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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-02-20
Local JOttingS.

Ten divorces OF this term or
court.
A good show at the opera house
tomorrow night.
Remember the dance at the
rink Friday night.
A. Y. Wells was here from
Livingston on business yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clay Chapman
we're here from Platteville oyer
Sunday.
AID. Robt. BROKER is home
from Chamberlain, S. D., for a
week.
}. e. Heherlein Of Fennlmore
vas a county seat visitor a portion
Ct last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Funk are
the proud parents of baby boy,
55rn Saturday.
Make the best of all favorable
weather, for it is good to get sun
light and oxygen.
ATTEND each session of the
farmers institute this week at the
rink. 1t will pay you.
Albert Phil1pps and family and
Miss Anna Philips passed Sunday
with Liberty relatives.
County Supt. Nye gives notice
II the Herald today of the spring
series of teachers examinations for
Grant county.
-Messrs. 7. NJ. Young and David
Schreiner attended a meeting OF
mutual fire insurance companies at
Madison last week.
The w. c. T. u. will meet next
Thursday at the home OF Rev. W.
4. Hanniford at 23O p. m. A large
attendance is desired.
-Mesdames VIM. Barrows and
Leo Meysembourg were at Potosi
for a visit this week and attended
the funeral of Mrs. McGlee.
The Herald is disappointed in
not having an obituary of Mrs. j.
z. Barnett today. We are holding
the sketch for an illustration.
Remember the home baking
sale conducted by the ladies of the
W. G. T.. U. next Saturday, Feb.
%, commencing at 2:S0 p. m.
Asst. Co. Supt. Brockert is meet
ing with very favorable returns re-
garding his candidacy for county
superintendent to succeed c. H.
Nye.
All donation of eatables for the
lunch served during the farmers
institute, please send to the rink |
Thursday from on. Proceeds for
home charity.
Mckinley circle, Ladies of the
g. A. R, will serve lunch, consist
ing of hot coffee, sandwiches,
d0ughnuts, wieners, etc at the
rink during the farmers institute
Thursday and Fridag OF this week.
The members Of Tom Cox W. |
r. c., No. AZ will meet in the G. A.
r. hall Saturday evening, Feb. %,
for their annual observance of
Washington's, LlncoIn's and Nc
kiuley's anniversarys. Ali members
81 Post and Corps and their families
are invited to be present.
A. J. Wiedenbeck IS in Mil
waukee. representing the local lodge
at the annual meeting of the Grand
Chapter Of Royal Arch Masons as a
delegate. The Eastern Stars have
an annual meeting there also this
week, Miss Lillian Stephens re-
presenting the local order of o. E.
s.
Gen. Geo. E. Bryant died at his
home near Madison Saturday after
an extended illness. Deceased was
prominent in state affairs and held
many positions of trust during his
long and useful life. AT time OF
him death he was superintendent
OF public property at the state
capitol.
-Robt. Pageukopf has sold his
farm IN Liberty to Theo. Schultz
who comes back from South Da-
kota. The 200 acres brought So, 900.
Mr.. PagenkOpf goes to Dakota for
the season. Mrs. Pagenkopf will
remain here with the children and
her mother, Mrs. Reinke. Robert
has purchased his fathers residence
property in the fourth ward for
$1,000.
The youngest son of James
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-02-20
GeneraI George u. Byant Dad.

Madison, Wis, Feb is. ~ General
George 7. Bryant. known to many as
the political godfather of Senato''
LaFollette. IS dead 81 dropsy at his
farm home aged 71vears
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-02-20

FUR RENTED acre farm just out
side city limits. E. e. MCCoY.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

