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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-28
CITY CHAT.

Buy home of Reidy Bros.
For insurance, E. j. Burns.
For real estate, F. j. Burns.
Venison at II. Tremann's Sons.
Raisins and nuts at Hess Bros
Turkeys and chickens at Shields.
Patee Crest bicycles at spencer's.
List your property with Reidy Bros
Phone Huesing for A. b. G. beer
Order your poultry at Hess Bros
Dressed turkeys at Buncher Bros.
Home made mince meat Horton g.
Jerseys at the Boston store, Daven
port.
Plenty of dressed poultry at Passig
Bros.
Poultry of all kinds at Buncher
Bros.
Poultry by the wholesale at S. j.
Apples
Plenty of turkeys and chickens at
Horizons.
Turkeys, ducks, geese and chickens
at Shields.
Oranges, bananas and grapes at
Horizons.
Visit H. Tremann's Sons market
tomorrow.
Order your Thanksgiving poultry
at Shields.
Dressed ducks 10 cents pound at
Schroeder's.
You should see the poultry show at
the Armory-
Dressed turkeys II cents pound at
Schroeder's.
New York apples by the barrel at
Passig Bros.
Order your Thanksgiving turkey at
Schroeder's.
Dressed turkeys and chickens at
Passig Bros.
Don't forget the poultry show at
Armory hall.
Quail and wild ducks at II. Ire
mann's Sons.
Bucks stoves and ranges at Young
d. McCombs'.
Dressed chickens 10 cents a pound
at Schroeder's.
Attend the sale of fine millinery at
Miss Kate Byrnes'.
Plenty of poultry at Mattausch's,
Seventeenth street.
Florida and naval oranges at Hess
Bros. Phone 1881.
Sweet potatoes. celery and bulk
oysters at Horizons.
Buy your Thanksgiving linens at
Young * McCom BIS.
See the fine variety of New York
apples at Passig Bros.
, Special discount sale on millinery
at Young & McCombs'.
Fresh boiled Holsters and shrimp
at II. Tremann's Sens.
Family groups for Christmas pres
ents at Smiths studio.
Canned and bulk oysters and celery
at III. Tremann' Sons.
Young x McCombs' store will be
open Wednesday evening.
Nothing but choice birds, live or
dressed, at S. j. Apples.
Roasting Pans-lots of them at low
prices at John Noftsker's.
Dibbern's celebrated honey at |
Maucker & Toms store.
Special cut prices on jackets and |
lurs. Young IL McCOmb5'.
Order your poultry at kroegel's
9S1 Fourth avenue.
Up to 50, ready trimmed hats, % |
;ents for pick at McCabe's.
Dressed turkeys, chickens. ducks
and geese at Buncher Bros.
Let Passig Bros. supply you with
a turkey for Thanksgiving.
The finest and largest line of poul-
try in the city at Schroeder's.
Read Hess Bros. Thanksgiv ing list
before ordering. Page eight.
Blue poin's and Roclaway she II
" sters at II. Tremann's Sons.
You talk about your poultry,
'chroeder's is the Plac, to buy.
Without question of doubt Schroe-
Ter is headquarters for poultry.
Fresh dressed poultry of all kinds
It Hess Bros. for Thanksgiving.
Plenty of dairy butter at Nelson's
ash grocery, 1928 Fourth avenue.
The newest and prettiest Thanks
irving hats are at Mrs. La Frenz's.
Place your order with s. j. Apple
md get some of his choicest poultry.
Order your mince meat for Thanks
irving at Hess Bros. It's home
made.
An immense amount of poultry TO
elect from at Maucker IL Toms
tore.
Jerseys. The Boston store, Dayen.
'ort, Just received n line of Jerseys
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-28
ECKHART'S
319 and S21 Twentieth Street.
Phone 4474.
AT McCABE'S.
A lucky deal.

n luShy uSdi-
We were lucky-you'u be lucky if
you respond promptly.
Wednesday morning we place on
sale 600 ladies' and misses ready
trimmed, ready to wear" hats at the
absurdlv low price of 25 cents each.
Be on hand promptly yourself and
your little girls if you want to avail
yourselves of the real millinery bar
gain of the season.
These same kinds of hats have been
selling right here in our city at 81,
81, $3.50 and 50 each. Now all at %
cents. You could scarcely believe it
if we should tell you of the ridicu-
lousy low price at which we bought
these hats. Many of them are the
genuine French fur, all ready to wear:
take your pick, % cents.
Candy department.
Wednesday we will sell 200 pounds
high grade chocolate creams at 124
cents a pound. Sell elsewhere at 80
and So cents, here all day Wednesday
if they last, I24 cents a pound. 12l
cents.
LIS. MeCABE . CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-28
Deeds Are Fruit,

