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The Penn's Grove record., 1910-02-04
Reflections of a Bachelor.

The way for a woman to like eat
ing anything is to hear it is good for
the complexion.
A man can always learn his enc
mics In a short while, but not his
friends in a lifetime.
Most men can preach themselves
out of breath without yer thinking
about practicing any of 1t.
The more contempt we think we
have for money the more respect we
seem to have for those who own it.
New York Press.
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Fl HURT IN EXPLOSION.
Gas Pipe Blows Up Following Up
State Hotel Fire.

Rochester, N. Y.-Twenty-one per-
sons were hurt in a natural gas explo-
sion in the Genesee Hotel at Leroy,
N. Y. Two were seriously injured,
the rest will recover
During the Ere Frank O'Hara, OF
the village. Fire Department, fell from
a second-story window and was seri-
ously hurt. He was taken into a
house adjoining the burning hotel,
followed by a crowd of citizens.
While in this house a natural gas
pipe exploded and the dwelling was
blown out at both ends. Twenty-one
persons in the house were scorched
by the flames and cut and bruised by
flying timber.
The damage is about $4,000.
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BANK IN MEXICO SUSPENDS.
United States Company Unable to
Meet It's Creditors.

Mexico City.-The United States
Banking Company suspended, follow
ing it's failure to make the Clearing
House settlement of the days bust
ness.
The suspension is attributed to the
payment by President Ham of drafts
of the Mexico Packing Company ag-
gregating $2,0O0,000, and which were
not accepted in London. 1t is esti.
mated that nearly $3,500,000 was
withdrawn from deposit during the
run.
1t is said that the bank almost met
the emergency, but the failure of the
Bank of Montreal to provide o
funds precipitated the suspension.
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WARMER PAID WOMAN $4,000.
Gave $1,000 a Month For Seven Years
to Mrs. Ford.

Cincinnati, o. Eighty-four thou
sand dollars was the price Charles l..
Warmer, defaulting local treasurer
of the Big Four Railroad, paid for a
woman's silence. Fearing exposure
Of his shortcomings he gave Mrs.
jeanette Steward-Ford an average of
$1,000 a month for seven years, the
payments stopping only when the ex-
posture came from other sources No.
vember 2 last.
Such was the substance of the testi-
mony which Warmer gave in the
trial of Mrs. Ford on a charge of
blackmailing him. Mrs. Ford sat
through the recital with immobile
c~ountenance,
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TRAMP TO GET s250,o0O.
Probate Court Adjudges Him Heir of
Wealthy Junk Dealers.

Boston, Mass. After having
tramped in poverty throughout the
country for nearly a dozen years,
James J. Corbett was declared heir to
$250,000. Judge George, of the Pro.
bate Court, decided that he was the
missing brother and heir of William
J.. Corbett, a junk dealer, of this city.
The claims of several others, in.
Guiding several from Philadelphia,
were rejected.
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United States Railroads Kill
852 in Three Months.

Washington, D. C.-American rail-
roads markedly increased their toll
of life and limb during the three
months covered in Accident Bulletin
No. 33, just issued by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The number killed is 852; injured,
1924. The figures are for the
months of July, August and Septem.
Der, 1909. They show an increase in
fatalities of 118 over the preceding
three months and in injuries of
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Father Was an Invalid.

1t had been a hard day in the field
and father and son were very hun
CRY. The only things eatable on the
table were twelve very large apple
dumplings. The father had consumed
ten while the boy was eating one, and
then both reached for the one re-
naming.
son." pleaded the farmer, "you
wouldn't take the last apple dunn
ping from your poor sick pa, would
you?"-Success Magazine.
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Sacrificed His Orchard.

In one instance in the West a
ranchman found gold "color" in his
valuable orchard. He figured that he
could make more money gold mining
than by fruit raising, SO he installed
a dredge in his orchard. The trees
we're cut down as the dredge pro-
crossed and soon all the great orchard
had been destroyed by the machine,
but the ranchman had been made a
millionaire, while it was a matter of
ease to replant his orchard.
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Latham Falls $50 Feet.

Cairo, Egypt.-Hubert Latham, the
French aviator, fell a distance of $50
feet while making a flight at Hello
polls. The monoplane was wrecked
but Latham was not injured.
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Shot and KiIled as Result Of Feud.

