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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
THE EMINENT EYE SPECIALIST

of Chicago, now permanently located
in Platteville, will open his office in
Baxter building for days every
week Monday and Tuesday.
THE EYES are the principal part of
PERSONS head. Neglectg in Them
causes Headaches, Nervousness. Neur-
algia, Sleeplessness and Tearing of the
eye. 1t may be that your eyes being
affected or strained are the causes of
your troubles. Thousands of sufferers
are neglecting their eyes daily, they
little think that they are injuring
themselves bodily as we'll as their
eyes. The modern method of examin-
ing and correcting the eyes has bene-
fitted hundreds of people every day
byDR. EDWARD WILLARD.
Cross (Squint)sEye can be straighten-
ed without the use Of any surgical in
strument, Your eyes no matter what
ails them should be examined by one
who understands how, and is confident
that he can relieve you of all your
troubles Of the eye. If you are troubled
with your eyes. don't hesitate, but call
at once.
Special attention paid to children.
Do not neglect this opportunity
delay is dangerous.
Glasses are advised only when need
ed.
Eyes examined free.
Is Office at Baxter building 81
Hours 9 a. m. Co 6 p. N.
Special attention given to orders
that have failed. Don't forget the OATS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
Useful Association.

The Interstate Good Roads associa-
ton has been formed in Pennsylvania
to see that the provisions of the pres
ent general and local road laws are
carried out, to encourage and compel
officials TO perform their duties as pre-
scribed by law, to see that roads are
kept free from loose stones, mudholes
and ruts and that they are properly
drained and general defects remedied
as speedily as possible, says the Motor
News. Branches are being formed in
several eastern states.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
Sensible Roadmakinc.

According TO the new Kansas road
law. all road work must be finished by
July 10 each year. This is a good
thing. but we imagine enforcing this
law is going to be another proposition,
says the Agricultural Southwest. 1t
should be enforced but it is going to
take awhile TO get into the way of
working the roads earlier. The rut Of
doing the road work along in the fall
has been travelled in SO long that we
doubt if many can get out of it with
out two or three years of trying. AS
well as doing the road work earlier,
other sensible reforms are gaining
Roadway. One is putting in more of
the work repairing the real bad places
of the roads, instead of stringing it out
over a whole mile. There are many
miles of road that are pasSably good
except at a time when the best of
roads are bad. but two or three sloughs
and sumps that are not drained out
make the whole road seem bad. And
1t is bad for heavy hauling It's a
good idea to fix the worst places first
of all, letting long stretches of grading
on fairly well drained ground come
after
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
KILL OFF THE RATS.
How These Poultry House Nuisances
May Be Externinated.


May Be Externninated.
The following is taken from a pub
LEGATION of the United States depart
ment of agriculture known as bulle-
tin No. 297 and entitled Methods of
Destroying Rats"
For poisoning rats in buildings and
yards occupied by poultry the follow
ing method is recommended: Two
wooden boxes should be used, one con-
siderably larger than the other and
each having two or more holes in the
sides large enough to admit rats. The
poisoned bait should be placed on
the bottom and near the middle of
the larger box, and the smaller box
should then be inverted over it. Rats
thus have free access to the bait,
but fowls are excluded.
Trapping, if persistently followed,
is one of the most effective methods
of destroying rats. The improved
modern traps with a wire fall released
by a baited trigger and driven by a
coiled spring have marked advantages
over the old forms, and many of them
may be used at the same time. These
traps, sometimes called guillotine
traps, are of many designs, but the
more simply constructed are to be pre-
ferred Probably those made entirely
of metal are best, as they are less
likely to absorb and retain OdOrs.
Sundry bats for guillotine traps are
given and methods of batting, and the
bulletin gives the following:
BY the persistent use of traps, occa-
sional resort to poison, and the exer-
else of forethought in the construction
Of farm buildings so as to minimize
the opportunities for harborage, farm
ers and others may prevent the greater
part of the loss and annoyance they
now experience from rat depredations.
The same statement applies in great
measure to city and village conditions;
hence cooperation in the warfare on
rats is particularly important and can
not be too strongly urged.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
Good Roads In Arkansas.

