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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

DIR. BRWER has built up an eX-
cellent reputation in this portion of
the State, and has a constantly in
creasing practice. This as it should be,
for he is an honorable and thoroughly
educated physician and has had
many years of experience in the treat
ment of chronic diseases, to which
he devotes his whole time and atten-
ton. Invalids who are seeking for
health should see DR.. Brewer at the
Grand Control hotel in this city on
Monday, April 18th.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

OWING to continued illness I find
it necessary to have my people with
me and will sell residence in Lancas-
ter, consisting of three lots and eight
room house with both hard and soft
water. Long time given and terms to
suit purchaser.-SAM CLIFFORD, Fenni-
more, Wis. 5Stf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

-Chas. Burrows has Union
phone.
DIR. Clifford passed Easter in
Oshkosh.
Remember the social at the M.
E. church this evening.
DIR. w. T. Brown was in
Milwaukee yesterday.
The annual government seed
distribution is at hand.
Fred Daily and Harry Basford
were in Platteville Sunday.
j. o. Laird of Cuba City was in
the city on business Monday.
Geo. Tuffley, Jr., made his
usual over Sunday visit in Lancas-
ter.
Landlord John Dechow went to
South Dakota on a business trip
yesterday.
Lent is over and people have
again taken up the busy whirl OF
social life..
Mrs. 0. J. Coons of Bowdle,
S. D., is guest of her cousin, Mrs.
A. G. Morse.
Ted Lowry went to Baraboo
Monday and wrote the examination
for admission to West Point.
Miss Nettie Welsh returned to
Galena Monday morning after a
pleasant visit at the old home here.
Miss Charlotte Lowry returned
home Monday evening from Fond
du Lac, where she is attending
school.
Salvation Army workers will
begin service of meetings at the
{ Congregational church Thursday
evening.
Miss Mabel Judd returned to
Glen Haven Monday to take up her
school work after two-weeks'
vacation.
Mrs. E. B. Goodsell was
brought home from the Platteville
hospital Monday evening. Her
health is much improved.
Pretty fair strawberries for
this season of the year have been
on the markets for the past week
shipped in, of course. They retailed
at 1Oc per pint.
According to statistics out of
each 1000 people in love sixteen be-
come hopelessly insane. The other
9S4 are only temporarily out of
of their heads.
The floods this spring seem to
be the worst in many years.
Property to the value of millions of
dollars has been lost in Michigan,
Indiana, New York, Missouri and
elsewhere. When the heavy snow
in Dakota and Minnesota goes away,
people along the Mississippi may
be drowned out.
With wheat at 80 cents a
bushel and flour $3.50 a barrel, with
fat cattle 3 cents a pound and steak
10 cents, with eggs at 16 cents a
dozen, butter from a creamery 25
cents a pound, potatoes $1.25 a
bushel, dressed chickens a shilling
a pound, and other food in proper
ton, it is not surprising that men
are wondering will conditions ever
! change.
There is talk Of the contract
, system of the rural mail delivery.
If this is established it would be
wise to discontinue every route in
the country. When competition in
price is made the basis of mail
delivery it is time to shut the shop
for any man can bid ina job while it
takes brains to properly deliver
the mail to hundred or more
families every day.
Jos. Tebeau has sold his $50
acre farm in the township of Bee
town to RIB. Showalter for the sum
of $14, 400, or $40 per acre. Ry the
deal he secures a section of land in
South Dakota which Mr.. Showalter
owned. 1t adjoins large tract he
already has title to there and gives
him now l, 400 acres of Dokota soil,
which Mr.. Tebeau belives is as good
as any that lays out doors. He
will hold sale next Monday. See
adv. elsewhere and large bills.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06
Business Locals.

