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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09
AROUND THE COUNTY
MONTFORT.
The Mail says:

The Mail says:
Mrs. Frank Bowers is in the Gun
ningham hospital at Platteville, hav-
ing undergone another operation.
Mark Joseph Sheppard was born in
England November, 1921, and died at
Linden, Wisconsin. January p, 1916,
at the age of 81 years and two months.
That venerable old lady, Mrs. Aug.
Muendor, was so years old on Wednes-
day of this week, Feb. 2. A large
number Of friends gathered at her
home to help her celebrate the day.
George Heller, Jr., of Montfort and
Miss Edna Bowers of Cobb, were mar
ried at the Methodist parsonage Sat
urday evening, January 29th, the Rev.
Crosby, officiating. They were attend
ed by Miss Hazel Biddick and Vurl
Heller.
John ]. Mueller and Lille F. Schus-
ter were united in marriage at the
brides home on Monday, January 81.
The ring ceremony was used, Rev.
Benz performing the ceremony. The
wedding was impressive throughout.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mueller will take a we'd
ding trip of one month and be at
home on the Schuster farm southeast
of MOntfOrt after March l.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09
ARE WE GETTING TOO EFFICIENT?

Periodically the highly efficient Or
ganization behind the telephone serv-
ice attempts to persuade an easy go
ing public to eliminate the prelimin-
airy hello" from its conversation,
pointing out that to the modern, eff
cient mind this conventional greeting
is a useless institution that wastes
both time and labor. The figures Civ
en- to illustrate the delay and expense
attendant upon its use would stagger
humanity if humanity were not al
ready fiat on it's back. In that recum-
bent attitude humanity merely mods
cheerfully and goes on saying 'Hello!"
Humanity in so doing is not without
justification. 1t has few amenities
left in it's mad commercial existence
and the telephone hello is one of them.
Hello is a friendly word. a flag of
truce, a general countersi3n. Marvel
ously efficient, not to say superhuman,
as central is, she, like Homer, occas-
ionally mods, and, nodding, gives a
subscriber the wrong number. If the
person who is rung up should, as the
telephone authorities recommend,
BADLY shout into the transmitter
Zones e Brown" and wait for the re-
coil, there would be a disagreeable
shock, head-on collision of, perhaps,
antipathetic personalities. But the
hello" is a shock absorber. 1t brings
on explanations gradually and grace
fully. 1t is the bit of common lam
guage used by people who otherwise
have nothing in common.
Further, the hello" is a sort OF
mood barometer If a tired business
man, for example, is to be detained
downtown by urgent affairs that can
not be postponed, he telephones his
wife, and the tone Of her responsive
hello" at once tells him whether he
can put it over, as one says in politics,
or whether he must call it off and go
straight home like sensible man and
a docile husband.
These are but a few of the sweet
uses of hello" but to the wayfaring
man they should indicate others too
great and too numerous to permit
ready compliance with the wishes OF
the excellence but spermundane tele-
phone authorities After all, there is
much in life besides efficiency.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09
FENNIMORE
The Times says:

The Times says:
Monday evening at o'clock at the
home of the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew Allen, the marriage of
their only daughter, Miss Bessie Mae,
to Mr.. Paul Thornton of Indianapolis,
Ind, was sOlemnized.
DR.. and Mrs. C. S. Horton expect
to leave Saturday for Detroit, Mich,
for a visit with the latter's folks. Be
fore resuming the practice of medi-
cine the doctor expects to take a post
graduate course in Philadelphia. He
has as yet no definite location in view.
Landlord Croker of the Fennimore
House is still experiencing consider
able trouble with his eye from which
DR.. Gault of Lancaster, has removed
several cinders, but not all have been
taken out, and he has been in constant
pain for weeks. We hope he soon gets
relief.
Henry Bremmer attended the fun
eral Saturday at the Catholic church
in Muscoda of his oldest brother, John,
who died Wednesday night at 8 o'clock
of heart disease, brought on by an at
tack of grip. He was 5S years of age
and leaves a wife, two sons, six
daughters. six brothers and three sis
tiers. The deceased had lived for the
past % years on his farm on Blue Riv-
er, four miles southwest of Muscoda
and was a man who was held in the
highest esteem by all who knew him.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. G. Anderson. who
live on the Cohen farm northeast of
town, mourn the death of their infant
daughter, six months old, who died
Friday evening after a short illness of
commissions. Funeral services were
-eld Monday afternoon at the home,
Rev. G. Guensten of Castle Rock Of
ficiating, and yesterday morning the
remains of the little one were taken
to Hollandale, the old home of the An
derson's, for interment. They have the
sympathy of all in the loss of their
dear one.
That misfortunes never come singly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09
INDIRECTION.
CBy Richard Raelf.)