From this hall two large rooms, cor.
responding to the rooms below, and a
small room over the hall, lead off.
The house is built of oak logs, hewn
square to much OF the same thickness.
AT the corners the logs are joined by
means of neatly made notches and Sc
curely pinned. To give the required
length to the logs, they are mortised
together and held by a long pin. These
logs were hewn in 1882 on the island
by Benjamin Goble, who died only 4
few years ago.
The partitions of the house are also
of hewn logs and where they are
Joined to the outside walls they are
firmly were the logs put together that
when the workmen who are restoring
the home. tried to jack up the middle
of the house, both ends were also
raised.
The space between the logs is filled
with stones, pieces of wood, and NOR
tar The uneven places in the walls
had been carefully furred up and down
with strips of cypress to make them
even for the outside siding, which was
of split white pine five-eighths of an
inch thick Along the outside under
the roof is a 4x6 plate on which the
rafters of the house rest. These raft
ers. which are of solid walnut a wood
which today is almost priceless, are
4x6 and as firm and strong as the day
they were hewn. The shingles were
of split oak. and the few that weather
ed the storms of IS winters, have been
carried off as souvenirs by the relic
hunter The door frames on the out
side are of cypress and as good as
new, showing scarcely any of the wear
of the weather
FirepIaces for Cooking Purposes.
Two large chimneys are built on the
outside of the end walls and are made
of stone and plastered. A third Chin
ney. evidently part of the kitchen,
stands alone at the rear of the house,
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

Concord, n. H, Jan. 5.-The Janu-
ary issue of McClure's Magazine,
which undertakes to publish the his
tory of the early life of Rev. Mary Ba-
ker Eddy, leader of the Christian Sci
entists. and her family. has been
brought to the attention of Mrs. Eddy.
She has taken the pains to correct the
matter. and has sent out the following
statement over her own signature:
II is calumny on Christian Science
TO say that man is aroused to thought
or action only by ease, pleasure, or
Tecompense. Something higher, nobler,
more Imperative, impels the impulses
of soul.
1t becomes my duty to be just to the
departed and to tread not ruthlessly
on their ashes. The attack on me and
my late father and his family in Nc
Clure's Magazine. January, 1907. COM
pels me as dutiful child and the lead
er of Christian Science to speak.
McClure's Magazine refers to my
fathers tall, gaunt frame" and pict-
ures "the old man tramping doggedly
along the highway regularly beating
the ground with huge walking stick"
My fathers person was erect and ro
bust He never used a walking stick.
To illustrate: One time when my faith
er was visiting Governor Pierce, Pres
ident Franklin Pierce's father, the gov
ernor handed my father a gold-headed
walking stick as they were about to
start for church. My father thanked
the governor, but declined to accept
the stick, saying, Il never use a cane" ;"
Neither Profanity Nor Slang.
Although McClure's Magazine attrib-
utes to my father language unseemly.
his household law, constantly enforced,
was no profanity and no slang phrases.
McClure's Magazine also declares that
the bible was the only book in the
house. On the contrary, my father was
a great reader.
The man, whom McClure's Magazine
characterizes as Ignorant, dominating,
passionate, fearless was uniformly
dignified-a well-informed, intellectual
man, cultivated in mind and manners.
He was called upon to do much busi-
ness for his town, making out deeds.
settling quarrels, and even acting asl
counsel in law suit involving ques-
tion OF. pauperism between the towns
of Loudon and Bow, N. H. Franklin
Pierce; afterward president of the Uni
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

never doubted the veracity of her gift
have another coat-of-arms, which is
of my mothers ancestry When | was
last in Washington, D. c., Mrs. Judge
Potter and myself knelt in silent pray
er on the mound of her late father,
General John Mcneil, the hero of Lun-
dy Lane.
Took Leading Teachers Place.
Notwithstanding that McClure's Mag
azine says, Mary Baker completed her
education when she finished Smith S
grammar and reached long division in
arithmetic l was called by Rev. r.
s. Rust, ID. d., principal of. the Meth
odist Conference seminary at Sanborn-
ton Bridge, to supply the place of his
leading teacher during her temporary
absence.
Regarding my first marriage and the
tragic death of my husband, McClure's
Magazine says : "He George Wash
ington Glover) took his bride to Will
mington, S. c., and in June, 1914, six
months after his marriage, he died of
yellow fever. He left his young bride
in miserable plight. She was far
from home, and entirely without money
or friends Glover, however, was a
Freemason. and thus received decent
burial. The Masons also paid Mrs
Glover's fare to New York City, where
she was met and taken to her fathers
home by her brother George. =
Her position was an embarrassing one
She was a grown woman, with a child
but entirely without means of support
= Mrs. Glover made only one
effort at self-support. For brief sea-
son she taught school,
My first husband, Major George w.
Glover. resided in Charleston, s. C.
While on business trip to Whining
ton, N. c., he was suddenly seized with
yellow fever and died in about nine
days. l was with him on this trip. He
took with him the usual amount of
money he would need on such an ex-
cursion. After his decease, was sur
rounded by friends, and their provis-
ions in my behalf were most tender.
The governor of the state and his staff,
with a long procession, followed the
remains of my beloved one to the GEM
etery.
Did Open school.
The Freemasons selected my escort,
who took me to my fathers home in
Tilton, n. H. My salary for writing
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

