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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

The POLITICAL boss is really an
American product. He is quite we'll
distributed throughout the country
and while in the abstract is a
permanency yet specifically he is
short lived. He is not popular with
the people, but is sought after by
those who are candidates for public
favor. While his reign lasts he is
usually absolute aud believes that
he has real right to rule. To
question his wisdom is to invite his
vengeance. He is hard to kill and
never knows when he is dead. Like
the traditional cat he has several
lives-nine or more. In the early
stages of his career he is careful to
keep in favor with the people, but
he soon reverses his attitude and
demands that the people keep in
favor with him. This is his in
variable tendency. At first he does
what he thinks the people will like;
afterwards he insists upon the peo-
Dle doing what he wants done.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
FORTY THOUSAND FOR FER
mat is What an Iowa Farmer Gets
for His Wife, Who Became
Another Mans Paramount

Sioux City, Ia, Jan. 12.-Because
the man who eloped with his wife
placed the fortune which he subse-
quenty accumulated in her name ID. E.
Douglass, q prosperous farmer residing
SIX miles from Sioux City. has become
possessed Of some wealth. Four+aan
years ago Douglass wife deserted him
and Joined g. S. Porter in California.
Porter had formerly boarded with the
Douglass family and had been ordered
from his residence by Douglass, who
discovered that he was making love to
Mrs. Douglass. Douglass did not not
attempt to pursue the clipping couple.
He learned that they resided together
in California as manand wife and Were
rapidly accommodating fortune. -Four
months ago Douglass learned that his
wife was dead. He consulted a local
attorney, and upon his advice went to
California to search for the property.
In the end he located Porter at Los
Angeles. He found that his wife had
left property valued at $4,000, which
Douglass claimed as a legitimate in
heritance.
1t seems that Porter, who was a
truck driver in Omaha when he met
the Douglasses, had elected to keep his
property in his paramour's name be-
cause there was an outstanding judg-
ment against him. SO far as the court
records showed Porter had no interest
in the property which his industry and
management had accumultted. 1t all
belonged to Mrs. Douglass. Douglass
employed an attorney at Los Angeles,
and has just succeeded in having the
courts decide that the estate left by
him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
NOTICE TO CREDITORS,

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
- State of Wisconsin, Grant County
Court SIN Probate
deceased,
Letters testamentary on the estate of
julie RoesGh, deceased, having been issued
to Charles RoeSch.
Notice is hereby given. that the creditors
of said Julie. ROesch. deceased are al
lowed and limited by order of this Court
until and including the fourth tuesday of
July. 1906, being the oath day of said month,
to present their claims and demands against
said Julie ROeSch. deceased, to the
county court for examination and allow
ance.
Notice is also hereby given, that the
claims and demands so presented will be
examined eS and adjusted by this court, at
the the ONCE OF the County Judge, at the court
county. on the lst Tuesday of August, 1906.
Dated this 9th day of January, 1906.
By the Court, E. B. GOODSELL.
County Judge
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
Two Alleged Murderers Released.

Rock Island, ILL.,, Jan. u. With
murder on which both seemed certain
of conviction charged against them
William Nagel and Josephine Collett,
indicted for killing Carl Brady, a fish
erman on an island in the river near
here during the summer, were released
in the circuit court because they had
been illegally imprisoned more than
four months without trial. Both may
be re-indicted, but not for murder.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
Good Morning.

