Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-05-05
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EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENT.

The editor of the Herald and wife
are spending a little vacation in
Michigan. visiting the scenes of
former activities in Lansing, Grand
Rapids, Howard City and elsewhere.
The spring seems easily as backward
in central and southern Michigan as
it is in Wisconsin and everybody is
wishing for warmer weather. R
Meyer Jr. of Lancaster will accom-
pany the editor this week on a trout
fishing trip out from Howard City, on
White river where prospects look
favorable for a good catch.
A bill in the Michigan legislature
which was favorably reported by the
railroad committee one day last week
provides that railroad companies
shall be compelled to publish their
time tables in newspapers and that
the papers must accept contracts for
such publication at regular COM
mercial rates. This will be a very
sensible law and it is understood that
it is looked upon with satisfaction by
the railroads. 1t is very inconveninent
For the public not to be able to turn
to the columns of their newspaper
and find some information concerning
the time of departure of trains.
Nearly every family has occasion to
do some travelling on railroad dur
ing the year and it is not practical to
keep supplied with the necessary in
formation regarding time of trains by
means of railroad folders or railway
guides, : The natural source of such
information should be the newspapers
and yet there is no reason why the
newspa pers should be expected to
publish time cards for the railroads
without being paid for it. The rail
roads companies are the ones who
reap the profit from such publicity an
should be Obliged to furnish the in
formation to the public and pay for
It. And it is bound to come to this
in time in all of the states. Michigan
as setting a good example for others
in starting the movement.
One Of the hardest things that has
been said about Capt Hobson is the
remark made the other day by Ad-
miral Bob" Evans, when he in
timated that Hobson was assigned to
sink the Merrimac- in Santiago harbor
during the Spanish American war
because he was the one officer who
could be very, very easily spared
The publication of Taft's plans for
the further regulation of railroads
is a severe jolt to those journalists
who had just sent out the story that
the Roosevelt policies had been
ditched by his unsympathetic sue
cessor.
Chase S. Osborne. of Sault Ste
Marie. a personal friend of the editor
of this paper for many years past and
a newspaper publisher of long eE-
DOlAOnOOs lilo OdlIAOA yOaAo VI WhASh
were spent on Milwaukee papers, is
reported to have been in CONSTANT
nopeI when the revolutionary out
break occurred, a few days ago. Mr..
Osborne is a traveller who can we'll
be classe1 as 9 globstrotter. He
has crossed the ocean and toured
Europe many times and is very
familiar with all of the European
countries The editor of the Herald
and wife had the pleasure of touring
old Mexico with Mr. Osborne and
wife few years ago. Four years ago
Mr.. and Mrs. Osborne made trip
around the world via Honolulu,
Australia and the PHILIPPINES, and on
his present European trip, upon
which Mrs Osborne as usual accom-.
panies him. they have spent con-
siderable time in Russia and Turkey.
They were to have sailed for New
York, Monday. so it is believed that
they got out of Constantinople be-
fore the second conflict began. Mr..
Osborne has been very fortunate in
some mining discoveries and invest
ments but still retains his newspaper
interests, and is prominently talked
Of as a candidate for governor of
Michigan.