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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22
GOOSE EGGS ONLY
FOR PLATTEVILLE
In Base Ball Game With Lancas-
ter's Nine.
A Beautiful and Holly Contested Game
Between Lancaster High School and
Platteville Normal.

Last Saturday the Lancaster high
school base ball team won its Sec
ond, perhaps its greatest, victory of
the season when it defeated the
Platteville Normal nine on the field
Of the latter by the score of 1 to O.
Although the high school foot ball
teams have won a majority of victo-
RES over their PlattevilIe rivals the
base ball teams have not done so
well and consequently there is great
rejoicing by the Lancaster students,
over the result of this game.
It was an exciting contest from
start to finish. Pennock was in the
box for the high school boys and
pitched superbly allowing but three
hits and striking out fourteen of
the Normal men Lancaster go five
hits off of the Platteville pitcher,
Patterson, and but five strike-outs
were to his credit. Although it
seems to be the general opinion that
the better team won, both played
good ball and it was mainly through
accurate fielding and excellent
pitching that the score was kept
low.
Pennock's pitching was feature
Of the game but that's not saying
that the other members of the team
did not do their part, for both the
infeld and the outfeld worked well,
the team work being much better
than that exhibited by most high
school Mines. Fletcher Burris, alias
Dick Merriwell, IN the sixth inning
performed feat that his honored
name-sake might well have been
proud of. At his position in center
field he caught two difficult flies in
succession and then threw a runner
out at home plate, thus retiring the
side in a manner not seen in many
games.
Scott Eggers, the local left fielder,
brought in Lancasters only score in
the fourth inning. He was given a
pass to first, having accidently
gotten in the way of one of Patter-
sons slsnts. He then proceeded to.
steal second and follow up this theft
by advancing to third. Pennock
then came to bat and by a nice
little single brought Eggers in.
A good sized crowd witnessed the
game and there was but little rag
chewing INDUCED in. A week from
next Saturday the Lancaster team
will again meet the Norman but this
time at the fair grounds in this city.
1t is hoped that large crowd will
be present to wave the purple and
orange and help the boys win their
third victory. Lancaster will soon
be in line for the championship of
this section of the state but they
need all the support that they can
get.
The Lancaster team presented
the following line up:'
Cate her, L P. Basfo1d; pitcher,
L. o Pennock; 1st base, Harry
Basford; I'd base, Harry Nathan;
short stop, Elmer Schmidt; Sd base.
Roy Bennett; left field, Scett Egg
gers, center field, Fletcher Burris,
and RIGHT field. Albert Wiedeub beck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22
Different Arrangements

P. J. Carmody, Mt. Hope and
Annie Nj. Carmody, Lancaster.
John J. Wilson, Richland Center
and Sarah E. Coumbe, Blue River.
John w. Moore and Frances A.
Habermann, both of Cassville.
Willie S. Porter, Dubuque, Iowa,
and Katie Valentine, Cassville.
Osker Howell, Clayton, Iowa, and
Nancy A. Brandle, Cassville.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22
SPLENDID SHOWING
BY OUR CORNET BAND
VIII Do Much to EnIiven City
This Summer.
Personnel of This Lively Organization
and a Few Suggestions Con-
corning Same.


