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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
High School Notes.

Fourth quarter exams" begin
Friday
At the Junior class meeting Mon
day afternoon the following COM
mittees were appointed: Reception
Alice Clark, chairman, Bertha
Rudersdorf, Alta Skate. Decorat-
ing-Telah Calvin chm, George
Carter, Daisy lockwood. Fern
Committee Gordon Smith chm,
Frank Maebin, Joe. McBrien. AS
the last mentioned resigned, Clyde
Suttle was appointed in his place.
For full particulars about the
'Storm Center write to Warren
Gelbach or Clarence Mcmahon.
Get your order in early as the sup
ply is limited and orders are coming
thick and fast.
The Midnight Jewellers, accom-
panied by their ladies, spent Sunday
on Platte river. Those who took
part in the good time were Misses
Brockway, lockwood, Aupperle,
Van de Wall, Vesperman, Ress-
meyer, Howell, Rudersdorf, and
Messrs. Gelbach, Mcmahon, Carter,
Aupperle, Garner, Metcalf, Henkel,
Baldwin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
VALUABLE HOLDINGS.
T. f. Orion and c. W. Ray Have Stock
in Profitable Oil Wells in Ohio.

Messrs. T. F. Orion and G. w.
Ray, with some Chicago capitalists,
went to the oil fields Of Ohio in the
winter and investigated a large
tract Of land that was believed to
contain oil. So fattering were the
prospects that they invested some
money and company was formed
to promote the enterprise.
Surmises have proven true and re-
suits are more satisfactory than was
at first supposed. Three or four
good wells have been struck, one
being gusher, and the stockholders
will realize v-ell on their holdings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
Jones Goes to Lodge.

The other night Jones W6nU TO
lodge. When he returned home in
the wee sma' hours of the morning
he was happy-so happy that 1T
took considerable time to locate the
keyhole, but after sundry efforts he
succeeded in letting himself in, hung
his shoes on the hall tree and his
hat on the floor The respect he
felt for his wife's feelings and also
her tongue-caused him to stealthily
creep up stairs like burglar, but
his bump of location was a little
hazy, and when he fell over a
rocker and banged his head on the
dresser, he involuntarily said, Dunn
it,
The unusual disturbance awakened
his spouse and she asked, rs that
you, Mr. Jones?"
''Nope; ish a friend Of mine"
'Whatever is the matter?"
Domino; guesh forchof gravity
got mixed up wish she power of 'trac-
ton. Never did like mixhed drinks
anyway"
Mr.. Jones, where have you beenw
Been to logsh-talkin' politics
goat butted regular Buttinski
-nicsh goat what'n you 'avei"
What will I have, you brute; I'll
tell you what I'll have I'll have a
divorce, that what I'll have"
cash alright, dear; help self, got
comm. Where'ze sham goat, any
way?"
''And Mr.. Jones, I go home to-
morrow; I never want to look upon
your face again"
Goodbye, mi dear, be here zen
you get back-take she cook book
wiz you-good lodsh good goat.
No xis an zhe goat; ish wash bowl. !"
20, dear, what have you done?"
Done, -has'an done nobody
zey done me-done to fnsh-where'
re goat anyway"
Mr.. Jones, there isn't any goat
here. You must be i'll. I will send
for mama tomorrow"
And then Jones came out of his
trance. my dear Duplicate, please
don't do that. I never felt better in
my life. Was just giving my little
darling a surprise. It's only joke.
I saw a lovely bonnet today that I
think you would like. Don't you
remember the happy hours we spent
under that old apple tree? Haven't
I always been a good husband to
you? Send for your sister Kate,
send for Carrie Nation, send for
anybody, but don't send for"-
And then Jones fell into a pro-
found slumber. In the morning
when Duplicate discovered the shoes
on the hall tree, Jones still insisted
that it was only a joke. But Dupli-
cate wears a new bonnet and the
white dove of peace has settled over
the Jones household for a dav or
two.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27

