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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09
BLOOMINGTON.

special Correspondence to the Herald
Mr.. and Mrs. Seathers, with babe
visited at the Fred Reese home over
Sunday. Mr. Seathers is a teacher in
the Patch Grove school.
Tim Mogan, who for several days
was thought to be on the point OF
death, with pneumonia, is getting bet
ter, and there is good hopes of his
recovery.
The d. A. R. held their monthly
meeting at the home of J. B. Gill
gan last Tuesday evening and par
took of luncheon at the Kavanugh
cafe
The six or eight inches of the beau
tiful which visited us last Saturday
was certainly a very welcome guest,
and helped to make the roads smooth
where they were almost impossible.
Several of the old vets, including
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09
AROUND THE COUNTY
pOTOsI.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
Johnnie Ehlen only son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Ehlen, is seriously i'll at
the home OF his parents.
The saIoonkeepers, the brewery and
others who pack ice, are jubilant over
the present snap of cold weather.
Mr.. Ben EIskamp is slowly recover
ing from his recent attack of the Ia
grippe.
Mrs. o. V. Graham residing in the
second story of the Durley building
is prepared to clean and press ladies'
and gentlemen's suits in an artistic
manner at a very reasonable charge.
Conrad Kern of Bagley, Frank Kern
and wife of FennimOre and Mrs. Mary
Henkel of Alta, Iowa, attended the fun
eraI of their brother, Henry Kern last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rickert TObin, who
were recently married, spent last week
with relatives at st. Philips parish,
Crawford county, Wisconsin, and at
FaribauIt, Mimi.
The Herald's POtosi scribe was be-
seiged by a number of subscribers
last week wanting to know where his
items were-they could not be found
in the usual place allotted to them,
but were finally found in an obscure
corner on another page of the paper.
Mrs. Peter Kimmisch and daughter,
Doc Schall of Waterloo Ridge, were
called to Shullsburgh, Iowa, to see
their sister and aunt, Mrs. Michael Nc
Cam, who is very seriously i'll. Mrs.
Mccain formerly resided in Potosi and
well remembered by the older resi-
dents.
Cards OF invitation have been sent
to friends by Mr.. and Mrs Frank Seip-
ker to attend the wedding of their
daughter Margaret, and Bernard J.
Stelpfiug. Tuesday, Feb. 10, st. An
drews church, $50, forenoon. Recep-
ton at the home of the brides pa
rents.
The Wilson mine is on the boom.
Recent good strikes necessitates some
vast improvements. They are now in
stalling steam mine pumps with an
S0-horse power steam boiler, steam
hoist, and 15O-ton storage hopper at
hoisting shaft When these improve
ments are complete, they will increase
the output of the mine 70 per cent.
They can run the mine single shifts
and will double shifts. All improve
ments are being made and arranged
to conform with a 300-tOn cOncentrat-
ing mill, as the company believes that
from present developments the mine
will justify a mill of that capacity.
The mine is under the supervision of
Mr.. A. W. CRANES, much experience
ed miner and a man of ability He is
also superintendent of the construc-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09

little farther and drag in the rest
OF them, and if you can be instrumental
in stamping out that damnable curse
in BeetOwn your name will be hand
ed down to posterity as a hero, and
let him who has caused women and
children to go barefoot for these many
years, wear something on their legs
besides shoes and stockings. Every
body in Beetown will vote for He'll next
time Everybody in Beetown should
subscribe for the Herald and read a
good paper.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09
week with Mrs. John Lancaster, also

week with Mrs. John Lancaster, also
that it is election Of officers.
Frank Hayden moved his household
goods here from Burton Wednesday,
and occupies the rooms over the black
smith shop.
Sheriff He'll of Lancaster, accom-
panied by VIM. Dyer was in town Sat
urday night looking after lawbreakers,
which he was successful in getting.
In spite of the storm Friday a large
crowd turned out to the club dance
in the evening. The next dance is
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09

A joke isn't much of a joke unless
it is punctuated with laughter by the
listener
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09

February Is. Come and bring your
friends along. The crowd had supper
at Hotel Auel
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09

A girl can't believe it possible for
her small brother ever to grow up and
become a citizen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09

TRY HERALD WANTADS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
TERRELL POINTS WAY
TO CROP INVESTIGATION
STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
TAKES NOTICE OF CONDI-
TIONS IN THIS COUNTY.

