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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
Quite Likely.

DO you suppose the first woman
ever pitched into the first man about
his family failure?"
you may be sure that when their
eldest son turned out SO badly, Eve
tainted Adam with the fact that he
couldn't even raise Cain"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
New Argument for a Pension.

New Argument for a Pension.
An old lady called on a lawyer in
San Francisco to ask him to have the
United States government grant her a
pension She told sad story of her
restitution and added a glowing ac-
count of the heroism her husband had
displayed in the Civil war
LAS l understand it," said the pen
sion attorney, you ask for this pen
sion in the name Of the valiant serv-
ices rendered to your country by your
husband"
NO. replied the old lady. 81 ask
it in the name of God and his mercy"
I'm that case" said the lawyer, 'Ill
get you your pension. have very
few applications in that name. Pop
ular Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
A Social Function.

HAS your fashionable neighbor
done any entertaining as yet in your
honor?"
NO. and I think she ought to- We
seemed to entertain her vastly as we
moved in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
a Mere Detail

She haughtily)-You have money.
sir, but that cannot buy birth.
He (cheerfully) yes, 1t can buy
all the berths you want If you travel
on a Pullman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
Oldest American Settlement.

Acoma, an Indian village of the
southwest. is said to be the Oldest set
tlement in this country 1t was re-
ferred to by the Spanish 80 years be-
fore ST. Augustine was founded
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
Cheaper Still.

Going to have new suit this
year?"
mo"
Last years cleaned and pressed,
eh?"
Worse than that My wife insists
that my old suit will be good enough
after she's gone over it with the
vacuum cleaner"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
Natural Inference.

Can any Of you tell me where be-
gins the sort of bay which is called
bight?"
Don't know, but guess 1t is at the
mouth Of a river.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
Sport.

Sport.
Are you going to the automobile
races this afternoon?"
mo. | prefer the ball game"
'Pshaw. Come on, be a sport. It
amt likely that anybody will be killed
at the ball game"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
HIGHLY Ina ainative.

'Dibble is one Of the most magma
tive persons I ever saw"
why do you say that?"
HE can loaf in hotel lobby and
imagine he's a tourist"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
The Greater Danger.

Knicker-Are you afraid to &c home
in the dark?
Bocker-No; I'm much more afraid
when my wife leaves the light burn,
ing.-Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
The Only Way.

You can send a boy to college,
You can furnish him with chink,
But you've got to set a limit
If you wish to make him think.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
GOOD Advice.

Mother, may l go out to row."
Yes. my darling daughter,
But if the boat rockers going to go,
Don't go near the water"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
SUSPICIOUS.

I'm suspicious Of that woman"
"Why?"
"She shuf1es cards too well to be
trusted"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

A story Of "inquisitorial methods
in the department Of agriculture and
Of 'humiliating experiences to which
officials in the bureau of chemistry
were subjected by Solicitor McCabe
of that department was recited to
the Moss committee Of the house OF
representatives.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
Too Hot Now.

''Here is a book that will make yol
think"
'I'll read it when the frost falls"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
Foreign

Fire on the Queensland docks at
Antwerp, where cotton is stored, did
damage amounting to $1,00O,000. I'm
mense quantities of saltpeter were
destroyed.
Fearful of the Asquith threat to
swamp the ountry with newly Gre
ated peers the British house of lords
passed the veto bill by a vote of 131
to ia. The resolution to pay mem
bers of the house of commons $4,000
annually for their services was car
ried by vote of 256 to 159.
In explanation of the summary ex-
ecution of twenty-six men on the bat
tleship Numancia, the Spanish gov
eminent says the mutiny was part of
a republican plot.
London is in great peril of a food
stuff famine unless some step is taken
to prevent the tieup which has re
suited from the great dock strike &C.
companied with frequent sharp col
lisions between the strikers and the
police.
Reports from Angola, Portuguese.
West Africa. say the natives have
risen at Lunca HULA and other places
and attacked the European settle
ments.
Pope Plus X is resting more COM
fortably and there has been a de-
cline in his temperature as a result
of slight operation, his knee being
punctured and quantity of thick
liquid drawn therefrom by DR.. Andrea
Amici, who had been called in to as
sist the pontiff's regular physicians.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

President Taft has received a
watermelon weighing 104 pounds to
help him keep peaceful during the
"dog days" between now and the time
congress adjourns. 1t came from
Texas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
Protection.

