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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-12

Notice is hereby given to members
Of the Bloomington Farmers Fire i'm
surance Company that. the annual
meeting Of said Company for the pur-
pose of electing officers and the trans
action of such other business as may
properly come before the meeting.
will be held at the usual place in the
village of Bloomington on Tuesday,
the seventh day of January, 1896 at
10 O'Clock a. IN. A large attendance
is desired as questions Of Importance
will probably arise. Don't forget the
date, Jan. Z. 1896
JOHN CAREY, Jr. Sec'y and Treas.
JoHN RYAN, President.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-12

cattle were taken up by Mr.. Lewis
Breithaupt living just north of the
city. They belonged to Mr.. Lewis
of Patch Grove and it was an adj
vertisement in the HERALD that en-
abled him to locate and find his
property.
Mr.. Geo. Gould of Smaller, Iowa,
and newly welded wife are visiting
in Grant county. Mr. Gould was one
of the best known and most popular
Young men of Mt Ida twenty live
years ago and not few old friends
will be pleased to meet and ..congrat-
ulate'' him.
On Monday % The Swedish Grand
Quartet Concert company will give
an entertainment in Reeds Opera
House. This quartet has a repution
for excellance that should insure
them full house. They are
accompanied by Miss Jennie Shoe
maker popular reciter and Delsar-
team.
What does the Cuba City News
man mean by the following? The
last report of the county board gives
the number of mules and asses in the
town at four. This is a mistake,
as we know of several mules around
town, and as for asses. there were
five in bunch Saturday night COM
ing from the show al Diekeyyille.
Attorney w. Fl. Brown has an in
teresting but grewsome relic of the
Broken Knee Indian fight. 1t is a
scalp and scalp-lock of some unfortu-
nate brave who fell in the battle. 1t is
present from Mr.. Grover Newman
who participated as e. S. deputy
marshal in the trouble at and about
Wounded Knee.
NJ. L. Youngs, Grand Lecturer Of
Wisconsin for the Masonic Orders was
in the city Monday and Tuesday hold
ing schools of instruction. On Tues
day evening the Third Degree was
conferred by Mr.. Youngs on H. L..
Moses There was a large attend
ance. Among the visitors were
Messrs. Shaben. Thorp, Anstev, Per-
kins and Edwards of BCetown and
Henry Fischer of Sitter
Last Tuesday evening Anton
Schmitt gave the use of the skating
rink for benefit for the Lancaster
band The band boys appeared on
the street early in the evening and
rendered several selections in a high
" creditable manner The evenings
skate netted about five dollars. The
generous action of Mr. Schmitt is
highly appreciated by the members
of the band and their friends. That
sort of encouragement will give Lam
caster one OF the best bands in the
country.
Geo. w. jenkins. editor of the
Santa Maria Times CAL. in speak
ing of his various ailments of children
said. when my children have Group
there is only one patent medicine
that | ever use. and that is Chamber
lain's cough remedy. 1t possesses
some medical properties that relieve
the little sufferers Immediately. l.
is, in my opinion, the best cough
medicine in the market If this
remedyis freely given as soon as the
croupy cough appears it will prevent
the attack" 1t is also an ideal rem
edy for whooping-cough. There is
no danger in giving it to children as
it contains nothing injurious. For
sale by j T. Bennett, druggist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-12
PIattevilIe BONDS

Fourteen thousand dollars of
Platteville city bonds were sold on
Friday to n. w Harris & Co. Of Chi
cago for $14.216 p The bids ranged
from that figure down to 81 per cent
below par. This premium amounts
to a triie more than p per cent.
Lancaster bonds sold for , So per cent
premium.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-12
Runaway

