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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
COT RAPID ACTION
DEVISED SOME
THING NEW IN BREAD.
But II Will Not Be Placed on the
Market, and Inventor Would
Like to Have His Old
Job Back.

The former janitor walked back into
the Office in which he had once
Teigned and looked wistfully at the
boss.
I'm back" he said painfully, AN
please can l be janitOr once mOre?"
Whats the row." the boss asked.
Il thought you had gone into the
cooking business. Wasn't that the
place you went to from here-cook
In family hotel?"
The janitor's face grew more pite-
GUS.
Canned" he said, "boilered-put up
on tn shelf with tn rest of tn pre-
serves. / never was no cook, nohow."
But what was wrong?" the boss
asked again.
See these blisters? That's my
cookin'. You see, l goes out to tn
hotel an takes tn job an tn first
thing tn guy that's runnin' tn place
says to me is to tell me to bake up
enough bread to last week. That's
easy says I, not KNOWN how many
people there was to feed, an so just
starts mixin' up tn dough. gets me
tn biggest pan there was an puts
about half sack o. flour I'm it. Then
j sticks in tn rest of tn things and
sits down to wait for tn corner in
bread to rise. Well, / sit around a
while an then / begin to get inquisi-
tive about what's in tn kitchen, SO l
begin lookin' round. I finds a sack
full o. somethin' an takes 1t over to
tn Ight-right where tn bread was
to see what it was. Sack busts all
to pieces an a whole lot of black
powder dumps into tn bread.
I'll bunch tn bread around it an
bake it, anyway 1 says Then no.
says !, TIL boss might catch on. I'll
hump tn whole bunch into tn stove
an burn it up. I opened up tn stove
an dumped tn dough in tn fire an
mixin' more dough.
Just then 1 heard somethin' kinda
breakin' an / looked around an saw
tn lid o. tn stove risin' up kinder
majestic like An underneath, risin'
right along with 1t, was that bread.
] tried to push them bIoomin' lids
down, but it wasn't any use. TIL
kept on risin.'
Then it began to burn an make
a smokestack out of tn door Ieadin'
into tn dinin' room. An just then I
heard somebody.
What's matter?' l could hear tn
boss yellin': who set the house on
fire? Then he comes tearin' out to
tn kitchen, so miles minute
when he gets there, tn breads
runnin' all over tn stove an tryin'
to make Virginia creeper outen it.
self on tn stovepipe
What's up?' he yells.
= Breads up comes back, kinder
peevish. Mussed up tn dough with a
lot o. black powder an was tryin' to
burn it up Just then tn old man sees
tn sack tn black stuff was in
You chump!' he yells, that's gun
powder! Get out of here, quick, be-
fore she goes on
But it wasn't any use. Just then
tn heat hits tn rolled up powder in
side tn dough, an tn next minute
there was dough all over the kitchen,
an dough all over tn boss an me
and everything else. An say, was it
hot? They picked it often me with
an asbestos napkin. I've just got one
consolation though. The biggest part
o that dough hit tn old man square
In tn face an he couldn't say what
he thought of me. Say, boss, can
have my old job back again ?"--Kan-
sas City Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
Both Boys Saved

Lonis Boon, leading merchant of
Norway, Mich, writes: Three
bottles Of Foley's Honey and tar alb
solutely cured my boy of severe
cough, and neighbours boy who was
so i'll with cold that the doctors
gave him up, was cured by taking
Foley's Honey and Tar Nothing
else is as safe and certain in results.
]. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
A PEEVISH PLANT.

Are very, very good
At proving how we waste on dress
Or furbelows or food.
Each writer new who makes his bow
With other sages vies
To show unhappy mortals how
They may economic.
They tell us of the thrifty French.
Who all excuses shun.
But I'm not anxious to retrench;
1t isn't any fun.
I'm weary of this endless song;
/ wish some seer wise
Would show us how to get along
And not economiZe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
Boys Use Skull as Football.

When Principal John Willett David
son of public school No. 70, east New
York, entered the playground recently,
he saw the boys playing football with
a human skull. The boys said they
found it in lot opposite, once a ne
gro burying ground. Davidson made
the boys carry the skull back, dig a
grave and bury it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
Just Possible.