Words are leaves" 1t is not what
we say. but what Hoods SarsapariIla
does that tells the story. The many
wonderful cures effected by this med
icine are the fruits by which it should
be judged. These prove it to be the
great. unequalled remedy for dyspep-
STA. rheumatism, scrofula. salt rheum.
catarrh and all other ailments due to
impure or impoverished blood.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-28

Hoods Pills are non-irritatiDg, mild,
effective.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-28
Crockery Department
Offerings.

We wish to sell a dinner set to
every family that needs one at lower
prices than any other house.
Decorated semi-porcelian dinner
sets, 100 piece, regular price IS, for
this sale s5.49.
English dinner sets, decorated, reg
ular price sl0.S5. for this sale 1885.
We have just received the new stock
patterns, the prettiest and cheapest
ever offered. You can select just the
pieces you need. Call and see them.
Eight inch salad dish, decorated,
this sale 2jc.
Dinner plates at sc.
Eight inch, decorated, vegetable
dish at 25c.
Yellow mixing bowls, all sizes, SC,
10c, ID and 2jc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-28
Candy department.

L 8. MeCABE . CO.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
Barns Burned.

About o'clock last Monday even
ing the barns OF Mr.. Ed. Mckinney
residing in the south part of the city
were discovered to be on fire. There
were two good sized barns. one large
one. besides sheds, pig pens, and a
chicken house. All were completely
destroyed. Mr. Abel Roberts and G.
G.. Roberts were the first to arrive.
The fire seems to have started in the
chicken house, the roof of which was
just falling in. They set at work to
save what they could. They let the
hogs ont of pen and took three cows
iron the barn besides saving three
carriages and buggies, harnesses and
other small articles. They were as
sisted by other neighhors who arrived
a few minutes later. ~.s.,
The fire burned tiercely and in a
very few minutes it was impossible
to get into or near to the buildings.
Three large brood sows, two calves,
few chickens and quantity Of corn,
chopped feed and hay were consumed.
There was $400 insurance on the barns
and $50 on grain.
Mr. Mckinney was at church when
the fire occurred and did not get home
until the buildings were nearly burned
down. The fire companies responded
as quickly as possible but could do
nothing to save McKinney's property
but their work no doubt did prevent
the burning of the barns of Mr. Vivi-
an, Mr.. Roberts, Mr.. BENEFITS stand
ing in a line north OF the Mckinney
barns There was a high south wind
at the time and without the city wa
ter il is probable all these buildings
would have gone up in smoke. 1t
took about 1900 feet of hose to reach
the fire from the nearest hydrant.
The origin Of the fire is a mystery,
as there had been no lights or fire in
or about the barns that afternoon or
evening.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
Small Pox At Cornell College, Iowa.

A strict quarantine for the towns of
Mt. Vernon and Mechanicsville. Iowa,
has been ordered on account of small
pox cases and fears of general out
break
The first exposures were at Mt. YER
non in Cornell College. Two young
lady students, sisters named thinner
man. were called home to nurse their
20-year-old brother. The brother
died OF the small pox. The real ma
ture of the disease was not then known
and the two girls returned to college.
one Of the sisters was taken sick last
week IN the class room and the other
is now down with the disease. Five
other cases are now reported with one
death 1t is feared that general
outbreak Of the disease will occur this
coming week and the results are
awaited with great anxiety.
Miss Helen Reed aud Miss Leta
Kinney OF Lancaster are students in
Cornell college.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
The Petted Cows OF Holland.