The railroad company has unload
ed the building stone at the station
that was intended for use at the
courthouse, and it is now piled up
on the ground. The attention of
the company is called to the fact
that this stone would make an adj
mirable nucleus towards necessary
material for new depot which
Lancaster not only needs and is en-
titled to, but must haze. The struc-
ture can never be erected more
cheaply than just at the present
time.
Dist. Atty. Brown departs about
June 10th for a weeks fishing trip
up in Jack Lanes Indian reserva-
ton, and the trout are already hid
ing. We believe he is taking the
jaunt to just get out of work for all
the assaults, divorces, etc., have
their preliminaries in June.
Charley Ray and Tom Orion, oil
kings, will soon be making big be-
quests to schools and colleges.
Some people will not be happy
in heaven. They'll be worrying for
fear some other persons have more
feathers on their wings.
Hot air isn't legal tender, but it's
the stock in trade of some people.
Some people appreciate a good
home paper-then there are others.
A woman exercises her whole
body in throwing a ball thirty feet,
and then she can't tell which way it
is going.
Sheriff Watson took it into his
head the other day to have his
mustache removed, and went to one
of Lancaster's painless BARRIERS
where the job was executed without
a hitch. We believe his present ap-
pearance is the cause of all of these
rains.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE.
ChaS. Lisherness Of Lancaster Dead
at Reedsburg.

A dispatch to Mrs. Chas Usher
ness from Reedsburg at 10 a. m.
yesterday conveyed the startling
disclosure that her husband had
been found dead in his bed at the
Bates house in that city.
Further particulars were not
forthcoming until 3 p. M, in the
afternoon when a second dispatch
received by Mayor Hassell an
nounced that Mr.. Lisherness had
taken his own life by shooting at
a. m.
The family of the deceased, con-
sisting of a father, mother, wife and
eight children, all residing in COM
modious home in the fourth ward,
are heartbroken over the awful news
and the many friends of the victim
in the city and locality can hardly
realize the sad message.
Deceased was in the employ of a
concern selling school charts and
was travelling on the road He left
here April 21st for Reedsburg, which
had been his headquarters since.
Monday evening a letter received
from him told of no trouble or de-
spondency, and the reasons for his
rash act are matter of conjecture.
About three years ago Mr.. Usher
ness removed to this city from a
farm on Blakes Prairie to be nearer
to his aged parents and find better
facilities for education of his child
rem.
His wife is daughter of Anton
Schmitt and the sympathy of the
entire community goes out to her
and the eight loving children upon
whom the loss falls most severely.
Aid. Henry Henkel went to Reeds
burg yesterday afternoon and will
return with the remains today.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27

Mrs. Job Crabtree died at
Bloomington Friday, aged 70. Fun
eral was held Sunday. Deceased
was a pioneer settler of Grant
county. Her husband survives,
aged 70, and family of grown
children.
The J. L. Gates Land company
of Milwaukee will conduct an ex-
cursion to northern Wisconsin
Friday, the train leaving Madison
in the evening. The trip will be
entirely devoted to pleasure and
sight seeing and the itinerary IN
cluues piscatorial excursions to
northern lakes, lavish entertain
ment on part of citizens OF mum
Der of important cities to be visited
and an ACKNOWLEDGED time. The
list of invited guests includes many
men of prominence Throughout the
state in addition to the COM
pany's corps of agents. Among
those who have been solicited to
participate are Judge Clementson,
r. B. Showaltef. r. Meyer, Jr., L.
T. Orion and Brennan & Mccoy OF
Lancaster. The return trip will be
made Monday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
FATHER POTTER RESIGNS
Well Known EpiscOpalian Divine An
NOunces Intentions of Going
to Other Fields.

