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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11
Shorthorn Cattle Sale.

I will hold a sale of 80 head of
purebred Shorthorn cattle, %
females and bulls, on my farm 5
miles east of Lancaster on Thurs
day, Oct. 10.
Seventeen of the females are bred
to the herd bull, Proud Paul No.
1923, part of them will ha re calves
by side at time of sale. For further
particulars send for catalogue.
VIM. F. MCCORMICK,
74-3w r r. No. Lancaster, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

The old saying that man must
die to beat the life insurance com
panles certainly does not apply to
the officials Of the Equitable, New
York Life and Mutual Life com
panles who drew those princely
salaries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

HERE'S A CHANCE: For Sale, one
of the best paying saloons in Iowa
county, located at Highland, Wis.
Parties having other business desire to
sell. Call on or address,
IOWA GEO. DILLEY.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11
GRIM REMINDERS OF WAR.

The people of Russia are now being
furnished with a grim reminder of
cruelty and heartlessness of war by
the thousands Of sick and wounded
soldiers who are being returned
from the far east. And to make this
reminder the more forcible in it's
impressions it is sad to relate that
many pitiful and narrowing &C.
counts are given of brutality and
apparent lack of consideration in
the treatment of these returning
soldiers. One recent account from
ST. Petersburg says that in almost
every street of that city crippled
soldiers are to be seen with an arm
or a leg, or both limbs missing,
making pitiful pleas for aims.
These soldiers tell of the terrible
treatment melted out to them on the
battlefelds, where the officers often
left men to die, under the Russian
military maxim that it is cheaper
to bury wounded soldier than
send him home and pension him.
After months of suffering in
miserable hospitals those unfortu-
dates who survived were shipped
home, enduring the agony of
transportation over the long Trans
Siberian railroad and loaded like
cattle in rude box cars. At their
homes they have applied for the
paltry pensions promised them,
only to be told that there is nothing
for them. The grating officials
have stolen the funds. In their
poverty and misery thousands of
these crippled and wounded men
have gone to ST. Petersburg in the
hope that the Little Father" would
take pity on them and see that the
money set aside for pensions was
honestly expened.
In a country like this, where it is
generally customary to show honor
and respect for our veteran soldiery,
it is difficult to understand this ap-
parent tendency on the part OF
another nation to be so thoughtless
and apparently heartless in it's
treatment of the men who have
undergone the trials, privations and
actual sufferings on the field Of
battle. And yet the story tallies
we'll with the whole course of the
Russian government toward the
men who were torn from their
homes and sent to faraway Man
churia to fight in war with whose
objects they had Nd sympathy. 1t
seems increditable that the same
car who advocated international
disarmament Tin the interest of
humanity and civilization should
now countenance this wholesale
barbarity and inhumanity toward
his own people. The world will
refuse to believe that he is ignorant
Of the true conditions. Truly the
house Of the Romanoff dynasty
STANDS uuder a terrible Indictment.
To make the matter worse there
have been bad crops in nearly all
parts Of Russia, taxes have been
upon a war basis and the families Of
the survivors of the war can only
welcome back their crippled loved
ones with pltifully empty hands.
Ivan the Terrible could have been
no more heartless than Nicholas II.
is toward his people-the sub
merged millions who suffer with
british resignation an oppression
that shocks the entire world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

Ii your neighbor does not belong
to the Angelic host, it is just pos
sible that wings haven't sprouted in
your family.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

statesmen Wanted to look after
our interest in Grant and adjacent
counties; salary or commission; adj
dress. CLOVER OIL AND PAINT Co..
Cleveland, Ohio.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

II we could sell out at estimated
value, and buy ourselves back at
what we are worth, the TRANSFORMED
ton from poverty to riches would
beat any gold brick scheme ever ex-
exploited.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

1t is reported that there are fif-
teen candidates for postmaster in
Milwaukee. There'll be fourteen of
them disappointed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11
The Everlasting Success and Grandly Great
Comedy Par Excellence
CAST OF CHARACTERS
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

A smile and CHEEKY good morn
ing start the day right and the eff
fort is not exhausting.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

The governor will not forsake the
ship of state until she is dry locked
for repairs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

/ FOR SALE: Two desirable resid-
ences, property of the Budworth estate;
located block south of court house;
city water; desirable location. Inquire
of AL BUDwORTH,
Lancaster, Wis. 73tf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

1t is SO easy to find fault that the
most of us practice the art without
perspiring.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

What's the use of going to Cali
fornia, when perpetual summer
hovers over Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

The only smile that some men
cultivate is the kind they can buy
for dime.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

