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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
The Deep Purple. F"

With "The Deep Purple" that
highly successful drama which comes
to the opera house Thursday, April
30, new partnership of dramatic
authors was born. Armstrong had
long been successful playwright, as
"Alias Jimmy Valentine, "Salomy
Jane" and ''The Heir to the Hoorah''
will bear witness. Miner had had
only one play produced, and that had
short life, but he brought to the
partnership knowledge of men and
conditions that he had attained during
which he had been at various times,
a hotel-keeper, a lecturer with a
travelling medicine show, a gold
digger in the Klondike, a soldier, a
prize-fght manager, short-story
writer, and the husband of a mil
lionairess with a mansion on Fifth
Avenue. Certainly his has been a
checkered career. Judging from the
great success of "The Deep Purple"
the collaboration of this unique cele-
brity and the experienced playwright
seems a happy one.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
No Special Session.

Gov. McGovern did not find the
sentiment of the people of Wisconsin,
as ascertained through expression
given at the spring election, strong
enough in favor of special session
OF the Legislature to warrant him in
calling it, and he has announced that
it will not be called. Incidentally he
brands the petition of the state
officials and others for such a session
as merely playing politics with the
state tax question and the desire to
have "a political conference in con-
tinual session at Madison at the ex-
pense of the state. +" The truth of
the matter is that the whole thing
centers around the game of politics
as to whether McGovern or Morris
shall obtain an advantage in their
scramble to secure a seat in the u. S.
senate, and the other movements
connected with this greater one in
the holding of the Offices. fractional
squabbles instead of public interest is
the real handspring of action in this
matter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
HEARING Held today
ON FORECLOSURE CASE
Before Judge CIementsOn in
Grant County Circuit Court
Proceedings Against the Republican
House Property, at PIatteviIIe to
be Again Considered.

Today is a special day of the Grant
County Circuit Court, for a hearing
before Judge Clementson in the
matter of a foreclosure on the
Republican House, Platteville's larg-
est hotel. This is an action which
was started in February 1910 and has
been upon the calendar at every term
of the circuit court since that time.
Action in this case was brought by
Fritz Won Oehsen, executor of the
estate of John F. Miles, through his
attorney, D. j. Gardner, against
Geo. M. Brown and others, represent
ed by Kopp & Brunckhorst, attorneys,
for the foreclosure of a mortagage of
$40, 900 on the hotel property, and.
for the recovery upon certain labor
liens. The total amount now claim
ed, including taxes, insurance. COSTS,
etc. is about $1,000.
In January, 1911 demurrer was:
made to the complaint, and was:
heard in the supreme court, which.
confirmed the judgment of the circuit.
court, and an amended complaint was
put in. Demurrer to the amended.
complaint was filed on Jan. 81, 1913.
but was overruled by the judge. In
March, 1913 judgment was entered
by the court in favor of the plaintiff,
not including the amount claimed ON
the liens.
Judge Osborne, of Darlington, was
rets ined as assistant to Mr.. Gardner
for the plaintiff and at the October
term last fall, at the solicitation of
the plaintiff, an order was entered
by the court, vacating that judgment.
On November 18, 1913, supplemental
and amended summons and complaint
asking for a revival and continuance
of the action, was fiId by the plaintiff
and the case was placed upon the
calendar for the February term of
court. 1t is upon this complaint that
a hearing is set for today.
The hotel has not been regularly
operated for the past two or three
years, but during that time has been
leased by Mr.. Patnaude, proprietor of
the Columbia hotel, Immediately
across the street from the Republican
House, as an annex to provide addi-
tional sleeping accommodations for
his guests.
The case is one which possesses
considerable interest and it is prob
able that number of Platteville peo-
pie will be present at the hearing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
WILL OCCUR JUNE 5
Preparations are Now in Progress for
This Event and the Annual
Judge Mills Contest.