Asheville, N. C.-Bas Browning, of
Haywood County, was shot and killed
in the Bank of Waynesville by Allen
Green, of the same county, as a result
of an old feud. The killing occurred
when the bank was filled with people,
and created much excitement. Green
was placed in Jail at Waynesville.
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To check New Jerseys destructive
forest fires, the State has ordered the
railroads traversing it's pine forests
to clear the ground for fifty feet On
each side of the tracks and pillow up
-a1rd gravel ten-foot strips to- prevent
the growth of brush again.
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There is in use in some parts OF
the west coast of Africa a system OF
writing Of native invention, which 10
said to be successfully competing with
English writing. 1t is called the Val
language, and was invented by Doalu
Bukere, assisted by five Of his friends.
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Of that !
could do no work.
and the pains l suf-
fered would throw
me into spasms. ]
was dizzy, worn and
s~leepless, my back
ached terribly, l had
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WORKMAN SHOOTS SUPERIOR.
Superintendent of Asphalt Works and
Another Man Wounded.

Syracuse, N. Y.-William F. Marsh.
Superintendent of the Warner-Quin.
Ian Asphalt Company, was sent to a
hospital in a critical condition, with
two bullets in his back. William F.
Keene, head teamster for the com.
pany, was sent home with a bullet in
his abdomen. Rocco Chiaro, another
employe, was charged with the shoot
ing.
The wounded men said that Chiaro
appeared at the company's plant in
toXicated, and when they attempted to
drive him away, he pulled a gun and
fired.
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DICKINSON FOLLOWS DEARMoND
Majority of 1888, the Largest Ever
Received in the District.

Clinton, Mo.-Ex-State Senator
Clement C. Dickinson, of Clinton, was
elected as the successor of the late
Congressman David A. De Almond by
a majority of 1888 over Phil S.
Griffith, of Greenfield, his Republican
opponent.
The Democratic majority is the
largest ever received in the Sixth
District, and is believed by Demo-
cratic leaders to portend victory at
the next general election.
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Killed at Target Range.

Delhi, India. - During artillery
practice at camp a she'll accidentally
dropped among the marking party
and exploded. Lieutenant G. G. s.
Harvey, of the Sixty-second Battery,
r. F. A, and n gunner were killed.
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LATEST NEWS.
BY WIRE.
Favored Murderer Escapes.

Gallipolis, Ohio.-Francis Cod
dard. convicted murderer, took adj
vantage of permission to attend his
wife's funeral, and escaped from his
guards. Goddard was convicted Of
the murder of William Levisay, and
had been confined in the Jail at Point
Pleasant, w. Va.
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Psychologists are now using an
electr1cally-heated incubator to hatch
germs, because the temperature can
be controlled for an indefinite period
without variation.
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A Common Weakness.

Landlady-"Yes, l must confess,
have a weakness for coffee"
Boarder-"It must be sympathetic
The coffee has the same quality. =
Meggendorfer Blaetter. N. Y.-5
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THREE DIE IN AUTO CRASH.
New Yorker Also Fatally Injured
When Trolley Car Hits Vehicle.

'HCH 0Ho1IOJ O"H 1IHtS SOIICACs
Denver, Col.-James A. Baker, OF
Attleboro, Mass, and two women
whose identity vas unknown were
killed and Russell A. Talbot, of New
York City, was fatally injured when a
trolley car crashed into an automo-
bile in which five were riding.
Morris Mayer, owner of the ma
chine, who was at the wheel, was
stunned, but suffered only minor in
juries
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Five is the sacred number Of the
Chinese, who have FIVE planets, five
cardinal points, five virtues, FIVE
tastes, five musical tones, i've ranks
of nobility and five colors.
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The management of the steam
roads entering Paris is considering a
proposition to electrify all lines for
some considerable distance into the
suburbs.
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white tigress eight feet

A white tigress eight feet eight
inches in length has been shot in
Dhenkanal State, Orissa. The ground
color was pure white and the stripes
were of a deep reddish black. The
skin has been presented to the Rajah
of Dhenkanal, who has had it mount
ed and placed in his palace.
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Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children,
used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's
Home, New York, cure Summer Complaint,
Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles,
Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At
all Druggists, Csc. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted. lie Roy, n. Y.
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Saghalien on Market.