My oldest brother, Samuel d. Baker
carried on a large business in Boston
Mass.
Regarding the allegation by Nc
Clure's Magazine that all the family
excepting Albert, died of cancer"
will say that there was never a death
in my fathers family reported by ply,
sician or post mortem examination as
caused by cancer.
McClure's Magazine says that "the
quarrels between Mary, a child 10
years old, and her father, gray haired
man of so. frequently set the house in
an uproar," and adds that these fits
were diagnosed by DR.. Ladd as "hys-
terra mingled with bad temper
My mother often presented my dis
position as exemplary for her other
children to initiate, saying: when do
you ever see Mary angry?" When the
first edition of Science and Health was
published, DR.. Ladd said to Alexander
Tilton: Read it, for it will do you
good 1t does not surprise me. it so
resembles the author
l will relate the following incident,
which occurred later in life, as illus
trative of my disposition:
While l was living with DR.. Patter-
son at his country home in Rumney,
N. H., girl, totally blind, knocked at
the door and was admitted, She begged
to be allowed to remain with me, and
my tenderness and sympathy were
such that l could not refuse her. Short
ly after. however, my good housekeep-
er said to me:
eff this blind girl stays with you |
shall have to leave; she troubles me
so much"
1t was not in my heart to turn the
blind girl out, and SO l lost my house
keeper.
My reply to the statement that the
clerks book shows that | joined the
Tilton Congregational church at the
age of IL is that my religious expert
ence seemed to culminate at II years
of age. Hence mistake may have oc-
CURED as to the exact date of my first
church membership. The facts regard,
ing the Mcneil coat-of-arms are as fol-
lows:
Fannie Mcneil, President Pierce's
niece, afterward Mrs. Judge Potter,
to me my coat-of-arms, say
ing that it was taken in connection
With her own family coat-of-arms.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

curiosity Left alone in the house one
Independence day. while the members
of the family picnicked in the village,
Colonel Davenport was accosted by
three strange men. who inflicted a gun
shot wound in his thigh. They then
bound him with oak thongs and drag
sed him by his hair and collar to an
upper room, where they demanded that
he open a small safe Finding nothing
there, they tortured him in a fearful
way until rendered unconscious, and,
reviving him with cold water, demand
ed to know the secret hiding place of
his wealth. The old colonel, half dead.
could only point to drawer. but which
his assailants could not find. Again
they tortured him into insensibility.
and again revived him. until at last
they found sum of money. Leaving
him for dead, they escaped, but he was
able to call for help. which soon ar
rived. and he then told of the torture
to which he had been subjected and
which in a few hours caused his death.
He was buried not far from his
home and the Indians told the story
love for him by means of pictures
carved on a tree, close by. Many years
later his body was removed TO Chip
piannock cemetery and a fac-simile of
the tree carved by the Indians was
made and placed at his grave, where
it still stands.
Then the house was deserted and
left to fall into ruins, but to the walls
there still seems to cling stories of the
times of long ago.
Construction Peculiar.
On account of the fact that this
building has many peculiarities of
structure, arrangement and finishing,
it may be of interest to the public to
give an account of it as a represent
ative of The Argus recently found it.
The house was originally two stories
high with loft, four large rooms, a
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
Construction Peculiar.