With the close of school only six
weeks off, serious thought is be-
ginning to be given to the graduation
exercises, which will come on Friday
morning, June fifth. The class this
year is quite large, numbering twenty
nine who have met all the require
ments to date and have satisfactorily
completed all their work through the
first semester. All of these must,
of course, do good work in all their
subjects for the rest of the year in
order to receive diplomas. The num-
Der of boys in the present class is
much higher than the average.
Those in perfect standing at present
are
Ruby Benedict, Myrtle Burgess,
Alice Edge, Bessie Edge, Elva Gates,
Lottie Grebe, Marie Hoffman, Martha
Jordan, Emma Knoble, Kathyrn Nc
Coy, Genevieve Meysembourg, Mar
garetta- Nehls, Rachel Payne, Eliza
beth Recht, Emily Roberts, Eda
Roesch, Meta Schmidt, Selma Wagner,
Lille Walker, Lorraine Wilson,
Henry Belscamper, Otto Berndt,
Richard Brown, Ned Ellis, Norton
Eversoll, Clay Rafferty,, William Nc
Coy, Evans Stone, Burdette Weber.
THE JUDGE MILLS CONTEST.
The annual Judge Mills contest,
open to all seniors in the high school,
has been set for Friday evening, May
8 at the Congregational church. Six
speakers will take part-two boys.
and four girls. They are Otto Berndt,
Norton Eversoll, Elva Gates, Mar
garetta Nehls, Meta Schmidt, and
Lorraine Wilson.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
Big Roller For County

There was unloaded at the Muscoda
depot Monday big power road roller
consigned to Grant county which is to
be used on the roads in this part of
the county. 1t was accompanied by
a sprinkler to be used in conjunction
with it.
This is the fourth roller of that
kind that the county has purchased,
the others being in use in other parts
of the county. However the others
are more complete than this, as in the.
language of the road builder an outfit.
consists of roller, sprinkler, rock
crusher complete with screen and bins
for different sized crushed stone.
This roller is propelled with a
gasoline engine of 25 horse power and
is said to weigh twelve tons. 1t is
built very similarly to a traction en-
CINE, except that the front is one big
wheel and the two rear wheels are
wide and track into the path of the
front wheel, the surfact of all being
smooth.
1t is the intention to use this roller
for the first time on the town of
Muscoda road southwest of the viii
lage, where work begins at once to
finish matchmaking that stretch of
sand to the hill .-Muscoda Democrat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
S. S. Association Officers.

Following are the officers and
superintendent elected and appointed
at the Grant Co. S. S. Asso. Conven-
tion held in Lancaster, April 20-21 {:
Pres. Rev. John Birrell, Cuba
City; Vice Pres, Rev. H. A. Stude-
baker, Lancaster; Cor. Secy. Mr.. R.
O. Gosden, Montfort; Rec. Secy.,
Mrs. G. M. Klarman, Lancaster. !;
Treas, Mrs. w. Harberts, Lancas-
ter.
superintendent Elementary
Dept, Miss G. Gesland, Hazel Green !;
Secondary Dept, Prof. j. E. Rohrer,
Montfort; Adult Dept, Mr.. Cox,
Hazel Green; Teacher Training, Mr..
J. c. Brockert, Lancaster; Mis-
sionary, Miss Amy C. Lathrop, Lam
caster; Temperance, Rev. G. w.
Grossly, Montfort; Home Dept, Mrs.
Geo. Mattert, Cuba City.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
FINE SHOW COMING
ON THURSDAY NIGHT
The Deep Purple is Listed Among
The Big Things on the Road
Don't Miss 1t.

The Deep Purple" the successful
play by Paul Armstrong and Wilson
Miner, the Princess theatre, (Chi-
cago) production of which comes to
the opera house direct from it's long
New York and Chicago runs, is
heralded as an example of a new
school of dramatic endeavor that is
making It's way in this country.
Whatever name this new school is
ultimately to be credited with, its
origin is said to Turk in the realistic
schools of France and the Teutonic
countries. Yet it's character has been
greatly modified, by it's application to
things American, and it's submission
to the requirements of American audi
ences. There is none of the morbid
ness of the Scandinavian realist, or
the gleeful exhibition of shocking
detail that is so apt to characterize
the work of the Frenchman OF the
same school.
tThe Deep Purple takes it's audi
ence into the haunts of the modern
criminal, not the petty crook, the
sneak thief or the house breaker, but
he who works for big stakes through
his analysis of the human weaknesses
of those with whom he deals. The
setting throughout breathes realism,
though there is no claim made, for
instance, that the boarding house
scene, located in the midst of New
York's tenderloin district, has been
transported intact from a real board
ing house to the stage. That would
be incompatible with the spirit of the
so-called new-school, which believes
in producing the effects of true
realism through the accentuation of
the essential and the subordination of
detail.
An unusually fine cast of players
they have assembled for the produc-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29

