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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
Notice of Final Account

County Court, Grant County, Wis
consin-In Probate.
In the matter Of the estate of Maria
E. Giffen, deceased.
Notice is Hereby Given, That at a
Regular term of the county court to
he held in and for said county at the
court house III the city of Lancaster
in said equity on the first Tuesday
(being the 9Th day. Of March, A. D.,
1918, at the opening Of court on that
day, the following matter will be heard
and considered:
The application Of George ]. Jer-
rctt, executor OF the will of Maria e.
Giffen, deceased, late of Lancaster, in
said county for tie examination and
allowance of his final account, and for
the assignment of the residue Of the
estate of said deceased to such per-
sons as are by law entitled thereto
Dated February LIST, A. D., 1918.
By the Court: E. B. Goodsell, Judge
Frank G. Meyer, Attorney. 50w3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

The government is trying to cut
down excess profits. AS fast as pos.
sible it is reducing the prices that pro
ducerS are permitted to charge
This has been done for iron, steel
and almost everything else that the
government buys.
1t is hard to do this and yet not
discourage production. We must have
an enormous increase of food, cloth
ing, munitions and other necessities
during the war
But the government is doing this
IN the only way possible It calls in
the representatives of labor named b.
the American Federation of Labor
and the representatives Of the manu-
facturers and farmers. The American
Federation of Labor wanted the price
of wheat fixed at $1.84 a bushel The
farmers wanted $3.50 They com
promised on 1920 a bushel.
This is the way it is done for coal
and other essentials which the peO-
pie must buy. If the price is cut too
low then wages cannot be paid; and
If there are no profits, the thing will
not be produced in sufficient quaint
ties.
The Rise in Wages.
Increased cost of living always goes
along with wars. But here is some
thing to remember the outbreak Of
war in 1914 brought an increased de-
mand for labor, at a time Of great in
dustrial depression in this country.
The demand of the Allies for NUM-
tions, equipment, and food, set every
body to work in the United States.
Immediately also wages began to rise.
They went up fastest and highest in
the industries that furnished NUM-
tons to the Allies. The employees of
the United States Steel Corporation
have had an increase of so per cent
in their rates of wages, and when to
this is added steady employment, their
earnings by the week or year have
gone up far beyond so per cent.
In the state Of New York-the only
state where statistics have been col
lected on large scale-the earnings
of all factory wage-earners throughout
the entire state have risen, on an
average, over SO per cent since June,
1914. In some of the metal and ma
chinery industries, they have more
than doubled.
Nobody can give exact figures, but
the cost of living-taking everything
| into Accountants gone up about 80
to 40 per cent. Food has gone up more
than that-47 per cent, according to
figures of retail prices collected by
| the Federal Department of Labor.
But food is something less than half
Of the workingman's expenses. Other
expenses, such as rent, have not gone
up SO much. Taking into account the
increased amount of work and the in
crease in wages the total earnings of
wage-earners have about kept up with
the cost of living Some have gone
far ahead, others have not kept up.
| Those who have gained most are COM
J! mon laborers and organized labor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
How Germany Made War
on Us in Time Of Peace
Gy w. A. SCOTT Director of the Course of Commerce.
University / Wisconsin