Stuart-Was 1t protection that en-
abled Fergall to acquire his enormous
wealth?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
HAP|PI[I:N IA.G3S)
Of 4 WEEK
Latest News Told
in Briefest and
Best Form.
Washington

Washington
President Taft has received a
watermelon weighing 104 pounds to
help him keep peaceful during the
"dog days" between now and the time
congress adjourns. 1t came from
Texas.
A story Of ''inquisitorial methods"
in the department Of agriculture and
of "humiIiating experiences" to which
officials in the bureau of chemistry
were subjected by Solicitor McCabe
of that department was recited to
the Moss committee Of the house Of
representatives.
The deadlock between the house
and senate was broken and the wool
bill probably will be passed finally
by both branches of congress. The
wool bill, as agreed upon, was so
amended as to require that the pro-
posed law shall take effect October
1 instead of January 1, as provided
D.
If a bill introduced to the senate
by Senator Cullom of Illinois is en-
acted into law, the national capital
will become the center of a wheel of
seven great national highways pass
ing through every state in the union.
=
With the cooperation of the bureau
of plant industry Of the department Of
agriculture the bureau of Indian af
fairs is squirting the Indians to follow
agricultural pursuits and incidentally
is teaching them how to farm their al
lotments with profit.
=
Senators and representatives no
longer will have the pleasure of seeing
their speeches grace the front page of
the Congressional Record. A rule has
been adopted and put into force where
by the Regular senate proceedings
must have first place in the record.
+
The battle ship Michigan is the
champion of the navy. The vessel was
awarded the battle efficiency pen
nant for the highest combined final
merits in gunnery and engineering
for the year ended June 80, 1911.
The greatest decline in the condi-
ton of crops during a single month
since 1901-a general slump through
out the country, due to drouth and
intense heats indicated in the gov
eminent crop report for August pub
lished by the department of agricul-
ture.
Declaring that the smashing of the
Standard Oil was a red flag and dan
ger signal to every big corporation
in the country, George w. Perkins
of the steel trust urged upon the
Stanley steel investigating committee
at Washington the necessity for radi-
cal changes in the antitrust laws.
President Taft received a dispatch
from the emperor of Japan thanking
him for the cordial reception Of Ad-
miral Togo by the American people.
The state department processes to
believe that the arbitration treaties
will SO grow in public favor that the
senate will be obliged to ratify them,
II not now, at the regular session
of congress in December.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16


Y, held that the Standard Oil COM
pany must stand trial at the next
regular term on an Indictment of 143
counts, charging acceptance Of re-
bates from the Pennsylvania Railroad
company and the New York Central
Railroad company on shipments Of
petroleum from clean, N. Y, to Bur-
lington, VT, in violation of the Elkins
law.
Attempting to escape after being
remanded to jail for examination,
Martin Shadowens shot Justice of the
Peace James Mannon, City Marshal
John Stakinrider and spectator and
cut Deputy Thomas Mackey Mackey
shot and killed Shadowens, whose
brother Charles fell from a second
story window and was probably
fatally hurt The shooting occurred
at Christopher, III.
Eva Geronimo, twenty years old
wife Of Fred Good-Lee-Ay and last of
the children Of Geronimo, the famous
war chief of the Apaches, who died
at Fort Still three years ago, died of
tuberculosis at Geronimo's village in
the military reservation at Fort Still,
Okla
Angelo Marine, six years old, for
whom the Chicago police have been
searching for a week, has been re-
turned to his parents. Nine men and
three women, all Italians, to whom
the boys father said he paid $500,
were arrested. Most of them were
relatives of the Marine family.
The hundredth anniversary of the
opening up of the Pacific Northwest
and the founding of Astoria, Ore, by
John Jacob Astor's expeditions, is be-
ing celebrated at Astoria by a festi-
val that will last one month.
The peach crop in Connecticut will
be SO large this year that a special
train will be added to the Hartford
New York schedule during the har-
Vesting season to carry the daily out
put to the New York markets.
The highest price paid for milk in
Milwaukee is soon to be established.
Arrangements have been made by
dairy company to purchase all the
milk from Pauline Wayne, President
Taft's COW, for five dollars a gallon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

