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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

complain at the summons which calls a
defeated soldier from the field; de-
feated, aye, if he were Paul or Mar
Gus AureliuS but if there is still one
INCH of fight in his old spirit, undis-
honored. The faith which sustained
him in his lifelong encouragement will
scarce even be required in this last
fOrmality of laying down his arms.
Give him march with his old bones !;
there, out of the glorious sun-colOred
earth, out of the day and the dust and
the ecstasy - there goes another
Faithful Failure!
SO shall you front, clear-eyed and
smiling, the Stress the shining, of the
brave New Year-Stevenson.
Time is but q stream | go a-fiShing
in. / drink at it; but while | drink
see the sandy bottom and detect how
shallow it is. It's thin current slides
away, but eternity remains. / would
drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose
bottom is pebbly with stars.-Thoreau.
What is time? The shadow on the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
BETTER THINGS FOR
FARMERS COMING

"The past generation has been
known by the domination of the
financial and corporate inter
ests. The present generation is
known by the emergence of la
Dor organizations. The coming
generation will see the rise of
the farmer.
1.-THE land and the tillage
thereof are at the bottom of our
civilization, and they condition
governments and institutions.
This is both because susie
nance is derived fro,l the earth
and because every keeper has
q stake in the earth and is nee
essarily devoted to a program in
life.
"The farmer holds to the per-
sonal ownership of property.
He is never out of employment.
He is a solitary man rather
than gregarious. He is prima-
rily a producer and his income is
a consequence of his own appli-
cation. He follows d natural
day. He is conservative because
nature is conservative. He is
responsible for his materials
from seed time unto harvest.
He is not a wage-earner; he
works for himself. He is not a
managed mani. II. Bailey.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

master horseshoers, by the hay, grain
and feed interests, and by the carriage
and wagon builders of America. The
purposes of the association as set
forth in it's charter are to aid and en-
courage the breeding. raising and use
Of horses. The primary aim will be to
bring prominently before the public and
all transportation users the great part
which the horse plays in agriculture,
commerce and transportation, to en-
phasiZe the important part the horse
occupies in pleasure, and to work
ceaselessly for the Improvement and
upbuilding to higher standards of our
existing types of horses. Of the 81
100000 horses now on farms and
ranches in the United States, it is safe
to say that less than 100000 are of
distinct types we'll calculated to do
their particular job The association
will work for the improvement of our
horses to the end that the majority of
them may be highly efficient in the
particular line Tor which they are i'll
tended"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
BIRTH Of the
NEW YEAR
People Of New Zealand First
to Give l. Greeting
ME birth of the new year, as
we are well aware, is variOusly
onlohrctnd hut how manV

"HE birth of the new year, as
we are well aware, is variOusly
- celebrated, but how many
people know of the manner in which
the momentous date is set? DO you
realize that the new year is really
hours old before the great bulk of the
civilized world is able to celebrate it's
arrival?
Priority in rejoicing over the event
is actually given to the untutOred in
habitants of the islands of the South
Pacific The first of the civilized world
to greet 1921 was the people of The far
away New Zealand Sweeping west
ward, the change Of date crossed ASIA
and then the old world of Europe and
Africa before starting over the Attain
tic to America. Onward it sped at the
rate of thousand miles an hour until
the first day of the new year died away
in the middle of the Pacific.
In the United States the idea OF an
nouncing broadcast over the land the
birth of the new year originated with
the OfflcGFS IN cHdISe VI IiiC he~Fch W
seryatory in Washington. About 10
wears ago it was suggested that the
telegraph companies dispatch at mid
night from Washington series Of sig
mails nroclaiming the exact moment of
the new years beginning. The idea
YVES taken up and signals were sent
out at midnight and at one, two and
three o'clock in the morning follow
ing i'm order that each great time d.
vision of the United ;jtates should re-
cefye it's own appropriate midnight
signals from the capital.
The practice has now become fixed.
The signals used are akin to those sent
out each midday. These begin five
minutes before the midnight hour by
way of warning, and cover each second
of the clock except the twenty ninth,
the last FIVE Of each Of the first four
minutes, and the last ten of the final
minute. After this last long break
there is a single prolonged contact the
beginning of which announces the ex-
act instant of arrival of the new year.
Since the beginning Of this service
|, other telegraph and most Of the cable
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

