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The Washington times., 1906-02-15

Fire insurance appraisers tell weird
tales of schemes TO which they say
women resort to recover insurance.
After deliberately setting fire TO old
gowns and furniture they want TO get
rid of, many women attempt TO get
money for their losses from the com
panies, the agents say. They also fire.
quentIy put fictitious values on belong
ings thar have been used for years and
cheat the companies by declaring that
they were new when burned. They
make affidaVits OF these statements.
TOO, and If there is nothing left OF the
article TO judge by the money request
ed is generally paid.
His experience in the curious cases
he has appraised leads one OF the adj
1usters of q big fire insurance company
TO say that women try TO cheat on the
According 10 his statement many wo-
men have fires in their closets when
they get a lot OF old-fashioned clothes
that are 10 good TO them and secure
invariably claim that these fires are
accidental, even if there is proof that
they started the flames.
Il have proved beyond a doubt that
their old clothes into the bath room. set
Ere TO them, So that they are scorched
and no longer TT to use. and then hang
them in their closets and declare that
they caught in there" he says
One woman who had been in the
company two or three years sent in
word Of slight fire in 4 closet. de-
ClaTing that all her lovely gowns had
been burned. so that they were no
longer fit TO wear. She requested that
needed the money TO get new CLONES
I went to appraisc them and to inves-
tigate the cause Of the fire. She told
me that it was in her closet and had
The Washington times., 1906-02-15

Best Time to Buy-FurS Purchased Now at Re-
duCed Rates, Will Be Stylish Next Year

Fur hats are Desired to be even more
in fashion next year than has been the
case this winter. As the fur hats are
most of them quite small, here is an
excellent opportunity for making use
Of half worn boa OF muff Of lynx, fox,
mink. or in fact OF any sort Of fur It
is rarely possible to make over and add
to a. fur muff or stole without expend-
ing more than the price of q new piece.
In hat the worn part Of the fur can
be hidden, while still being utilized. and
quite a number of women are now aD-
peaTiug in hats made up in this way
Flowers gaTdeniss I'm articular-seem
the kind of trimming most in vogue
with fur Among the new fur stoleS
the most attractive are of black lynx
lined with the same fur in white, this
white also bordering the black on the
outside. The nun for tins style of boa
IS lined in the same way with the white
fur. a fairly wide border being visible
on either side This mum should be I'M
usually large, as are ali those made of
long haired fur. for they must cover
the arm as much as possible.
FUR coats are now worn morning
afternoon and evening, and when pos
sible che more expensive skins such as
sable, ermine, and chinchiIla, are used
as opera clOaks. and Caracus bear. and
pony skins with both reception and bah
gowns.
The Washington times., 1906-02-15
4 Versatile Housemaid

\ clever housemaid. employed by a
family who took to motoring. was told
by her master that if she proved as
good a chauffeur as she was a house
maid he would employ her TO drive his
car.
She took him at his word and learned
motor mechanics, and now, at a salary
of $50 year. she combines the two
posts says Rome Notes She is "a
capital driver, con do most repairs, and
after overhauling her car at the end
Of days run waits at the family din
urT table.
The Washington times., 1906-02-15
To Test Ventiia ion

4 very simple way TO tell whether
Your room is properly ventilated is to
place Il wide-neckad bottle of water.
into which YOU have put half an ounce
of limewater. somewhere in the room,
letting 1t remain there uncovered over
night. IL in the morning the iimewater
is milky. the ventilation is very bad.
indeed. If the limewater becomes milky
on your covering the bottle mouth with
your hand and shaking the vessel, the
ventilation Is not sufficiently good, II
the limewater remains clear the air of
that room is pure.
The Washington times., 1906-02-15
The American HeoSf

Heart failure as cause of death has
become so common that the subject has
attracted much attention among the
medical associate of this country
Many persons treat the subject slight
inSly and sneer at the term, but these
are the uEinfOrmed laity. for there is in
truth a form of heart trouble, a slow
degeneration and weakening of the
organ. that is of very modern origin
owing to our strenuous mode of life.
The Washington times., 1906-02-15

The a
season. o
fitted ohenete which be
The of j
Tho full skirt gathered short the fuln which
for short distance below the shoulder The revers and simulated
o &c
elbow puff sleeve hared similar and finished with m Of
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hes with oopsa and long ends at the side
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04