he was New York police captain
The Club.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

why don't you get in line for Miss
Hatties favor?"
'HumphI That lines busy"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
Domestic

Many persons were injured, but
none fatally, when nitroglycerin,
placed under the rails, exploded with
terrific force as a Pittsburgh, Butler
& Harmony interurban car filled with
passengers, homeward bound from
business at Pittsburg, Pa, ran over
the mine
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
Personal

1t is announced that CAP Hayman,
for twenty years one of the most i'm
portant financial figures in the Ameri-
can theatrical world, will retire from
active business and henceforth make
his home abroad.
w J. Calhoun, American minister to
China, sailed from Southampton for
New York on the steamer Kronprin
zessin Cecilie. Passengers on the
Olympic sailing for New York includ-
ed ]. Pierpont Morgan.
William n Moore a millionaire
orange grower of Redlands, Cal, and
stove manufacturer of Joliet, Ill, died
in New Zealand. Heart disease was
the cause Mr. Moore had been iii
only two days.
The fortune left by the late John
w. Gates, who died in Paris, France,
was estimated at being thirty and
forty millions of dollars, probably
nearer the former than the latter fig
ure.
*
Vice-President Sherman, whose son
Capt. Thomas M. Sherman, is on duty
with the militia at Pine Camp, N. Y,
has offered to ship two carloads of ice
a day from Utica at his expense to be
distributed among the troops.
Mrs. Ida Nelson, mother of Battling
Nelson, one-time lightweight cham
pion Of the world, was killed by a
fast mail train at the Burnham sta
ton near Chicago. She stepped from
train at the depot just as the mail
train passed
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
TENTH TRANs-coNT1NENTAL TOUR.
Menagerie of Trained Wild Animals

From all of the Globe. death defng almost
beyond the realms of lucid imagination
COSMOPOLITAN
sENoRITAs, RURALEs. LARIAT
EXPRESS VETERANS,
PRINCE BOTLOINE'S TROUPE OF RUSSIAN COSSACKS
daring
BANDS of SIOUX, CHEYENNE and COMANCHE INDIANS
making
with acc civilization
Grand chronological Performance concludes with Superb
Spectacular, Dramatic Fantasy,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

James Dugan, a cab driver, ate fifty
seven ears of corn at the annual corn
eating contest given by Tammany in
New York He won the 1911 cham
pionship and purse Of gold coin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

Thirty tons of antiquities dug from
the ruins of several ancient Egyptian
cities were unloaded in New York
from a German freighter. The ship
ment was consigned to the Metropoli-
tan Museum Of Art and represents
several years work,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

Too much poetry, too many kisses,
too much love, too many smiles and
too little work made Wentworth Car,
ter Of Kansas City an unfit husband,
Mrs. Carter told Judge Porterf1eld
recently and the judge was convinced
enough to give her a divorce.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

The greatest decline in the condi-
ton of crops during a single month
since 1904 general slump through.
out the country, due to drouth and
intense heats indicated in the gov.
eminent crop report for August, pub
lished by the department of agricul
ture
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

Declaring that the smashing of the
Standard Oil was red flag and dan
ger signal to every big corporation
in the country, George w. Perkins
Of the steel trust urged upon the
Stanley steel investigating committee
at Washington the necessity for radi-
cal changes in the antitrust laws.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

