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The Delta independent., 1922-11-10

Prominent among the Investigators
who are acquiring much Information,
are the fellows who look into the
1t is rumored that the shoe shining
places are not much in favor of long
er skirts for women.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-25
LANCASTER
LOCAL ITEMS
Personal Mention and
Brevities of Interest.

Mesdames George lockwood ana
Andrew Jerrett visited friends in
bennlmore Friday afternoon.
Henry Nichols, formerly of Lam
caster, but now a Woodman farmer.
visited friends here last mid-week.
Mrs. Chas. Kaap went to Fennimore
and Mt. Ida Wednesday to visit few
days with her sisters in those munic~
qualities.
The Misses Elizabeth Belken and
Thelma Boyd, operators at Farmers
central, visited friends in the city of
Preston, over the weekend.
Mrs. Frank Burns and son, George
left Thursday for Anderson, Ind, to
make an extended visit with Mrs. Jno.
Hardacre, daughter of Mrs. Burns.
Clyde r. Showalter, former editor
of the Herald, has been seriously i'll
and the victim of a recent operation
at Denver, Colo, SO reatives here
We're Informed here last week.
Mrs. William Henkel is mastering
the delicate intricacies of a hem
stitching machine she recently &C
CURED. She expects to find good
local market for the work
Miss Emily Budd and Mrs Elva
Mitchell of Fennimore visited Lam
caster friends between trains Friday.
Ralph Hoskins of Bloomington
was here Friday enroute to Fenni-
more.
Mrs. Ellie Duncan left for Madison
Thursday following brief visit with
Lancaster friends. She states that
her son, Dorman, is foreman of the
state capitol barber shop and not the
Capitol hotel shop.
Mrs. VIM. Laabs of No. Lancaster,
moved to the city lasv week into the
home near the north school she re-
Gently purchased. Miss Minnie
Laabs was over from Livingston to
assist her mother in moving.
Archie Whitcher, a young farmer
residing on the j. /. Williams place
east of Platte in Ellenboro township
and Miss Edna Eek daughter of Geo.
Eek and wife Of Ellenboro, were re-
Gently married by the Rev. John Bir-
rell of this city. The young people
have the best wishes of their many
friends.
Friday, when Abe Levins, just north
of the city, was out in the pasture
setting his traps, he discovered three
five-pound pals of candy hidden be-
meath some gooseberry bushes. One
of the pals was partially empty but
two were still filed Mr.. Levins and
daughter visited different places in
the city where candy is kept, endeav-
oring to find out who might be short
but have been unable up to the pres
ent to learn whose candy it Islam
caster writer in Fennimore Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-25

An effort will be made to rejuven-
ate the Pra. du Chen artesian well,
famous for it's flow of medicinal and
healthgiving waters 1t is estimated
by a committee of which the mayor
is the head, that about $4,000 will be
required to restore the flow. The
well was driven in the winter of 1875
and was the first Of it's kind in the
northwest. It is $50 rect deep and is
cased down $50 feet with SIS inch
pipe with copper lining. When frse
drilled the well threw water so feet
above the level of the ground. The
flow was then 869,916 gallons daily,
When the drillers reached the depth
of 26S feet the water rose to the sur
face and at 504 feet brine was
thrown out From that distance on
the pressure increased steadily. Ac
cording to biologists, this well
reaches greater depths than the one
at Sparta, which is 216 feet above
the level Of Lake Michigan, while
the Pra. du Chen well is only 81 feet
above that level
The original charter for the city of
Dodgeville issued years ago expired
at midnight on Dec. 81 and the town
is now operating under the general
charter for the state cities with the
exception of Milwaukee. The new
charter makes but little change in the
city government. After their present
terms expire the supervisors will no
longer hold places on the city coun.
Gil along with the two aldermen from
each ward
M. ]. Briggs, attorney for Curtis
Nelson. Iowa county, has applied 10
the circuit court for the construction
of the prohibition law. The law pro-
hibits the manufacture and sale, re
ferring explicitly to the traffic in in.
toxicants. Mr.. Nelson, on the other
hand, contends that elderberry wine
he had made for his own use was
illegally confiscated and himself ar
rested. An early ruling is looked for.
Ann Farwell of Dodgeville and
Clyde Hopkins, Tracy, Mimi, were
married Dec. 20. The bride is i,
graduate of Stout institute. Both
parties taught in the Dodgeville pub
lie schools last year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-25

