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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20
Notice.

Members of Tom Cox Relief Corps
No. AZ are hereby 2otified that the
social which was to have been held
sometime ago and was postponed
will be given in the q. A. R. hall
Thursday, Sept 22nd, at 2:3O p. m.
Each member is to contribute to-
wards the refreshments and is
privileged to invite as her guest one
lady not a corps mem Der.
M. C. HUMPHREY,
Press Cor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20
Iron Bridge Collapses.

In crossing an iron bridge Of &C
tt. span over Hackett's branch, d
miles north Of Beetown, Klaue1
Bros traction engine and separator
proved to be an overload for the
structure Saturday and the bridge
collapsed almost without warning.
The bridge is practically a new
one, having been put in place last
fall.
The accident was a most FORUM
ate one as no one was injured and
the engine and separator were ex-
tricated from the z IT. ditch within
a few hours, and ready for work.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

Rabbits may be hunted in
Grant county according to the new
game law. The law prohibits the
use of ferrets in seventeen coun-
ties of the state, but Grant county
is not among them. The law does
not protect rabbits from ferrets
where rabbits are numerous and
are the cause of much damage to
farmers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

-Lesliex Boorman and George
Winters, of Bagley, were here a
few hours Sunday. They brought
over one Oscar Howell who was
sentenced to ninety days in the
county Jail for disorderly conduct
at that place.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

Artist Walton and family are
moving into the Jones residence
property formerly occupied by the
late Mrs. Bracket. Mrs. James Nc
Gonigal and daughter will occupy
the apartments made vacant by Mr..
Walton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

Mrs. Jas. Atkinson and Mrs.
Robt. Wood of North Andover
we're here visiting the past week
with friends. Mrs. Atkinson was
called here on account of the sick
ness of her daughter, uEliza Atkin-
son who was taken suddenly i'll at
the home of Aid. G. w. Ray where
she was a guest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

Paul Howell and Fay Baldwin
departed Monday morning for
Milwaukee where they will attend
the Wisconsin College for Ply
sicians and Surgeons. Paul will
take up dentistry and Fay will
study medicine. DR.. f. RAFFERTY,
went down with them to see that
they got started off in good shape.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

The assessed valuation of Grant
county property, real and personal,
for the year is SAL, 974, 1877. Last
year it was $50, O53, $50, an increase
of 50, 800, 6S1. According to the re-
port of the state tax commissioner
there are but eleven counties in
Wisconsin valued higher.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

Mrs. Chris. Gingrigh, who sub
mitted to an operation at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Ray
last week, is convalescent and hopes
are entertained for complete re-
covery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

Rev. Evans and Oscar Wright
went to Milwaukee Monday to at
tend the Episcopal convention of
ministers and lay-men. This parish
is entitled to four delegates. E. NJ.
Lowry and Henry Muesse are also
delegates. They went down yester-
day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20
LICENSED TO WED.
Cupid's Franks as Recorded by County
Clerk Tuffiey.

Artie Hamilton, Boscobel and
Josephine Peterson, Marion.
Cornelius Sullivan Milwaukee and
Cecilia Bernhardt, Cassville.
Michael w. Ward and Ellen V.
Moore, both of Cassville.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

Roberts & Groenier shipped
two sewing machines and a fine
piano to Ida M. Key at Britt, Iowa.
They will ship piano to Cleveland,
Ohio this week. Their fame in the
musical instrument and sewing
machine line is becoming wide
spread.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

Platteville team finished second,
but was set back to third place be-
cause of failure to bring to their
flag.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20

Chas. O'Neilrs stallion Bridge
ruptured blood vessel in the head
in the first heat and did not finish.
ATHLETIC SPORTS. HALF MILE FOOT RACE,
PURSE $15
w. -DOylc, j
j. nj. Doyle, Fennimore .................2
w. Rogers, Glen Haven. ........... ......... 2
Time 1882
TOWNSHIP RELAY RACE. PURSE $780,
'''sts .....sI
SlCH Id GU ......Z
Platteville ................,.,...3
Time 1880.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

We love any forms, however ugly, from which
great qualities shine. IF man raise a small
city to a great kingdom, can make bread cheap,
can irrigate deserts, can join oceans by canals,
can subdue steam can organize victory, can lead
the opinions of mankind, can enlarge knowledge,
spine as it ought to be, or whether he has nose
at all; whether his legs are straight whether his
legs are amputated; his deformites will come to
be reckoned ornamental and advantageous the
whole.-From Emersons considerations by the
Way"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25
now Our Cotton Estimates are Made.