Last Sunday rs three young ladies.
Misses Maggie Domer. Mary McCor-
mick and Ellen johnson were driving
near the railroad track few miles
northeast of Lancaster freight train
frightened their team and caused a
runaway. Miss Domer and Miss Nc
Cormick jumped ont and were not
much hurt. Miss Johnson held to
the horses until they ran into wire
fierce. She received severely
sprained ankle and some other bruis-
es. The horses were badly cut on
the wire and one of them win prob
ably die.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-12

day school. They secured funds for
supplies and began their work which
has been sustained successfully until
the present time. At length one of
them removed To another place since
which the other. Miss Libbie Hoffman,
has carried on the school alone.
The school numbers from twelve to
twenty Ii provides the only regular
gathering for public worship in the
village and is doing great good. The
missionary visited the school last
winter and conducted the quarterly
review and was very much gratified
with the familiarity of the children
with the Golden Texts. and the gene
al teachings of the quarters lessons.
Recently he revisited the place and
Miss Hoffman sadly told him the
school would have to be abandoned
for lack OF supplies. He told her he
would furnish supplies from funds
placed in his hands for such purposes.
The little superintendent cried:
.'Oh, you have made me so happy.
for don't want to close the school,
How many places there are in our
country where Sunday schools might
be maintained if older Christians but
find the spirit of conservation which
these little girls have manifested. A
little over one dollar was all that was
needed to insure the continuance of
this girls good work. There are
thousands of godly men and women
who, rather than see the little Sunday
school at Woodman stopped. would
have given ten times the amount
needed for its support
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-12

Also the following wives of com
rades Mesdames VIM. White. Geo
Day, James Whiteside. James Wood
house, G, H.Cooley, Chas. Sandlebach,
S. w. Rogers. Nye. Also the follow
ing: X. Dewing and wife. Sherman
Creubaugh, Diliey and wife, David
Sandlebach, John Wayne, Editor
Henry Rothe and wife, Rose Gull and
Miss Sandlebach
Election of officers for the ensuing
year was as follows: President and
Secretary. James Woodhouse Treas
urer, G. H. Cooley. Two members of
Co have died the last year past,
Michael McNamee OF Kansas. Isaac
Budworth of Clifton. Kansas
Two poems were read by Mr.. VIM.
White; one on the Battle Of Prairie
Grove and one on My Fathers Old
Canteen. Remarks by VIM. White,
What the Soldiers accomplished for
our Country. Singing, America
Dinner was then announced and we
all sat down to bountiful repast, a
splendid dinner provided by Comrade
Sandlebach and wife. Next in order
was reading letters from comrades
away at distance. One from Mr..
| b. Curley. who wants us to reune
with him at some future time; S. G..
White, Mt. Hope. unable to be with
us; A. j. Pugh, DeSoto, Wis. the
man who carried our first lieutenant
across James river; VIM. 0'Neil,
member of the Wisconsin assembly.
says he started to run at Prairie Grove
and has never been beaten since;
also r M. Day. Marching through
Georgia and many other G. A. X.
songs were sung. Remarks by Mrs.
VIM. White, Comrade Gibbon. Com
rade Draggs. Sandlebach; also reci-
tation by Miss Sandlebach. A vote OF
thanks was given to Comrade Sandle-
bach and wife for the splendid man
ner in which they were entertained.
Our next reunion is to be held at
the residence of James Whiteside if
he is in the county at that time if not
it will be held at the residence oil g.
| Ii. Cooley of Lancaster We meet to
part so we old comrades were forced
to say goodbye but still bound to-
gether by strong ties as comrades.
Our last reunion will be held same
7th Dec. but we hope to have another
and grander reunion in that better
country beyond the river
Dated Lancaster, Dec. 9, 1926
JAMES WOODUOTSF Sec'V
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-12

Next Saturday Dec II is the date
Of the annual election of officers o.
the w r. G. of Lancaster A fdl
attendance il desired.
MARTHA SnOwALTER, President
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-12
Barn to Rent

Herman Buchner has good and
convenient barn To rent. Inquire at
his office
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-12

When the corners of a mouth turn
down the indication is Of pettish,
jealous disposition.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-12