Mrs. Mary Davner. native of Ire
land, died Dec 80 at the home of her
nephew. Frank Burke, Dodgeville, az
the advanced age of 102 years. She
was the widow of Patrick Davner who
died in Ireland. Mrs. Davner came
to America with her two children and
survived both though they grew to
adult life Burial was made at Ore
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-25

gon, Wis.
Co. Supt Schoonover Of Gays
Mills, Crawford county, is a chicken
fancier Schoonover placed an oil
heater in his coop to make life COM
Portable for the chickens. The stove
exploded and set the coop afire. Most
of the chickens escaped and bucket
brigade saved the building.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-25

M V. Burris and Mrs. C. S. Moora
are visiting in Minneapolis with their
son and brother, Fletcher Burris.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Graham Of
Potosi township are the parents of a
daughter born last Wednesday a. M.
Or. kraut attended the case.
Archie Bass, one of the Industrious
young farmers of Five Points will
nave closing out sale Feb. 9th.
The details of Archies sale will ap-
pear in next weeks Herald.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Henning of
Platteville are the parents of baby
daughter born Saturday a week ago
in hospital of that city Mrs. Hen
ming was formerly Miss Elsie Kinsel
of Lancaster.
Mrs. Anna Beach, senior rural
school supervisor, has resigned her
position in this county to take a pos
ition in the training school at Algoma
where former Co. Supt. Ed. Young is
now located
John Blackbourne ST., venerable
resident of this city, recently cele-
brated his 83rd birthday. Mr.. Black
bourne is native of England but has
resided in Grant county since the old
prairie and longer than most citizens
now living.
The engagement of j. r. Vernon
Of Lancaster and Miss Doris Edwina
Cooper Of Madison has been an
chief highway engineer for the south
western Wisconsin district with head
quarters here. Miss Cooper is the
n orb s>f
of Madison and a graduate Of the
state university, class of 1921.
George Sandelback, living east of
the city, has bought the fine residence
property owned by George Kinsel, in
the 4th ward. He has rented the
place to Otto Brandemuhl, the pres
ent tenant. Mr.. Sandelback intenGa
selling his farm the coming year and
having a dispersion sale. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sandelback have worked hard on
the farm all their lives and think a
change will do them good. In moving
to Lancaster they also feel their
children can take advantage of the
splendid schools here. Their many
friends wish fhe family we'll %**
Rev. w. J. Griffiths, Congregational
pdoCOI DIT DOuSGNIlIc3 udS CtuueISu HIS
resignation to take effect in April.
Jacob Venner of Hazel Green, died
suddenly Tuesday a week. ago at the
age OF SO years. He was born in
Holland
John Lycan died at his home III
Belmont, Jan. 5th. Several months
before he suffered a stroke Of paraly-
sis. He was rural mail carrier out
of Belmont.
Melvin Harris, Mineral Point, and
Lauretta Rudy, Luverne, MINI, were
married recently They will live at
Rockford.
John Dotchoff, who was injured in
the Hazel Green mines three months
ago, has so improved that he drives
into town again in his automobile,
though he still uses crutches when he
gets out of the car. The trent part
of one foot is cut away well into the
instep, but as soon as it completely
heals he will get an artificial foot that
will allow him to walk nearly as easy
as the rest of us, without a limp, and
we are all pleased to know it to-
nazeI Green writer.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19
Authors Works
And Their Ways

Gamaliel Bradford, the author of
American Portraits" discussed on
this page, was born in Boston in
1868, the eighth in direct descent
from Gov. William Bradford of
Plymouth Colony. His early life
was passed mainly in Wellesley
Hills, Mass. After spending a con
siderable time in Europe he pre-.
pared for Harvard College and en-
tered with the class of 1886, but was
obliged to give up his studies al
most Immediately on account of the
delicate health which has handi-
capped him ever since. He married
in 1886, and after spending the sum-
mer of 1887 in Europe returned to
Wellesley Hills, where he has made
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