Very few people have known just how these
government estimates are made, and the informa-
"On GIVEN by writer in Public Opinion is worth
t1Veating. In making up its estimate he says
I"' uhe Department of Agriculture draws on
seven distinct sources on information. as follows
OIL special field agents, who usually come origin
fnso fns from the Washington Office and are, there
VII, specially trained; State agents. each of
bro, mas his own corps of correspondents
5SGFoughout I'm his respective States, and who bases
+bo returns to the Bureau on the reports made by
n,oo correspondents and on information and i'm
tsions tars4s gained by himself in travelling over his
H. county correspondents, each reporting
'''Il5 70 Washington. concerning his own coun-
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25

Subscribers who asked US for extension of credit
last spring and have been selling ten-cent cotton
recently, will please remember The Progressive
Farmer now We are not sending out duns at this
season. as many papers doing, but every reader
whose subscription has expired is urged to send
his renewal promptly as possible. If it is alb
solutely necessary We shall be glad to wait you
until fall but if it is not absolutely necessary,
please do not require us to do it. Look at the
little red slip and let us hear from you.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25

rapher under Cleveland Wilson as Secretary of
Agriculture has made excellent General record,
and we are not in sympathy with those who would
like to put him out because of his misplaced con-
fdence in Hyde and Holmes. AS to Mr.. Ethan
Allen Hitchcock, who, like Mr.. Wilson, has been
In Office since 1897, we know nothing. Our opin-
ion is that he is a rather respectable nonentity.
Nor do we know much of the new man the calf
ran over-his escapes us just now-who
presides over the Department of Commerce and
Labor. Mr. Shaw, the Secretary of the Treasury,
also lmpresses us a second-rate man, and since
the country has taken his measure in the Cabinet,
his Presidential boom has wilted. AS for the At
torney-General, Mr.. Moody, the trusts have not
yet complained Of "pernicious activity on his
part in the enforcement of laws against them.
Summing up. Cortelyou and Wilson, as we have
said, faithful and efficient, but Root Taft
and Bonaparte the only Cabinet officers of the
first order of ability.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25
Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia Politics.

Old Sol is not alone in the endeavor to "warm
things up" in Virginia just now. The iveliest
kind of race for the Senate is in progress Gov
ernor Montague and Senator Martin being rival
candidates for the latter's place in the Upper
House of Congress. Both are touring the State.
Mr.. Montague was elected Governor three or four
years ago as the anti-machine candidate, winning
a surprising victory. and he charges that ring
tague is the abler speaker and has made excel
lent record as Governor, but Martin is the
shrewder political manager and the result is much
in doubt. And just in this connection it may be
remarked that Governor Aycock will not contest
for Senator Simmons seat. At any rate, this is
the present rumor, and it seems to be authorita-
tive.
In the Palmetto State the dispensary is the
bone of contention, and the July weather is no
hotter than the discussions South Carolina
brethren having. Senator Tillman himself
has taken the stump, and while still defending
his pet institution, declares that there must be
sweeping reforms in it's management.
And Georgia-"the Empire State of the
South" of course, is not to be outdone, every
body knows who reads the Constitution or the
Journal. Editor Clark Howell and former Edi
tor Hoke Smith are rival candidates for the Gov
ernorship, and their performances are adding to
the gayety of nations. But after all this strenu-
Gus sparring between the champions it is just
possible that the honors may go to clark
horse"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25
Changes in President Roosevelt's Cabinet.