Fortune Island is known to romance
as the hiding place of Captain Kidd S
fortune but if it is really true he was
some good at burying treasure, for it
remains hidden to this day.
Clearing Fortune Island with our
black pirates on board we steam
away for the windward pass and
Cuba, passing another light house on
Anagua Island with the customary
wreck in her front teeth, and twelve
hours later we sight Cuba.
To the traveller who has read much
and seen nothing of this Pearl of the
Antilles the first sight of Cuba is
disappointing. One may look in vain
for the tropical verdure, the Royal
palms and gorgeous beauty associated
with this imagined isle. What one
really sees is ragged, mountainous
coast, denuded of verdure, and APP
parently unwatered and uninhabited.
For hundred miles we skirted this
coast and with but one exception we
failed to find a human habitation,
although twenty pairs of glasses
searched among the recesses and along
the coast line. The mountain ranges
as we neared Santiago reached higher
and higher until in places the clouds
hung about the higher peaks, but
always towards US they presented the
same seamy, ragged, age-marked
exterior. In places the iron ore
showed in broken crevices and land
slides, red and rusty, like the sides
of an old wreck.
1t was outside Guantanamo Harbor
on the southern coast of Cuba that we
saw the first American flag. 1t was
a supply ship returning from the fleet
of battleships which we later saw
hidden away behind the headlands,
some twelve or fifteen in number.
will mention here that though /
travelled some four thousand miles,
and saw shipping from every land l
never saw the American flag again
except in moving picture show in
Jamaica. Permit me to digress.
CONTINUED on I'd page.)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
MRS. BRAZZEL FOUND GUILTY
Jury in Case at Dubuque Returns
Verdict of Murder in Second
Degree Wednesday.

The jury in the case of Mrs. Dorcas
Brazzel, who was on trial for the
murder of her husband in Dubuque
several months ago, found her guilty
of murder in the second degree this
morning at 9 AS. This means an in
determinate sentence in the state
penitentiary.
This case has attracted consider
able attention from the general public
for miles around Dubuque, and has
been one of the hardest fought
criminal cases ever witnessed in the
Dubuque district court.
Mrs. Brazzel was charged with the
killing of her husband sometime dur
ing the month of January, 1914.
Her husband, who was a street car
conductor, was found dead in his
home on January 10Th, with fractur-
ed skull. Mrs. Brazzel was indicted
by the grand jury, brought to trial
and was today found guilty of murder
in the second degree. -Galena
Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
ORGANIZATION OF
THE NEW CITY COUNCIL
Officers and Standing Committees
Appointed for the Ensuing Year
at Last Weeks Meeting.

The first meeting of the new city
council was held at the city hall on
Tuesday evening of last week. The
principal business of the meeting was
organization.
Henry Belz, holdover alderman
from the first ward, rendered his
resignation and VIM. E. Lathrop was
appointed to fill the vacancy. John
Clark rendered his resignation as
alderman in the fourth ward and
Joseph Caspers was appointed as his
successor.
The following officers and COM
mittees were appointed:
City Clerk-John M. Stone.
City Attorney-R. A. Watkins.
Health Officer-Dr. Rush Godfrey.
Weighmaster-Hir Pennock.
Supt. and Engineer at City Water
Works-John HI. Stephens.
Chief of Police and Street Commits
sioner-Geo. Mccarthy.
Nightwatch and Police-John Tay-
lor.
The mayor announced his standing
committees for the coming year as
follows:
Finance Com. Lathrop,
Ziegler, Caspers.
Business Com.-Ziegler, Croft,
Austin.
Bylaws and Ordinances-Calvert,
Croft, Caspers.
MISUNDERSTANDING, Richardson,
Austin.
Board Public Works-Wieden-
beck, Richardson, Calvert.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
Obituary Mrs. Anna Woods.