Modern Woodmen will hold a
picnic at Belmont next Wednesday.
Our carnival was at Mineral
Point last week and is at Edgerton
this week.
Mrs. Anne Hooking Smith is
preparing an opera at Fennimore
for the Big Days.
County supt. Nye conducted
teachers examinations at BoscobeI
first of the week.
II. n. Trentzsch has purchased
Jas. Townley's residence property
IN the third ward for 81, 800.
August will be a short month
for many aspiring politicians whose
fate will be settled at the September
primaries.
Lancaster will send a large
delegation to Fennimore's big DAYS
next week. Reduced rates and
special trains both on Thursday and
Friday.
Assistant Attorney General
Titus has given it as his opinion
that the mere signing of nomina-
ton papers does not bind a man
legally to support the candidate
whose papers he has signed. Other
candidates may come up and the
voter may change his mind before
the primaries.
The village of Fennlmore is
now laying cement walks but in its
haste has overlooked the preli-
minaries and neglected the grades
which makes it difficult TO approach
the town by team from Lancaster.
For the benefit of its citizens if of no
others it is hoped that ample COM
penSatlon will be made to relieve
this distress.
Did you ever think how it re-
joices the heart Of a boy to go to
town with father? It is the same
when father drives out no matter if
it's only to get pig from a neigh
Dor. Get the boy up on the Seat
with you. Be ready to answer all
his questions and there will re a
lot OF them. Let him help you
hitch UP. Trust him to hold the
horses while you are in the store.
Let him help You get the pig. In
short, think Of him as your right
hand man Of tomorrow. 1t will do
the boy good and you will be a
better man for it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04
VICINITY HAPPENINGS

The premium list OF the Grant
county fair is about ready for circula.
ton.
The sheriff OF Lafayette county
has issued an order that all slot.
machines must 60.
Special excursion to Devils
Lake next Thursday. Fare SIS
for round trip. Train leaves at z a.
m.
a move IS on foot in Dubuque
to attempt the building of an
auditorium. The plan is favored
by the Mayor and several prominent
business films.
DIR. F. S. Knapp of Platteville
figured in an exciting automobile
accident Wednesday at small town
IN Rock county in which a serious
accident was narrowly averted.
Mat Stevens, the youngest son
OF +. W. Stevens, banker, at San
born, MIMI, who was operated up
on by Dr. Gault last week for nose
and throat trouble is reported as
doing nicely.
Father Harmon of Darlington
has left for visit to his old home
IN Ireland. which he mas not seen
since he came to this country in
1847. He will visit Rome before
his return. He will be absent four
months.
The Farmers Bank of Cuba CITY
expect to have their new building
completed by October Is. The con-
tract for the First National bank of
the same place has been let for $15,-
600 and is to be completed by Deem
Der first,
For consideration of $500 the
Dubuque High Bridge company
gave A. 0. Fox, of Madison, Wis
an extension, Wednesday, to the
option to buy their bridge, in order
to facilitate him in the building of
an interurban railroad between
Platteville and Dubuque. The ex-
tended option will expire January
2, 1907 If Fox is not ready at that
time to close the deal he will place
81, 600 in the hands Of the president
OF the bridge company for a further
extension until April l, and if the
promoters of the proposed railroad
do not then buy the bridge this
amount will be forfeited. 1t seems
to be the general opinion in Du-
buque that the promoters Of the
line men business.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04
Obltuary-DunstOne.