'T was born and raised on this
farm, said the stranger, "but / have
MT set foot on it for 20 years. 1t GER
tainly has run down a good deal since
then"
"Mebby it has," rejoined the old
farmer, but reckon it'd run down a
heap sight worse if yew had stayed
on it,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
Rat deterioration.

One of the latest ideas for killing
rats is trap into which the animal
walks, attracted by an electric light
and display of food. Once in he
can not get out and an electric current
kills him in fifty or sixty seconds. The
apparatus can be so arranged that
the electrocuted animal itself signals
its fate to any desired place.-Popu-
lar Mechanics.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
A Roland for an oliver.

A young Baltimore man, who is
quick to see a point and somewhat
of wit himself, walked into a shop
the other day and asked for comb.
"Do you want a narrow mans
comb?" asked the attendant, all un-
conscious of bis terms.
NO. said the customer, gravely;
81 want a comb for a stout man with
rubber teeth"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
FSTATE of Perry Fruit.

FSTA TIE of Perry Fruit.
~ State of Wisconsin, County Court of
Grant cOunty-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at the regular
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, IN the 1st
Tuesday of November. A. D.. 1909 being the
End day OF Novem ber. l9I9,at the hour of ten
O'Clock in the forenoon. the following mat
ter will be heard and considered
The application of A.E Rundell. executor
of the last will and testament of Perry Fruit
late of the town of Clifton. in said county
of Grant. deceased. for the adjustme emf,
settlement and allowance of his final ae
count as such executor and for the assign
ment of the residue of the estate of said
deceased to such persons as are emit led
to the same,
By order of the Court.
Dated Oct.1St 1909.
First pub. Oct. 9th, last pub Oct %.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
More Comfort Then.

'Why do you always postpone your
vacations until fall instead of going
during the summer"
Its easier in the fall. don't have
to fight my way into the dining room
or get up before daylight in order to
get a chair on the porch"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
In the Air.

where's Willie?"
Cup in the attic building q mono
plane"
"And where's George?"
Hes in the cellar making a BIZ
plane"
"And where's Henry?"
piles in bed He tumbled from the
roof of the garage in his aeroplane."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
Gentle Advice.

A man takes contradiction and ad-
vice much more easily than people
think, only he will not bear it when
it is violently given, even though it
lie well founded. Hearts are flowers;
they remain open to the softly falling
dew, but shut up in the violent down
pour of rain.-Richter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
NSTATE of Russel Tavlor. decd.

II 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
Tor said county 1T the court house in the
city of Lancaster. in said county. on the
fourth TusSday, of Oct. A. D, 1909. be-
hour Of one O'clock in the afternoon ter the
following matter will be heard and consid-
Ell ed:
NIT to probate the last will and testament
of said deceased and for letters testament
airy thereon.
By order of the Court.
JAMES McBRIEN, Register in Probate
Grant Co.. Wis.
Dated September oath, 1909
list ms Sept, 90; last ms. Oct, 49,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
n State of Wisconsin, Grant County
Court SS-In Probate,
In the matter of the estate of Anna
Barbara Schm1tz. deceased.
Letters teStam emf airy on the estate of
Anna Barbara Schmitz. of Potosi. Wis. de-
ceased, having been issued to William
H. Schmitz.
Notice is hereby given. that the creditors
of said Anna Barbara Schmitz. deceased. are
allowed and limited by order of this Court
until and including the fourth Tuesday of
March 1910. being the 22d day OF said
month. to present their claims and de-
mandS against sal Anna Barbara Schmitz.
decea> ed. to the ounty Court for exam1na-
ton and allowance.
Notice is also hereby given. that the
claims and demands so presented will be
examined and adjusted by this Court, at
The office of the County Judge at the Court
House. in the city of LANCASTER. in said
county. on the fifth Tuesday of March
1910.
Dated this goth day of September 1909.
E.B. GooDsELfS' Co County ntgi Judge.
LIST inS. Sept 22nd; last ms. Oct. Is.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20

Fall colds are quickly cured by
Foley's Honey and Tar. the throat
and lung remedy. The genuine con-
tains no harmful drugs.
J. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
A SOLID REASON.