Fair are the flowers and the children
But their subtle suggestion is fairer;
Rare is the rose-bUrst of dawn,
But the secret that clasps it is rarer.
Sweet the eXultation of song,
But the strain that preceded it is
sweeter;
And never was poem yet writ
But the meaning administered the
meter.
Never a daisy that grows
But mystery guideth the growing;
Never a river that flows
But a majesty scepters the flowing.
Never a Shakespeare that scared
But a greater than he did enfOld
him;
And never a prophet foretells
But mightier seer hath foretOld
him.
Back of the canvas that throbs
The painter is limited and hidden;
Into the statue that breathes
The soul of the sculptor is hidden.
Back of the sound broods the silence,
Back of the gift stands the giving;
And back of the hand that receives
Thrill the sensitive nerves of receiv-
ing.
Space is nothing to the spirit,
The deed is outdone by the doing;
Warm is the heart of the wooer
But warmer the heart of the wooing;
And up from the pits where these
SILVER,
And up to the heights where those
shine,
Twin voices and spirits swim starward
And the essence of life is divine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09

home. Mr.. Johnson came Sunday and
accompanied his wife home
M. G. Williams was in town a couple
Of days on business last week and
Mrs. Williams and Ralph came to
visit their many friends here.
The business mems club entertained
their wives and sweethearts at the e.
F. u. hall Monday evening. 1t is need
less to say gala time for all.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09
HEARD IN THE FIFTH GRADE.
(BrOOklyn Eagle.)

(Brooklyn Eagle.)
An angle is triangle with only two
sides.
Geometry teaches us how to bisex
angles.
Parallel lines are same distance all
the way and do not meet unless you
bend them.
Horsepower is the distance one
horse can carry pound of water in
one hour.
Gravitation is that which if there
were none we would all fly away.
A vacuum is large empty space
where the pope lives.
Algebraical symbols are used when
you don't know what you are talking
about.
A renegade is man who kills a
king.
In India a man out of cask cannot
marry woman out of another cask.
The Salic law is that you must take
everything with a grain of salt.
The Zodiac is the zoo of the sky,
where lions, goats and other animals
go after they are dead.
Remember, the longer you live the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09

1t makes no difference whose name
is on the safe provided you hold the
combination.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09

Remember, the longer you live the
older you get
The Detroit times., 1916-07-10

turn for what the city Is doing for
country boys. l am thinking Of the
Y. M. c. A. hotel In my city, where
the boy from the farm has a chance
to live cheaper-A&sn does the city
boy himself who boards with rela-
tives."
My friend sees a process OF crowd
ing going on all the time--the coun-
try boys coming to displacs the city
boys. What 10 to become OF those
city. boys7
My friends says that many OF
them are looking to the country II
is among them that the promoters
OF small farm projects get their In
vestors.
Is there any agency which. in the
country, will assist the city boys In
getting a start? ! don't know Of
any.
II seems to me that one practical
thing might be done by people who
live In the country and have prop
erty stakes; they might form them
selves into organizations OF neigh
bors to keep track OF promotions
which are attempted in their neigh
borhoods,
For instance, X some unscrupu-
lous promoters attempted to buy
thousand acres OF worthless. cut
over sand hills and swamp and sell
to city investors 200 five-acre
farms" at a fancy price per acre.
the people living nearby who really
know the value OF such land could
let II be known that they stood
ready to pass on the information.
II used to be taken for granted
that the green country boy coming
to the city would be neeced. But
that time Is past. And the shoe is
on the other foot. The time 10 here
for protecting the city Teller from
the country promoter!
The Detroit times., 1916-07-10

mately s35.o00.O0 increased as
sets more than s5o,oOo,oOo. The
surplus when the last call came
stood at more than s17.oo0.ooo. To
day II is $l9,O00.000.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-10