One of the most capable musical
organizations in this region, and
which is distinctly Lancaster in
stitutlon, is the Lancaster Cornet
band.
Ed. ]. Hyde, the leader, is con
sidered one of the best baritone
players IN this part of the state, and
he spares neither time nor trouble to
keep the band up to very high
standard. The members of the
organization are par excellence In
their respective capacities, and now,
after a long winters assiduous
practice and close application, they
are splendidly equipped, and highly
proficient, and will stand the test
of rigid comparison with any other
organization of the same kind, not
even barring age or numbers.
The repertoire of the Lancaster
band includes the latest, the best
and the choicest music artistically
rendered and suitable for all occas-
ions.
During the past winter over $125
worth of late band music was OBJ
tined for trial and approval by the
band, and every piece was carefully
examined and played and its merits
passed upon As result about S65
worth, or more than one half of the
entire lot was purchased and is
being practiced nearly every even
ing.
The members are all citizens of
this city, and for that reason alone
not to mention their merits as
musicians-aree entitled to considera-
ton by our people, merchants es-
pecially.
None will dispute the fact that a
banda good band-offers many
advantages to a town. Experience
has shown that it is a profitable
and satisfactory method of advertis-
ing. A band draws people into a
town, a fact we all should consider;
this benefits the commercial in
terests of the city, and it makes the
people more cOntented and loyal.
Last summer the band gave week
ly volunteer open air concerts,
which were highly enjoyed by all
our residents, but this season the
boys think they are entitled to a
small remuneration for this SER
vice. It is no more than right that
the citizens should assume a portion
of the financial burdens of the
band, and the boys in return will
give entertaining open air concerts,
weekly.
The band this season is composed
of the following young men:
Ned Ivey. Albert Wiedenbeck,
Ellis Schmidt, clarionets; Carl
Orion, L. o. Pennock and Chris
Wiesen, solo comets; Elmer Sch
midi. 1st cornet; Harry Nathan,
End cornet; Merle Hagen, solo alto;
Ned Willis, 1st alto; Clyde GobeI
2nd alto; Geo Behncke LIST from
bone; Hubert Alt and Irwin Black
bourn, End trombone; Lloyd Brook
er, tenor; Howard Richardson,
tuba; Ed f. Hyde baritone; Harry
Basford, snare drum; L. P. Basford,
bass drum.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22
PLANT BOX.

and the top covered with clean straw.
Small "fiats" or shallow boxes are filed
nearly full with soil, and after planting
the seeds the boxes are placed on top
Of the manure, each one being cover
ed with a pane of glass. Thus each
box becomes a little hOtbed with bot
tom heat. The glass is removed now
and then for air, and as the manure
becomes too hot the little boxes are
raised on bricks or blocks. On cold
nights they may be lowered upon the
manure again The heat Of the ma
nure in the box gradually goes down.
so that the ''hot box" becomes a cold
frame
"Christmas day is only three hours
long in the Finnish town Of Tornea,"
said a traveller. 81 spent last Christ
mas there At sunrise I got up to see
my presents and to read my Christmas
mail, and night had fallen before !
got through breakfast" San Francisco
Argonaut.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22

Judge Gardner informs us that
Ladysmith, town practically seven
years old, has a population of q. 800,
electric lights, water works and sew
erage and a fine Carnegie Library to-
getber with splendid high school.
PiatteviHe Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22

doubtedly be retained at the water
works; that George Pearson will be
city weigh master, and either G A
Posey or John Taylor fol- night
Waterman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22
A Handy Hot BcE.

A planting box that gives com,
bination of hotbed and cold frame Is
described by California authority on
vegetable growing. 1t sounds a handy
thing for those who want to grow a
few early plants and have no regular
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22
Methodists May Soon Dance and Play
Cards, Says This Dispatch

Worcester, Mass, April 13.-By
vote of 1O7 to AZ, the New England
Methodist Episcopal conference to-
day adopted memorial to the
general conference recommending
the repeal of the article forbidding
dancing, card playing and attend
ing theatrical performances.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22

"Didn't the lecturer feel hurt when
SO many in the audience fell asleep
during the discourseY
ooh, no; it encouraged him."
"How SOP
"Why, he was conceited enough to
think they were nodding approval OF
what he saidp'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22

hotbed. 1t is a
large dry goods
box partly filed
with fresh horse
m a n ure a n d
s ira w W e | /
fra mDod down
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22
Daily Thouqht.

Nav the fair goddess, Fortune, fail
deep in love with thee: Prosperity be
thy e.-Shakespeare.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22
PATCH GROVE.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-03