William Dunstone, born Decem.
Der "a, 1929, at Cornwall, England,
died at his home in Cassville at
1870 a. M, July 80, 1905. When
eleven years of age he accompanied
his father from England TO Brazil
remaining there about eight years.
From there to British Hollow, Wis
consin, and engaged in farming. In
1852 he went to Montana where he
was a gold miner, returned in few
years to British Hollow. There he
married Miss Jane Pedlar who died
leaving one daughter Mary. Mr..
Ddnstone's second wife was Miss
Prudence Richards who died a
few years after her marriage. II
1868 in company with VIM. E. Webb
and Others Mr.. DunstOne again
went west and remained there
many years, was superintendent of
a gold mine in Colorado, and visited
nearly all Of the western states, also
mined coal in Illinois. On his re-
turn from trip to England with
his daughter he came about twelve
years ago to reside in Cassville
where he was highly respected by
all for his kindly ways and his I'M
remitting devotion to his afflicted
daughter Mary who died in Deem
Der, 1908. Since then the lonely
old man declined rapidly and last
Sunday Light solved the great pro-
blem. Tuesday morning at nine
o'clock O. E. S. mem bers and many
friends attended a short funeral
service conducted at the home by
the Masonic fraternity and T. E.
Bernard, pastor OF the Baptist
church, who accompanied the pail
bearers: E. J. Blewett, I. w.
Brown, Carl Wilmott, Geo. NJ.
Bishop, J. NJ. Burgess and L. Il.
Okey, and other friends TO British
Hollow where they conducted the
funeral service. In connection was
the Masonic ritual work by mem
bers of the order from Cassville and
Lancaster. Interment in British
Hollow cemetery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04
New System of Weighing the Mails.

A rule recently sent out from the
postal department at Washington to
the postofices of the country will
cause an unusual amount of work
for those who weigh and care for the
mails. The government Is now max
ing schedule of all the second class
matter sent from every postofice to
the various states of the union. The
new order will give to the govern
ment q complete schedule of the
number of packages and also the
weight OF the second class packages
which leave every office and the
destination will also be known.
The order is one that will entail
lot Of trouble on the newspapers OF
the country at the start, but will
not cause any delay il the delivery
of the mails when the lists are made
as they should be to conform to the
new order The plan Of numbering
and weighing the packages of each
state will continue for the next six
months. The mail for each state is
assorted, and then the number of
packages are noted, as well as the
total weight of the packages. These
are sacked by states and
sent from the postoffice in this man
ner though the sacks will be dis
Jributed on the trains to make the
best possible connections.
While nothing definite has been
given out by the government as to
the ultimae object of this new rule
it Is believed it will be continued for
certain periods until such time as
the next mail letting contract time
and then the government
may make new form of speci-
location for bidding on the mails.
adding a new feature which will be
aside from the pound rate. 1t will
include a distance rate as well as Il
pound rate Now the mails are
solely to get the amount in
pounds, and mail carried five miles
,oes as does that carried hundred
II thousand miles, while under
he new ruling there will be a
pound as well as a distance rate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04
SAW WOOD.
Pay No Attention to the KnOcker,
But Keep on Working.

Did you ever happen to ride on
train through the country when
farm dog would run out and run
along after the cars barking to the
fullest capacity of his lungs The
dog attracts little attention from
the passengers at first, but the train
soon pulls away from him; he and
his wall are soon lost IN the distance.
The train hasn't been injured a
particle, but the dog is tired and
out Of wind Well, said the writer,
that dog is just like lot of people
in this world. They lose no OPP
portunity to bark at the trains of
successful business men. The dog
imagines that the train is running
away because it does not fight back.
but the train is always back the
next day and it will continue to
come around long after the dog is
out of wind and has gone to the
happy hunting grounds. So when
you are in the field don't bid for
business with bark at your COM
petitor. In this present rush of
business affairs, people have no
time to pay any attention to a
barker. Attend strictly to your
own affairs and saw wood, after
awhile you will get big enough so
you Won't have to bark.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04
FAYETTEVILLE.


VIM. Waters, one of the oldest
miners and pioneers of the district,
died suddenly Monday morning Of
hemorrhage Of the lungs at his
home in Galena. Mr.. Waters was
eighty years of age and was known
throughout the mining district.
Camp Meeting started Friday,
August Bird. An exceptionally good
program has been prepared and a
large attendance expected.
Invitations are out for the mar
riage of Miss Lerice Oettiker, of
Platteville, to Charlton Beck, form
erly of Platteville, the ceremony to
take place here at eight o'clock on
the evening Of August IA.
1t seems to be the opinion Of many
here that the lot on which the
Park hotel is situated would make
the best and most available site for
the government building to be
erected here.
Mrs. Lee Thomas has rented the
upper story Of the Fox hardware
store and will install a modern
plant tvr the manufacture of ladies'
garments.
Announc oment has been made of
the engagement Of Miss Bessie
Ward, of EhIce9o, to Claude East
man, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Nadab
Eastman of this city. The wedding
will be held in September and the
young couple will make their home
in Minneapolis.
Geo. Scott has resigned his posi-
ton as manager of the Park hotel.
.. Miss Della Robey and Master
Martin Robertson are attending
Monona assembly Miss Maize
Atkinson, Of Minneapolis, is visit
ing relatives here. /. Mrs. NJ. T.
Peterson is entertaining her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Jones, of
Clintonville Jay Harcleroad has
returned from Kenosha. A band
Of Indians has been camped this
week at the Mound. There are
II in the bunch and are en- route
to Prairie du Chen. Elizabeth Nc
Kay has gone to Milwaukee to visit
relatives Mrs. Fl. H. Virgin and
granddaughter are home from their
visit to Minneapolis Mrs. H. G.
DOscher left Tuesday for a visit at
LuVerne, Mimi. Miss Ida Robin
son is home from Cripple Greek,
Colorado, where she has been the
past three years Mrs. Ed Martin
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04
COUNTY NEWS