Stirred by reports received from
Terrell, Coweta, Laurens and Brooks
counties showing wonderful increase
in resources of these counties as a
result of diversification practiced in
diligently during the past two years
the Georgia Chamber of Commerce is
taking the matter up with every bank
president in the state of Georgia and
urging them to take steps to put into
effect intelligent diversification of
farm crops in their county.
In discussing the matter President
Charles j. Haden said: '"The vol
untary statement recently furnished
us by the president of the Manufact-
urers National Bank, of Newman, is
one of the most striking documents
in favor of diversified farming to the
extent of supplying actual home
needs which has come into our pos
session in many months. Had every
county in the state done as the cOun-
ty of Coweta during the past two
years the state would be more than
one hundred and fifty million dollars
better off in actual cash resources
than it is today.
Ever since it was organized the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce has
been preaching diversifcation, at
least to the extent of supplying act
ual home needs of each county in the
matter of food stuffs for man and
beast. Such limited Investigation
of crops would keep at home hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in each
county each year which now goes
out for food stuffs for family use
and for stock. In addition limited
diversiication would also reduce the
| fertilizer bills of each county"
at is interesting to note that in
Laurens county Investigation, which
has been intelligently practiced in
Laurens county for two years, has not
reduced the amount of cotton pro-
duced by the county, and the food
crops grown have been an extra crop
asset to the county.
"The remarkable results of diver
sification in Terrell county are point
ed by Mr.. M. G. Edwards, president
of the Bank of Dawson, and shows
that his bank last year did not bor-
row cent, and on February 1st,
1916. they had no bills payable.
'The citizens of Coweta county
worked out a definite plan which they
pursued for two years with the re-
suit of more than one million dol
lars increase in actual resources to
the county. Anyone desiring details
of the plan used in Coweta county
for limited Investigation will be fur
nished same upon application to the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
DORSEY WILL SOON
ISSUE HIS PLATFORM
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE is
FORCEFUL STUMP SPEAKER
AND CAMPAICNER.

ATLANTA.-It is understood to
be Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey's
purpose to publish the platform on
which he will run for governor in
about three weeks. He takes the po-
sition that his present duty is to the
state in handling the Innes case, with
which he has for some time been con-
nected and which is set for trial on
May 29th. So far as can be seen that
trial will not be postponed, and with
all the witnesses to be examined it
is thought the trial will occupy two
or three weeks. Following the Innes
trial it is generally understood that
Mr.. Dorsey will tender his resigna-
ton as solicitor general and get at
once into the campaign.
Experienced Campaigner.
Mr. Dorsey is a forceful stump
speaker and has spoken heretofore in
several sections of the state in behalf
of former Governor Jos. NJ. Brown,
when the latter was in the race for
the United States senate. Just what
effect the announced candidacy Of
Mr.. Dorsey, which brings the third
candidate into the race, will have
upon the other aspirants for the Of
flee remains to be seen. Both the
friends of Jos. E. Potle of Milledge-
vile and A. o. Blalock, internal rev.
enue collector, who have been prom
inently mentioned in this connection,
have stated positively that whatever
action Mr.. Dorsey took would have
no effect on them one way or anoth-
err. 1t is stated they will govern
their course as to the race wholly by
the advice of their friends and the
outlook as they see it.
In the meantime there are now
candidates enough to make the race
interesting, and it is anticipated a lit
tie more spice will be injected into
it when Mr.. Dorsey gets on the stump
along the latter part of June.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
HOPE TO PUT OHIO
IN DRY COLUMN
Prohibitionists VIII Spend $3.50, 900
With a Paid Manager in Every
County in the State.

CINCINNATI, O.-The plans of
prohibition workers to place Ohio IN
the statewide no-liquor column are
going on quietly but with none the
less force, regardless of the fact that
so far it does not seem probable that
prohibition amendment will be up
to a direct vote this fall. Under the
direction of the Anti-Saloon League
an active campaign is being waged
that is said to be the most elaborate
ever undertaken by the organlza-
ton in this state. A fund of $780,
900 is being aimed at by the finance
committee, it is understood, and IN
addition a statewide survey OF the
saloon and all things incident there
to is to be made. A comprehensive
organization of workers is one OF the
fundamental moves. This corps VIII
be in readiness to conduct the next
prohibition campaign for an amend
ment, whenever that action IS deem
ed advisable. =,
According to the plans, it is said;
every county is to have a salarled
manager, chosen by the anti-llquor
forces in the county, but he is to be
subject to the authority of a central
state body.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
AVERAGE EXPECTATION OF
LIFE is NOW FIFTY YEARS
Longevity of Females Exceeds Males
Three and a Half Years.