Mr.. Smith-Why do you women
want to vote? Don't you know that
the majority of the women don't want
you to?
Mrs. Smith-That's exactly why we
are determined to do 1.-THE cats!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
A Chance for Him.

ct don't know what to do with my
son, there seems to be so few oppor-
tunities for him. There is no place for
man who is needed and yet has no
friends"
81 don't know. Why not make him
a baseball umpire"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20
NOTICE TO CREDITORS,

~ State of Wisconsin. Grant County
Court. sS-In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of John
Helbing. deceased. a
Letters t. stamentary on the estate of
John Helbing. late of Paris. Wisconsin. de-
ceased. having been issued to Catharine
Helbing.
Notice is hereby given. that the creditors
allowed and limited by order of this Court
until and including the 1St tuesday of
April; 1910. being, the 5th day. of said
month to present their claims ar demands
against said John Helbing, deceased,
to the county court for examination and
allowance.
Notice is also hereby given, that the
claims and demands so presented will be
examined and adjusted by this court. at
the office Of the County Judge. at the court
house, in the city of Lancaster, in said
county. on the End Tuesday of April, 1915,
Dated this 5th dav of October, 1909.
By the Court,
E. B. GOODSELL. County Jrdge.
1st ms. Oct. g. last ms. October ~.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20

NOTICE TO CREDITORS,
~ State of Wisconsin. Grant County
Court SS--In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Christian
KTaemer, deceased.
Letters teStamentary on the estate
of Christian Kraemer. deceased having been
issued to Albert G. Kraemer.
Notice is hereby given. that the creditors
of said Christian Kraemer. deceased. are al
lowed ana limited by order of this court
until and including the 4th Tuesday of April
1910. being the 10Th daV of said month,
to present their claims and demands
against said Christian Kraemer deceased,to
the county court tor examination and al
lOwance.
Notice is also hereby given. that the
claims and demands SO presented will be
examined and adjusted by this court. at
the office of the county judge. at the court
house, in the city of Lancaster. in said
county. on the first Tuesday of May
1910.
Dated this 18th day ot'Oct. 1909.
By the Court. E. B. GOODSELL.
County Judge,
Brown & Brennan. Attys for Estate.
LIST ms. Oct. 10th. last ms. Nov. 10th.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-20

The Application.
Unto those who talk and talk
This proverb should appeal:
The steam that blows the whistle
Will never turn the wheel.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-01
AARON BURR CASE
CITED lN COURT

Jefferson city, Mo, Nov 2l.-The
decision of the supreme court OF the
United States written By Chief Justice
Marshall in the Aaron Burr case was
cited By the supreme court of Nilsson
ri yesterday IN the Issuance OF an or
der releasing on habeas coIpus Tony
Gauss and David EieheI. who had been
Jailed for contempt by the St Louis
circuit court
The latte tribunal committed Gauss
and Elchel because they refused to
answer certain questions when sum
moned as Witnesses In the trial OF n
man accused Of violating the anti
bookmaking laws Of Missouri.
Because it is not clear that the de-
PENDANTS would not incriminate them
selves by answering the questions, the
Missouri supreme court holds that the
St Louis judge erred in ordering
Gauss and Eichel to iail
Numerous extracts from the deci-
sion OF Chief Justice Marshall regard
ing Aaron Burr accompanied the find
ing.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-01
H00SIER MAYOR
ELECT UNDER FIRE

indianapolis, Ind. Nov. 24.-The
grand jury yesterday began an inves-
tigation of charges that Samuel Lewis
Shank, the republican mayor-elect.
has violated the state statute making
it a criminal offense for candidate
to obtain the assistance Of an elector
BY promises of appointment TO office.
Fred w. Expert a member of the
eounclt, and James o, Barrett, who, It
is alleged received from Shank prom
iscs OF the prestuecn,. of the board OF
public works and membership on
the board Of public safety, respect
lively, were called before the grand
jury yesterday. They were not APP
pointed,
Shank's appointments generally
since his election have not agreed
with the Slate" arranged by him
with his political adherents before his
election, according to the public state
ments OF prominent politicians. As a
result, a political feud of unexampled
bitterness in this city has arisen.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-01
To FIX STATUS OF
GROCE AND CANNON

