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Pocahontas star herald., 1908-10-30
Bryan Fund Totals $4,000

The Star Herald has collected
sac. 90 for the Bryan-Kern campaign
fund and the same has been for
warded to Treasurer Herman Rid
der. DR.. i. II. Hall gave his dol
lar this week, and the names of the
other contributors have all been
previously published. The campaign
is now almost at an end, and we
are proud to say that the Democratic
newspapers Of the country have,
through their subscribers, raised
nearly two-thirds of $500, 900 con-
tributed to the national campaign
fund. We are thankful to our
readers for the assistance rendered
us in this work, and think that we
can assure them in advance that
Democracy will win a sweeping
victory at the polls on next Tues
day. Let every Democrat look to
his laurels and 60 and cast his vote.
One person called at the bank
this week and SAID that he had some
money he wanted to deposit. Said
re lost his pocket book last week
and did not care to lose what he had
gotten hold of since. Another wrote
us asking what was necessary to do
to open an account. We answered
the letter by return mail and the
first deposit has been made. 1t is
all so easy when one understands
how it is done and is of so much
value. We have over $50, ,oOO.OC
Capital Surplus, and profits. Abso.
lutte security. Randolph County
Bank, Pocahontas Ark.
Pocahontas star herald., 1908-10-30

For new clothing so to Nemler
Mercantile Co.
Pocahontas star herald., 1908-10-30


Joe II. DeClerk, John r 'o'ts, ~
D. A Prevctt, met Moudar On' ana
ing and after a few bon; NOM
adjourned on account Of ~ seSion
Clerk being i'll and Mr.. HI f' De
to go to Little Rock. ~ naVlsg
Representative A NJ
load of cotton. 'Sy With
J. w. Trad WoD' wooDl
furnish II wood from the stp Prepared 20
81 per load. Give him S Sosye mill At
telephone No. I42. your order Or
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
THE GRADUATION ESSAY.

- WOMAN distinguished in literature and
y philanthropy receives every spring from
- Z pupils who to graduate letters asking
her for material for their graduation es
EESAgfa says and oratiOns The essays show mix
kS0H%S1SJ ture of good and weak motives The
writer's cropping through some subject
in which this lady to be Interested they have
q sincere desire information they do not know how
to begin )" they say that they intending to use as
part of their composition anything the lady may be SO
kind as to send them they hint that they will
ing the lady should write their pieces for them
COncident with the period Of preparation for COM
exercises another strange symptom OF lack
OF moral responsibility, which must be more common
than likes believe 1t is the appearance of adver
tisements Grafton factories which offer to furnish
graduates with readymade compositions That such syn
dicates exist is proof that they have found
a profitable number of customers.
No one expects any great originality in graduation
address, the address must be the result of honest
If it is not the delivery of it is act Of de
ceit purpose the exhibition of oratory and
essay-the training of the mind by competitive exercise
in compositionis defeated In general, it is well for
teachers parents to advise young graduates to choose
simple subjects which lie partly within the range OF
youthful experience recommend that the treatment be
BRIEF direct free from palaver and bOokish words
Youths Companion
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
CLEANUP ORDINANCE.

Scheme Adopted by Park Commits
sion in Los Angeles.
Many of our California cities and
towns are adopting ordinances requir-
Ing vacant lots and untidy premises to
be cleaned UP, says the Los Angeles
Times. In Riverside the notification Of
passage Of such legislation is placed in
the hands of the park commission,
which has sent out the following no.
tice to property owners:
"a provision in the new cleaning up
ordinance makes it the duty of the
park commissioners to inspect the
streets and report all such instances Of
untidy frontages, dirty vacant lots and
other premises as would come under
the provisions of the ordinance Ca copy
Of which is herewith inclosed) to the
superintendent of streets, whose duty
would be to serve legal notice to prop
erty holders.
ut Is the opinion Of the board that
a simple reminder in the large majority
Of cases will be all that is necessary to
secure the desired results; hence we
take the liberty Of calling your atten-
ton to the neglected condition Of the
frontage (description), respectfully re-
questing that prompt attention be
given it that formal legal notices to the
superintendent of streets may not be
necessary"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
UNCLT SANS IL1ITERATEs.
Pex@OnS Over Ten Years of Age Who
Cannot Write.