Every morning is good morning
to one who is feeling well. There
is no such thing as bad weather.
There are no blue Mondays nor
gloomy Sundays to anyone who is
living the right sort of life.
The good cheer of health com
bined with pure life serves to turn
every morning into a good morning
and every evening into a good
evening.
The best way to wish any one
good morning or good evening is to
set before him the example of right
living for it is through right living
that good morning and good even
ing come.
1t is of no use to say grace over a
badly cooked meal. The grace will
not make it agree with the stomach
There is no use to say good morn
ing or good evening unless we do
the things that will make good
morning and good evening. It is
indeed a good morning for anyone
who has done an honest days labor
at some useful employment and
has found eight hour of sound and
refreshing sleep. OF course it is a
good morning when one does that.
There is one thing that is needed
and that is to get right or to become
adjusted to nature.
We like the weather when we
are adjusted to the conditions
about us.
There is nothing wrong with the
weather. The blame is with our
Selves. The anaemic and nervous
woman shudders at the touch of
the spring zephyrs which would be
refreshing and grateful to the
healthy person. The constant fear
of drafts, repeated dread of ex-
posture to cold or heat, are symp-
toms of bad health If we would
behave ourselves as we'll as the
weather does there would be no
cause for complaint. It is refresh
ing to come into the presence of the
man or woman who can honestly
say good morning, good afternoon,
good evening -who can say it in
such way that you feel that they
mean it,.
Good feelings are contagious.
An excess of vitality is catching.
Good humor that bubbles over, that
cannot be restrained even in the
presence of uncongenial company
is wholesome and healthful.
Lots of good red blood IS con
duc1ve to good manners, good
morals and good morning. ANY
person who can honestly say good
morning has had fairly decent
sleep the night before. A hearty
good morning is certificate of self
restraint and clear conscience.
The devotee of sensuous pleasure
has rarely the honest right to say
good morning. There are no good
mornings for him. Dissipation has
soured the atmosphere and poisoned
the sunrise for him. If he says
good morning at all he lies. It is
merely perfunctory remark. His
languld manner and icy touch ex-
pose the falsehood covered by the
words.
Good morning is the sequel of
good behavior. The price one pays
for a real good morning is good
days work. Good sleep, early too
bed, up early in the morning, then
indeed it is a good morning.
Every nor ming is good morn
ing to such persons. They have
paid the price for it and are en-
titled to it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
They Ask a Reduction in Hours.

New York, Jan. PA request that
the Erie railroad reduce the working
hours of its yardmen from eleven to
ten hours per day has been drawn up
the Erie branch of the Brotherhood OF
Railroad Trainmen. President Ira Mil
Ter, of the Erie branch, SAID that all
other classes of Erie employees in the
brotherhood were satisfied with exist
ing conditions, and that this demand
did not mean that there would be a
strike
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
Michigan Railway Earnings.

Lansing, Mich, Jan. u. - Railroad
Commissioner Atwoods monthly bull
letin shows railroad earnings in Michi-
81, 713, 431.59, an increase of $257, 9O6.77,
or over per cent. over the earnings
of the same month last year. For the
first eleven months of the year the
earnings were $47, .399, an Increase
of s., 247, 8G1.33 over same period year
aWn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

One of our exchange has the fol
lowing to say concerning mules
and newspapers:
| well-to do citizen of this county said
to the writer the other day that he was
unable to take a county paper or any other
paper this year, as he had just spent $500
for pair of mules. Think about himl A
man buying more land than he needs. b1v-
| ing fine mules and wagons and not spend-
ing nickel a year for papers or books for
his good wife and children to read-supplv-
ing them with plenty of chicken, eggs. ham
and everything good to eat and starving
their minds. He may be rearing his chill
dren all right but we can't see it that wav.
In our opinion he had better be feeding
them on corn bread and milk, cultiyating
his crop with steers and supplying them
with good papers and good books than
pursuing his present policy. He NAV saw
that's none of our BUSINESS. We don't know.
but some one ought to raise his voice inabe
half of such children
We have not seen for ,manv
months clearer or more Just in
dictment Of foolishly short sighted
spirit which however is almost ex-
tinct IN this state. For in view of
the high grade OF intelligence ex-
hioited by the average Wis. farmer
and the extensive vogue of newspa-
pers in practically all our counties
we are unwilling to believe that the
standpoint of the above mentioned
citizen represents more than the
very exceptional instance. The
primary obligation of the father of
family -one which the most de-
tached idealist will not deny-is the
provision of food, clothes and shelter
r the flesh of his fl ssh which he
has brought into the world. Only
subsidiary in Importance is their
education to the very best of lis
ability. If he stuffs their bodies
and starves their minds i2he is max
ing little advance overi the animal
instinct of the squirrel that feeds it's
young scrupulously and asj scrupu"
opsly lays in a supple of acorns
against the future but that knows
or cares for no higher impulse. We
cannot with equanlmity entertain
the thought that the parent of hu-
man children is possessed of no
broader or nohler scope than the
one involved in this statement.
~
One feature of education which
in our day and time is hardly less
essential than the study of text
books, is a regular perusal of the
newspaper. And the county news
papers, those which keep the people
of community in close touch with
the events Transporting IN their i'm
mediate vicinity should rank in
precedence of metropolitan dailies
coming from a distance with the
world as their field, We take a
keener interest in the incidents oc-
curing within a radius of twenty
miles of our abiding place in which
people whom we know personally
or by reputation are the chief actors
than in an article describing abstract
conditions in New York or the re-
port of a CORY battle in the Far
East. The county papers moreover
by reason of location and superior
detailed data are enabled to do a
hundred fold more effective work in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
Notice..