Congressman J. H ("Cyclone')
Davis insists that the word 'Cy-
clone" shall b included with his
name on the Texas primary ballots
this month.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-10
$s,s44,417.34
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Russell A. Alger
standish Backus
John n. Bagley
Len w. Bowen
Henry -. Butse.
Leo n. Butsel
Emory w, CLARK
J. H. johnson
Albert r. Green
The Detroit times., 1916-07-10

Sir John Jellicoe entered the Brit
ish navy at the age Of 13.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-10

james 3. Holden
Charles o. jerks
Dexter n. Ferrys Jr
Eugene w. Lewis
VILLAS LivtngStOne
N. J. Murphy
Charles o. Patch
james ID. otanolsh
Richard III. Weber
in NEE r.. whitehead
The Detroit times., 1916-07-10
[0ney
(0n to Jenkins.
o0klsON

secured for Jenkins a rehearing
from the firm that turned him down.
In the second interview the firms
employing man said:
"You understand. Jenkins. it's
mono OF my businessmen do I care
personally how much a man saves.
But like TO see young mNn laying
aside something regularly for his
own good.
'Tt looks well. a savings account.
II means much TO an employer
and lot more TO an employee. II In
. pretty true index TO character"
In the banks booklet. Jenkins got
che Job on his promise to begin at
once to show strength OF character
enough TO save money.
II the history OF Jenkins at an
common? DO employers these days
form their judgments OF what men
are worth partially upon their prov
ed capacity TO show trift7
What do you think?
IN letter asking me to pass upon
the merit OF an investment In Ave-
acre farm tracts In community
with Q beautiful name. friend has
raised a question that IL going to
BE- important In the future.
2 He has been impressed BY the
Arguments OF the promoters Of these
small farm tracts. He wants TO be-
Nsve that the prospects are rosy.
30. after putting his questions. he
sddss
sPerhaps this project win give a
young man born ana raised In the
oity q chance In the oountry--in re-
The Detroit times., 1916-07-10

GUARANTY TRUST co.
OF pGTRoIr

AZ the CLOSE Of business June %. 1914
s x s.nAlS os 3 .e sas Ss%n'''''''' o.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
Gives Up Position at Head of
the State Normal School
i'm Johnson
OUT ON CARPET BY
THE STATE BOARD
Called Upon TO Explain Article Written
for Newspaper President Thomas Of
Middlebury offered State Commits
sioner's Job
Especial to The Reformer.)
MONTPELIER. March .

MONTPELIER, March %
DR.. Archibald G. Peaks, principal of
the state normal school at johnson,
who was here last night, made the
statement in regard to the report that
his resignation as principal had been
rendered and accepted by the state
board Of education, that it was his
intention to resign and that formal
announcement would be made on Mon
day or Tuesday A report has been
in circulation that letter, considered
his resignation, had been acted ON
by the board of education. It is said
that he was informed at the Detroit
educational convention by Chairman
James HARNESS of Springfield that a
change on account of Estate policy''
was desired on July l next, at the end
of his school year and that he was
asked to give the matter consideration
before the April meeting.
DR.. Peaks, who was prominent in the
legislative hearings on the educational
bill in behalf of the normal schools,
is said to have been out of harmony
with the board since the publication Of
an article credited to him which ap-
peared in weekly newspaper, and for
which they called him before the board
and received an explanation. It also
is said that he prepared another arti-
Gle which was understood to be ex-
planatory and in the nature OF an
apology which did not appear in print.
but the reason which was said to be
noted on the bottom of the article, was
made known TO the state board, and
this act was thought to have closed
the incident
1t is also reported in well-informeG
circles that DR.. John NJ Thomas OF
Middlebury college was offered the DO
sition of commissioner of education
but that the board did not think the
state could pay salary of $4,000
which sum it was understood he fixeC
as the lowest limit, so the board Sc
cured the services of DR.. Milo B. Hille
gas of Columbia college at $4,000. Mr.
Stone has been receiving $4,000.
Mr.. Peaks, who is a native of Iowa
is a graduate of New York university
with title of p D. d. He has taught
IA years, four years as principal of {
high school in st. Louis He hold.
principal s licenses from Newark ant
Jersey City, n. j. He came to Yer
mont three years ago. Since he has
been in charge at johnson the attend
ance has increased from 80 to -,
students; he has met with good sue
cess in his work, it is said, and wa
popular with the towEspeople For
mer Lieut.. Gov. Charles H. Stearns
who has fought the battles of tn
Johnson normal school in the legisla
ture for 25 years, is in the South OF
a health trip.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
VERNON.

