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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20
Postage Stamps.

One of the most interesting Of the
new American postage stamps called
"Series 1902" although not com
pleted, is the 13-cent stamp, recent
ly issued, and bearing the portrait
of Benjamin Harrison. This is the
first of that denomination issued by
the United States government, and
was included to supply the needs
for a stamp that would cover single
postage to foreign countries with
the fee for registering the letter.
The color of the stamp is slate,
and the design includes the portrait
of President Harrison surrounded
by an artistic frame.
The only stamp Of odd denomina-
ton issued by the United States
government in former years was the
7-cent stamp. Included in the re-
gular issues Of 187O-1S80, and in
some Of the department series dur
ing that decade.
The series of 1902 will include fif-
teen stamps only seven Of which
have yet been issued, including the
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, s, and 13-cent stamps,
There will also be stamps Of
6, 10, Is and SO cents 81, 50 and S.
and a special delivery stamp of
new pattern.
The colors and portraits selected
for this series are as follow:
One cent green, Benjamin Frank
lin.
Two cents-red, George Washing
ton
Three cents purple, Andrew Jack
son.
Four cents-dark brown, U. S.
Grant
Five cents-blue, Abraham Lin
coin.
Six cents magenta, James A. Gar
field.
Eight cents-dark lilac, Martha
Washington.
Ten cents-light brown, Daniel
Webster.
Thirteen cents-slate, Benjamin
Harrison.
Fifteen cents-Olive Henry Clay.
Fifty cents -orange, Thomas Jeff
erSOn.
One dollar-black, D. G. Farragut.
Two dollars sapphire blue, James
Madison.
Five dollars dark green, John
Marshall.
Special delivery-light blue, boy
on bicycle.
Every stamp gives the name of the
person whose portrait adorns it and
the years of their birth and death.
Frames including the portrait are
different for every denomination,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20
CLASS OF 1903.
Twenty-Five to Complete Courses In
Lancaster High School.

The annual commencement eXer-
cises of the Lancaster high school
will be held at Reeds opera house
Friday, June 5th.
A class of % will finish one Of
the various courses laid down in the
curriculum, as follows:
MODERN CLASSICAL.
Elizabeth H. Lowry, Grace E.
Morse, Alfred III. Bushnell, Georgia
M. Battle, Berdie E. Galloway, Mel
lie G.. Finnegan, Nellie M. Kiteling-
er, Nellie R. Sprague.
GENERAL SCIENCE.
Ollie J. Eustice, Warren A. Gel
bach, Harrison L. Garner, Anna Y.
Kress, Bertha E. Eastman, Albert
j. Henkel, Ida A. Grebe, Anna L..
Eberle.
ENGLISH.
Alonzo A. Aupperle, Ruby B.
Wagner, Clarence E. Mcmahon,
Clarence Suttle, Will f. Mackey,
Blanche Burris.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20
Will Ressmeyer Expires at
Madison Friday Night.
FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY
Particulars Concerning the Sad Catas-
trOphe. Esteemed by Ali
Who Knew Him.