Holland has been termed the cows
paradise. because there everything is
done to make cows life one Of beauty.
comfort and even luxury
In summer and in winter the cow is
the one object of the thoughtful, low
my care OF the farmer and his family
Early in May the cattle are turned
out to pasture where the grass grows
most luXuriantly, the fields being
moved and fed to cattle on alternate
years.
bitches from Is to 20 feet wide, of
deep-blue water, separate the fields;
these are spanned by rustic bridges
baving bolted gates to prevent in
truders among the cattle.
Scattered throughout each field are
scratching posts for the comfort of the
kline, for even the well-cared- for, sleek
coated HolsteinFriesian cattle enjoy
"a good scratching occasionally.
Many farmers are so thoughtful of
their cattle as TO put on them linen
covers to protect them from flies and
other insects, as well as from the raw
winds.
In the midst of exquisite emerald
green fields of from twelve to fifteen
acres each, with abundant water al
ways at hand, the cows spend at least
eight or nine months of the year, com
ing together in squads toward 5 o'clock
daily to await the mixers with great
shining brass cans.
In November, when the weather be-
comes>to too cold for the cows to remain
out of doors. they are driven into their
respective farmyards to be sized up
by their owners; that is, the
farmer will pair them off according
to their height and size, and then let
them enter the COW stable to take
their places in the long row of stalls
on one side of the really elegant cow
stables, the tallest couple to occupy
the centre stall and the couples to
graduate in height down toward either
end of the row.
There are frequently fifty or more
head in one herd and you would open
your eyes IN amazement could you
enter one of these Holland stables.
They are built as part of the farm
er's house, and are separated.from the
living-rooms by glass door, so Hans
and his frau can sit in their best room
and yet keep an eye on their beloved
cows, for it is said that Dutch farm
er thinks OF his cows all day and
dreams of them at night &c. A.
Tram in National Rural
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
New Rdthbone Sisters Temple.

Grand Chief, Ocea Basford was in
Richland Center last week FRIDAY and
instituted SorosissTemple No. Is, Rath-
bone Sisters. The new temple starts
out with twenty enthusiastic charter
members. and with twenty husband
Knights anxious to join but whom the
the ladies would not consent to adj
nit until they had themselves learned
and perfected themselves in the work
The grand chief used her influence 10
have the gentlemen admitted but
without effect. The Richland Center
ludies didn't propose TO have any male
sisters sitting around making fun
while they were learning the myster-
ious rites and ceremonies. What
makes their conduct seem all the more
cruel the men had prepared at their
own expense and with their own hand
a splendid banquet for the ladies.
But Richland ladies knox stheir own
minds and can't be bought with any,
thing 20 cheap a. a supper
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
Sunday School Convention.

On Thursday and Friday. May 18th
and 9Th. 1899 a convention OF the
Sunday schools of Grant county will
be held in Fennimore, Wis.
Every Sunday school in the county
is invited to send a delegate. larger
schools should send one delegate for
every 80 members. Pastors and SUI
perintendents are delegates by virtue
of their office Fennimore will fur
nish free entertainment to delegates
who send their names to Rev. Pengilly
on or before April p Bring Bibles
and BEST Hymns. y
PROGRAM
Thursday, May 4th 1899.
10:45 Service of Praise,and Prayer
Led by REV. MORRISON. Fennlmore.
1l:B Reception and assignment OF dele
gates.
Led by REV. WEBSTER, of Boscobel
1:i5 Organization
appointment of Committees.
Minutes of Last Convention.
Reports of County OtfiCerS.
2.30 The Purposes and Possibilities Of this
Convention, w. n. STONE.
Aim and Scope. with an Illustrative
Lesson JAMES EDMuNDs
3:45 Interim SStOn,
400 Model Primary Class,
700 Song Service, Leo by REV. A -. MACS.
Prayer ana Offering for State Work.
1:30 The Home Depar tment of the Sunday
School JAMES EDMUNDs
Friday, May 5th. 1872
600 Sunrise Prayer Meeting,
Mhs. JAY REWEY.
$50 PRAYER Service led by REV. BIRD
$500 Business.
Report of Nominating Committee.
Election of Ofiicers.
Reports OF Other Committees.
$3.50 The Value of State and County Organ
cation. JAMES EDMUNDs.
1000 The Sunshine and Shadows of the
Superintendent work,
LIBBIE HETTMAN.
1890 The Worth of a Child, X. A WATKINS.
1900 Question Box.
1880 Praise Service REV. HARMON.
200 international SUNDAY School Work.
2:30 Open Parliament on SIS. Management:
Q) The Superintendents Part,
+. A. NELSON.
90 The Teachers Part.
REV MoRGANs.
go The Parts of the Other Officers,
REV e c. BENNETT
To be participated in by the whole
convention.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
BuCkwhedt Ridge Gossip.

