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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-15
PLATTEYILLE.

We are sorry to learn of the con-
tinued serious illness of Mrs. Ernest
Clarke in Dubuque hospital For a
week she showed some improvement
but the past few days has been worse
and has lost what she had gained.
Her suffering is intense and Mr..
Clarke writes theysare having the Chi
cago physician who operated on her
to come there to see her this week Mr.
Clarke and Mrs. Clarkes mother are
with her Friends here hope for bet
ter news soon.
One of the missionaries sent out
in July to the ex-service men of Grant
county has just been returned from
Peking, China, where it reached Rev.
John e. Gronli, now located i'll north
China Union Language School. Rev.
Gronli's only request is Victory
Medal, all other matters having been
satisfactorily adjusted.
]. H. Webb returned Friday even
ing from Chicago where he had been
called by the serious Hines Of his
mother, Mrs. Henry Webb. Mrs. Webb
was former resident of this city and
Her husband died about eight years
ago.-Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-15
Nearby Notes


Fullington, night clerk at the Park
hotel, Madison, was aiken to Richland
Center last week to answer a serious
charge. 1t was alleged that Mr.. Full
lingtOn, former resident of Rich
land Center. employed an acquaintance
to assist him running booze from Mil
waukee to the city. The pair hired a
room to dispense the liquids and did
ia thriving business. Fullington plead
ed guilty to selling intoxicants and
was given the alternative of $3.50 fine
Tor six months i'll Jail. Up to last Thur
day he was in jail unable to procure
funds to pay his fine.
Livingston's industrial life received a
severe blow on Sunday when an order
came from the New York office of the
Mineral Point Zinc Co., to close oper-
alton at Coker No / and Cocker No. 2.
200 men are out of employment Not
any are kept on the pay roll except
pump men and watchmen. This is the
first time in 80 years that Cocker has
had an absolute shut down. The mules
have been brought up from below and
all preparations indicate the lapse of
employment is for an uncertain time
which at present is selling at $40
Livingston Writer.
Saturday night Carson Root and
Ed. Morrell of Wyalusing thought they
would take little trip to hunt coons
and sure enough they freed two coons
and got them on the ground The an
imals took to the river and as the dogs
were in close pursuit the only thing
for the coOns to do was to swim, which
they did, and the dogs followed, and
they had a hard fight in the water.
The dogs caught the coons and came
to shore with them. The largest of
the two coons the boys got, weighed
1914 pounds; the other was not full
grown Bloomington Record.
Robert Hardy Of Eagle township,
Richland county, made a complaint
against one Bryan Hardy alleging theft
of six skunk hides. Hardy No 2
pleaded guilty and paid his fine but
entered complaint of assault against
the other Hardy alleging that the lat
ter stopped him on he road, abused
him and slapped his face. Bryhan
Hardy also made complaint against
one Bernard Evans alleging that Evans
was in with him on the skunk deal. All
parties will get their session in court.
H. E. Policy of Madison, state bridge
inspector, fell from one of the piers
on the new bridge at Darlington while
inspecting the bridge, and landed in
the river, distance of IS feet down.
Policy sustained bruised shoulder and
hip. He is about 70 years old and it
is thought that he became dizzy while
standing on the pier and lost his bal
Gnce. He was taken home.
Mrs. John Gorgen, wife of a Mineral
Point merchant, died Saturday a week
ago, after an extended illness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-15


Ray Groenier is the proud father
| OF new Ford car.
Mrs. g M. Calvert visited oldsfriends
lat Potosi the latter part OF last week.
j Lee Wright went to Milwaukee,
| Thursday, to attend an implement
! dealers convention
/ A.. c. Knapp returned Wednesday
from his trip to Chicago where he Wis
/ tied his son, Arthur
Attorney S. E. Smalley of Cuba
| City was in Lancaster on legal bust
| ness last Wednesday.
I Miss Pauline Kastendyck of Fenni-
more was an over Thursday guest
with Lancaster friends.
/ Miss Ruth Higginbotham departed
on Friday for her home in Chicago
where she will remain for the winter.
Abe Ward departed on Tuesday
afternoon for st. Paris, Ohio, where
he is engaged in mill work for the
winter.
Phil Guggenheim is spending a
couple of weeks in Galena and else
where. Ed. Livingston of PlatteviIle
| is assisting in the store during Phils
absence.
| Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Stephens of Mil
Waukee have announced the arrival
on Dec 4. OF a daughter, Jeanne. Mr.
Stephens for many years was engineer
| at the water works The family NOV
| ed to Milwaukee last summer.
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of DR.. W. t. Brown of
Valmora, N. NJ, to Miss Francis Nc
Farland of Chicago. DR.. Brown, q
brother of the late Harry Brown,
| formerly resided in Lancaster
The Big Dick mine at Meekers Grove
| has been closed.
Plans are being made for the re-
sumption of operations of the big acid
| plant near Cuba.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-15