PIANO TUNER at Wright House
Mr.. Ruhoff Of Lacrosse, who was here
a couple of weeks ago and did consid-
cradle work for our people, has re-
turned at the solicitation of many
whom he could not serve at that time
owing to demands elsewhere. Mr..
Ruhof can be employed with entire
confidence. Orders may be left at the
Wright house. He has already tuned
about 20 pianos in Lancaster which is
sufficient guarantee of the excellence
of his work. AS his time is limited
orders should be left at once.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

The American company which is
building the railway from Guayaquil,
Ecuador, to Quito, has opened the sta
ton at Guamote, at an elevation Of
10000 feet, and 126 miles from Guaya-
quill. The most difficult part of the
work on the railroad has now been
accomplished.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

WANTED industrious per-
sons in each state to travel for house
established eleven years and with a
large capital, to call upon merchants
and agents for successful gand prof
liable line. Permanent engagement.
Weekly cash salary of S24 and all
travelling expenses and hotel bills
advanced in cash each week Elk
perience not essential. Mention ref
erence and enclose self-addressed
envelope. The NATIONAL, 332 Dear
born ST., Chicago. II
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

DANIEL PRICE, contractor and
builder, Is ready at all times to execute.
all kinds of work in the building line.
Shop west Of G. Fischer's hardware
store.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

FOR SALE-The residence prop
erty of the late Mrs. Addison
Burr, described as lots and 10,
Block 43, city of Lancaster, is
offered for sale. Anyone wishing
to purchase may apply to George
B. Clementson. 12-tf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

WE'LL. WE'LL! WE'LL! 1t beats
all. What beats all? Why, the Red
Trunk cigar. 44-tf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06


Friday night.
AT Reeds opera house.
Leap year dance, tickets rs
cents.
L. Groenier is in South Dakota.
Mrs. Fl. w. Brown is visiting
in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Harvey Smith is visiting
relatives at Fennimore.
-Messrs. Lewis and Oscar Smith
were here from Sitter Monday.
"A baby girl was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Sherm Streeter Thurs
day.
"A baby DO y was born to Mr..
and Mrs. N. J. Tiedman Friday, but
the little son was short for this
world, the faint spark of life being
extinguished Sunday. Rev. Ralph
conducted funeral services yester-
day.
Let us all be up and doing, let
us WELD the hoe and spade, till the
task has been accomplished, till the
garden nas been made. Let us toll
without relenting tho we perish in
our tracks, mid the straining of the
muscles and the crash of breaking
backs. Let us dig the soil and rake
it, if the victory we should get, and
baptize the infant garden with the
dropping beads Of sweat. For the
day is coming coming, when the
seeds must sprout; from the earth's
dark, silent bosom little plantlets
shall peep out just in time to grace
the banquet, nor for toiling, strug-
Cling men, but to satisfy the cray
ing, of our neighbours hungry hen.
VIM. Fache, the HORSEPOWER,
has taken the contract to move J.
T. Benefits drugstore building
intact from it's present foundation
to the street adjacent to DR.. Reeds
building where it will remain and
be used as quarters by the present
occupants until the new Bennett =
Lathrop block is completed. Mr..
Fache expects to have the structure
placed within ten days. Chairman
Meyer and County Clerk Griffis
have made arrangements with
Messrs. Bennett and Lathrop to
excayate the basement for their
new block for the earth there is to
be removed, and will use it for
filling purposes in the court house
square. They deemed it wise to
secure this, it being so convenient
and the fact that it can be secured
at SO slight expense was an argu-
ment in favor of the deal. About
420 yards will be obtained in this
manner.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Y State of Wisconsin. Grant county Court
SIS. In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Conrad Yes
perman. deceased.
Letters of administration on the estate of
Conrad Vesperman, deceased, having been
issued to Mary Vesperman.
Notice is hereby given, that the creditors
of said Conrad VeSperman, deceased, are al
lowed and limited by order of this Court un-
til and including the Sd Tuesday of October
1904 being the 18th day of said month, to
present their claims and demands against
said Conrad Vesperman, deceased, to the
County Court for examination and allow
ance.
Notice is also hereby given. that the
claims and demands SO presented will be ex-
amined and adjusted by this Court, at the
office of the County Judge. at the court
house, in the city of Lancaster, in said
county, on the 4th Tuesday of October, 1894
Dated this 3lst day of March. 1904.
By the Court, E. B. GOODSELL,
County Judge.
Brown & Brennan administrators Attys.
list insertion, Apr. 9Th; last ms Apr. 21th)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

Apply to Peterson and Matheson.
Read the Beaver adv. on page 4.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06
A way out of the dilemma is being

