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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-13

FOR SALE-A part of five lots and
shop building and some blacksmith
tools in a good location for a black
smith shop in the village of Bagley
Inquire of Otis Culver, Bagley, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-13
POULTRY.

FOR SALE-A few large, nicely barr
ed Plymouth Rock cockerels. Mrs.
j. A. Huff. 37tfc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-13
FOR RENT
CITY PROPERTY

FOR SALE-Modern residence in Lam
caster, centrally located and q fine
place. Inquire of w. L. Rech, RID /,
Lancaster, Wis. 81.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-13

1903. Ind,
Brennan & Carthew, Attorneys.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Aged Citizen Passes Away.

Oscar Johnston died at his
home on Spaws creek two miles
east of West Liberty, Friday
March 20, 1918, after a brief i'll
ness of a complication of diseases.
Mr.. Johnston was nearly 78
years old and in his death the
county has lost one of its very
best citizens. No person who
knew him will say that Oscar
Johnston ever did an intentional
wrong. He had been an active,
consistent member of the Christ
ian church for many years.
He is survived by one brother,
Easley Johnston, of near town
three sisters, Mrs. Lettie Davis,
of Ashland, Mrs. VIM. Hammond,
of Salyersville, and Mrs. Louisa
Conley, of near town; three sons,
Scott, Harvey and John 7. John
ston, all of the county, and one
daughter, Mrs. Carson Dennis
of near town,
The remains were laid to res
in the family lot at the Elan
grave yard Saturday.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
U'll B Coming.

The people of Morgan and ad.
joining counties will, in the near
future, have an opportunity to
to hear a French army officer,
who has suffered, bled and all
but died upon the bloody battle
fields of war-torn France, tell
his experience. A gigantic
patriotic rally, under the auspices
of the Kentucky Council of ! e.
fense, will be held at West Lib
erty on a later date, possibly
about April 20. The principa
speaker on that occasion will be-
an officer of the French army.
Other noted speakers will be
present.
Watch for the date and get
ready to come.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Supervisors in Session.

The Board of Supervisors for
Morgan county met and began
their work Monday.
The following gentlemen COM
pose the board: C. w. McKen-
zie, Tilden Carpenter, John NJ.
Lykins, J. J. Watson, Sam Lin.
den, Frank c. May, D. NJ. Row.
land and Jas. r. Cox.
The members of the board live
in every section of the county
they are good men and well ac
quainted with property values
and consequently ought to b,
able to do full justice to both tn,
people and the Commonwealth.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Columbia'S Boys Are Coming.

Columbia's boys are coming,
Little Belgium, don't you see?
Columbia's boys are coming
From across the deep blue sea,
Wen put the robber hordes to
rout,
Well pluck their eagles talons
out.
Columbia's boys are coming-we
are coming.
We're coming, yes, we're coming,
From across the deep blue sea;
We're coming, we are coming,
In the name of liberty.
Not for spoils or gains we fight,
We're only battling for the right.
Columbia's boys are coming we
are coming.
Unsheath the swords of Grant
and Lee
Until freedoms fight is won;
Help free the soil of bleeding
France
By vandals overrun.
Repay the debt to Lafayette,
Who fought with Washington.
Columbia's boys are coming-wt
are coming.
AS God has blest our people,
! And our own dear native land
/ Well share those blessings will
you,
And we'll lend a helping hand
For justice we will ever speak
And fight till tyrants mercy seel
Columbia's boys are coming-w,
are coming.
GRANT GoSSETT.
. I On;sy,lla Ev Cnn,;a,, Io,,,,,a -
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
In Honor Of Mrs. Cox.

The local Red Cross chapter
gave a delightful social at the
Commercial Inn Friday night of
last week in honor of its retiring
vice-president, Mrs. H. M. Cox.
The parlor and dining room were
tastefully decorated and an ele-
giant plate lunch was served at
10 O'Clock. Games were played,
with instrumental and vocal mu-
sic in the interim.
On the whole it was most en-
jeyable affair, well attended and
a most fitting tribute to the es-
TEEN IN which the Former Vice
President is held by the members
of the local chapter.
Those present were: Mr.. and
Mrs. S. r. Collier. Mr.. and Mrs.
Evert Mathis, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
R. Forman and little daughter
Wanda Lee, Mr.. and Mrs. B. E,
Whit, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. B. Reed,
Mesdames H. M. Cox, W. H.
Wheeler, B. F. Carter, w. D.
Archibald, Jas, Oney, W. w. Nc
CURE, W. D. Reed, C. C. Maxey
Lula D. Fitzpatrick, H. T. Dyer
Floyd Arnett, H. V. Nickel, W
iG. Wells, Katherine Daniel. Min
ME Lacy, Martha D. Womack
d. r. Keeton and little daughter
Ethel Mae; Misses Lula Walsh
Margaret Johnston, Josephine
Mcclure, Anna Nickel, Clari
Oney, Elsie Arnett. Roxie Reed
Edra Wheeler, Lenora Reed, No
la Thomas and Maude Day
Messrs. w. G. Franklin and Cur
tbs Maxey.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
WHOLE NUMBER 405.
Farm Machinery Not Really High
Priced.