The epitheium. OF skin Of the
tongue IS being constantly removed
and renewed
In the herbiyerous animals the in
cisors, or cutting teeth and molars
are best developed.
It il always our faults upon which
we Halter ourselves.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08

added with profit to those houses
which are fitted for the growing of
frame cucumbers or tomatoes. Grow
erS for profit. however, Will do well TO
go slowly. The great difficulty in
making aelons profitable is the usual
~ very light yield, a plant producing
only two or three melons. Unless the
price obtained is very high one such
yield does not pay. Much depends
also on the season. To mature melons
we need sunshine, and this is often
scarce article during the earlier part of
the winter Last year, during October.
November and December. we had plenty
of il.
The melon vines are rs rarly trained
on wires. The melons have to be sup
ported n some way. Prof. Bailey's
way is-sitown in the accompanying pic
ture.
The gardener at the station in Geneva
supports his melons on little pieces of
thin board. about five by six inches,
which are hung up on the cross wires
by strings. The latter plan is perhaps
Observation-Disclosures Garden
ing.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
SOME VALUABLE HINTS.
How to Raise Peach and Plum Trees
from the Pits.


\. J. Keller. Crawford county, o.,
writes to the National StOckman:
Please inform me through the columns
of your valuable paper how to raise
plum and peach trees from the pits;
how to treat the pits and when to plant
them; and when to transplant the trees,
and how to treat them to make them
bear fruit.
Reply: The pits do better not to dry
out. As soon as possible after they
are taken from the fruit they should
be put in damp earth or sand and kept
moderately damp-not water-soaked
until planted. They are less trouble
when planted in the fall as soon as the
ground can be got ready. Covered with
about two inches of soil. the exposure
TO the frost will crack the shells and
the kernels will be ready to grow with
the approach of spring.
If not convenient to plant in the fall,
they can be kept covered with a few
inches of soil in a corner of the gar
den where water will not stand per-
manently. But they must be looked
after very early in spring in order to
pick out the ones that have opened and
plant them.
This tendency to start early before
the ground is ready to receive them
has induced some to bury them below
the action of frost-two or two and a
half feet-and when ready for them in
spring, take them up and crack by hand,
a somewhat tedious process.
In planting the seeds, in either case
they should be pretty thick in the rows,
as they Will not all grow The rows
may be about four feet apart. and with
cultivation every ten days or so during
the growing season they will make nice
trees by fall.
1t will be understood, of course, that
all these will vary more or less from
the present varieties. and that their
sole yalue-except where seedlings Of
IL certain sort are specially desired by
way of experiment-will be as stocks
on which TO bud the choice varieties.
When the budding has been success
ful the buds treated according to in
structiOns will have grown to be four
or more feet high by the end of the sec
OHd summer and may be set out in the
orchard. But peach, plum and cherry
do better transpIanted in the spring.
As to the bearing. much depends on
the varieties, some being more certain
than others; and all must take the
chances of unfayOrable Seasons.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

IF worms are eating the grape leaves
a solution of white hellebOre will stop
theEa.
TIE shoots of asparagus should nl-
ways be allowed to grow three or four
inches high before cutting.
IL eating grapes do not swallow fhe
seed. Might as well swallow pebbles.
The human stomach onght not to be
made to play the part of that of an os-
erich.
IF weed is allowed to go TO seed it
Twill multiply itself many times next
year. Nothing is so economical on the
farm as preventing weeds from going TO
seed.
WILL tomatoes from seed sown in the
open ground do as we'll as if sown under
glass and transplant? I'VE are asked.
Yes, and sometimes better under favor
able conditions.
ONE of our subscribers complains
that though his plum trees bloom well,
they do not fruit. Probably they are
not fortified. It is always desirable TO
set plums of different kinds in an or
chard TO insure fertilization.
WATER can often be applied to the
garden without much trouble. a wind
mill, tank and hose will do the work,
and if the soil is of the proper kind, and
the garden is for market purposes, il
may pay to irrigate. But if the soil
bakes under irrigation. But if the soil
harm than good.-Farmer's Voice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
GOOD ROADS EDUCATION.
slowly But Surely Light Is Breaking in
city ami Country.