sale of Christmas seals. That such
material is in great demand by public
health nurses, teachers, and other
health workers is shown by the many
requests which the association has re-
ceived for permission to use it.
Among these requests is che from
Dr. Thomas D. Wood of New York, the
noted child health expert, who saw the
program and wishes to use it in his
health education classes in Columbia
University and the University of Penn
sylvania He declared it to be the best
presentation of health truths to chill
dren that he has ever seen and COM
mends the Wisconsin Association high
" on the excellence of its health work
in cooperation with the schools.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
QUEER NEW YEARS CUSTOMS.

Volumes might be written upon the
queer customs and curious supersti-
tons connected with New Years day.
Literature is full of them, grave his
torians have preserved them for us,
and versatile poets decked them with
fairest flowers Of fancy. From Chau-
Ger, Sweet Spring of English Song,
from Spencer and Herrick, Milton and
Shakespeare, down to the humblest
magazine rhymes of today-one and
all-they have paid tribute A wise
essayist describes the day as "a
peak on Darien, from which two
oceans may be seen. Into one we
look with sadness and regret, into the
other, with hope and faith"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
DR.. T. L. Harrington Of the Wisconsin
Anti-TubercuIosis Association Max
ing Chest Examination.

n NE person in every six examined
I found to be tuberculous. This
fact is revealed by the records
of 109 Free Chest Clinics held by the
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Associa-
ton in fifty-fve communities of the
state between June %, 1919, when this
new agency for discovering unknown
cases of tuberculosis was inaugurated,
and October 81, 1920 Of the 999 cases
of tuberculosis discovered in the 6,032
men, women and children examined in
these clinics, a large number are now
in sanatoria or under other medical
care. Many of them had no suspicion
that they had tuberculosis until they
took advantage of the thorough chest
examination afforded by the travelling
clinic. Many of them will doubtless
owe their lives to the clinics service
in discovering the disease while it was
still in an early stage. The clinic is
one of the big things which the sale
of Christmas seals helps to support.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

day and all day long we have trans
crossed the law of kindness-it may
seem paradox but in the bitterness
of these discoveries a certain consola-
ton resides. Life is not designed to
minister to mans vanity. He goes
upon his long business most of the
time with hanging head and all the
time like a blind child. Full of re-
wards and pleasures as it is-so that
to see the day break or the moon rise.
or to meet q friend, or to hear the
dinner call when he is hungry, fills him
with surprising jOy-this world is
yet for him no abiding city Friends
fall through, health fails, weari-
ness assails him; year after year he
must thumb the hardly varying records
of his own weakness and folly. 1t is
friendly process of detachment.
When the time comes that he should
go, there need be few illusions about
himself. There lies one who meant
well, tried little, failed much; surely
this may be his epitaph of which he
need not be ashamed. Nor will he
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

QUAINT Mother Goose characters
~ singing health songs and reciting
health jingles are one of the in
Ventions of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuber-
culosis Association for popularizing
health education in the schools. First
grade children of the Cass street
school, Milwaukee, appeared in the
Mother Goose dramatization at the re-
cent annual meeting of the state asso-
citation when Children's; Hour pro-
gram was given as demonstration of
how games, playlets, recitations and
songs can be used to teach health.
The material for the program was
written by Mrs Louise f. Brand of the
association staff and is part of the
health service financed by the annual
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

same; there is a change of views, and
no less of the lights in which we re-
gard them; a change of motives as
well as of action.-ScOtt.
If you would climb to the high
places, carry off the richest prizes, get
the most enjoyment out Of life, and
have the sublimest old age, you must
conquer the base elements of nature /;
you must have every atom Of the dross
of dishonesty squeezed, hammered,
come as sound az 24carat gold, as true
as best steel.-George X. Morris.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

N u nj ty. L h e
school districts
realize that it
takes a good
school to give the
children of the
district the educa-
ton to which they
are entitled.
The men whose
work keeps them
in touch with fu-
raj afTalrS are not
pessilnistic upon
the rural school
situation. Most
of them believe
that the coming
few vnarS will gee
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

not time itself. Time is the life of
the soul; if not this, then tell us what
is time?-Longfellow.
The years-how they have passed.
They are gone as clouds go on sum-
mer day; they came, they grew, they
rolled full-orbed they waned, they
died and their story is told, Years
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
onions ForeteIl Wet Months.

