davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-13
Bagley Budget.
Old February so far is a snug winter

Old February so far is a snug winter
month
Mrs. James Boorman had a real
genuine surprise party on her 10th
birthday.
Neighbors spent very pleasant
evening at the home of Arthur Calkins
one evening last week. Games were
played and dainty refreshments
served. First prize was won by j. v.
Winter and the BOBBY prize by Del
Morrissey.
The masquerade ball given here on
the 5Uh inst was the GROWING social
event of the season. About one hun
dred tickets we're sold and the hall
was full of spectators to see the mas
queraders and hear the music by the
Dubuque Harp orchestra.
Mesdames John Keller and John
Harvill who have been on the sick list
are reported much improved.
The woman who went from Bagley
to Dubuque and was taken with small
pox, must have been from some other
Bagley. It was big mistake in the
town.
Every day since good sleighing our
streets are full of teams, coming in
loaded, with logs for the saw mill,
cord wood and wood ready for use,
strings of teams with stock for ship
ment, blocks of ice, saw dust for pack
ing, baled hay, lumber as we'll as dry
goods and furniture going out into the
country. Our street scenes are little
like Lancaster will be while building
the new court house only on much
smaller scale.
Town lots have doubled in value
here in six months. Draw your own
conclusions.
They didn't quite surprise Mrs,
Chas. Glass on her 48th birthday.
Some one squealed and the cat was
out of the bag So when about thirty
lodies came trooping in mine hostess
received them with open arms, house
swept and garnished and larder chock
full of good things, SO that the ladies
fell to sewing and talking and-well,
any one who ever attended a rag or
quilting bee can guess the rest. Oh
yes, we almost forgot that the COM
pany presented Mrs. Glass with a nice
new rocking chair as birthday pres
ent.
Geo. Harvill and daughter, Miss
Nellie did some shopping in Bagley
stores last Friday. Uncle John nags
Nellie about her Lord Harry, but she
smiles back sweetly and that is all
she says. Now we will wait and see.
Our free rural delivery mail route
will open about March LIST.
Geo. Willard has just established a
nice new jewelry shop and will do all
kinds Of repairing.
The good work of getting ready to
build new church in Bagley next
spring goes bravely on.
It's question with our people in
starting a new industry, which would
pay the best, raising of tobacco or the
production of pickles.
Let each strive for the best.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-13
Auction Sale.

The undersigned having sold 26O
acres of his land, will sell at public
auction on his farm four and one half
miles east of Cassville on Saturday,
Feb. 22, 1902, the following:
Fourteen head of horses: One work
horse, gelding, three brood mares,
two in foal to Docile, one to Victory;
also one nice driving mare, nine colts
ranging in age from weanlings to s.
year-old in the spring, and by such
sires as Docile, Prime Minister, Ais
ter, Chestnut Thorne and CedarwoOd.
Fifty head of Durham Grade Cattle:
10 COWS, will be fresh by day Of
sale: 25 steers, 10 of them coming 2
years old, just past one year old; l
high grade Durham bull years old
in the spring; IA heifers, 10 of them
coming years old; II sheep and l
Chester White stock hog.
Machinery: One j. | Case 12-horse
horse power with milling rods,
sweeps and equalizers complete, l
Deere pulverizer nearly new, lumber
wagon, set of work harness, l g.
shovel corn pillow.
Also 80 bushels of seed peas and 5
sacks of seed corn.
Lunch at 1880. Sale commences
- m. sharp.
Terms of sale: All sums under$1O,
cash; $40 or over, 10 months time
will be given on bankable notes bear
ing Z per cent interest; will give 2 per
cent discount Tor cash. G. j. Hyde,
auctioneer. GEO. E. GROOM.
Proprietor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-13

when he gets into the Capitol grounds
the show begins. He feeds the crumbs
to the squirrels and they eat out Of
his hands, CLINT all over him and show
generally that they get quite as much
fun out of it as he does. The Senator
is very fond Of his pets and nothing
makes him quite so mad as to see
some boys throwing stones at them
on the sly, which they will do once in
while when there is no policeman in
sight Mr.. Pettus has frightened
several of them out of a years growth
although he would no more hurt one
of them than he would hurt one of
the squirrels.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-13

n. Jackson, Danville, Ill writes:
"My daughter had a severe attack OF
lagrippe and terrible cough settled
on her lungs We tried a great many
remedies without giving relief. She
tried Foley's Honey and Tar which
cured her. She has never been trOu-
bled with cold since" Hatch Bros
and Jos. Bennett
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-13

Lagrippe coughs often continue for
months and sometimes lead to fatal re-
suits after the patient is supposed to
have passed the danger point Foley's
Honey and Tar affords positive protec-
ton and security from these coughs.
Hatch and Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-13
CITY PROPERTY.

