertain. This much we do know, shipments are continually being made out of Wisconsin storage points to the seaboard and it is intimated that if the regular lines cannot guarantee delivery that steamships will be chartered es pecially for tobacco shipments to the warring nations. The cold, unseasonable weather that has prevailed so largely the greater part of May has retarded the growth of the young plants until it begins to look like a late planting season this year. For a whole week or more the beds stood still and scarcely any pro gress was noted. Cold rains and low temperatures also held up the corn planting until nearly tw r o weeks late. Unless we have a repetition of last season, which is noted as one without a summer, warmer days should be due shortly and if favored with plenty of them the delays might be overcome. But a late season is reported in all the cigar leaf states, so the Wisconsin growers have no more to complain of than those elsewhere. The National Cigar Leaf Tobacco as sociation held its annual convention at Washington, D. C., on Monday and Tuesday of last week. The convention completed its labors in three sessions, two on Monday and one on Tuesday. Monday morning’s session was devoted to a routine business including the read ing of the president’s able message, and the appointment of committees. The afternoon session was spent in the discussion of the resolutions, reported by the resolution committee, some of which involved considerable discussion. Lunch was served in the convention hall, and at night the delegates saw a crackerjack show at Keith’s, after which they went to Harvey’s for a smoker. Tuesday morning the resolu tions committee reported some resolu tions that had been formulated over night, and the discussion of these, the election of officers and choosing the next meeting place took up the morn ing. Adjournment was taken at 1 o’clock and the delegates were left to their own devices until 7:30, when the annual banquet was held in the Red Room of the New Willard hotel. The new officers are: Jos. F. Cullman Jr., president; W. J. Lukaswitz, vice presi dent; Geo. M. Berger, treasurer; Joe. Mendelsohn, secretary. The last two are re-elections. Mr. Lukaswitz suc ceeds S. Major Newburgh as vice pres ident. The next convention will be held in Hartford, Conn., the cordial in vitation extended by Ben Hass and the other members of the Hartford delega tion being accepted with a hurrah, em phasized with recollections of previous conventions to which the Hartford del egation has played host. Once the trade is agreed that either the size or the price of the cigar of the present cannot be maintained, the tra dition of price inflexibility or of an oversize cigar will vanish into the re pository of memory. For there cannot be any controversy or difference of opinion about the rising value of all materials necessary in the process Ot manufacturing a cigar. It has bee.? brought home incontrovertibly both to the mind and pocket of every retailer and distributor, that the price of every commodity for his own comfort has enormously risen during the past few years and that it is bound to still more steadily rise in the current prosperity of the country which fast stimulates vaster consumption than ever before took place. The knowledge and con sciousness of this steady adyance must inevitably convince him also, of the unavoidable rise in price of the com modity on which he depends for a liv ing. Neither the retailer, nor distrib utor, nor consumer can escape the con clusion that in the present wave of rising prices he will have to swim the stream or drown. To impress this in evitable fact on the distributor, retail er and consumer should become the im mediate propaganda of the cigar indus try. The facts should be presented to him not only through individual com munication, ~ but through a universal campaign of publicity which, more than any other reason of persuasion, is likely to make an effective breach in a long cherished tradition which has become thoroughly untenable under present conditions. —U. S. Tobacco Journal. WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET. Edgerton, Wis., May 26, 1916. We are having this week the first really warm, pleasant days of the sea son and their effect upon the plant beds is most encouraging to tobacco grow ers. Such temperatures which should continue at this date will soon recover the delays of the season for the young plants have sufficient root to make rapid growth from this time on. While somewhat later than usual there is a full month yet for them to reach the proper size for transplanting. Cured leaf of all descriptions is stead ily moving out of packers’ hands. An other large transaction of low grade leaf reaching upwards of a million pounds has been completed this week for the export account of Heinrich Newberger, from the Scotten-Dillon Cos., Detroit manufacturers. The Ver non county Equity packing of ’l4 of some 800 cases has been sold to N. L. Carle & Cos. who also purchased a 300 cs packing of A. E. Sorenson of White hall. The reported sale last week of a 300 cs packing of ’l3 by O. C. Lee of Stoughton is an error. The deal has not yet been closed. The binder goods remaining in the state, however, are being reduced to scattering lots. The shipments out of storage reach 150 cases to all points since last re port. New York. New York, May 20, 1916. Activity in the leaf market has toned