Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10


people. In fact, it is a church alert
with good workers. Mr.. Denison has
had flattering calls to other fields. He
did what is called Laboratory work"
in preparing for his profession. That
is, -tudied the Submerged Tenth" in
great cities. Rescue work among fall
en- women was a topic he gave atten-
ton to.
Among the speakers from abroad
will be Rev. G. f. Richards, of the
Church Building department, formerly
Madison pastor, and Judson Smith,
the foreign mission expert, of Boston.
Guardsmen in Kentucky.
Hundreds of our Wisconsin National
guardsmen are now in Kentucky par
ticipating in drill with the militia and
regulars of the central states under
federal direction. 1t was not easy for
the boys to get off. They have already
had weeks vacation in camp at
Douglass in this state, and the pay on
the Kentucky trip is so little (at the
rate of $13 month"; that they cannot
afford to give up their jobs. More
over, their employers were not anxious
to let them out for another vacation
so soon. The departure of the troops
recalled a bit of the opening Of the
Spanish war 1t was not until Claud-
er's band began to play and the stern
commands of officers reminded them
of duty that the Milwaukee companies
could break away and join their re-
spective companies. And as fitting
climax the regimental band struck up
the old familiar tune of "Good Bye,
Dolly, l Must Leave YOU"
Six hundred men were expected but
only 400 went.
Milwaukee Municipal Conditions.
It is not often one sees citizens
mass meeting to protest against NUM-
cipal corruption. One was held in
Milwaukee the other day. An exami-
nation of the bills for a year discloses
that there has been bought annually
two and three times the necessary
amount of varnish, lumber, glue, oil,
meat and other supplies; extravaganza,
high prices and apparent fraud are
are coming to light.
Money was paid to varnish COM
panv when there is NO such COM
pany, and for varnish which has
no existence. Bogus freight bills
are part of the conspiracy. The lum-
Der at the house of correction was in
vestigated, and it is found that on JAN
uary there must have been approx
mately 100000 worth of lumber miss
ing. OF the amount of lumber on hand
at the house of correction four weeks
ago, only one-third was pronounced by
experts fit for use, and but IL per
cent of it was found up to grade. 1t
was testified by former Cook Woz-
niakeiwiez that meat came to the house
of correction short ten, twenty and
forty pounds in one hundred pounds.
Rogues never stand by each other
when exposure comes, and it is pitiful
now to note how thes suspects jump
on some other man and seek to justi-
fy themselves
A Sort of Canary Industry.
Young Omro lads are reaping a
harvest these wet days. The young
sters are busily engaged in capturing
frogs. These they ship to Chicago
and for their trouble they receice 10
cents per Dozen Saturday afternoon
on the 6 o'clock car there are half a
dozen boxes full Of these croakers, all
bound for Chicago, where they are sold
as delicacies, bringing 60 cents per
pound. 1t was an amusing concert
that these frogs made, about 600 dozen
croakers all singing at the same time.
One of Wisconsin's Big Things.
1t is asserted that the cooperative
creamery at West Salem, Wis, is the
largest creamery west of Chicago
using farm separators, measuring by
the amount of daily, weekly, monthly
and yearly output of butter The fol-
lowing figures are of interest:
In one day it has turned out $3.50
pounds of butter; in two days, 9,76O
pounds. From January 1, 1902 to
July 1, 1902, six months, it made 4O2,-
627 pounds of butter. From January 1,
1903, to July 1, 1903, the amount made
was 467,905 pounds, gain over last
year of 6527S pounds For the month
of June, 1903, the output was 1899
pounds; the last week in June the
make was 25,300 pounds. Nearly ev-
cry patron uses a farm separator and
the cream is gathered in wagons.
The San Angelo Country.
The Santa Fe road has gotten out
neat little pamphlet setting forth
the glories and the advantages of farm
life in what is known as the San An
gelo county, in Texas.
Generally speaking, the country lies
between what is known as the Choco-
late plains region and the black waXy
belt of Texas, overlapping both, and
parta king of the peculiar soil quail
ties of both those famous areas. The
rainfall averages about % to 80 inches
annually, and no adequate we'll has
ever been bored in the district without
striking copious supplies of pure cold
water The extension Of state laws,