Pexs,OnS Over Ten Years of Age Who
Cannot Write.
Da6nition-An tlliterate is q person
ten years Of age or older who cannot
write in any language. This is the
test applied in the United States cen
sus compilations. 1t may be assumed
that one who cannot write cannot read,
and this is true with few exceptions.
In 1870 there were in each 1000 Of
population of the United States 200
illiterates; in 1880 there were 10; in
1890 it had fallen to 1873 and in 1900
to 107.
Thus it appears that in our country
about one person in every nine of ten
years and over is illiterate. In France
there is one in III, in England, Scot
land and Holland one in 40, in SwitZer-
land one in 166, in Denmark one in 500,
in Sweden and Norway in 1880, and
in Germany illiteracy is almost I'M
known. The ratio in 1903 among all
the recruits in the army was but one
In $500, and illiteraey is probably even
less among the German people general
ly than among these recruits.
These facts are not such as to make
Americans proud. Nor can we excuse
ourselves on the ground that we re
ceive great numbers of immigrants
from the less intelligent peoples Of Eu-
rope, for in many States the illiterates
Of native parents outnumber those
whose parents were born in foreign
lands; nor is it in the South only in
which this is true. In the State Of New
York in 1900 $4,000 illiterates were Of
foreign parentage and $4,000 Of native.
Moreover, in the larger cities, where
our foreign born population is largely
congregated, the percentage Of litter
acy is lower than in the smaller cities
of $4,000 and less, and in the large
cities 1t is no greater than in the aver
age country district.
The following list shows the number
Of illiterates in each 1000 population
according to the last United States CELL
sus:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
OUR LATEST PRODUCTS.
A Little Satire on Certain Tenden-
cies of Time.

Little Satire on Certain Tenden-
cies of Time.
Once upon a time there was q man
who, having gambled in the street,
played the races, gone up in q balloon,
Travelled to the Yukon, and done other
adventurous things, decided that he
would raise a family.
Il wish,' he said, "to hear the pat
ter of little feet on the stairway, to tell
fairy stories in the cleaning, to have
chubby hands in mine, and all the other
accessories. Before doing so, however,
l will examine a specimen American
family, which, 1 believe, is the latest
and best example Of the art of civili-
Zation."
SO he called ON friend who had one.
''The latest idea," said the father,
proudly, lis to bring UP your children
on an equality. We conceal nothing
from them, and give them the benefit
of all the latest information. This is
Bessie, my 14-year-old."
''Have you read this article on sex?"
asked Bessie, languidly, after shaking
hands. Really, it is very crude.
could write a better one myself. It's
pathology is lamentable.''
This is Bobbie, my 10-year DID," vol
unteered the happy father, bringing
forward number two. "Bobbie, shake
hands,"
''The old gentleman there" he said,
INSISTS on introducing me to everyone.
Sorry l can't stay and give you my
views on the conduct of the admins
tratiOn, but l have a date with a vaude-
ville~queen. Get to bed early" he said,
warningly, to his father as he went off.
when you sit up late you're irritable
at breakfast, and your manners are
simply unbearable. AT your time Of
life there ought to be nothing doing
at ALL
This" said the father once more, lis
my little 4-year-old, the apple of my
eye. Here Mildred, dear"
Go way" said Mildred, shaking her
curIs. You're a bounder-any man
with a waistcoat like that is. Now,
pap she added, don't scold, cause l
have a right to say just what you and
mamma say-isn't it taught now in my
primary"
But the man waited to hear no more.
Two hours later he was seen by our
private detective in a real estate office
signing a ten-year lease for a bachelor
partment.-Harper's Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
Writers, Cramp.