Never was there a time when
the eyes of the nation turned so
completely towards the farmer.
Not only must our own people be
fed at home, but our soldiers at
home and abroad, with the mil
lions of our Allies, must be sus-
tanned by the increased efforts of
our farmers. A despondent view
is taken by many, founded on
the fact that so many soldiers
have been called from the farm
that all branches of farming will
thereby be crippled. While ad-
mitting the force of the situation
thus forced upon US, we know
that the farmers remaining at
home are capable of producing at
least one-tenth more farm pro-
ducts than they have been pro-
ducing heretofore, and from a
somewhat extended observation
and inquiry | am fully satisfied
that the sreatest effort of their
lives will be put forth this season,
and this effort will fully COM
pensate for the shortage in farm
hands. More machinery will be
introduced, which will not only
increase the productive power to
cultivate as many acres as here
tofore, but will increase the
quantity per acre by the better
method of cultivation.
We hear the complaint that
machinery has so advanced in
price that farmers cannot afford
to buy, but this is a sad mistake.
No implement has advanced in
price in the last three years in
proportion to cotton. From
December 1, 1915, to December
1, 1917, Tennessee cotton advanc-
ed from 11.3 cents per pound to
27.3. almost $50 per cent, while
| know of ne implement that has
advanced equal to 80 per cent.
So, taking cotton as the stand
ard, implements are now cheap
er than, | might say, at any time
in the last ten years. With un-
precedented prices for every
product of the farm, surely will
our farmers meet the situation
with the report next November
that more bales of cotton, more
barrels of corn, more bales of
hay, as we'll as all other farm
products, have been produced
than during any year in the
past.-J. E. B, in Southern Agri-
culturist.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
The Fire Fiend.

Big crops are needed this year.
To grow big crops plenty of nj
trogen. Every available bit of
what we have or can. get is need
ed.
So great is the need that the
government is going to spend
millions of dollars to erect a great
plant at Muscle Shoals to gather
nitrogen from the air, and has
already bought 100000 tons of
nitrate of soda to make certain
that the farmers of the country
will have a supply.
Nitrate of soda and cyanamid
are valuable sources of nitrogen,
but there is a much more i'm
portant source than either of
them. The source is the living
or dead vegetation on the fields
and woodlands that will 90 back
into the soil. Most of the nitro
gen in the crops we raised last
year came from the decay of veg
etable matter in the soil, Most
Of what our crops will get this
year must come from the same
source.
Whoever decreases the supply
Of this organic nitrogen in the
ground or on its surface is work.
ing directly against bigger crops
this year. He is counteracting,
so far as his efforts 60, the eff
forts of the government to supply
| farmers with this essential ele.
! ment of plant food.
, The man who burns over the
5 fields and the woodlands is such
4 man. The man who burns
| cornstalks, dry grass and Other
trash" is working directly
e against the future fertility of the
soil, He may not mean to be-
e but he is an ally of the kaiser anC
u Of despotism. 1t has always
been foolish to cover the fields
with fires; this yearit is criminal
- Southern Agriculturist.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Taxpayers Take Notice.

We are requested to say to the
taxpayers of Morgan county that
the Board of Supervisors now in
session will increase the valuation
of more mems property than
most boards heretofore have
done. This will be necessary be-
cause, under the new tax law
the tax rate on real estate and
some classes of personal property
has been materially reduced, and
it will be necessary to increase
the assessed valuation in order tC
equal last years taxes.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Shoppers Attention.