Rev. Fl. Geo. F. Potter, resident
Episcopalian priest, has announced
his resignation to take place on
Sunday, June 9th.
The announcement came as a sur
prise to the parish and is a source
of regret to his many friends and
admirers.
1t is to enter more lucrative fields
that he departs, having pastorates
offere him at Omaha, San Diego,
Cal, and Hastings, Mimi, but has
as yet not decided definitely upon a
location.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27

-Galena is to have free delivery
of mail.
The horse that will stand the
whip will get it.
The successful tooth puller has
his nerve with him.
Don't think you are the only
one who has had trouble read Job.
1t is easy enough to attract
notice, but praise is another mat
ter.
No matter how hard a job the
sun has he always goes at it with a
smile.
There are always tickets for
sale to people who are looking for a
chance.
A man who is jack of all trades
with his mouth is never out of en-
ployment.
However headstrong a preacher
may be, he is capable Of recognizing
checks that are valuable.
Lancaster is to have new den
fist. DR.. James Gibson is his name
and he will be located in the post
Office block.
Men who pirate about their
struggle to make living for their
family feel hungry for sympathy
for themselves.
Al Heiman and family and
Misses Josephine Hudson and Louise
Tuffey drove to the Tufdey farm in
Marion and passed Sunday.
Children who are to participate
in cermonies Decoration day are re-
Quested to assemble at Joeckel
building at 9 M, Saturday.
The Mississippi river is on the
rampage, and is still rising. 1t ex-
tends from bluff to bluff and at
Potosi, the steamer Teal lands up
nearly to the Burlington depot. All
bottom lands are flooded and much
damage will result.
The Women's Missionary soci-
ETY. of the Congregational church
will meet Thursday afternoon at 2
o'clock at the social room of the
church. Please note change of
time Reports of Lake Mills conven-
ton and missionary rally at Platte
vile will be heard.
Mayor S. E. Hassell,
Judge Goodsell, Dist. Atty !.
Brown, Jos. Book, John Schre1ner
and J. J. Oswald will compose an
excursion party that leaves the
fore of next month for a weeks
fishing in the trout steams Of
Shawano county under guidance OF
of Capt. Jack Lane.
L. G.. Wheeler has purchased
the business and good will of G. W..
Burr's book store and news stand
and is already in possession. Mr..
Wheeler has managed successfully
the postofice news stand for a num-
Der of years and will combine the
two establishments in one and To-
cate in Mr.. Burr's apartments in the
Wright house block. Postmaster
Webb will occupy the entire post
office ground floor as soon as ar
rangements can be made. The
postoffice has been cramped for
space for some time and this change
will furnish commodious room SO
long desired.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27

STRAYED: Ten-year-old mare,
color bay, white strip in face, wire scar
on right front foot. Last seen on
Little Grant road between Blooming
ton and Lancaster. Finder will not
ify DAwALD GARNER, Lancaster, Wis.
Union and Farmers Phones.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
Miles of Waterloo.

Jesse Miles of Waterloo, Ia, is
a guest of his parents.
Eggs have not been below II
cents this season, nor were they
last. If it had been our lot to be
an old maid anG dependent on our
own work to earn a livelihood we
would keep poultry and let cats and
pug dogs alone. When poultry
raisers can realize II cents per doz-
en- for April and May eggs, there's
profit in it. Cold storage and pat
ent egg cases have done big things
for biddy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
Mining Notes:

At a meeting of the directors of
the Lancaster Mining company Sat-
urday evening it was definitely set
tied to install a mill at the Eberle
mine and enough Of the reserve
stock will be sold at par to make up
amount necessary to make the pur-
chase.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
chase.

H. w. Kann and Philip Flesch
have been prospecting on the Adams
farm three miles south of Lancas-
ter recently and in drilling Saturday
struck very promising vein of jack.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27

Mrs. A. J. Wiedenbeck and
daughter are visiting in Madison
this week.
Miss Carrie Benn was a Fenni-
more visitor Sunday-guest of her
brother, A. j. Benn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27

Drink water and get typhus;
drink milk and get tuberculosis;
drink whiskey and get the jimjams.
Eat soup and get Bright's disease;
eat meat and encourage appoplexy;
eat oysters and acquire taxemia; eat
vegetables and weaken the system;
eat dessert and take to paresis;
smoke cigarettes and die early;
smoke cigars and get catarrh;
drink coffee and obtain nervous
prostration; drink wine and get the
govt. In order to be entirely
healthy one must drink nothing, eat
nothing, smoke nothing, and even
before breathing one should see
that the air is properly sterilized.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
Views and Interviews.