A way out of the dilemma is being
sought.
+ Ex-senator James Smith has en-
Enthusiastically flung up his cap for
Grover Cleveland for Governor of
New Jersey, and it cannot be de-
MED that the mention is received
with considerable favor. There
is certainly nobody whom the Re
publlcans of New Jersey would
rather defeat.
The Wilmington N. C. Star says
las long as we lynch in the south
and draw our guns and shoot each
other to death on the street we are
wasting time in establishing i'm
migration bureaus. The Charles
ton News and Courier copies this
and says ''The plain truth plainly
spoken. Only the desperately adj
venturous and most undesirable
would seek residence in a state
where citizens ability to draw a
pistol and shoot first is his greatest
security" This is most creditable
talk. +.
Congressman Lands of Indiana,
in a recent speech in New York,
demonstrated that the United States
OF Ohio still exists. He said that
there are nine. Ohio boys in the
Senate, thirty-two in the House,
and two in the Cabinet.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

l. Jos. Book, cashier of the above named
bank do sOemnly swear that the foregoing
statement is true to the best of my knowl-
edge and belief. Jos. Book.
Cashier.
Correct. Attest:
r. Is. SHOWALTER.
G. H. BAXTER
Directors.
- Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 4th day of April. 1904.
SEAL RICHARD MEYER, JR
Notary Public.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06
"A Y. NJ. G. A. Building will
be dedicated at Galena Saturday.
Bank Report.

Report of the financial condition of the
Union State bank. located at Lancaster
state of Wisconsin. at the close of business
on the 2Sth day of March. 1901:
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts. S471 1927
Overdrafts ................ ....s...... 7.794Sl
Bonds OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 100000
Due from banks. -: 136. S1427
Checks on other banks and cash
items. ........................ s2s.e1
Cash on hand ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 37,613s4
Total. ........................... 66S, 1880
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in ................ 100000
Undivided profits. .................... 781S,6t
Deposits ................. ........... 3l2.402.s6
Cashiers checks. Observation-Disclosures. 4,24645
Bills payable .......... 1887 1SS
Total. Observation-Disclosures. $50, $3.50
State of Wisconsin S.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

FARM FOR SALE Consists of
200 acres. Situated IL miles west of
Lancaster. 100 acres under cultiva-
ton. Pasture we'll watered and all
we'll fenced. broom house and wood
shed. Good we'll with windmill. Good
barn and outbuildings. For further
particulars inquire at this Office or
address. w. w. RITCHIE,
332-tf Lancaster, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

An obscure law has been found
which is believed to nullify Com
missionerWare's recent order grant
ing pensions to all Civil War
veterans over sixty-two years old.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

FOR SALE OR RENT: Residence
property with AZ acres of land in
second ward. city of Lancaster. Good
oarn, city water, 6 room house. Write
CT inquire of Mrs. Harvey Abrams. 20t4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

Why does Mr.. Bryan insist upon
the reafirmation of the Kansas City
platform? Does he want to see
some other fellow fall into the coal
hole?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

FOR SALE or Rent: House and
one-half acre of ground in first ward
of Lancaster. Will be sold at
bargain if taken at once. Inquire
of JOHN HEILIGER, Lancaster Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-04-06

WANTED-Agents, hustlers, sales
men, clerks and everybody who wants
to enjoy good hearty laugh to send
SOC for "Tips to Agents" Worth $50
to any person who sells goods for
living. If not satisfactory your money
back. Circular for stamp. The DIR.
White Electric Comb Co., Decatur, Ill.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-03-17
rHs EARTH.

Give me the hills. the pne-clad hills, the
steep ones
The jagged cliffs and slopes of living
green;
The valleys. vernal valleys, cool and deep
ones,
That round the hills. and rambling down
Hold out brawlins course for some swift
torrent,
All bowlder tortured-bridged by fallen
tree
Some men there be who ind the hills alb
horrent;
But oh, the hills; the fills seem good to
me!
Or give to me the plains that roll and
tumble
In earther blllows on the sky's far line.
All decked In blooms, color scheme to
crumble
Into thousand shades! No words of
mine
Could ever. paint in way that you might
see them
You'll have 10 fnd and know them as
know
You'll have to wade among their blooms
Fair are the plains whore wild flow RS
bud and blow!
Or give to me the seal l love its hollows.
Where fishers shallops skim the tossing
brine
Light on the wing, and daintily as swal.
lows
The hills the plains, the sea. all all are
mine
oh. If the Jasper gates ope on no garden
Like these I know I'll weep celestial
brthl
And | shall weep, and Heaven be a bur
den,
And all my plant shall be: II want the
earth"
j NJ Lewis, in Houston Post.
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NEEDFUL.
March IA, 1904