signs are worthless in quiet cam
paign.
And yet there is very splendid
spectacle in presidential election.
Every four years the people come to
a realization of the things which have
been done in the last administration
and they look ahead to the fate Of the
country for the next period. 1t was
the optimism of the founders of our
United States which led to this sys-
tenn and that optimism is still our
heritage.
A famous English essayist said
that there are only two romantic
things in life-that of getting married
and posting a letter. He declared that
these were romantic because they were
irrevocable-he might have added that
the casting of a ballot holds in it
more romance than either, for here
a mans irrevocable vote Is cast and
by that action the man stops for a
moment to be a part of the great
game of the nations-he is making
history.
There is something about this very
aspect of an election which makes 1t
SO very terrible, which gives it the ex-
element of far greater gambling in
terest than a horse race.
Watch, gentlemen, the wheel is
spinning-where win It stopT
But the game is never over until
the game is played"
How many a man has done Doc
Sifer's stunt.
Docs public sperit-when the sick's
not takin' all his time,
And he's got some for politics-is sim
pie, yet sublime
He'll talk his principles-and they all
honest, but the sly
Friend strikes him first, election day
he'd commodate or die"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-03
One Of the
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-03
ECZEMA 80 YEARS;
SIMPLE OIL CURES
Wintersreen Compound Stopped Itch
At onee-Disease Soon Disappeared

After dosing the stomach for years
and trying all kinds of alleged cures
for eczema, Mr.. NJ. T. Firmin. of
Wichita, Kansas. reports a perfect
cure. He simply washed the skin
with an oil OF wintergreen compound,
mixed with thymol. glycerine, etc.
Mr.. NJ. T. Firmin. for the last 20
years in the employ of the C. s. Dan
iels Furniture Co., of Wichita, Kans.
in the presence of Mr.. Higginson of
the Higginson Drug Co. made the fol-
lowing statement:
Eczema first appeared on my body
when / was child s years of age. For
over thirty years l scratched and
scratched and doctored. About the
only relief l got was from scratching
The itching was so intense it simply
drove me wild.
About one year ago. the disease
covered my entire body from my scalp
to my toes. My doctor and my
friends all gave me up as incurable.
Then 1 commenced using the d. D..
d. Remedy for eczema. The first ap-
plication stopped the horrible Itching
and gave me a nights sleep. 1t gave
me strength and new hope. l contin-
ued growing better every day. My
whole body being affected, would
sometimes use the contents of one
whole bottle in a day.
II kept up the treatment for months,
the eczema gradually leaving my body
and am now entirely cured excepting
little roughness of the skin on my
left ankle"
For sale by all druggists.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-03
DAN IS HELD Up
City of Richmond Cannot Sc
cure Needed Money
Until Later.
Won PEIN BLOCKS MOVE.

The passage of an ordinance author
izing loan of $25, 900 by bond issue
was held up from passage last evening
by the action of Councilman Won Pein,
who objected to the passage of an ap-
preparation ordinance under suspen-
sion of the rules.
City Controller Parry advised coun-
Gil to take immediate action on the
ordinance. He said that it was not
absolutely necessary to pass it at once,
but that bond dealers in Indiana had
informed him that the best market
for bonds would be found early in De.
cember He said that to take advant-
age of this market the ordinance
would have to be passed without delay
as it was necessary to advertise it for
three weeks.
It will be remembered that council
recently favored the floating of a
$4,000 bond issue in preference to
raising the tax rate.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-03
new PAPER FOR
OLD KN|GHTSTOWN
Republicans to Establish Or
gan There.

Knightstown, Ind, Nov. 3.-In ord
er to provide Knightstown with a re-
publican newspaper, a stock company
has been organized. The Knightstown
Banner published by Wallace Deem
has posed as a republican paper, but
has been so antagonistic to the inter
ests Of several republican nominees
as the result of the personal dislike Of
Deem as to be repudiated by many
republican subscribers. The new pa
per is expected to make its bow to
the public in a short time Although
a republican plant, no selfish purposes
will be subserved.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-03
Church Calendar
Tuesday.

bUSSo0ys
The monthly official board meeting
of Grace M. e. church will be held in
the evening.
Wednesday.
The League Bible class of Grace NJ.
e. church will meet in the Office in the
evening at 1880 o'clock. DR.. G. H.
Hill, teacher.
A joint meeting OF the Woman's
Home and Foreign Missionary socie.
ties Of the First M. E. church will be
held in the afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The monthly meeting of the Won.
ans Foreign Missionary society will
be held at the home Of Mrs. Lockwood,
PA North Fourteenth street, at $3.50
o'clock.
Thursday.
Midweek service will be held at all
the churches in the evening.
A meeting Of the officers and teach.
ers OF the First English Lutheran
Sunday school will be held in the
evening.
Friday.
The Ladies' Aid society OF Grace M
e. church win meet in the afternoon
for the purpose Of quilting. Choir
practice will be at 1880 o'clock.
John NJ. Warden, layman of Penn
sylvania will conduct a 10 days ser
vice at the First English Lutheran
church starting Friday evening.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-03
WAYNE TOWNSHIP.
Trustee
JAMES III. HOWARTH.
-Assessor--
CHARLES E. POTTER.
THE GREAT NATIONAL GAME.