Longevity of Females Exceeds Males
Three and Half Years.
The newly prepared tables of vital
statistics of the United States bureau
of the census differ from the mortal
ity tables of life insurance companies
in relating to the entire population
of the area covered instead of only
to selected individuals. They show
the death rates and the expectation
Of life at all ages for ten eastern
states and the District of Columbia;
and also bring out facts relating to
infant mortality, the average age at
death, and the differences between
city and country life. They are has
ed on the population for 1910 and
the mortality for three years-1909,
1910 and 1911. They show that at
birth the average expectation of life
is 1919 years for males, 53.2 for
females, SOP for white males, $50
for white females, 500 for native
white males, 54.2 for native white
females, 34.1 for negro males, and
37.7 for negro females, the longevity
of native white and negro females
exceeding that of males by more
than 31A years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
TWO WHITE BOYS JAILED
AT MORGAN FOR VAGRANCY
Broke Into Central Railroad Tool
House at Williamsburg.

Broke Into Central Railroad Tool
House at Williamsburg.
Two young white boys giving their
names as Webster Duck and Roy
Rodgers, Is and II respectively, and
claiming Columbus as their home,
were carried to Jail at Morgan Mon
day, having been bound over to the
grand jury on state charge OF va
grancy by Mayor E. B. Askew. ..
The boys claimed that they left
home last Saturday week and went
to Troy, Ala, to seek work, but fail
ing to find any there decided to go
to Albany, where one of them claims
he has a brother working as book
keeper. The two arrived in. Airing
ton last week, and after staying here
two or three days "hobo" fashion:
declining the proffered assistance OF
some charitable citizens to buy them
tickets to Albany they beat their way
or walked to Williamsburg and there
broke into the Central railroads sec
tion tool house.-Arlington Courier.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

constitution, also an excited, nervous
s,aOe; Was so excitable that l could
a9' sleep w5s and when I would dose
III would easily awaken. But five
UottIes Of The 'Favorite Prescription
gave me most decided relief. 1t is an
e1ys.uent tonic and relieves tired and
sssolSa nerves. Later, I took the
W.. 1i.-Ien Medical Discovery for a cough
g-5eh was so severe that / had to go to
.tu rom the exhaustion occasioned by
ooou84ling spells. With the cough and
to'u mad a severe sore throat, inhamed
s W. Sqch a degree that l could hardly
r ro,a9 The Discovery is the great
tf5 L for coughs and colds and
VIC VIC fayorlte Prescription is the one
, soll Tor women. "-MRs. E. A. WAT
sun 10 Current Street.
Every woman who has reason to
n DoneEe that backache, headache, I'M
r;.It pains, low spirits, sleepless
o c,s9!s, irregularities or a catarrhal
~ oG;H a Is caused by a arrangement
h. me womanly functions, owes it to
b i,etseIl to speedily overcome the trouble
, no,ofe a general breakdown causes per-
'Dalent prostration.
u Flerce's Favorite Prescription is
10 non alcoholic remedy that any ailing
wi. "oi5lail can safely take because it is prep
aiI rom roots and herbs with pure
81 ~ OeIlne, containing tonic properties of
most pronounced character.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
A NIGHTMARE VISION OF
THE VERDUN BATTLEFIELD

1t reaches the lip of the hollow and
the mass of crawling men culver
with a new agitation. 1t is the water
of the Meuse overwhelming the Ger
man survivors, already dazed and
disabled by the same concentration
of melinite that ruptured the rivers
bikes. With frantic gestures the
Germans fight upward there comes a
flash and another cloud patch, half
yelling the chaos of earth and wa
ter and drowning men.
Then the shells begin to fall rap
idly and the searchlight abandons the
struggle against the smoke, swinging
higher along the bare hillside A
few moments later it returns. ! see
a placid pool glimmering beneath the
ray, save where an occasional spot of
blackness is floating motionless.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