Mrs. r. M. Oakley returned
the first part of the week from
Louisville where she personally
selected her line of spring milli-
merry and dry goods. They are
now on display at the Oakley
store and no more complete as
sortment ever came to West Lib.
erty. The prices are as low as
can be made commensurate with
good business. Call and see
them.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
THE WAR, THE FARM
AND THE FARMER
By Porbert Quick

We should have had to accept mur.
der as thing against which we could
not defend ourselves.
We should have allowed this new
horror to become a part Of all future
wars, and have been responsible for
its incorporation into International
law. o
We should have proved that because
the fire which burns up our farms
usefulness is beyond the horizon, we
would submit to the kindling of it.
We might have accepted the sew
enty cents for wheat and the six cents
for cotton, but we could not have done
it merely because we were command
ed to do it. BY so doing we should
have accepted degradation. We should
have begun, after winning our free
dom in our own revolution and estab.
fishing union on the foundation of
liberty in the blood and tears of our
war between the states, to knuckle
under to autocracy! We should have
basely yielded up our birthright as
Americans.
Such thought is intolerable. Peace
at such a price would not be peace,
but only preparation for a future
revolt against subjugation. Better
any sort Of war; better war forever,
than that.
Whenever the time comes for new
sacrifices, let us remember that we
fight, not for our liberties tomorrow
or next year or twenty years from
now, but for our freedom today. Not
for the right to live in the,future, but
for the right to make a9living this
year. u
German oppression had begun to
pinch us before we entered the war.
If we had not declared war, but had
accepted the conditions of life ordered
for us by the kaiser, we should today
be poverty-stricken people. Our fac
tories would be shut down; our work
men unemployed, our people starving,
our farmers ruined by the poverty of
those for whose consumption they
grow their crops. There Is loss and
sacrifice in the war, but there would
have been far more of loss and sacri-
flee in accepting the German terms.
We should have lost more in money
than we have spent in the war. but
we should have lost something far
more precious. We Shouts Rave lost
our souls.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
GRANT GossETT.
Louisville, Ky. Courier Journal
Cecil Hurt.

Announcements have been re-
ceived here of the marriage OF
Mr.. William G. Hurt and Miss
Elizabeth Ethel Cecil at Haze
Green, Wednesday April 3.
Miss Cecil is the daughter of
former Representative E. F.
Cecil, and is well known in West
Liberty.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Batavia, Ohio, March 25, 1918.
r, F. D. 8, Box SO
Editor Licking Valley Courier,

Editor Lacking valley Courier,
Enclosed you will find one dol
lar for renewal to the Courier for
one year. | have been waiting
to renew my subscription so |
could give YOU my new address
which after the first of April will
be Dayton, Ohio, r. F. D. II.
| have sold my farm in southern
Ohio and bought six miles from
Dayton and nine miles from
Xenia, so | will be between two
good towns. We are always
anxious to get the Courier as it
speaks of so many of our old
friends and we also like to read
of the advancement of our home
county.
May you and your paper live
in the hearts Of the people as yor
have in the past.
Yours,
]. w. CAsKEY.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04

What the Imperial German govern
ment offered the farmers Of America
in its ruthless submarine warfare was
not the loss of profits, but slavery to
the saber-rattler of Potsdam. He pur-
posed to make us slaves by mr"dering
the people who took our "o, ucts to
market. BY all the laws of ci lied war
fare, commerce under neutral flag
was free from any hindranc" except
the legal interference justified ~ war
But the Germans not only stopped
merchant vessels, they sank them.
Sank them without warning, without
trace-the most devilish thing war
has seen since the savages scalped our
ancestors and threw screaming babies
into the flames of burning cabins.
The German plan Of sinking mer-
chant vessels without trace is based
on the murderer's maxim that
dead men tell no tales" 1t was exc
cuted by the massacre Of men, wom-
en- and children, who, having COM
mitted themselves to small boats in
the open sea after their ships were
torpedoed, were mercilessly raked
with gunfire, and exterminated to the
last unprotected, unpitied soul! These
are the murders that stain the hands
OF the kaiser, his advisers and min
ions. These outrages were per
petrated on neutral vessels; when all
that civilized warfare gave the Ger
mans a right to do even with the mer-
chant vessel under hostile flag, was
TO stop it at sea and make II prize
OF war.
To kill the civilians on board, even
under a hostile flag, was nothing but
unmitigated murder. And these mur-
ders were committed in order that we
might be enslaved! Having the right
to take the sea with his feet, but be-
ing afraid to do so for fear he might
lose 1t, and being unable by fair
means to stop the selling of our pro.
ducts to his enemies, the kaiser de-
clared that he would do it by the foul
est methods ever resorted to in war.
He declared the sea closed, and that
he would keep it closed, not by war,
but by murder.
To have submitted would have
cost US dear in prosperity; but that
would have been the least of our
loss.
We should have had to grovel before
-thS German government.
(Thi. 1. IN, .seoad of thr,. .rtiele.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Real Estate Sale.

j. B. Kendall purchased the
Drake farm" of l44 acres, one
mile and a quarter north of Will
more for $22, coo. -Wilmore En-
terprise.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
PATRIOTIC PROGRAM.
At Court House
Sunday Night April 7