The best town on the map 70,
Lancaster people is Lancaster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

LOST-A pair of gold beads.
Finder leave at this office and re-
ceive reward.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

1t takes muscle plus brain to win
the prices of life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

Plenty of room at the top, but n
elevators running in that direction.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

FOR RENT: A good Decker Bros.
piano. Address, MISS LOUISE CLUB,
79tf Kiner, N. D.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

FOR SALE: so head of good
yearling steers: also 2 span OF big,
sound mules, and years old,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

Hustle" is the watchword of the
new commercial club.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

If you can't boost don't kick.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-11

74-3w R r. No. Lancaster, Wis.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-26
NEUROLOGICAL
Ia Memory Of mrs Layina Marshall Snow.

Mrs. Snow died at her home in Shan
non, April 18th. She was raised in this
country but had lived a number of years
at Amory Miss, until last year when she
and her husband Mr.. Henry Snow moved
to this place.
She was a consistent and useful
member of the Christian church at
Amory, and served as president of the
woman's mission society, in which she
was a very active leader and accomplish
ed much good.
She was possessed of very strong
mental faculties, that rendered her adj
equate to the most difficult and trying
problems of humane affairs; she had
blended with this strength Of character a
tenderness and warmth of heart rarely
'excelled by woman
A short time before she died she
related to the writer of this sketch how
she had through prayer received iuspira-
ton that lifted her above much of the
trouble and weakness incident to our
humane nature.
She possessed that one golden trait,
charity, which makes woman most
nearly the things God designed her to
be, mans companion and helper and a
power in the worlds progress.
Her bereavedh husband has u deepest
sympathy.
"A noble, true woman has passed
from this sphere
OF life, and its trials Of life and its
care,
To the home she longed for, the rest
that she sought.
Her spirit passed out like a peaceful
thought.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-26
The Farmer and His Friends.
To The Journal:

10 Inc journal:
The cotton problem seems to be
worrying the minds of our polite aid
agriculturist more than the misdeeds
of the republican party.
In solving the matter they ignore all
mathematical rules and obtain their
answer with an unknow letter when
there are several equations. In our
school-boy days this was called forging
and never passed muster on the black
board. For the last 40 years we have
been taught on the stump and in the
press that maladminstration of Govern
mental affairs was the cesspool from
which flowed all our poverty, u rights
and our oes In this day of grace
when every thing is calm and serene,
when the chief executive out in Colora-
do killing rattlesnakes and hunting
bear and when neither Congress nor
the state legislature are in session
nor are likely to be before another
crop is made Gov. Vardaman and J.
Sharp Williams discovered a very large
mouse in our meal tubs and started on
a missionary tour among our heather
farmers to warm them of too
much industry in cotton production.
This logic is if you want to fatten a
horse a COW or hog curtail their feed.
If you want to augment your bank ac-
count reduce your cotton acreage. If
Is per cent is good why would not so
be better? By what process do they
get the exact figures of Is per cent to
initiate farmers pocket books. 1t is la
mentable that the outside world will
not concede to common farmers sense
enough to run his own business. We
hear no advice to other callings toreduce
their margins in their respective | ines.
Oh no! Progress is the watchword of
these fellows while the command of
backward march is given to farmers on
all occasions except going to war or or
election days when the command is
given to forward march. Their place
at all times is in the war until blood,
monev or office are in sight and then
they are double quicked to the front.
They are accounted fools and Rip Van
Wrinkles in off years but at other times
they have the magnetic power to make
eloquence flow and patriotism boil. If
too foolish to pitch their crops they
have not failed to fill the front seats in
Congress with their offspring and illum-
ined various professions with the mate
rial that gave them thought and char
acter. And here | would give Messrs
Vardaman and Williams due notice that
the farmers have the tact and the grit
to work with the cotton problem them
selves and in its solution. the cotton
question will be considered alone as it
relates to each ones interest and no
side issue as to who would, should or
may be elected U. S. Senator will be
entertained.
PHILO.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-26
TUPELO,
MISS.

the gun fires Deer were in the
habit of assembling to lick salty
places of earth, where such salty
earth could be found, which was
generally on white, sandy soil at
the head of hollows or ravines,
and there the fire hunter gener-
ally found them. / remember to
have gone with my srother, John,
on Saturday night and again on
Monday night following, and we
never went over half a mile from
the house, and yet we carried in
a fine doe Saturday night and
a nice buck on Monday night.
Brother James was also along
Monday night. The shot just
creased the buck, and but for the
faithful old dog, we would have
lost him, but the dog held the
deer down till another shot was
fired into his head. This fire hunt
ing was pretty dangerous to
horses and cows, as it took a
practiced hand to distinguish the
eye of a horse or cow from that
of a deer, and many an unlucky
wight has been very much crest
fallen over his mistake and that
to his neighbor's sorrow. But
fire hunting, like the deer Of the
forrest, is a thing of the past.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-26
A Good Innovation.