Congressman Ollie James of Ken
lucky, DR.. Harvey w. Wiley and Col
Henry Watterson have been asked to
act as jury to decide g controversy
between Albert Small and S. H.
Jewett, New Workers, as to the prop
er method Of making mint julep.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

To find $50 witnesses in the Nc
Namara dynamiting trial at Los An
geles, man and woman detectives are
securing the country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

The battle ship Michigan is the
champion of the navy. The vessel was
awarded the battle efficiency pen
nant for the highest combined final
merits in gunnery and engineering
for the year ended June 80, 1911.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

If a bill introduced to the senate
by Senator Cullom of Illinois is en-
acted into law, the national capital
will become the center of a wheel Of
seven great national highways pass
ing through every state in the union.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

Senators and representatives nc
longer will have the pleasure of seeing
their speeches grace the front page OF
the Congressional Record. A rule has
been adopted and put into force where
by the Regular senate proceedings
must have first place in the record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

President Taft received a dispatch
from the emperor of Japan thanking
him for the cordial reception Of Ad-
miral Togo by the American people.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

The state department processes to
believe that the arbitration treaties
will SO grow in public favor that the
senate will be obliged to ratify them.
II not now, at the regular session
of congress in December.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16

With the cooperation of the bureau
of plant industry Of the department OF
agriculture the bureau of Indian af
fairs is squirting the Indians to follow
agricultural pursuits and incidentally
is teaching them how to farm their al
lOtments with profit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-10
Highway Robbery,
Thursday Morning.

bold highway robbery occurred
about a. NJ, Thursday, on the Maine
Central tracks short distance to the
east of the overhead bridge, when
Louis Cloutler was held up by two
highwavmen, his clothes gone through
and all the money he had upon his per
son, s13. taken.
Mr. Clouuer at once reported tht
matter to tic police, but as yet no clue
has been gbtainedato the robbers Ac-
cordiDg TO his story. one OF the rob
bers had revolver and kept him
covered with it while the other Wen
through his pockets. All the description
he can give of the tVo men is that ono
OF them had red hair and sandy com
plexion. Mr. Cloutier is an employee
of thc Gushnoc Paper Co. and was go
ing along the railroad tracks to his
work when the holdup occurred.
-Four suspicious looking men were
gathered in. late Thursday evening,
by officer Corbett, who found them
near the corner of Winthrop and
Dic1man streets. They attempted to
get away when approached by the Of
ficer but We're unsuccessful. The men
deny all knowledge of the holdup but
they will be detained until morning,
in order that they may be more fully
examined
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-10
HONORED BY ALMA MATER.
Miss Edith TetreauIt Chosen Presi'
dent ST. Eiizabeth's Botanical Club.

Edith NJ Tctreault, \. =, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Tetreault Of
20 Northern avenue, has just been
IGNORED at her alma mater by election
to the presidency of its botanical club.
Miss Tetreault, it will be remembered,
received the baccalaurcate degree last
June at Saint Elizabeth ;. the Catho-
lie Woman's college of New Jersey
and is now pursuing graduate course
preparatory to taking the degree Oh
Master Of Arts. Her work lies mann
" in the department of botany bu'
she rs also taking work III ADVANCED
design in the art department.
Miss Teireault delivered the rrs'
omen lecture before the club. her SUD
ieet being "Greenhouse construction
apropos of the new educational pant
houses which the college IS erecting
for the use of the students III botany
and horticulture The lecture was
characterized by clear and logical ar
rangement and very pleasant deilV-
cry: and it received from the large
audience of faculty and student BODY
the hearty applause which it merited'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-10
CoNY NOTES.