Washington. Nov 24.-Delay OF ae-
ton in reference to the executions OF
Groce and Cannon Is occasioned by
the inability of the government to fix
the slain mems exact status in Mica
ragua. An effort is making to de-
termine whether they we're members
Of the revolutionary army or acting
on their own responsibility when cap
tured If proven that they really
were responsible for the planting OF
miner for the purpose Of blowing up
tho Nicaraguan troop ships, and act.
ing on their own responsibility, their
status is very different from what It
would be were they acting as a part
Of the revolutionary forces. untii
this information is received. II Is
doubtful II the government VIII take
any steps toward the chas;isement Of
Zelaya, but It Is believed that plans
for the concentration OF warships and
marines on the Nicaraguan coast viii
continue. mis- show OF force may
result in large accessions to the rev
dictionary army from portions Of Inc
country held by ZeIaya's ARM
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-01
STANDARD OIL NOT
At ALL SCARED
WILL NOT LlouIDATE sEcuRI-
TIES BUT AWAITS SUPREME
COURT,
coMPANYs SOLICITOR HAS !
PLAN TO AVOID OPERATION
OF DECREE.

New York, Nov. 24.-The Standard
Oil company announced yesterday
that it had no intention of seeking TO
procure the amendment of the Sher
man antitrust law, bur would proceed
with an appeal from the ST. Paul de-
cision to the supreme court Morti-
mer F. Elliott, the company's gener-
al solicitor, after a conference with
William G. Rockefeller and John D.
Archbold, said:
We will await the verdict of the
supreme court before we take any
steps toward reorganization or a new
statement of the case to the public.
The court has the first rights.
1T seems highly improbable to me
that there ever will be foreign hold
ing company organized. The com
plexity of control exercised by sever
al states sets too many difficulties in
the way.
Such comment on the case as /
have seeu misses the fact that the
Standard Oil company is not hold
ing company pure and simple, as was
the Northern Securities company. For
instance. It owns outright, at Bay
onne, n. J., the largest refinery in the
world. There is nothing in the de-
cree to prevent the company contin-
uing business, although | admit it
makes doing business more cumber.
some.
Although the decree enjoins the
company from voting its share-hoId-
ings in subsidiary companies, or re-
ceiving dividends from them, there is
no reason why individual holders
among whom such shares would be di-
yided under the decree, shouldn't
elect their own officers in the susid-
larry companies and r Give their OWL
dividends from them proxy sys-
TEN among or 5000 shareholders
certainly would be no more unman-
ageable than the same system used
by railroads and industrial compa-
MES with, say $4,000 shareholders.
I'm brief, there is no cause for the
market to fear forced liquidation OF
the securities which the Standard Oil
company now holds. / disagree with
the gentlemen who think such a re-
distribution necessary"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-01
SAFETY APPLIANCES
TO COME IN FREE

Washington, Nov. 24.--On account
of the Cherry disaster liberal inter
probation has been given by the treas.
ury department to the paragraph Of
the new tariff law permitting free en-
try of miners rescue appliances. The
department yesterday, in letter ad-
dressed to the collector at Chicago,
directed the free entry of all miners
rescue appliances or parts thereof,
such as helmets, special tubing, valves,
special oxygen cylinders, refiiing OK
ygen pumps and all other essential
parts of complete outfits. Under the
provisions for miners safety lamps,
collectors are directed to admit free
miners safety lamps and apparatus
for locking and unlocking such lamps
or for testing or cleaning them.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-01
ELECTRIC TRUST?
Records Gathered by Department o
Justice indicate Combine.

Records Gathered by Department o
Justice indicate Combine.
Washington, Nov. 23.-The depart
ment of justice, in it's investigation
of the so-called electric trust, mas
gathered records which, to the minds
of the investigators, show that the
General Electric company and the
Westinghouse company have agreed
to end competition. It is searching
for documents that are expected TO es-
tablish that the American Telephone
& Telegraph, which has Just absorbed
the Western Union, was being made
party in interest along with the SO
called electric street railway trust.
Through most of the evidence col
lected by the government runs a
story of attempted interference by
men high in the industrial and polit-
ical world, directed first against the
government probers, then Attorney
General Bonaparte, and finally Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Among those who, it is charged.
the government records show tried to
stop the inquiry were Charles f.
BROKER, republican national commit
teeman from Connecticut, and identi
fed with the General Electric com
pany, and Herbert Noble. senior OF
the New York law firm of Noble. Hub
bard & Jackson.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-01