Here we are again congratulating
ourselves on living through another
one of those long Wisconsin winters.
Is there one that will regret saying
goodbye to winter? No, not one.
Spring is here in earnest once more;
the birds are singing in the blue sky;
the farmer is turning the soil upside
down preparing to sow his grain and
bountiful may the harvest be.
Several of our young men have
started their summers work abroad
Fay johnson for Frank Stevens, Sam
Dobson for August Gratz, Dick La
than for Byron Landon and Roe Woods
for Mr.. Cox. That's right, boys. earn
your bread by the sweat of your brow.
1t is reported that Lou Fry has cap
tured camel.
Roe Woods has not been seen in
this vicinity lately but he will surely
turn up by camp-meeting time if not
sooner.
Clair Dobson saws unless they fill
up the bitches near town he will not
attend camp-meeting this summer.
Our school is progressing finely un-
der the management of Miss Viola
Briggs Of Platteville.
Mr.. Joseph Clark and family have
left this community and gone to Min
nesota to take up claim. May sue
cess be theirs.
Elxie Dobson saws his attraction will
not be on Buckwheat Ridge this sum
mer but somewhere IN the vicinity Of
the King school house.
What makes Frank Burns visit ia
cob Leighton's > often? Cupid an
swers. ask the school marin.
Gus Wrage has recovered from a
severe attack of the humps.
Edward Mcdaniel IS aid to be tax
ing pleasure tour throughout the
west.
Our Sabbath school IS to be reor-
ganized next sunday During the
past wear our Sunday school has pros
pered finely under the management OF
Mr.. Henry Dobson. our worthy super
intendent. He received a nice Oxford
Bible as a present from his Sunday
school. There Is nothing better in a
community than a good live sunday
school. COUNTRY JAKE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
A Remedy For Smut In Oats.

The Loss to the farmers of Wiscon-
sin due to smut in oats amounts to
hundreds of thousands of dollars an
nually. all OF which may be saved by
treating the seed oats before planting.
at very slight cost.
A method for preventing oat smut
has been found that is cheap and sim
pie. All that is necessary is to thor
oughly saturate the seed oats with a
solution made by adding one pound
OF formalin to 80 gallons of water, al
lowing the seed oats 20 remain satur-
ated for two hours before spreading
them out to dry.
To use this remedy. place layer of
oats or inches thick on the barn
floor aud sprinkle them with the
formalin solution until they are en-
tirely wet Then another LAYER may
be placed on top Of the first LAYER and
sprinkled as before. repeating the
process until all the seed oats have
been sprinkled Then leave them in
the pile for two hours, when they
should be spread out thinly to dry.
They should be shoyeled over once or
twice a day until dry. If they are to
be sown broadcast it viii not be nee
essary to dry them.
Formalin can be purchased at any
drug STORE, and costs from 80. to 80
cents per pound. About a gallon OF
the solution is enough to sprinkle a
bushel Of oats, hence one pound of
formalin is.enough to treat 50 bushels
OF seed oats.
Formalin is not dangerous to use.
and does not eorrode the flesh. The
oats will not be likely to be injured
by it. even if left in the pile some
what longer than two hours.
+. ). GoFF.
HOrticulturist.
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment
Station. Madison. April Is. 1899
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
Providence.

AS sunbeams fall the blossoms bring
Their message OF triumphant spring,
And with new life in every vein
The oak and maple swell the strain
in natures realm, from shore to shore,
All things acknowledge and adore
Nor thrObS sound in human clay
But feels the spell OF each glad day.
Now open the door and let the sun
shine in and come and sit down beside
, me, ! have something to tell YOU.
Did you hear the robbins sing? That
surely means that 1t is spring.
John Champion is the happy papa
of a twelve pound boy.
The farmers are again turning over
the black earth. We wish them a rich
reward for their labor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Foster of Hurri-
cane visited at Joseph Brookens Tues
day.
Mrs. j. Hayden Of Beetown spent
several days of last week with her
daughter. Mrs Taylor.
Edward Mclean OF Pleasant Ridge
and Charley Benson of Hurricane were
business callers at the PrideauX farm
last week.
Mrs. c. Grebe is the only lady that
comes out with fine display of bios
SONS. Where did she hover them
through the winter when we were
all freezing to death2
School OF district No. is in good
running order under the management
Of Miss Sophia Houghton.
John Champion assisted byseveral
OF bis neighbors delivered hogs in
Lancaster Friday and when they
reached town they did not think of
running races as they had been stuck
in the mud and delayed about three
hours.
Mr. G. Grebe and children are quite
sick with the measles.
John Gates new house is completed
and is nice 5 Icture for farm
house.
Wesley Woodhouse is on the sick
list but we expect to see him up in
short time, Judging from the good
care he receives.
Mrs. NJ. Prideaux and Miss Myrtle
Blackburn made flying trip to
Bloomington Saturday
OLD MAID.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
Robert Woodward Dead.