Imagine yourself in the dark cabin
of the ship, the whole fabric of
which shoulders in the tumult of her
mighty engines as you peer through
a narrow slit at a quick-chang ng
cinema on distant screen. For that
was the Verdun battle as I saw it,
save that those rapid glimpses reveal
ed horrors no producer would dare
feature, writes a correspondent of
the New York Times.
Night had fallen as we descended
the steps into what seemed an ordi-
nary workroom, furnished with la
BILE and stools. The only window was
a long embrasure, hidden outside by
an ingenious arrangement of branch
es. Two officers in this observation
post are regulating the fire of bat
terry two miles in the rear uYon the
German trenches down to our right,
near the river, where the enemy is
massing 70 an assault. At the same
time they direct a searchlight whose
rays illuminate their field of vision.
I take my glasses and stand by the
embrasure.
A Vivid Description.
1t is a patch of field, streaked di-
agonal1y by a dark line, which is the
German trench. Clouds of smoke
obscure it at intervals, stabbed by
swift finishes.
watch Unfortunately, nothing
changes.
Suddenly the field patch is covered
with scurrying dots like mass of
excited ants, rushing forward across
the light, out of the picture into the
darkness. 1t is the enemy changing
at last.
Then a dense thundercIoud covers
everything. The searchlight's rays
beat vainly against its yellowish
walls. The glass trembles in my
hand.
Like a nightmare vision, conjured
by magic amid the smoke, horrible
scene is revealed, first dimly, then
clear, and finally very distinct in
the sharp white light.
The field, the dark line and the
rushing ants have disappeared. In
their place ragged hollow, wherein
blocks of earth, like huge tree
trunks, roll and culver.
Among them the tiny dark things
are writhing like fallen leaves fiut-
tered by the breeze.
AS the smoke clears ] distinguish
arms raised in agony or duplication.
Some try to crawl upward. They
form heaps, sliding back together,
as one mounts another and drags
him down.
Meanwhile, from the right Of the
scene, what seems to be an immense
black snake creeps forward. In the
ray of the light it glimmers and the
observer beside me mutters, Ny
Cod"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
$4,000 IN 500 BILLS
FOUND BY TWO CHILDREN
Half Million Discovered in an Old
Boiler in Mexico City.

MEXICO CITY.-The sum of
100000 in 500 bills recently was
found by two children, Rafael and
Antogenes Campos, inmates of the
government refuge, which occupies a
building formerly used as a legisla-
tive palace and built by New York
contractor. The money was discov-
cred in an old boiler underneath the
palace. The children gave it to the
director of the home, VINO gave them
500 as a reward. Later they show
ed the 500 to Maria Ruiz, whom
they were visiting. Nine Ruiz in
formed the authorities, and then
strangely disappeared.
Secret service agents are trying
to find out where the money came
from and who hid it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
NON SKID DEVICE FOR
AUTOS is RECENT INVENTION

A Seattle man has recently patent
ed a non-skid device for automobiles,
his invention consisting of belt OPP
Grating over idler pulleys attached
to the running boards and over the
rear wheels of the car. This belt
provides perfect traction in addition
to protecting the casing and prevent
ing punctures.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
WHY JOE HALL WAS NOT
APPOINTED TO JUDGESHIP

Said to Have Shook Stick in Guber-
material Face and Used Bad Word.
According to the Brunswick News
quite an interesting story has leaked
out from Macon to the effect that
Joe Hill Hall, an applicant for judge
of the Macon city court, was accused
by Governor Harris of sending in
specious endorsements; that when
confronted on the streets of Macon
Joe Hill used the short and ugly
word, shook big stick in the execu-
tive's face, wanted to scrap, ETC., and
thereby lost the job.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
Was Troubled at Night.

Painful, annoying bladder weak
ness usually indicates kidney trouD-
lie. So do backache, rheumatism, sore
swollen or stiff muscles or Joints.
Such symptoms have been relieved
by Foley Kidney Pills. Henry Ru-
dolph. Carmi, H., writes; since
taking Foley Kidney Pills sleep all
night without getting up" Dawson
Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
Whenever You Need General ToniC
Take Groves

The Old STANDARD Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties ofQ UININE
and IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Puilds up the Whole System 50 cents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
EIGHTY-FIVE MILLION GIVEN
TO AID STATES GOOD ROADS
Senate Passes Bankhead's Bill Max
ing Big Appropriation.