| by hiding bombs in the coal bunkers
OF ships and tying them to Tudder
posts. At his trial models Of bombs
Of his own invention were exhibited.
by his own confession and that of his
pa tner the money for this combina-
tiCn Of treachery and murder was sup
Piled by the German secret police.
In this dirty business the directing
spi. it was the ambassador of the Ger
man Government, Johann Won Belns-
tor1f. An ambassador is a guest OF
the nation to which he is sent and is
| supposed to behave as such. But for
nearly three years before his recall
he devoted himself to intrigue and the
plotting of violence and murder. His
best remembered words while among
US will always be those of his letter to
his government in which he asked for
authority to spend fifty thousand dol
lars, in order, as on former occasions,
to influence Congress through the or
gaEization you know Of"
Not contented with waging war
upon US directly, Germany tried to stir
up bad blood between US and our
neighbors by treachecously violating
| our hospitality Her agents used gu.
| territory as ground on which to make
plots with discontended HindOOs
against India. They helped to promote
movements which were intended to
tear Ireland and Canada from the
British Empire. From our side Of the
! border they made a number Of direct
attacks upon Canada, such as the
| dynamiting of the international rail
road bridge at Vanceboro, Maine, and
the attempt to destroy the locks of
the Welland canal.
Mexico received much attention
| from these gentlemen. Germany hand
ed over six hundred thousand dollars
| to the eXiled Huerta to enable him to
stir up a new revolution in his unfor-
tunate country placed one of her war
| ships at his disposal and supplied him
with arms The famous Zimmerman
| letter. OF Janu2rv 7o77, will be re-
membered by everyone.
In this letter the German minister
of foreign affairs proposed that jim
case of war with the United States.
Mexico and Japan should join with
| Germany; and promised Mexico She
| should receive as her share Of the
plumber New Mexico, Arizona, and
Texas.
IN this long list of outrages nothing
has been said about the submarine
warfare waged against us. 1t began
with the sinking Of the Lusitania, May
/ z, 1915, when III American citizens,
men, women and children were fouIly
murdered on the high seas. It con
tinued till the toll Of American lives
had reached twice that number.
The German government stops at
nothing She has become a danger ~
the whole world. The danger from
her when we at length broke off rela-
tions, was not remote and problemat-
zeal. It was at hand. She was actually
making war upon US.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
PLATTEVHLE

Inc News says.
Donald Millman, who is in the navy
and is taking training near New York
visited the Platteville boys at Camp
Merritt which company Dean Millman
is a member. The boys are brothers,
sons of DR.. and Mrs. James Millman.
One goes to fight for his country on
the seas and the other on land
Miss Jessie France is home from a
six weeks visit at the homes of her
brothers. At st. Paul she was a guest
of her brother Lloyd who is instructor
in the Minnesota university. She
spent some time at Madison at the
home Of her brother Walter. While
in Madison she had the pleasure of
hearing one of Rev. G. GoodselIs ex-
cellent sermons.
AS soon as the coal situation will
permit the Milwaukee road will give
Platteville excellent train service
The order now under consideration
is for trains to leave here in the morn
ing at 6:25 and return at a. m. The
second outgoing train will be a a.
M, and returning at 1900 The after
noon train for the east will leave at
1905 and return at p. m, while the
last train of the day will go east at
8 p. m. This will give a service that
none can make complaint.
The Platteville normal has just re-
ceived it's service flag with 80 stars
upon it. The number Of stars repre-
sent the number of graduates and
students Of the school in service at
the present time One of the last stars
is represented by Earl Huntington,
who has just completed the work at
Rush Medical college and has enlisted
in the medical service and is now at
Washington, D. G. DR.. Huntington
was assistant instructor Of Nature
study at the Chicago University while
taking his work in the medical col
lege
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
Who Is Paying for the War?
By JOHN R. COMMONS, Professor of Political Economy,
University Wisconsin

Everybody must expect hardships
from war The greatest hardship is
on the boys who go to the front. No
body can ever pay them what they
are worth to the nation.
But our nation is doing the next
best thing. We have more than dou-
bled the pay that soldiers got before
the war. The dollar a day, besides
food, clothing, and expenses, which
they now get while training and fight
ing is four times as much as the
British soldier gets, eighteen times as
much as the French, and nine times
as much as the German.
Besides, if they are disabled, the
government compensates them for the
rest of their lives, by giving them as
high as 500 a month if totally dis
abled, in addition to teaching them
new trades, if necessary, so that they
can make a living.
Next to the boys at the front, the
greatest hardship is on their families.
These families can never be paid what
the boys are worth to them. But the
nation does the next best thing. While
they are serving their country it pays
their families according to the num-
Der of children. In case of death it
pays the family the compensation the
boy would get after the war if he were
disabled; and it furnishes as high as
$4,000 life insurance at less than half
what an insurance company charges in
time of peace, and permits him to con
tinue it after the war at substantially
the same rate
The next great hardship is taxes.
In former wars our government taxed
food and almost everything the peO-
pie used. In this war it is taxing ONLY
liquor, tobacco, patent medicines, lux
uries, amusements, new insurance
premiums, business documents, trans
portations and postage.
Taxation of Big Incomes.
Two-thirds of the people pay but
very little extra taxes directly to sup
port the war The other one-third
of the people are taxed on incomes
and excess war profits.
In the Civil War the income tax was
per cent to Is per cent, and every
income as low as $500 was taxed. In
this war, three different income taxes
are piled on top Of each other, so that
an income of $4,000 pays $40, and in
come of $1,00O,000 pays $475,0O0 and
larger incomes pay nearly so per cent
But no income of a married man
less than $4,000 is taxed at all, and
none less than $1,000 for an unmarried
man. No workingman with a family
pays an income tax.
The largest incomes, on the other
hand, are not yet taxed as much as
they can stand. A corporation pays
two taxes-an excess profit tax that
is said to average about one-fourth the
profits above per cent on it's capital
and an income tax of per cent on
what is left Our government has call
ed in the leading tax experts of the
country to work on this problem.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