Robert Woodward died at his home
in Platteville, Wednesday, April y,
of apoplexy. He had been in poor
health for some time. Mr.. Woodward
was a native OF Grant county. having
been born in livingston in 1914. He
was married to Esther NJ. Carter in
1868 and settled in Livingston. He
moved to Platteville in 1892.
The surviving family consists Of
Mrs. Woodward and r. Frank Wood
ward. teacher in the Kamehameha
school. Honolulu. and Maude Wood
ward, teacher at Marquette, Michigan.
Mr. Woodward was mild. kind
hearted man Of high ideals. honorable
in all relations of life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
The Milwaukee Carnival.

Only those who are masked or in
costume viii be permitted in the Mil
waukee Carnival day parade on June
%. so it will be distinctly carnival.
MANY societies and individuals have
entered Among other special feat
ures win be a section illustrating the
various uniforms used bv the L. 5.
army since it, organization
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
Judge Garter Well Hgaln.

The hosts Of friends Of Geo. b. Car
ter in Grant county and Wisconsin
viii be reioiced to know that he is
sound and well again. both physically
and mentally He left Madison in
company with his wife on Monday for
an extended visit with relatives and
friends in the west Omaha is one of
the first places they viii visit
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
FIFTY SEVENTH YEAR

the old salt barrels and oat boxes IN
the neighborhood laid their stores at
the feet Of Slimkins and Jimkins and
eggs was ~ cents and still coming
up. Jones suddenly became thought
full. He knew Jimkins would lose
money on those eggs and that he,
Jones. was the cause of all the trou-
bic and besides he wasn't even with
Slimkius y5t. So he quietly got
few of the crowdof onloukers-there'
alwvs a crowd Of onlookers in Bee
tow looking for fun-to take all the
eggs ont OF Jimkins' back door and
around the back alleys and finally
down to Slimkins' store and sell them
to him for 40 cents a dozen. AlIhouh
the weather was cold Shlimkius was
hot when he learned the trick and he's
..laying low for Jones yet. And that
was joke in Beetown.
They say that honey bees when first
taken to Cuba for a week or so will
work hard to provide for the morrow,
but the vast amount of flowers bloom
ing the year round.soon teaches them
that there is no winter and they become
like the rest OF the inhabitants, lazy
and indolent, neglect their homes and
smoke cigarettes.-EX.
The suckers are beginning to bite
and large ones are being landed, but
they are not to be compared to the
ones recently taken in by the fellows
peddling steel ranges and galvanized
iron pails.-Platteville News.
One of the bright little tots of this
city has had the lesson impressed or
her mind many times by her good
mother that the eye Of God is always
upon her and that she should try al
ways to be good and to avoid naughty
ways in order to please Him. How
the lesson had impressed her mind is
shown in the following actual CONVEX
sation. She and her mother started
down town the other day and their lit
tie dog wanted to follow. The mother
was having some trouble to drive him
back when the young hopeful en-
couragingly remarked. That's right,
mother, make him go back; its bad
enough to have Jesus following us all
the time without having that dog tag
cling along after us too"
The election of our district attorney
as supervisor from the city OF Bosco-
bel raises some interesting legal ques-
tions. Is Howe, the district attorney,
competent to give legal advice to
Howe. the supervisors How can
Howe, the supervisor. attend to COM
mittee work in one room while Howe,
the district attorney, is giving legal
information to another committee in
another room? VIII Howe. the SUI
pervisor, be entitled to per diem salary
and mileage in addition to the salary
District Attorney Howe receives
These are questions for Howe, the
district attorney, to dispose of. The
rest of us, Supervisor Howe included,
can only ask Howe how it is.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20

It was voted at the Tom Cox Post
and Corps social last week to ask for
the Grant County Soldiers Reunion to
to &c held IN Lancaster for the year
1900. Other towns around have had
it and il i now about Lancaster's
turn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20
hls Sixth Victim.

Raiah. the big elephant Of the Lem
on Brothers. has just recently killed
his keeper, Frank Fisher. This makes
the sixth victim for the ugly brute.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-20

r. B. Showalter was in Madison
Fri3aY and bad very pleasant visit
with Judge Carter. who was il the
citv OF the time