In the movement for good roads.
which has aroused nearly every part
OF the southwest, Sebastian county,
Ark. has kept a step ahead, says the
Southwest Magazine. While other
states are enacting laws and other
communities are discussing plans for
THE Improvement of their highways this
wide awake county is enjoying the use
of twenty miles of we'll macadamiZed
rural streets and is constructing more
Of these iuxuries at the rate Of ten
miles year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
GOOD HIGHWAY LAW.
OF q Statute Passed
by Indiana Legislature.
TWO TAXES PROVIDED FOR.

One is For Road Repairs, the Other
For Highway ImProvement-Working
Roads In Payment OF Taxes Entirely
Done Away With.
Few laws passed by the Indiana
legislature are of more general inn
portance than the new highway law,
and the following detailed account Of
it's workings will be of interest not
alone to farmers, but to all who have
occasion to travel the country roads,
says the Motor News.
The law provides for two highway
taxes-the road repair tax, assessed
on all property in the township out
side the incorporated villages, which
tax shall not exceed 80 cents on each
500 valuation; another tax of equal
amount, known as the highway i'm
provement tax, assessed on all proper
ty in the township, including that in
villages.
The officers under the new law are
as at present, also a highway commits
Sioner. whose duties in addition to those
he now performs, not inconsistent
with the new law, are TO supervise
and direct the expenditure of the
fund for repairs and improvements
which shall directly benefit the proper
~ taxed not to exceed 500 on one
mile of highway. On complaint of ten
taxpayers an appeal may be taken to
the township board as to the place
and manner Of the expenditure of this
fund. The commissioner will also have
to supervise and direct the eXpendi-
ture of the highway improvement fund
under the direction Of the township
board for the construction, permanent
Improvement and repair of highways
and bridges throughout the township.
A new officer provided for by this
bill is a township Overseer of highways
who shall be elected at the April cleo
ton and hold his Office for one year.
He shall, work under the direction of
the highway commissioner and in GER
tain cases perform his duties. as in
case of sickness, death, removal or
disqualification.
The compensation Of the highway
commissioner * fixed ~ the township
board, but must not be less than 81
nor more than So day. The overseer
of highways receives not less than
$3.50 nor more than $3.50 day.
The most important and beneficial
change is that this law does away en-
tirely with working the roads, in pay
ment of road taxes. All highway taxes
must hereafter be paid in money. The
highway commissioner can employ la
Dor and will of course employ such
farmers along the line of the road as
can give their time to the work when
1t is needed; but the law very wisely
provides that hereafter no work except
a few repairs can be done after Sept.
i of each year.
The amount of taxes to be raised in
each township each year is voted by
the electors at the annual meeting, but
if they neglect or refuse to do this it
then becomes the duty of the township
board to fix the amount to be raised
for repairs and permanent improve
mentS.
OF course under this law there will
be but one highway district in each
township, and the multiplicity of dis
tricts heretofore will be done away
with.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14

ESTATE: Gibson.
= State of Wisconsin. County Court of
Grant County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given, that at the special
term of the County Court. to be held IN and
for said county at the court house IN the city
Tuesday of Oct..rA. D. 1907. being the 9Th
day of Oct. 1907. at the hour of one o'clock in
the afternoon, the following matter will be
heard and considered:
The application of J. w. Gibson for the
examination and allowance of his final
annexed in the matter of the estate of
Jc shua Gibson. deceased, and for the
assignm ent or distri button of the residue
of said estate to the persons entitled to the
By order of the Court,
z. B. GOODSELL.
County Judge.
Dated. Sept. 4th. 1897.
Ist ms. Sept. L last ms. Sep. q.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14

ESTATE of Abel NJ. Roberts. deceased.
- State of Wisconsin. County Court OF
Grant County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given. that at the special
term of the County Court, to be held in and
for said county. at the court house. In the
city of Lancaster, in said county, on the
the 8th day of Oct. 1907. at the hour of
10 O'Clock. in the forenoon. the following
matter will be heard and considered:
executor of the last will and testament of
Abel M. Roberts, deceased, for the allow
ance of his final account as such executor
and for the assignment of the residue of
said estate in pursuance of the terms of
the last will of said deceased.
BY order of the Court.
E.B, GOODSELL,
County Judge.
Dated Sept. 9th. 1907.
1st ms. Sept. z: last ins.Sept Fl.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
Cured Hay Fever and Summer Cold.