A nice Groom house, in south
side Lancaster.
A nice Groom frame house.
Furnace heated. City water.
Small fruit, and apple trees.
Southwest part city
A nice Groom frame house and
wood house. City water and
cistern. Basement with cement
floor. Nice corner lot-price
$4,000. One block west of de-
pot.
The property known as the
Lancaster Marble Works. Shop
and a brick house. Grounds
6Ox120.
New S-room house with good
basement and city water, 1 lot of
land, in northwest Lancaster.
A fine brick house, 28x48, nice
basement, furnace and city water.
Fine lawn, 13Ox18O feet. Small
fruit and apple trees. A very
desirable home.
Nice house and one lot in south
part.
A very good house, grounds
and barn, in south part. Near
south school house.
A nice half block and fair
house in northeast part.
A fine house and ! block, in
northwest part.
Good house and barn, nice
land in northwest part.
Lot. lots and acres. A stock
IF merchandise in small town fol-
sale by
Collections a speciality.
w. P. ROWDON,
Lancaster, Wis.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

them the best possible opportunity
for the development of the them men
tai faculties, emphasizes systematic
industrial training, and fosters the
habit of right thinking and right liv-
ing. The idea is kept constantly in
mind that the need of the great masses
of the negro race is system of eiu-
cation which shall enable them to hold
on to the basic and fundamental en-
pigments, without which no people
can hope to win permanent place
either of responsibility, wealth or
power For this reason instruction
in 26 industries, largely of the South
is given, in connection with thorough
normal and religious training, as fol
lows: Agriculture, blacksmithing
brickmasonry, carpentry, carriage
trimming, cooking, dairying. drawing
architectural, free hand and me
chanical-plain sewing, housekeeping,
harness making, plastering, plumbing
printing, sawmilfing, founding horti
culture, laundering, machinery, mat
tress making, millinery, nurse train
ing, painting, shoemaking, stock rails
ing, tailoring, timing and whee'
wrighting = - ,,..
The officers of the school are: Book
er T. Washington, principal: Warner
Logan. treasurer; John H. Washing
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19
OF THE BUILDINGS
EVOLUTION OF TUSkEGEE.

1t was last May, eighteen years ago
that Prof. Booker T. Washington
(then unknown, now so noted) went
into the black belt of Alabama, and
founded what is now known as the
'Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Inst:
tute," at Tuskegee, Ala, then little
hamlet The story of this institution
reads more like romance or an
Egyptian fairy tale than real fact
Prof Washington first rented shanty
church with himself as teacher and
thirty pupils. 1t has now become one
of the most successful educational in
situations in America.
1t now has 100000 worth of prop
erty, with no mortgage; fifty-eight
buildings, nearly all erected with stu
dent labor; 2,267 acres of land; 81
officers and teachers; and an attend
ance the past year of 1854 students
s01 young men and 463 young women
The students camo from "a states
and territories and from Cuba, Porto
Rico, Africa and England. More than
1000 others applied for admission, but
we're turned away because of lack OF
dormitory facilities Truly most re
markable evolution.
Tuskegee seeks to teach the dignity
of labor to it's studens, and affords
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19
see
That it is all for the best.
We cannot demand a salary or fee
Without the key of progress.
Walter J. Williams, Kimbrough
Immense Cattle Ranch


A dispatch from Austin, Tex, says
w. c. Greene of New York and three
other Americans have purchased a
solid tract Of land, situated in the
state of Sonora, in northern Mexico,
embracing 100000 acres. This land
is now being inclosed with four.
strand wire fence, and is to be the
largest cattle ranch in the world.
The tract is 125 miles long and 100
miles wide. More than 1000 miles Of
barbed wire will be required to fence
it. 1t is estimated that this vast ranch
property will afford pasturage for
about $4,000 head of cattle in its pres
ent raw condition.
The usual western ranch will fur
nish grass for about thirty-six head Of
cattle to section. This number is to
be greatly increased on this Mexican
ranch by means of forage crops. 1t Is
proposed to establish an immense ir-
rigation system on this land and to
give much attention to farming.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19
AND GROUNDS OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE.

ton, director of industries; J. D. Nc
Call, directress of academic depart
ment; George w. Carver, director of
agricultural department.; Major ]. B
Ramsey, commandant; Mrs. L. l.. Ken
n;ebrew, lady principal. The heads of
the several departments are compe
tent, worthy men and women, who
have had every advantage at the fore,
most academic and chronological
schools of the country The whole
constitute an aggregation of perhaps
one of the best equipped and mos:
thoroughly consecrated body of work
ers in the cause of negro education in
America. The intellectual and social
atmosphere of these teachers is re-
marked by every visitor who tarrles
moment at Tuskegee to get an insight
into it's working. - ,....-
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19
WlGWAM WISDOM.