After many months of suffering
Mrs. Anna Wood entered into rest
Thursday evening April 16, 1914.
Mrs. Wood was the daughter of the
late A. A. Franklin and Susan Frank
lin. Nearly all her life was spent in
her old home and neighborhood in
North Lancaster. Always an earnest
student and tireless worker, she early
fitted herself for the profession of
teaching, which she followed with
marked success for several years. In
1899 she was married to Owen H.
Woods and they lived for awhile in
Sioux City, Iowa and Canton, S. Da. !;
since the return to Lancaster, in ad-
dition to her other duties, Mrs Wood
has been the successful manager of
the home farm, in which she was
greatly interested. Her mind was
stored with the best of literature !;
she seldom closed days work with
out spending an hour with her books.
To the last she did her duty as she
saw it, faithfully and conscientiously !;
she met life's struggles bravely. re-
linguishing her cherished plans and
labors only when failing health COM
PEELED the strong, willing hands and
active brain to cease from work. K.
FOR SALE Try hard hIOoH uoo9
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
1900 Soldiers From California.

Sacramento, Cal, April 20. -Provi-
sional orders for the transportation and
concentration of CALIFORNIA; militia,
approximately 1900 men, have been
sent to commanding officers. Adjutant
General E. A. Forbes said tonight the
volunteers could be modified in 48
hours.
The Gen. Forbes alluded to in the
above dispatch is son of Eugene A.
Forbes, member of the 25th Wis
consin regiment in the civil war, who
is brother of Mrs. M. A. Reed, of
this city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
Presbyterian Church.

Sunday School at 9 AS.
Morning worship Germany 10 as.
Sunday School (Hurricane) 9 as.
Divine Service (Boice Creek 2 80.
Evening worship (English) Z 80.
Ladies Aid Society meets at Mrs
Louis VOLTS at Rockville on Wednes.
day afternoon.
Services at Rockville on Wednesday
evening evening at z 80.
The Hurricane Ladies Aid Society
meets at the home of Mrs. Hodoval OF
Thursday afternoon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29

tion of 1.-The Deep Purple, " make a
point of the fact that the leading ac-
tors are endowed with naturalistic
tendencies. The play, too, has been
staged by Hugh Ford, highly trained
specialist in this field of endeavor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
Congregational Church.

Sunday School 10 100.
Morning Worship IL 100.
Christian Endeavor 6 As.
Junior Endeaver 6 AS.
Evening Worship z 80.
Do not fail to hear Rev. L. H
Keller, of Madison and Rev. c. c.
Merrill, of lBoston, Mass, Thursday
evening at 7:30. A treat is in store
for you.
Ladies Missionary Society will
meet with Mrs. Reuben Garner, Fri
day at 3 p. m. Be on time, all of
you.
The pastor will give a stereoptican
lecture Sunday evening on 1.-The
Cane, the Cotton, and the College. -
free. You are we lcome-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
THE WAR RESOLUTION
ADOPTEDBY CONGRESS
Basis Upon Which Mexican
Trouble is Laid.
Senate and House Voted to Give
President Armed Force to
Enforce His Demands.

Real war is now on between the
United States and Mexico. The first
blood was shed at Vera Cruz, when
Admiral Fletcher, acting upon
authority from Washington, landed
his U. S. marines to take possession
of the Mexican custom house.
Mexicans opened fire upon them but
were soon put to flight and the seizure
of the custom house and other i'm
portant points made. This prevented
the landing of the German steamship
Ypiranga with big consignment of
ammunition, rifles and machine guns
which Huerta had planned to receive
and rush to the city of Mexico by
special train.
The skirmish at Vera Cruz resulted
in the death of four Americans and
the wounding of twenty others
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
Citizens Meeting.

There will be meeting of citizens
at the G.. A. r. room in the court
house, Monday evening, May 18th, at
z 80 O'Clock for the purpose of max
ing arrangements for Memorial Day
exercises. Geo. Baxter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29

FOR SALE-Dry, hard, block wood.
Frank Morrow. Lancaster. 47tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29

Try our Job Printing.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-10-15
Floor Plan.

mousse. This is sign which proves
that the home, always the bulwark Of
civilization, Is growing still nearer to
the hearts of tho people. Ii is one OF
the surest indications OF the stability
OF our institutions. Even the summer
tourist who travels, when he comes to
analy2e his feelings, reaches the con.
clusion that the greatest enjoyment
he has IN going away from home Is
the pleasure he experiences In return.
ing To IT, We do not know how much
we love home till we have been away
from home
So this little cottage is shown here
as a type OF the homes that are being
built. Some would call 1t "bunSa'
low" and 1t will pass under that name
with many. But the term cottage
will be more familiar to the masses,
You will notice that this cottage Is In
harmony with ~ surroundings 1t sits
in n large lot, end on that account all
its lines are effective and beautiful.
Unfortunately, IL many cases, home
builders are compelled to build on lots
that are too small % display adequate
" tho beauties OF the structures they
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-10-15
LOSS or WAR EXAGGERATED
Real Facts as to Mortality and Prop.
erty Destruction in Six
Months Conflict.