his home, devoting his time mainly
to literary pursuits. His published
works include American Por-
traits "a Prophet Of JOY" "Por-
traits of American Women" "Por-
traits of Women, '"Union Portraits"
Confederate Portraits" and Lee,
the American"
Franklin j. Giddings of Columbia
University makes a contribution to
the new sociology in Studies in
the Theory of Human Society"
which has just been published.
After dealing with his subject first
on the historical side, Prof. Cid
dings gives an analytical treatment
of order and possibility, social
,ausaticn, folk ways and State ways,
social theory and public policy, and
concludes with synthetic section
on pluralistic behavior and further
inquiries of sociology.
Annals of the Church in Scot
land" by Sir Thomas Raleigh, X. c.
S. l., is about to be published by the
Oxford University Press American
Branch. 1t is a record for the gen.
eral reader of facts which illustrates
the foundation Of the church (this
includes ANY society which hon
estly claims to connect itself with,
the society instituted by our Lord
and organized by His ApostlesO
the growth OF Roman ascendancy:
the revolt of the Northern nations
in the sixteenth century; the at
tempts to secure uniformity in re-
ligion under Protestant form, and
the slow transition to what is de.
scribed as liberty of conscience. At
the beginning of the volume are
autobiographical notes by Sir
Thomas Raleigh and "reminiscences
of him by Sir Harry r. Reichel.
Francis Hackett's THE Story Of
the Irish Nation" is to be published
next month, the Century Company
announces. 1t is a history of the
Irish by an Irishman, and traces
the story of the race in Erin from
the earliest times down to and in
| Guiding it's establishment as an au-
tonomous state as independent as
Canada or Australia. The word
STORY" in the title emphasizes the
fact, say the publishers, that this
history was written to be read, and
not merely to be catalogued in IL
braries and occasionally referred to.
The following story has appeared
in several papers. Shortly before
going abroad last year Sinclair
Lewis bought fancy suitcase for
his wife. They used it on a week
end trip up the Hudson and it was
stolen on the train. In it was the
manuscript of Lewis's new novel.
The real tragedy is that Mr.. Lewis
did not have a carbon copy"
Messrs. Harcourt, Brace & Co.
now announce that the title of Mr..
Lewis's new book is "Babbitt": it is
the story of man, and it will be
published next fall. As for the story
of the lost manuscript, they say,
Aside from the facts that the
| stolen suitcase was not one but two,
that they were not stolen on
train up the Hudson, u. S. A., but
at station in London, that in
neither of them was there a single
word of manuscript, notes, or any
other literary material, that Mr..
Lewis always keeps a carbon copy
OF everything he writes, and that,
finally, when the suitcases were
stolen he had completed only
small part of the new novel, Bah
bitt,' the story is a triumph OF cor
rect detail
One of the most romantic episodes
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

story teller is to-day as high as il not
higher than ever before. There is
one point on which o. Henry diff
fers from all other short story
spinners. If you were to ask ten
men each to select his ten favorite
tales of Maupassant, or Poe, or Kip
ling, there would be a general uni
formity in the choice. To take Kip
ling as an example, every list would
be reasonably sure to include THE
Man Who Would Be King" "The
Drums of the Fore and Aft" "The
Brushwood Boy" and "The Finest
Story in the World" With a hun
dred different titles possible in the
selection not more than fifteen
would be likely to be mentioned.
1t would be much the same with
Poe or Maupassant: but not with
0. Henry. Eight years ago the
writer of these paragraphs ar
ranged symposium of this kind
in the pages Of a literary magazine.
Ir the ten lists, each giving ten ia
vorite stories of o. Henry. some-
thing like sixty-seven different tales
were named. Only one story can
Unfinished Story'') was mentioned
in as many as three lists.
| A NEW contribution to the liter
"A ature about o. Henry is
Letters to Lithopolis," that has
just been published by Doubleday,
Page & Co. in an edition that is
limited to APT copies. of which 377
are for subscribers in the United
States and fifty for subscribers in
England. The letters were writ
ten by Porter in 1903 and 1907 to
Miss Mabel Wagnalls, who had read
and been impressed by Roads Of
Destiny" and wrote to the author
in the care. of his publishers. O.
Henry's first letter bears the date
of June 3, 1908. Now that the un-
fortunate episodes in Porter's life
are generally known, there is no
indiscretiop in referring to the
years spent in the Columbus Peni-
!tentiary. But in 1903 Porter was
exceedingly reticent on the SUBJ
ject, and it has been said that he
even deducted five years from his
age, those being the years he did
not wish to explain. In his letter
to Miss Wagnalls volunteering per-
sonal information he said: "Since
you have been so good as to speak
nicely of my poor wares, / will
set down my autobiography. Here
goes. Texas cowboy. Lazy. Thought
writing stories might be easier than
busting bronchos. Came to New
York one year ago to earn bread,
butter, jam, and possibly asparagus
that way. Last week loaned an. ed
itOr $40. Please pardon the intro
duction of finances, but I regard
the transaction as an imperishable
bay. Very few story writer's have
done that. Not many of them have
the money. BY the time they get
it they know better"
/ WE do not know whether J. Au-
W brey Tyson, the author of
THE Scarlet Tanager," is man
or woman, but we have found the
book as adequate and absorbing a
detective story as has been pub
lished in many months This is
not to suggest that it is in any
way literature. or that Capt. George
Rennison of the United States Sc
cret Service, who tracks down Sea
falcon and his Brotherhood, is a
character likely to take place
with such creations of this kind of
fiction as Sherlock Holmes, Pere
Tabaret, or NJ. Lecoq. The trouble
with most detective stories is that,
no matter how ingenious the plot,
they are marred by sloppy work
manship. But there is nothing
sloppy about "The Scarlet Tana-
ger"
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