President Roosevelt's cabinet is subject to such
Kaleidoscope changes that it may worth while
to stop for minute, now that Bonaparte and
Root have just entered it, and consider it's COM
position The Premier Mr.. Root, is now most in
the imelight. Appointed Secretary of War by
Mckinley, he distinguished himself as an execu-
tive during the Philppine troubles, but resigned
last year to resume his New York practice, Civ
ing him. it is said, an income of 5000, 900 year
That he should abandon this to become Secretary
the story that Roosevelt had promised to further
the story that Roosevelt promised to further
Roots Presidential ambitions gained credence;
we do not believe it. Norman Hapgood says Root
is not at all like his predecessor. In Hay his
friends found "the statesman lost in the poet"
scholar, a of culture governed by ideals.
Mr. Root ON the other hand, ''is the shrewd, de-
termined, and resourceful man of action at its
height. Powerful beyond almost any of our living
men, he has not yet stood for anything higher
than efficiency"
A new Cabinet official who does stand for higher
things however. is Charles J. Bonaparte, the new
Secretary of the Navy. He comes from Balti-
more, has always fought corruption inside his
party outside, has been about much of
Independent as a Republican, and was appointed
against the wishes of the MARYLAND machine The
appointment does credit to Roosevelt. But Bona
parte would probably be better as Attorney-Gen-
eral. If the President can transfer him there and
put him after law-breaking grafters and monopo-
lists, good results may be expected.
Elihu Root would probably like to succeed
Roosevelt, but a man who is frank and out
spoken in his Presidential aspirations is Secre-
tary Taft-as brainy Root we believe,
and man of more courage. We all remember
Taft as Governor of the Philippines, hard task
which he discharged worthily, leaving brilliant
career on the bench to take it up. Taft is frank
ly for railroad rate regulation-told the Railroad
Congress so-and if the corporation influences are
Congress so-but if the corporation influences are
not too strong, Ohio will support him for first
place in 1908
Minor Figures in the Cabinet.
Cortelyou as Postmaster-Genera1 is the same
quiet master of business that he has been in every
thing he has undertaken since he was stenog-
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25

ty; township correspondents, who similarly cover
their respective townships or precincts planters,
who report only as to their own plantations; own
ers and operators of gins, who report as to condi-
tlons In their respective localities as we'll as at
certain periods, concerning the number of bales
glnned at their establishments, and, finally bank
and merchants"
A good example is afforded by the report last
December when the several classes of correspond
ents reported on total yield as follows:
Individual planters ........... 13,376,741
Slners 12,4oo,(2S
Special field agents ............. 12,256,766
OtdCo dSenCS ...... E,lO0,lUS
Township correspondents ...... 11,943,837
Bankers and merchants ......... II 1851, ,O89
County correspondents ......... 1O9O3196
The official Government estimate, it will be
seen, 12, 900 bales, was not mere average of
these seven sums, but average modified accord
ing to the seeming completeness and reliability of
each
With this plan improved in the manner set
forth last week, and the entire scheme put under
the direct supervision of Secretary Wilson, the
treachery of Holmes cannot, and should not long
affect public confidence in this work But re-
view of the June acreage report ought to be
made at once to settle forever the question as to
whether not it was manipulated by Holmes and
his allies.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25
A Resume.

On the whole, the rascals are getting turned
out; the crops doing well-or where the crops
are not doing well, the prices are; the Japanese
and Russians will probably not only make peace
but form an alliance; the Watermelons get
ting ripe-and if anybodys not happy, he ought
to be.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25
cnppENr EVENTS: THE TREND OF THINGS
AS WE SEE 1T.

People talked more about the hot weather than
-.1;ror else last week. Every morning the daily
a.ors told of prostrations and deaths by the
rooro in our larger cities; and the advantages of
..,o+rv living must have been made more appar-
- 70 our rural readers. Think of great parallel
5;+cbes dug down in dry earth this weather and
aoon1o crowded together in them and along their
sides. and you get an idea what New York's
tbrongs must endure as they work among the
street-canyons of that thickly built metropolis
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25
Let the Reports Be Continued.