John Jordan: Lancaster has
more cur dogs running about than
any place I was ever in, and they
are anuisance. The license sh ould
be $40 on each one Of them. and I
will give a quarter out of my own
pocket for every one that is killed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
Memorial Services.

Mckinley Circle, L. Of G. A. r.,
will hold Memorial services at For
ester hall on the evening Of May
3Oth, beginning at s o'clock. Mem
bers of the Post with their wives
are cordially invited to join in these
exercises; also all old soldiers are
invited. A full attendance of mem
bers is expected
EVELYN HARsHBERGER, Pres.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27

-Thos. Marsden of Fennimore
was in town Saturday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-27
Town Talk.

1t is rumored that but three Dem
ocrats can be found IL the town of
Clifton-they've all been converted
to Republicans by Joe Edge.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-01

pouring of his soul in worship of
this ideal man.
He was his devoted Worship
per for another and more power
full reason. In his daily inter
course with him in his library
during his campaigns he had
frequently met his beautiful
daughter, and had fallen deeply
and madly in love with her.
This secret passion he had kept
hidden in his sensitive soul. He
had worshipped her from afar as
though she had been a white
robed angel. To see her and be
in the same house with her was
all he asked. Now and then he
had stood beside the piano and
turned the music while she play
ed and sang one OF his new
pieces, and he would live on that
Iscene for months, eating his
heart out with voiceless yearn-
ings he dared not express.
In his music he made his
greatest success. There was a
fiery sweep to his passion, and a
deep oriental rhythm in his ca
dence that held the imagination
of his hearers in spell. 1t is
needless to say it was in this
music he breathed his secret
love.
ITO BE CONTINUED
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-01

in the future. He held a subor-
dinate position in his party's
council, but defeat and ruin had
taken the conceit out of the old
line leaders, and he knew that
his day was drawing near.
III take my place among the
leaders and masters of men," he
told himself with quiet determin-
alton. II will compel the gener-
ais respect, and if l cannot win
his consent, will take her with
out it,"
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-01
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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-01
CHAPTER VII.

| EQUALITY WITH A RI1SERVATION.
The lynching at Hambright
had stirred the whole nation into
unusual indignant interest. It
happened to be the climax of a
series of such crimes committed
in the south in rapid succession,
and the death of this negro was
reported with more than usual
vividness by young newspaper
man of genius.
A grand mass meeting was
called in Cooper Union, New
York, at which were gathered
delegates from different cities
and states to give emphasis and
unity to the movement and issue
an appeal to the national govern
ment.
When Sallie Worth reached
Boston she found Helen Lowell
at home alone. The Hon. Ever
EFT Lowell had made one of the
speeches of his career at the
mass meeting held in Faneuil
hall, and he was in New York,
where he had gone to make the
principal address in the Cooper
Union convention of O. negro
sympathizers.
George Harris had accompani-
ed him, supremely fascinated by
the eloquent and masterful APP
peal for human brotherhood he
had heard him make in Boston.
There was something pathetic in
the dog-like worship this young
negro gave to his brilliant pa
tron. In his life in New Eng
land he had been shocked more
than once by the brutal preju-
dices of the people against his
race. His soul had been tried to
the last of it's powers of endur-
ance at times. He found to his
amazement that, when put to the
test, the masses of the north had
even deeper repugr ance to the
person of a negro tha1 the south
ernerS who grew up with him
from the cradle. He had found
himself cut off from every hon
orable way of earning his bread,
gentleman scholar though he
was, and had looked into the
river as he walked over the
bridge to Cambridge one night
with a well-nigh resistless i'm
pulse to end it all.
But Lowell had cheered him,
laughed his gloomy IDEAS to
scorn, and, more practical still,
he had secured him a clerkship
in the custom house, which set
tied the problem of bread.
Others had failed him, but this
man of trained powers had never
failed him. He had taught him
to lift up his hesd and look the
world squarely in the face.
Lowell was, to his vivid African
imagination, the ideal man made
in the image of God, calm in
judgment, free from all super
stitions and prejudices, a citizen
of the world of human thought,
prince of that vast ethical aristo-
eracy of the free thinkers of all
ages who knew no racial or con-
ventionol barriers between man
and man.
Harris had published volume
/. of poems which he had dedicated
to Lowell, and his most inspir-
ing verse was simply the out
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-01
PART TWO.