Toxic, Japan.@Japanese news
papers publish a report current in
Toxic that the Russian Government
intends to sell the northern part of
SagheiIen Island to the United States.
The island is situated off the coast of
Asia. and Is valu( le for its fur-besr-
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A New York druggist, who has
been in the business for forty years,
says that there are $4,000 proprie'
tary medicines for sale in the city.
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Fairbanks I'm Naples.

Charles w. Fairbanks, former Vice
President of the United States, ar
rived at Naples, Italy, from Constants.
nople on the way to speak at Rome
on Lincoln's Birthday.
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FISK & ROBINSON FAIL.
Well-Known Brokers Collapse Under
Liabilities of S6,735,324.

New York City.-Fisk & Robinson.
of No. 35 Cedar street, one of the
best known bond and banking houses
in the city, failed, with Utilities Of
$~6,735,324.
The cause of the crash was that the
firm was overloaded with bonds fol-
which it could not find market
chiefly of the Buffalo and Susque-
hanna Railway Company, which is the
holding company for the Buffalo and
Susquehanna Railroad Company.
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India sends America many rugs.
All the pay the good weaver get for
making them is sixteen cents a day.
Head weavers get SIS a month.
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Manila Sees a Comet.

4Aesafi1d 0CCS " OOAICts
Manila, P. /. The observatory
here observed a comet a few degrees
to the south of Venus and apparently
approaching the earth. 1t is thought
to have been Winnecke's comet.
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Bank Treasurer surrenders.

Webster, Mass.-After secluding
himself for more than a week, John
A. Hall, treasurer of the Southbridge
Savings Bank, who is charged with
the larceny of $21,O0 Of the banks
funds, surrendered himself to the
State police at Worcester, and was
brought here for a hearing. When
taken into court he waived examina-
ton, and pleaded not guilty to a
charge of grand larceny. Judge Clark
held the treasurer in $4,000 bonds,
which were furnished.
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Forty thousand yards of bunting
were used recently on the Madison
Square Garden during the annual
electrical show.
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Sixty-two electric railway lines OPP
crate in and about the city of Paris.
The annual average of passengers
carried is 10000, 900.
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CduS6Q d WodhuCon
and broken down
condition of the
system. I read so
much ofwhatLydi
E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women ]
felt sure it would
help me, and!mus
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
pains all left me, ]
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Man Shot Through Heart
and Woman in the b

Seattle, Wash.-Charles o. Tucker
proprietor of a furniture store, ane
Miss Elvira M. Bunkelman, a young
woman often seen in the company oil
Tucker, were found dead in the hote
apartment of Tucker.
Tucker had been shot in the heart
and the young woman in the brain
The woman held a small pistol in hei
right hand. The police theory is tina!
Miss Bunkelman went to the rooms
and killed Tucker, then killed her
self.
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G. p. Taft's Employe Held.

Torreon, Mexico.-A. G. White,
formerly employed as a bookkeeper
on the ranch of Charles P. Taft, at
Mission, Texas, was taken back to
that place from here to answer a
charge of embezzling $1400 of the
ranch funds.
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We are not to blame because you suffer
from Rheumatism or Neuralgia, but you
are if you do not try Hamlins Wizard Oil.
1t quickly soothes and allays all pain, sore.
ness and Inflammation
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"Drys', Defeated in Joplin, Mo.

Joplin, Mo.-Prohibition was de-
feated at a local option election here
by a majority of 814 in a vote Of
6504. Women and children took an
important part in the campaign,
marching and singing in the streets
and serving free lunch at the polls.
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1t is estimated that in two years
time there will be two Germans for
every Frenchman in the world.
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Excise Violations in New Town.

Gary, Ind.-Thirty persons were
fined $50 and costs and sentenced to
thirty days in Jail for violating the
prohibition law here. The thirty days
in Jail was later suspended.
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Pupils in the Philadelphia public
schools are being taught to board and
alight from street cars in a safe man
ner.
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MINISTER AND EDITOR GUILTY
Libeled a Mayor by Saying He Was
Intoxicated, Court Holds.

Boston, Mass.-Editor George H
Pratt, of the Somerville Sun, and the
Rev. Eben Baylies, a fellow-cam-
paigner in the last municipal contest
in Somerville, were found guilty OF
criminal libel in announcing and pub.
fishing a statement that Mayor John
M. Woods was intoxicated at a holi.
day celebration.
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WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

( Minneapolis, Minn.-"I was a great
sufferer from female troubles which
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Taft Plans a Trip.

