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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-04
3D. FOR THE *
SCHOOL CHILDREN!

Buy yonr School Books where you get
most for your money.
with every purchase we will give you
a good school botter.
With every purchase of > cents. or
over, we will give you II good school
ruler and blotter.
With every purchase of % cents, or
over we will give you II good blotter, IL
good ruler ana good book strap.
Our prices on School Books will he the
same AS those adopted by the State Board
of Education.
With every purct ase you get something
FREE
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-04
SPRECKLES DENIES 1T.

San Francisco, Sept. 3. CLAUS Spreck
els o'day, in an article published in his
sons paper, of this city, denies the re-
Gently published report that his agent
In the Hawaiian Islands arranged for the
ant'-anneXation meeting there. Persons
VINO arrived to-day from Honolulu on
the steamer Australia declare. neverthe-
less, that it is the general opinion
throughout the islands that Spreckels
ana cause such arrangements to be made.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-04
HAVE YOU SEEN

S HAVE YOU SEEN
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Hwheels at $50 and $50 For
the next few days we offer them at spe-
ciai prices. ROANOKE CYCLE CO.,
los Salem avenue w.
THE WEATHER.
forecast for Virginia.: Fair; slightly
warmer; northerly winds.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-04

You ought to see that Steinway bar.
gain at Hobbie Piano Co.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
fl New Reading Circle.

Monday evening, at the residence
of County Clerk Dickinson, in Lancas-
ter, was organized an Epworth League
Reading Circle with membership of
fifteen and Mrs. Charles Dickinson as
president. The circle will meet once
a week from house to house and its
first meeting will be with Miss Bessie
McNair on Friday evening, October
s. In the course of reading from
October Is to November Is 1.-The
Picket Line of Missions" will be used.
Following that will be read, George
Washington, the Ideal Patriot, -" The
Ministry of Art" and Life on High
Levels E" A very profitable winter
will be put in by members OF the
circle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
Football At Darlington.

The football season was opened in
this part of the state by a game at
Darlington between the Darlington
eleven and the Platteville Normals.
The score of to in favor of Darling
ton was a surprise to everybody and
was partly due. no doubt, to overcon-
fidence on the part of the Normal
boys. The Darlington Republican
says: "Platteville came onto the field
like true champions, shouting their
college yell. They went off sick at
heart with hopes crushed and vanity
hurt. The Darlington team had out
bucked, out-punted, out-tackled, out
run, out-generaled and out-maneuver-
ed them, won the game on its merits
and won because they were the best
team"
The Republican says further that
the game at times was disgraceful to
a portion Of the players, the institu-
tions they represented and the civili-
cation in which they live and that
the Platteville players were the ag-
gressors in the smuggling.
All lovers of the splendid game of
football will regret that the opening
game in this vicinity should have been
SO improperly played. Unless the
game can be conducted in a manner
becoming to gentlemen it ought not
to be ynized as belonging to col
lege att cs at all, but should be
placed in Inc So me class as prize fight
ing and bull batting.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
Fl Musical SWlndler.

According to some of our exchanges
there is ''piano tiendn working this
state. Look out for him. Don't do
business with smooth talking strang-
ers anyhow. The safe, the right and
the best way is to deal with reliable
dealers in your own town or county.
Here is the way one piano rascal
works:
The agent goes to the farm house
and asks permission to leave his piano
there. He even goes SO far as to pay
rent while it is stored with the far
mer. The family is permitted to use
the instrument and the only thing the
agent requires is that the farmer
speak good word for the instrument
to his neighbor. OF course all this is
nice and easily agreed to. Then the
agent takes a receipt for the piano,
and this is what does the mischief. as
it afterwards turns out to be a note
for $500. AS the piano is worth
about $3.50, the buyer is out $3.50"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30

ances alike We're her friends. Il
loved her when l had known her an
hour is the testimony of stranger.
No one came near her without carry
ing away an impression OF something
good and sweet. 1t was not the beau
ty OF face alone that impressed one; it
was the purity, the dignity. the
strength of character. We do not
care for the beautiful flower that is
oderless, and character is the perfume
of the soul.
1t is very hard to part with one so
young, who had not vet grown weary
OF life through sorrow or disease.
knowing too that we cannot watch
and enjoy the growth and development
OF character that promised so much.
and that we must do without the HELM
Of the quick mind and delft fingers.
But she is not wholly lost to US. 1t
is as if we had had entrusted to our
care rare and precious jewel. But
because our soiled fingers dimmed its
)astre it has been taken from us and
placed beyond our reach. We cannot
still enjoy its beauty,
All imperfections fade from sight
and we may not tarnish it from con
tack with our grief. SO with our lit
tie Bessie. she is ours to treasure ever
in our hearts, her brief life a precept.
her memory delight.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
Chapter 425, Section /, of the laws
Of 1889. reads as follows:
Bagleu.