= ing readers have found enter
tainment. instruction and sugges-
tion in the Portraits that
Gamslel Bradford has been con-
tfibutins to the Atlantic Monthly
AMI other periodicals. A volume of
them, entitled American Por-
traits" has just appeared from the
press OF the Houghton Miffiin Com
pany. The subjects of portraiture
are Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
Henry Adams. Sidney Lanier, James
MacNeill Whistler, James G. Blaine,
Grover Cleveland, Henry James and
Joseph Jefferson. 1t would be diff
cult to improve upon the wording
of a publicity note issued by the
publishers Ii reads: "Mr. Brad
ford busies himself with the collec-
ti0n OF souls. In old, dim corners
OF dark libraries, in dusty files of
newspapers and magazines, in the
fleeting triviality OF personal CORE
spOndence, he hunts for some ray,
some gleam, some thread or hint
that will lead him to the utmost
secrets of a well known character.
Then he weaves these threads to-
gether, those that are shining and
significant, into solid web Of per-
sonality that makes the reader feel
as il he had stepped into close &C.
Guaintanee with friend"
HERE is a fragment from Mr..
IL Bradford's portrait of Mark
Twain. ''As he was a creature of
contradictions. it is no surprise to
find that, while he prayed for board
ing houses, he loved comfort and
even luxury He would have eaten
of plank in mining camp, and
slept on one; but the softest beds
and the richest tables were never
unwelcome, and one attraction OF
wandering was to see how COM
Portable men can be as well as how
uncomfortable. Now, to have lux
ury. you must have money. And
Mark. in age as in youth, always
wanted money, whether from mines
In Nevada. or from huge books sold
by huge subscription, or from
strange and surprising inventions
that were bound to revolutioniZe
the world and bring in multimil-
lions. He always wanted money,
though rivers of ii ran in to him
and ran out again. He spent it, he
gave it away, he never had it. he
always wanted it,"
OF Mark Twain's permanent
" place in letters, Mr.. Bradford
says. 1T is on this lack of depth
and feeling that i base my reluc-
tance to class Mark with the great
est comic writer's of the world His
thought was bitter because it was
shallow: it did not go deep enough
to get the humble tolerance, the
vast self-distrust that should go
with a dissolving vision of the
foundations of the individual uni
verse. His writing alternates from
the violence of unmeaning laughter
to the harshness of satire that has
no laughter in it. In this he resem-
bles Moliere. whose Scapins are as
far from reflection as are his Tar
tuffes from gayety And Mark s
place is rather with the bitter satir-
lists, Moliere. Ben Jonson. Swift,
than with the great, broad. sun
shiny laughers, Lamb, Ceryantes
and the golden comedy of Shake.
speare. Indeed. no one word indi.
Gates better the lack | mean in
Mark than sunshine. You may
praise his work in many ways; but
could any one ever call il merry
He can give you at all times a riot
Gus outburst of convulsive cachin.
nation. He cannot give you merri-
ment, sunshine, pure and lasting
joy. And these are always the en-.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19
tain scenery and month OF idle