Found guilty of neglecting to stop
and give aid after the touring car he
was driving struck down Harold Papke
5, last March, the boy later dying
/ Earl ConnoTs, GAINESVILLE. was sentenc-
ed to four months in the Rock county
jail under the commitment act. SEN
tence was passed by Judge George
Grimm in circuit court. 1t was held
that the death of the child was the re-
/ suit of an accident for which Connors
he is 21-and the fact that he is mar
ried, earned him the light sentence,
said the Judge
| Dr. A Friedrich, state humane
officer, closed the stockyards at Liv-
/ ingston Thursday week ago alleg-
ing deep mud, filth and inhumane
conditions prevailing The North
western road Immediately promised to
4 remedy the situation. The complaint
was made by residents of Livingston.
VIM. Perrin of LIE Sueur, Minnesota,
i formerly of Bloomington, recently sold
a Duroc hog for $4,000.
Mrs. Mary Lacke, a native of Ger
many, died at her home in Cuba City
Thursday, Dec 2, aged "a years. She
was married to Phillip Lacke at Sim
sinawa in 1916. Mr. Lacke died some
year ago. Rev. FIR. Mazzuchili, a
pioneer priest of Galena, performed the
ceremony. Mrs, Lacke is survived by
seven children. At her funeral six
grandsons acted as pallbearers.
A jury i'll Lafayette county circuit
court awarded Mary Ernest of Benton
$4,000 damages, in her suit against La
Fayette county for $4,000 A broken
windshield, on an automobile which
overturned resulted in blindness of
one eye. The approach to culvert
was overgrOwn with weeds and the
jury decided the highway was defec-
tive.
The Goodrich Transit company, larg-
est line on the Great Lakes, was sold
last week to Fl. w. Thorpe and asso-
ciates. The company has six steamers
and is capitalized for $1,500,000. 1t
was founded in 1856 by Albert e.
Goodrich, father Of the retiring owner,
Albert w. Goodrich. The latter re-
ceives cash for his stock.
John Jenkyn, Cuba City, died with
out warning last Wednesday, Mr..
Jenkyn had gone to work as usual but
not FEELING Well went nome. Shortly
after his arrival at the house de died
while his wife was admitting doctor
at the door. The funeral was held
Sunday.
A $25O,00O fire occurred at Sheboy-
gan Falls last week when cold stor-
age plant burned to the ground. One
wall fell into the river. The building
was valued at $4,000 and the stock
and equipment cannot be replaced for
100000.
Mrs. SarahRedmond, native of Ire
land, died at her home in Sheboygan
Dec. 2, aged 101 years The old lady
had never been sick day in her life.
Josiah Wiley died at Mason City,
Iowa recently. He was born at James
town in 1862, and was a graduate of
the Platteville normal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-15
Lancaster Local Items

Archie Fache has gone to Hot
Springs, S. ID.
Ira Totman has been seriously ill
for the past two weeks.
Mesdames F. w Halferty and Fred
MasO were Fennimore callers Friday
Robert Burgess of Highland was
weekend visitor with his family
here.
Mrs Carl Walker was confined 10
her home with a severe cold last week
but is feeling better.
Chas. Mathews and family moved
to their new place east Of Rewey last
Friday making the trip in motor
truck.
Mrs. Burr Halferty and children OF
No. Lancaster spent the week end al
the parental David Boil home in Fen
nimore.
Mesdames E. ]. Austin and L. D.
Eastman departed on Thursday for
q weekend visit in Madison and Mil
Waukee.
Rev. HUMPHREYS of Dodgeville and
Rev. G. ~ Doodle and family of YER
ona, visited the first OF last week with
Rev. Weyrauch of this city. The
guests returned home Wednesday.
Dan Aupperle writes the Herald that
his party are we'll settled in Lakeland
Fla, and like it fine. Dan thinks the
climate is fine but wants some Grant
county soil to make corn grow.
Mrs. Chas. Bennett and daughter
Norma, went to Madison, Thursday
to attend the funeral of Mrs. Bennett
niece, Mrs. Jas. May, who died at Bos-
ton last Tuesday. The funeral was
held at Madison Friday morning.
With the roads dragged last week
and subsequent drying motor cars
again begin to speed over the Grant
county highways. Motoring in Dec
ember is quite a novelty. 1t looks as
though the railroad fare was wasted
this winter for those who sought Cal
nornia and Florida
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Walker return
ed from Madison, the first of last week
bringing their little son, Ivan, home
with them. The child was operated
on at the General hospital and an abb
cess that might have resulted fatally
was removed from his neck He is
now in care of local physician.
John Pink and Jos. Seipp escorted
Rev. Kaiser as far as Madison We'd
nesday on the latter's sad mission to
Milwaukee to attend his mothers
funeral Rev. Kaiser was met at Mad
ison by relatives from other points
Mrs. Kaiser's funeral was held at Mil
waukee Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dale of Mont
fort visited last mid-week at the Fee
lix WanaZek home west of town. Fri
day morning the Wanazeks started
for the station with their guests. They
left the farm at o'clock and reached
the train just as the bell rang to start.
Felix states that he didn't notice
whether or not the roads were rough
as he hit only the high spots on his
flying trip of five miles
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-15
New York; tire taken from an alb