John Harville and Grace Oeikers
took trip to Lancaster last week
Peter Gasner and wife are visiting
friends in Buffalo county this week.
The new Woodman Hall is nearly
completed and big time is expected
at the dedication
Sylvia Sutton and family have sold
out all interests in Dakota and are on
their way to their old home in WA
lusing.
Weather all that could be asked
for. The farmers are busy sowing
fall grain, hulling clover and thresh-
ing buckwheat which turns out in a
way that insures a good supply of
buckwheat cakes this winter. The
WELD of clover seed is extra and will
more than supply the home demand.
The one case Of typhoid fever here,
John Keller, Is thought to be turned
for the better. Mr.. Keller contracted
the fever while in Iowa where he had
been running steam thresher and
came home sick. Joe Iorns was quite
sick for a few days but is up and
around again. AS cooler weather
advances sickness appears to decrease.
John Oswald and Harry Brown
were out here last week and I,tell you
they created quite tlutter among the
finny and feathery tribes The first
day Harry paired off with VIII Day,
and Oswald with Stagman as guide,
went to the river to fish, and such
angling. Lancaster people would
hardly credit such a fish story found
in any other paper. Some 800 fish
were taken out in few hours The
next morning Harry went out early
and shot several ducks ead vas then
satisfied and ready to return to his
home. -.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
The Mormons Walk.

The delegates to the Mormon con-
ference, which is to be held in Fond du
Lac commencing on October 2, will
walk to that city. 1t will be neces-
sary for some of them to walk as far
as 200 and 800 miles. Already the
elders from the most distant parts OF
the state and the upper peninsula OF
Michigan, who expect to attend the
conference, have begun their tiresome
pilgrimage. They will walk toward
Fond du Lac as rapidly as their
strength and the condition Of the
roads and weather will permit. The
Mormons never "take up collections. "
1t is against the rules of the society.
The expenses of ne campaign against
sin and Satan must be met by the
elders themselves. They must pay
out money which they have earned
by their individual efforts
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
Fennln0re.

Miss Doeringsfield visited last
week in Milwaukee.
George Smerl, Of Soldiers Grove, is
visiting at John Graham's.
Mrs. T. Tufley, Of Boscobel, is Wis
iting with her daughter, Mrs. Sam
MacReynolds, Of this place.
Lee McLymans has returned from
hardwood, Iowa. where he has been
visiting his brother Charles.
A. Farnahm is at Milwaukee attend
ing the state fair; also Mr.. and Mrs.
Roach and daughter Florence.
Miss Bessie Trap spent last week
with her sisters, Mrs. John Anderson
and Mrs. George Monroe, Of Mount
Hope. =.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
Death OF Mrs. Mauer.

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mauer died at
her home in the village of Sitter.
Grant county, Sunday evening, Sept.
26. 1897. aged 76 years, months and
Is days. The cause of death was
dropsy of the heart. Her illness was
of about four weeks duration; before
that she had always been a vigorous
and healthy woman.
She was born in 1921. in Saxony,
Germany, and came to America in
1917, settling in the town OF Liberty.
She was married in IS4S in Lancas-
ter by Rev. S. W Eaton. to John
Mauer who died in the army OF the
Tennessee in 1868. He was a member
OF Co. c., 25th Wis. Inf.
Mrs. Mauer always lived at Liberty
after first coming there. She was q
widow for "a years.
She was the mother of six children.
two Of whom died young. The living
are Mrs. Ellen julius of Liberty. j. b.
Mauer, treasurer of Grant county; c.
A. Mauer, Lemars. Iowa; and c. W.
Mauer Of Liberty. She leaves y
grandchildren and two great grand
children
She was one Of the first members OF
the German NJ. E. church at Liberty,
having joined that society about Is
years ago; she was all her life an ex-
emplary Christian lady.
The funeral was held Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock from the Ger
man Methodist church in Liberty;
burial in the NJ E. cemetery, there.
Rev. c. H Prebie conducted the last
sad rites The large number of sym
pathetic neighbors and friends who at
tended the funeral testified by their
presence as well as by kind words the
noble character of the deceased and
the high esteem in which she was
held by the entire community.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
Reunion At 6alvln's.