Writer'S cramp is a serious matter
to people whose work requires that
they use a pen very much, while for
the unaccustomed writer who takes an
afternoon off now and then to catch up
with her correspondence it is, to say
the least, very discouraging. The trou-
BILE is more than muscular in this kind
Of cramp. Very often low, nervous
condition will cause it. Then one
should take it as a warning that the
system is run down and needs general
toning up. Very often, however, the
trouble is all in the way you hold your
pen.
Children now in school are not like
" to be troubled with writer's cramp,
because they are taught to hold the
pen lightly and make all the move
ments from the arm instead of the
hand. The old fashioned method
which most Of us learned of holding
the pen between the thumb and fore
finger is also very likely to encourage
q cramp. The muscles become tense
and hard, until finally they contract so
much that all control over them is
lost. The pen should be held between
the first two fingers, we'll up toward
the joint. The trouble may often be
relieved by putting the hand and wrist
into the hottest water one can stand
Boston Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03

entered Parliament, representing Old
ham, and two years ago captured the
strong Tory division of northwest
Manchester, where he has just now
suffered defeat. His defeat, however,
does not mean his retirement from
Parliament A seat will be found for
him in another constituency according
to the English system. 1t is not I'M
usual for cabinet ministers in England
Offering themselves for seats in Par
lament to meet with defeats. Glad
stone under similar circumstances was
defeated and so were John Morley, Sir
William Harcourt and even Lord Bal
four. So that Churchill will continue
the even tenor of his way as a cabinet
minister as though he had been return
ed from Manchester.
Minister Churchill is a writer of
books, as web as a soldier and politi-
clan. He is a strong speaker, a quick
debater and a man of superb nerve and
daring. England probably has in re-
serve for him many political hOnors
He is a descendant of the great Duke
of Marlborough, one of the greatest
soldiers England has produced and the
| hero of Blenheim battle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03

NO OBSEQUIES.
isFFTTT-Tf5Sf

A group of interested citizens lin
gered recently to watch the work of de-
molishing the ancient single-track tun-
mel by which the railroad has so long
passed under the ridge where winds
the beautiful elm-shaded High street
Of the old city of Newburyport. The
tunnel is about TO be replaced by an
open bridge of width sufficient for sew
eral tracks. The scene was a lively
one-men digging, carts dumping, en-
gines putting, heavy blocks of stone
moving away, and huge timbers swing
Ing into place. A pleasant old house
stands almost over the tunnel, its long
garden running far back along the cut
ting where the trains emerge.
"When the railroad first came
through, and dug a cutting like this
one at the foot of my grandfather's
garden" said watcher, pointing to a
rich CLEAN of bright irises and peonies,
caught between the straddling guys of
4 tall derrick, the old gentleman
strolled out early one day to sniff the
morning GOODNESS, and found six stran-
gers - rOugh-lcOking men - earnestly
digging a long, deep hole in the middle
of the cherished asparagus bed.
lie FASTENED to the group and de
manded to know what they were doing.
Planting a dead man one of them
answered, uncOncernedly.
Planting a dead mani roared my
grandfather, who was a peppery old
gentleman. Take him away, you ras-
Gals, take him away! What do you
mean, trespassing on my property and
defying law and decOrum, you shame
less villains? How dare you?
BOSS ORDERS said one of the men,.
laconically.
81 don't care whose orders . shout
ed grandfather. Take him away this
minute! 1 won't have him in my as
paragus bed, l tell you. Put him in
the cemetery!'
"Just then the boss came along, and
an explanation ensued. A dead man,
it appeared, was the name given by
workmen to heavy piece of wood
buried in the ground, to which the guy
of a derrick might be attached.
'sThe amusing character of the mis-
take was enough to soothe the feel
ings ruffled by the mems trespass in
his asparagus, and grandfather allowed
them to complete their task in peace"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
FLOODS NEAR ASHLAND.
Heavy Rain Storm Sweeps Northern
Wisconsin.

Heavy Rain Storm Sweeps Northern
Wisconsin.
A violent rainstorm swept over north
ern Wisconsin the other night, the rain
falling in floods. Considerable damage
will doubtless be reported. At Mellen the
dam went out at o'clock in the morning.
Hundreds of residents in the Italian quar-
ter and near the Foster-Latimer mill were
driven from their houses in the darkness
by the advancing floods and cows and
other stock drowned in the barns. Three
bridges were swept out, the power house
was flooded and the dynamo was destroy
ed. Communication between the two parts
of Mellen was cut off. The public schools
and mills were shut down and the city
was in darkness several days on account
of the damage to the lighting plant. Fam
lilies encamped on the surrounding hills.
1t is estimated that the damage done by
the flood will amount to $4,000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03