New York-A tire taken from an abb
andoned automobile used by three rob-
bers who stole four-hundred sixty
seven dollars in Liberty bonds from
two messengers in Brooklyn Tuesday,
was expected by detectives to yield
finger print clues which may lead to
the capture of the robbers. They de-
serted the machine when the tire
blew out, few blocks from the scene
of the robbery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-12-15

Omaha-Postal inspector Coble Of
Omaha announced that Keith Collins,
who was returned from Oklahoma in
connection with the Burlington mail
car robbery on November 10, led the
officers to cache in Council Bluffs
where twenty three thousand dollars
in ten dollar bills were recovered.
The recovery Of this sum accounts
for the only known shipments of cash
on the train. Collins pleaded guilty
and was given IA years in prison.
Arizona republican., 1920-05-10
10 Acres, a Bargain

FOR SALE-10 acres. with a lease of 10 acres, all in good crop: also one COW, chickens and implements. H. Ha- becker , miles north on corner 7th st. and Bethany Home road. Price $11, 300.
 .Sr
Arizona republican., 1920-05-10
For SaIe-ReaI Estate

CASA GRANDE VALLEY
 We have some bona fide bargains in deeded lands on good terms. These are first choice locations. no better soil and not far from raiifoad station. We have the only original state leases for sale and there are a few very good sections cheap.
 We have several choice locations of homestead relinquishments at less than prevailing prices.
 s. C. MILLER COMPANY
 52 N. First Ave, Phoenix. AriZ.
 Casa Grarde Hotel. Casa Grande. If
Arizona republican., 1920-05-10

PARADISE reIinquishment-sale or trade. Choice Casa Grande 40 a. S40t cash. N. E. 10 a-perfect stand-s250G handles Choice Casa Grande relin- ouishment S5. Best Paradise deeded st a. (price considered) on attractive terms.
 Small and large city homes priced right.
 SOUTHWEST REALTY COMPANY
 (Exclusive Realtors)
 Over Donofrio's Confectionery IL
Arizona republican., 1920-05-10
Auctions
T. B. GUESS AUCTIONEER
For Sale-Real Estate

FOR SALE or exchange, 20 acres, double house. all in cotton, 10 acres in fruit. near Center street on street car Would accept house in city part payment Fine opportunity to get the finest location in valley L. L. Plank, 20 Fleming Block. bs
 FOR EXCHANGE@16 acres near Flagstaff. fine lot of saw timber and very best of potato land. Owner raised S7000 worth of spuds on acres last year. Would accept good house and sot in Phoenix as part. Place we'll inn proved with house and barn. L. l.. Plank 220 Fleming Block. bs
Arizona republican., 1920-05-10

ACRES cotton. House. we'll Close in. $500 cash. Balance $500 a year. Bargain. = Lot on F Van Buren. fine shade. $500 cash. Sell next fall s200o. 12s E.. Adams If
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-01-23
invite BIDS TO
WORK ROADS OF
COUNTY, JAN. "a
HIGHWAY COMMISSION ASKS
FOR CONTRACTS ON EVERY
MILE IN THE COUNTY.
UNDER PROVISION OF 1919 ACT
II No Bids Arc Received Then the
Commission win Proceed at Once
to Organize Gangs or Crews OF
Hands to Do the Work.