city ami Country.
After all that has been written and
said concerning the material required
for the construction of good roads, the
thing that is really most needed is
good and widely diffused quality of
brains.
Clay. sand, gravel, asphalt andgranite
do not make good roads until mixed
with q proper amount of gray brain
matter. 1t is this last-named ingredi-
ent that the country most sadly lacks.
There are many signs of better things
in she making of roads. The whole
people are just now going to school for
the purpose of learning how to make a
good road. Most of them are yet in the
primary grades. but there is likely to
be time for graduating by and by
when road makers have learned all
about materials and grades and drain
age and other important branches OF
the subject of good roads.
When the people really get TO think
ing on this matter they will promptly
do away with those splendidly designed
machines for destroying roads, namely,
heavily-loaded, narrow-tired vehicles.
This is only one of many instances in
which brain matter will enter into the
building and keeping of good roads.
Secretary Morton has called a good
roads convention to meet at Atlanta
while the exposition is in progress.
This should prove good step in the
campaign of education. Many of the
county fairs are this year holding a
good roads" day, which proves that
the farmers are taking up this question.
which is of more vital interest TO them
than to any other class.
All in all the friends of good roads
which means the whole people-have
every reason TO confidently expect
marked improvement in the character
of the public highways.-GoodR Roads.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
COMMENT AND OPINION.

e The increase of the national deb
under President Cleveland's administra-
ton. as shown by official records, still
hovers around the s3O0,OOO,OOO mark,
being above oftenez tsan below it,
Boston Journal.
e The safe prediction with regard
TO the action of the new republican
house on questions of finance and rev.
enue is that it will not do anything
to make vegetables grow in the demo-
cratic garden.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
e When are the good times coming2
We are not calamity howlers, but is the
extent TO which the government is run
Ling behind, 1922 900 each day, any evi.
dence of the return of prosperity? We
are waiting, but our patience is sbsSA
exhausted.-Albany Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
FREE TRADE FIGURES FALSE
Democrats Try to Boom the GOrmsn-
Wilson Tariff Law.

Democrats Try to Boom the German
Wilson Tariff Law.
Early in September democratic Jour
mails all over the country published
what purported to be a list of the COM
panies and firms which had increased
the wages of their employees, with the
number of workers alleged to have
been SO benefited. OF course, the 2ur-
pose was to make it appear that the
democratic tariff law was great boon
for the working people and the demo-
cratic organs went into ecstasies over
the showing. The New York Tribuna
has taken the trouble to investigate the
free trade statements, and it finds thaA
some of the companies described have
no real existence, and that in many
cases lists of employees have. been used
twice and three times in order to swell
it's total of those blessed with al in
crease in wages The Carnegie com.
pany is down in one place with an in
crease for each of its $1,000 employees,
and IN another place the same emp
ployes are counted again. and some Of
them third time. In this way 16, 500
fictitious employees are credited with
increased wages. That is in the Car
negie company alone In Cincinnati
the statement credits advances in
wages to $4,000 cloakmakers, while all
the clothing workers in the city mum.
Der only $4,000.
In this way lists of employees all over
the country were swelled TO score a
point for the bill of sale" By elimi-
mating some of the chief frauds of this
kind the free trade list of increase in
wages is reduced from 1000 TO 25s,,
91j. The Tribune adds some increases
outside of the free trade list, bringing
the total up to $50, $40. 1t then shows
that the increase averages only about
one-half the reductions which followed
the beginning of democratic r1le. The
working people are doing better than
they We're before the country voted for
return to republican policies, but
they are far from being as prosperous
as they were before the democratic adj
ministration began.-Troy Times
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
The Democratic Outlook.

The next presidential campaign will
Se remarkable, if for no other reason
than because in it the democratic party
will have to ask retention in power upon
the ground that, if so retained, it will
undo most OF what il has done during the
years that it had free governmental
ContTOl. y party always bases much
of its claim to public support upon the
shortcomings of the opposite party;
but the republicans may safely leave
the tale of their foes shortcomings to
be told by their foes themselves. Next
year it seems as if the democracy would
achieve the distinction of running, at
one and the same time, both on the is
sue that it will hereafter keep the
promises which hitherto it has failed
70 keep and also on the issue that
that it is perfectly safe to trust it, be-
cause it has never kept its promises,
and does not intend TO, and therefore
need not be taken at it's word by any
man who fears CONFUSION in our
financial or economic policy. - Hon
Theodore Roosevelt, in Century.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
Can't Afford Poor Mixers.