March ~, lSO4
Don Bryson, after spending several
weeks in Covington, Ky, is once more
with friends in this community.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Right, of Blu
ford, and George Roades and sister
of Pulse, we're callers at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Roades Sunday
evening.
Miss Nora Dunford returned home a
few days ago after spending several
weeks at Winkle.
Hoadley Vance closed his second
term of school at Duncanson last
Tuesday. A good number of the
househOlders and friends were pres
ent and report good time.
Miss Dora Roades spent Sunday
with her brother, E. c. Roades and
family, of Pulse.
Perry Roades, of Buford, spent Sun
day with his parents at this place.
Alva Diskete, of Buford, was trying
the mud on the dirt road Sunday
evening. We wonder If Alva isn't
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Wednesday, March %, 1904,

to select 26 delegates and the same
number of alternates tonrepresent
said county in the said Congressional
Convention of this district to be held
at Wilmington, Ohio, April II, 1904,
and TO transact any business found
necessary and proper by said conven.
ton
The precincts of Liberty township
will all meet together at Council
Chamber, in Hillsboro, andl the pre-
cincts in Madison township will meet
together at City Hall in Greenfield.
The delegates and alternates to said
county convention shall be chosen by
ballot, and each precinct is entitled
to a delegate and alternate for every
300 votes and fraction thereof of $50
or over votes cast for Myron 7. Her
rick for Governor in 1908, Provided
however. that each precinct be en-
titled TO one delegate and one alter
nate. said apportionment will give
TO each precinct one delegate and one
alternate to said County convention.
The member of the central COM
mittee in each precinct is authorized
and empowered to select two Rcpub-
licans who shall be judges of said pri-
mary and conduct same, one of said
Judges 20 act as chairman and the
other a secretary.
In Liberty and Madison townships
the members of the central committe
shall Join in the selection of judges.
By order of the Congressional Com
mitteeman acting under the author
Congres sional Committe.
+. r. AMBROSE,
Congressional Committeeman,
Sixth Congressional District.
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pls sIx Tong. was upon him.

Big Six Tong, was upon him.
Swallow It," commanded Fang Ho.
He obeyed. And then, without warn.
ing, little Wing Shee, with despairins
wall, sprang away from the two men.
leaped upon the taffrail, and jumped
into the great black water underneath
the boat Then there was commotion.
Other men. one here and one there, had
seen the leap Fang Ho and Wou Sing
crept inside cabin and took seat.
They we're undisturbed. The people
outside shouted.
1--WE know nothing of It," said Fang
Ho. to inquirers. I'VE saw nothing"
To Wou Sing he said: IF the wet does
not drown him the pill will kill him 1t
is we'll"
When the ferry people handed to the
hospital surgeon the wet. limp form Of
Wing Shee the surgeon laughed. Sui
eide. eh," he said; queer thing. He's
the first chink who ever tried IL in this
country. At least to my knowledge.
And he won't die. Well pull him
around"
They did pull him around. In an hour
Wing Shee had revived. But he was so
unnerved that they had to keep him at
the hospital for awhile. They said they
would let him go in the morning. He
nodded somewhat drowsily. "All light.
he said. He fell asleep. did Wing Shee,
and woke from time to time, with
starts and twitches. It may have been
because he thought the Big Six were al
his heels.
In the morning he was dead. by
George" said the surgeon. "he holds
the record. He's the only Chinese sui
eide. all right, over here" In due time
they bundled Wing Shee into pine box
and 1t so happened that the god Of I'm
rest. in the shape OF few drinks, pre-
sided over the man who screwed down
the lid, to such an extent that he did not
screw 1t down. on drove the cart and
Wing Shee's bones ratified so much in-
side of the box that suddenly. from
being dead, he came to life. The dead
ening effect Of that pill had worn away
Wing Shee, much to his surprise, found
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-03-17
Coating for Fence Posts.