The injuries sustained by VIII
Ressmeyer, Northwestern brake
man, at Madison, on Thursday night
of last week, proved fatal, and after
twenty hours Of severe suffering
death relieved him.
The details of the. accident as an
nounced in Saturdays Herald were
correct in SO far as the cause of his
death was concerned. Giving the
signal to the engineer of his own
train he ventured too near an adja-
cent track at the Monona yards and
the northbound limited passenger in
passing struck him. The pilot beam
caught the unfortunate young man
squarely in the back throwing him
for some distance, and the fact that
his own lantern was eXtinguished
saved him a worse fate, for he fell
directly beneath the cars Of the
freight train he was working on.
The engineer of the freight train
witnessed the cropping of the Ian
tern, and knowing that the fast
train had just passed, surmised
trouble and sent his fireman back
to investigate. The body of the
brakeman was found lying across
the rail and a movement of the train
few feet each way would have cut
him in twain.
Tenderly the injured brakeman
was conveyed to the depot, and
thence to the hospital, where medi
cal assistance quickly responded. A
brief examination showed that the
injuries were fatal, and relatives
were dispatched for. Mr. Ress-
meyer, father Of the young man,
went on the morning train and
Mrs. Ressmeyer followed on the
afternoon train, accompanied by FL
G.. Nathan, friend of the victim,
who had been wired of his condi-
ton.
Conscious only at intervals, when
he seemed mindful of those about
him, death removed all sufferings at
8:15 p. M, Friday.
Saturday noon the remains were
/ brought home for interment Rev.
| Morgans conducted the funeral
services at the home Sunday after
noon.
| The casket was completely COW
cred with floral offerings and six of
! the fellowmen of the deceased acted
as pallbearers: Ray Flynn, Melvin
/ Goodrich, Frank De Sautelle, Ray
Montpleasure, Harry Parrish and
Harvey Oates.
The esteem in which deceased was
held was testified to by the large
gathering present at the last sad
rites, and many an eye was dimmed
with tears when the countenance
was viewed of the young man they
had known so we'll in life.
Will Ressmeyer was born in Lam
caster, Sept. 90, 1878, and resided
here up to time Of his railroad en-
ployment. He enlisted in Co. G,
4th Reg. Wis. Vol. Inf. at opening
of Spanish war and remained with
the organization up to the time of
disarmament at Admission, Ala. He
possessed a happy faculty Of MAX
ing every acquaintance friend, and
he had no enemies.
A father, mother and three sisters
will ever hold him in fond remem-
brance, and the sympathy Of the
entire community is with them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20

Mrs. Kate Hyde is visiting in
Galesburg, I'll.
County Clerk Griffis and wife
are in Madison.
Mrs. w. T. Johnson returned to
Galva, ILL.,, last Thursday
David Schreiner receives $50
pension per month as result of re-
cent advance.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Congregational church will meet
with Mrs. Moses Friday afternoon
at 2 o'clock.
Judge Clementson and Court
Reporter Orion are in Prairie du
Chen where the judge is holding a
regular term of circuit court for
Crawford county. The calendar is
the longest for years and a two
weeks term is slated.
The T. Carrier hardware bust
ness at Boscobel has been purchased
by Jacob Beimborn, Fred l.. Beim-
born and JOS. B. Nauert of Boscobel
and the new firm has taken pos
ession. 1t is to be known as the
Beimborn- Nauert Hardware Co.
The stone to complete the new
courthouse will be purchased Of the
Portage Entry company OF Duluth,
and the demands of the company
owning the stone onboard cars at
the depot will be passed up. The
railroad company's employees un-
loaded the three carloads at the
station yesterday. Demurrage
charges against the consignment
amount to $3.50.
Another little move was made
on the new court house checker
board last Friday when Orville
Eastman, representing interest Of
the Jenkins Eastman Lumber COM
pany, served an injunction on
Sheriff Watson, restraining him
from touching any of the lumber
that lies in the court yard square.
Thinking that perhaps the lumber
company intended to move the
lumber, the sheriff a short time
afterward served similar paper on
Mr.. Eastman.
One day last week a couple OF
girls went to one of our livery stables
and asked for gentle horse, as they
wanted to drive out in the country a
few miles. The man gave them one
and told them the horse would be
all right if they kept the rein from
his tail. When they returned III
the evening he asked them If they
had any trouble. ''Oh no." said
one, there was one little shower,
but we had an umbrella and we
took turns in holding it over the
the horses tail, SO that not one drop
of rain touched it, and we got along
bright" This explains the daz-
zled look the liveryman has been
wearing the past few days.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20

-Mesrs. j. S. Wright and I. f.
Orion, with their wives, arrived
home from West Baden yesterday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20

To THE ASSESSORS AND TAXPAY-
ERS OF GRANT COUNTY.
Chapter 246 laws Of 1908 adds the
following exemptions from taxation.
$4,000 in value of farming, garden
or mechanics tools.
1 Bicycle kept for use Of owner.
1 Sewing machine kept for use.
$25. 90 of fire arms kept for use of
owner.
5 swarms Of bees.
$25. 90 worth of poultry.
All farm animals born since last
December.
One watch carried by owner to
value of $50.
have just seen this law pub
hshed and cannot furnish a copy
in time for publication in all OF the
papers this week. hope
all county papers will publish above.
T. L. CLEARY,
Supervisor of Assessment.
-SO.s
-Mesrs. j. S. Wright and I. f.
Orion. with their wives, arrived
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20
Domestic Blizzard.