Mrs. II. Z. Akley, who was i'll last
week, is improving
Mrs. A. d. Reynolds of Brattleboro
was a guest Saturday in the home of
her father, c. E. Davis.
The town clerk calls attention to the
fact that dog license fee is 81 if pad
on or before April / and SO after that
date until May l.
Mrs. W. f. Tyler returned Saturday
from Greenfield, Mass, where she had
spent several days in the home Of her
brother, Leslie Streeter.
Clarence and Robert Stone Of Lon
donderry were guests the first of the
week Of their uncle, F. II. Stone They
also visited other relatives.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25

liza while that vessel was skirting
the coast of Sardinia on her way from
Genoa and Naples to New York created
an alarm of submarines and resulted in
a near panic among the $40 passengers.
The Stampaha, one of the armed YES
sells of the Italian merchant fleet.
avoided the usual route while coming
through the Mediterranean because Of
reported enemy submarines. When the
whales were sighted a frightened cry
of Submarines spread along the
third-class quarters. Officers of the
ship had no difficulty in quoting the
passengers fears and the whales soon
disappeared.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
OUCH! BACkACHE!
RUB LUMbAGO OR
STIFFNESS AWAY
Rub pain from back with small trial
bottle Of old, penetrating "St.
Jacobs Oil.''

When your back is sore and lame OF
lumbago, seiatica or rheumatism has
you stiffened up, don't suffer! Get q
small trial bottle of old, honest est
Jacobs Oil" at any drug store, pour
a little in your hand and rub it right
on your aching back, and by the time
you count fifty, the soreness and
lameness is gone.
Don't stay crippled This soothing
penetrating oil needs to be used only
once 1t takes the pain right out and
ends the misery 1t is magical, yet
absolutely harmless and doesn' It burr
the skin.
Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatica
backache or rheumatism so promptly
1t never disappoints!
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
LEGAL NOTICES.
ESTATE OF CLARENCE 4. BARBER.
CTATE OF VERMONT.
~ District of Marlboro, IS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the
District fnresoil.

~ DISTrlct or Marlboro, %
The Honorable Probate Court for the
District Aforesaid:
TO the heirs ana al persons interest
cd in the estate OF Clarence 4. Barber,
late of Brattleboro in said district, de-
ceased, GREETING:
Whereas, application hath been
made to this court in writing, by the
administrator, praying FOR license and
authority to sell all of real estate OF
said deceased TO wit the home farm of
the deceased and one undivided third
interest in the Daniel N Barber farm,
both in said Brattleboro, representing
to said court that il would be beneficial
to the heirs and all persons interested
IN the estate of said deceased, to sell
said real estate and convert the same
into money.
And bringing into court the consent
and appreciation in writing, of all the
heirs to said estate residing in this
state, and setting forth the situation Of
the real estate
Whereupon, the said court appointed
and assigned the 3rd day Of April, 1916,
ut the probate Office IN Brattleboro in
said district, to hear and decide upon
said application and petition, and or
dered public notice thereof TO be Civ
en- TO al persons interested therein, DE
publishing said order, together with the
. time and place of hearing, three weeks
| successfully in the Brattlehoro Daily
| Reformer, a newspaper which cireulates
in the neighborhood OF those persons
interested in said estate. all of which
publications shall be previous to the
day assigned for hearing.
Therefore, you are hereby notified
to appear before said court, at the
time and place assigned, then and there
in said court to make your objections
to the granting of such licenses, if you
see cause.
Given under my hand at Brattleboro,
in said district, this 18th day Of
March, 1916.
/ A. z. SCHWENK,
I3-1S-25-1 Judge.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
FREES HUSBAND wITE SHOT.
Couple Then Flee Train, but Fall Into
Posses Hands.