The destruction of war is not nearly
as great as it seems, Engineering Maya
zine states. II people do not produce
neither do they consume, and the man
who may have been making and spend
ing $40 day comes down to the 81
or even to the ten-cent level without
particular detriment to himself or to
his similarly-placed neighbors. The
total wealth of Germany is $6,500,0
600 and even if the actual war wastes
were 100000 day this in a whole
year would amount to less than / per
cent of the accumulated wealth of the
fatherland. The average death rate in
Germany is probably twenty per thou
sand, or 100000 year. Kill 1,000,-
600 soldiers and you have only doubled
for one year the normal outflow. In
four years, If the normal rate were
lessened from 20 to Is per cent, the
loss would be numerically made up.
The loss Of life, the loss of time, the
loss Of property In a six-months' war
is, after all. Insignificant compared to
the great enduring life Of the nation.
Recuperation will be rapid.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-10-15
CURE FOR THE INFATUATED
Revision Of Commandment Should
Read, "Covet Not the Wife Of
Thy Neiehbor Who Shoots

man possessed of very charm
Ing wife recently moved into a house
near the outskirts OF the city. The
couple were very much pleased with
the neighborhood and were soon on
| Intimate terms with most or their
neighbors. The only drawback was
that before they had lived there very
long the husband saw that the iord
of the next door house was showing
marked symptoms Of being infatuated
with the new arrivals wife. His at
tentions were as odious to the wire
as they were to the husband, put
neither desired to create a disturb
ance and nothing was said. Even the
wife of the second husband was aware
of the desire OF her lesser half to be
near his neighbours wife as much as
possible, but she, thinking that the
others had not noticed it, kept quiet
Things ran along smoothly on the sur
face, but there was an undercrrreht'
which BODIED no good for any one
caught there, until the Fourth of July.
Then the first husband put into &C
tion a plan he had evolved. He IN
vited his next-door neighbors to PIC
mic with him and his wife, and they
accepted After the dinner the hrst
husband made the casual remark that
he had not had chance to practice
pistol shooting since he had moved
10 the city, and proposed a niue
shooting match. When he drew MS
gun the second husband began to be
afraid that he had suspected some
thing. but the first husband merely
adjusted a target and sent flve shots
within an inch of the bulls eye. 1hen
he passed the gun to his wife and she
almost duplicated the performance
Neither of their neighbors were able
to hit the target The first husband
calmly proceeded to toss up some
wooden plates and broke four out OF
five His wife was not so sure ana
broke only three out Of the five, ana
each apologized for the other not DO
ing any better by stating that they
were badly out of practice
Where did you learn to do all or
that shooting?" the neighbor asked.
20, we just practiced when we lived
in the country" the husband OF the
attractive wife replied. you see, my
wife had to be prepared to guard
herself against tramps and other I'M
desirables who might bother her
when | was away. She got so In the
habit of having her revolver near her
that she still keeps 1t around since
she has moved to town. We really
should have done better, and could
with a little more practice
Neighbors say that the second nus
band is becoming more devoted every
day-to his own wife.-Youngstown
Telegraph.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-10-15
TAKING A LETTER TO JONES
This Is Not an lnfrequent Happen
ing-May Explain Why Steno9'
raphers Are Grouchy.

Many a man who complains of the
stupidity and lack Of interest shown
by his stenographers gives his dicta-
ton about like this:
Take a letter to Jones. I'll give
you the address later John Jones'
Dear Sir: Replying to your letter OF
the TENTH we think you are mistaken
about this order AS you said in
your previous lctter-where in thun-
der Is that letter? It's very funny
nothing is ever around when | want 1t.
| can't go to the file every time
want a letter All right, I've got it
in your previous letter of the fifth you
said you wanted this order hurried at
any cost Therefore we shipped as
you directed. If the order did not
reach you in good condition-no.
scratch that out-lf the goods reached
you as you say--scratch that out--We
cannot be responsible for goods
scratch that out. What did | say
last Having shipped the goods as
you directed, we do not feel respon-
sible for the condition in which they
reached you. Paragraph. In case