Stolen things have creased tails.
Battles are not won with war paint.
Lazy squaws live in cold wigwams.
A cowardly hand carries a weak
bow.
Fine moccasins do not make fine
feet.
The biggest tree fears the beavers.
teeth.
The hunter should be stronger than
his bow.
The deer's hide is worth more than
his horns.
The Indian hunts to live; the pale.
face to kill.
Want-Eeverything always carries an
empty belly.
Game is always scarce where Poor
Hunter lives.
SANDER talks through the copper
heads mouth.
Hot-Head fills the pipe of peace from
the powder horn.
A mans ashes soon smother the
light of his fame.
Even the goose does not lay it's eggs
in the eagles nest.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Mr.. Walter Birney was appointed BY
the new assessor, Charley Schramm
as one of his deputy assessors. Mr.
Birney is one of our old and highly re.
spected citizens. At one time he was
Gov. Boies messenger He is ton.
serial artist by profession. We be.
lieve and hope that Mr.. Birney will re
fleet credit to his race and himself
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19
All Ore Color.

The old-fashioned notion of the
light blouse with a dark coat and
skirt Is only permissible now for
purely practical uses. Even then it is
better to have some sort of connec-
ton between the blouse and the skirt.
There is quite a craze now to dress
entirely in one color from the hat
downwards, and at this season Of the
year 1t is quite easy to carry out an
idea like this. Brown or blue gives
excellent effects, and as many as
four shades can be worn In the same
costume. >
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

T. THOMAS FORTUNE APPOINTED
Editor T. Thomas Fortune of the
New York Age was appointed by Pres.
ident Roosevelt as a special commits.
sioner to investigate conditions in our
insular possession. The appointment
is good one and we congratulate
Editor Fortune. Mr.. Fortune has Ia
bored hard for his race and is now
president of the National Afro Ameri.
con Council and a thorough race man
His daughter is only nineteen years
old and is teacher in the public
schools of New York City There is
not a colored scholar in her district
She is highly accomplished.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Miss Iona Sanford, Miss Annie Bur
quette and brother, Pierre Burqutte,
of Oskaloosa arrived in our city last
week and visited few days. leaving
for home Tuesday. They made this
Office a pleasant call.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19
!. 81. Nixon. Jeweler, No. 312 West
Third street, tunes pianos and repairs
organs.

Mr.. H. r. Crews, one of the new
corners to our city, is promising
young man from Illinois, where he
used to be a member of the Eighth
Illinois regiment, that went to Cuba
in the Spanish-American war. Mr.
Crews was a ranking officer at one
time. He was an officer in white
company. Now he foreman of lathe
and wire company employing at times
from ten to a dozen men, all white.
He made a pleasant call at our office
and ordered the Bystander.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19
SWIMMING Brides,

Girls inhabiting the island of Him.
Ia, near Rhodes, are not allowed to
marry until they have brought up a
specified number of sponges, each
taken from certain depth. The PEG.
PIE Of the island earn their living by
the sponge fishery.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Miss Zoe Richardson, stenographer
in our office, took vacation this
week, and left in company with her
brother. Arthur Richardson, for Ches-
ter, H., about 100 miles east OF ST
Louis. Mo, to spend the holidays with
relatives. She expects to be gone
about four weeks. ...
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Rev. F. Lomack, pastor of the Afri.
can Baptist church. this city, was mar.
ried yesterday to Mrs Tyler of this
city. The Rev. is well known in our
city, having built Baptist church on
School and B streets. The bride is a
newcomer to our city, having came
from Missouri. May happiness and
success be theirs. ....
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19
THE KEY TO PROGRESS.

Have you the key to progress,
Which is demandable on it's merit
1t is valuable one, l must confess,
To every one who gets 1t.
They key to progress is education.
Which po sitiOn nowadays SO de.
mand.
So be not on the declination .
And get it If you can.
This is direct to the negro race,
In this we shouldn't be offended,
Not because we are black in the face
Heed to this advice, we'll be highly
recommended. f..
Some have taken coures in college,
Which the race have done remark
ably WELL
To all facts we'll have to acknowl
edge
Since the ringing of Freedoms Bell
Let more of us take those courses
And come in possession of the key
Which will benefit us in many sources
In the land of liberty.
With this key we should feel proud.
When etiquette is properly executed
When alone or in a crowd
We surely will be saluted.
Etiquette we must learn to use,
Especially to our fellowmen.
Be not so ready to abuse,
But help him strive if you can.
The day will soon come when we will
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19
CITY NEWS.
Lee B. Blagburn has secured posi-
,,on n D. M, Johnson's clothing store.