Take u onions, cut them into
halves, hollow them out and fill with
salt. Those in which the salt com
pletely dissolves indicate the wet
months Of the coming year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

and deed with the force and power of
eternity years whose marks we shall
carry forever, were dissolved like the
dew and their work is finished
Beecher.
The time which passes over our
heads SO imperceptibly makes the same
gradual change in habits, manners and
character as in personal appearance
At the revolution of every five years
we find ourselves another and yet the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
A NEW YEAR Is NEAR.

"It's coming, boys,
It's almost here;
It's coming, girls,
The grand New Year!
A year to be glad in,
Not to be bad in;
"A year to live in,
To gain and give in;
A year for trying,
And not for signing;
A year for striving,
And hearty thriving;
A bright New Year,
OH hold 1t, dear;
For God, Who sendeth,
He only lendeth."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
RURAL SCHOOLS ARE
BECOMING BETTER
I'll ]. Cooper Tells Why He Be
Iieves the Improvement
win Continue.

Fewer and fewer Wisconsin rural
schools are being cheated by the com.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

} LOOK back and appraise
the past year and see how
little we have striven and
to what small purpose; and
how often we have been
cowardly and huns back. or
temerarious and rushed I'M
wisely in: and how every
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

dial, the striking of the clock, the run
ming of the sand; day and night, sum
mer and winter, months, years, CEN
turies-these are but arbitrary and
outward signs, the measure of time, but
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-26

Hazel Rice and Mrs. Laurel Stevens
were Milwaukee passengers Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Auken of Fenni-
more were over-Sunday guests at the
home OF w. G. Cartwright.
Mrs. Anthony Howell went to Bridge
port, Monday, to visit her sister, Mrs
Blakesley.
Miss Clara Kortmeier of Freeport
l1ll-, here visiting relatives, returned
home Saturday.
Mrs. L. Fl. Stevens went to Madison
Monday to visit her daughter, Thelma
for a few days
Miss Leona Kraemer returned Mon
day to her studies in the the business
school at Freeport following a visit at
| home
1 Mr.. and Mrs. Vivian Vannatta went
to Platteyille, Saturday, to attend tie
funeral of John English, brother n
law of the former.
Mrs. Fred Meyers and daughter, Flo
renee, spent the weekend at Platte
vile. They attended the welfare meet
ing the last three days of the week.
Miss Jeanette Griswold returned
Monday to her duties as student in the
Presbyterian hospital training school
| for nurses at Chicago.
The residence Of the late Miss Abbie
Dawson located in the third ward. has
been sold to Charles Roberts of Mont
fort. The consideration was $500.
The Roberts family will move back to
Lancaster in the spring.
Evans Stone, here visiting his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs John NJ. Stone, de-
parted on Wednesday for Santa Fe,
New Mexico, where he has accepted
position Evans was employed by
the Packard Motor Car Co. Of Detroit
prior to recent general layoff.
Relatives and friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alex Croft surprised the worthy old
couple at their home in the first ward
on Saturday, Jan. Is, this date being
their 49th wedding day The visitors
brought baskets heaping over with
good things to eat and everybody en-
joyed themselves immensely.
Ward TOtman of Jackson, Miss,
here visiting his parents for the past
week, left Friday for Hixton, Wis, to
visit his brother, Edmund, before re-
turing to Jackson where he is the bus
mess manager of a large centralized
creamery. Mr.. Totman has made his
way to point where he receives a
salary of $3.50 month with vacations
at full salary. He has been with the
company for five years.
Will Cox of Potosi and Miss Manda
Macke of So. Lancaster were made
husband and wife last Tuesday at the
Evangelical parsonage here the Rev.
~. L. Hack officiating. Milton Macke
and Miss Inez Keene acted as wit
nesses to the happy event. The newly
married couple left on the noon train
for Milwaukee on a honeymoon trip.
They will reside on a farm in Potosi
township.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-26