In the short period of three years
Germany trans Ormed the United
States from a friend and admirer into
an enemy at war. This Hateful change
was due to a number of causes. Of
these the most Wide-reaching was the
war Of the German government en- our
country during a time when we, in our
blindness, supposed we were at pc &c.
The war in Europe was not three
months old when there was established
in New York an advertising agency"
under the charge of a German named
Ven Igel This office was raided one
day in April, 1916, by four United
States secret service agents. They
forced their way past the giant who
always stood guard over the inner Of
fee, and after a fierce struggle in
which Won Igel fought like a tiger"
arrested him and seized the mass Of
papers in his possession.
The reason for Won IgePs tiger-like
fight became clear at a glance. Here
in the form of letters, kilograms, re-
ceipts, accOunt-books, etc, ETC., was
supplied detailed and absolutely con
vincing evidence that the German gov
eminent had been engaged for
/ eighteen months in war against the
United States.
Among the papers were those show
ing that Won Papen, the military at
tach6 Of the German embassy, had
paid out money for placing bombs in
American merchant ships, and that
Ambassador Won Bernstorff himself
had signed checks to pay certain
American newspaper men to spread
the pro-German gospel, while they
posed as disinterested American citi-
zens.
Other entries showed Germany
using our territory to work up an Irish
revolution against Great Britain, main
tanning a spy system, supporting a
bureau for the purpose of stirring up
strikes in munition plants and else
where, and paying stated sums of
money to certain newspaper owners
who were glad to place their newspa-
?7e.rs at the service Of the German gov
eminent for. value received.
The Won IgeI papers cover only a
| comparatively small part of the Ger
man war against the United States in
1914-16.
Won Igel and Won Papen, it appeared
from other sources, superintendent per
sOn2Ily the making Of bombs on the
German steamer Friedrich der Crosse,
interned in New York harbor, and saw
that they were slowed away safely in
the holds of outgoing ships.
Another member Of this band Of
plotters was DR.. H. F. Albert. He ar
rived from Germany with a letter Of
credit for four million dollars in his
pocket and the assurance that he
might have forty million altogether.
He was to use it to manufacture pub
lie opinion, to purchase the votes of
Congressman, and to do whatever else
would advance the great cause.
Still another star performer was
Robert Fay. He did his bit, in part,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
DANGER! BLOW NOSE CAUTIOUSLY

very large proportion of deaf
people owe their affliction to so simple
and avoidable a cause as improper
blowing of their noses. This seems
almost impossible to believe any yet
it is the testimony of leading specia-
lists in diseases of the ear. The ear
has very few disorders which do not
arise in the nose with which it is
connected by sort of blind alley pas
sage called the Eustachian tube.
You will recall in the construction
OF child's drum, there is a small hole
in the side to equalize the air pressure
on the inside and outside of the head
or membrane. If one were to place a
powerful pump at this opening in the
toy drum and suddenly force a large
volume of air inside it, the head would
become stretched as a consequence.
Repeating this over and over would
soon destroy the elasticity Of the drum
head.
Now, the Eustachian tube, extending
from the nose to the ear, has the same
purpose as the hole in the side of the
drum. The drum proper in this case, is
the ear drum very delicate mem
brane. One side of the ear drum is
exposed to the atmosphere through the
external ear on the other side, the
Eustachian tube, leading to the nose,
equaliZes the pressure of air on the
inside Of the ear drum. Hearing de-
ponds upon the vibrations of the ear
drum in which it is comparable to the
vibrating disk of a telephone or pho
nograph.
When the nose is blown in manner
which closes the nostrils, air is fore
ed down the internal or Eustachian
tube with sufficient force to stretch
the membrane of the ear considerably.
After such method has been persist
ed in for years, elasticity is destroyed
and the ear drum loses it's power to vi
brate sensitively in response to
! sounds. Since hearing depends upon
this vibration, the individual then be-
comes wholly or partially deaf accord
| ing to the extent to which the stretch
ing has progressed.
Noses should be blown gently and
never with nostrils closed, not even
one at time. A child should be
taught that making horn Of his nose
destroys the drum in his ear He
should know that his capacity for
friendship, success in business, en-
joyment Of many Of life's greatest
pleasures and privileges depend to a
great extent upon his maintaining his
hearing and that this is mainly up to
him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
Notice