ted States, was the. counsel for Lou
don and Mark Baker for Bow. Both
entered their pleas, and my father won
the suit. After it was declared, Mr..
Pierce bowed to my father and con-
graduated him. For several years,
father was chaplain of the New Hamp-
shire state militia, and as l recollect
it, he was justice of the peace at one
time. My father was a strong believer
in states rights, but slavery he re-
garded as a great sin.
Mark Baker was the youngest of his
fathers family, and inherited his faith
er's real estate, an extensive farm sit
uated in Bow and Concord, N II. 1t
rs on record that Mark Bakers father
paid the largest tax in the colony.
McClure's Magazine says, describing
the Baker homestead at Bow: THE
house itself was a small, square box
structure of rudimentary architecture :"
My fathers house had a sloping roof
after the prevailing style of architec-
ture at that date.
McClure's Magazine states: "Alone
of the Bakers he (Albert received a
liberal education. Mary Baker
passed her first Is years at the ances-
trail home at Bow. 1t was lonely and
unstimulating existence. The church
supplied the only social diversion, the
district school practically all the intel
lectual life"
All Taught school.
Let us see what were the fruits of
this lonely and unstimulating exist
ence.' All my fathers daughters were
given an academic education, sufficient
ly advanced so that they all taught
school acceptably at various time and
places.
My brother Albert was a distinguish
ed lawyer. In addition to my academic
training / was privately tutored by
him. He was a member of the New
Hampshire legislature, and was NOM
mated for congress, but died before the
election.
McCmre's Magazine calls my young
est brother, George Sullivan Baker, "a
workman in Tilton woolen mill" AS
a matter of fact, he was joint partner
with Alexander Tilton, and together
they owned a large manufacturing es-
tablishment in Tilton, N. H. His mill
tary title of Colonel came from APP
pointment on the staff of the governor
Of New Hampshire.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

MATERIAL. AND CONSTRUCTION
MARVEL TO PRESENT DAY BUILDERS.

and in this were two fireplaces, un-
doubtedly used for cooking purposes.
Across the front of the house is an
imposing porch with two large col
umns and two half columns. These
measure IA inches in diameter at the
base they are pure colonial in shape
and are turned from blocks of walnut
The ceiling is plastered, an unusual
way of finishing a porch ceiling. A
dove tail pattern of moulding extends
around the porch and this was all
made by hand, carefully and neatly
executed. The shutters were of heavy
Stats of IL inches thickness and
fastened to the wall with large wrought
hinges. Wrought hooks and catches
were fastened on the outside wall to
hold them back and secure them from
the play of the wind. Down spouts
We're at the corners and an original
one of these has been replaced. On
the downpour where the troughs meet
the downspouts, is the escutcheon of
the house. A band of eight gold stars
extends across the top on three sides,
below is a spread eagle in gold and be
low it the date, 1888, in gold figures.
the design.
In the inside Of the house the logs
were also furred up and down and
then lathed and plastered The laths
are curious, being of slivers and split
pieces of oak spread out like fan and
nailed down, not across in the regular
order that we are accustomed to seeing
laths put on today but sometimes up
and down, sometimes across and again
diagonally to fit the depressions of the
wall. The base boards, chair rails, and
window and door castings are of fir and
cypress finished and plastered in the
wall. The floors resting on hewn oak
joists 4XS on the ground floor and 3X10
on the upper floor were of fir. Planks
on the lower floor had fallen to decay
and were replaced as were the joists.
The second floor joists and planks,
however, were in a good state of per-
seTvation and were only reinforced.
The stair posts and rails were of wal
nut, one post and part of the original
rail having been used in the restora
tion of the house
In each of the four large rooms is a
fireplace of cut stone with mantel
above each. made of fir and in the two
west rooms the mantels are supported
by half turned pillars. The doors were
colonial paneled ones the front out
side door having two narrow windows
on either side of it and rounded
transome above making an imposing
entrance. On either side of each fire
place were large cup-boards. doors to
which were fastened on with wrought
strap hinges of fancy pattern. Each
room is lighted with four windows
with twelve small panes of glass. The
nails used in the building of the house
are mostly hand made and are good as
the day they were driven, but for a
rusted head
On the white floors were bright braid
ed rugs; before each pile of blazing
pine knots were brass andirons In the
corner of the living room stood a
grandfather's clock and in the cup
boards were rows of bright silver and
pewter plates, and cups, arranged in
regular order; and the kettle hanging
in the kitchen hearth sang in tune with
the busy spinning wheel.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