Mrs. JOS. Benoy of Lancaster, and
Mrs. John Duve of Bloomington, are
Doollttle hospital patients recovering
from appendix removal operations.
The ladies of the Baptist church
surprised Mrs. F. l.. Durni Friday eve
nlng with a tinware shower. The Dur
MS lost their household goods in a fire
last year and the surprise was greatly
appreciated. A pleasant evening was
had by all present.
w. j. Bailie returned Saturday from
Milwaukee where he attended the big
auto show. Mr.. Battle garnered many
useful points and one conclusion is
that motor car prices will not change
Tor many months to come if at ali.
All the 1921 models are listed at about
the same price as they were last year.
Harry Wenzel, young man en-
ployed on the George Heberlein farm
near Liberty and son Of August Wen
eel, was the victim of a painful ac-
cldent last Thursday. The young man
was engaged in cutting and saving
wood and a log rolled on his left
leg III such a manner as to nearly
crush it. The member is swollen the
size OF jug about the ankle and until
an X-ray is completed the doctors are
unable to ascertain whether or not
the bone is broken.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-26
Notice to Prove Will and Notice to
Creditors.

State of Wisconsin, County Court Of
Grant County-In Probate.
In re estate of VIM r. Kerr, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that at the
special term of said court to be held
on the 4th Tuesday of February, A. D.,
1921, at the court house in the city of
Lancaster, county of Grant, and state
OF Wisconsin, there will be heard and
considered the application of Samuel
W. Kerr to admit to probate the last
Will and Testament of William r.
Kerr, late of the city of Lancaster, in
said county, deceased, and for the ap-
pointment of an executor:
Notice is hereby further given. that
at, the special term of said court to be
held at said court house, on the 9Th
Tuesday of May A. d., 1921, there
will be heard, considered and adjusted,
all claims against said VIM. r. Kerr,
deceased:
And notice is hereby further given,
that all such claims for examination
and allowance must be presented to
said county court at the court house
in the city of Lancaster, in said coun-
ty and state, on or before the oath
day of May, A. D., 1921, or be barred.
Dated January oath, 1921.
By the Court, e. B. Goodsell, Judge.
Brennan & Carthew, Attorneys. 1913.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-26
GRANT COUNTY PIONEER GONE.

William Kerr, son of Bernard and
Sarah Dillingham; Kerr. was born al
Mt. Vernon, Indiana, Feb. Is. 1888
and died at his home in this city Jan
l6, 1921, at the age of 80 years and
IL months being the eldest of five
children.
He came to Wisconsin Nov. II, 1862
settling on a farm in So. Lancaster, on
which he lived for nearly 55 years.
From thence he moved to Lancaster
three years ago.
He was married to Martha Walker
March 20, 1864, who died Sept. 25th.
1896 To this union were born four
sons Barnard of Archie, Mo-. Sam
uel of Hurricane; Edward C. of Lam
caster, now in Riddle, Ore; and Will
liam NJ of Lancaster.
He was married to his present wife
October 26, 1912. Besides the above
named children and wife he leaves s
grandchildren to mourn his departure
Mr.. Kerr was one of the best known
and most respected OF Grant countys
citizens. His genial disposition won
him many fast friends. His word was
as good as his note and his genial dis
him many fast friends. His word was
as good as his note and his purse was
always open to the needy.
One of the sad features of his sick
ness and death was that his faithful
wife was also belfast at the time.
A short funeral service was held at
the home followed by public service
at the Methodist church, Rev Guy w.
Campbell officiating. The body was
laid to rest in the Hillside cemetery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-26
GRANT RIVER

Lou and John Weisbenner sold sew
eral horses the past week.
Willis Pennock sawed wood for EN-
ii Stark Friday.
Mrs. Albert Blum and children Wis
tied the weekend in Lancaster and
FennimOre.
Miss Francis Joyce spent the week
end at home.
Chas. Mclean and Frank Mclean
and wife were ppresent at Edw. Nc
Leans birthday dinner Sunday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-26

The flight OF the American naval
balloon from Rockaway n. Y, to
Moose Factory, Ont. last month cost
the government $S,740, the value Of
the equipment lost during the trip.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-26
Card of Thanks.