down somewhat. Even the expected rush on the new Sumatra has not been fully realized. While there is great anxiety and desirability on the part of manufacturers to invest in the new Su matra they are still fighting shy of the high price and have been picking out only such lots where the yield and tex ture would compensate them for the higher price. In other words, the new Sumatra so far has been bought only for hand-to-mouth needs and for exper imenting. Prospective buyers seem to indulge the hope that the later and larger importations might bring them more satisfactory stock as to price and quality. Eventually, however, the ad vance of their output is likely to drive them into making the best of a situa tion rather difficult for them now. The demand for the domestic Shadegrown leaf is in the meanwhile growing more and more expansive. Many factories seem to be bringing out new brands with this favorite domestic wrapper leaf, hut with the growing demand not only, but also in sympathy with the higher price of Sumatra its price is rising, too. In other types of leaf the market is limited to what would appear to be mostly remnants of old stock. The scarcity of proper wrapper leaf is also reflected in the Porto Rico crop which is reported to be steadily advanc ing in price, too. The Havana situa tion has likewise improved because of the very active demands in the Cuban market. —Journal. New England. Springfield, Mass., May 16, 1916. Connecticut Valley tobacco growers are having their troubles. Not only are plants in the seed beds backward, but, in addition, many growers have found it necessary to start their beds over again because of the failure of seed to germinate. Continued cold weather has been productive of mold in hundreds of seed beds. The sun has shown so infrequently, or when it has shown has resulted in such indifferent warmth, that plants in many seed beds are fully a month be hind. This does not mean that the season is a month late. It is, however, fully two weeks late, and little tobacco will be set out, even under cloth, for another week at least. Considering the backwardness of the seed beds and the consequent inability of growers to procure plants of suffic ient size for transplanting, it is doubt ful if the setting out of the new crop will be finished before July 1, or ap proximately but two weeks short of the time at which priming of shaded to bacco begins in some years. Many growers have not finished plowing. Pennsylvania. Lancaster, Pa., May 17, I^l6. Lancaster county is just now being scoured for cheap tobacco, which means that buyers are after bargains in 1909 g00c.3. If they are finding any bar gains they have not had much to say about their finds. Cheap 1909 meant six, seven and eight cents a pound, some months ago. If anybody can be found who is selling now at those prices he must be some person who never reads the trade paper or has been in a Rip Van Winkle sleep. A few months ago holders of 1909 tobacco actually concealed the fact, ashamed to own that they had been caught with any of that hoodooed tobacco in their posses sion. Now many of the owners of the goods refuse to talk anything but 15 and 16 cents. And they expect to get it, too. Some have received as much as 11J cents, and some offers above that figure have been made, and re fused, but nobody has yet admitted paying 15 or 16 cents. Things don’t stand still in the tobacco world any more than in other lines of trade. A year ago the local packers had plenty of tobacco, but no custom ers. Now t they have plenty of would be customers, but no tobacco. What some of the packers are going to do until they can get hold of another crop is a ? puzzle. And the more the local (Coneluued 071 Page 4) Fire Protection For SI.OO We have Safe Deposit Boxes for rent in our absolute Fire Proof vaults. A box 24 inches long and six inches wide and about three inches high, of sufficient size to hold a large number of papers and documents may be rented for SI.OO per year. A larger size rented for $2.00. Boxes are double locked and you alone can get into the boxes; therefor absolute privacy. You have access to the vaults at any time during banking hours. With insurance policies, deeds, contracts, mortgages, and other valuable papers thus protected you need have no fear of their loss by fire. Neither will they become lost or misplaced. Come in and ask us to show you the boxes and the vaults. First National BANK Edgerton, Wisconsin "The Bank , of the People," Geo. W. Doty, - President E. G. Bussey, - Vice President Oscar L. Olson - Cashier J. F. Hruska - Asst. Cashier H. T. SWEENEY. PACKER OF Leaf Tobacco Tobacco Bought and Sold on Oommission. Edgerton, - - Wisconsin C. J. JONES & SON Packers of and Dealers in All Kinds of Leaf Tobacco 616 South Main Street and 220 and 222 North Main Street Janesville, - Wisconsin. C. F. MABBETT Est. Dealer in Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco Edgerton, Wisconsin. Mclntosh bfos. Packers of Choice Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco Always in the market for old goods. Edgerton, - Wisconsin E. M. HUBBELL Dealer and Packer of Leaf Tobacco Edgerton - - Wisconsin The Jefferson Leaf Tobacco Co*" Dealers in and Packers of Leaf Tobacco SPARTA, WISCONSIN. EUGENE SORENSON Packer ol Northern Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco Whitehall, Wis. R. H. HOLTAN Dealer in and Packer of Leaf Tobacco Whitehall. Wis. NUMBER 27