The third annual reunion of Com
pany H. Seventh Wisconsin Infantry
was held at the residence Of Theo.
Calvin in this city Friday. Sept 24,
1897. Mr.. Calvin and his hospitable
wife had made extensive preparations
for their guests. The home was be-
comingly decked with flags and bunt-
ing, and the lawn in front contained
on one side large camp kettle swung
over pile of wood all ready for light
ing, and on the other savage looking
cannon mounted and ready for action.
The dinner tables were generously
loaded with the best the land affords
and each was decked with magnlti-
cent flower piece in red, white and
blue, the artistic work of Miss Abbie
Phelps. As the company were march
ing to dinner Mr.. Calvin's daughter
Telah struck up the inspiring strains
Of Marching through Georgia. .
The tones of the instrument sent a
thrill through the veterans and they
uncon sciously fell into step with the
time OF the familiar tune, and as
memories of other days came trooping
to the fore, unbidden tears trickled
down the cheeks OF those who but
q moment before were gay with laugh
and jest
Co II. of he Seventh saw much of
the hardest fighting OF the war.
There are enrolled on our county
soldiers monument thirty eight
names of its brave members. The
distinguished Mark Finnicum was
the company's first captain. He and
others sent interesting letters of re-
greet to Mr.. Calvin.
The reunion passed resolutions Of
sympathy and coincidence to 'our
brave old comrade and commander,
Gen. John b. Calls" They also vot-
ed to hold the next reunion at John
Draggs', Fennimore.
Following is list of those present;
j. W. Bracket and wife, Blooming
ton; j. Heathcock and wife, Linden;
VIM. Z. McGhan and wife, Sherburn,
Mimi; j. McLimans and wife, Fenni-
more; j. b. Murphy and wife, Ander-
son; G. w. Russell and wife. Fenni-
more; Daniel Shaw and wife, Ellen
boro; E. Whitmore and WIFE, Lancas-
ter; also Mrs. d. Smith. j. Dillen. Jno.
Draggs, and VIM. Loney OF Fennimore,
IT. Walker of Preston and Owen Nc
Chan of Cedar. Mimi.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
Preston.

The frost caught a mum Der Of late
corn fields here and Will be apt to
injure it some.
j Robinson & Co.. are threshing
on the Watchorn ranch. Oats are
shellin' out like sixty in this country.
G. r. Bowden has exchanged his
farm here to Dell Brunson for land in
North Dakota to which place he will
move in the spring.
Tom Harris drove through from
DAVIS county, Northwest Nebraska,
stopping off for few days to shock
corn for Martin Smoker, on his way
to Racine to join his family.
Bob Watchorn will go to his
south farm near New California soon,
his brothers Jim and Tom taking
charge of the one he has been work
ing for the past three years.
Tanner and Ben Walker and l..
Newell put on their boiled shirts,
oiled their hair and strutted at the
county fair at Lancaster and pro-
nounced it ahead of all doings in
Southwest Wisconsin.
No, Elder Short, we've had Latter
Day Sairtism by John Wesley Peter
son from Jesus Christ down to Salt
Lake, all we want, and we can rest
perfectly satisfied until Gabriel
sounds the trumpet, etc. -.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
after THE FARMERS.
the wisconsin Food And Dairu Commissioner
Claims That Theg Sold Skinned Milk At The
G. ;. Thiteher Cheese FACTORY.

-
Food Commissioner Chadwick IN
+ba ,,,,,
the name OF the state of Wisconsin.
has br,,,.l. -.
H"9 ~ suit against number of
Grant county farmers of Lima town
ship. Warrants have been served on
Messrs. Isaiah Butson. r Reway To-
, ooo'
C0nuon. John Kinney and Sam Pol
Iafu' anu lneY Will nave hearing be-
fo,.a a ,,,s4;o,, =;
~ JooehSO ~ LtHCdSttF on InurS-
dsv Oct IL III f
49, ne farmers are
CHARGED with Spllinor Sl-in,,,oa ,,,;ll-
tAi iiieo hllh
(unwhOleSOme f0odN ot tho urk:toL>
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
Broke Jail.