A number of our young lady
church workers are considering
the advisability of breaking away
from the worked to death ice
cream socials, etc.. and begin a
new departure with a catfish and
cornbread lunch in the near flu
ture. If they don't discount any
ice cream social ever held, we'll
miss our guess. (Mo.)
Advance
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-26
BUY GOOD OIL

Why use . cheap, smoking oil
in your lamps which is Injurious
to your eyes when you can buy
National Light oil that does not
smoke Or blacken the chimney. No
offensive odors, Accept nothing
just q good. National Light oil
il at solutely the best, For sale at
20 cents per gallon exclusively in
Tupelo By.
Trice Raymond Hdw, Oh.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-26

How long the Indians roamed
over these magnificent forests,
and looked upon these great up
lifting and overlapping poplar,
walnut, chestnut, hickory, oak
and gum trees, and chased the
deer and shot the wild turkey
With his bow and arrow, speared
the fish in the wild-wooded
streams and cultivated his little
patch of maize by the side of
the wigwam, no man will ever
know. They wrote nc history,
however much they may have
made. But when they left this
country in 1886, they left to the
white man the same virgin for
rest they had enjoyed so long,
save the little maize clumps be-
side their lodges, the deer roam
ing over the hills and valleys as
of yore, the trout in the lake, the
birds amid the trees, and the
furrow unturned. What a lovely
picture to look upon had we in
those olden days! WHAT view for
a landscape painter to set his cul-
tivated eye upon! Abont the time
we came here and soon thereaf-
ter, great herds of cattle could
have been seen grazing upon the
wide stretch of native grass
plains and small prairies, with
a deer occasionally Tipping away
from them, and which could be
seen sometimes for almost or
quite a mile, the country being
open, and nothing to obstruct
the view, save the great trunks
of the forrest trees. But year by
year and month by month the
pioneer pushed in, and began
filing in the space, and the for
rest fires became less and less
frequent and the present growth
that now SO thickly covers the
woodlands began springing up
and filling in the vacant places,
and the axe of the settler felled
the great trees, making them in
to boards and rails, and occasion
ally into plank by means of the
whip saw. Many Of my readers
doubtless have never seen a whip
saw at work, and so / will de-
scribe it. The whip saw is a
straight saw having a handle at
each end, not like the common
cross-cut saw, but entering
through the saw literally and ex-
tending an equal distance on each
side of the blade. In order tc
saw, the log is elevated upon 2
scaffolding so high that a mar
can stand straight under it; ther
two men do the saving, one or
top the log and the other under
meath, the man on the grounG
having his face covered with /
veil to protect his eyes from ths
saw dust. Bv this means did oul
fathers procure what plank the,
ithen used. / have often seen my
father and my Oldest brother
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-26

thus saving lumber and longed
for the time when | should be
large enough to handle the saw
myself, but | never did. 1t pass
ed out Of use before | arrived to
manhood. In the early days we
always broke our lands for corn
with the b%ulltongue pillow and
crossed it off and dropped the
corn the same way we first ran
with the pillow in running it off,
and covered with the hoe. The
cotton was drilled, but covered
with two burrows with the bull
tongue and knocked off with a
board or homemade wooden har-
row. The corn was worked till
silking and tasseling, One of the
good old customs, | have often
thought, might have been kept
up, but which disappeared many
years ago, was corn Sucking
1t was then customary for each
neighbor to make a corn shuck-
ing" invite his friends, and they
would come in crowds, and
shuck out all his corn, the good
women at the same time having
a quilting, and by these means
the men and women of the neigh
borhood would often get togeth-
err and spend many pleasant
hours. The husking often extern
ded into the night and was gem
orally crowned by placing a dar-
kie on the corn pile to lead the
song while the other negroes
present would join in the chorus.
Their happy, joyous c%ountenan-
ces, their weired expressions and
their deep bass voices, mingled
with an occasional scream from
the screech owl, was a thing not
to be forgotten and especially
when the negro minstrel, at the
hooting of the owl, would often
stop his leadership, and break
out, Niger, you hear dat bird?
Time we gittin' way from dis
place. Shore gwine ter be some
thin done. Lee me down from
here" So, with the corn shuck-
ing and the quilting gatherings
and the log rollings and the young
peoples parties, there was much
social intercourse between the
different neighborhoods, and life
passed in a pleasant and joyous
manner. AS the years rolled on
and the country became more
thickly settled, church facilities
increased and were fairly good,
the preacher, however, ordinari.
ally working in the field, or Civ
ing his attention to merchandise
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-26

