Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-22

Cleanup Day is April Is, but it goes by no
means that cleaning up is prohibited before that
time.
With everything going up and dyes out Of
sight, we may have to serve the Easter eggs
plain this year.
The stories from the Mexican front are al
most as conflicting as those we have become used
to hearing of from Europe
While the weather is ideal for this time of the
year. we advise keeping EN- on while longer.
One never can never tell.
This March is establishing reputation for
gently gliding off the snow banks of winter in
to the flowers of Spring. Keep it up, old sport!
Henry Ford has given the country poor
mans automobile and he will earn its undying
gratitude if he can discover a way to cheaper
gasoline.
Our ultra pacifist friends will, we assume, at
least agree that we should have a suitable army
unable to defend our borders from brigands and
outlaws over the line.
Our Uncle "Wilse" ran away at the age Of
seventeen years to the Mexican war and came
back with manned hip that caused him to limp
the balance of his life.
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Colonel Goethals is quoted as not being ready
for resigning until the slide is entirely cleared
away from Culebra cut That sassy waterway
doesn't dare slide much while Goethals is
around
A man suggested recently that new form of
insurance would be for the farmer to keep one
year of corn ahead In view of our 1915 exper-
fence this is worth thinking about and if feast
BILE, adopting.
This is a decadent day. Twenty-Five years
ago st. Patricks day was one of the big events
of the season. To-day one only sees an occas-
ional Shamrock and absolutely no parades or
"shenannigans."
Two years we all considered Pancho Villa as
a down-trodden patriot who was striving to lib
crate his country. To-day he is deservedly
damned as an arch murdered. There seems to
be only one rule with our beloved Mexican
neighbOrs.
New methods are in view for obtaining more
gasoline from kerosene and the Rittman process
discovered in the United States Bureau of
ers. This concerns many of us who do not own
automobiles, but use "gas" for other things.
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We have one weapon in this country that is
and should be our most cherished possession.
That weapon is the ballot If you feel squeam-
ish about expressing your opinions out loud,
keep still, but do not fail to go to the polls on
election day and vote according to your con-
science and your manhood.
Justice Hughes is said to be popular in Ne
braska because he has kept himself out of the
political whirlpool and has not expressed an
opinion on the different questions confronting
the country. Mr.. Hughes reticence is without
doubt due to his position on the great tribunal
and if the fates ordain his nomination he certain
Iy will define his stand.
One peculiar evidence Of certain changes TAX
ing place in the past twenty years is the small
number of Cures" of various kinds for the liq-
uor habit, and what is more to the point sub
ects for these cures. Twenty years ago drunk
ards were quite common in every town and many
a respected citizen of to-day went off at that
time to take the "cure." We still! have drinking,
not much drunkenness and very few drunkards.
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'"The Reflex Action of the Cerebrum" was
the caption of an interesting article written
many years ago on peculiar twists the intellect
takes in solving problems that the conscious
mind has wrestled with in vain. Nearly every
one has exDerienced the case of having strug-