Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-11-14

A., SAFER Seed Co.; sawyer, MIS-. WIN.
E.; Scott, Mrs E. G., heiress; Tourtel-
lotte, Mills, president La Crosse 4
Black River Falls Railway Co.; Withee,
Levi lumberman; Withee, w. W.,
president Security Savings Bank;
Zeizler, Geo., real estate.
McMillan-McMillan, B. F., lumber
man.
Madison-Brown, Frank g., Brown,
Frederick NJ, Johnson, John A., Villas,
VIM. f., lawyer
Manitowoc-Moses, L. D., president
National Bank Of Manitowoc.
Marinette-Brown, Mrs. Augustus
c., widow; Goldman, James B., Gram.
Lewis, lumberman; Merryman, An
drew c., lumberman Stephenson.
Isaac, president n. Ludington Lumber
Co.; Swart, Henry, retired banker.
Phelps, George, retired
lawyer.
arshfeld-Connor, w. D., timber
land owner; Upham, VIM. H., manu-
facturer, veneers and furniture.
Masinee-Dessert, Joseph, lumber
man.
Menasha-Hewitt, w. P, wooden
manufacturers; Smith, Charles r., pres
ident First National Bank; Smith, es-
tate e. D., Whiting, George A., paper
manufacturer.
Menomonie- Mclean, f. j., presi-
dent First National Bank; fainter,
Mrs. Andrew, widow; fainter, Louis
S., banker; Wilson, Thomas B., Knapp
Stout Lumber Co.
Factory Inspection.
From the labor commissioner office
goes out an increasing number of men
and women to see if industrial cOndi-
tons are right. 1t is not always pleas
ant to men in business, in factories,
ETC., to have a stranger run over his
place and jot down list Of things to
be done, but it is the new political
economy and no doubt is right. In
Madison some boys were found at
work under IA years of age and or
dered to school. Enforcement without
fear or favor will soon set new stan
dards. Many employers really do not
know what the law is until some such
object lesson is set very close at home.
Among the Magyars of milwaukee,.
The American Tract society has re-
Gently engaged colporter, Mr.. John
Boehm, whose specific field of labor is
among the Hungarian population Of the
city Of Milwaukee, Wis.
The Magyars of Hungary are better
known to Americans as the fellow
patriots of Kossuth and the descend
ants of a distinct Asiatic people who
in the fifth century captured Rome,
and, under Attila, carried terror to civ
iliZatiOn.
The missionary does not hold the
common view of his parishioners
(most Of whose preachers are Catho-
lics) He says: 'Vigor Of body and
mind. enthusiasm and courage, zeal
and intelligence are characteristics.
They are full of independence, proud
of an illustrious past and have opinions
generally clear and conservative. If
employees, they stand for their rights.
Patriots everyone, yet the experiences
of years under laws that made them
suffer unjust taxation by state and
church, and impoverished them until
life was all but uncomfortable, have
made them suspicious of both church
and state. Few Of the Magyars are
illiterate; the Slovaks, descendants of
another race, generally poor and de-
pendent, and residing among the Mag
vars, are often confounded with them
and their illiteracy credited to the DOM
inant race. 1t is seldom | meet with
Magyar, man or woman, who cannot
read"
A River That Swallowed 100000.
Judge +. w. Reyes, in a full-page
article in the Milwaukee Sentinel oct.
~, told the story of the dream Of many
years to make waterway between
Green bay and the Mississippi river by
way of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers
via Portage. 1t is a romantic story,
and vet the waste!
Until 1869 this improvement was the
paramount issue; it had figured in plat
forms for twenty five years. Even as
late as 1869 Judge Van Wyck lost the
nomination for governor Oh the Repub-
lean side because there was a rumOr
that he was shalSy on improvement.
Originally the federal government
granted to the state 100000 acres of
land to promote the great waterway,
which looks so ma tural and easy on the
map The state accepted it in 1915
and started work, but in 1858 trans
ferred the project to the Fox and Wis
consin River Improvement company.
Things were still unsatisfactory until
the years 1876, when the state au-
thorzed a transfer of the works to the
Green Bay and Mississippi Canal COM
pany. However, the conviction became
strong that ships would never sail
from Green bay to Prairie du CHEN
until the federal government backed
the improvement. Senator Howe and
Congressman Sawyer were the ones
who secured the passage of law.
The three arbitrators: William LARA
bee, afterward governor of Iowa; James
r. Doolittle and Ex-Governor Paul Dill