War Alphabet Garland Arnett
Address "The Flag
Rev. W. II. MCGOWAN
Song "Star Spangled Banner
Audience
Reading ng---------" american Flag
Miss Fern Cottle
Address Culture VS.. Kultur
Prof. G. w. Craft
Reading Flower of Liberty"
Miss Edra Wheeler
america" --------V Violin and Cornet
Kathleen Phipps and Robt. Lykins
Address -----" "War Savings"
w. d. Archibald
Reading "The Liberty Bell'
Miss Kathleen Phipps
Song "Columbia"
Audience
Address Industry, a Patriotic Duty
DR.. Daniel Baldwin
Reading ng.----.----------"T "The Union"
Miss Dora Williams
Song -----" "Tenting Tonight"
Boy Scouts
This program will be rendered at
the court house Sunday night, April I.
The purpose is for the more exten-
sive and intensive dissemination of
true and intelligent patriotism among
our people.
Everybody is cordially invited to
this feast of good things.
A. o. ALLISON. I
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04

PRNARY-(On account of changes of
teachers, the records of the primary depart
ment were not carefully preserved.-C. w.
Graft
INTERMEDIATE-Eula Arnett, Marguerite
Archibald, John p Archibald, Elizabeth
Bellamy, Edra May Cartmell Harry c.
Cartmell, Edra X. Gaskey, Ray Dyer, Leona
Elan, Frank Franklin, Frances Gardner,
Marion Gardner, Hubert Gibbs, Elmer
Johnston, Wilbur Lacy, Irene McMann,
Edward Mathis. Neil Nickel, Homer Rosr,
Lenura Reed, Park Sturdivent Mildred
Steele, Ruth Womack and Virginia
Womack.
GRAMMAR GRADEs-Elzabeth Wells, Al
Hovermale, Emerson Bellamy, Vadie Elam,
Clara Oney, Henry Carter, Bonnie Frank
lin, Wilma Nickel, Nancy Mcclure, Roger
Womack, Carter Eykins, Irene KenlalI,
Ruth Davis, Curtis Mathis, Earl Arnett
Roxie Reed, Jewel Lacy; GLADYS Nickel
Christine Swetnam, Mildred Gevedon, Ora
Bellamy, Bessie Dyer, Drexel Moore, Bessa.
leen Perry, Lucian Reed, Willie Miles
Everett Nickel, Maude May Dyer, Ambrose
Lowe and Walter Odhelds
HIGH sCHooL--Edra Wheeler and Dora
Williams.
SEVENTH MONTH.
PRIMARY-Owen Clay Wells, George
Tuner, Bernie Dyer, Acquilla Harmon
Drexel Nickel, O'Rear Elan, Edward
Keeton, Stanley Gullett, Ed Turner, Mel
Cole, Buford Whit, Bcrnce Nickel, Reba
Mathis, Elizabeth Nickel, Ethel Mae
Eeeton, Ruth Gardner, Wanda Lee Fore
man.
INTERMEDIATE - Homer Rose, LenoTa
Reed, Ruth Womack, Virginia Womack
Marguerite Archibald, John P. Archibald
Harry c. Cartmell, Edra X. Caskey, Ina
Davis, Ray Dyer, Leona Elan, Frank
franklin. Marion Gardner, Frances Gard.
uer, Chester Gibbs, Elmer Johnston, Irene
McMann, Edward Mathis, and Nell Nickel
GRAMMAR GRADEs-Bernice Davis, Clara
Oney, Emerson Bellamy, Elizabeth Wells,
Estill Byrd, Eta May Lewis, Ruth Davis,
Wilma Nickel, Leona Henry, Christine
Swetnam, Curtis Mathis, Earl Arnett
Bonnie Franklin, Mildred Gevedon, Willie
Miles, Everett Nickel, Walter Oldhelds
Bessie Dyer and Orlean Cottle.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Friend

The above article was actually
written and signed by the per.
son to whom it referred and sub
mitted to a newspaper for publ.
cation. Names are omitted of
course, but we have followed the
context, spelling, capitalization
and punctuation as nearly literal.
| ly as we could. EDITOR.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
GUMPTION, n~
Which is plain Common Sense, in United States
language, without Educational Furbelows.
BY L. II. IIOVERNIALE.
The "Great Drives" Lessons.
:1!ll 81