Three more prisoners escaped from
the new Jail in Prairie du Chen bv
cutting through the, roof and descend
ing to the ground by rope of sheets.
They we're captured few hours after
making their escape. The new jail
does not appear to hold the scientific
crooks. Grant county experienced
'jail deliveries" until the Jail was all
sheeted inside with steel. Now it APP
pears to hold them. Although some
experienced criminals confined in the
Jail just before it was sheeted in
formed the Herald reporter that any
professional" can 60 out through
that sheeting Like cutting through
cheese" We have had no really
tough characters in our Jail since it
was sheeted, so that we do not know
whether the aforesaid burglars were
GLOWING or not.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
Not Il Free BnGgu Ride After Ali.

A team and buggy belonging to
Charley McLain, who resides north
east OF Flora, was united from the
railing at the court house square in
Lancaster on Saturday last by some
urchins without permission from the
owner. The boys drove out into the
country and getting a load Of pump
kins started to drive back into town
when the team ran away, breaking up
the buggy considerably. The boys
fathers willingly paid all damages.
The boys were but 8 or years old
and hardly responsible for the mis-
chief done.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
Selecting fl County Committee Chairman.

Tuesday. Oct. y, is the day set for
the selection OF a chairman OF the re-
publican county central committee.
The election is occasioned bv the
death of Hon. j. d. Wilson. The
chairman OF the several town commit
tees are eligible to vote for county
chairmen. They are called to meet
at Lancaster on the day above mem
toned. 1t is hoped that all the towns
will be represented as the choice of
county chairman is of much concern
to the party and the best Judgment
OF all the county committee should be
had in the making of a selection. The
ideal man for the place is one whose
republicanism is unchallenged. who
has had experience in campaigning.
and who hes had the ability as an or
ganizer and general to bring the diff
ferent factions into line to work har-
moniously together for the best inter-
ests Of the party. And what is best
for the party is best for the people
generally.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30

The first and only pictures Mrs.
Mckinley has had taken in ten years
appears in the October number OF
The Ladies Home Journal. They
form part of series of new and I'M
published photographs of the new
occupants of the White House. Mrs.
Mckinley wore for her picture her
inaugural ball dress of silver and
white brocade, at the special request
of the President, who thought it par
ticularly becoming The excellent
portrait OF Mr.. Mckinley in his office
was taken in June. The other pic
lures in the series show the many
changes in the arrangements and fur
nishings Of the rooms and grounds,
made by the President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30

McClure's Magazine for October
will contain a description of what
must be one Of the most curious and
thrilling spectacles in al the world
and elephant roundup in Siam. The
paper will be illustrated from series
OF photographs showing the various
steps in the dangerous preceding Of
driving 200 wild elephants into a cor.
raj and choosing out such as are de.
sired for the royal elephant stable:
and bringing them into subsection
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
In Memoriam.