My ice is ready for cutting, and
will begin cutting Monday or Tues
day of next week. Will serve all
those wishing to put up ice, who
have to haul 1t, first, while the
roads are good, if they wish. Call
on Dustin Pierce or myself to make
arrangements. Must be done soon.
No cutting will be done until orders
are taken. ANTON SCHMTTT.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
Watchdog Saved Their Lives.

Muskegon, Mich, Jan. u. = Nels
Westerlund and his family Of seven
narrowly escaped cremation ON their
farm near Muskegon. Only repeated
barkings of the watchdog, that per-
sisted in tugging at Westerlund's bed
clothes, awoke him in time to pull his
six young children, the eldest being
Is years Of age, UP through a hole
chopped in the roof to open air and
safety.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
Notice.
Cassville. Wis, Dec. Is. 1905.

Cassvi1le. Wis, Dec. 26. 1905.
Secy. of Lancaster Mining Co.
Lancaster, Wis,
You are hereby notified to acquaint the
Lancaster Mining Company of Lancaster
Wis. of which you are its Secretary fSa
we nave this day declared the lease between
the Lancaster Mining Co., and ourselves
null! and void, on account of Observation-Disclosures
OF the conditions therein agreed 1Dor.
You are hereby forbidden entrance on the
premises under penalty of law. Please
take notice. ~ io'9
Very respectfully yours
Signed GRANT PORTER
Signed HARLEY GARNER.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
Aged Man Goes Up for Life.

Lawrenceburg, Ky, Jan. 12.-Will-
lam III. York, aged 6S. has been given
a life sentence for the murder OF his
brother James r., aged 70. James Bast
was given a similar sentence several
years ago for alleged completely in the
crime. The Yorks are wealthy farm
ers, and it is said that William was
displeased over the giving away of
money by his elder brother.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
THE WEATHER

Following is the official weather
forecast up to o'clock tonight:
Illinois and Indiana-Fair; fresh
southerly shifting to westerly winds.
Lower Michigan-Rain or snow;
fresh southerly winds shifting to west
ly.
Wisconsin, fresh southerly
shifting to westerly winds.
Iowa-Generally fair; slightly colder.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

DR.. Vivian, a prominent doctor
and citizen of Mineral Point, died
very suddenly on Friday of heart
failure. He was a prominent mem
Der OF various orders and his funeral
was largely attended.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
Iowa Men Confirmed.