tain scenery and month Of idle
ness"
T Asst week announcement was
- made in this department of
the winners. in the o. Henry Memo
rial Award, Prize Stories of 1921.
In her introduction to the sixteen
stories that make up the volume
that is published by Doubleday,
Page & Co. Blanche Cotton Williams
says: "A number of 1921 stories
center about a historic character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tarquin Of
Cheapside' offers in episode form
the motivation of Shakespeare's
Rape of Lucrece'; Mary Raymond
Shipman Andrews parallels her
The Perfect Tribute and eulogy
of Lincoln with His Soul Goes
Marching On and warm reminis-
cence of Roosevelt; Fleta Campbell
Springer's The Role of Madame
Ravelle' is apparently tapestry
inweaving the stately figure of
Georgette Leblanc. Ranking high
est among these personal narra-
tives, however. is Mildred Grams
Stranger Things Besides calling
up, under the name of Cecil Grim
shaw, the irresistible figure of Oscar
Wilde the author has created a SUI
pernatural tale of challenging in
tricacy and imaginative genius"
CONSIDERING the impulses that
~ dominated the short story of
1921, making it different from the
short story of other years, DR.. Will
Jams writes. First, it's method OF
referring to drink, strong drink,
marks it of the present year. The
setting is frequently that of a for
eign country. where prohibition is
not yet known: the date of the
action may be prior to 1919; or the
apology for presence of intoxicating
liquors is forthcoming in such
statement as My cellar is not yet
exhausted, you see.' Second, the
. war is no longer taboo: witness The
/ Tribute and His Soul Goes March
ing On Touched by the patina of
time and mellowed through the
mellifluence of age, the war now
makes an appeal dissimilar to that
which caused readers two or three
years ago to declare they were fed
up Third, Freudian theories have
found organic place in the sub
stance of a story. They have not
yet found incorporation in many
narratives that preserve short story
structure, however-although it is
within conceivability that the infiu-
ence may finally burst the mold
oHu create new.
ts A GAIN" quoting DR.. Williams,
n democracy tin the etymo-
logical sense of the word, always,
rather than the political) is exem-
plified in the fiction of 1921 in that
the humblest life as well as the
, highest offers matter for romance.
More than in former years, writer's
seek out the romance that lies in
the liver of the average man or
woman. Having learned that the
Russian story of realism, with
emphasis too frequently placed
upon the naturalistic and the
sordid. is not vehicle easily
adapted to conveying the American
product. the American author OF
sincerity and belief in the possibil
ity of realistic fiction has begun to
treat it in romantic fashion, always
the approved fashion Of the short
story in this country. SO Harry
Anable Kniffin's The Tribute
weaves in loo words legend
about the Unknown Soldier and
makes emotionally vivid the burial
of Tommy Atkins. Commonplace
types regarded in the past as in
sufficiently drab. on the one hand
and insufficiently picturesque on
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

NITH Whistler. Mr.. Bradford
w finds that the problem is to
reconcile great artist with a little
man; or, if not little man, an odd
man, an eccentric man, a curious,
furious creature. He was glorified
by his hand and damned by his
tongue" To quote at length:
Everywhere with Whistler there
is the intense determination OF the
child to occupy the center of the
stage, no matter who is relegated to
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

One of the most romantic episodes
of nineteenth century history is
recalled by the report that clerk
working in the Evans Dental School
of the University of PENNSYLVANIA
has disappeared after making away
with several hundred thousands of
dollars OF the funds of the dental
school. The money stolen is that
left by DR.. Thomas w. Evans for
founding the dental school. DR..
Evans, it will be remembered, was
the American dentist of the EN-
press Eugene, who amassed his for
tune at the court of the Second EN-
pire and who was largely instru-
mental in the flight OF the Empress
at the fall of the Napoleonic Gov
ernment. DR.. Evans's memoirs,
"The Second French Empire" ap-
peared Immediately after his death
and are published by d. Appleton 4
Co. In Comte Fleury's Memoirs of
the Empress Eugenie," published by
the Appletons, there is reference 70
Dr. Evans.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

A WORD about the man to
n whose high talent (why not
bluntly say genius?) this award is
a tribute. Almost twelve years
have passed since William Sidney
Porter said. Pull up the shades,
/ don't want to go home in the
dark and went to sleep. Despite
the ephemerality in subject of some
OF his tales. O. Henry's place as q