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Leist resid-
ing in the town of Liberty engaged
in family quarrel Saturday night
and as a result the husband went
before Squire Fisher of Sitter and
swore out a warrant for the arrest
Of his wife on charge of assault.
Sheriff Watson and Under Sheriff
Dyer went out there Saturday night
and brought Mrs. Leist to Lancas-
ter. She was allowed to sojourn
with relatives here, and on Monday
Plaintiff and defendant were sum
moned before Dist. Atty. Brown
where their differences were aired
and an amicable agreement arrived
at. AS a result they concluded to
return to their home and bury the
Ratchet.
Mrs. Leist is about so years of age
and her husband ten years younger.
They have been married four years.
Herman hamburger is stepping
high these days and well he may.
A pair of twin daughters arrived at
his home Thursday.
There are indications now that
the spring crop of pigs WILL be large.
Farmers hope it, at least. and every
consistent effort has been made to
bring abont such a result. The hog
during the past year has been about
the best paying property the farmer
had, and as values are still abnOr-
mally high the desire to raise as
many hogs as possible is very strong.
Most well posted men are Of the
opinion that hogs will be scarce IN
til this springs crop is matured, and
that Of course will take a good many
months.
"A very important part of the
newspaper business is the money
part, familiary known as the
'spondulicks," ''genseng," coin"
gilt" collateral" TIN, etc.
Don't get it in your head that the
editor is dunning you and thinks
you are dead beat, for he is not.
Four or five hundred dollars stand
ing out all over the county, one
dollar in a place if paid in will do the
editor four or five hundred times as
much good as the one dollar does
you. That's plain arithmetic, easily
understood, and figures out correct
". We want all these one dollars
that are due on subscription to
build up this business, which is for
your good as we'll as ours. Please
be prompt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20

CASH Discussed BY CITY ORDERS ISSUED.
PAID AND CANCELLED FOR MACADAMIZ-
ING, BRICK CROSSINGS, WORK IN
STONE QUARRY AND ON
STREETS AND SIDE
WALKS, ETC.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20
LICENSED TO WE'D.
Cupid's Franks as Recorded by County
Clerk Griffis.

Geo. Gabler, Highland, and
Pauline Young, Montfort.
Robt. Henderson, Madison, and
Barbara Foreman, Muscoda.
Theo. Roterman, Dubuque, and
Wilhemina Fest, Cassville.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20

The Political Equality Club will
meet with Mrs. J. T. Rhodes Mon
day, May 25, at the usual time.
Subject for discussion "Women as
Physicians" led by Mrs. Hayes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20

The Burlington will sell round
trip tickets to ST. Paul and Min
neapolis Sunday for $3.50 from
Prairie du CHEN.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-20

S34331 81
We, the unde rsigned Finance Committee,
have examined the fore going report, COM
piled by the City Clerk and find the same
correct. III. HENKEL
c. w. RAY,
Com.
Dated May IL, 1908
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-21
Asking Questions In society.

This from an authority: Don't ask
questions; don't mention names; listen
occasionally, and you will find yourself
society favorite." The first don't
seems to have been most correctly
placed. There is nothing which creates
pleasanter impression and which re-
ally leads to the most complete conf
dence than the tact which listens SYM
pathetically to all a companion will
say, but never probes deeper by an i'm
pulsiye interrogation, One learns to
trust such an acquaintance and feel in
his company peculiar sense of secur-
ity that is very satisfying. Many of
our small attempts to make an Impress
i've recital are, we know, most vulner-
able. One or two sharp queries would
riddle them, and we learn, as burned
child learns to avoid the fire, just whom
we may not and may impose them up
on. The latter please us the better.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-21