good sized hall, and a small room over
the hall, in which the safe was kept
Subsequently additions were made at
both ends, the wing on the east end ex-
tending to the rear of the house, max
ing what must have been, at that time
mansion, of eight or nine rooms. AS
restored the house contains four large
rooms, two on each side of broad
center hall on the ground floor from
which a stairway ascends to a narrow
landing where turn is made, the
stairs landing in small upper hall.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

with long. wax tapers IN brass and sill
yer candlesticks, and how they gath
cred in a circle about the colonel. who
was a man of generous disposition,
jovial and fond of company, and lis
tened by the hour while he related
ing anecdotes.
Notwithstanding the natural attrac-
tions and the interests of this historic
building, there are connected with it
some melancholy associations which
have made it an object of romance ard
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
DAVENPORT HOME REMARKABLE

Long ago, at least it seems a long
time ago, a sturdy Englishman who
for many years had braved the storms
and tempests and hardships of a sail
or's life, and who had seen and partici-
pated in the battles common to early
frontier life, started up the Mississippi,
and after much trouble and many hard
ships. landed on a beautiful, densely
wooded island. It was a garden spot
to which the Indians came for nuts,
wild blackberries, and strawberries
and plums, and over which brooded a
beautiful, good spirit that lived in a
cave among the rocks where the water
Tapped the shore. On the north side
Of this island, on slight elevation and
commanding a magnificent sweep of
the river with view of the blue hills
beyond, Colonel George Davenport
for il was he-selected a spot to erect
a home.
No white man had made any perma-
nent settlement for miles around. and
the Indian chiefs and their people did
not look with favor on the establishing
of a white man among them. But
Colonel Davenport, with rare, good
judgment. treated them kindly and
gave them many gifts, soon winning
their confidence and love. To him
they brought in return gifts of corn,
pumpkins and wild fruits, to show their
trust.
The house, still standing on the is
land, was erected IS years ago. and
has become a landmark in the history
of the Mississippi valley. But it was
fast falling into decay, and its COM
plete obliteration was rapidly threaten
ing, when the Old Settlers association
of Rock Island county recently took
up the task of its restoration with real
seriousness 1t was through the eff
forts of the association that the atten-
tion of the Misses Davenport, grand
daughters of the colonel, was called to
the desirability of preserving the home,
and it was through their beneficence
that its restoration was begun. Work
was commenced at once, and the res
toration has progressed so far that the
home will soon be thrown open to the
public. With the rebuilding of the
house. much that was really interest
ing about the house and its cOnstruc-
gotten.
Like Old Human Being.
An old house is much like a human
being that has weathered the storms
of many years. AS the lines of the
face. the bend of the body. the gray
hairs and the trembling limbs show
the pleasures, disappOintments and
sorrows which the individual has en-
joyed and battled with in turn; so 4
house falling to ruin seems to show
the times of gayety and of sorrow and
hardship and the storms that it has
battled with and weathered. until COM
PEELED at last, as the individual is, to
succumb to the forces of nature.
This house was the scene of many
merry parties, where gay crowds of
young people gathered. One oil lady, |
still living, tells how she and her hus-
band many times in the early evening |
rowed over from the little village of
Rock Island to the Davenport home, |
and there spent the evening dancing |
the minuet and Virginia reel. She tells |
how the rooms were brilliantly lighted |
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05

cures illduG Dy III.
Kilmer's Swamp
Root, the great kid
uev, liver and bad
der remedy.
II is the great med
ical triumph of the
nineteenth century /;
discovered after wears
of scientific research
by DIR. Kilner, the
eminent kidney and
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
How to Prevent Bilious Attacks.

One who is subject to bilious at
tacks will notice that for a day or more
before the attack he is not hungry at
meal times and feels dull after eating.
A dose of Chamberlain Stomach and
Liver tablets when these first symp-
toms appear will ward off the attack.
They are for sale by all leading drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
MARY BAKER G. EDDY.

When the cold winds dry and crack
the skin get DeWitts Witch Hazel
salve. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
SAVED BY sHoPMATE.

William vedder of Schenectady. n.
Y, on the advice of shopmate, took
Father Johns Medicine, and was cured
of hacking cough and built up in
strength
Father Johns Medicine is for sale by
T. H. Thomas.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-05
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK +?

Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know of the wonderful