Bessie Ray Patch was born in Lam
caster. Wis, Nov. s. 1884, and died
at Minnesota. Mimi, Sept. II, 1897.
She was the daughter of Harry l..
and Julia Lambert Patch. and her
brief life was spent at Mt. Hope and
Lancaster.
Last spring she had a severe attack
Of grippe and in July she accompanied
her sister Mrs. Phelps to her home in
Minnesota, thinking the change would
be beneficial And so it seemed to be
until about three weeks ago she be-
came i'll with typhoid fever, and al
though everything that medical skill
and loving care could devise was done
for her she went softly away in sleep
the morning of the 18th. All through
her illness she was hind and patient,
never complaining and when asked
how she felt the answer always was,
"Oh, pretty we'll" She was a firm
little Christian and was member OF
the Congregational Sunday school of
Lancaster. Accompanied by her faith
er and mother, her sister and brother
Mr.. and Mrs. Phelps and her aunt
Miss Jessie Patch Of Red Wing. she
was brought to the home of her grand
father Mr.. j. j. Lamb for burial
All day Sunday as she lay in her
dainty white coffin friends came to
look at her and went away saying,
''She does not seem dead, she is only
sleeping" Monday morning funeral
services were held. The Rev. Mr..
Brown of Lancaster came and spoke
words of hope and comfort to the sor-
rowing friends; quartette of friends
sang softly and sweetly, and she was
borne out into the sunshine of beau
tiful day by six much beloved uncles
They laid her to rest in the Maggie
cemetery, where
Y, snow. taIl gently on the spot
That covers her dear face.
Blow gently, chilly, winter wind
Above her resting place
The summer sun and summer rain
Sweet flowers to life shall kiss,
And thoughts shall bloom that she is free
From sorrow such as this.
A most beautiful life is thus early
ended. We cannot justly call her
perfect bnt there was combined in the
character of this beautiful child the
light hearted joyousness of childhood
and the mature sympathy of woman
hood. To her little sister and broth
ers she was the happy playmate, to
the parents and elder mem bers OF the
family she was the bright loving
child and helpful adviser, to the low
ing aunts. who idolized her. she was
the sympathetic conidant. Secrets
and condolences entrusted to her were
never betrayed. The grief 81 her girl
friends is evidence of the love they
bore her Strangers and acquaint-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
ADVENTURES OF A WITCH.
Herman Draheim OF Fennimors In Jail At
Lancaster, Charged With Stealing Lanoas-
ter Mans Gold Watch At Boscobel.

Herman Draheim OF Fennimore'
aged about % years, has been confined
in the Grant county jail since Monday
and is having hearing this, Wednes-
dav. afternoon before Justice W. +.
McGonigal. He was arrested at
Mason CITY, Iowa. Or rather, Deputy
McGonigal succeeded in coaxing him
to come over into Wisconsin Monday
morning without requisition when
he was arrested and lodged in the
Grant county Jail.
Draheim was arrested on complaint
of Vincent Stell, business man OF
Lancaster. The complaint charges
that Draheim did on the 3rd day Of
Sent. 1897, at the city of Boscooel,
during the fair, steal from the person
of Minnie Fischer of Sitter one gold
watch Of the value Of $50 which watch
belonged to the complainant, Vincent
Steil.
Vincent Steil, the gentleman who
owns the watch stolen, gave the Her
aid reporter the following particulars;
..About six weeks ago Ed Frawlay
and went up to Sitter on Sunday
lust for drive. There we met MIN
ME Fischer and her sister and some
other young ladies. We stopped ard
talked to them and sat down on the
doorstep of the church. While talk
ing I took out my watch "a gold watch
that cost me 1851 to see what time it
was. | had no chain on the watch
and Minnie Fischer took it out OF my
hand and walked away in playful
manner had met the girl at the
waterworks picnic in Lancaster and
knowing who she was thought she
would give me back the watch with
out any trouble. saw her in the
evening and asked her for the watch.
She said she left it at home. We
started to 90 to her home and get 1t,
when Herman Draheim drove up IN
buggy and she said she wanted to
talk to him. She went to him, climbed
into the buggy and they drove off to-
gether. Did not hear anything more
of the watch for two weeks. | was
down to the Boscobel fair and while
there saw Minnie and Draheim going
around together. This started me to
looking up the matter of my lost
watch. and found that Draheim had
sold the watch in Boscobel to man
bv the name of Clark for SO, and
Clark had sold it to Dave Selick of
Fennimore for 81. After considerable
trouble Sheriff Hymer got the watch
and now has it in his possession @
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
What promised to be trial turned
out to be wedding. After investi-
eating the charge of theft of the
watch it was found that there was
not much in it, and the case was
withdrawn. Draheim and Minnie
Fischer were then brought before the
court to give an account of their con-
duct. Both admitted that they had
done wrong, and expressed desire to
be married. Accordingly the severe
aspect of the criminal court gave way
to the smiles becoming wedding fes-
tivities. Mr.. and Mrs Henry Fischer
were present and gave away the bride
who was a mere girl less than IS
years old, and Esquire McGonigal pro-
nounced the words that made the
couple husband and wife. Costs in
the cases amounting to $40 were paid
by Mr.. Henry Draheim of Fennimore,
father of the groom.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-09-30
ToSsle D. Improves.

Tossie D. PAGES in Elkhorn this
week for purse Of $3.50. Last week
al Richland Center the little wonder
paced a mile in PHI without sulky or
driver