We extend thanks for the acts of
sympathy extended to us during the
illness and death of our father, VIM
r. Kerr. Also for the beautiful floral
Offerings.
Kerr family
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-01-26
Wvhv Mr.. N. Windsor (R. ID Put Up
with Rats for Years

sYears ago got some rat poison. which neal,y
killed our fne watch dog. We put up wi'n Isss
until friend told me about Rat-Snap ~ s41e e,s
kirs rats. though house pets won't touch IT. Ks
dry up and leave no smell. Prices. Ssc' o9S' SA'S
Sold and guaranteed by
j II. Bennett.
ZiegIer & Son.
New Britain herald., 1921-07-29
GOOD BLOOD KEEPS
PERSON In Health
0steopath Also Tells How to
Avoid Many Operations

Cleveland, July 29.-NormaI blood,
both in quantity and quality, will pre-
vent the presence of disease, Dr. w
G. Curtis Brigham Of Los Angeles, de-
clared here today before the closing
session of the 25th annual conven-
ton of the American Osteopathic as
ISOLATION.
What are termed circulatory whirl-
pools in the child's body are caused
by abnormal postures, DR.. Brigham
explained. These circulatory whirl-
pools in addition to poison from i'm
proper diet and poor care of the
teeth, cause chronic diseases, and if
they are properly cared for in early
youth, many operations will be avoid
ed with saving estimated at two
billion dollars annually, he said
Psychologically the brain is the
least important part of the body and
the pituitary body, one of the duct
less glands, is by far more important,
DR.. Ernest E. Tucker of New York,
told the delegates. The mind is the
action of the body rather than of
| the brain.
F. A. Convey of Portland, Me-, read
! report of experiments. He stated
vaccination has recently been found
| to transmit a mild degree of tuber-
| culosis and venereal disease. This can
be prevented, he declared, by expos
ure of the vaccine. to blue and yellow
light.
| The alleged violation Of profession
al ethics by DR.. H. L. Russell of Buff
falo, in testifying in the Stillman d.
vorce case was up before the house
of delegates of the association yester-
| day and a heated discussion ensued.
The New York, Association of o.
| teopaths was ordered to make a thor
| ough investigation and submit a re-
port with recommendations to the
| national organization.
New Britain herald., 1921-07-29
GOING TO SHRINE

Rev. John T. Winters, pastor Of
st. Mary's church, will head a party
of parishioners on trip to the
Shrine Of ST Anne de Beaupre in
Canada next week. The party viii
leave on August 3, travelling by the
way of Springfield, Mass. About IL
days will be taken on the trip. Rev.
William Krause curate at st.
Mary's church is now at the shrine.
New Britain herald., 1921-07-29
MORE SPANIARDS LEAVE.

There was another exodud of
Spaniards from the city today, when
a truck load left for the tobacco neld
up state. According to the proprie-
tor of Fonda Espanola on CONNER
cial street, there are but ten Span
iards left at his place now
New Britain herald., 1921-07-29
LIMITATION OF CLAIMS.

At a Court of Probate holden at New
Britain within and for the District of Der
lin in the County of Hartford and State of
Connecticut, the 9th day of July, A. n
1921.
Present Bernard F. Gaffney, ESQ., Judge
On motion of Amelia Lindner of said New
Britain. Administrative the Estate of
c. c. Frederick Lindner within said district
deceased.
THIS COURT doth decree that six months
be allowed and limited for the vreditors
OF said estate to exhibit their claims
against the same to the Administrative and
directs that public notice be given of TINS
OF der by advertising in newspaper pub
Iisned in said New Britain, and having a
culation in said district. and by postin
copy thereof the public sign post in
said Town of New Britain. nearest the
place where the deceased last dwelt.
Certified from Record
BERNARD F. GAFFNEY .Iudea
New Britain herald., 1921-07-29

and Louis heels, also white canvas low I
pumps, and white canvas tongue pumps v
welt solos,
New Britain herald., 1921-07-29

A small lot, and those
allow anything to prevent
at once.
Kid and gun calf oxfor,
welted soles.
Owingsville outlook., 1921-06-16
BEFORE AND after
CHILDBIRTH
Mrs. Williams Tells How
Lydia E. Pinkham'sV Vegetable
Compound Kept Her
in Health

0verpeck. O.-"Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound helped me both