Cured Hay Fever and Summer Cold.
A. j. Nusbaum, BatesvilIe, Indiana,
writes: Last year | suffered for tnree
months with a summer cold so dis
tressIng that it interfered with my
business. ] had many Of the symptoms
of hay fever, and doctors prescrip-
ton did not reach my case, and
took several medicines which seemed
to only aggravate my case. Fortunate
ly I insisted upon having Foley'5
Honey and Tar in the yellow package,
and it quickly cured me. My wife has
since used Foleys Honey and Tar
with the same success" il. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
vaIuable Dental Discovery.

Neuralgia from unsound teeth is
very common at Ischl, Austria, and a
local Lentist has succeeded in discov-
ering a remedy in tanin, which he
applies to the gums as a lotion of two
parts of tannic acid in ten parts of
rectified spirit. Almost every kind
of dental pain is relieved, while loose
teeth are made tight and given power
for mastication.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
Much Money in Fish.

According to the figures given in the
statistical abstract for the latest re-
ported years the annual product of
American waters, fresh and salt, has
a value of about $50.O00,09O, exclusive
of the salmon, seal and other products
of Alaska. This includes fish of all
kinds, oysters and CLANS, frogs,
sponges, terrapin, whalebone, and ALI
gator hides.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
So II Must Be the Paint

A celebrated painter had nervous
prostration from having painted too
many chorus girls. Other people have
had the same malady by reason of
looking at the chorus girls that were
PAINTED.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14

One of the worst features of kidney
trouble is that it is an insidious disease
and before the. victim realizes his
danger he may have a fatal malady.
Take Foley's Kidney Cure at the first
sign of trouble as it corrects irregulari-
ties and prevents Bright's disease and
diabetes. Z. j. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
If You Drop Out of the Ranks.

Nowhere else is there such picture
of distracted paternal love, and Of the
battle between the voice of nature and
the constant threat of society than
that you shall be left to rot by the
roadside if you drop out of the ranks.
Henry James
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14

Healthy kidneys filter the impurities
from the blood, and unless they do
this good health is impossible. Foley's
Cure makes sound kidneys and will
positively cure all forms of kidney and
bladder disease. It strengthens the
whole system. IT. Bennett
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14

Women have decided that in case
they cannot vote, they will cut out the
'Stork" proposition. Perfectly proper
to take HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Te. It's good for everything. 80 cents,
Tea or Tablets. IT. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14

Cures Biliousness, Sick
Headache, Sour Stom-
ach, Torpid Liver and
Chronic Constipation.
Pleasant to take
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14
a Charmed Drauaht.

ing anything beautiful. Welcome it
in every fair face, every fair sky,
every fair flower, and thank him for
it who is the fountain Of all loneliness,
and drink it simply and earnestly with
all your eyes; It is charmed draught,
a cup of blessing.-Charles Kingsley.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-19
y1RGINL. FARM ron SAFE.

Tho magnificent FARM OF THE LATE
col. WILLIAM MARTIN, situated IN Henry
county. Va, about ~ niles from 1sidgeway,
on the y. and w. Il. RI; $40 acres
Of which nbout 400 acres Is virgin timber,
principally oak and pine; tho remaining 43o
acres are under cultivation and hdaptcd for
grass, grain or tobacco. VIII sell us a whole
pr subdlvide In three parts. as fol!ows:
No. 1.-The HOME TRACT. consisting OF
MANSION HOUSE, known as 'Mngna Vista, :
tho usual outbulldngs. several extra tenant
hOuses md barns.
No. 2--212 ACRES.
No. 3--17B ACRES.
Each subdivision contains n 5proportionntc
amount OF both farm and tinterlnnd.
Mr. Eyler viii be on premises May 21st
and 22h for the purpose Of Interviewing
prospective purchascis and showing the
property. For further particulars apply to
ADAMS e. EYLER.
III N. Charles Street, Baltimore. Md.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-19
Real Estate For Sale.
s 200