of an eye, and they will be led by Sem
ator Marcus Alonzo Hanna. If moth
ing happens to jolt the president he
will be nominated, but not because the
Buckeye boss desires it.
The Boston HeraId's Switch.
Hon. Richard Ohey of Boston some
months ago leomed up large on the
horizon as presidential candidate.
The Boston Herald, Mugwump, was
his principal sponsor; but, alas and
alack, the Herald has been swept COM
pletely off its feet by the manufactured
enthusiasm for Grover Cleveland at
St Louis, has gone squareIy back on
Richard and has come out fiat footedly
for Grover. What Olney thinks of that
is not known generally. He perhaps
thinks thoughts which could not be
printed in any paper and sent through
the mails. If he can't hold his own
organ in line how can he hope to Sc
cure support elsewhere? How can the
Herald explain its going back on Oh
ney? What has he done to be dropped
like hot potato? People like fidelity
and do not admire fioppers. The Her
aid will probably wake up to a realiza-
ton of that fact
Uncle Sam and Manchuria.
And so England and Japan are i'm
portuning Uncle Sam to play the con-
demned part of the idiotic monkey and
pull their chestnuts out of the fire in
the Russo-C Chinese -Manchuria business.
If our uncle has not become entirely
daft he will do we'll to let that affair
severely alone. 1t concerns him not.
His entire interest in Manchuria is in
selling things everything from nee
die to mogul steam engine. He
should not care a baubee to whom he
sells. One mans money is as good as
another's. Our uncles trade with
Manchuria will be as large with Rus
slams in possession as with the Chi
nese ruling the roost, perhaps larger.
Why, then, should he rush in to help
John Bull and the Japs out of bad
scrape? England and Japan are two
of our chief competitors for trade in
the orient.
A Busy Cabinet.
If any person is harboring the de-
lusion that President Roosevelt and his
cabinet officers do not know anything
about practical politics and about
whooping up the boys that person is
innocent as the babes in the woods.
The president himself is doing a jam
up good piece of electioneering for the
nomination in his two months tour of
the country. Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock is out on a tour of his
own. inspecting "Indiansr' Secreta-
ries Moody. Root Shaw and Wilson
never lose an opportunity to address
hoi polloi Attorney General Knox is
prodding the trusts. Postmaster Cen
eral Payne is after the boodlers, and
there is activity all along the line.
which Senators Mark Hanna, Fair
banks and other aspiring Republicans
would do well to note
Secretary Wilson of the agriculturaS
department, who not long ago demon
strated that he has a great head by
declaring that Missouri is the best
place in the world in which to buy
farm, has added to his fame and will
increase the wealth of the country by
discovering that we can raise as good
macaroni wheat in the United States
as anywhere else on the habitable
globe.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-21

Not Afraid OF Klssing Microbe.

Not Afraid of kissing M1crObe.
The Saltwater (Okla) Advance re-
fers to the alleged danger of kissing
and denounces it as an unmitigated
slander on the women. There can be
no more danger in kissing beautiful
woman" says the paper, ''than in kiss
Ing the sunlight or a new blown rose.
and for the purpose of demonstrating
our position we stand ready to kiss any
white woman (who does not wear store
teeth from Cape Cod to Kalamazoo.
We are not fraid of this diabolical
kissing mierobe; and the man who
would recommend the abolition of the
health giving kiss is fit only for trea-
sons, stratagems and spoils. and is
clearly unconstitutional and should be
abolished himself"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-21

of an eye, and they will be led by Sem
ator Marcus Alonzo Hanna. If moth
ing happens to jolt the president he
will be nominated, but not because the
Buckeye boss desires ii.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-21
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sT INES change, and we change
with them," is an old and ia
miliar saw. Many illustra-
tions of its truth are found
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-21
Hn,r to rnISe ONT InIs stafns,

Ink stains can be removed from white
linen by oxalic acid. chlorinated soda
or lemon and salt The material should
then be laid in the sun and wet from
time to time with lemon juice and
washed in warm water. The applica-
ton should be repeated if necessary.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-21
CHATTER x.

CdAPIER ~.
There were three friends that buried the
fourth.
The mold IN his mouth and the dust in
his eyes,
And they went south and east and north;
The strong man fights. but the sick man
dies.
There were three friends that spoke of the
dead;
dies.
"And would he were here with us now,''
they said,
"The sun in our face and the wind in
our eyes.
Ballad
KAHE Nilghai was angry with
Torpenhow. Dick had been
sent to bed blind men are
ever under the orders of those
who can see-and since he had re-
turned from the park had iiuently
cursed Torpenhow because he was
alive, and all the world because it was
CONTINUED IN NEXT ISSUE.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-21
Statesmen In Luck.