AN ORDINANCE To provide when the
street taxes due the city of Tupelo
shall become due and
payable and requiring the mar
shall of the city to collect same and
to provide how same shall be charged
against the marshal, and how pay
ments made on account of collec-
lions by him shall be credited to him.
Sec. l. Be it ordained by the mayor
and board of Aldermen of the city of
Tupelo, that the city clerk shall on the
first day of January of each year COM
mencing January 1st 1906. charge to
the marshal of said city Three dollars
for each person in said city liable to
street duty, for that year as shown by
the street roll required to be kept by
him and to thereafter charge him
with three dollars for each name which
may be added to said roll so kept after
the first of January.
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty of said
marshal Immediately upon receipt of
the duplicate street tax roll by him
from the clerk to proceed to collect the
said sum of three dollars from each
person appearing on said roll and to
make separate monthly reports to the
MAYOR and board Of Aldermen on the
first Monday in each month of the per-
sons who have paid their street tax
in cash and of those who have worked
out their time instead of paying the
money and shall be credited by the clerk
when such reports are approved by the
mayor and board of Aldermen.
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty OF
the marshal between the first day OF
January and the first day of April OF
each year to make demand in person OF
each person whose name is on the du-
nlicate street roll for the payment OF
their street tax, but failure to make
such demand on the part Of the marshal
shall in no way effect the rights OF the
city.
Sec. a. 1t shall be the duty OF the
marshal to at once demand payment
IF their street tax from every person
anpearing on his roll whose street
taT remains unpaid on the first day OF
Anril If each year and if same is not
Maid on demand to at once summons
such persons to work out their time
as required by the laws OF the city.
Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty O
the marshal to collect the street take
Of such persons as may De added Y
his roll by the clerk after the first Gay
of April and to pay same over 70 TN
treasurer in same way as ne IS required
to collect and pay over the taxes coliec
ted from those previously on SAID roll
Sec. 6. That the marshal shall no
have credit for any street not coliect
ed in cash or worked out on streets
except in cases in which such person
are not liable to the tax or IN which rn.
marshal has used due and proper dlll
The Tupelo journal., 1905-05-26


ter and, who afterwards went to
the practice oflaw, still preaching
to destitute places. must have
been about eight or nine years
old when | first heard him. It
was at the Lynn school house
near the DR.. Barnes place above
Mooresville.
Up to some time in the ffties,
there were but few renters in the
country. Almost all owned their
farms andif anyone did not own a
home he ordinarially worked for
wages or 'soverseered" for some
one having slaves.
Very few white women then
worked in the fields. They kept
the house, spun the thread, wove
the cloth and made clothes for
the family and bed clothing for
the beds, including as beautiful
counterpanes as my eyes ever be-
held. They also died wool with
walnut leaves or walnut bark,
and made lovely homespun win
ter wear for the men and boys
and with different colors made a
kind of wooden linsey for their
own underwear.
The farmer raised everything
he needed for home consumption,
except sugar, coffee and molas-
ses, and a supply Of that was
laid in once a year when the crop
was sold. Wheat was raised in
abundance for home use and /
never saw a barrel Of flour till
in the fifties. But no sorghum
was raised till about 1854, but
some molasses were made in
parts of the country from maple
water, however only in a few
places.
Fire hunting was common.
May be you don't know what
that is and how conducted. Well,
the vessel carrying the fire and
light was made by crossing iron
strips, bending and fastening
them to another strip at the top,
thus making an oblong open pan,
say twelve by eighteen inches
and about a foot deep. This pan
was attached to a long handle BY
which to carry it. The light was
made by burning rich pine in the
|pan, which was carried on the
shoulder Of the fire hunter, the
pan in his rear and having some
one along as an assistant to carry
the gun and the supply of light
wood for the trip and look after
the dog, if one was carried. The
lgame thus hunted was deer, and
they were discovered by the shin
ing Of their eyes, which look like
two great stars. The deer seem
to be entranced by the light and
will permit the hunter to get SC
close to him that his body may
be readily seen. The usual course
is for the assistant to carry the
gun and extra wood for the fire
walking at the heels Of the hun
ter until he sights the deer's
eyes; and hesthen simply reaches
back his hand for the gun saying
nothing, and the assistant hand'
him the gun, takes hold Of til,
dog and never moves again pnti