went to Dubuque Tuesday for a
short visit . Mrs. Arthur Kieser,
of Prairie du Chen, and Miss Mabel
Burns, of Oberlin, are visiting at
the home of W. H. Ellis. Mrs.
Belle Gratiot Stevens returned to
Chicago Thursday. She was ac-
companied by Miss Lily Rountree.
:. Miss Lillian Ar hur, who has been
in Mobile, Alabama, the past year
! with her aunt, is expected home
this week. Miss Pearl Jackson
has been visiting III Chicago. ].
Miss Lillian Mcbride is here for a
visit Prof. Dudley left Monday
for trip through Iowa An ex-
tension Of street lights has been
made on Virgin avenue H. Barg-
man, the cement contractor, has
purchased a new concrete mixer
operated by gasoline power and is
using same on the new Brown hotel.
. j.. Mrs. John Patterson, mother of
Station Agent Al Patterson of this
city, died at her home in GAINESVILLE
last week. The body was brought
to this city for burial Mrs.
Lester Mcbride leaves Monday for
her home in Minneapolis.
Postmaster Webster has received
official notice of the installing OF
free delivery service Novem Der 1st,
with three letter CARRIERS and four
teen street letter boxes. An exami-
nation will soon be held to secure a
list of elig1bles from which appoint
ments for carriers will be made.
A city directory is being prepared
by James McGranaham and also a
house number plat.
E. B. Smith is making plans to
move to Milwaukee and is dlsposing
, of all his real estate holdings here
SOUTH LANCASTER NEWS.
The order of the day now is the hum
of the threshing machine. The grain
though somewhat lighter than last
year, is of fairly good quality.
The rain the farmers were 50 earnest
~ looking for came at last and has
somewhat frightened his hopes. The
corn is looking good and he looks Tor
ward for large crop.
Messrs. Adolph and John Vesper.
man, Misses Matte and Mile Vesper.
man took a flying trip to Fennimore
| Sunday to call on friends and rela
tives and see how the potato bugs are
coming up there.
Albert Pagenkopf has been on the
Continued on Page ~
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04
SUNDAY SERMON

To be a prisoner is not necessarily
to be guilty Of crime. II does not
follow that because a man has been
arraigned at the bar Of Justice he has
broken the law. Many a man has
been unjustly accused. Many man
has had trial which has been a
farce, a sentence which has been I'M
just, a punishment which has been
undeserved.
Rascals have sat on the bench and
sentenced innocent men to prison.
Scoundrels have been set at liberty
and their pure victims have been
hung. The judicial ermine has been
worn by men who for their crimes
should have been breaking rocks on
the prison stoneplle and men have
endured years of confinement behind
the penitentiary walls who were as
much out OF place there as ar angel
would be IN perdition. The history
Of law courts are filed with traves-
ties Of justice in which every sense
of honor has been outraged and
equity and fairness have been
trampled underfoot.
It is not an unheard of thing for
judges to wink at iniquity, for
jurors TO be bribed, for pet1fogging
lawyers to sell out their principles,
for verdicts to be rendered directly
contrary TO the evidence, for crimi-
mails to escape their just deserts by
the use of most outrageous methods
and for the weak and helpless to be
remorsely ground to powder.
We have all seen the wonderful
picture Christ Before Plate" It Is
as realistic as though every figure
were a perfect man. There are how.
ever two great central parsonage |
that stand out conspicuously-Pila
and Christ. One is the judge an
the other is the prisoner. But whid
is the judge and which is the prisd-
er? The painting is entitled 'Ch1St
Before Pilate!" but it should mre
appropriately be designated Pilte
before Christ Looking into ter
faces it is easy enough to place tim.
Plate is frustrated. He is up agInsU
the mightiest problem he hasver
contronted-not IN Jesus Of Mar
eth alone but in h1mself-h' con-
science, his political futur his
cowardly vacilating spirit, Is SUD
servence to the mob. Chrii IS not
disturbed. He is as calm as the
morning that is just dawrng over
the hills. He hears not tt shouts
the riotous assemblage. J the dig
nifty Of innocence he stads there
his mild eyes searching ne eyes or
the Roman judge wriggng on the
bench. 1t is parody o1aw. 1t IS
a farce of a trial. Everything is re-
Yersed. Plate is beig judged.
PLATE is getting his se1ence. And
when that day ended nrist was
victor on a throne an plate was
expiating his guilt in ae pillory OF
the worlds execratior Christ hung
on a cross six hours nd that cross
was transformed b7him into the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04
HAY FEVER HERE.
Summer Malady Has Arrived and
Victims Suffer.