per front foot for beautiful block OF
ground one square from Reservoir.
"A sure money maker. Don't phone,
w. G. BLANToh,
1915 Bank street.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-19
[ ZEE District Lots

on Monument Avenue, Grace street,
Grove, Park and Floyd Avenues; In
fact, on nll streets at lowest prices.
Soc mo for particulars.
w. C. BLANTON,
10l5 Bank Street.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-19
Schools.
Virginia Military Institute

Lexington, Va. Tho Board Of Visitors at
June. will appoint STATE CADETS to fill
vacancies In the Sth. 18th. 13th 16th nth.
21st. gath. 2sth. 3sd. seth Senatorial Dis
pointments carry free board and tuition.
Applications should be addressed to the
undersigned on or before June 9th, on
forms that will be sent upon request.
SCOTT SHIP, Supt.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-11
A BASIS OF HARMONY.

Hon. Liston McMillen. who. with
"Billy" Payne. of Nevada, constitutes
the majority of the Foraker following
in Iowa. is to the front full of sugses-
ton. Mr.. McMillen is willing to forego
any claim to an instructed Foraker
delegation from Iowa to the national
convention, but suggests a basis of
harmony He would have Joseph
Blythe and George D. Perkins and
Harvey Ingham made delegates and
given leadership Of the delegation. This
he imagines would result in "har-
mony." Mr.. McMillen is right. 1t
would result in harmony that could be
heard a mile or more from the place
of meeting.
Suggestions Of harmony are always
we'll. when they are meant well. Prob
ably Mr.. McMillen meant we'll, but his
knowledge of the political temper of
Iowa is evidenced by his hopeless
tenacity in clinging to a Foraker straw
and sailing ROUND and round the edd-
les of political currents helplessly tho
good naturedly and smilingly. How
ever it is scarcely feasible that Harvey
Ingham, Joe Blythe and George Per
kins could meet together and settle the
difficulties of the republicans annie
ably and satisfactorily The result
would be similar to that to be obtained
by putting a Baptist, Catholic and
Methodist preacher together to agree
on a common ritual and the question
of baptism The differences between
Joseph Blythes political conceptions
and those held by the republicans
whom Mr. McMillen thinks would be
well represented by Harvey Inghan1
are too wide and too vital to become
the matter of personal compromise.
The Blythe methods in politics must
of the state. No three or three thou
sand men could agree otherwise. The
corporations must get out and stay
out of practical politics. The injection
of Joe. Blythe as a leader would be
a simple statement that they were
to stay in and hold a partnership with
the possibility Of q controlling interest.
There IS no great assurance of har-
mony while the corporation standpat-
tiers are threatening a bolt a year In
advance. It is probably best that the
contention come to show down and
the final settlement that comes after
the cards are read 1t is not ques-
ton Of who shall represent Iowa at
the convention but of what Iowa shall
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-11
What Davis Said of Lincoln.
(From Leslie's Weekly.)

ASAtA A@SohSS VSSh
Nobody now believes that the lead
ers of the southern confederacy had a
hand. directly or indirectly in the
assassination of President Lincoln
Nevertheless, it is satisfaction to
read bit of testimony which conclu-
sively eXonerates the late Jefferson
Davis from the slightest completely in
that terrible affair.
Recently Mrs j. A. HAYES of Colora-
do Springs, daughter of Mr.. Davis,
stated that after the death of Mr. Lin
coin her father explained to her that
the terrible deed was done by crazy
man. who no doubt thought he was
the savior Of the south, but who was
really her worst enemy.
Mr.. Davis further said: Always re-
member, my little daughter, no wrong
can ever make a right. The south does
not wish her rights to come thru das-
tardly murders, but thru fair fights.
This is the bitterest blow that could
have been dealt to the southern cause.
Lincoln was a just man and would
have been fair and generous in his
treatment Of the southern people,"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-11
CRYING Fur PROTECTION.