Bids for work on the roads OF Mal-
ny county are asked by the Road Com
mission today. Every road in the
county is to be worked under bids
that are called for. All bids must he
submitted to the commission not later
than on next Saturday, January "a,
at IL O'Clock a. m. They viii at that
time be publicly opened in the OF
fees of the commission.
The commission is required under
the law to advertise for bids before 1t
can begin the work of repairing ana
maintenance of the highways. Last
year there was no responses to the
advertisements, but it is hoped that
this will not be the case this year
However should the bids for road
construction be received at the time
specified, then the commission will
at once undertake to repair the roads.
Crews or gangs under foremen will
be employed for every road where pos
sible and the repairs made at the
earliest practical date,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-01-23
SECOND DISTRICT
ASSESSMENT WRONG

Il have examined The assessments
made in the second district by the
state tax statisticap." said Thomas
II. Taylor, one of the best known citi-
Gems Of that district and who is prob
ably as familiar with values there
as any one in the district Il find
many farms that could not be sold to-
day within twenty to twenty-five per
cent Of their assessment On the 9th
or hand some places are not assess
ed at what they would bring in a
sale. The assessments made in that
district are altogether out of line and
do not believe that any citizen of
the district gave testimony that
would justify Them
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-01-23
TAXABLE Value
Chief TOPIC or
OISCUSSI0NN NOW
VALUATION OF STATE STATI6Tl.
CLANS FlERE BEING MUCH
TALKED ASOuT.
THEY WILL NOT DC FINAL.

"What b your assessment p

What h your assessment
! This is tho greeting with which the
average Maury countAn Salutcs his
friend and neiehbor these days. No
longer is ii question of tho condition
OF the crops or the health OF the fami-
ly. The weather long tbs most popll,
lar Of all topics both in polite and
unccuth society, has been rolegated
to the secondary place as Il theme Of
conservation.
How much less will you take for
your farm Or your residence than the
valuation fixed by the state assess
ors?" is a question that usually fol
lows the first. Nothing has occurred
IN Maury county since tho armist'ce
That has caused more general talk
taan the figures exhibited by the coun.
ty tax assessor from the state board
Of equalization
Assessor Williams has been beseig-
ed by taxpayers, large and small, rl-
raj and urban, since the lists arrived
here. Folks want to know how much
they have been assessed In many in
stances their tempers are In no way
,mnr0ypf lInop nro,,,ininU tho ,.otIf,
However, since the statement Of Chief
Statistician I4ouihan that the assess
ments here are merely tentative and
made simply as Il guide for the coun,
ty assessor u ray of hope has illum-
med the horton and the Taxpayers see
chance for Improvement.
One taxpayer who rents out a
couple Of farms declared today that il
the present local. school and other
rates should remain the same next
year that they are now and the state
board'5 assessment should stand his
taxes would be four dollars an acre
and that Is exactly the amount of
rent that he receives. He figures III
that contingency on selling enough CT
the land to pay tho insurance and
c0st,oG repairs
Tax Assessor Williams and his
co~ps Of deputies are getting ready to
take the field to make the county as
'sossment They will use tho state
boards figures as 4 guide and where
they find property assessed at far
above tho real value will reduce.
Then these values will all go to the
state board where the final valuation
will be fixed. Taxpayers who have
been assessed on fictitious values are
confident that they will DO able to
have the values reduced
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-01-23
BANK & TRUST CO.
May CONSTRUCT BUILDING SOON

iencG because OF the extraordinarily
high cost Of building materials and
everything that enters into censtruc
ton work. But the shareholders have
come to the conclusion that unless
Improvements arc made the business
OF the bank IN ght suffer and for that
reason have determined that if posi-.
bic the construction of d suitable
building to house tho institut on ought
no longer to be postponed
Definite plans for a now building
have not yet been made 1t will, how
ever, be located at the present site,
which the bank owns, and when con
structed will be Of the very latest
banking model 1t will afford every
convenience and facility for the ac-
cCmmodation OF the patrons of first
class banking institution.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-01-23
M'LE:AN GIVES
FARM PROGRAM
OF COMING Year
ONE or TIE FIRST DETECTIVES
WILL. sE COUNTY COUNCIL
or AGRICULTURE.
THOUSAND ACRES or ALFALFA.
~Four Thousand Aciec Of Crimson Clio
Four Thousand Cre3 ct Crimson Co-
yer Will Ee Turned Under to Be
Followed by Corn--Many Feeding
Demonstrations.