Ravmond Swift Of Class is, who has
been I'll at his home on Winthrop
street. is reported to be improving
slowly.
The girls Of the school have already
started to form basket ball team for
tho coming season, and held their
frsf nr.cticc Of the season this week.
SUPERINTENDENT Of Schools Farms
worth q Marshall is acting as coach
for the team. and as there is some
very good material in the school a
snonnv team may be expected.
New text books for the debating
class have arrived, and they Will be
die,ributod to the students of the
ciass at an carly date. The debating
class is one of the largest and most
enthusiastic ever. and one of the best
debating teams of the State is antlcl-
RATED for this winter
Coach Waadtke in talking to
Journal reporter. Thursday forenoon,
stated that he understood that the
Gardner football team had three
Rates College men coaching them, but
he said this would make no difference
in the outcome of the next game, be-
cause the Cony boys We're determined
10 win. and they would give the Car
diner boys the best beating they ever
had
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-10
AMUSEM ENTS.
Good Vaudeville at Opera House.

Princess Elizabeth who is billed as
a singing and dancing coincidence is
a little lady only ten years old but her
act would do credit to many of the
older and more experienced perform
ers who are making good on the vau-
deville stage.
Howard and Under, in a German
comedy skit, took the audience by
storm. Their rapid fire comedy
could not help but please, and they
kept the patrons of the theatre laugh
ing all the time. The eccentric Old
German with money and the pretty
miss with some Inventions she wants
him to finance, furnish some good
clean comedy a number of songs arc
introduced which went we'll THOSE
who like good clean comedy should see
this act. It contains more laughs than
any comedy sketch that has been seen
here this season. The finish of the act
is a scream. The mechanical effects
and stage settings are in accord with
the act.
These acts will appear Friday ana
Saturday with new photo plays.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-10
Society Women Of New
York are Wise
Beautiful Women of the "400' Who
Have Luxuriant Hair.

In gay New York. where women get
their ideas from their sisters abroad,
the hair bcautifier and grower called
PARTISAN SAGE Is in great demand.
y great scientist. undoubtedly one
of the most eminent hair specialists in
the world. Is the diseoverer of
PARTISAN SAGE He claims most
emphatically that il is the only hair
preparation that viii kill the persis-
tent dandrun germs. At any rate. the
Sole manufacturers Of PARTISAN
SAGE in the United States give
through their agent, Bowditch. Web
ster & Co, this money back guarantee.
which is no doubt strong enough and
plain enough to please the most cX-
acting:
We. guarantee PARTISAN SAGE to
end dandruff in two weeks: to stop
falling hair: to make dull, lfeless and
colorless hair beautiful and luxuriant;
to cure all itching diseases of the
scalp, or money back"
The price is only SO cents a large
bottle at Bowditch, Webster & Cos
and live druggists everywhere. or by
express all charges prepaid from
Giroux Mfg. Co, Buffalo, n. Y. The
girl with the Auburn hair is Oh every
bottle.
Sold and guaranteed by the Dorr
Drug Co. in Waterville, and in Gardi-
ner by Jackson Bros.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-10
INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR.
Nearly 700 Automobiles Have Been
Registered at the Augusta House.

The total number Of automobiles
registered at the Augusta House dur
ing the season of 1911 is 693. carry
ing total number of 2411 people. The
number of states, territories or prov
inces represented is % and the mum
Der of different makes Of cars, rs.
During the season of 1910 but AL We're
registered, carrying a total of 1913
people.
The automobile arrivals during the
present season are divided among the
various states, territories and prov
inces as follows: Auabama. /; Cali
fornia, 4: Colorado, /: Connecticut, %;
Florida. 4; Georgia. .; Illinois, :; In
diana. /; Iowa, l; Louisiana, 3; Maine,
Maryland. s; Massachusetts, 100;
Michigan, 5; Minnesota. ,; Missouri,
raska. 2: New Hampshire, IA;
New Jersey, 8; New York. 124; Ohio,
4; oklahoma, /; PENNSYLVANIA. 81:
Rhode Island. .: Texas ;; Vermont,
l. District of Columbia, S; Quebec >;
New Brunswick, /.