THE game is never over until the
game is played"
The football team OF Yale college
has a maxim which applies to political
ballotting and elections. The Yale
team is never beaten until time is
called" And. too, as that immortal
character of Indiana politics said in
George AIDES County Chairman
Claim everything you haven't got,
and concede nothin.'"
The time Is not so far in the past as
to be forgotten when the election of
Tilden and Hayes was undecided for
days and the whole country seethed
with unrest. The tensity of the situa-
tion grew as the conflicting bulletins
and nervous excitement threw bust
ness to the four winds and in the city
of New York the papers stopped pub
fishing bulletins at the request of the
mayor of New York.
And so on the eve of election the
whole country stops its worry about
the petty round of affairs and pauses
to await the answer with bated breath.
Great interests are at stake. Two OF
the most interesting figures in Ameri-
can life today are pitted for conflict
the like OF which no country has as
a parallel.
In Wall street, in the shops. in the
farmhouse all is expectancy.
Never before has there been such a
campaign. The ominous silence of the
people, the apparent apathy have
not meant what even the keenest
political observers have been wont tc
ascribe to them. It is the silence OF
people who have made up their minds
and who are not changed on the spur
OF the moment
All signs fail In dry weather. and ali
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-03
TREE DWELLING ANTS.
South American Insect That Acts ~
Plant Guardian.

South American insect That Acts ~
Plant Guardian.
Ant defenders Of plants and trees
are some Of natures pretty marve1s.
The Cecropia adenopus is a remarka-
BILE tree Of south Brazil, widely dis
tributed through the tropics. Its slen-
der trunk Is crowned with long leaves
ut the ends Of the branches.
A few active ants run continually
along the branches and the leaves. but
II the tree is shaken slightly an army
Of ants rushes out by small apertures
ready for a savage assault on the in
truder. The ant II the terrible guard
Ian that the tree has retained to pro-
tect it from its most formidable enc
my, the leaf cutter ant.
The defenders rarely leave their re-
treat where they live on small whitish
egg shaped bodies about one-twelfth
Of an inch long, known as Mueller's
corpuscles. These are formed Of deli
cate tissue, rich in preteids and all, as
rations for the garrison Of defender
ants to feed upon. The curious ar
rangement by which entrance is made
to the hollow stem has been studied by
w. Schimper.
Just above the point Of insertion Of
each leaf extends nearly to the supe-
rior node a superficial groove, at whose
end is a rounded depression. There
the tissue IL thin. like q diaphragm in
a tube, and it also Is soft. The hole
by which the ant enters Is always
pierced at this spot. The ants seem
to have made their entrance through
the groove originally because 1t was
at the top. In the course Of this
plants further development natural Sc
lection augmented these natural ad-
vantages, so that finally the thin, fran
diaphragm n 1t exists today was de-
veloped.-Chicago Tribune.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-03
Heart toHeart
Talks.

BY EDWIN A. NYE.
Copyright, isos. BY Edwin A. Nys.