Tore and more the impossible
sltion of the negro in America
bic home to his mind. He was
I'D being overwhelmed with the
aviction that sooner or later
must squarely face the fac t
lat two such races: counting
iillions in numbers, cannot live
Bgether under democracy.
He recalled the fact that there
we're more negroes in the Unit
Ia States than inhabitants in
Mexico, the third republic of the
world.
A malgamation simply meant
Africanism. The big nostrils,
lat nose, massive jaw, protrud-
ing lip and kinky hair will regis
Ter their animal marks over the
lroudest intellect and the rarest
Beauty of any other race. The
Eule that had no exception was
hat one drop of negro blood
nakes negro.
What could be the outcome of
What was his duty as a citi-
n and member of civilized
eiety? Since the scenes
rough which he had passed
10 Tom Camp and that mob.
question was insistent and
sonal. 1t clouded his soul
weighed on him like the
rors of a nightmare.
gain and again the Hateful
rds the preacher had dinned
ID his ears since childhood
ssed upon him:
You cannot build in demo-
icy nation inside nation of
I'D antagonistic races. The
lure American must be an
pglo-Saxon or a mulatto."
His depression and brooding
er the fearful event in which
had so recently taken part
ID tinged his life and all its
pes with sadness. He had re-
cted this in his letters to Sallie
birth without even mentioning
ne events. His heart was full
sickening foreboding. How
Huld one love and be happy in a
orld haunted by such horrors!
had begged her to hasten her
mr. of final decision. He told
iii of his sense of loneliness and
olation, and of his ineXpressi-
need of her love and presence
his daily life.
Her answer had only intensifi-
his moody feelings. She had
itten that her love grew
onger every day, and his love
bre and more became necessa-
to her life, and yet she could
cloud its future with the an
of her father and the broken
art of her mother by an elope-
mt. She feared such a shock
IA be fatal and all her life
~ be embittered by it,
must wait. She was us.
all her skill to win her faith.
but as yet without success.
she determined to win him,
II would be so.
this seemed so far and
owy to Gaston's eager, rest.
oul.
letter had closed by say
saae was preparing for anoth-
ID to Boston to visit Helen
ell, and that she should be
INT at least a month. She
la that his next letter be ad.
Ssed to Boston.
omehow Boston seemed just
out of the world, on another
bel, it was SO far away and its
bic and their life so unreal tc
Imagination.
lit he sighed and turned re.
ely to his work of prepare.
for an event in his life which
Evening star., 1903-08-29
The Exodus" From Chicago.

From the Chicago Record Herald
There is a great deal of talk at present
about the removal of manufacturing plants
from Chicago, and the cause that is gen.
orally given for the change is the unfavor-
able conditions of the labor market from
the employers standpoint. Manufacturers
are being forced to pay wages which make
it impossible for them to compete with their
rivals in other places.
1t is a mistake, however, to assume that
labor troubles are the only cause for the
removals, or that the movement is peculiar
to this city or that it Is a development of
this year of the last three or four years
We have a hint to other causes than the
one mentioned in the statement of Fred
erick McNally to the effect that his firm
wished to find some point where there
would be plenty of room in which the plant
could be spread out over the ground with
out having to go up in the air so far
Land Is not only cheaper in the smaller
towns, but it has long been the practice in
factories among them by tempting offers of
free land. Local business men found that
they could afford to give the sites required
because of incidental benefits to them from
the rise in the value of adjacent property
and the general increase in trade. They
could point also to the promise of lower
taxes and of various economics not con-
nected with the wage scale in the shops.