Washington, Jan. u. - The senate
in executive session confirmed the fol-
lowing nominations: Consuls-Bertil
Nj. Rasmussen, of Iowa. at Savanger,
Norway; Herbert r. Wright, of Iowa,
Utilla, Honduras.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

Milwaukee, Jan u. = Herman
Neidner. a thing contractor charged
with bribery by he last grand jury,
pleaded guilty to the indictment in the
municipal court and was fined $500 and
costs by Judge Brace.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

Most men are working and saw
ing SO that they may have more
pretentious monument than their
ne1ghbors.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

1t doesn't make any difference
how much a newspaper may boom
a town editorially or otherwise, it is
the advertising columns that is the
thermometer that registers the
prosperity and growth of town.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

Not that we disparage the spirit
of development and thrift which
actuatesgsuch men. It is indeed to
aggressiveness of this sort that
Wis. must look for the upbuilding
OF its waste places and the materi-
allzation of it's numerous assets.
Contention is that in this day of
wellmade and low priced papers a
man who can afford to pay three
hundred dollars for pair of mules
can with very little extra effort
secure to his family access to the
world of innocent pleasure and pro-
fitable knowledge which comes in
the wake of the county and metro
politan newspapers. There are as
matter of fact very few families in
Wis. that cannot afford one or both
with the exercise of little iud;ci-
Gus planning and perhaps self
denial.
And we leave it to our unpre-
JUDGED readers, if the trifing self
denial that lifts the monotony of
bread winning and that makes the
men and women of the future
spectators of the vital history MAX
ing OF their Iown era, is not of a
more commendable sort than that
which blindly strives to bring into
subsection a few more feet of land
or to add three or four dollars to
the stocking hoard or the bank ac-
count.
The dutyl of the parent to the
child merely 0begins with the pro-
viding Of bread and clothes and the
erection OF a. bulwark against the
need of the future.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
MULES AND CHILDREN

the development of their territory
than those journals from a distance
that are compelled to apportlon
their place between bewildering
array of contrasting topics.
~
The first allegiance of the farmer
or the country merchant is to his
home paper. That discharged it is
to the distinct benefit of himself
and an unavoidable duty to his
children % subscribe to a metro
politan paper of sufficient scope and
facilitiesstO guarantee their keeping
in touch with the myriad daily de-
velOpments in the worlds fields of
industry, commerce, politics, scientl-
fic anda literary exploitation and
general intellectual progress. Such
newspaper is nothing less preten-
tlous than a graphically written
history of the times. The father
therefore who clothes and feeds his
children with rigid conscientious
ness who'gives them the best school
ing facilities his locality af-
fords who seeks to increase the store
of worldly goods which they will
inherit at his death and yet re-
CARDS the epochmaking events of
the daysasIof so little importance
as not to justify the additional ex-
penditure of one or two dollars a
year weakens to an appalling extent
the several results of his foresight
and self sacrifice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

A New York man has disinherited
his daughter because she cannot
live on 5000 a year. What does
h9 expect her to live on now?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

veteran EmpIOye Gets a Promotion.
New York, Jan. 12.-Hugh Bonner,
who has been connected with the met
ropolitan fire department for forty
years, has been appointed deputy fire
commissioner for Manhattan borough.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

No man has the right to scatter
his gr1efs around where other peo-
pie will fall over them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
Live Stock, Poultry and Hay.
Chicago, Jan. IL.

Hogs-Estimated receipts for the
day, 10000. Sales ranged az S4.70@
800 for pigs, S5.15@5.35 for light,
$5.2O05.25 for rough packing. 5000
5.421s for mixed, and 5000 $40 for
heavy packing and shipping lots, with
the bulk of the trading within the
range of $5.3O05.4O for fair TO good
averages.
Estimated receipts for the
day, 10000 Quotations ranged at $3.50
06.35 for choice to fancy steers, $3.50
ais fat COWS and heifers, $210@
4.50 native bulls and stays, S6.50@S .25
fair to choice veal calves, 5000 GOO
heavy calves.
Sheep-Estimated receipts for the
day, 1900. Quotations ranged at 1915
@6.2O for good to fancy native weth-
ers, $6.15@7OO fair to fancy light
yearlings, S5.4005 so good to choice
mutton ewes, $3.50 7.S5 good TO
prime native lambs, $1,000 .S5 fair
to prime fed western lambs.
Live poultry-TurEeys, per ID, lie;
chickens. fowls, lie: ROSTERS, &c:
springs. lie per ID: ducks, 1f15c; geese,
$1,000 900 per doZ.
Hay-Choice timothy, S11.59@ 1900:
No. ], S10.0OG110O; No. ., SS.5O@ $50:
No. 3. $7.5O@8.5O: choice prairie, $11.OO
M11.5O: No. ], $1,000 9.OO; No. ,, S7.00
also; No. 3, SS.50Q7OO.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13