We are glad that thus far we have not had
single letter from a Progressive Farmer reader
urging the discontinuance of these crop reports
The farmers need these reports-every legitimate
industry needs them-and they can be made trust
worthy. When you have the stomachache, as the
practical youngster observed, you want to get rid
Of the ache not the stomach. So we need to get
rid of these disorders in the Bureau of Statistics
but not the Bureau itself. Whether we like it or
not, the Cotton Exchange is going to base its
transactions on crop reports of some kind, and it
IS very much better for the Government to do
this work than to have thee otton world dependent
on conflicting reports from a score of irresponsi-
Die specializing houses. On the whole too, our
Government cotton estimates have been astonish-
lngly accurate. In 1899 "the Bureaus figures diff
tered only 2.6 per cent from the amount actually
marketed in 1900 the difference was 80 per cent.
and IN 1908 Is per cent. IF we consider the
weight adjustments, etc., the justice of which is
generally admitted, it is found that in one year
mere was difference of onlv one-fortieth of one
per cent, and in another only ninety-fve-one-
nundredths of one per cent. And these estimates.
II should be remembered. are made long before
me crop IS completely marketed and from six to
eight months before the actual figures on produc-
ton are known"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-25

The Cotton Report Scandal.
Next to the weather, the cotton report scandal
has lately been the chief topic of conversation
among people who have had animation enough to
+oTk Some of us have been like old Uncle Ras-
tus who said he hadn't ambition enough to get
ont of his own wayP') And the most notable
feature of this notable scandal was the resignation
of John Hyde, Chief Statistician, his resignation
being promptly accepted. There were no specific
charges affecting Hyde's honesty, but his failure
to detect his associates rascalty showed such in
difference or incompetence as to make his depart
ur. gratifying to everybody. And with the going
of this Othello also goes his occupation. There
Will not be another Chief Statistician. Hereaf
ter the cron reports will be made out under the
personal supervision of Secretary Wilson or As
ssant Secretary HAYS. This is another step
and long step-toward making further scandals
impossible.
The news & observer., 1905-06-08
REFERENCES.

The Montgomery County National
bank, Cherryvale, Kan.
The Peoples National bank, Cherry
vale, Kan.
Cherryvale State bank, Cherryvale,
Kan.
In addition to the above bank refer
ences if you know of a prominent
business man in Cherryvale write to
him. In addition to these references
the company has had the Endorsement
of oyer fifty leading and influential
daily and farm papers of the United
States that have had personal repre-
SentatiVeS on the ground. The Uncle
Sam will not run an advertisement in
a paper unless that paper will first
make investigation so that the moral
support of the paper goes with ad-
VertiSementS of the company. We
could give a list of 500 men and pa
pers in the United States who know
this company is doing all it adver-
tiseS, and that is saying a good deal
The facts are the Uncle Sam company
is pretty near ''itf when it comes to
independent development at present in
the oil fields, and if you will inVesti-
gate you will conclude that lit would
be q good thing to buy stock in
There are no swell heads connected
with the management of the company.
It's just a plain Kansas management
working for success and fighting for
a market for a Kansas product, and
contends that any man or company
has a right to engage i'm the refining
and selling of oil without the CON-
SENT OF any foreign, thieving corpO-
ration or combine.
The news & observer., 1905-06-08
Reasons Why This Stock Will Go
Above ST 90 Per Share. There Are
Assets Back of This Stock and Here
IL What They Are:

The company owns and controls
over seven thousand acres of oil and
gas lands, seventy-eight oilers, four
pumping plants has miles of
lateral pipe lines completed connect
ing the bigger part of the Cherryvale
field with the refinery 1t is now
pumping oil every day, hour and
minute into its great storage tanks.
The company has thousands of bar
rels already in storage and has room
for thousands of barrels more. One
of the great storage tanks has a ca
pacity for $500 barrels. The refinery
at Cherryvale is now nearly ready to
commence turning gold into the treas
ury. A big tar still is now being added.
Car load after car load of valuable
machinery has been arriving on the
company's grounds for the past six
weeks. The company owns a splendid
twenty-acre refinery site right up
against the city of Cherryvale, has
railroad switch completed. Has water
lines and pumps completed. Owns
never-failing well rights within quar-
ter of q mile of the refinery. Has
room on proved grounds for over two
thousand producing oil and gas wells.
Owns fifty-seven-acre refinery site at
Kansas City This tract of land has
The news & observer., 1905-06-08