II news reports from Shenandoah
are to be given credence matters nave
come TO a pretty pass in that thth'y
city where piety is a normal condltioh
and nature smiles in beauty ABOUT the
garden city of the Nishnabotna. IL Is
reported that an elderly preacher iohs
in charge of one of the many chnfcheS
that attest the goodness of the AlShifa
valley contiguous to Shenandoah iou''''
if necessary. in his critical opinion TO
in,nort q wife. He sent his order ac-
companied by specifications TO heau
quarters i'll England If the biil OIL
lading matches the requirements IL
must read something like this: Plump
English girl. not over %. able to COOK
and sew, agreeable and comeiN She
came. She filled the bill. She brought
with her a sister of equal comelness,
equally agreeable and able to sew ana
cook. 1t is case of which the COM
missioner of immigration and Col
Peters Hepburn must take notice
Nothing more fragrant has occurred
since the coal mines began their I'M
portation of foreigners TO assume the
places Of the American born me
Nishna blossoms from the north line
that separates Page from Montgomery
to the Missouri boundary with female
beauty, good cooks ard the most
agreeable women in the world. What's
the matter Of America in general,
and Page county in particular, that IL
couldn't furnish wife pretty enough,
agreeable enough and able to cook
we'll enough for a sixty-one year clio
preacher? What's the matter WITH
home matrimonial markets? "Compe-
tition we must have we are all agreed
upon that point in this year preceding
national campaign. but there IS
plenty of competition in young ana
comelv women and will be so long as
present production keeps up. There are
plenty of women pretty enough and
good enough for husky young Ameri-
cans as the records of the county
clerks office give evidence. Why |
should an old man of sixty-one fly in
the face of general taste and opinion
and get finicky?
It is time stern hand interposed.
Congressman Hepburn has been in
Europe ostensibly TO study the trans
portation problem. and is even now
engaged in knocking the proposition
to establish deep waterway between
the lakes and the gulf. Let him look
to the danger that threatens Page
county and the best product of Amer
lean soil. Are the infant industries
of Iowa to be neglected while narrower
special interests flourish?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-11
CRIME BREEDS CRIME.

The recurrence of bestial crome in
that city has inpelled the mayor OF
ottumwa to give the following public
warning:
The negro of Ottumwa who will not
work is a suspicious character. Inc
man who does work is one VINO Is
seldom found capable of such helnous
violations of the civil and moral laws
of the state and city as those which
have become record within the past
year in Ottumwa. | am going to see
to it that every negro caught in sus-
picious places. of loungng around
where women have to pass after night
fall. is dealt with in police court on
charges which will lock him up or
drive him out of town, The women
of Ottumwa, of all ages, are going to
have !, city henceforth that is per-
fectly safe for them at all hours. Short
shift will be made Of any man. black
or white. whose department eNctes the
slightest fear of his intentions. There
is a job for every man in OttumWa
and | intend that the city shall be
made clean of these hestial animals
who spare neither woman nor child in
their diabolical purpose.
This is a serious state of affairs to
find in an Iowa city What are the
tions in city not much larger than
MarshalltoWn. where such crimes are
practically unknown. and where re-
spectacle women walk the streets un-
accompanied and unafraid?
Perhaps Ottumwa is reaping some
of the results of long period of the
wide open policy upon which the present
mayor was elected as a platform? 1t
is historical in Ottumwa. For years
that city has aped the metropolitan
vices. Gamblers have flourished and
prostitutes piled their trade under po-
lice protection there. Naturally the
vicious have flocked where vice was Ii
censed and to a great degree unre-
strained. The terror that walks at
night in Chicago can be cultivated and
reproduced in any smaller city. 1t
appears that Ottumwa is simply harv-
esting crop that she has been long
The Ottumwa mayors warning goes
farther than the city limits of Ottum
wa 1t reaches out as warning to
the administrations and the citizens
that create administrative officers in
every city. The wide open policy is the
soil and seed of crime.