Tine open winter has started
spring business with a rush. Whe-
Their spring proves to be early or late
farmers are preparing for it earlier
and with more enthusiastic conf
dence than ever. An increased de-
mand for pure seed true to name is
one of the best signs of the times.
along with an unprecedented call
for garden and farm implements.
Good seed, good tools, good plans
mean a successful season.
Former Judge William Fl.
Moore, the well-known financier of
New York and Chicago, has the
distinction of wearing the most
costly OvercOat IN the United States.
It was made TO order for him from
selected sable fur at a cost of $40
600. Every sable skin forming the
lining to the coat is absolutely
perfect, having been examined and
passed upon by one of the most ex
pert furriers in New York before i
was permitted to become part Of
the SO, 900 overcoat. Perhaps the
nearest approach to it in the wav OF
costly outer garments is the coat
worn by Mrs. William B Leeds.
wife of the railroad and steel
magnate. The Russian sable coat
worn by Mrs. Leeds cost SO. 900.
and a hat to match it cost 50, 600.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-13
East BunaIo &c stock.
East BuffalO, \. T., Jan. ]

L1alaI y uILtIiU, =. y . q IN. =
Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock
Commission Merchants, East Pufalo,
\. Y, quote as follows: Ca.tle-Re-
ceipts, ) cars: market slow. Hogs
Receipts, 40 cars: market slow; york.
ers, S5.55@ 5.G5; medium and heavy.
$5.55@5.G0; pigs, S5.60@5.70. Sheep
and Lambs Receipts, so cars; market
dull and lower; best native lambs,
SS.OO@S. 10; a few at SS.15; westerns,
$3.50: yearlings, $6.75@T.OO; wethers,
S5.SO@62O; ewes, $5.25@5.50. Veals-
Market active; best, $9.50@9.75.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-24
PROGRESS OF OLYMPIC GAMES.
American Team Practices With Excep-
 tlon of Four Invalids.

Athens, April 23.-All the members of the American Olympic games team were out practicing to-day, and doing well except the invalids Messrs. Par sons, Moulton Mitchell and Hillman, who are in, rather shaky condition. Though these later will undoubtedly compete in the events for which they are entered, their form will be some waht impaired,
 The day was spent in working off the minor events on the programme of the Olympic games, including football, lawn tennis, shooting and cycling, in which the Americans did not compete. The most important of the events was the fencing at the zappelon, where the Epglishmen figured well. The stadium was given up to gymnastics, which at tracted little attention, the seats, which yesterday were black with attendants, to-day being sparsely occupied.
 James F. Sullivan, the manager of the American team, this evening gave a re- ception at hotel to the American ath- letes and their friends.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-24
EALE CORPORATION MEETING.
Number of Appointments - Tennis
 Courts on Hillhouse Property.

Courts on Hillhouse Property.
 At meeting of the corporation of Yale university held yesterday the fol- lowing new appointments for 19O6-1907 were made:
 Leo Frederick Rettger, M. A., Ph. D., assistant professor of oacteriology and hygiene in the Sheffield scientific school.
 William Ebenezer Ford, jr., Ph. D., assistant professor of mineralogy in the Sheffield scientific school.
 Oliver Thomas Osborne, M. D., M. A., at present professor of materia medi- ca and therapeutics in the medical school was made in addition clinical professor in medicine.
 Henry s. Anderson, instructor in gymnastics in the Yale gymnasium,
 Dr. William G. Anderson, director of the gymnasium, was granted a four months leave of absence
 Approval was given of the action of the trustees of the Hillhlouse property known as Sachem's wood, in granting permission that a part of the land be used for tennis courts.