Estate Of Elizabeth Richards, de-
ceased.
State of Wisconsin, County Court Of
Grant County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given, that at the
regular term of the County Court, to
be held in and for said County, at the
Court House, in the City of Lancaster,
in said County, on the first Tuesday
Of March A. D., 1918, being the 5th
day of March, 1918, at the hour of 10
o'clock in the forenoon, the follow
ing matter will be heard and consider
ed
The petition Of C. H. Basford, adj
ministrator Of the estate of said de-
ceased, for the allowance of his final
account and assignment of the residue
of said estate to such persons as are
by law entitled thereto.
By order of the Court:
E. B. Goodsell, County Judge
Dated January 30th, 1918. 50w3
Geo. B. Clementson, Attorney for Adm.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
AROUND THE COUNTY
FENNIMORE

The Times says:
Paul Baures is home from the Great
Lakes naval training station, having
been honorably discharged He has
been i'll with measles, humps and
rheumatism and was in the hospital
48 days.
]. It. Reese of Centerville, Miss,
spent last week here with his brother
in-law, Frank and William Roach. He
has been in the south, down among
the niggers patching the past two
years.
You don't need to go to California
TO see tall timber Just come over to
Glenn Park Ridge We cut a tree
that measured IA inches in diameter
at the stump, 60 feet up to where it
was 6 inches in diameter, and 70 feet
to where it was two inches in dia-
meter, and as straight as Uncle Sans
rifle barrels.
Grandma" Day is no more On
Thursday night she gently breathed
her last, at the residence in Bagley
Of her daughter, Mrs. G. D. Calkins,
who during her long illness had adj
ministered to her wants with all the
deep love and tenderness it is pos
sible for a devoted daughter to be
stow.
Mrs. J. r. Parnell took her duagh-
tiers, Constance and Genevieve, to the
hospital at Madison Thursday. Con-
stance had an operation on her nose
and is getting along nicely Gene
We've sustained a fall in school and
injured the limb which caused her
SO much trouble a couple of years
ago and it was thought best to have
the physicians who treated her, care
for the same Miss Grace Bradbury
is substituting for Miss Constance at
school "
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
BLOOMINGTON
The Record says

X lG ICGCOl u 6dy
j. L. MOrkin Of Mikana, formerly of
Bloomington has been in a Mime
apolis hospital for the past month. He
sustained two serious operations early
i'm January and was critically i'll for
a time, but we are glad to report that
he is now progressing satisfactorily
Tuesday evening Reub. French re
ceived telegram from the base hos
pital at Kelley Field, San Antonio
Texas, to come at once" He caught
the midnight train at Glen Haven. The
presumption is that Gerald is serious
ly ill., He went there from Camp Lew
is, Washington only a few days ago.
We hope his case is not very serious.
Henry Schloesser came home from
a three weeks stay at the home of his
father in Chicago last Thursday The
elder Schlosser is in very poor health
but hopes for an improvement with
the approach of spring. Henry says
we don't know anything about snow
around here; that the streets in the
big city have snowdrifts in them high
er than a man in a great many cases
and often when you want to cross a
street in safety you have to first peek
around the corner of big drift to be
sure there is no street car or other We
hicle coming along Bloomington
Record
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
LITTLE GRANT