"were is dis yer country youse want
10 send me? ! amt got nothin' to wear
but desc"
The slum kid put one hand on a
ragged undershirt and the other on one
leg Of pair Of trousers fastened with
4 safety pin and each leg slit from
the bottom to the knee-his Sunday
best.
The New York Fresh Air fund peo-
pie were sending fifty poor boys to
Vermont for two weeks outing. This
boys mother, who had seen better
days" wanted him to go. but
Gee, de odder boys IL have rags
witch Is better dan desc, an The
poor lad flushed and turned away.
The medical director solved that prob
lem.
He took the boy to a Hudson street
shop. and the latter selected . pair Of
blue jeans trousers and a blue ging-
ham blouse. His eyes shone.
"But l amt got any money" hs had
said when entering the store. He was
astonished when told the clothes were
. gift. He said his cap belonged to his
OHotAci. "A VINO 81 SoP ""o aoaS~A
to the outfit.
The cost Of Little Boy Blues uni
form was 70 cents.
He walked home with q strange look
on his shrewd little face. clutching his
bundle with the grip of absolute own
ership. The next morning he left with
the party of fifty.
He would not talk
His boy soul was 80 full OF new
gladness he was afraid 1t would leak
While the noisy bunch chartered
about him Little Boy Blue pondered
There was a poet somewhere inside OF
him that dreamed dreams of the won
| derland where he was going.
Well, the Vermont folk had fitted
up an old farmhouse of seventeen
rooms. Gee" said Little Boy Blue
white beds! And three windows Il
! ny BEDROOM
| And there were baseball and football
| and swings and chicken nxings and pop
corn and ice cream and the woods and
the river and wild berries and rea
milk! Why. all the dreams Of Little
Boy Blue had come true.
And this two weeks Of heaven TO
1fty boys cost $s25-$6.50 per boy.
"Geew said Little Boy Blue. Der,
are bad uns In de world, but deere ar,
good uns too"
And the moral?
Why. II your heart has not alread,
found it
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-03
James E. Watson Closes Bat
tie for Governor at
SheIbyviIIe.
A GREAT DEMONSTRATION.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE GREET
REPUBLICAN cANDIDATE-cAM-
PAIeN THE MOST STRENUOUS
HE HAS EVER MADE.

Shelbyville, Ind, Nov. 3.-James
E. Watson, formerly ended his cam
paign for governor here last night, his
44th birthday falling on the day the
political fight was ended. He spoke to
1900 persons, and half as many more,
who were unable to enter the opera
house, were addressed later in the
evening from the assembly rooms Of
the Republican Voters Club.
In his principal speech Mr.. Watson
ironically sketched the career Of w. J.
Bryan, saying the country needed
something more than a poet and q
dreamer as It's guide, and then sum-
med up the state issues and the stand
he had taken with his party on county
unit local option.
No meeting addressed by the nomi-
nee during his speaking tour was more
enthusiastic and his closing speech
was frequently broken with cheers and
cries Of Jim; our JIM" and We'll
win with Watson"
Mr.. Watson's address here was the
last of many delivered yesterday. He
spoke previously to big crowds at
Brookville and then travelled by auto
mobile to Lawrenceburg. He left the
latter place late In the afternoon by
train and arrived here shortly before 6
O clock. A crowd of several hundred
persons was awaiting at the station.
Marehers Parade Streets.
Preceded by a band the committee
and speakers rode in automobiles to
the Ray hotel, where supper was serv-
ed. The crowds that had arrived in
Shelbyville during the afternoon we're
augmented early in the evening by
scores from nearby towns, and shortly
before o'clock the republican county
and district organizations, several
bands and a number of Taft and Wat
the hotel. They were joined by Mr..
Watson and his party and the march
ers paraded the principal streets for
half an hour to the accompaniment OF
cheers. Red fire was burned at regular
intervals along the line of march.
The parade ended at the opera
house, which already was comfortably
filled and those who had participated
in the parade were unable to find
standing room. County Chairman
Sexton presided and introduced Mr.
Watson. The Old Shady Quartet sang
several selections, the audience Joining
in America" When Mr.. Watson
stepped to the platform he was greet.
ed by three young girls bearing bou
quets Of red carnations. They were
given to the nominee by Miss Grace
Montgomery.
The speaker briefly outlined the
campaign, declaring it to be the most
strenuous he ever experienced He ha.
spoken to I, 200. 900 people in the asgre
gate since the first began. Since Jul,
20, he has been in every county in the
state and found the situation peculiar
because Of local conditions, where, II
some respects, party lines had beer
abandoned.
The presence Of veterans on TIL,
stage was acknowledged by the speak
er, who asked them II they woult
change any principles in the republican
platform They answered as with ont
voice-"No."