Fence posts are a source Of heavy ex-
pense on every farm and, being of Short
lived timber as they usually are, the
labor Of replacing those which rot of
is a considerable item. A barrel Of
coal tar will coat the ground end Of
several hundred posts and repay many
times its cost In the increased duration
Of the posts. II the end to be pitched
is smoothed with a drawer-knife and
the coal tar applied hot las It should
be) small quantity will coat post
Rural World.
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Public Sale.

will sell at my residence, one.fourtb
mile north of Ambrose Church, on
Danville pike, on Wednesday, March
%, commencing at p. m, the follow
ing property driving mare, three
year-old filly, milk COW, two-year-
old heifer, 10 head of ewes and their
lambs, , Poland China brood sows, |
wheat binder, good as new, Buckeye
wheat drill, ] cora planter, farm i'm.
plements, household furnlture, etc.
j. ". SANDERS.
Frank Ayres, Aucti0neer.
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Every taxpayer is vitally interest
ed in the kind of an electric lighting
franchise that the council makes for
the next ten years. Every citizen
should be. Now is the time to show
that interest. See. that the village
secures the cheapest and best con
tract possible. Every reduction in
the tax rate helps the town, every in
crease Injuries it Show your interest
In the prosperity of Hillsboro.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-03-17

There will be no spring elections
hereafter in Ohio. The Chapman bill
changing time of eleoting township,
corporation and school district officers
to the regular November election is
now law. The term of all officers
that would have expired in April is
extended until next January. The
"in's" are happy.
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HE SAT W AND LOONED ABOCI
himself much cramped. He pushed and
the lid fell of. He sat up and looked
about. He was travelling through
lonely street. The driver had his eye
upon a far distant saloon. Wing Shee
put one leg over the side Of the box, then
another; then he cautiously and stifiiy
Jumped to the street below and dlsap-
peared.
Over in New York the yellow journals
we're telling about the ONLY CHI
NESE SUICIDE. WING SHEE JUMPS
TO CERTAIN DEATH" For the re-
port OF his demise had gone out from
the hospital.
One evening, about dusk, the great
Fang Ho was gliding down the street
toward the home Of little Yo King. He
placed his hand upon the door knob.
when suddenly, out OF the gloom, q
weird figure stepped, and placed his
hand upon Fang Hos arm. Fang Ho
gave one look, and then fed shrieking
up the street once more.
Hi N," he walled. shaking with ap-
prehension. xxi vi hi" He had seen .
ghost-the ghost Of the young Wing
Shee The ghost Of Wing Shee was not
disturbed: 1t laughed gently In its orien-
tai way and then stepped into Yo King .
home. Inside was the sound Of weeping.
1t was the diminutive Yo King mourn.
ing for the death Of the young Wins
shee. Wing Shee looked into room.
She was alone. He glided in. placed .
very material arm about her and raised
her head. She gave one startled glance
and would have cried out but for the
fact that Wing Shee was stufing pa
per napkin in her mouth. Come, little
Yo King" he whispered, II am alive and
not dead. Come-come with me-" And
they disappeared into the night.
The yellow journals. which heralded
the hrst Chinese suicide. now proclaimed
what seemed to be . second one. For
little Yo King went and she never came
back. Where 10 she now? No one
knows. But Mrs. Wing Shse, the dimin-
utive. may possibly be able to tell.
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Field Meet.

The annual field day meet of the
Central Ohio Interscholastic Athletic
League will be held at Washington G,
Fl. on Friday, May 27. The league is
composed of the following high schools:
Chillicothe, Williamsport, Washing
ton C. H., Greenfield, Frankfort and
Hillsboro, Last year the meet was
held in this city and the local boys
carried of the "honors."
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Speedy justice and"equal justice is
the sure preventive. :of mob law.
The courts as at present conducted
are breeding anarchy. In many cases
they are prostituted for political pur-
poses and apparently run solely to see
how large graft the lawyers that
stand in" can secure and how much
the taxpayers will stand to be robbed.
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The Democratic convention for this
congressional district will be held at
Milford, April I. No one cares for
the congressional nomination and the
only contest will be over delegates TO
the national convention. A. E. Houeh b,
editor OF the Hillsboro Gazette, de-
sires TO be and undoubtedly will be
one of the delegates.
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Notice.

The stockholders of The Hillsboro
Telephone Co. will please call, on or
after March 10. 1904, at the Office of
the Secretary and receive their 81 per
cent. semi.annual dividend.
BY order of Board of Directors.
H. p. MORROW, Secretary.