Burnell Cooley and Clyde Bowler and
Clarence KNAPP went to Bloomington
last Thursday night to lodge but there
was none, SO they spent the evening
at the Welsh garage and had a visit
with Lee
Mrs Lou Morrow and Archie was al
Bloomington last Thursday to see he1
nephew, Lee WEIGH who is there for
a few days leave from the army.
Charley Addison helped Harry KaaI
haul hogs in the afternoon to .Lancas-
ter. While there he sold his and took
them up in the evening getting home
at twelve o'clock John Hollenberge1
and Charley's father helped him.
Chas Jeidy is hauling lumber fol
his new barn.
About twelve neighbors helped VIM
Garthwaite move to Lancaster, Thurs
day
There was a large crowd at the
dance at Harry Kaaps, Friday night
given for Joe Pendleton and Richard
Walsh who have enlisted in the navy
Roy Bennett took his wife to Ian
caster last week to take treatments
at the sanitarium
Victor VanNatta has the humps.
Mrs. Minnie Cooley and Burnell
were at Robert Bohringer's last week
spending all day Monday with Mrs
Ellen Bowen Johnson Mrs. Cooley had
not seen Mrs. Johnson for fourteen
years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
BLOOMINGTON

Lou Bennett of Glen Haven is visit
ing at the John Lord home
A baby girl arrived at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Gieger, Jan. 26.
A number of little folks enjoyed a
party Saturday at the home of Mar
jory Enke. The occasion being her
fourth birthday.
There is a Sunday school contest
for attendance on between Patch
Grove, Mt. Hope and Bloomington NJ
e. schools. First Sunday Patch Grove
scored 10; Bloomington, 8 and Mt
Hope g.
DR.. NARROW went to Dubuque Sat
urday. Mrs. NARROW who has been in
the hospital expects to return home
with him the first of the week.
Lee WEIGH, a sailor on battle ship
South Carolina, returned to his duties
Friday after a visit here with his
brother, Fred WEIGH.
Mrs Daisy Brown returned Friday
from Waco, Texas, where she spent
several weeks with her son, De For
est who was in training there.
Miss Helen Willett of Merrill, Wis
is a guest of her sister, Mrs. Leo Bart
ley.
Mrs L. G. BARLEY went to Lancas-
ter, Thursday to visit her daughter
Mrs. L. A. Clark.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
MADISON CHILDREN MUST
CARE FOR AGED PARENT

Madison, Feb An the first case
Iof its kind in the history of Dane coun-
ty, and believed to be the first in the
state, County Judge r. G. Zimmerman
on Wednesday ordered John and Will
liam Merton to contribute $3.50 week
each to the support Of their mother,
Mrs. Minnie Merton, aged 50.
The decision is of widespread i'm
portance in that it means that chill
dren whether married or single, shall
bear responsibility for their parents
in old age. The fact that children may
be married will not bar the court from
imposing the order
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
The Journal says:

The Journal says:
c. M. Bush who has been in the
employ Of the Vinegar Hill Zinc Co.,
has resigned and has enlisted. He will
be a member of the radio corps at the
Great Lakes naval training station.
DR.. Elizabeth Rindlaub has had an
artist here from Chicago the past week
painting the portraits Of her father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. M. P. Rind-
laub. Brewer, the artist, received
word while here, that one Of land
scapes has just sold for $4,000. He
was here about a week and made
wonderful paintings Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rindlaub
The members Of the engine com
pany truck and hose team gave a sur
prise party on Fred Jansen at his
home on Thursday evening. A deIci-
Gus repast was served and the guests
presented the host with a beautiful
rocking chair. All report a fine time.
Sunday was the list birthday of Mrs.
Jake Burkholder. Her children aud
their families surprised Der by gather
ing at her home with we'll filled bas-
kets, and all partook of an elegant
dinner The family enjoyed the day
together and hope for many more
birthdays for Mrs BuRkholder.
Friday was the 25th wedding an
Their neighbors knew Of it and called
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

at their home to surprise them and
celebrate the occasion. Those present
were the families of Mr. and Mrs.
John Shilliam, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Shilliam, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Smil-
liam, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Jenkins and
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Kies. The guests
presented Mr.. and Mrs. Helms with a
handsome gift as a token Of the day,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06
FRENCH SHIPS RELEASE
PHILIPPINE RAW SUGAR

Exporters of raw sugar in the Phil
lipine islands have been promised the
use of a number of French vessels to
release the thousands of tons of raw
houses. While the world is suffering
for sweetness the PHILIPPINES and Java
have not marketed their last years
crop.
Try Want ad. They pay.