KerchewI ! /! +!
Suffering catsl We've got il!
What? Why, the hay fever! Ker-
chew I! I
Codtrary to precededt, which has
bed shattered to smithoreeds, hay
fever. also kdowd as subber asthba,
polled fever, hay-cold has struck
Lagaster albost one modth ahead
Of tibe.
Kerchew! !! !--!-
AT least four Lancaster1tes are
suffering from the idcodvediedt
disease. One man is sdiffig ad cd
the verge of swearing bost of the
tibe. Adother is dedoudcig fate id
bost expressive terbs ad declares he
feels like gong up to Chippewa
Falls to the Hobe for the feeble
Bided, where the air is clear ad the
stars look twice as large as here.
Kerchew?
A clerk is baking streduous
efforts to stifie sneezes ad keeping
the tears frOb her eyes-tears, not
of grief, but Of exasperatiod.
Kerchew! ! F.! ! ! l"!-!
Speaking in the language of the
'immune;' it might be added-in-
asmuch as the typewriter refuses to
write any more hieroglyphic- that
the coming of the hay fever so early
as this is unprecedented. Path
speaking, hay-fever is a
affection of the mucous
membrane of the eyes and the air
passages, characterized USUALLY by
IFS annual recurrence at the same
period in the same person, mani
Testing itself first by itching, fol- |
lowed by sneezing and running
from the eyes and nose, some fever
pain in the head and frontal s1nuses. |
and generally some asthma. Elk
periments seem to have established
the fact that to the pollen of various
plants, especially the Towering
grasses, is to be attributed the oc-
;urrence and annual recurrence of
he disease in certain sensitive per-
sons.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04
Did You Know

That Geo. Blakesley lost his wife
Wednesday night?
That a little Lancaster girl had
her doll dressed in bunting and
when asked its name she said it was
the goddess of liberty?
That a Lancaster girl was tod by
her mother to shut the door and
remembering what she had heard
the hired man call the. dog-she
said shut it yourself you lazy cussl
That Oscar Heberlein was intend
ing to take the out bound train
Thursday and got left?
That Rud. Trentzsch has an
apple tree we'll loaded with fruit
that is again in blossom?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-04
Madison Has Murder Mystery.

Revenge for giving evidence that
landed two criminals in the Illinois
penitentiary at Joliet is believed
to be the motive for the murder of
Joseph Bardenheier, the giant Madl-
son jeweler, who disappeared on
Monday, July %, and whose badly
decomposed body was found dragged
into a hiding place near a road
through the woods, after a fierce
struggle in which the jeweler had
been dubbed to death. Barden-
heier had a jewelers. shop at 1136
Lincoln avenue, Chicago and lived
at 740 Belmount avenue, until Jour
months ago, when, as the result of
threats he came to Madison. In 1904
he was robbed of 81. 800 and as the
result two men were sent to prison.
Friends Of the criminals threatened
revenge and it IS believed that they
carried out their threats. Only 50,
a watch and chain and stick-pin of
little value were taken from Barden-
heier when he was killed, and this
is not believed to be sufficient to
support the theory that the motive
for the murder was robbery.