Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-20

Alex. Sweeney and wife were
over from Cobb on visit over
Sunday.
Capt. Pabst, the late Milwaukee
brewer left an estate valued at
$40, 000,O 900.
A pleasant leap year party
was given at Herman Roth's Fri
day evening.
Mrs. Albert Block returned
home Sunday from Marion, where
she went to ettend the funeral of
her sister, Miss Edith Sulzer, men
ton of whose untimely death was
made in these columns last week.
-Supt. Geo. McKerrow has our
thanks for bound copy of Wis.
Farmers Institute bulletin No. II.
Sixty thousand of them were issued
and they will be distributed freely
at the 101 Institutes held through
out the state this winter.
The Herald is in position to
offer a remarkable newspaper
combination. Arrangements have
been perfected whereby the Her
aid and St. Louis Globe Democrat,
both Repu blican in politics and
printed semiweekly, can be secured
to be sent anywhere in the United
States whole year for 1926.
Mr.. Carnegie has given libraries
to eleven cities in Wisconsin dur
ing the past year, amounting to
s142, 800. The cities are Amigo,
bayfield,, Berlin, Columbus, Hudson
Kaukauna, Manitowoc, Monroe,
Rhinelander, Richland Center and
Washburn, Evansville receives
$40, 900 for library building from
the estate of Almon Eager There
are only three cities in the state
with population of over 5000
which are without public libraries.
These are Platteville, Prairie du
Chen and Sturgeon Bay. Eight
libraries have been organized under
the state law within the past year.
The annual dead letter sale of
the postOffice department came off
during the month of December.
For several days the auction room
at 1927 and 1929 A street was filled
with buyers, for this sale was the
largest in the history of the depart
ment. There were 1865 packages
disposed of. The report of the
superintendent of the dead letter
office shows that there were more
than ten million pieces of mail sent
to his division during the year. The
money found in opened letters
amounted to $4S, 634, which was OF
course, returned to the owner when
possible. The number of merchan-
disc parcels received was 254, $50.
Letters which contained postage
numbered 249, 955. There were
131, 032 letters held for postage.
There is enough carelessness in these
figures to make people stop and
think, and to wonder at the patience
Uncle Sam uses in trying to correct
other peoples mistakes.
"A Kansas school teacher is on
probation and in grave danger of
losing his position, because he in
sists that Ann is eighteen years old
and the trustees know better The
teacher gave the problem to the
pupils and demonstrated clearly by
algebra and plain arithmetic that
Ann must be eighteen. The child
rem took the problem home and one
Of the trustees discovered that Ann
was twelve couldn't be anything
else. He called the other trustees
in council and convinced them OF
the correctness of the calculation.
Likewise the teacher was proved to
be, if not an idiot an ignoramous,
unfit to teach anybody's children.
The trustees put the alternative of
resignation before the teacher if he
could not reduce AIMS age by six
years. But the teacher refused to
change his figures, and appealed to
the county superintendent to keep
him in his position. There the
question hangs at present. The
teacher is stiffnecked and unaccom-
modating. He should consider the
wise adaptability of the pedagogue
who said that he had no prejudice
and would teach that the earth was
round or fat as the school trustees
perferred