The lake is twenty-one miles long
and three to seven miles in width.
Starting from Swan Quarter, and
making circuit of the lake one travels
about seventy miles. This trip in
cludes stops at the villages: Lake
Comfort, Lake Landing, Wysocking,
Middleton, Englehard and Fairfield.
The country surrounding is thickly
populated, and during the whole of
this trip, one is never outside the view
of a house. These country residences
are comfortable, and the inhabitants
are happy. congenial, law abiding men
and women, and they are especially
notable for their hospitality.
The Hyde county Telephone Com
pany of which A. A. Mclean, ESQ.,
of Washington, is president, is con-
structing a line 125 miles in length
through the county, and there is now
a line from Swan Quarter to Wash
ington This line is connected with
the State lines.
The greatest need in Hyde county
is a railroad. With transportation fa-
cilities Hyde county would develop,
expand and grow rapidly to the full
ness of a profitable truck garden.
In addition to thirty-two white and
twenty -four colored schools i'm the
county, there is a graded school at
Swan Quarter, and another at Fair
field. The good people of God in this
His country, are laboring Industrious
ly and conscientiously to train up the
youth in proper paths. 1t is a popu-
lar error in the central part of the
State that Hyde county is considered
a sickly region. 1T is past the MEM
ory of the oldest citizens to recall one
case of typhoid fever or pneumonia.
Good evidence of their health is in
their appearance. and at this place
there have been here this week Tin a
county of ten thousand) larger
crowd by far than can usually rally
from counties of considerably bigger
and I have never seen a
more healthy mass of people.
There is, perhaps, not in the State.
a finer variety Of fish and oysters, all
caught o"t of these waters.
Swan Quarter is a town of about 800
The news & observer., 1905-06-08
TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
Same Wire With Ground Return Used
for Two Purposes.
fsnecial to News and Obsery

Especial to News and Observer.)
Spencer n. c., June IA new de-
vice in the way of a telephone has
just been placed in the office Of Master
Mechanic w. S. Murrian, of the Spen-
Ger shops. by which his office is con-
nected with offices in Greensboro, in
which a similar instrument has also
been placed. The two phones are
connected by an ordinary telegraph
wire which is in daily use, the ground
being used for a return. The connec-
tions, which were made by the South
ern Bell Telephone Company, are SO
constructed as to permit the use of the
same wire simultaneously for both
telephone and telegraph purposes
without either conflicting with the
other By the use of series of coils
the noise accompanying telegraphlc
instrument has been dispensed with,
and it is even possible for two mes
sages, one by phone and the other
by telegraph. to be transmitted in OPP
posite directions at the same time
over one wire.
similar arrangement to the above
is also in use at one or two points in
Virginia and likewise in Georgia. The
first known connections of the kind
were perfected in the latter State. BY
the use of the system the railroad
companies using same obtain double
service from the same wire, and are
frequently protected against delay of
messages and possible danger In the
handling of trains.
The news & observer., 1905-06-08
rel Profit in Lubricating Oils.

From Three 10 Five Dollars Per Bar
There are very great profits in lu-
bricating oils when a market can be
secured for the same without paying
excessive freight The Uncle Sam
company proposes to be in a position
to not only secure a market but to
reach that market without spending
the profits in robber freight rates
made by the oppressive Standard COM
bine. From the river, fronts the COM
pany can enter the big manufacturing
centers of the United States One-fifth
of the population of the union can be
reached from these water ways. From
the Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Ten
nessee and. other navigable rivers the
can market the oil with boats at lit
tie expense. Now we have the oil
to start with, will soon have pipeline
completed, where on earth can you
secure a proposition more practical.
one that shows more good horse sense,
one that offers one-tenth the gain on
the investment? The company has
one of the best refinery men in the
United States as its superintendent. 1t
will maintain itsa own telegraphfc
wires, own its own steamboats,, and
from 1000 feet under the ground.
take the oil through its different stages
until it is burning in your lamp or
running your machinery.
Eifty-seVen-Acre Kansas Ci1y Refinery
Site.
fee simple one of the best and most