Prof Evan A. Mclean has anuounc.
ed the most ambitious program fer
agricultural extension work ever
known. While great results were ac-
complished during the past year Mr..
/ Mclean expects TO do more in 1920,
one of The chief accomplishments
that he hopes for is the organization
of county council of agriculture.
/ The following is an outline Of the
program for the year.
Club work for boys and girls to be
aided in each community by man or
woman, who will act as club leader.
Twenty corn demonstrations over
the county, using the fields selected,
pure seed corn, in the different com
munites. 20 corn aud soy bean dem
Ionstrations for hogging down
One thousand acres of alfalfa TO
be sown next fall. 200 cars Of crrshed
lime to be used this year
Ten communities to be, organized
on u community basis,
TO ship several car loads Of hogs
and cattle direct from farmer to mar
ket.
Organization OF county council CT
agriculture, in which every farmer OF
The county will be eligible for mem
bership, and everything pertaining to
the farmers to be carried on through
this council or farm bureau
Have perfected plans for 100 farm
crs Of Lauderdale county, Alabama. to
make trip of inspection through Maui
ry county, to see crops and systems
on farming, and also looking for good
pure bred hogs, sheep and cattle.
10 hold community far ia every or
ganized community. 5 hog feeding
demonstrations ) dairy coW feeding
demonstrations beef cattle feeding
demonstrations; 10 SOY bean demon
STATIONS for hay; soy bean demon
STATIONS for seed, 1900 acres of Grim
son clover to be turned under and u
ba- fn1lowed WITH 't Corn IN 90 ~" tn@at =
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-01-23
MANY SUBSCRIBERS
RENEW ALLEGIANCE
RENEWALS STREAMING INTO OF
FicE FROM EVERY SECTION
or THE COUNTY.

Renewals TO both The Daily and
| Weekly Herald continue to stream
into tie office daily Since the publ
cation of The names Of several nun
dgel subscribers who have renewed
tacir Allegiance to Tho Herald sinct
tho FIRST Of the year, the additional
list ha3Aboon Sdd5T during the past
two or three days:
Daily Subscriptions.
W. ~. z, Grant, 4, NJ, Savage, Mrs
NJ G.. w lsford, Caleb Dickson Jas.
Campbcl w. T, Holland e. r. Trous
dale, j 4, Emerson Houston Estes,
Mrs. Mary Meeks, r. A. Parks, G. v,
full, IT, G. Scott, ]. n. Jonos, w. Il.
Hay c5. Mrs w. 4. llarris,s l.. + Amis,
Tildcu Green, joe NJ. Fowler Mrs N.
II N orris. G, f. Deaton, p F. Taylor,
Z. y. Eel, MS w L. Hakor, Mrs.
Bruce Mcdaniel, D FA Fulton, III, G.
Morton, r. NJ. Moore, A. S. Dunn,
Houston Thomas, J. l. Wright, J Il.
Williamson.
weekly Subscriptions.
T. Odil Maynard Spencer, Az T..
Gregory, Mrs, w. NJ, Johnson, Mrs.
K Anderson, l.. $. Watson, w +.
Bai:aWood, =. Fox, Conner u, Shaw,
Mrs Harriet Il. Stephenson, T, O..
Parks, G. $. Jones, Miss Frances
Hayes, f. ]. Matthew'S, Mrs. J. A. Nc
Adams, +. T. Dodson, J L. Carpenter,
Mrs NJ T. Walters, II. G. scott Mrs,
w, T Harris, Herbert Latta, l.. Spark
man, J. ". Orman, G. A. Reed, Mrs.
w +. Dohbins, w. G. Evans, J. G..
Evans, Mrs l.. Hammond, e. w
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-01-23

A new, coEmodious and modern
building for the Columbia Bank &
Trust Company is strong probability
for the coming year. At the annual
meeting Of the shareholders OF this
institution there was strong sent-
ment manifested for a new building,
In fact by practically a unanimous
vote the stockholders expressed the
opinion that the banks business had
grown to such proportions that it
could no longer properly accommo-
date it, in the present crowded and
cramped quarters.
For some time it has been apparent
that the quarters for the bank were
entirely too small for its increasingly
large number of customers, but the
officials have suffered the inconycn-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-01-23
S. 0. S.
If Constipated, Bilious
or Headachy, take
"Cascarets
"Cascarets"



Sick headache, biliousness, coated
tongue, or sour, gassy stomach-al-
ways trace this to torpid liver; de-
Logged, fermenting food in the bowels.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in
testines, instead of being cast out Of
the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches
the delicate brain tissue it causes
congestion and that dull, throbbing
Sickening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigest-
ed food and foul gases, take the ex-
cess bile from the liver and carry out
all the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work Willie you sleep (Advt) 3