Charlie Curtis, who represents the
Topeka district of Kansas in congress,
is one of the most popular Republicans
in the house; consequently all his fel-
low representatives will be glad if the
following dispatch turns out to be true:
Kaw City. Okla. April Is. Representa-
tive Charles Curtis, who Is member of
the Kaw tribe of Indianss has drawn his
allotment In the Kaw reservation. He
and his three children received 1000 acres
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-10-17
KEPT A SUPPLY OF BEER.
cass County Farmer Bound Over for
Alleged Blind Pigsirc.


Joe Miller, the farmer who was re-
Gently arrested on complaint of a for
mer hired man on a charge of blind
pigging, was bound over to the dis
trict court at Fargo. Miller's side of
the cas- is that he always kept a sup
ply of beer and liquors on hand. One
night he gave his hired man permits
sion to hold a dance in the barn. The
aired mar wanted a key of beer, which
was refused, but later the fellow took
one anyway, and the value of it was
afterwards deducted from his wages.
The officials will have the remains
of John Minear, who was killed at
Armenia by drinking bootleg whisky,
disinterred and an analysis made of
the stomach. The hearing of the man
Keeling, who had the liquor, will be
transferred here and postponed until
the result of the analysis is announc-
ed. It is said hiinear took only one
drink, and died after walking only q
few feet.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-10-17
DoUsLE TRAGEDY At MENAsHA.
Man Kills Himself and Wife and
Wounds Another Person,

Man Kills Himself and Wife and
Wounds Another Person.
Menasha, Wis, Oct. 15.-Frederick
Crawford Of Oshkosh shot and killed
his wife in this city last night. wound.
ed a man named l.. J. Jourdain and
then blew out his own brains. Craw-
ford and his wife had been separated
for some time. A meeting had been
planned between the two for last
night. AS Mrs. Crawford was passing
the public library Crawford stepped
out and met her. Just what passed
between them no M probably knows.
Crawford drew a pistol and fred on
the woman at short range, the powder
burning her clothing. She sank to the
ground with a groan and died almost
instantly. MIR. J%ourdain, who is en-
gagged in the insurance business.
stepped up and asked Crawford what
the trouble was Crawford, without
making any reply, fired at Jourdain.
The ball struck him neal the heart
and his wound is very serious. but
there are hopes Of his recovery. Craw-
ford then stepped around the building
and sent a bullet through his brain.
dying instantly.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-10-17
BIG PACKERS COMBINE AND RE.
FRAN FROM BIDDING
ON STOCK.
PRICES FORCED TO low MARK
HUNDREDS OF CATTLEMEN ARE
SAID TO BE ON THE VERGE
OF RUIN.

Omaha, Oct. Is. Farmers and
stockmen of the West nave been
robbed of millions of dollars within
the past six weeks by the meat trust,
and consumers in the East and South
have been robbed of still further
millions by the same hands.
The big packers have, by their
agreements to refrain from bidding on
stock at the stock yards, beaten
prices down almost to the breaking
point, and at the same time have
raised the prices on dressed meats to
Eastern consumers until the prices
paid are far above what they were one
year ago, when the meat trust is sup
posed to have been formed. The
packing trust is paying today
40 Per Cent Less for Pork
than n year ago., while the retailers
are paying the packers Is per cent
more for dressed pork than one year
ago., making the increased profits Of
the trust, by gouging both consumer
and producer, IS per cent on pork.
For beef steers the packers are pay
ing rs per cent less than last year.
while the selling price is 10 per cent
higher. Increased profits to the trust
is IS per cent.
These figures are from the actual
market prices of Monday, the selling
prices being based on Omaha prices,
although the manager of n of the
packing houses admitted the prices
to Eastern consumers were still high
err than those of Omaha, the
Profits to Packers
being 5 per cent more in New York
and Chicago than in Omaha.
do you know that hogs have de-
clined so cents this week." was asked
of an Omaha retail butcher.
"That don't interest u.s." was his
reply. The price of hogs has nothing
to do with the price the packers make
us pay for dressed meats"
Conservative stock men claim the
stock men of Nebraska, Iowa, and
other Western states have lost more
than 800, 000, 900 during the past
three months by the manipulation Of
the markets by the packers, and that
hundreds Of cattlemen are on the
verge of ruin.