Mr.. Churchill, whose official position IS
that of the presidency of the Board
of Trade, is the son of a former New
York woman, Miss Jennie Jerome, who
in 1874 married the late Lord Ran
dolph Churchill and in 1900 George
CORVALLIS West. He has many of the
qualities of his brilliant father, who
at one time was regarded as the most
promising statesman in England. He
entered the army in 1895, after an
educational course at Harrow and
Sandhurst and fought the same year
with the Spaniards in Cuba. During
subsequent years he served in several
of Englands little wars in the east
and fought in the Boer struggle, until
he was taken prisoner. In 1900 he
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

The school children of Grand Rapids
voted in favor of the violet for the State
flower
Mrs. Betsy Sykes of Rochester, who is
fO4 wears old, has started in to cut new
set of teeth.
Waterford residents are divided on the
ACCESSIBILITY of borrowing money to erect
a high school building.
In the Circuit Court in Kenosha Mrs.
Mary A. Wilson was granted a divorce
from her husband, Alexander Wilson.
Fire on the docks of the Lehigh Valley
Company at Milwaukee ruined 600 feet of
the warehouse. The structure was almost
empty. Loss $4,000.
The district high school declaration
contest held at the normal school in Ste
vens Point was won by Elizabeth Plantz
of Wausau, who gave Madame Butter
fly"
Ministers and leading citizens of Eau
Claire have organized a law-enforcement
league to deal with alleged defiance of the
statutes by the saloons. The Organiza-
ton is headed by millionaire o. III. In
gram.
During severe LnuHueTSIOIIu, AlSuC-
ming struck the home of Gilbert Jones
near Neenah. peculiar feature of the
incident was that thirteen bricks were
knocked out of the chimney and thirteen
clapboards ripped off the side of the house.
The interior of the house was badly
wrecked.
Strong concerted effort for the ADJUST
ment of freight rates in the entire Fox
river valley is to be made The West
ern Freight Adjustment Company is at
the head of the movement and representa-
tives are employed in all the cities in
the valley organizing the manufacturers
and retailers.
The 14-year-old son of Walter Van de
Nelson of Kimberly drowned 200 feet
above Kimberly paper mill while on a
raft with his older brother. Both boys
were precipitated into the water.
For stealing goods from the Neenah
Knitting factory, George Cummins Ches-
fer and George Redline have been sent to
the reform school at Waukesha, and niYe
other boys were put on probation.
Miss Sylvia Il. Lounsbury of Madison,
a senior in the University of Wisconsin,
is i'll at the contagious hospital with
smallpox. 1t is said that number of peo-
pie in tho university have been exposed,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
Wisconsin
State News
WEST WING NEARs COMPLETION.
Legislature VIII Be Housed in New
Quarters Next Session.

Legislature VIII Be Housed in New
Quarters Next Session.
The work on the new capitol building
in Madison has progressed as far as had
been previously anticipated according to
Lew f. Porter, secretary of the capitol
building commission. The west wing will
be ready for occupancy Jan. 1, and the
laying of stone on the east wing has been
started. 1t is anticipated that the east
wing will be ready for occupancy by July
i, next, and then the work of tearing
down another wing will be started. 1t is
quite probable that the south wing and
the dome will be the next portions of the
old building to be torn down. The west
wing is about ready for plastering. The
rooms have practically all been partition
ed off and this work will be started at
once. The west wing will be used to
house the Legislature, which will convene
in Madison next January. A temporary
connection will be made by wooden stairs
with the rotunda of the old building.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
INHERITS VAST ESTATE.

Appleton PatternmaI<er Notified that
He Is Heir to German Estate.
Edward Witthuhn, a pattern maker in
the Valley Iron works in Appleton, has
learned that he is heir to the estate Of
his grandfather in Germany, worth from
$4,000 to 100000. The owner of the
estate left all of his legal papers in a
secret cupboard between the inner wall
of his home, and shortly afterward was
killed in the Franco-Prussian war. His
wife died soon after he left for the front,
and the only child came to Appleton.
While making repairs to the German
homestead, the present occupants found
the papers and it is declared that an old
friend of the former owner notified Wit
thuhn, whose parents died in Appleton
some time ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
MICHIGAN WANTS SLICE.