Before you purchase your Christmas
presents read over our ads, go ana
see their goods, their prices are rignt
II would be to our mutual benent 10
tell them that you read their al. In
the ByStander.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Why waste time hunting bears.
ducks and rabbits when the railroads
out West are offering $1,000 each for
defunct train robbers? That would
seem to be the most exciting game.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Mrs. Mollie Watson of Albany, Mo-,
will arrive in Des Moines next week
to spend the holidays with her sister
Mrs. J. L. Thompson.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Wedding invitations are out an.
nouncing the marriage of Miss Susie
Wilson of Buxton to S. Joe Brown OF
this city, which will occur "Wednesday,
December 81, 1902, at the home OF the
brides parents, Mr.. Jacob Wilson, in
Buxton.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

A Chicago justice has ruled that the
face belonging to young woman who
lives in tb t city is not her fortune.
The age O; chivairy is past, it's dead.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Remember that the best and most
useful present that you can buy next
week for $100 is the Iowa State By
stander for one year. Send in one
dollar and order it sent to your friend
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

N Mrs Gus Watkins and Master
Pleasant Breeder will leave next We'd
nesday 50 spen2 tse HOLIDAYS visiting
in Alton, H., and st. Louis, Mo.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Miss Selma Stanton will leave next
Wednesday for Kansas City, Mo-, to
spend the holidays with relatives and
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Christmas tree will be at the A. NJ
e. church Christmas eve, Wednesday
All invited ........,.+..
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Don't fail to attend the Buxton Con
cert Band next Friday evening at thu
Y. M. C. A. auditorium. 1t will be
grand.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Read our holiday edition this week
and see how you like it. Read our
ads. our editorials, our poems, etc.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Get your tickets for the band con.
cert for next Friday night
Christmas gift!
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Patronize the stores who advertise
with us.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Mrs C. F. Burnaugh of Creston. Ia.
spent few days in our city visiting
her city, Mrs, Geo. Burnaugh.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19
;. THOMAS FORTUNE APPOINTED

We extend to all a merry, merry
Christmas.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Miss Bessie Woodward. who mas
been in Chicago for more than year,
will return home next week
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

The day will soon come when we will
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-19

Have you the key to progress,
Which is demandable on it's merit
1t is valuable one, l must confess,
To every one who gets 1t.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-06-27
The Change in the Situation.
Randolph Herald

When the Republican party-the
staunch supporter of prohibition
shows it the door and invites license
to come in, with the Democratic mi
nority a unit against it, what hope has
prohibition? Why. prohibitionists at
Montpelier last week were scarcer
than robins in January. The only
stand in the convention for the exist
ing liquor law and in opposition to the
plank adopted was made by a few
Proctor men and ended feebly. The
plank adopted, though offered by the
committee on resolutions, was so en-
inently satisfactory to the Clement
men that they accepted it without de-
bate. The latter avoided the error of
asking too much. Yet what they did
ashland got-was just what success
sive legislatures, including that of two
years ago. have always dismissed in
contempt-a high license-local option
proposition. with referendum attach
ment.
Leading prohibitionists, beginning
with the Anti.Saloon League, have dis
covered reasons-since Clement came
into the field-why the people should
have opportunity to say which they
prefer, prohibition or license A year
ago they couldn't see it at all. Glenn
ent removed the scales from their
eyes. Now they join in the demand
for popular vote on the question.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-06-27
Noted Athletes at Mortified.

The intercollegiate conference which
takes place at Mortified from June &c to
July 6. and the Summer Bible school
promise to be all round gatherings from
an athletic as well a religious point of
view. In addition to Robert L. Speer,
John r. Mott and President Woodrow
Wilson of Princeton, men eminent as
scholars and religious workers, many
varsity athletes are planning to be at
Mortified during the conference. The
forenoons and evenings are reserved for
the conference work while the after
moons are given over TO athletic pursuits
The annual field day on the Fourth of
July is a closely contested meet Last
year Yale and Princeton were the vic
tors. but this year the other colleges are
bringing stronger teams. Among the
most prominent men who will come are
Chadwick, captain of the foot ball team
Chittendon. varsity first base. and H. G.
Sturns. track man from Yale: from Har-
ward are Oveson and Cuts of the foot
bah team, Darby and Foster of the crew
Lightner, captain of the track team. and
Frantz of the Harvard base ball nine
Princeton sends three strong men. Shelf
field. the varsity full back. Underhll the
pitcher. and HutChings. last years third
baseman. Brown. Pennsylvania. Cornell
Columbia, Wesleyan Williams and other
colleges will be represented by leading
athletes.