While the end of Germanys drive is not yet, it is no
longer thing to be greatly feared by the Allies. It's
force has waned and it's punch is feeble The Allied
strategy have been slow retreat to enable them
to kill many Germans as possible. The thin lines of
Allies against the mass formation of the Huns caused
the latter to lose heavily In the first nine days of
the battle the German loss has reached nearly half mil
on The Allies have kept their reserve army fresh and
possibly before this is printed it will be hurled upon the dis
couraged and enemy The first lesson that we learn
though doubt if the German ever learns it's that
superior numbers and brute force do always win in war;
The Germans ounumbered the Allies greatly and thought
to break through by the weight of numbers and sent their
men into the fight in mass formation The British moved
them down by thousands and sent in; when the
weight of numbers became too great the British would
fall back to position and the thing would be
repeated Thus for nine days have the Allies let the Hun
wear himself out and reckessy sacrifice his men.
anything else needed, this drive adds it's rea-
sons why the Prussan dynasty must be crushed Think
of the rulers who send their soldiers into the jaws of
hell knowing that the majority will get killed. Millions
of German soldiers have died needessy on account of the
German method of enmasse fighting Nearly four years
have demonstrated that the weight has broken
the Allied lnes yet the German General Staff continues
use their own cannon fodder Why should the
Pssan vcegerent of Gott care for the lives of his slaves?
II he wins he replace them from the peoples conquer
ed This is the purpose of the Hun and is another lesson
we learn.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
A-'4SSaksriee'iFcc4ssihsssff.- Fc4sihssf.-

has been hear for the past week
for the Examination and which
he has mad a first class certifi-
cate which is expected by all of
his people and by all of his
friends and then Mr.. -being
a we'll known man By-Co.
citizens will probably be or is all
ready Inguage to get married |
probably won't mention the farth-
er name so he is one of our old
good Kentucky school Teacher
one of the Best. and | further
state that upon my own belief
Mr. - is a fine boy and is now
here with -- --
taking steps to go to higher pro.
gressive life may Every Body be
glad to meet Mr. he can En-.
joy your time
call for him
Enquire of him ask of him
he is honest pure and
sober.
Yours god sent
| Er;an1
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04

Blank Deeds for sale at the
Courier Office.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04

When the drive of the Germans was launched so sure
OF Its success We're the kaserlteS IN America that in
aces they started to hold meetings to demonstrate their
JOY This is lesson that we have in our midst hostile
element that would openly revolt if favorable opportuni
ty should present itself And it is further evident that
drastic must be adopted in handling this proGer
element matter of national protection 1t est
mated that there than two million German popu-
aton in this country and that there three hundred and
fifty thousand spes propagandsts, posoners and ncen
diaries in the United States who are now being paid by
the German government These spies are at work cease
lessly and are not all German. Any whom German
gold buy for that purpose is used If is of your
neghbors the more apt you are to believe it. The work
of these minor spies to mix among the people and to
persistenty spread reports calculated to disturb or dis
courage the people. No community free from these
malicious and false reports and many time they told
by you know and every day. These men may not
be actually drawing German pay The spy system of the
kaiser is shewd enough to get agents without pay by ap
peang TO their preudces These agents whoutpay of
the kaiser the petty politicians who keep busy spread
ing reports intended to dstrus in the minds of the
people of the men managing the war; or tales calculated
to inspire doubt to the outcome of the war; can i'm
agne the gee with which the paid German spies congrat
uate each other when they succeed in ensng little local
Republicans politicians in the work of the kaiser They
get these R. ps to knocking the administration the
department and everything concerning the war; and
laugh in ghouish delight at their dupes.
~
TheGerman spy SYSTEM for reason seems to have
picked Roosevelt pivot around which to work up
feeling of discomfort and strife The word has been
down the line and the l. R. ps are busy Truth has NJ
part in these tales. heard of one of our own R. ps
telling crowd in store the other night that Roosevelt
planned the naval battle of Manila for Dewey and tina
if Teddy had been allowed to go to France he would hav
licked the Germans in four months The facts that thes
statements were both untrue and preposterous did no
matter; to the unthnkng its effect was the same and
far as it believed it served the kaiser as much as
could hope for. And these are not ALL Sometimes yo
hear these fellows claiming to have letters from soldier
that they were busy loading transports with cons Sue
stories can be told only for the purpose keeping fror
enstng and to encourage the evasion of the draft Tn
kaiser derives just as much benefit from the acts of hes
fellows as though they were drawing his pay,
The local lesson of the great drive will be that wit
the news of the deaths of hundreds of American boys tina
must result there will be feeling aroused that will rel
der such proGerman talk extremely offensive and perhap
dangerous The long arm of Uncle Sans Secret Servic
will one day reach out and gather in of the fellow
so intent in aiding Germany.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04

CTh.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Honor Roll.
SIXTH MONTH.

PRrMARY-(On account of changes of
teachers, the records of the primary depart
ment were not carefully preserved.--C. w.
Graft