London Nov. 24.--The budget de-
bate yesterday afternoon and last
night. was principally remarkable as
showing the likelihood that number
Of peers. In free trade interest. are
declining to support Lord Lands
downs rejection motion, although op-
posing the budget on general lines.
These peers viii abstain from vot-
ing. Lord Pentland, secretary from
Scotland. warned the peers that the
house of commons could not be ex-
pected to find way out OF the diff
hculty created by the rejection Of
the budget This statement created
the greatest interest, as II had been
supposed that the government might
yield to the lords in the matter Of
adopting temporary financial meas
urea 70 meet the situation arising out
Of the budgets rejection.
Many libcral mambers Of parlia.
ment had e expressed q determination
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-01
ENGLISH STATESMEN
IN SERIOUS MIDDLE

to oppose any bill authorizing the
continuance Of existing taxation I'M
ill after the dissolution Of parliament
Lord Pentland declared that the
government was done forever with
the old state Of things. and that the
constitution and character Of the
house of lords must be modified. He
also reminded the house that a long
constitutional struggle might handi-
cap the country in case Of war, and
asked the lords to consider whether
the penalty would not be dispropor-
tionate to the offense
Earl Russell predicted thar tina
adoption Of the I.andsdoRn resolu-
tion would start reyolutica that
sooner or later would bring a readiHst-
-ment that would leave tine house Of
lords powerless.
Lord AYebury declared that the
budget would frighten capital cat Of
the country, cripple enterprise and
create q feeling o. insecurity.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-01
HOPE ABANDONED
FOR 1879 MINERS
EXPLORATION INTO SECOND VEIN
SHOWS TUNNEL HAD
COLLAPSED.
ONE or The RESCUED suRvL
VoRs DIEs-sEARcH NOT
GIVEN UP.

Cherry, H., Nov. 2s-Hope that
some of h" 1S9 men known to be en-
tombed were still alive was practic
ally abandoned yesterday
Exploration into what as known as
the second vein. where it was thought
probably many miners had barricaded
themselves and subsisted on oats and
corn provided for the mules, showed
that great portion of the tunnels
had collapsed, 1t is thought that
many men are buried under the debris
and if distractions are not soon
cleared away at least d hundred bod.
les may never be dug up The fire
still is raging in these tunnels and
the back portions where the impris-
oned miners could have found re-
treat was said TO be fun OF black
damp,
What little hope we had was given
up when We penetrated TO what is
called the overcast" said General
Manager Taylor. In that place pure
air would have been found if any
where, and the miners would have re-
treated there, We found that place
empty both Of bodies and live men.
We detected NJ signal or any sign OF
life"
The death yesterday of one of the
survivors brought up Saturday re-
duced the total number saved out OF
$40 lost to 10. Almost all OF the "a
bodies taken out Monday were iden-
titled. Women who had been prostrat-
ed for ten days were called to make
certain, by recognizing pocket knife
or dinner pail. that their hopes had
gone.
Down below the rescuers met great
obstacles. Ia one Instance fire broke
out of tunnel temporarily cutting of
the escape OF twenty-five men who
had ventured 1000 feet from the hoist.
ing shaft, The smell Of smoke gave
warning above and the rescuers were
reached and brought to safety by an
other party.
Following telegram sent to the
governor by the executive board OF
! the miners state organization, asking
the state TO designate somebody to
take charge OF the mine. Mine In
spcctor Hector McAllister was placed
in charge It was Sc that despite
the fire and the dis raging news OF
the tunnels having iallen in, the res
cue work would be pushed night ana
day
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-01
LOEB PROMISES TO
FIRE 100 WElGHERS

Washington, D c.. Nov. 2i-Wil-
liam Loeb Jr.. collector of the port
Of New YORK was an early caller al
the white house yesterday. and spent
half an hour or more With President
Taft
Mr Loeb stated that within the
next week he @ould dismiss a dozen
Or more weiehers. Hs said that when
they are lat ont, he thought the serv-
ice would be- ia fret class shape, and
that no more jismfssals IN the near
future vert contemplated
According to Hr Loeb there is
nothing in he story that Richard
Parr. the acting deputy surveyor at
New York who recently engaged in
a controversy with former Assistant