Attorney General Says Mistake Was
Made in WiscOnsin's Boundary.
Attorney General Bird of Michigan has
been in Washington, d. c., with designs
upon a considerable slice of the State of
Wisconsin, which he suspects ought by
right to sail under the flag of Michigan.
His idea is that there was an error in the
original survey of the boundary made by
the War Department and that if it can be
Strengthened out Michigan will gain some
hundreds Of square miles. Mr.. Bird call
ed at the War Department and the engi-
neers there are now engaged in trying to
find the report of Gen. Crum, who had
charge Of the lake surveys at the time the
boundary in question was surveyed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
KNEW BELLE GUINNESS.

Eau Claire Man Used to See Her
with Father in Norway.
Olaf Lind of Eau Claire states that he
knew Mrs. Guinness, the Laporte, Ind,
ogress, when she was a child and lived in
Norway She was Belle PaulsOn and her
father owned a small circus, which tray
eled over Norway and Sweden. Belle was
then years old, was a handsome child
with curly locks, child acrobat. Two
of her sisters and her brother were also
in the show Mrs. PaulsOn, the mother,
sold tickets for the circus Mr.. Lind
again saw Belle few years afterward at
Stockmarkness. Norway.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03

become because Christ first appeared to
a woman, for it was, doubt in order that the news
might spread the faster On the other hand grateful
pastor in Nebraska after reporting the splendid work the
had done in raising money for foreign missions
devoutly exclaimed: God bless the wonderland help
the menu This sentiment is commended to the favor
able consideration Rev. DR.. GLADDEN..
The prominence of women in every church will be no
reproach religion long another wellknOwn fact
is kept in view. If there than men in
the church may possibly be accounted for the same
principle that there than women in the
penitentiary.-Chicago ord-Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
RETURNS HOME INSANE.

ManitovvOc Man Back with Parents
After Thirty-Five Years Absence.
After an absence of thirty-ive years,
Anton Elleffson, whose whereabouts were
unknown to his family until he wrote
home recently, returned to NIanitowoc
and was picked up by the police wander
ing about the northern part of town.
Elleffson is believed to be insane. He is
40 years of age and it is said left home
when boy of 10 years. Nothing is
known of his whereabouts of the last
years. His aged parents reside in that
cifv
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
EVIDENCE POINTS TO MURDER.

Charles Abrams, Business Man, Re-
manded to Jail without Bail.
Circumstances have been revealed that
in the opinion of officers lend support to
the theory that Mrs. Carrie Shaw, a
wealthy young widow of HortonvilIe, was
murdered there on a recent night. 1t was
discovered that a gold front tooth had
been knocked out her lips were cut on
the inside, and the fingers of her left
hand were severely lacerated and bruised.
Charles Abrams, a New London business
man, who is charged with knowledge of
the death of Mrs. Shaw, was arraigned
in Appleton and remanded to Jail without
bail
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
DICKIE rs AT IT AGAIN.

Fond du Lac Boy Swallows Mercury,
Patent Medicine and Shampoo.
Richard Bradley, the 4-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Bradley of Fond du
Lac, had a narrow escape from poison
ing. He swallowed four bi-chloride of
mercury tablets and after a doctor had
given him an antidote, he ate all the
medicine the doctor had left, and became
violently i'll again. A week before the
boy swallowed a sample of some patent
medicine on the front porch and had a
narrow escape from DEATH Two weeks
before that he swallowed some hair sham
poo and was taken violently i'll.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
WAS A LIBERAL ROGUE.

Robert Rose COnfesses Robbery
After Spending with Boys.
Robert Rose, who was taken into Gus
tody in Marshfeld recently, made a con-
fession of being the man who was wanted
at Junction City for knocking a man
down and relieving him of large sum
of money. He spent lavishly with the
boys and dressed neatly. When he was
in Marshield begging for a "hand-out,"
about $50 was found on his person and
later he directed the officers to a hiding
place where 5000 more was found under
an old log. He was taken to Stevens
Point, where the case will be sifted.\