Washington, D. C.-President Taft
promised to go to Ohio on June 10
to speak at the seventy-ffth ami
versary of Marietta College. He also
promised to go to Rochester, N. y,
some time in March to attend a ban
uuet to be given by the Chamber of
Commerce. While on that trip the
President may go to Albany, N. Y.
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IN CONSTANT TORTURE.
How a Severe Case of Kidney Disease
Was Conquered.

Mrs. Sherman Youngs, Schoharie,
N. Y, says: "Doan's Kidney Pills
saved my life after years of suffering
that ran me down to such a degree
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The worlds postal business is increasing
at the rate of seven per cent. per annum.
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piles Cured in 6 TO IA Days.

Pazo Ointment is guaranteed TO cure any
caseof Itching, Blind, Bleeding OF Protruding
Piles in 6 to IA days or money refunded. soc.
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No passenger was killed on the English
railroads in the year 1908. The number
injured was 2S3.
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frison For Leader of Strikers.
Check to New Cabinet.

Budapest, Hungary.-The Chamber
voted by a large majority a want of
confidence in the recently formed He
devary Ministry.
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Many Children Are SickIy.

Great Britain owns more than one-half
of the worlds ocean shipping.
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Only One "Bromo Q%uinine,"
That is Laxative Bromo Quinine. Look
for the signature of E. w. Grove. Used the
World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25c.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-02-04

An oak tree sixty feet high con-
fEins about six million leaves.
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Weyler Thrown From His Horse.

Madrid, Spain.-As General Wey-
Ter, Captain-General of Barcelona,
was riding in that city his horse fell,
throwing the General. He was nearly
run over by a carriage as he lay I'M
conscious. He was taken home Sc
verely shaken and bruised.
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BY CABLE.
Baroness vaughan wins.

Paris.-The Court of Appeal or
dered the removal of the seals that
had been placed on the Chateau Bel
%incourt, the residence given to Baron
ess Vaughan by the late King Leopold
of Belgium, and dismissed the petit
ton of the Princess Louise, who
sought an inventory of the property
which her father gave to the Baron
ess. Louise was condemned to pay
the costs of the action.
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Former Slave Dies at me.

Former Slave Dies at 10.
Elyria, Ohio.-"Uncle" John RAM
sey, 119 years old, dSd at the County
Infirmary. Ramsey was a slave and
escaped forty years before the Civil
War, going to Oberlin.
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Beach Hargis Must Stay in Jail.

Frankfort, KY. - Beach Hargis
must serve his sentence of life i'm
prisonment for the murder of his
father, Judge James Hargis, famous
feudist. This ruling was handed
down by the Kentucky Court Of APP
peals.
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Nicaraguan Troops Move.


San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua.-The
Government sent the steamer Angela
to the Gulf of Fonseca to intercept
General Legerino, who vas reported to
be attempting an invasion of Nicara
qua with 500 men. Troops were dis
patched to Chinandega and Corinto.
Norwegian Cabinet Resigns.
Christiania.-The elections to the
Storthing having been adverse to the
Ministry, Premier Knudson sub
mittted to the King the resignation OF
the Cabinet. The King requested the
Ministers to carry on the business OF
the Government pending the forma-
ton of a new Ministry.
Prison For Leader of Strikers.
Sydney, N. S. W.-President Bow
ling, of the Northern Miners Fedora
ton, was convicted of o~bstructing
work at the mines during the strike
and sentenced to year at hard la
Dor in prison.
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Burley Society Wins Suit.

Frankfort, Ky.-The Kentucky
Court of Appeals overruled a petition
for a ~rehearing in the case of the
Burley Tobacco Society against j. E.
Gaitskill, ct al. The Clarke County
Court some time ago appointed a re-
ceiver for the society, but the decis-
ion was reversed by the Court Of
Appeals.
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Private Bank Closes Its Doors.