Every COW of dairy herd should be
examined through a Babcock tester.
The milk should be weighed and tested
so that the Improbable COW should be
known and weeded out from the herd.
Farmers can't afford to keep cows for
dairy purposes which do not yield
quantities of butter or cheese pretty
well up to standard record. Both Ia
Dor and feed must be wasted if the
cows which give less than average
quantity of butter fat or casein are not
turned over to the butcher.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
GREENHOUSE MELONS.

How They Are Grown at the Cornell En-
pertinent Station.
y recent bulletin issued by the Cor
pell University Experiment station
treats on the subject of growing winter
melons. Prof Bailey thinks that while
the melon is admittedly the most diff
cult vegetable crop to mature in the
winter months. il can no doubt often he
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
ETbe Louisville Courier-Journ

ETbe Louisville Courier-Journal
describes the democratic party under its
present condition as "a monster with
out head, running loose through the
wilderness of political incertitude.
This is very good, but hardly up to the
late Maj. John n. Edwards likening of
the same party to "a beast with
ring in its nose, being led before the
Philistines in derision." - ST. Louis
Globe Democrat
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
FOR COOLING MILK.
A Simple COntrivanee Suitable for Use Q
Small Dairy Farms.

The accompanying illustration repre-
sents device. by which vessels contain
ing milk can be hung in a well and kept
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08

cool. 1t supports four pals which can
be raised and lowered by means of one
small windlass. l have used this for
several years and find it quite satisfac-
tory. Stock is watered from this well.
A pump is placed close TO the wall, and
as the well is large one does not inter
fere with the raising or lowering of the
milk pails.-M. H. Whitney, in Amer
lean Agriculturist.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31
) tbo old dif6kilty done

"Lem'weI, Is The old dif6kilty done
With RI
$50 fur's I'm concerned, it is, "
said the deacon, emphatically.
II say amen to that said Mr.
Snyder.
"Glory to God in the highest,
peace an good will to everybody,
said Mrs. Jones. at seems too good
to be true, but | hope it amt. Myl
but won't the neighbors be s'prised
to hear ont! They won't b'lieye it
~ know they wonstl Iwoudn' eff
Ihadn' seen it."
So it came about that "the old
diHkilty" was buried out of sight. on
that Christmas day. And SO may it
come about that we bury the old
grudges deep down in oar hearts this
christmas Day-so deep that. they
never see the light again.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-31
In the Confederate Army.

A glorious night, that Christmas
eve of 1864, crisp, cold and exhilar-
ating to the young soldier who rode
rapidly down the Osborn pike, leav-
ing the lights of Richmond behind,
thinking of the Christmas eve cheer
he had enjoyed with kind friends in
the city, who were mo e mindful of
the boys in the trenches than of the
dangers to their homes.
The officers had a hut at the head
of the parade facing the fertilization,
and as the captain dismounted his
faithful man, Caesar, who could get
nearer to a battle, hide safer, and
emerge sooner than any man in the
army, appeared from the shadow in
his "dug-out" and talked to the old
sorrel as he led him off.
"Ise sequestered a bag of oats dat
squandered from de majors Vaughn,
an you gifts a Christmas bellyful
sure: I'm glad of dat, but whar's de
grub for Caesar and de captain and
de rest Of de boys on Christmas day?"
He muttered something about Elijah
and the ravens aud the Lord, and
the sparrows that fall; but a few
minutes later disappeared in his com
Portable hole in the ground, singing
MY love she af a coal black roses
in happy-go-lucky style.
For flew minutes they were silent,
half sitting, half lying on their
blankets before the fire. Suddenly
the captain diyed into the pockets
OF his %overcoat, and holding before
each officer a brilliant little piece of
silk ribbon patch work, exclaimed:
GA Christmas present for each of
us from the loveliest Virginia girls
you I've saw"
"a silk tobacco bag by thunder"
said the first lieutenant.
"Ihe very thing 1 wanted" said
the first sergeant.
They enjoyed the smoke. The
first sergeant, who was caterer for
the mess, told him that next to a
good meal, which they couldn't get,
a smoke would satisfy the keenest
appetite.
"That reminds me, how about a
camp Christmas dinner ?" said the
captain. "When | called on the
commissary today he hoped to have
a little bacon to add to our allow
ance, and told me that the 'home