MUSKOGEE, Okla, March 25. -
Mrs. Paul V. Hadley, a bride of two
months, shot and killed Sheriff Giles
as he dozed on a Missouri, Kansas &
Texas passenger train yesterday near
Checotah, Okla, to free her husband
He was being taken back to Beaumont
Tex, on charge of assault with in.
tent to kill.
After forcing the crew to stop the
train the couple fled in the darkness
They were captured by a posse last
night.
The sheriff did not know that Had
ley's wife was a passenger She drew
"a revolver from her handbag, pressed
it to the sheriff s head and fired. &C
cording to witnesses
Hadley recently shot John West, a
Beaumont merchant, following q quar-
rel over the woman whom he after
ward married. They motored to Okla
homa City, where he married her. The
couple then went to Kansas City and
bought a movie show, under assumed
names. Detectives found Hadley or
Monday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
SAXTONS RIVER

Young people 5 night viii be OBJ
served i'll the Saxtons River Grange
Friday evening, March "a.
Mrs. Guy Austin was called home
from Townshend last week as one of
her children was i'll with measles.
Mr.. and Mrs Mcdonald returned
from Wardsboro Monday. They will
occupy the tenement vacated by Frank
Stoddard.
Frank Stoddard moved his family
last week from Mrs. Blake IS tenement
to George Richardson S house on Pleas
ant street.
The Saxtons River Grange worked
the third and fourth degrees on two
candidates Friday evening. Luncheon
was served, after which dancing was
enjoyed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
WHITINGHAM.
Special Town Meeting Called.

A warrant is out for a special town
meeting TO elect q road commissioner
in place of John a. Dix, who resigned.
1t also contains an article TO see what
the town will do about maintaining a
high school.
The question of advanced instrue-
tion is one which should interest ever,
person in town, inasmuch as it is fo:
the town s interest to keep the young
people at home at the age when the
deepest impressions are made The
town has suffered much from the eff
fects of the less of many Of its best
and brightest young people, and in
many cases their parents, too, as it
comes at the age when it doesn't seem
prudent for parents and children to be
separated.
At present some more of the best
citizens are contemplating leaving
town as their children are nearly ready
for high school and the parents feel
that the best they can do for their
children is to give them an education
If these people go away who is coming
to take their placer
| The amount already being paid fol
this instruction outside the town, 10
say nothing of the individual expense:
OF the student away from home, would
go a long way toward maintaining q
high school here and thus keeping the
interest of both parent and child here
j 1t is also fact that only few re
eeive these advantages compared to
the many who would be glad of them
! The town already owns a good build
/ ing and grounds fitted for such 6
school, located in . good position t
accommodate students from Halifa1
and Marlboro.
There is nothing that would tend t.
build up the town faster than goot
school advantages. If there was ;
high school in town the pupils if they
wished to continue their education
after finishing here, would have reach
ed the age when il would be more pru
dent for them to leave the parenta
roof. In fact the town needs tn,
young people and the young people
. need the education; therefore if the,
can be had through these tender year
they may be awakened to some of tn,
possibilities within our borders ant
thus help build up a better town ant
; q Greater Vermont
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
DENIES SINKING LINER.
Britain Says It's Mines and Warships
were Not Near Tubantia.

LONDON, March %. - The admiral
ity declares positively that there were
no British mines anywhere near the
Dutch steamship Tubantia, nor any
British submarine or other British war
ships in the neighborhood The only
British connection with the Tubantia
the admiralty says, was that her dis
tress signals were received at Harwich
from whence destroyers FASTENED tC
help.
Lord Robert Cecil, parliamentary un
der secretary for the foreign office, al
luding to the Tubantia ease, said:
1.-THE British could not have any
conceivable object in sinking the Tu
keep communication going and t,
maintain the fullest communications. ,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
WHALES CAUSE PANIC.

Passengers on italian Steamer Think
They Are Submarines.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
DR.. G. P. CONN DEAD.
Was Assistant Surgeon of the Twelfth
Vermont Regiment.

CONCORD, n. H., March %. - DR..
Granville Priest Conn of this city, for
merly president of the New Hampshire
Medical society and member OF the
state railroad commission, died yester-
day at Wayne, Penn, according to
news received here. He was 81 years
of age In the Civil war he was as
sistant surgeon Of the Twelfth Vermont
Regiment, and later compiled and edit
ed a history of New Hampshire sur
geons in that war. He was educated at
Dartmouth college, and was later pro
fessor of hygiene at the college.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
GUILFORD CENTER.

Mrs. Hall of Dummerston, who came
TO visit her daughter, Mrs z. P. Good
now, and was taken i'll here, sets up q
short time each day.
Mrs. William Fitch 5 brother, Harold
Phelps, and wife of Westfeld, Mass,
returned to their home last week, af-
ter a few days visit here. Mr. Phelps S
niece, Helen Fitch, returned with them.
She is visiting her grandmother in
SDringfeld