Bronson, Mich.-The private bank
of l.. Rudd & Son closed here. A no.
tice posted on the door said that ow-
ing to slow collections the bank was
unable to meet its obligations. The
deposits are $4,000.
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FIVE POINTS.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
School is progressing nicely under
Miss Blackburn supervision.
Ernes Sugar is on the sick list.
Nick Auel and wife made flying
trip to Lancaster, last Friday.
Max and Willie Pagel. of Little
Grant, were callers at Five Points.
last Thursday evening.
A good many Five Point people are
invited to attend the wedding of Will
Pagel and Rose Losch. of Little Grant.
They will be married at ten o'clock
Wednesday forenoon. And in the
evening their will be large dance.
Some of our your g folks around here
went skating last Sunday.
The dance at f. Schwartz last
Thursday evening. was very we'll at
tended, there being nearly hun
dred people present. and everyone re-
ported fine time.
Quite a number of people visited al
Five Points, New Years day.
There will be a dance at Pleasant
Ridge, at the home of Carl Sugar, the
21st Of January.
Harry Bass has bought himself &
fine new family cutter.
Our mailman. Ralph Irwin de-
live1s his mail as far as the T. Baker
home, the road being so blockaded
that he cannot get any further.
Last Wednesday, the roads were al
bIockaded with snow and the Bloom
ington stage driver on his way home
tipped over in Five Points and fell il
the snow. The next morning dead
rabbit was found at the place wher'
he fell. Now we suppose that M
O. Reynolds apple trees will havt
rest.
Max Pagel was a Sunday visitor a
M. o. Reynolds. Lilly
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leo. Wizards new residence last Fri

Geo. Willard s new residence last Fri
day.
Ir. and Mrs. j. A. Bossi. out
cutter riding tipped over and his wife
received a fracture of the wrist.
It will be remembered Mr.. Bossi
holds a patent on a device handling
mails on fast going trains. The in
vention is certainly wonderful.
The installation of officers and oyster
supper took place New Years night,
at the Woodman hall. The Royal
neighbors we're the prime movers in
getting up the supper.
Frank Morrissey after his holiday
visit returned to school at Oshkosh;
Miss Meta Calkins to her school at
Dubuque; VIM. Calkins returned to
his work with the Bridge Co, at
Savanna, Ill.
The trains on the q. B. & @, have
been running very irregular for the
past two weeks; snow blockades and
lack of hands, owing to the recent
switchman strike, was perhaps the
cause.
Mrs. James Boarman, of Stock
holm, Wis, is now visiting old time
friends and relatives in this vicinity.
Gordon Pitzer, a teamster, thinks
he hauled the heaviest load that came
to Baglev this winter, over 60
hundred.
We record big snow storm
January the 4th.
Mich. Pace and wife are now on a
visit at O'Neil. Neb. His brother
in-law, Herbert DerDey and family
lives out there. The two sons, Lee
and Mryon. will be chief slap jack
bakers, while mother is absent.
Tom Iorns and wife and little
daughter Lepha, visitors from Browns
dale, Mimi. took dinner at our
bungalow and we had a good visit
with them that afternoon. They sent
their eleven year old daughter home
on the train Monday because of her
school. Poor little Krete bad hard
time travelling all alone. trains failed
to connect and had to lay over at La
Crosse several hours, got to her
destination after midnight, had to
carry a heavy suit case and walk a
half mile out of town to her brother !
farm.
We are having lots of snow and a
snug winter and our farmers are
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PLATTEVILLE.

Special Correspondence TO the Herald
The Platteville Commercial Ass n
will endeavor to secure an agricultural
school for this city and are already
working to interest farmers of this
vicinity In the project.
Congressman Kopp and family are
in Washington, D. g., for the re-
mainder of the winter.
Dorothy Mccormick, of chicago,
visited during the past week with
Platteville friends.
The Enterprise mine is more than
paying expenses and it is expected
that it will be among the big pro-
ducers within a short time.
A number of Platteville people
have purchased Florida land recently
and some intend to move there.
Mr.. and Mrs Sam Poland celebrat-
ed their twenty fifth wedding ami
versary Saturday evening.
Mrs. Morton Eastman, of Chicago.
is visiting Platteville friends
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Oelbrich, of
Boscobel. visited in Platteville last
week.
Miss Eta Kemler, of Dubuque,
visited in Platteville last week.
Mrs. Phillip Eden arrived home last
week from a visit in Chicago.
The next meeting of the attorneys
appointed to appraise the value of Ger
tain lands over which the right OF
way of the new power company will
run will be held in Platteville JanU-
airy ID.
Fred Johns, of Iron River, Mich. is
visiting friends here.