WASHINGTON, D, C.-The SEN
ate today passed, without record
vote, the Bankhead good roads bill
appropropriating $85,000,000 to aid
the states in the construction of post
roads. The bill as introduced called
for an appropriation of S75,000,000,
but an amendment calling for the
expenditure of S10,000,000 for con-
struction of roads in national forests
was adopted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
BIG DECREASE IN THE
WHEAT CROP is REPORTED
Will Be About 49e, 100000 Bushels
Is Government Forecast.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The win
ter wheat crop will be about 499,-
100000 bushels, according to fore
cast announced today in the May
crop report of the department of ag-
riculture. The area to be harvested
is about 100000 acres. Condl-
ton of the crop on May 1 was. 82.4
per cent of normal, indicating a
Weld of 15.1 bushels per acre. -,
Today's forecast compares with
655.O45,OOO bushels harvested last
wear. the greatest winter wheat crop
ever gathered in this country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

Golden Medical
Discovery, and
having received SO
much good from
them would say
that, you have not
exaggerated in the
least in what you
claim for them. l
first took the Fa-
vorite Prescrip-
ton for q weak
ened and very
n1uch rundown
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
b RAILROADS
WOULD DIVIDE DIXIE
& NASHVILLE AND
r,r,,ERN HAD OLD AGREE
,,vr As TO TERRITORY.
hi ADMITS SUCH WAS PLAN

posuses to Tell of Campaign
:" .,,ihutions Made by His Road
Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky
nd Alabama
,or11NGTON.-Plans for divid-
~ South. east of the Mississippi
,+b Of the Ohio, between the
e;Ilo and Nashville railroad and
l 10 railway, to the exclusion OF
noods as discussed by Pfesi-
milton H. Smith, of the Louis
and Nashville, and the late Pres
samuel Spencer, of the South
-oro nlaced in evidence before
ESTATE commerce commission
at the resumption of the com
?on,s Investigation of the l.. q
affairs.
D..,sidont Smith, who was on the
I'd testified that he conferred
) president Spencer in his private
Of Kennesaw, Ca, October 2Sth,
soe and identified as reasonably
Dnrate, the stenographer's trans
NJ If what was said. He failed
i identify, however, correspondence
.,,ortinq To have passed between
lmself and Mr.. Spencer subsequent
The witness characterized as
H." and rubbish" references to
.ImseIf and Mr.. Spencer contained in
4 correspondence, as Pizarro and
grtez old world conquerors of the
/ wlv found continents of America,
b. met to divide their territory.
"Southern Got Everything"
pa lawyer up in Louisville first
8rang that stuff" Mr.. Smith said.
II didn't know anything about 1t. "
Men continuing the smile he said
kat the Southern got everything II
bnted and the Louisville and Nash
lie nothing, mot even the neck of
Be- isthmus."
|Nr. Smith was a good-natured
Illness. With smile wreathing his
lee he told Chairman Meyer that the
terstate commerce commission was
political body; that it dare not IA
r. the railroads, for if it did so it
luld be abolished as was the COM
cree court.
Joseph w. Folk, chief counsel for
e commission, sought futilely TO
we Mr.. Smith tell of campaign con-
buttons made by his road in Ten
ssee. Kentucky, Alabama and
,orgia. but the witness would shake
S head and say:
by advice of counsel I decline to
swer."
The stenOgrapher's transcript of
e meeting between Messrs. Smith
d Spencer-old-ime friends, Mr..
NTH said-showed that they dis
ssed virtually every railroad prop
ty of any Importance in the South
d in many cases reached tentative
.reementS as to which one should
quire it.
Mr. Smith explained that the
)uthern railway was then in pro-
IS of organization and that he con-
fred with Mr.. Spencer over the or
lnization plans. The witness tried
ard to have rates maintained in the
ce Of general rebating he said, and
as interested in having the South
n take over as many roads as pos
bic, where those roads were not
eded by the l.. & n.
Then we would have one big road
deal with" he said, "and it would
much easier to maintain rates
an to do so by agreements with
lOlG lot of little fellows "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
Tells What She Thinks.

Anna Hawn, Cedar Grove, Mo-,
writes: owe think Foley Cathartic
Tablets are the best liver pill we ever
got hold of, as they do not nauseate
or grippe, but act freely on the liver. "
Recommended for constipation,
bloating, sour stomach, gas on stom-
ach. bad breath, clogged or Irregular
bowel action. Dawson Drug co.
Products of the Southern COTTON
Oil Co. are strictly cash.